"What are we going to do, without her help we're toast," Ron said panicked.
Just then a knock came from the door.
"Come in," Harry said.
"Dinner is ready," James said as he entered the room and when he noticed
the rumbled sheets on Harry's bed he looked at Harry and Ron suspiciously.
Harry saw his father looking at his rumpled sheets and blushed.
"We're coming," Harry said.
"Better come down quick so your food doesn't get cold," James said and then
closed the door behind him.
At dinner Harry had trouble eating, he was still full after the feast at
the Burrow, but that didn't seem to affect Ron, he ate as much as he always
did.
Harry had also trouble to following the conversions at the table; he
wondered why Ron and he remembered their world but not Hermione.
He was forced out of his thought when Ron nudged him in his ribs, "Ask your
parents if we can go to the muggle world tomorrow," Ron whispered in his
ear.
"Mom, Dad, can Ron and I spend tomorrow in the muggle world," Harry asked.
"Sure, I'll ask Sirius and Remus if they have time," his father answered.
Harry looked at his twin brothers strangely which his father saw as he let
out a laugh.
"Not your brothers, I mean your godfather and his Remus," James laughed.
"As if we would want to go to the muggle world," Remus said to Harry.
"We're busy with training as Quidditch beaters, Fred and George will come
over after dinner and tomorrow to help us," Sirius continued.
"As they are in their last year the Gryffindor team needs new beaters, and
some of us aren't as lucky to be served a place on the team," Remus
finished looking surly.
"Remus, Harry wasn't given the seeker position, he earned it," Lily said
angrily.
"Oh come on, we all know that after the horrible Gryffindor defeat in
Harry's first year that Wood wanted a new seeker and as Dad is well known
to be an excellent Quidditch player he hoped that Harry had inherited some
of his talent," Sirius said to his mother and casting angry looks at Harry.
//Oh, great, why is it that people are always jealous of me,// Harry
thought feeling emotional pain rip through him, he finally got brothers and
then they hate him, //at least I'm no longer "the youngest seeker in a
century".//
After dinner the twins were forced to clean the dishes instead of the House-
Elves, neither the twins nor the House-Elves were happy with that.
Harry and Ron returned to Harry's room to continue searching for more
information.
They did find out that Azkaban was no longer in the hands of the Dementors
and that all Dementors were transferred to a deep cave at an unknown
location.
"Dumbledore should at least be happy with that," Ron said to Harry.
A knock came from the door.
"Come in," Harry said.
It was Remus, or Sirius; Harry couldn't yet see the difference between
them.
"I just want to say that I'm sorry about what I said at dinner," Remus said
looking sincere, but Harry guessed that his mother forced him to say it.
"It's okay," Harry said anyway.
Remus still stood there.
"Anything else," Harry asked him.
"Yeah, Fred and George are here and they're wondering if you want to join
us in a Quidditch game."
"Yes," Ron said before Harry could answer.
"Ok, we'll meet you at the Quidditch ground," Remus said before leaving.
"Why'd you say yes," Harry asked Ron, "you heard what they said at dinner,
they hate me."
"First of all, I need training on my new broom and besides they didn't mean
that, all siblings fight but that doesn't mean they hate each other, you
have seen how we fight with Percy but that just a game, it doesn't mean
that we don't love him," Ron said to Harry, trying to make him understand
sibling love.
Harry did remember all the time he had seen the Weasley's make fun of Percy
but if wasn't as much fun to be the target of jokes.
//Perhaps family life isn't as easy I thought it would be,// Harry thought
grimly, then he remembered, "Training, for what."
"I was going to seek out the position as keeper for the Gryffindor team in
our world, now I have a better broom so I'm going to try out here," Ron
answered smiling as he took out his broom and went to the door, "wait a
minute, you have a Quidditch field," Ron turned to Harry with a stunned
look on his face.
"I don't think so," Harry answered as he too brought out his broom, "I saw
it from the Owlery and it looks like it is being shared between us and two
other houses."
Harry and Ron went down the stairs and was about to go out when they were
stopped by James.
"You're going out to play Quidditch," James said as he saw their brooms,
"mind company."
Harry looked at his father awkwardly, "You want to play Quidditch with us."
"Not just me, I'm sure your mother wouldn't want to be left out," James
said and got a dreamy look in his face, "She was quite a chaser in her
time."
Harry cast a questioning look at Ron who gave a shrug.
"Um, sure why not?" Harry answered.
"Excellent, we'll meet you at the Quidditch field," James said as he walked
away to get his own broom.
They went through the thick forest till they finally reached the Quidditch
field where both sets of twins were already flying around deflecting
Bludgers against each other.
"What took you so long?" one of the Potter twins asked then when he
deflected a Bludger that was on its way towards them.
"Mum and dad asked if they could join us," Harry said, and when he saw his
disappointed look he instantly added, "It'll be better this way, now we can
play teams, you four against me, Ron, mum and dad "
"And why wouldn't it to be unfair that you get the two best chasers
Gryffindor have had in many years," the other twin asked as he landed in
front of Harry, Fred and George had caught the two Bludgers and returned
them to the Quidditch box.
