A/N: Thank you Rebbie for my first review, so cool I didn't think I would
get any. And to Baroness Jumping Rain; Sidda that is a cool name.
**Thoughts**
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Chapter 2: Meeting the staff, and letters.
At 7 o clock Harry went down to the dinning hall to have his dinner. As usual the ceiling was enchanted and there were thousands of floating candles, but only one table, and as Harry walked in all the teachers looked up and were quite shocked to see a student before the start of school, except for Dumbledore who was smiling happily whilst humming a little tune.
"Harry how great of you to come, during the summer we don't have the house tables so why don't you come sit by me."
Dumbledore said whilst indicating a seat to his left. Harry walked up to the table smiling at the teachers as he went past most of them smiled back. One however scowled, and leaned over to the Headmaster.
"Albus what is he doing here, couldn't you have put him in an orphanage or something, I will never get any work done with him stomping around the school."
"Now Severus I'm sure everything will be just fine, this castle is big enough for the both of you."
Harry thought he heard a muttered "not with a ego as big as his" from Snape as he sat down but tried to ignore it, which wasn't that hard because seconds later the table filled with some of the most delicious food Harry had seen in a long time, and completely forgetting about Snape dug in. Harry didn't realize how hungry he had been living off Dudley's diet but decided to make up for the lack of food by eating as much as he could now.
"So, Harry how was has your summer been so far?"
Dumbledore inquired as Harry finally started to slow down in his eating just enough to be able to hold a conversation.
"Er. Fine not had much to do except work so it's been a bit."
"Great so you are all up to date with your homework, that just what we like to see an eager student."
Harry didn't really feel it was necessary at this point to tell Dumbledore that even though he had, had nothing to do except homework didn't mean that he had actually done very much of it. He was sure that if the last Defence Against the Dark Arts professor had been in a fit state to give them any homework at the end of last year he would of done that set. Defence had always been his best subject; maybe it was the extra practice he always seemed to get, although he wouldn't have minded not having that practice really.
"Now Harry you are free to use the library but I must ask that you don't bother the teachers because they are very busy getting ready for next year. And it isn't really fair if you were getting extra help now would it or we will have all the students wanting to stay over the summer wouldn't we."
"Em yeah, just queuing up."
Harry replied wondering if Dumbledore had really gone mad just like Ron had been saying.
"On a good side Harry now that you are back at school you can perform magic."
Dumbledore said with a twinkle in his eye.
**Now that might not be too bad.**
Thought Harry. With the meal soon over a contented Harry said goodnight to the professors and walked up to the Tower to get a good nights sleep, and not have to worry about the Dursley's in the room next to him.
**Well this really hasn't ended up too bad, free from the Dursley's and back at Hogwarts, even if that did mean seeing Snape earlier.**
Harry thought to himself as he climbed in to bed and pulled the up covers quickly falling to sleep.
The next morning Harry was quite shocked to wake up and discover that the world had turned a rather nasty shade of green, only to realize seconds later that it was actually just Dobby, although a very close Dobby.
"Mr Harry Potter sir, you are awake, good good, and I only had to poke you a few times. Professor Dumbledore said to come down to breakfast, and thought you might like to go and visit Professor Hagrid."
"Right yeah that sounds good but do you think you could perhaps get off my chest so that I can breath."
Gasped Harry in reply at this Dobby yelped and scuttled off Harry and started apologizing, bowing so low that his nose was scraping the carpet.
"Its alright Dobby, I'll just go down to breakfast now, thanks for waking me."
With that Harry hurried to get dressed and hurried down to breakfast. He was one of the first there this morning and was half way through his meal when Hedwig swooped into the Great Hall carrying what looked like quite a few letters.
"Hi girl you back from the Burrow? Let me get those letters."
Once Harry had removed the letters Hedwig started helping herself to the food on Harry's plate.
"Great now we have to share our table with animals too, and I thought Potters table manners were bad."
Harry looked up to see Snape walking into the room, with one of his most vicious snarls plastered on his face, and to his annoyance started to blush he shooed Hedwig off the table. She gave an indignant hoot and flew out of the window.
**What why am I blushing at something Snape says, I'm used to all of his snide comments, why blush now.**
Putting Snape from his mind Harry looked down at the letters in his hand, from the handwriting on the front there seemed to be one from Ron and Hermione and he didn't recognize the other one. Not wanting any more remarks from Snape about his terrible manners he decided to wait until he got back up to the Towers to open the letters. Eating as fast as he could but still trying to eat politely and not like a pig as he was sure Snape would call him, Harry finished his meal and set off for the Tower.
Sitting on his bed he opened the first letter from Ron.
Hi mate, How's holiday doing, pity you couldn't come and stay with us we were getting everything ready for you then got that owl from Dumbledore saying you will be staying at Hogwarts. Everyone's fine here Hermione is staying too. We are all going to Diagon alley on the 28th hope we can see you there.
