Chapter 7~ Things Get Sirius
At around 8:00am the next morning Sirius came running into the room with Lupin right behind him. He looked around and saw that every one was still asleep. Dumbledore had filled them in on every thing and given them there letters; they had been very similar to Severus' letter.
Sirius walked over to Harry's bed and looked down at him. Poor guy, he thought I can't believe he did that, unlike Severus he had not been mad when he found out what Harry had done, he was well I guess the only word for it was proud. That Harry would give up every thing for the one's he loved made him want to cry.
He sat down in the chair that Hermione had been in and took Harry's hand. Lupin sat down next to him in a chair he pulled over from the other side of the room.
"Do you think he'll be ok?" Sirius asked looking over at Lupin.
"I hope so, this kid has been threw a lot, what's one more thing?" Lupin said looking down at Harry. Dumbledore had told no one that Harry had woken up last night, he didn't want to get there hopes up.
"Not a...kid...anymore" Harry said in a very horse whisper. Sirius' head shot up and he looked at Harry. He's eyes were open and he was talking these were all very good signs.
"No I guess you're really not," Sirius said smiling and handed his a glass of water "How you feeling?"
"Alive, which is more then I expected so." Harry said with a faint smile after he took a drink. He went to look around but found that his neck hurt a little "Is every one still here?" He asked "And is there something on my arm?"
"Yes, Draco, Ginny and Ron are asleep on the bed next to yours and the thing on your arm would be Hermione" Lupin said smiling. "She looks very comfortable, and Severus is still asleep on a bed in front of yours"
Harry nodded "Did it work?" he asked with hope in his eyes
"As far as we know it did, Severus' mark is gone; Dumbledore sent 30 Auror's to his last know hide out at Malfoy Manner. Dumbledore hasn't heard anything yet but they were only sent about half an hour ago"
"Good..." Harry paused and took a deep breathe "What time is it? And how long have I been out?"
"Its 8:20am and you've only been here since last nigh" Sirius said "You hungry?"
"No not really. I've only been out for the night? She said it would be longer" Harry said looking up to try to loosen his neck and saw the confused looks Sirius and Lupin were giving him.
"Who told you" Lupin asked
"My Mum" Harry said looking a little sad.
"Your Mum?" Sirius asked looking at him "What do you mean?"
"I saw here, while I was out, she helped me decide" Harry said then seeing the confused looks again he added "If I wanted to come back or stay there"
Sirius hadn't seen Severus sit up and look at Harry; he had a very big smile on his face when he saw that Harry was awake and talking. But the smile faded when he said he'd seen his Mum, and when Harry said he had to decide to live or die it was gone.
"What did you give up?" Severus asked looking at his very much alive son.
While the question confused Sirius and Lupin, Harry seemed to know exactly what he was talking about.
"I gave up my quidditch skills" Harry said looking a little sad at the thought. This seemed to confuse Sirius and Lupin even more. 'I wonder if Harry had it give it all up or just his seeker skills' Severus wondered. I'll have to talk to him later.
"At the same time Harry was thinking 'I wonder how Severus new I had to give something up?' But just as he was about to ask Sirius jumped in-
"Could some one explain this to me, please?" Sirius asked getting a little frustrated.
"Harry had the choice to live or die, but because he would have died by his own hands, he had to give something up to come back" Severus said looking at Sirius as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "So anyway" Severus said turning back to Harry "Do you still have your magic?"
"Didn't Dumbledore explain this to you Severus? He bound his magic with Voldemort" Sirius said in a quite voice. "His magic is gone"
"Do you?" He asked Harry totally ignoring Sirius.
"Yes I do, she said the PTB said I could keep my powers because I gave them up to save the world" Harry said smiling at Severus who along with Sirius and Lupin had big happy grins on their faces.
"Good, good" Dumbledore said who they had not heard come in. "I was hoping that's what they'd say"
"Have they been here the whole time?" Harry asked pointing to his friends. And then with a little effort he looked down at the still sleeping Hermione.
"Yes, they feel asleep about seven hours ago, Well Draco passed out after we found you" Dumbledore said "They wouldn't leave your side the whole time. They were all a little upset with you, but Draco set them strait when he woke." Dumbledore said with a chuckle.
"I'm sorry I scared you" Harry said looking over at Sirius and Lupin then looking at Severus. "I only did what had to be done."
