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Thank you to
Katani Petitdra
Selina
Epholge
john
Kazza
Lil Lupin (am really enjoying your stories. Please update soon)
Hope you enjoy this chapter.
ABANDONED CHAPTER 15
Over the next week Harry got stronger and stronger. He was entertained with regular visits, particularly from the Weasleys and Remus.
Sirius seemed to have divided his time into doing three things; decorating the house (using Harry's suggestions), sleeping and sitting with Harry in the hospital wing.
When Madame Pomfrey decided that Harry was well enough to try walking around a bit, a mini party was thrown by all of Harry's regular visitors. Some members of the teaching staff looked inside the ward curious about all of the noise and ended up staying too (much more fun than doing marking).
One morning, exactly three weeks after being bought in by Sirius (including the time that Harry was unconscious), Harry was sitting in a chair beside his bed, trying to teach Dobby how to play chess. This was very difficult as Dobby kept saying that he 'must' make the bed, clean the floor etc. and not actually paying attention to Harry's instructions.
"Dobby, you could have taken my knight then!"
"Dobby would not dream of harming one of Harry Potter's chess pieces!"
Suddenly the whole of Dobby's chess team (or whatever all of the pieces are called), turned round to face Dobby and declared a strike on the grounds that Dobby had no idea what he was doing and that there was no way they were going to be trounced in such an unfair battle. A couple of the pawns defected to Harry's side and tried to blend in with his team (all looking nervous and shifting uneasily).
As Harry sighed dramatically, the Hospital wing doors opened and Sirius entered with Madame Pomfrey, a huge grin on his face.
Madame Pomfrey went over and lit a fire in the fireplace and Sirius walked up to Harry
"Pomfrey says we can go."
"Really?" Harry said in surprise
"Yeah. I've just spent the last three hours in her office being given instructions, what to do if Harry has a nightmare, what to do if Harry looks a bit peaky, what to do if Harry sneezes. It's like she doesn't trust me or something!" Sirius looked outraged.
"Sirius, you forget that I knew you as a student at this school. You let almost every pet you ever owned die, or let one of your friends change it's colour, or give it an extra limb!" Madame Pomfrey said looking stern
"That wasn't me that was James!"
"Most of your pets were shared!"
"Harry isn't a pet!"
"Exactly, I dread to think-" Madame Pomfrey, looked horrified as she imagined what could happen under Sirius' care.
"Relax. I'll follow all of the instructions you gave me to the letter." Sirius looked at her hopefully with schoolboy enthusiasm.
"I'll be by to see you in a couple of days." She said with a smile.
Dobby got up and started cleaning up before Harry could stop him. Sirius started shoving Harry's belongings into a suitcase (the chess pieces were singing a cheerful marching tune in celebration of Dobby leaving and yelled out in anger as they were tossed unceremoniously into the case by Sirius).
Once they were packed up they walked over the fireplace.
"Ready to go home?" Sirius said brightly
"Yeah. Home." Harry said with a smile
"Put the floo powder into the fire and say 'Silvermoon Manor'"
"Silvermoon?"
"It's the name it came with. I would've changed it but it annoyed Remus, so I kept it as it was."
"Oh." Harry, said amused.
Harry threw the floo powder into the fireplace and yelled 'Silvermoon manor!"
The next thing he knew, he was stumbling out of a fireplace in a large cosy room, not unlike the Griffindor common room in it's appearance. Moments later Sirius appeared behind him.
"Welcome." Sirius said. "Let me show you around."
Sirius took Harry around the large house, introducing the house elves when they were in the kitchen "don't bother trying to teach them chess. I tried once, drove me insane."
Harry laughed as they walked slowly up the sweeping staircase. The room at the top of the stairs had a several bizarre signs on the door, such as one saying 'beware of the leopard' and another saying 'mind your head'.
"Huh?" said Harry looking at it.
"That's my room. I picked the signs up when us marauders went on holiday in the muggle world."
The room was decorated in garish colours, items of clothing folded up in a huge pile on the end of his bed.
"I see the house elves have been in" Sirius commented "you can't open the door all the way usually".
"Come on, you look a bit tired, let's go see your room"
At the end of the hall, there was a door with Harry's name engraved into it. With a trembling hand, Harry opened the door. The room was painted a pale blue, with a darker blue carpet. The room was huge, he had a large bed, wardrobe, desk, a couple of comfy looking armchairs, a wizarding radio, you name it. Most of Harry's things were already put out into his room.
"wow."
"Hoped you'd like it. Look, make yourself at home and maybe have a rest. I'll get you at dinner time."
"Sirius, can I have Hedwig in here?"
"Sure - wait this isn't about what Pomfrey said is it?" he said suspiciously.