"What if they don't play chasers and instead take the position of beaters?"
Harry offered.
Both twins got a surprised look on their face before both showing a huge
grin.
"You'll have dad play beater," Remus began.
"Then its a game," Sirius finished as James and Lily came flying towards
them, Lily had Daniel behind her on her broom.
Harry turned to his parents when they had landed and said, "Dad, you and
mum will be beaters for our team," while pointing at himself and Ron.
Lily looked shocked while James smiled at Harry then turned to Lily and
smiled smugly at her and said, "You see darling, Harry doesn't think I'm a
awful beater."
"I'll be the referee," Daniel said happily.
When they all had mounted their brooms and taken off, Lily flew over to
Harry and asked him, "Are you sure you know what you're doing appointing
your father beater?"
Harry began getting worried, by the looks he had got from his brothers and
mum he suspected that his dad wasn't a very good beater but he nodded to
his mother anyway.
//After all how bad can he be,// he thought as Daniel threw up the Quaffle
and the game began.
Harry was chaser, Ron keeper and his parents were beaters on his team while
on the twin team; Fred was keeper, George chaser and the Potter twins were
beaters.
The game went well in the beginning, Ron defended their hoops against every
attack but as the game continued it went downhill fast.
Harry, who was an excellent seeker, was not a very good chaser, every time
he got the Quaffle George managed to grab it from him.
He was just too petite and George was bigger so every time they smashed
into each other George came out on top with the Quaffle and launched
another attack on Ron.
And James was worse than Harry could have imagined, James body type was the
same as Harry so even if he could hit the Bludger he couldn't hit it hard
enough for it to go after another prey.
Even those times Harry was able to use his speed advantage to get away from
George, Remus and Sirius got a Bludger after him.
So after several hours the twins won with 150 to 40 as a result of Fred
being a lousy keeper but Harry had enjoyed the game nevertheless.
He hadn't had this much fun in a long time, perhaps ever, and if he and Ron
returned to their world he would never have it again.
A sour faced Harry returned home with the others.
"What's wrong Harry," Ron asked as he saw Harry's bitter face.
"It's nothing," Harry shook his head; he didn't want to get into another
argument with Ron.
//Tomorrow we'll go to the muggle world and if it's fine then I'll not hear
another word about returning to our world,// Harry thought grumpily.
After they showered they were about to go to bed they were stopped by
James.
"I'm sure you remember the rules but just to be sure these are the rules,"
James said and then began counting rules, "One, you are not allowed into
each other beds," he threw an accusing look at Harry, "I put a charm on
them when you were in the showers, Two, lights out after 11,15 and last but
most important I don't want to hear a sound from in here after midnight."
James looked hard at them to see that they understood the rules and when
they both nodded, he left the room closing the door after himself.
"That wasn't so bad, was it," Ron said smiling at Harry, "when he started
to keep on about those rules I thought it would be nasty rules."
Harry didn't seem to listen instead he decided to test the rules and get
back at Ron for all the badgering about changing worlds, so he grabbed Ron
and threw him down at his bed and then jumped on top himself.
At once the bed began to vibrate, trying to throw them off.
James came running through the door.
"Sorry dad, I stumbled and Ron tried to help me," Harry said trying to look
sincere.
James looked around the room and seeing the mess of clothes on the floor he
nodded and said, "Better clean up before your mother see the mess," and
left the room when he saw that Ron had gotten up from the bed.
"Why'd you do that for," Ron asked irritably.
"I'm sorry, just wanted to try the charm," Harry said smiling, his bad mood
had sank deep through his conscious and he felt giddy, everything would be
all right.
/The muggle world will be OK and Ron will stop nagging about this world
being wrong and we can enjoy this world together,// Harry thought but when
seeing Ron's irate look he stole a fast kiss and then said, "Come on Ron,
It was funny."
Ron's face broke into a grin, "Ok it was a little funny," he said and bent
down to return the kiss before they both went to sleep in separate beds.
Next morning at breakfast.
"I've talked with Sirius and he'll go with you in the muggle world," James
said, "Remus couldn't join because he has work."
Ron was excited, he knew that they was going into the muggle word to find
out if there was anything wrong with it, but he was going to use this
opportunity to explore it.
He hated when Harry and Hermione talked about muggle things he didn't
understand and when he asks them they never explained, even though when
they don't understand a wizard thing he explains it for them.
But today he would learn as much about the muggle world as possible even if
he had to force Harry to explain.
Ron smiled at the thoughts of how he could force Harry, pictures of kisses
trailing down Harry's body, lower and lower are broken by Harry nudging him
in his rib.
"Are you coming," Harry asked him.
Ron looked around the table and saw two house-elves clearing the table and
one house-elf stood next to him and looking apologetic at him.
"Could Ala take you dish," the female house-elf asked him with a squeaky
voice.
Ron saw that he had already finished his breakfast and nodded to the house-
elf, who took the dish and left for the kitchen.
