A/N: Sorry it's taken me so long to get this out but life has been so busy for me with school and everything else that I just have not had the time or energy to write. Again I do apologize to all of you guys for taking so long and I want to thank you all for being patient and not pressuring me and jumping down my throat. So here's the next chapter and thanks to Lorelei Wood for the idea for this chapter, I am so disorganized in my thoughts that I forget certain things but I was just thinking about that. Oh and Snowwolf I read every single one of my reviews and appreciate them all because they're all so nice. So here's the next chapter and I'm sorry for the wait and hopes that it lives up to all of your expectations.
Chapter 11
The day after their shopping trip Harry was to be found in the music room. Harry had really taken a liking to playing piano and violin and had proved to be a very fast learner. Severus had also shown both Harry and Draco that he was a very gifted violinist. Draco had taken to playing trumpet and saxophone as well.
Harry was sitting at the piano lost in his own world when his father came up behind him. A letter had come for Harry. Severus crept silently up to Harry's ear and whispered
"Sound's good."
Harry jumped practically a mile out of his seat and said,
"Merlin Dad! Don't do that! You scared me"
"Sorry Harry, but I couldn't resist. A letter just came for you."
Harry turned around on the bench and snatched the letter and said,
"Thank Dad."
Severus smiled and left the room as Harry left with him on his way up to his room.
Harry entered his room and sat down on his bed and opened the letter. He immediately recognized his godfather's handwriting. He hadn't heard from him pretty much all summer and missed him. He sat on his bed and opened the letter
Dear Harry,
How have you been kid-o? I'm sorry that I haven't written much this summer but I have been so busy trying to get all the red tape at the ministry in officially clearing my name. But I have good news. My manor is finally cleaned up and ready for habitation. I'm writing to invite you to stay for a long weekend. It'd be from this Thursday until Sunday. Send a reply back and let me know and I'll come and collect you. Hope to year from you soon kid-o
Snuffles
Harry smiled and dashed out of his room and down to his father's study where he was sitting at his desk working on lesson plans for the upcoming term. Hearing his son crashing down the stairs he looked up from his work to see an excited Harry and said,
"Who was the letter from and what did it say?"
"Sirius and he was wondering if I could come spend a long weekend at his manor from Thursday until Sunday."
"Well Harry it's completely fine by me, you should know that. So go ahead and write him back and let him know." Severus said with a smile.
Harry grinned and ran back out of the room presumably to go to the owlry to write back to his godfather.
While all this was happening Draco was in his room reading a book. It was too hot to go outside and do anything else. Draco had started feeling a pain in the right side of his abdominal region that morning but dismissed it as nothing. He heard his brother dash up the stairs and decided to follow him. He walked up to the owlry to see his brother writing a letter and said,
"Who are you writing to?"
"Sirius. He just sent me a letter inviting me to his manor on Thursday and asked me to write back." Harry responded.
"I see. Have you heard from Ron? I thought they usually invited you to their house during the last part of the summer."
"They usually do and I haven't heard from him yet but he did already mention it at the beginning of the summer."
Draco nodded just as Harry tied the letter to Hedwig's leg and sent the owl off. The two left the owlry and walked back down to the bedroom level. There they separated and Draco went back to his room and Harry back to the music room.
The next couple of days passed by uneventfully. There had been a few freak thunderstorms but that was normal for that time of year. Sirius had sent a reply back telling Harry that he would be there at 1 o'clock on Thursday. Meanwhile Draco's pain hadn't stopped and seemed to be getting worse though he didn't want to admit the possibility of getting sick so soon again.
Lunchtime on Thursday rolled around and Harry was so excited that he hardly could sit still long enough to eat his lunch. He however managed it because his father was still watching him eat like a hawk even though Harry had really no desire to make himself throw up again.
At 1 o'clock a house elf escorted Sirius into the study where Severus, Draco and Harry were waiting. Upon seeing his godfather Harry launched himself at him. Sirius gladly squeezed Harry just as tightly and said,
"Good to see you too kid-o." smiling "Hello Severus." He said politely.
Severus merely inclined his head and said,
"Black."
Sirius separated from Harry and said,
"Ready to go?"
Harry nodded and shouldered his bag, grabbed his broom and said,
"How are we getting to your house?"
"We're flooing, it's easiest. Just say Black Manor."