"might be." Harry replied apprehensively
"It was a long time ago."
"Dare I ask who changed your pet's colour, and what's this about extra limbs?"
"James and I pulled one prank too many on Lily. She went to Snape and got him to make a potion for her to slip our pet cat. Snape of course was only too willing to upset us so he did. He turned our cat pink! Pink! I mean honestly, why not a scary shade of red?"
"What about the extra limb?"
"We were never really sure how that happened. James blamed Peter, and I blamed Snape of course. Anyhow, we could never prove it."
Sirius smiled wistfully and left the room, leaving Harry staring mystified at the door, picturing that poor pink cat with five legs. Hopefully Pomfrey had sorted it out.
By the time Sirius came back up to get Harry, he had rearranged some of the things to give it a more personal touch and stuck some photos on the wall, and was curled up in an armchair listening to the quidditch commentary on the radio, with his eyes closed so that he could picture it.
"If you press the button on the side of the wireless you will be able to see the match properly." Sirius said as he entered
Harry jumped and snapped his eyes open.
"sorry. Should have knocked." Sirius said apologetically
"That's ok. What button was it? I've never had a wizarding wireless before."
Sirius pointed it out to Harry and pressed it. Immediately a 3D image appeared in the middle of the room of the quidditch match.
Sirius sat in another armchair and summoned an elf to bring the meal upstairs. They watched it commenting occasionally on the moves that the players made whilst munching their dinners.
"When will I start taking classes again?"
"On Monday if you like. As we need to protect you a bit more closely than the others your classes will be here or at the Burrow. Some of your friends will be accompanying you here for classes though. Mostly Griffindors or other people Dumbledore can trust. They won't be told where this house is anyway. They'll come be floo or portkey."
"Right."
Harry settled quickly into his new home with Sirius. By the time the weekend before school came around Harry felt like he'd lived there for years, not just a few days. The cupboard under the stairs was like a distant, unimaginable memory.
So far as Harry's capture was concerned, he was settling for not thinking about it. Sirius was not keen to push Harry on it as Lupin's side of the story outlined a grim picture. Harry would talk when he was ready. In the mean time, Sirius made sure he had a calming potion on standby whenever Harry was asleep, as he still had horrific nightmares.
A/N The chapter was a bit shorter again. It just felt like a good place to stop. I'll try to update soon!!
Thank you to
Katani Petitdra
Selina
Epholge
john
Kazza
Lil Lupin (am really enjoying your stories. Please update soon)
Hope you enjoy this chapter.
ABANDONED CHAPTER 15
Over the next week Harry got stronger and stronger. He was entertained with regular visits, particularly from the Weasleys and Remus.
Sirius seemed to have divided his time into doing three things; decorating the house (using Harry's suggestions), sleeping and sitting with Harry in the hospital wing.
When Madame Pomfrey decided that Harry was well enough to try walking around a bit, a mini party was thrown by all of Harry's regular visitors. Some members of the teaching staff looked inside the ward curious about all of the noise and ended up staying too (much more fun than doing marking).
One morning, exactly three weeks after being bought in by Sirius (including the time that Harry was unconscious), Harry was sitting in a chair beside his bed, trying to teach Dobby how to play chess. This was very difficult as Dobby kept saying that he 'must' make the bed, clean the floor etc. and not actually paying attention to Harry's instructions.
"Dobby, you could have taken my knight then!"
"Dobby would not dream of harming one of Harry Potter's chess pieces!"
Suddenly the whole of Dobby's chess team (or whatever all of the pieces are called), turned round to face Dobby and declared a strike on the grounds that Dobby had no idea what he was doing and that there was no way they were going to be trounced in such an unfair battle. A couple of the pawns defected to Harry's side and tried to blend in with his team (all looking nervous and shifting uneasily).
As Harry sighed dramatically, the Hospital wing doors opened and Sirius entered with Madame Pomfrey, a huge grin on his face.
Madame Pomfrey went over and lit a fire in the fireplace and Sirius walked up to Harry
"Pomfrey says we can go."
"Really?" Harry said in surprise
"Yeah. I've just spent the last three hours in her office being given instructions, what to do if Harry has a nightmare, what to do if Harry looks a bit peaky, what to do if Harry sneezes. It's like she doesn't trust me or something!" Sirius looked outraged.
"Sirius, you forget that I knew you as a student at this school. You let almost every pet you ever owned die, or let one of your friends change it's colour, or give it an extra limb!" Madame Pomfrey said looking stern
"That wasn't me that was James!"
"Most of your pets were shared!"
"Harry isn't a pet!"
"Exactly, I dread to think-" Madame Pomfrey, looked horrified as she imagined what could happen under Sirius' care.
