A/N- Well I guess I've officially started back up again. I hope I finish this chapter soon because I wanted to get on to the next one, and if you read the next one you'll see why. I don't think chapter will be as long as the other ones. (My minimum was 1500 words) But I don't think it will be that much less, I just know where I want to end it, but I guess I'll go a little more into Harry and Fleur's relationship. I might end it with the first order meeting, depending on how it plays out, but I am NOT promising anything 'kay?
Chapter 18 - Fragments of the Past
"Listen Harry, I know at first it seems like a great offer, but think about it. We practically do everything they do, but without as much responsibility. Plus we still have O.W.L.'s to pass and Potions is going to be murder." Hermione was talking to Harry while Ron and Fleur sat back. Dumbledore had just invited them to join the Order of Phoenix.
"Hermione! We are getting the chance to join the elite, the great, the Order of Phoenix, and your ready to throw that all away." He replied surprised,
"Not throw it away Harry, just postpone it. I think we should wait atleast until after our O.W.L.'s ." Hermione said exasperated. Ron got up and walked over to Hermione though. He picked her up out of her seat without much struggle, and holding her by her biceps carried her to the corner of the room. He was about six feet tall now and much stronger than before. He started to whisper in her ear,
"You don't have to be afraid." He said in a very relaxing tone. She could feel herself melt to butter, but she kept her calm,
"What do you mean?"
"You know perfectly well what I mean. Hermione, I know you better than I think I know anybody, and I know when you are trying to use school as an excuse for something your scared of. Hermione, your in Gryffindor for a reason, just take this chance, we can't do it without you."
"Okay Ron, but if it interferes with studies . . ." She said, and turned to Harry, "Okay Harry, I'm in, but what do we do about school-work?"
"Easy, we just do our work like normal, ever since the first Quidditch match when we creamed Hufflepuff, me and Ron haven't had to work that hard, and I'm sure our DADA grades will more than help us out if something unfortunate happens." Harry said, but Fleur tutted,
"If you think I'm going to just give you full marks then your sadly mistaken." Harry shook his head,
"I meant that if we are in the Order any fifth year magic stuff would be very easy to us."
"Oh."
"I'm gonna go find Professor McGonagall and tell her okay." Hermione said, and Ron obliged to go with her, leaving Harry and Fleur alone.
"Harry, I gotta ask you something." Fleur said, looking at her feet. Harry was standing in front of her while she sat on the couch.
"Huh?"
"Why?"
"Why what?" Harry asked, stepping closer to her, she stood up,
"Why did we get into that fight, I mean why were you so mad?"
Harry didn't hesitate or even seem to think about his answer, he quickly replied,
"Because I care too much about you, to lose you." By now they were standing face to face, and the moment was imminent. Each closed their eyes and dipped into a kiss. It was the most magical thing Harry had ever experienced. It was the equivalent of having five different flavored sugar quills in your mouth, and being able to taste each one. When they finally broke apart it seemed as though hours had passed, and both were left breathing heavily.
"That was . . . whoa." They spoke together, still closely next to eachother.
"Potter, the headmaster would like to see you in his office at this moment." Professor McGonagall's voice came from the doorway. Harry and Fleur broke apart quickly, and McGonagall didn't seem to notice.
"Alright, I'll be right there." Harry said, and said bye to Fleur, leaving immediately after.
* * * *
Ron and Hermione climbed through the portrait hole into the Gryffindor common room, it was empty because everybody was at dinner.,
"Why did we come up here, why not back to Fleur's dormitory?" Ron asked.
"Because, we have to talk."
"Oh, because if it's about your Charms homework I don't know how Neville got it, but I swear I didn't give it to him!"
"No Ron, it's not about my charms homework, it's about, about, about Harry and Fleur, I don't know what's going on between them, but it all seems like they're not being completely honest." Hermione let out a deep sigh afterword. Ron sat down on a chair, followed by Hermione. Ron looked over at her,
"I know, it's almost like they got together without telling us."
"Yeah, plus I need your help."
"Doing?"
"You'll see."
* * * *
"Harry, I now feel that you are old enough to receive this." Dumbledore told him, levitating a two school trunks toward him. Harry backed up as they landed directly in front of him,
"Headmaster, what exactly are they?" Harry asked, utterly confused.
