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Chapter Five - Godric's Hollow
They Travelled all through that day and a little into the night. Eventually they arrived at a small cottage on the outskirts of a tiny hamlet in the middle of nowhere. Sirius looked at Harry with a broad grin on his face,
"Welcome home Harry"
"Home?" Harry questioned, "What do you mean?"
"Harry, welcome to Godric's Hollow, this was your parents house Harry. The place in which you were born and in which you lived the first year of your life. From now on, this is your home. You live here with us, me and Sirius and a couple of others who stay here too." Remus cut in.
"Really?!" Harry's expression was one of disbelief and awe, "But I thought this place was destroyed the night my parents were killed. What happened?"
"Harry," Sirius said soothingly, "It has been a long day for all of us. Right now we all need rest. In the morning you can ask all the questions in the world and we have a lot to tell you, but now you need to sleep."
With that Sirius and Remus took Harry inside. Once through the front door they parted. Remus entered a small door to his right, carefully shielding Harry from whatever was inside, Sirius led Harry upstairs and into a small room with a bed inside it.
"You sleep here Harry. We'll see you in the morning, just come into the kitchen when you come down" with that he slowly pulled the door too and left Harry to sleep.
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The next morning Harry woke feeling rather disorientated. His immediate reaction was to panic. He had absolutely no idea where he was but ever so slowly the events of the past twenty-four hours returned to him and he smiled as he remembered where he was and who he was with. He swung his legs of the edge of the bed and slowly stood up. He dressed quickly in his clothes that he had neatly folded and hung over the end of the bed the night before and then practically skipped downstairs to the kitchen.
When he reached the kitchen door he stopped. He could hear voices inside the room and something, although he wasn't sure what, made him decided that he shouldn't make himself known to be up and about yet. He could fairly clearly make out the voices and although he distinctly recognised the voices of Sirius and Remus he couldn't place the three other voices he heard. He decided to do what he would have done had he been at school with Ron and Hermione; he stood and eavesdropped on the people in the kitchen;
"Look, he's here now. Why don't we just tell him everything and be done with it. What's that saying? 'The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth'?"
"Yes but in this case I really don't think that is such a good idea Jen (***So one of them is called Jen then***) I mean sure Harry is a strong kid and he could probably take anything we could throw at him right now but.. well its just that he's had so much to cope with in the past few months what with the triwizard tournament and everything that came along with that, I just think it would be far better for him if we waited until we are sure this will work one hundred per cent before we tell him what we are doing"
"Yes Siri but don't you think that it would be good for him to have some hope to cling onto, a hope that everything will turn out alright and that he can be a normal kid again with a normal family"
"Normal, Abbi, is something that will never happen for him. Even if our plans succeed it will not make his life normal, it might give him back part of normality in returning something which he has not had for the past fourteen years but it can never return fully what he has missed out on in all that time."
"Personally I agree with Uncle Sirius. Harry could probably cope with it but what is the point in building up his hopes if we aren't completely sure this is going to work"
"Caz sweetie, this will work, I promise. Before you know it everyone will be where they are supposed to be, with the people they are supposed to be with, Sirius can stop hiding and you can have a proper family for the first time in your life. Just like Harry.'
"I know Uncle Remus; it's just that, well what if something goes wrong in all this. It would only take the slightest slip up and we are all dead."
"Yes and if that does happen then it isn't the end of the world it is - no pun intended mind - but if we die what happens, we meet up with all our friends and family who have preceded us there and live, so to speak, happily ever after, there really is no draw back to any of this, either it works and we live happily, or it fails to work and we die happily, nothing more, nothing less."
Harry felt at this point it was time to make his presence known. He had learnt so much in that few minutes of eavesdropping though, he was unaware whether they would actually tell him what all this plotting was although he deeply wanted to know and he got the feeling it was something which would affect him immensely although none of them had been giving much away. He took in a deep breath, pushed the door open and entered the kitchen.
