A.N. Hey peeps, I'm so glad that you liked the chapter where Harry met Lily!!! I'm sorry this took so long to get up, but I've had writer's block * gasp *. And don't worry, Harry will see Sirius again. He'll also be seeing the rest of the people at Hogwarts, but you'll just have to wait!!!!!!!! I will only be "killing" off one more person, but that might not be for a few chapters. Just wait!!!!!!
Malena
"Hermione, take a break! You've been working way to hard," Ron said, looking up from the book that he was reading. Hermione was sitting at a table with her homework all spread out. She had her head in her arms and was resting on top of a book.
"I can't take a break, Ron," Hermione snapped. "I have to finish this report for Ancient Runes. It's due tomorrow!" Ron shook his head and went back to reading his book. Fred came up behind him and said, "We've got practice, ready to go?" Ron nodded, went up to his dorm and got his new broom, a Nimbus 2001. He pulled on his scarlet Quidditch robes and went down to the Quidditch field. He had been chosen to play Chaser only about three days ago. Katie had been made Captain after Angelina had… Ron shook the thought out of his head and mounted his broom.
He looked down at the rest of the team, including the new Seeker. He was a third year, and he wasn't very good. He was the best that the Gryffindor team could find though. Ron sighed and flew down…
"You are to write a report on Morgana, it should be at least three pieces of parchment long and be sure to include interesting facts such as-" Professor Binns was droning on and on. He didn't seem to notice that half of the class was asleep. Only Hermione seemed to be listening.
The bell seemed to jolt everyone out of a trance. There was the usual hurry to collect parchment and quills. Ron hurried out of the History of Magic classroom after Hermione.
"Hermione, did you get-"
"Not now Ron, I need to get to the library," Hermione said.
"But you were in the library this morning!" Ron said indignantly. "Hermione, give it a rest! We know you like books, but this is getting out of hand! You've been studying none stop since Harry d-" He stopped talking when Hermione's eyes filled with tears.
"Oh, Hermione. I'm sorry, I was harsh, I didn't mean-"
"I know Ron," Hermione said. "All right, let's go to lunch then."
Harry jolted awake. He rubbed his eyes and looked at the clock beside his bed. It said 1:49. Harry groaned and got out of his bed. He was spending the night in his new room, which used to be a guestroom. He walked out to the bathroom and splashed some water on his face. He started to walk back to his room, but noticed a light was on downstairs. Lily was sitting at a table, scribbling madly on a piece of paper. She sighed, put the pen down and rubbed her eyes. She looked around and saw Harry.
"Harry, what are you doing up dear?" Lily said, looking at her watch.
"Oh, I just had a dream and I-er-thought I'd come get a drink of water," Harry said.
"I was going to take a break anyway," Lily said. "Come over here and tell me what your dream was about."
Harry got his glass of water and sat down next to her.
"Now, the dream…"
"I dreamed about my friends. They were at Hogwarts. My friend, Hermione Granger, was working way to hard on her homework. Every spare minute she had she was in the library. Ron Weasley, my other friend, plays on the Quidditch team now. He's a Chaser. He replaced Angelina after she "died". There is also this other kid that replaced me-"
"You play Quidditch?" Lily asked.
"Yeah, Seeker," Harry said. "Well, that's pretty much the whole dream." His mother smiled kindly at him.
"You miss your friends, don't you?" Lily asked. Harry nodded. "I know how it feels. After your father and I "died" we missed Sirius, Remus, and Arabella so much-"
"Arabella Figg?" Harry asked.
"Yes. Do you know her?"
"She was my Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. I only saw her teach one time, but she seemed nice."
"I'd give anything to be able to talk to her again," Lily sighed. "You know, right after I woke up and they had explained about the Order of the Phoenix I immediately asked if I could see you. When I found out that you had survived the curse I was so proud and so sad at the same time. I might have never seen you again. I'm just glad that you're here with us now." Lily reached over and hugged Harry.
"Thanks Mom," Harry said.
"You're welcome. You'd better get back to bed, you have school tomorrow."
"Night mom."
"Good night sweetie."
Harry woke up the next morning with Victoria staring at him.
"Jeez!" Harry exclaimed. "Victoria! Why were you –"
"That's how I wake up Mom," Victoria said simply. "Breakfast is on the table." Harry got out of bed and started to pull on some new clothes that Jimmy had lent him. He ran a brush through his hair, even though it didn't help much and went downstairs. Victoria and Jimmy were sitting at the table, eating some sugar coated cereal. Lily was busy trying to feed Olivia, who was constantly spitting out the food.