Harry nodded and both moved over towards the fireplace and Harry grabbed the powder and said,
"See you guys Sunday."
After a quick 'bye Harry' he was gone and Sirius with a nod towards Severus followed.
Harry landed in a very handsome front entrance hall. He looked around for a moment admiring all of the different kinds of woods and marbles beautifully blended together. Sirius stumbled out of the fireplace and said smiling,
"Welcome to my family's home Harry."
Harry smiled and said,
"It's gorgeous, it's like Dad's house kind of."
"Well the Blacks are almost as old as the Snapes." Sirius responded "Now come on, let's go drop off your stuff in your room and I'll give you a tour."
Harry nodded and the two went up a widely curving walnut staircase and walked down a hall. When they got to the second to last door Sirius opened it to show a room of black, blue, green and red and said,
"This is your room whenever you come to stay with me."
Harry smiled and hugged his godfather and said,
"Thanks Sirius, I love it!"
"I knew you would kid-o, now come on and I'll show you the rest of the house."
Harry nodded, dropped his bag on the large four poster bed and followed his godfather back out and down to the entrance level. He was lead through the house being shown the study, library, lounge, drawing room, kitchen, dining room, banquet hall, ballroom, gym and recreation room. Then outside to see the quidditch practice pitch, pool and stables and riding ring. By the time they were done and had seen everything they had some time before dinner and they decided to go for a ride.
As they were riding down a trail in the woods that were on Sirius' property Sirius said,
"Harry I'm sorry I haven't been there for you much this summer. I wish you could've told me about your problem."
Harry didn't have to ask what the problem was, he instantly knew. He shrugged his shoulders and kept looking square ahead at the trail and said,
"It's all right Sirius, you've been busy and I didn't want to tell anybody about the problem. But it was found out and taken care of and I'm okay now."
Sirius nodded and said,
"You know you can come and talk to me about anything, right Harry?"
"Yes I know but it was a rough time and I now I'm past it." Harry responded
Sirius nodded and the two lapsed into silence. Soon they were back in the manor and in the dining room eating shepherds pie. Before long the two were done and Harry was tired so he retreated up to his room and busied himself with exploring everything thoroughly.
His room was just as big as his room at his father's but arranged differently. The windows were in the middle of the room and were double large bay windows with red sheer curtains. His bed was set in the corner against the wall that the windows were on. The bed and nightstand that was set beside it were both a deep cherry wood. On the bed the duvet was red and black checks and the pillows were alternating red on one side and black on the other.
The carpet beneath his feet was plush and a deep midnight blue. In the middle of the room sat a very plush forest green armchair in front of a fireplace with a black marble mantled fireplace. A door to the left of the fireplace lead to a closet and storage area. To the right of the fireplace lead to the bathroom. The bathroom was exactly the same as it was at his father's house, except the floor and fixtures were white marble and silver and the rugs and towels were all a deep blood red.
Back in the main room across from the armchair and windows was a cherry wood desk and next to the desk was a small bookshelf that held pictures of mostly Sirius with Harry as an infant and Harry with his mother, James and Remus as an infant as well. Harry couldn't help but laugh at the moving pictures seeing the things that he did to the other marauders.
Back at Snape manor Draco wasn't feeling so good. As soon as Harry had flooed out he had made told his father he wasn't feeling well and headed up to his room. Severus had been worried a bit because he noticed that Draco looked sightly off color but really didn't know or could check what was wrong unless Draco asked him to check. Severus was down in his lab when Draco slowly came in and said,
"Dad I really don't feel good."
Severus swept over to Draco and said,
"You don't look so good, what's wrong?"
"I feel like I've got a stomach ache and a migraine."
Severus put his hand onto Draco's forehead and said,
"You feel a bit warm, but not too much. Come on, lets go get you some potions."
Draco nodded and followed his father to the potions store room and waited as his father got a fever reducer, headache and stomach settling potion. Draco took all of them and Severus helped him back up to his room and put him in his bed and said,
"Send your elf to me if you don't feel any better or you feel worse."
Draco nodded and drifted off to sleep and Severus went back down to his lab.
Back at Sirius' Harry was reading in his room. He had noticed that Draco wasn't looking that good but knew that his brother would tell their father if it went too far.