'Harry, when your house was destroyed, back in Godric's Hollow, not everything was destroyed. These two trunks belonged to your mother and father, they were the only things not destroyed when your house was. I have kept them safe for you, and now I feel you are ready."
"Thank you." Harry said, and levitated the trunks with his hands. He tried little spells with hands more often now, a practice, but he really didn't try anything big without his wand.
"Harry, what is that?" Hermione asked as he dragged himself into the common room, two trunks dragging behind him.
"They're my mother and father's old school trunks. Dumbledore gave them to me, so let's go through them to see what is inside."
"Okay, but let's go to a place more private," Hermione stated, "Dinner will be done soon and we don't want everyone to come up here."
"Well, I guess we could go to Fleur's room." Harry said, Ron nodded his head in agreement.
"Okay, let's go, Minimepscule!" Hermione said pointing at the trunks, and they shrunk to the size of marbles. Harry scratched the back of his head, wondering why he didn't do that in the first place, and Ron followed as Hermione picked the miniatures up and placed them in her pocket.
"Hi, what did Dumbledore want?" Fleur asked when she opened the portrait hole to let the trio in.
"He gave me these." Harry said, taking the trunks from Hermione's outstreched hand and placing one on the ground,
"Engorgio!" He said and the trunk grew.
"Who's are they?"
"My mum and dad's, from school, cool huh? We were going to go through them, wanna help?"
"Sure, put them over by the table."
* * * *
"Harry, I'm through, I gotta get some sleep, I'm sorry but I'm going to bed." Ron said getting up from the chair he was sitting in. They had been going through Lily Potter's trunk for two hours now, and she must have put a spell on it so that it was larger than it seemed.
"Me too." Hermione piped up, Harry was sitting on the couch, picking up a small book,
"It's okay, but tomorrow we have the whole day off, so I'm going through my dad's stuff, your welcome to join me.:
"Okay, see you then." Ron said, and he left followed by Hermione.
"I guess they'll be back, what about you, you planning on getting some sleep?" Fleur asked Harry.
"When I finish my mom's trunk, I'll get some sleep and then go through my dad's in the morning."
"Okay." Harry went back to the small book he had just picked up, it was a journal. He opened it to a random page and started reading it,
Dear Diary,
I hate James Potter, I hate James Potter, I hate James Potter!!!!!!!!
Today, he pulled this prank on me, but what's worse is that Steven, the guy I've had a crush on for like forever was there. He just laughed too! And James is the only person who knows I like him, so he just HAD to drop a bucket of frog livers on me in front of Steven!
I swear if I ever get my hands on that James Potter, and you know what, he just out and admitted it too, he didn't even have any remorse, I ran back to my dorm crying, and he bursts in and proclaims 'I did it' as if it were some impossible feat! I'm starting to cry now Diary, I'll get back to you later, I don't know if Steven will ever like me.
Goodnight, Flower (Lily)
"Whoa, my dad played a really mean prank on my mom, back in school, and she hated him for it, it must have been before they were friends." Harry said aloud, then he turned the page and started reading again,
Dear Diary,
I love James Potter, I love James Potter, I love James Potter!!!!!!!!!
Guess what, the prank the other day, he didn't do! I overheard Sirius and Remus (He doesn't know I know he's a werewolf!) well anyway, they were talking, and they were like,
'James is flipping man. He made Lily all super mad at him because he lied and said that he pulled the frog livers job, but Steven did it.' and at first I didn't believe them, but then I went to dinner, and I heard Steven and some Ravenclaws celebrating over how hard it was to do, but they were happy they got a 'geek' I was crying, but then James came and comforted me. He is soooooooooooooooo cute!!!! I feel all warm and fuzzy inside, I think I'm going to tell him,
Bye Diary, Lily (Flower)
"Whoa, my dad did some really nice stuff when he was in school." Harry said,
"Like what?" Fleur asked,
"Here, read this." Harry said, handing her the diary. She read through the two pages,
"I wonder what happened next." Fleur said, and she reached her hand out to turn the page. As soon as it touched though she could feel her eyes start to roll back in her head, and she was slowly slipping out of consciousness.
* * * *
Fleur awoke inside of a dorm room, and climbed off the floor. A young Lily Potter was standing in front of a closed door, muttering,
"Your going to do it today, your going to do it today." Fleur didn't say anything, though it didn't matter because there was no way she could have been heard. She was looking back at a memory through her Iris powers, which she was learning how to control. But after enough emotion manifested she couldn't, which was the reason she was where she was at that particular moment.