"Here comes the broomstick!" said Lily in a happy voice. "Vroom!" She held the spoon up to Olivia's mouth, which was clenched tight.
"Oh, come on Olivia! You need to eat!" Harry sat down and poured himself a bowl of cereal just as Olivia opened her mouth and ate some food. Then she spit it all out at Lily. She giggled happily.
"Forget it," Lily said, putting the spoon into the bowl of baby food.
"Victoria, will you baby-sit Olivia this afternoon? I'm going to be late again," Lily said.
"But mom! I need to practice for my-"
"Put her down for a nap and then practice sweetie," Lily suggested. "Oh! I gotta go! Have fun at school kids! Have fun at work Harry and Jimmy. Don't get in trouble!"
"Bye mom," Jimmy said with a mouthful of cereal. Lily went out the door that said Order of the Phoenix.
"What've you got today?" Jimmy asked Harry.
"I dunno, I think Max or Sean said something about Potions. I'm not looking forward to that."
"Why not? The Potions teacher is one of the nicest people here. You can totally mess up your potion and she'll still give you an A."
"Really? That's a total change from my old potions teacher."
"I've got Transfiguration today. I'm learning how to become an Animagus. I already know that I'm going to turn into a tigar," Jimmy said. "We have something to look forward to today at work."
"Just your job or everyone's?" Harry asked.
"Everyone's. It's payday!" Jimmy exclaimed. "You won't be getting as much as me, cause you only worked two days or something."
"How much do you get?"
"2,000 Galleons," Jimmy said calmly. Harry almost spit out his cereal.
"2,000!" Harry exclaimed.
"Yep. We get paid a lot. But when we're 16 and we go on a mission we can earn up to 6,000 Galleons per day! That's what Dad's earning while he's on his mission. Of course, Mom makes me put half of my money into savings for the future."
"Wow," Harry said. He glanced at his watch. "Jimmy we'd better get going. Classes start in fifteen minutes."
"You go ahead," Jimmy said. Harry put on his ear piece and went through the door labeled Order of the Phoenix. He was immediately transported to the V.D.
"Max," He said into his microphone.
"Yeah?" said a voice in his ear.
"What's our first class?"
"Potions. Where are you?"
"I'm at the V.D, where are you?"
"Food court. Come here." Harry disappeared and reappeared next to Max. Sean was with her.
"Hey Harry," Max said. "We've got twelve minutes, come sit with us for a bit."
Harry sat down at their table and started to chat with them. A few minutes later Ivy appeared in the chair across from Harry.
"Good morning Ivy," Max said in a fake, cheerful voice.
"Shut up," Ivy replied, putting her head in her hands. "I swear to god that I will kill the next person who says good morning to me."
"Max isn't a morning person," Sean whispered to Harry.
"Good morning!" Exclaimed Will, who had just appeared next to Harry. Ivy glared at him. "Harry, I need to ask you a favor."
"Sure, what?"
"I need you to put in a good word to Angelina for me," Will said.
"Will and Angelina, sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-S-I-N-G!" Max chanted.
"Shut up!" Will said.
"Why don't you ask her to come this with us tomorrow?" Harry asked.
"You ask her for me," Will said. "I don't want it to seem as though I want to go out with her."
"But you do," Sean said.
"I know that! But I don't want her to know that yet!" Will exclaimed. "I'll wait until the perfect moment, when we're at Ashley's. Then I'll charm her with my dance moves."
"What dance moves?" Ivy snorted. "Even after you were injected with information on how to dance you were the most horrible dancer in the world."
"Shut up! At least I can slow dance."
"And he can hardly do that," Max murmured to Harry.
"Harry?" There was a voice in Harry's ear.
"Angelina?" Harry said. "Is something wrong?"
"I'm lost. Where are you?"
"I'm in the food court."
"Where's that?"
"Let me talk to her," Will said. He tapped his wand on Harry's earpiece and Angelina was transferred over to him. He disappeared a few seconds later.
"Well, we'd better get to class," Sean said, looking at his watch.
"All right, all right," Max said. "Ivy, you coming?"
"Nah, I'm skipping." Ivy moaned. "Gonna go work on my fighting."
"All right…"
For once in his life Harry actually enjoyed potions. Ms. Rodriguez was constantly smiling, and handed out candy to the entire class at the end.
The class after that was Basic Training for the Order of the Phoenix. It was like going to boot camp for an hour. Needless to say, Harry was tired when school ended. He had to skip lunch because Angelina and him had to take an extra class on healing people.
Harry was most glad when the day ended and Harry and Jimmy went home.