A/N:
sorry that was so short but I decided to end it there, besides I'm not feeling good and I couldn't think of anything else and since I've kept you all waiting for so long I decided to get this much posted and I promise that it won't be long until the next chapter so don't worry you will find out very soon what happens. Now please push that little button and tell me what you think but you all know the rule NO FLAMES!!!!! As someone once told me, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all! :-) So I promise it won't take as long this time so don't worry and review you guys!!!
Chapter 11
The day after their shopping trip Harry was to be found in the music room. Harry had really taken a liking to playing piano and violin and had proved to be a very fast learner. Severus had also shown both Harry and Draco that he was a very gifted violinist. Draco had taken to playing trumpet and saxophone as well.
Harry was sitting at the piano lost in his own world when his father came up behind him. A letter had come for Harry. Severus crept silently up to Harry's ear and whispered
"Sound's good."
Harry jumped practically a mile out of his seat and said,
"Merlin Dad! Don't do that! You scared me"
"Sorry Harry, but I couldn't resist. A letter just came for you."
Harry turned around on the bench and snatched the letter and said,
"Thank Dad."
Severus smiled and left the room as Harry left with him on his way up to his room.
Harry entered his room and sat down on his bed and opened the letter. He immediately recognized his godfather's handwriting. He hadn't heard from him pretty much all summer and missed him. He sat on his bed and opened the letter
Dear Harry,
How have you been kid-o? I'm sorry that I haven't written much this summer but I have been so busy trying to get all the red tape at the ministry in officially clearing my name. But I have good news. My manor is finally cleaned up and ready for habitation. I'm writing to invite you to stay for a long weekend. It'd be from this Thursday until Sunday. Send a reply back and let me know and I'll come and collect you. Hope to year from you soon kid-o
Snuffles
Harry smiled and dashed out of his room and down to his father's study where he was sitting at his desk working on lesson plans for the upcoming term. Hearing his son crashing down the stairs he looked up from his work to see an excited Harry and said,
"Who was the letter from and what did it say?"
"Sirius and he was wondering if I could come spend a long weekend at his manor from Thursday until Sunday."
"Well Harry it's completely fine by me, you should know that. So go ahead and write him back and let him know." Severus said with a smile.
Harry grinned and ran back out of the room presumably to go to the owlry to write back to his godfather.
While all this was happening Draco was in his room reading a book. It was too hot to go outside and do anything else. Draco had started feeling a pain in the right side of his abdominal region that morning but dismissed it as nothing. He heard his brother dash up the stairs and decided to follow him. He walked up to the owlry to see his brother writing a letter and said,
"Who are you writing to?"
"Sirius. He just sent me a letter inviting me to his manor on Thursday and asked me to write back." Harry responded.
"I see. Have you heard from Ron? I thought they usually invited you to their house during the last part of the summer."
"They usually do and I haven't heard from him yet but he did already mention it at the beginning of the summer."
Draco nodded just as Harry tied the letter to Hedwig's leg and sent the owl off. The two left the owlry and walked back down to the bedroom level. There they separated and Draco went back to his room and Harry back to the music room.
The next couple of days passed by uneventfully. There had been a few freak thunderstorms but that was normal for that time of year. Sirius had sent a reply back telling Harry that he would be there at 1 o'clock on Thursday. Meanwhile Draco's pain hadn't stopped and seemed to be getting worse though he didn't want to admit the possibility of getting sick so soon again.
Lunchtime on Thursday rolled around and Harry was so excited that he hardly could sit still long enough to eat his lunch. He however managed it because his father was still watching him eat like a hawk even though Harry had really no desire to make himself throw up again.
At 1 o'clock a house elf escorted Sirius into the study where Severus, Draco and Harry were waiting. Upon seeing his godfather Harry launched himself at him. Sirius gladly squeezed Harry just as tightly and said,
"Good to see you too kid-o." smiling "Hello Severus." He said politely.
Severus merely inclined his head and said,
"Black."
Sirius separated from Harry and said,
"Ready to go?"
Harry nodded and shouldered his bag, grabbed his broom and said,
"How are we getting to your house?"
"We're flooing, it's easiest. Just say Black Manor."
Harry nodded and both moved over towards the fireplace and Harry grabbed the powder and said,
"See you guys Sunday."
After a quick 'bye Harry' he was gone and Sirius with a nod towards Severus followed.
Harry landed in a very handsome front entrance hall. He looked around for a moment admiring all of the different kinds of woods and marbles beautifully blended together. Sirius stumbled out of the fireplace and said smiling,
"Welcome to my family's home Harry."