On his entry into the kitchen the five who sat around the table went silent. Harry took this opportunity to take in who was there. There were Sirius and Remus of course and then there were three women, none of whom Harry recognised. The first sat to Remus' left. She was tall and had long blonde hair which flowed to her waist and her crystal blue eyes sparkled in the artificial light of the room. She looked to Harry as if she were in her mid to late twenties, perhaps a little older and her closeness to Remus told Harry that perhaps Remus was not the bachelor Harry assumed him to be. On Remus' right was Sirius and then to the far right of the group was another woman, whom Harry noticed immediately looked rather like the pictures he had seen of his mother. She had long auburn hair which was not quite as long as the first woman's and she had emerald green eyes much like Harry's own. She smiled when she saw Harry and Harry saw on her face a grin that could melt hearts as cold as even professor Snape's. Finally between this woman and Sirius sat a girl whom Harry thought was probably about his age although he decided that estimation was most definitely out as he had never seen her at Hogwarts and he decided it was most unlikely that she attended another wizarding school. This girl's hair was shorter than the other two, only coming down her shoulder and was light brown in colour and her eyes were a greenish grey. She reminded Harry somewhat of photos he had seen of his parents and their friends as children although he couldn't quite place it.
"So sleepy head, finally decided to drag yourself out of bed then?" questioned Remus.
"Yeah after all it's only 12:15 Harry, cripes you're worse than I am and that is definitely an accomplishment" Sirius added his comments to the conversation.
Harry just grinned. He wasn't going to tell them he'd been stood at the door for ten minutes listening to there conversation,
"So you gonna tell me whop these other people are or are you just going to make me guess then?" asked Harry with a grin on his face, "and then I remember something being said about you answering all my questions..."
"Yes Harry and all that will come into the story we are going to tell you. You should sit down because this may take quite a while...."
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a/n well these chapters are getting progressively longer and hopefully chapter 6 will be longer still. I'm trying to give you stuff to think about in all this and as my ideas as to where all this is going keep getting modified every 5 minutes I can see this ending up as a rather long story with rather a lot of twists and the end being a surprise even to me!! As for suspense, give me a chance, there'll be some soon, promise!!!
Chapter Five - Godric's Hollow
They Travelled all through that day and a little into the night. Eventually they arrived at a small cottage on the outskirts of a tiny hamlet in the middle of nowhere. Sirius looked at Harry with a broad grin on his face,
"Welcome home Harry"
"Home?" Harry questioned, "What do you mean?"
"Harry, welcome to Godric's Hollow, this was your parents house Harry. The place in which you were born and in which you lived the first year of your life. From now on, this is your home. You live here with us, me and Sirius and a couple of others who stay here too." Remus cut in.
"Really?!" Harry's expression was one of disbelief and awe, "But I thought this place was destroyed the night my parents were killed. What happened?"
"Harry," Sirius said soothingly, "It has been a long day for all of us. Right now we all need rest. In the morning you can ask all the questions in the world and we have a lot to tell you, but now you need to sleep."
With that Sirius and Remus took Harry inside. Once through the front door they parted. Remus entered a small door to his right, carefully shielding Harry from whatever was inside, Sirius led Harry upstairs and into a small room with a bed inside it.
"You sleep here Harry. We'll see you in the morning, just come into the kitchen when you come down" with that he slowly pulled the door too and left Harry to sleep.
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The next morning Harry woke feeling rather disorientated. His immediate reaction was to panic. He had absolutely no idea where he was but ever so slowly the events of the past twenty-four hours returned to him and he smiled as he remembered where he was and who he was with. He swung his legs of the edge of the bed and slowly stood up. He dressed quickly in his clothes that he had neatly folded and hung over the end of the bed the night before and then practically skipped downstairs to the kitchen.
When he reached the kitchen door he stopped. He could hear voices inside the room and something, although he wasn't sure what, made him decided that he shouldn't make himself known to be up and about yet. He could fairly clearly make out the voices and although he distinctly recognised the voices of Sirius and Remus he couldn't place the three other voices he heard. He decided to do what he would have done had he been at school with Ron and Hermione; he stood and eavesdropped on the people in the kitchen;
"Look, he's here now. Why don't we just tell him everything and be done with it. What's that saying? 'The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth'?"