"Where are we supposed to meet Max and the others tomorrow?" Harry asked as they walked through the door of their house. Harry pulled the earpiece out of his ear.
"At the food court," Jimmy replied. "You invited Angelina, right?"
"Yeah," Harry said, remembering when he asked her at the Healing class.
While Jimmy was rooting around in the refrigerator for a snack, Harry sat down on the couch. Victoria came downstairs and said, "Do you want to hear me practice again?"
"No," called Jimmy.
"I wasn't asking you butt-brain," Victoria snapped. "I was asking Harry."
"Maybe later," Harry replied. "I'm too tired to listen right now." Victoria frowned and went back upstairs.
"It's hard to believe that she's going to be turning 12 soon," Jimmy said, eating yogurt. "Considering that she acts like a 6 year old. I mean, butt-brain? How stupid is that?"
"Very stupid," Harry agreed.
"Yeah…"
There was a loud wail from upstairs and Harry said, "Was that the violin or Olivia?" Jimmy chuckled and said, "I think that was Olivia. You want to go check on her?"
"Sure," Harry sighed. He got up off of the couch and went upstairs. Olivia's room was the room closest to his parents. He went in and found Olivia squirming in her crib, crying out. Harry leaned over the side and picked her up. She stopped crying. Harry just stood there for a few minutes, holding his little sister in his arms. After she had fallen asleep again Harry placed her gently back into her crib and closed the door.
"Mom can I get my hair spiked?" Jimmy asked that night at dinner.
"So long as you pay for it," Lily said, feeding Olivia. "And don't dye it green, like that friend of yours."
"Okay, blue it is!" Jimmy said. Lily glared at him. "Only joking…"
"Harry are you going too?" Lily asked.
"Yeah," Harry said, lifting a forkful of spaghetti up to his mouth.
"Okay, then Victoria will you watch Olivia for a little while tomorrow?"
"Aw Mom-"
"Only for the morning! I'll be back around 1. Then you can go play with your friends."
"What friends?" Jimmy muttered sarcastically.
"Jimmy that's enough-"
"Why do they get to go out?" Victoria asked. "It's always the oldest people who get to do things."
"Victoria-"
"It's true! I mean, Harry's only been here a couple of days and-"
"Victoria that is enough! It's not our fault that I have to work and the boys are already doing something."
"But-"
"If I pay you will it make you feel better?" Lily asked exasperatedly.
"Okay!" Lily rolled her eyes and went back to eating her dinner.
"Are you going to do something with your hair too Harry? I mean, it looks a lot like Dad's and you might want to go for something different," Jimmy asked later that night.
"There's nothing wrong with your Dad's hair," Lily said indignantly.
"I know, but people will get them mixed up at the Order." Lily sighed and shook her head.
"I might get a hair cut," Harry said. "But the other times that I got a hair cut it just grew right back, I don't know what good it will do."
"Well, you probably didn't want to get your hair cut when that happened. If you want to get your hair cut it will stay that way."
"Cool."
"Yo! Harry, Jimmy! Over here!" Sean was yelling at them from a table in the food court. His hair was actually a normal color, brown. Harry and Jimmy walked over to where Sean, Max, Angelina, and Will were sitting. Harry and Jimmy had just had their paychecks cashed and made into Muggle money.
"Is everybody here?" Will asked. "Ready to go?"
"Where are we going?" Harry asked. He had changed slightly, so that if he was spotted by someone from the wizarding world, they would not recognize him. He had changed his eye color and he had made his scar disappear. He was also much taller and his face was a tad longer. He had also brought along his disguise bracelet, just in case. Harry saw that Angelina had her bracelet with her too.
"We're going to the muggle mall in Australia," Max said in French. "It's by Sean's house."
"Hey, Harry and I are going to get our hair cut," Jimmy said.
"Good, I was planning on getting mine dyed a new color."
"We can always get manicures," Max said. "Or get our hair done."
"Hold on." Will took out his wand and flicked it. His hair came out of the cornrows and he had an afro.
"I might as well get my hair done too," He said.
"Sigh. Afros, like, what a turn on!" Max said in a valley-girl voice. Will smacked her upside the head.
"All right. Let's go." They headed over to the Transporter and all told it to take them to Sean's house.
After a brief tour of Sean's house, the three of them walked down the road to a busy mall.
"Okay, here we are! The best place to get your hair done in Australia. Well, maybe not… but it's still really good!" Sean said.
