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Chapter Three: Disapperation Buddy

"Harry! We've been waiting for you." Remus Lupin said as he walked towards Harry smiling. He looked like a man prematurely aged by worry. The wrinkles on his face seemed to have reproduced many times over the summer and his salt and pepper hair now had more salt than pepper.

"W-what are you doing here?" Harry queried with a puzzled look on his face.

"We've come to take you away. Can you go get you're things quickly? Tonks will help you, right, Tonks?" he said turning to face the girl with electric blue hair standing behind him. She smiled at them both.

"B- er- WHY?" Harry asked still confused. "What happened? What is Volde-"

"C'mon, Harry," Tonks interjected. "Let's go get your things!"

Harry opened his mouth to speak then closed it again and followed Tonks irresolutely up the stairs. A sudden thought struck him.

"What happened to the Dursleys?" He questioned the back of Tonks' brightly colored head. She turned around and smiled at him devilishly.

"Ooh, well you see, Harry…. A REPRESENTATIVE from a 'magazine' came by and invited them to breakfast. Told them they would be interviewed for the Most Presentable Family article. Naturally, they couldn't resist."

"Er- Who was the 'representative'?" He asked though he was sure he already knew the answer.

"Mad-Eye." Tonks said grinning even more broadly than before. "I wish I was there! I would have LOVED to see their faces when that Transfiguration Charm wore off and they saw they were stuck in that car with Mad-Eye!"

Harry couldn't repress a snort. The thought of Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and Dudley being trapped in a car with Mad-Eye struck him as very funny.

"This is your room, right?" Tonks asked pointing to Harry's bedroom door.

"Yeah, that's it." He said as she opened it and walked in. Minutes later Harry found himself following Tonks down the stairs, Hedwig's cage in hand, and into the kitchen. There, for the first time, he addressed the other faces he had seen peering out at him earlier. There weren't as many as the first time he had been taken from the Dursley's and Harry knew everyone in the group. Kingsley Schacklebolt, Elphias Dodge, and Dedalus Diggle all stood in the kitchen watching him as intently as they had one year ago. Harry felt just as uneasy.

"…Are we using our brooms again?" He said looking at Lupin.

"No, not this time." Tonks said.

"Then wha-?"

"We are all going to disapperate, Harry. You'll come with me. Hold on tight and don't let go." Lupin said as the rest surrounded them and he grabbed Harry into a tight hug. "This may be slightly painful to you, Harry because your body is not used to it yet. No matter what, DON'T LET GO."

Harry was quite surprised. He knew you could disapperate, but he never knew you could do it with someone. He grabbed onto Lupin's shabby robes as tightly as he could and waited. A strange slighting stinging sensation tingled all over his body, and Harry had the strange feeling that he was in two places at once.

Warm wind brushed against his face and Harry looked up. The dilapidated houses of numbers 11and 13 Grimmauld Place loomed before him.