Lily opened the door, and slowly descended down the stairs, peeking into the common room before going all the way down. There were four people in there, Sirius Black, the trick playing tough boy, Remus Lupin, the sensitive shy boy, Peter Pettigrew, the hopeless clutz, and James Potter, Handsome, heroic, Quidditch champion, second in his class James Potter. Lily could feel her heart melt at the sight of him. She continued down the stairs, to the four who were hard at work doing something.
"James, can I talk to you." Lily said, making all four boys look up from there work.
"Okay." He replied, and went over to the furthest corner of the common room.
"James, I just want to tell you thank you, for what you did."
"What did I do?" He asked in his best innocent voice, which was pretty good by now.
"You know what you did, pretending Steven didn't pull that prank and that you did. And pretending you were comforting me just cause."
"I didn't know you knew."
"Yeah, well I do, but you don't have to worry about that, because I like someone else now."
"Really?"
"Yeah, but I need your advice." James chuckled a little,
"My advice?"
"Yeah, I really like this boy right, but instead of telling him, I want to show him. So do you think I should kiss him?"
"Sure." James replied, unaware that a few seconds later Lily would have her lips on his and her arms around his neck with one foot up.
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh." Sirius, Remus and Peter let out before the two stopped, breathless, but before Fleur could see anymore, it slowly started to fade away from her.
* * * *
Fleur woke up in her bed, under the sheets, with her robes off, but not her clothes. She got up from the bed and walked into the main chamber of her room, and Harry was asleep on the couch, the diary open in his lifeless hands. Fleur could make out the entry that was only a few sentences
Dear Diary
James proposed!!!! He asked me to marry him! I said yes too!!! We've already picked names and stuff too, if we have a boy he'll be Ronald, and if we have a girl she'll be Jackie. I gotta go, graduation prom is in an hour!!!!!
Bye, TTYL Lily
Fleur walked over to Harry and conjured up a blanket to lay over him. They had been through a lot together, and she knew she liked him, liked him a lot to the point where she thought she might even love him, but she wasn't going to say anything rash right now. She placed the blanket over Harry and bent over him, kissing him gently on the check,
"Thank you." She whispered and walked back to her room, laying in the bed for hours, but never actually going to sleep.
Chapter 18 - Fragments of the Past
"Listen Harry, I know at first it seems like a great offer, but think about it. We practically do everything they do, but without as much responsibility. Plus we still have O.W.L.'s to pass and Potions is going to be murder." Hermione was talking to Harry while Ron and Fleur sat back. Dumbledore had just invited them to join the Order of Phoenix.
"Hermione! We are getting the chance to join the elite, the great, the Order of Phoenix, and your ready to throw that all away." He replied surprised,
"Not throw it away Harry, just postpone it. I think we should wait atleast until after our O.W.L.'s ." Hermione said exasperated. Ron got up and walked over to Hermione though. He picked her up out of her seat without much struggle, and holding her by her biceps carried her to the corner of the room. He was about six feet tall now and much stronger than before. He started to whisper in her ear,
"You don't have to be afraid." He said in a very relaxing tone. She could feel herself melt to butter, but she kept her calm,
"What do you mean?"
"You know perfectly well what I mean. Hermione, I know you better than I think I know anybody, and I know when you are trying to use school as an excuse for something your scared of. Hermione, your in Gryffindor for a reason, just take this chance, we can't do it without you."
"Okay Ron, but if it interferes with studies . . ." She said, and turned to Harry, "Okay Harry, I'm in, but what do we do about school-work?"
"Easy, we just do our work like normal, ever since the first Quidditch match when we creamed Hufflepuff, me and Ron haven't had to work that hard, and I'm sure our DADA grades will more than help us out if something unfortunate happens." Harry said, but Fleur tutted,
"If you think I'm going to just give you full marks then your sadly mistaken." Harry shook his head,
"I meant that if we are in the Order any fifth year magic stuff would be very easy to us."
"Oh."
"I'm gonna go find Professor McGonagall and tell her okay." Hermione said, and Ron obliged to go with her, leaving Harry and Fleur alone.
"Harry, I gotta ask you something." Fleur said, looking at her feet. Harry was standing in front of her while she sat on the couch.