The six of them walked into the salon and told the hairdressers what they wanted. Max only decided to get a manicure, while the others all were getting something done to their hair. Angelina had decided to get her hair braided with gold extensions. Will was getting his hair in cornrows again, only this time he was getting them in diagonally across his head. Jimmy had decided to get his hair cut and spiked, like he told his mom. Sean was getting his hair died a yellow color that glowed in the dark. Harry was getting his hair cut shorter, so it didn't look quite so wild. He was also getting the tips of his hair bleached. Now it no longer looked crazy and unmanageable, but only as though he had forgotten to brush it after he had woken up. Harry finished rather quickly and said that he was going to start clothes shopping.
They were going to meet up again at around eleven so they could go to Will's for lunch. Harry didn't actually go clothes shopping first. He went over to an Optometrist center, like Lens Crafter or some other place. He told them his vision and they returned a few minutes later with a box full of contact lenses. They told him how to put them in. Harry walked out a few minutes later with his glasses in his pocket and his new contacts in.
Harry found Max looking at clothes in an Abercrombie and Fitch store. They were soon joined by Jimmy and Sean. After they bought some clothes there they moved on to many other stores.
Harry bought some shirts that said, No Fear, and one that said: Slacker, and it gave the description. Max bought a shirt that said Boys are Dogs on the front, and Keep them on a Leash on the back. After buying some new pants and some long sleeved shirts, Harry and the others met up with Will and Angelina at the CD store.
"You got contacts?" Angelina asked when she saw him.
"Yeah," Harry said sheepishly.
"Are you all ready to go to my place for lunch?" Will asked, clapping his hands together.
"Can we stop at home and drop off these bags?" Harry asked.
"Sure, but meet up at my place after you're done." After walking back up the road to Sean's house they went they're separate ways to drop off their purchases. Victoria, who was playing her violin in the living room, was most shocked when the two of them arrived home.
"Mom's going to kill you two!" She shouted after them as they left. "You are so dea-" The two of them met up at Will's dorm. Sean told Harry that Will had been recruited for the Order at the age of 10. He was accidentally hit with the killing curse when a wizard terrorist had attacked Diagon Alley. His roommate, Nigel, was stoned half of the time and the other half of the time he had one of his slutty girlfriends there. Luckily for them Nigel was away and they were able to eat in peace. Of course, their lunch turned out to be a gallon tub full of vanilla ice cream. Will handed them each a spoon and told them all to dig in.
"Do y'all know what group is playing at Ashley's tonight?" Max said, scooping up some ice cream.
"I think that it is some muggle group," Sean said. "Of course, it'll only be the illusion of the group. We rarely ever have live performances at Ashley's."
"Well, I hope that they are better then that other group that was there last time," Will said.
"I thought that they were pretty good," Max said thoughtfully.
"Oh come on! First of all, they had a horrible name. What kind of name is Dixie Chicks anyway?"
Angelina nearly spit out her ice cream.
"You-cough- had the Dixie Chicks-sputter- here?" She gasped.
"Yeah, but they were nothing compared to that muggle Blink 182 that was here the time before them."
"Blink 182 was there?" Harry said with his mouth full of ice cream.
"Okay, we are changing the subject," Jimmy said.
"Oh! Guys, I forgot to tell you," Will said. "I won't be here next week."
"Why not?" Angelina asked.
"I have a mission," Will said smugly.
"Oh yes, you always have to remind us that you are two years older than us and therefore able to go on missions. Why don't you just rub it in our faces?" Sean said.
"Where are you going?" Harry asked.
"Africa or something."
"Cool." Harry looked down at the tub of ice cream. It was almost completely empty.
When the tub of ice cream was finished off Max said, "Ready to go rock climbing?"
Harry had never been rock climbing before. He and Angelina followed the others to the rock gym. All of the walls were rock walls, and they slanted in every direction. Harry looked around the room, and realized that there was something missing. Angelina noticed it too.
"Where are the cords?" She asked. "And where are the people who hold the rope while you climb?"
"We don't have them," Max said, going up to the wall closest to them. She went up about ten feet and then fell backwards. Harry and Angelina yelled out in shock as she slowly started to float back to the ground.
"The room is enchanted so no one will fall to their death," Will explained. "So, go have fun! Knock yourself out (no pun intended)!"
"Oh, and you know that climbing stuff that people put on their hands to keep from slipping?" Max said. "Just clap your hands twice while you're in here and it will appear on your hands." Harry and Angelina clapped and the white powder appeared.
"Now, let's get climbing!"
At seven o'clock they left the rock gym and went to dinner in the food court. Then they joined a large crowd outside of Ashley's. There was a heavy built man standing at the door, checking ID's to make sure that everyone was above 12 years of age and taking the money needed to enter the club.
