Hello everyone, ears91 here again. Here comes chapter 15, hope everyone likes it. My guess is no more then 5 chapters until they get to Hogwarts, Just thought I'd let you all know, and yes it will be Harry/Hermione, just not yet. So don't get frustrated with me. -ears91

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Chapter 15, Welcome Home

It was a beautiful two story house, quite near the cave, where Sirius and Buckbeak had hidden in during Harry and Hermione's 4th year. They went inside, it was filled with boxed and some furniture. "What's all this stuff, Sirius?" "Oh, It's the stuff Remus salvaged from my old house, when I was sent to Azkaban," he shuddered at the last bit. "We should all go to sleep, we've got to get up early and go to Diagon Alley." "But we haven't gotten our letters yet." "Oh yeah, there in on the kitchen table, arrived this morning. Hermione you can sleep upstairs in the guest room, upstairs on the right, across from Harry's presently empty room, Harry you've got to sleep on the couch, because tomorrow we'll get stuff for your room, Good night, Don't stay up too late." With that he went to his room to sleep. When Sirius went upstairs, Harry turned to Hermione, "Can you believe this, I've gone from the Dursley's, to defeating Voldemort, to staying with one of my best friends, you, and now I'm with my godfather, I'm going to have my own room with my own stuff for the first time." "It's great Harry, you finally have someplace to call home, and a family." "I also have friends, Hermione, who just might as well be my family." With that Hermione burst into tears and hugged Harry. All Harry could feel at this moment was so much love, he couldn't keep his emotions in check, so he to was in tears. They fell asleep on the couch crying in each others arms, so much happiness and love overwhelmed them. Sirius woke up in the middle of the night and covered the two up. He thought to himself, 'Aww, they remind me so much of James and Lily, before they got together, best friends, too.' The next morning both woke with a start, wondering 'where are we,' then they remembered they were with Sirius! After breakfast the three went to Diagon Alley, first they got their books and supplies for 7th year, and Sirius apparated with it back to the house, then popped back, so they could go shopping for Harry's room. Harry got a bed similar to his 4-poster at Hogwarts, a desk that Hermione loved, and a dresser, which matched the bed. Sirius also bought new mattresses for his bed and the one in the guest room, he'd realized the night before that his mattresses had rotted away, it was like sleeping back at the cave, he had said. After Sirius apparated the new furniture back to their house, he met Harry and Hermione in the Leakey Cauldron for dinner, they'd skipped lunch, because of their excitement from shopping. The three got a private booth, seeing how Harry was uncomfortable with all the staring, because of his defeat of Voldemort, and he being with Sirius Black. After dinner they flooed back to the house and started to arrange the furniture and other things, then at about twelve collapsed in there respective rooms for a much desired sleep.

I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter, I know I do. -ears91 Review