"Yes but in this case I really don't think that is such a good idea Jen (***So one of them is called Jen then***) I mean sure Harry is a strong kid and he could probably take anything we could throw at him right now but.. well its just that he's had so much to cope with in the past few months what with the triwizard tournament and everything that came along with that, I just think it would be far better for him if we waited until we are sure this will work one hundred per cent before we tell him what we are doing"
"Yes Siri but don't you think that it would be good for him to have some hope to cling onto, a hope that everything will turn out alright and that he can be a normal kid again with a normal family"
"Normal, Abbi, is something that will never happen for him. Even if our plans succeed it will not make his life normal, it might give him back part of normality in returning something which he has not had for the past fourteen years but it can never return fully what he has missed out on in all that time."
"Personally I agree with Uncle Sirius. Harry could probably cope with it but what is the point in building up his hopes if we aren't completely sure this is going to work"
"Caz sweetie, this will work, I promise. Before you know it everyone will be where they are supposed to be, with the people they are supposed to be with, Sirius can stop hiding and you can have a proper family for the first time in your life. Just like Harry.'
"I know Uncle Remus; it's just that, well what if something goes wrong in all this. It would only take the slightest slip up and we are all dead."
"Yes and if that does happen then it isn't the end of the world it is - no pun intended mind - but if we die what happens, we meet up with all our friends and family who have preceded us there and live, so to speak, happily ever after, there really is no draw back to any of this, either it works and we live happily, or it fails to work and we die happily, nothing more, nothing less."
Harry felt at this point it was time to make his presence known. He had learnt so much in that few minutes of eavesdropping though, he was unaware whether they would actually tell him what all this plotting was although he deeply wanted to know and he got the feeling it was something which would affect him immensely although none of them had been giving much away. He took in a deep breath, pushed the door open and entered the kitchen.
On his entry into the kitchen the five who sat around the table went silent. Harry took this opportunity to take in who was there. There were Sirius and Remus of course and then there were three women, none of whom Harry recognised. The first sat to Remus' left. She was tall and had long blonde hair which flowed to her waist and her crystal blue eyes sparkled in the artificial light of the room. She looked to Harry as if she were in her mid to late twenties, perhaps a little older and her closeness to Remus told Harry that perhaps Remus was not the bachelor Harry assumed him to be. On Remus' right was Sirius and then to the far right of the group was another woman, whom Harry noticed immediately looked rather like the pictures he had seen of his mother. She had long auburn hair which was not quite as long as the first woman's and she had emerald green eyes much like Harry's own. She smiled when she saw Harry and Harry saw on her face a grin that could melt hearts as cold as even professor Snape's. Finally between this woman and Sirius sat a girl whom Harry thought was probably about his age although he decided that estimation was most definitely out as he had never seen her at Hogwarts and he decided it was most unlikely that she attended another wizarding school. This girl's hair was shorter than the other two, only coming down her shoulder and was light brown in colour and her eyes were a greenish grey. She reminded Harry somewhat of photos he had seen of his parents and their friends as children although he couldn't quite place it.
"So sleepy head, finally decided to drag yourself out of bed then?" questioned Remus.
"Yeah after all it's only 12:15 Harry, cripes you're worse than I am and that is definitely an accomplishment" Sirius added his comments to the conversation.
Harry just grinned. He wasn't going to tell them he'd been stood at the door for ten minutes listening to there conversation,
"So you gonna tell me whop these other people are or are you just going to make me guess then?" asked Harry with a grin on his face, "and then I remember something being said about you answering all my questions..."
"Yes Harry and all that will come into the story we are going to tell you. You should sit down because this may take quite a while...."
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a/n well these chapters are getting progressively longer and hopefully chapter 6 will be longer still. I'm trying to give you stuff to think about in all this and as my ideas as to where all this is going keep getting modified every 5 minutes I can see this ending up as a rather long story with rather a lot of twists and the end being a surprise even to me!! As for suspense, give me a chance, there'll be some soon, promise!!!