When Harry and the others got in all of the lights were on and people were just standing or sitting at one of the tables near the walls.
"Wow, this is exciting," Angelina said sarcastically.
"You just wait, it's not eight o'clock quite yet. That's when the party starts," Will said. "Hey look Harry! There's your girlfriend!" Sure enough, Celeste, Ivy, and a few of her other friends had just entered the room. All of them followed Celeste over to a table by Harry's. They sat down and a woman came to ask if they would like anything to drink. They ordered sodas and the drinks appeared in front of them.
"Five… four… three…. Two… one!" Will counted down the last few seconds before eight o'clock. All of a sudden the lights went off, a strobe light went on and a disco ball lowered from the ceiling. Sean's hair was glowing brightly.
"Hello everyone!" Said a woman's voice over a microphone. "Welcome to Ashley's!" There was a lot of applause. "Our guest tonight is an illusion of a muggle group by the name of Destiny's Child!" There was more applause, even though by the bewildered looks on his friends faces he knew that they had no clue who it was. The illusions of the group appeared on stage and everyone started dancing. Almost everyone. Angelina just stared at her hands and Harry didn't make any intention to get up. Will, staring at Angelina, remained seated too. Sean and Max went off into the crowd to dance. After a few minutes a slow song started.
"Er- Angelina will you like to dance?" Will asked. Angelina stared at him.
"I-um- I don't know-"
"Please," Will said, looking hopeful.
"All right," Angelina said finally. She went off with Will to the middle of the crowd. Not even a minute after they left someone tapped Harry on the shoulder. Harry turned around and found himself face to face with Celeste Rodriq.
"Hello Harry," she said in a soft voice that was barely audible over the loud music.
"Uh… Hi… Celeste," Harry said numbly. He had never been this close to a girl besides Hermione since the Yule Ball last year.
"Want to dance?" She asked.
"Sure," Harry said slowly. She took his hand and led him to the center of the crowd. She placed her hands around Harry's neck and he nervously put his hands on her waist. They revolved slowly on the spot. People had backed away to watch.
"Do they always to that?" Harry murmured to her.
"Yes," Celeste said.
"Why?" Harry asked.
"I have no clue." The song ended and Harry slowly pulled away. Another song had started.
"Where are you going?" asked Celeste, frowning slightly.
"I-er- I'm not the best dancer," Harry said.
"You have the knowledge," Celeste replied. "Trust me, you can dance." They spent almost all of the night dancing. Eventually they returned to the table, Max and Sean were sitting there.
"I'll see you soon Harry," Celeste said softly. She went over to her table. Ivy glanced at Harry and gave him a thumbs up. Harry smiled a little and turned back to his new friends. Most of them were smirking at Harry, except for Angelina and Will, who were still dancing.
Jimmy glanced at his watch.
"Er-Harry. I forgot to tell you," Jimmy said slowly. "We have a mid-night curfew. That's in three minutes." Harry and Jimmy said goodbye to everyone and left Ashley's.
They ran toward the nearest transporter and returned home with fifty seconds to spare.
"We made it!" panted Jimmy. Harry walked into the kitchen and glanced at the fridge. There was a sticky note on it.
Dear Harry and Jimmy, it said
I'm working late tonight. Make yourself dinner if you haven't eaten already.
Love,
Mom
Harry showed Jimmy and then crumpled up the note. Jimmy collapsed onto the couch and flicked on the TV. Harry sat down next to Jimmy. A minute later someone came through the Order of the Phoenix door.
"Hi Mom," Jimmy said absentmindedly, not looking away from the TV.
"Well, that's one thing I've never been called before," said a male voice. Jimmy looked up suddenly.
"Dad?" He exclaimed. "Why're you home early?"
"Oh, I'm fine Jimmy. How're you?" said James Potter coming into the kitchen. Harry was just staring. Everyone had always told him that he looked like his father, and it was true. Their hair had been exactly the same before Harry had gotten his cut. He had the same smile and the same mischievous look in his eye.
"Dad?" Harry said slowly. James paled as he looked at the son that he had not seen in person for 14 years.
"Harry?" James said slowly. He rushed forward and pulled Harry into his arms. "Oh my- I can't believe it's you."
"I'm glad to see you too," Harry said.
"We missed y-you so much, you would not believe," James said softly, still holding his son to him.
"I missed you too Dad," Harry replied.
"You have to tell me everything that happened while you were away." James pulled Harry over to the kitchen table and they sat down for a long talk.