"Relax. I'll follow all of the instructions you gave me to the letter." Sirius looked at her hopefully with schoolboy enthusiasm.
"I'll be by to see you in a couple of days." She said with a smile.
Dobby got up and started cleaning up before Harry could stop him. Sirius started shoving Harry's belongings into a suitcase (the chess pieces were singing a cheerful marching tune in celebration of Dobby leaving and yelled out in anger as they were tossed unceremoniously into the case by Sirius).
Once they were packed up they walked over the fireplace.
"Ready to go home?" Sirius said brightly
"Yeah. Home." Harry said with a smile
"Put the floo powder into the fire and say 'Silvermoon Manor'"
"Silvermoon?"
"It's the name it came with. I would've changed it but it annoyed Remus, so I kept it as it was."
"Oh." Harry, said amused.
Harry threw the floo powder into the fireplace and yelled 'Silvermoon manor!"
The next thing he knew, he was stumbling out of a fireplace in a large cosy room, not unlike the Griffindor common room in it's appearance. Moments later Sirius appeared behind him.
"Welcome." Sirius said. "Let me show you around."
Sirius took Harry around the large house, introducing the house elves when they were in the kitchen "don't bother trying to teach them chess. I tried once, drove me insane."
Harry laughed as they walked slowly up the sweeping staircase. The room at the top of the stairs had a several bizarre signs on the door, such as one saying 'beware of the leopard' and another saying 'mind your head'.
"Huh?" said Harry looking at it.
"That's my room. I picked the signs up when us marauders went on holiday in the muggle world."
The room was decorated in garish colours, items of clothing folded up in a huge pile on the end of his bed.
"I see the house elves have been in" Sirius commented "you can't open the door all the way usually".
"Come on, you look a bit tired, let's go see your room"
At the end of the hall, there was a door with Harry's name engraved into it. With a trembling hand, Harry opened the door. The room was painted a pale blue, with a darker blue carpet. The room was huge, he had a large bed, wardrobe, desk, a couple of comfy looking armchairs, a wizarding radio, you name it. Most of Harry's things were already put out into his room.
"wow."
"Hoped you'd like it. Look, make yourself at home and maybe have a rest. I'll get you at dinner time."
"Sirius, can I have Hedwig in here?"
"Sure - wait this isn't about what Pomfrey said is it?" he said suspiciously.
"might be." Harry replied apprehensively
"It was a long time ago."
"Dare I ask who changed your pet's colour, and what's this about extra limbs?"
"James and I pulled one prank too many on Lily. She went to Snape and got him to make a potion for her to slip our pet cat. Snape of course was only too willing to upset us so he did. He turned our cat pink! Pink! I mean honestly, why not a scary shade of red?"
"What about the extra limb?"
"We were never really sure how that happened. James blamed Peter, and I blamed Snape of course. Anyhow, we could never prove it."
Sirius smiled wistfully and left the room, leaving Harry staring mystified at the door, picturing that poor pink cat with five legs. Hopefully Pomfrey had sorted it out.
By the time Sirius came back up to get Harry, he had rearranged some of the things to give it a more personal touch and stuck some photos on the wall, and was curled up in an armchair listening to the quidditch commentary on the radio, with his eyes closed so that he could picture it.
"If you press the button on the side of the wireless you will be able to see the match properly." Sirius said as he entered
Harry jumped and snapped his eyes open.
"sorry. Should have knocked." Sirius said apologetically
"That's ok. What button was it? I've never had a wizarding wireless before."
Sirius pointed it out to Harry and pressed it. Immediately a 3D image appeared in the middle of the room of the quidditch match.
Sirius sat in another armchair and summoned an elf to bring the meal upstairs. They watched it commenting occasionally on the moves that the players made whilst munching their dinners.
"When will I start taking classes again?"
"On Monday if you like. As we need to protect you a bit more closely than the others your classes will be here or at the Burrow. Some of your friends will be accompanying you here for classes though. Mostly Griffindors or other people Dumbledore can trust. They won't be told where this house is anyway. They'll come be floo or portkey."
"Right."
Harry settled quickly into his new home with Sirius. By the time the weekend before school came around Harry felt like he'd lived there for years, not just a few days. The cupboard under the stairs was like a distant, unimaginable memory.
So far as Harry's capture was concerned, he was settling for not thinking about it. Sirius was not keen to push Harry on it as Lupin's side of the story outlined a grim picture. Harry would talk when he was ready. In the mean time, Sirius made sure he had a calming potion on standby whenever Harry was asleep, as he still had horrific nightmares.
A/N The chapter was a bit shorter again. It just felt like a good place to stop. I'll try to update soon!!