As Ron followed Harry to his room he realised that he had missed the entire
conversion between Harry and his dad.
"Err, where are we going," Ron asked Harry.
Harry turned to Ron and smiled, he had seen the look on Ron's face at
breakfast and recognised it for what it meant.
//He hasn't heard the plans for today,// Harry thought and wondered what
Ron daydreamt.
"We're going to get muggle clothes and then we use Floo powder to get to
Sirius house," Harry said to Ron.
"What about muggle money," Ron asked.
"It would seem that I have a stash of muggle money in my room, at least
according to my dad," Harry said as they entered Harry's room and they
began searching his room for any muggle money.
Harry did find two leather pouches inside a wooden box with a stylised H on
it, he opened the pouches and in the first he found galleons and sickles,
but the second contained pounds and pence's.
"This is muggle money," Ron said astound holding up and looking at a pound,
"I thought they had coins as money."
"They have both," Harry answered him and showing him the coins too.
When he put back the galleon pouch he found a hidden compartment inside the
box where several letters were secreted.
"What are those," Ron asked.
Harry scrambled through the letters and saw that they all came from Ron and
their contents left Harry no doubt of why they were hidden, if his dad
could see them, Harry was sure, a new rule would be born.
Ron could see Harry blush and asked, "Who are they from?"
"They're from you," Harry said embarrassed and hastily put them back inside
the secret compartment.
Ron smiled at the thought of what the letters said and wondered if he too
had some from Harry, //memo: when you get home to the Burrow, search for
letters,// Ron thought as he was broken out of his thoughts by Sirius
storming entrance.
"Harry," Sirius said as he ran up to Harry and pulled him into a bone-
crushing hug, "it wasn't too early that you choose to come and visit us."
When Sirius finally released Harry he noticed Ron, "I'm not interrupting
anything, am I?" Sirius said with a grin.
When he saw both their faces turn red he let out a laugh but then stopped,
gave them a stern look and asked, "Do you follow your fathers rules?"
"Absoutly," Harry said while Ron nodded rapidly.
"Why," Sirius said, removing the stern look from his face and pulled the
two boys into a huddle, "I helped your father break those charms when his
father put them up for Prongs and Lily so if you need any help just ask,"
he gave them a secret wink and then released them.
"Do you have the muggle money we gave you," he asked them.
"Yeah," Harry said, showing Sirius the money pouch.
"Excellent, then we're off," Sirius pulled the two boys after himself as
they left Harry's room and walked down the stairs towards the fireplace
where a roaring fire was burning and his mother was waiting for them.
"Fred and George brought your muggle money with them when they came," Lily
said and handed a leather pouch to Ron and then pulled Harry into a hug.
"Mom stop it, we'll only be gone for a couple hours," Harry said
embarrassed.
"This is your first time in the muggle worlds so I'll give you some
pointers, One, when you leave Sirius house don't take your wands with you,
two, look both ways before you cross a street and last, try not to stare at
everything," Lily said as Sirius dragged Harry away from her.
"They're big boys and besides I'll be with them," Sirius smiled at Lily.
Lily stared at Sirius, who still smiled at her until she said, "Why doesn't
that comfort me?"
"Oh, come on, Lily," Sirius said while taking Floo powder and throwing it
into the fire, "I'll be good," he stepped into the fire and said, "The
Kennel," and he was gone.
Ron stepped in after him and said, "The Kennel," and he too was gone.
"I really can't believe that I'm going to say this but do as Sirius says.
He has been living in the muggle world for ten years now and know what's
best for you," Lily said before Harry stepped into the fire and called,
"The Kennel," and he was away.
Thanks to: Sailor Earth, Marcy, Leigh Black, Kassie, Kay, Phoenix, Duke Firefox, C- chan, Az the crazed vamp, Candyman, Kitsune Hashiba, ronweasley1029, Chambers and Daniel Malloy.
~*~Cho~*~ and Marionie Hearts, I'm sorry you don't like H/R and I know how you feel. I have also read a great story that I loved but Harry was practically a slut who slept whit every woman in sight so I had to stop reading it *sigh*.
And to :( In this case you are right about me, I am gay but 95 % of slash is written by straight women, and I'm glad you like the story.
MamaLaz: I'm grateful for your support with :(, and you and Ron are both right and wrong. You'll see.
Thanks to: Sailor Earth, Marcy, Leigh Black, Kassie, Kay, Phoenix, Duke Firefox, C- chan, Az the crazed vamp, Candyman, Kitsune Hashiba, ronweasley1029, Chambers and Daniel Malloy.
~*~Cho~*~ and Marionie Hearts, I'm sorry you don't like H/R and I know how you feel. I have also read a great story that I loved but Harry was practically a slut who slept whit every woman in sight so I had to stop reading it *sigh*.
And to :( In this case you are right about me, I am gay but 95 % of slash is written by straight women, and I'm glad you like the story.
MamaLaz: I'm grateful for your support with :(, and you and Ron are both right and wrong. You'll see.