"Huh?"
"Why?"
"Why what?" Harry asked, stepping closer to her, she stood up,
"Why did we get into that fight, I mean why were you so mad?"
Harry didn't hesitate or even seem to think about his answer, he quickly replied,
"Because I care too much about you, to lose you." By now they were standing face to face, and the moment was imminent. Each closed their eyes and dipped into a kiss. It was the most magical thing Harry had ever experienced. It was the equivalent of having five different flavored sugar quills in your mouth, and being able to taste each one. When they finally broke apart it seemed as though hours had passed, and both were left breathing heavily.
"That was . . . whoa." They spoke together, still closely next to eachother.
"Potter, the headmaster would like to see you in his office at this moment." Professor McGonagall's voice came from the doorway. Harry and Fleur broke apart quickly, and McGonagall didn't seem to notice.
"Alright, I'll be right there." Harry said, and said bye to Fleur, leaving immediately after.
* * * *
Ron and Hermione climbed through the portrait hole into the Gryffindor common room, it was empty because everybody was at dinner.,
"Why did we come up here, why not back to Fleur's dormitory?" Ron asked.
"Because, we have to talk."
"Oh, because if it's about your Charms homework I don't know how Neville got it, but I swear I didn't give it to him!"
"No Ron, it's not about my charms homework, it's about, about, about Harry and Fleur, I don't know what's going on between them, but it all seems like they're not being completely honest." Hermione let out a deep sigh afterword. Ron sat down on a chair, followed by Hermione. Ron looked over at her,
"I know, it's almost like they got together without telling us."
"Yeah, plus I need your help."
"Doing?"
"You'll see."
* * * *
"Harry, I now feel that you are old enough to receive this." Dumbledore told him, levitating a two school trunks toward him. Harry backed up as they landed directly in front of him,
"Headmaster, what exactly are they?" Harry asked, utterly confused.
'Harry, when your house was destroyed, back in Godric's Hollow, not everything was destroyed. These two trunks belonged to your mother and father, they were the only things not destroyed when your house was. I have kept them safe for you, and now I feel you are ready."
"Thank you." Harry said, and levitated the trunks with his hands. He tried little spells with hands more often now, a practice, but he really didn't try anything big without his wand.
"Harry, what is that?" Hermione asked as he dragged himself into the common room, two trunks dragging behind him.
"They're my mother and father's old school trunks. Dumbledore gave them to me, so let's go through them to see what is inside."
"Okay, but let's go to a place more private," Hermione stated, "Dinner will be done soon and we don't want everyone to come up here."
"Well, I guess we could go to Fleur's room." Harry said, Ron nodded his head in agreement.
"Okay, let's go, Minimepscule!" Hermione said pointing at the trunks, and they shrunk to the size of marbles. Harry scratched the back of his head, wondering why he didn't do that in the first place, and Ron followed as Hermione picked the miniatures up and placed them in her pocket.
"Hi, what did Dumbledore want?" Fleur asked when she opened the portrait hole to let the trio in.
"He gave me these." Harry said, taking the trunks from Hermione's outstreched hand and placing one on the ground,
"Engorgio!" He said and the trunk grew.
"Who's are they?"
"My mum and dad's, from school, cool huh? We were going to go through them, wanna help?"
"Sure, put them over by the table."
* * * *
"Harry, I'm through, I gotta get some sleep, I'm sorry but I'm going to bed." Ron said getting up from the chair he was sitting in. They had been going through Lily Potter's trunk for two hours now, and she must have put a spell on it so that it was larger than it seemed.
"Me too." Hermione piped up, Harry was sitting on the couch, picking up a small book,
"It's okay, but tomorrow we have the whole day off, so I'm going through my dad's stuff, your welcome to join me.:
"Okay, see you then." Ron said, and he left followed by Hermione.
"I guess they'll be back, what about you, you planning on getting some sleep?" Fleur asked Harry.
"When I finish my mom's trunk, I'll get some sleep and then go through my dad's in the morning."
"Okay." Harry went back to the small book he had just picked up, it was a journal. He opened it to a random page and started reading it,
Dear Diary,
I hate James Potter, I hate James Potter, I hate James Potter!!!!!!!!