Harry smiled and said,
"It's gorgeous, it's like Dad's house kind of."
"Well the Blacks are almost as old as the Snapes." Sirius responded "Now come on, let's go drop off your stuff in your room and I'll give you a tour."
Harry nodded and the two went up a widely curving walnut staircase and walked down a hall. When they got to the second to last door Sirius opened it to show a room of black, blue, green and red and said,
"This is your room whenever you come to stay with me."
Harry smiled and hugged his godfather and said,
"Thanks Sirius, I love it!"
"I knew you would kid-o, now come on and I'll show you the rest of the house."
Harry nodded, dropped his bag on the large four poster bed and followed his godfather back out and down to the entrance level. He was lead through the house being shown the study, library, lounge, drawing room, kitchen, dining room, banquet hall, ballroom, gym and recreation room. Then outside to see the quidditch practice pitch, pool and stables and riding ring. By the time they were done and had seen everything they had some time before dinner and they decided to go for a ride.
As they were riding down a trail in the woods that were on Sirius' property Sirius said,
"Harry I'm sorry I haven't been there for you much this summer. I wish you could've told me about your problem."
Harry didn't have to ask what the problem was, he instantly knew. He shrugged his shoulders and kept looking square ahead at the trail and said,
"It's all right Sirius, you've been busy and I didn't want to tell anybody about the problem. But it was found out and taken care of and I'm okay now."
Sirius nodded and said,
"You know you can come and talk to me about anything, right Harry?"
"Yes I know but it was a rough time and I now I'm past it." Harry responded
Sirius nodded and the two lapsed into silence. Soon they were back in the manor and in the dining room eating shepherds pie. Before long the two were done and Harry was tired so he retreated up to his room and busied himself with exploring everything thoroughly.
His room was just as big as his room at his father's but arranged differently. The windows were in the middle of the room and were double large bay windows with red sheer curtains. His bed was set in the corner against the wall that the windows were on. The bed and nightstand that was set beside it were both a deep cherry wood. On the bed the duvet was red and black checks and the pillows were alternating red on one side and black on the other.
The carpet beneath his feet was plush and a deep midnight blue. In the middle of the room sat a very plush forest green armchair in front of a fireplace with a black marble mantled fireplace. A door to the left of the fireplace lead to a closet and storage area. To the right of the fireplace lead to the bathroom. The bathroom was exactly the same as it was at his father's house, except the floor and fixtures were white marble and silver and the rugs and towels were all a deep blood red.
Back in the main room across from the armchair and windows was a cherry wood desk and next to the desk was a small bookshelf that held pictures of mostly Sirius with Harry as an infant and Harry with his mother, James and Remus as an infant as well. Harry couldn't help but laugh at the moving pictures seeing the things that he did to the other marauders.
Back at Snape manor Draco wasn't feeling so good. As soon as Harry had flooed out he had made told his father he wasn't feeling well and headed up to his room. Severus had been worried a bit because he noticed that Draco looked sightly off color but really didn't know or could check what was wrong unless Draco asked him to check. Severus was down in his lab when Draco slowly came in and said,
"Dad I really don't feel good."
Severus swept over to Draco and said,
"You don't look so good, what's wrong?"
"I feel like I've got a stomach ache and a migraine."
Severus put his hand onto Draco's forehead and said,
"You feel a bit warm, but not too much. Come on, lets go get you some potions."
Draco nodded and followed his father to the potions store room and waited as his father got a fever reducer, headache and stomach settling potion. Draco took all of them and Severus helped him back up to his room and put him in his bed and said,
"Send your elf to me if you don't feel any better or you feel worse."
Draco nodded and drifted off to sleep and Severus went back down to his lab.
Back at Sirius' Harry was reading in his room. He had noticed that Draco wasn't looking that good but knew that his brother would tell their father if it went too far.
A/N:
sorry that was so short but I decided to end it there, besides I'm not feeling good and I couldn't think of anything else and since I've kept you all waiting for so long I decided to get this much posted and I promise that it won't be long until the next chapter so don't worry you will find out very soon what happens. Now please push that little button and tell me what you think but you all know the rule NO FLAMES!!!!! As someone once told me, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all! :-) So I promise it won't take as long this time so don't worry and review you guys!!!