Ron
**Great they're all together having a great summer and I'm here, stuck with a grouchy Snape.**
Harry grumbled to himself whilst he opened the second letter from Hermione.
Hi Harry, Hope you are having a lovely holiday. You are so lucky getting to stay at Hogwarts you will have the whole library to yourself to do your work in, but you know this means it is going to have to be extra good. I think Ron told you that I'm staying at the Burrow didn't he, hope to see you on the 28th.
Love Hermione
The third letter turned out to be from Mrs Weasley.
Harry Dear, I'm just writing to say hi and that we are all going to be at Daigon alley on the 28th, we plan to arrive at 8 but you know us might be a bit late so hopefully we will see you at Florean Fortescue's around then. I've also included a photo of the family to cheer you up, as you can see Ron going to be needing new robes again, Hermione might as well you are all growing up so quick.
See you soon dear. Molly Weasley.
Looking at the photo didn't cheer Harry up though, the whole of the Weasley family were smiling up at him from the photo with Hermione there as well. They were all so tall, Ron must of grown about 5 inches alone and Hermione might even be taller that him now. It wasn't fair Harry just didn't seem to grow.
**Hadn't Hermione said something about a spell though, and he could use it now so none of his friends would notice, maybe it was good been back at Hogwarts.**
With these thoughts Harry scrambled off the bed and ran down to the library to start his search. He only knew the type of spell he was looking for so it took awhile having to cross reference books and find the one he was looking for on the shelves, but he found it. He didn't just want a spell that made him grow a bit that could easily be undone. What Harry had found was a book that affected the way that you grew in the past so that in the time the caster was in now they were naturally taller. The spell was tricky with three parts that had to be spoken at the write time.
Torqueo articulus, reverto, sublimitas incrementum.
The first part distorted time according to the book so that you could affect something out of your time, so the book said the second part decided the direction the time would be affected in and the third part what would be affected. There was a lot of other notes one the spell and a fair few warnings, but Harry ignored these as he ran to the bathroom, muttering the spell under his breath to make sure that he had the pronunciations correct.
Once in the bathroom Harry took out his wand and looked at himself in the mirror, which smiled at him and said.
"Good luck mate."
Harry pointed the wand at himself and started the spell.
"Torqueo articulus, reverto, ."
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Miles away Voldemort decided that wormtail was in too good a mood and taking out his wand cried.
"Crucio"
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Back at Hogwarts Harry felt the spell hit.
"Reverto."
He said again gasping, and promptly vanished. Leaving behind a stunned mirror.
"Well I don't think that was meant to happen."
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The second chapter what do you think? If you don't like it send flames I dare you.
**Thoughts**
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Chapter 2: Meeting the staff, and letters.
At 7 o clock Harry went down to the dinning hall to have his dinner. As usual the ceiling was enchanted and there were thousands of floating candles, but only one table, and as Harry walked in all the teachers looked up and were quite shocked to see a student before the start of school, except for Dumbledore who was smiling happily whilst humming a little tune.
"Harry how great of you to come, during the summer we don't have the house tables so why don't you come sit by me."
Dumbledore said whilst indicating a seat to his left. Harry walked up to the table smiling at the teachers as he went past most of them smiled back. One however scowled, and leaned over to the Headmaster.
"Albus what is he doing here, couldn't you have put him in an orphanage or something, I will never get any work done with him stomping around the school."
"Now Severus I'm sure everything will be just fine, this castle is big enough for the both of you."
Harry thought he heard a muttered "not with a ego as big as his" from Snape as he sat down but tried to ignore it, which wasn't that hard because seconds later the table filled with some of the most delicious food Harry had seen in a long time, and completely forgetting about Snape dug in. Harry didn't realize how hungry he had been living off Dudley's diet but decided to make up for the lack of food by eating as much as he could now.
"So, Harry how was has your summer been so far?"
Dumbledore inquired as Harry finally started to slow down in his eating just enough to be able to hold a conversation.
"Er. Fine not had much to do except work so it's been a bit."
"Great so you are all up to date with your homework, that just what we like to see an eager student."
Harry didn't really feel it was necessary at this point to tell Dumbledore that even though he had, had nothing to do except homework didn't mean that he had actually done very much of it. He was sure that if the last Defence Against the Dark Arts professor had been in a fit state to give them any homework at the end of last year he would of done that set. Defence had always been his best subject; maybe it was the extra practice he always seemed to get, although he wouldn't have minded not having that practice really.
"Now Harry you are free to use the library but I must ask that you don't bother the teachers because they are very busy getting ready for next year. And it isn't really fair if you were getting extra help now would it or we will have all the students wanting to stay over the summer wouldn't we."
"Em yeah, just queuing up."
Harry replied wondering if Dumbledore had really gone mad just like Ron had been saying.
"On a good side Harry now that you are back at school you can perform magic."
Dumbledore said with a twinkle in his eye.
**Now that might not be too bad.**
Thought Harry. With the meal soon over a contented Harry said goodnight to the professors and walked up to the Tower to get a good nights sleep, and not have to worry about the Dursley's in the room next to him.
