Author's Note: Sorry about the mistake in Part 5. The last part was actually part 5 and not 4 although it did say that it was part 4. Sorry about not having a name for the potion that the trio took but I can't think of a name for it. I will try to get the next part up as soon as possible.
Disclaimer- none of the characters belong to me.
Harry Potter and the Power of Friendship- Part 6
"So Mr. Potter, would you like to explain why you were out of bed in the middle of the night." Dumbledore asked Harry. First thing in the morning Dumbledore had set off on a search to find Harry and get him to say how he had snuck out of bed being known by the marauder's map as the Slytherins. Now they were sitting in Dumbledore's office.
Harry met his gaze unblinkingly. [How did he know? How did he know about us sneaking out?] He was saying to the others. Then he said out loud. "I don't know what you are talking about." He said keeping a very straight face determined not to let out any expression in his face. Dumbledore stood up.
Just then the door opened, which was probably quite lucky since Dumbledore looked like he's patience was running quite low and if Harry didn't answer soon it would probably get a little out of control and a little truth potion might be added in the next thing he ate.
Then Sirius walked in. "Did I miss anything?" He then looked between Dumbledore and Harry, who were still looking at each other. "I'll take that as a no."
"We were just discussing about the problem that has come at hand. I believe you are his legal guardian; you have any idea how he has gotten passed the map? Especially since you were one of the creators of the map." Dumbledore said as he turned his gaze to Sirius his expression not changing.
Sirius gulped at the look Dumbledore gave him, he felt like a student getting in trouble for one of James's ideas. He then turned his gaze to Harry. "You found the book didn't you." It was more of a statement that didn't need a reply then a question.
Harry still didn't say anything. "What book?" His voice as cold as ice, but he was talking to Hermione and Ron at the same time [They are trying to get the information out of me.]
(Don't say anything. Maybe they will leave us alone if we pretend not to know anything.) Ron said with his usual logic.
{Oh come on Ron, use your head. If he doesn't say anything they'll be even more suspicious. Just don't let anything slip that might lead to our discovery, although I can't figure out how they know in the first place.} Hermione replied.
"Harry, are you listening" Dumbledore asked and Harry snapped back from his conversation with his friends.
"Why should I listen to you?" Harry asked his voice still cold.
"Harry this is for your own safety, you must understand." Sirius said, his voice full of concern.
"Why should I understand? You don't understand me, you don't even trust me." Harry stated, his voice still cold.
"Of course we trust you, why shouldn't we?" Dumbledore replied slowly coming into view of the problem.
"If you trust me so much then why don't you show it? You don't even trust me enough to stay out of trouble." Harry said, looking at the two adults in the room.
Slowly both adults realized why Harry was so mad. If they were going to watch Harry so closely it looked like Harry wasn't going to listen to them.
"Harry just listen to us for a few minutes. We didn't want to hurt you. We are just trying to protect you along with the other students of the school." Dumbledore said gently
Before he continued he heard Harry mutter, "Well the rest of the kids don't have to be escorted around the school."
Dumbledore gave Harry a sharp look and then continued, "We can take off some of the protections if you want but we will still have the Marauder's Map watched twenty-four hours a day."
"Fine, can I go now? I still need to get to my lessons you know." Harry told the two of them.
Receiving a nod from Dumbledore, Harry turned to go. Then he heard Sirius call after him. "Wait up and I'll go down to the Great Hall with you."
Sirius said something quickly to Dumbledore and turned to follow Harry out the door. When the door shut behind him he said to Harry, "So you found the book, and don't try lying to me about it either. There is not way you can fool the Marauder's Map except by using the spells in that book."
Harry quickly thought about what he was going to say so but he couldn't think of anything that could get him out of this one. So he just told him the truth, he decided that if Sirius was really Harry's guardian he might as well know the truth.
After the story was told Sirius said, "Well Harry seems you deserve more credit then I give you."
"What do you mean by that?" Harry asked.
"I never really thought of you being a trouble maker." He replied.
Just then they entered into the Great Hall and saw the Weasley twins surrounded by a group of angry Slytherins.
"Whoops!" Harry muttered.
He went and sat down next to Ron and Hermione. [Think we ought to revive them of the Slytherins?]
(Nah!) Ron said. (Let's let them suffer a bit.)
{Listen up you two, I found some interesting side effects about that potion that we took that wasn't in the book that I got the potion out of.} Hermione said to the two of them {it seems that we might be getting a few extra powers that we didn't think about. Like the dream incident} Harry looked away guiltily since he still hadn't told anybody about it. Hermione noticed this but continued on {well it seems like we may be able to do stuff like magic without a wand or be able to read pieces of other people's minds.}
(What but that is supposed to be impossible!) Ron exclaimed.
{Yes, it is} Hermione agreed. {But this potion is not very well known so not many people have studied it. The one person I read up on that had actually studied it long enough to know said that it depends on how good of a friendship you have with the people you took the potion with. The more powerful a friendship the more power the potion has on you, but we will have to try a few experiments with it.}
[Okay I want to see where you found this information. Come on lets go up to the library.] Harry said.
Ron turned and looked at Harry in amazement. Harry want to go to the library. That just didn't fit with Harry's personality. He watched as the other two got up from the table. Something was going on with Harry and he was going to find out. He slowly got up and turned to follow the two of them.