Today, he pulled this prank on me, but what's worse is that Steven, the guy I've had a crush on for like forever was there. He just laughed too! And James is the only person who knows I like him, so he just HAD to drop a bucket of frog livers on me in front of Steven!
I swear if I ever get my hands on that James Potter, and you know what, he just out and admitted it too, he didn't even have any remorse, I ran back to my dorm crying, and he bursts in and proclaims 'I did it' as if it were some impossible feat! I'm starting to cry now Diary, I'll get back to you later, I don't know if Steven will ever like me.
Goodnight, Flower (Lily)
"Whoa, my dad played a really mean prank on my mom, back in school, and she hated him for it, it must have been before they were friends." Harry said aloud, then he turned the page and started reading again,
Dear Diary,
I love James Potter, I love James Potter, I love James Potter!!!!!!!!!
Guess what, the prank the other day, he didn't do! I overheard Sirius and Remus (He doesn't know I know he's a werewolf!) well anyway, they were talking, and they were like,
'James is flipping man. He made Lily all super mad at him because he lied and said that he pulled the frog livers job, but Steven did it.' and at first I didn't believe them, but then I went to dinner, and I heard Steven and some Ravenclaws celebrating over how hard it was to do, but they were happy they got a 'geek' I was crying, but then James came and comforted me. He is soooooooooooooooo cute!!!! I feel all warm and fuzzy inside, I think I'm going to tell him,
Bye Diary, Lily (Flower)
"Whoa, my dad did some really nice stuff when he was in school." Harry said,
"Like what?" Fleur asked,
"Here, read this." Harry said, handing her the diary. She read through the two pages,
"I wonder what happened next." Fleur said, and she reached her hand out to turn the page. As soon as it touched though she could feel her eyes start to roll back in her head, and she was slowly slipping out of consciousness.
* * * *
Fleur awoke inside of a dorm room, and climbed off the floor. A young Lily Potter was standing in front of a closed door, muttering,
"Your going to do it today, your going to do it today." Fleur didn't say anything, though it didn't matter because there was no way she could have been heard. She was looking back at a memory through her Iris powers, which she was learning how to control. But after enough emotion manifested she couldn't, which was the reason she was where she was at that particular moment.
Lily opened the door, and slowly descended down the stairs, peeking into the common room before going all the way down. There were four people in there, Sirius Black, the trick playing tough boy, Remus Lupin, the sensitive shy boy, Peter Pettigrew, the hopeless clutz, and James Potter, Handsome, heroic, Quidditch champion, second in his class James Potter. Lily could feel her heart melt at the sight of him. She continued down the stairs, to the four who were hard at work doing something.
"James, can I talk to you." Lily said, making all four boys look up from there work.
"Okay." He replied, and went over to the furthest corner of the common room.
"James, I just want to tell you thank you, for what you did."
"What did I do?" He asked in his best innocent voice, which was pretty good by now.
"You know what you did, pretending Steven didn't pull that prank and that you did. And pretending you were comforting me just cause."
"I didn't know you knew."
"Yeah, well I do, but you don't have to worry about that, because I like someone else now."
"Really?"
"Yeah, but I need your advice." James chuckled a little,
"My advice?"
"Yeah, I really like this boy right, but instead of telling him, I want to show him. So do you think I should kiss him?"
"Sure." James replied, unaware that a few seconds later Lily would have her lips on his and her arms around his neck with one foot up.
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh." Sirius, Remus and Peter let out before the two stopped, breathless, but before Fleur could see anymore, it slowly started to fade away from her.
* * * *
Fleur woke up in her bed, under the sheets, with her robes off, but not her clothes. She got up from the bed and walked into the main chamber of her room, and Harry was asleep on the couch, the diary open in his lifeless hands. Fleur could make out the entry that was only a few sentences
Dear Diary
James proposed!!!! He asked me to marry him! I said yes too!!! We've already picked names and stuff too, if we have a boy he'll be Ronald, and if we have a girl she'll be Jackie. I gotta go, graduation prom is in an hour!!!!!
Bye, TTYL Lily
Fleur walked over to Harry and conjured up a blanket to lay over him. They had been through a lot together, and she knew she liked him, liked him a lot to the point where she thought she might even love him, but she wasn't going to say anything rash right now. She placed the blanket over Harry and bent over him, kissing him gently on the check,
"Thank you." She whispered and walked back to her room, laying in the bed for hours, but never actually going to sleep.