**Well this really hasn't ended up too bad, free from the Dursley's and back at Hogwarts, even if that did mean seeing Snape earlier.**
Harry thought to himself as he climbed in to bed and pulled the up covers quickly falling to sleep.
The next morning Harry was quite shocked to wake up and discover that the world had turned a rather nasty shade of green, only to realize seconds later that it was actually just Dobby, although a very close Dobby.
"Mr Harry Potter sir, you are awake, good good, and I only had to poke you a few times. Professor Dumbledore said to come down to breakfast, and thought you might like to go and visit Professor Hagrid."
"Right yeah that sounds good but do you think you could perhaps get off my chest so that I can breath."
Gasped Harry in reply at this Dobby yelped and scuttled off Harry and started apologizing, bowing so low that his nose was scraping the carpet.
"Its alright Dobby, I'll just go down to breakfast now, thanks for waking me."
With that Harry hurried to get dressed and hurried down to breakfast. He was one of the first there this morning and was half way through his meal when Hedwig swooped into the Great Hall carrying what looked like quite a few letters.
"Hi girl you back from the Burrow? Let me get those letters."
Once Harry had removed the letters Hedwig started helping herself to the food on Harry's plate.
"Great now we have to share our table with animals too, and I thought Potters table manners were bad."
Harry looked up to see Snape walking into the room, with one of his most vicious snarls plastered on his face, and to his annoyance started to blush he shooed Hedwig off the table. She gave an indignant hoot and flew out of the window.
**What why am I blushing at something Snape says, I'm used to all of his snide comments, why blush now.**
Putting Snape from his mind Harry looked down at the letters in his hand, from the handwriting on the front there seemed to be one from Ron and Hermione and he didn't recognize the other one. Not wanting any more remarks from Snape about his terrible manners he decided to wait until he got back up to the Towers to open the letters. Eating as fast as he could but still trying to eat politely and not like a pig as he was sure Snape would call him, Harry finished his meal and set off for the Tower.
Sitting on his bed he opened the first letter from Ron.
Hi mate, How's holiday doing, pity you couldn't come and stay with us we were getting everything ready for you then got that owl from Dumbledore saying you will be staying at Hogwarts. Everyone's fine here Hermione is staying too. We are all going to Diagon alley on the 28th hope we can see you there.
Ron
**Great they're all together having a great summer and I'm here, stuck with a grouchy Snape.**
Harry grumbled to himself whilst he opened the second letter from Hermione.
Hi Harry, Hope you are having a lovely holiday. You are so lucky getting to stay at Hogwarts you will have the whole library to yourself to do your work in, but you know this means it is going to have to be extra good. I think Ron told you that I'm staying at the Burrow didn't he, hope to see you on the 28th.
Love Hermione
The third letter turned out to be from Mrs Weasley.
Harry Dear, I'm just writing to say hi and that we are all going to be at Daigon alley on the 28th, we plan to arrive at 8 but you know us might be a bit late so hopefully we will see you at Florean Fortescue's around then. I've also included a photo of the family to cheer you up, as you can see Ron going to be needing new robes again, Hermione might as well you are all growing up so quick.
See you soon dear. Molly Weasley.
Looking at the photo didn't cheer Harry up though, the whole of the Weasley family were smiling up at him from the photo with Hermione there as well. They were all so tall, Ron must of grown about 5 inches alone and Hermione might even be taller that him now. It wasn't fair Harry just didn't seem to grow.
**Hadn't Hermione said something about a spell though, and he could use it now so none of his friends would notice, maybe it was good been back at Hogwarts.**
With these thoughts Harry scrambled off the bed and ran down to the library to start his search. He only knew the type of spell he was looking for so it took awhile having to cross reference books and find the one he was looking for on the shelves, but he found it. He didn't just want a spell that made him grow a bit that could easily be undone. What Harry had found was a book that affected the way that you grew in the past so that in the time the caster was in now they were naturally taller. The spell was tricky with three parts that had to be spoken at the write time.
Torqueo articulus, reverto, sublimitas incrementum.
The first part distorted time according to the book so that you could affect something out of your time, so the book said the second part decided the direction the time would be affected in and the third part what would be affected. There was a lot of other notes one the spell and a fair few warnings, but Harry ignored these as he ran to the bathroom, muttering the spell under his breath to make sure that he had the pronunciations correct.
Once in the bathroom Harry took out his wand and looked at himself in the mirror, which smiled at him and said.
"Good luck mate."
Harry pointed the wand at himself and started the spell.
"Torqueo articulus, reverto, ."
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Miles away Voldemort decided that wormtail was in too good a mood and taking out his wand cried.
"Crucio"
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Back at Hogwarts Harry felt the spell hit.
"Reverto."
He said again gasping, and promptly vanished. Leaving behind a stunned mirror.
"Well I don't think that was meant to happen."
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The second chapter what do you think? If you don't like it send flames I dare you.