"We know" Severus said looking sad "I just wish you could have told us"
"Yeah I'm sure that would have been a fun conversation," Harry said then he took on Severus' voice and said "There is no way in hell your sacrificing your self for man kind"
"Yeah, that just what I would have said," Severus said with a smile. He looked down at Hermione "I think you friend is waking up" Severus looked over at Sirius, Lupin and Dumbledore and said "We'll leave you to have a little time with your friends, don't strain your self"
"Ok, thanks Dad" Harry said as they got up and walked out the door. Hermione moved around then opened her eyes and looked up and Harry. When she saw that his eyes were open and he was smiling she sat strait up and looked down at him.
"Are you ok?" She asked when she got her bearings
"Yeah, it will take a few days but I'll be fine" Harry said.
Hermione put her head down to Harry's chest; she lay there for a second and let out a very content sigh. "I was so scared Harry, don't you ever do that to me again."
"Well let's hope I won't have to" Harry said with a smile. Ron was the first one to sit up over on the other bed. He looked over at Harry and jumped to his feet.
"Thank god" Ron said as he walked over "You had us pretty worried mate"
"Psh, nothing I can't handle" Harry said with a smile. He'd tell them about the quidditch thing later. Right now all he wanted was to be happy he was ok and be with his friends. Ron picked up a pillow and threw it at Draco.
"Get up you lazy git" He said when Draco threw the pillow back and forgetting that he wasn't on his queen size bed rolled over and feel to the floor. The sound of him hitting the floor woke Ginny. She sat up and looked over at Harry, a big smile forming on her face as she jumped out of bed and rushed over to Harry, not taking notice of the blond boy on the floor.
"Ginny.oxygen.becoming an issue here" Harry said in short breaths.
"Sorry" She said as she flushed red "I'm just glad to see you're awake." She smiled at him. Harry's eyes traveled to behind Ginny where Draco was now standing with his arm around Ginny's waist and a smile on his face.
"You feeling ok?" Draco asked
"Yeah, I'm great." Harry said smiling. But when Draco looked he saw that the smile didn't reach his eyes.
"When are they letting you out of here?" Hermione asked sitting up and stretching out, then her face became panicked. "Oh no" Hermione said jumping up out of the bed.
"What is it?" Harry asked looking worried
"Bolt" Hermione said "I forgot to feed him last night, and this morning"
"Oh is that all" Harry said like she had just told him she forgot to water a plant. "Call him"
"What?" Hermione asked thinking maybe Harry hit his head on the ground when he fell. "I can't call him, he's like three floors away"
"Just call him" Harry insisted
"Ok" Hermione said not sounding very convinced. "Bolt, come here baby, come on Bolt"
Hermione looked at Harry like he might just be going crazy. She was about to call in the nurse when she heard a small 'pop' sound and looked down at the floor where Bolt was now rubbing her leg. She looked up at Harry gaping at him.
"Did I not mention that Bolt was a special cat" Harry asked all innocent.
"No Harry you didn't" Hermione said picking up the cat and rubbing his belly. "What is she?"
"He is a very rare species of cat called 'appline'" Harry said as he reached out and pet Bolt on the head. "There pretty rare and hard to find. They can apparat to there master when ever called" He explained.
"Wow" Hermione said "That's so cool"
"You can even train him to bring things with him when you call" Harry said "I thought that might be good for you sense you always forget something when you go to the library."
"Well that's really cool I think I'll train him to bring." But she didn't get to finish because right then Severus, Sirius, Lupin and Dumbledore all came running into the room.
"We fond him" Sirius said in a sing song voice, with a big smile on his face.
"He was on the out skirts of the forbidden forest, all his "loyal" Death Eaters abandoned him there when they found out his power was gone" Severus said. He looked over to Hermione who was still holding Bolt. "How did he get up here?" Severus said "You know Madam Poppy would have a problem with having animals in her infirmary" Severus said in a voice that said he clearly didn't care.
"He's an appline." Hermione said. Severus nodded with a smile, 'he must know what that is' Hermione thought
"So what did you do with Voldemort?" Draco asked
"He's in Azkaban, in a very safe little box" Sirius said with a big smile.
Over the next few weeks' things got back to normal. Harry got better day by day, and by the middle of the second week he was aloud to do homework again. (To Harry's dismay) He hadn't been able to before because Madam Poppy said it was to stressful. People got use to the idea of Voldemort being gone, and they celebrated, a lot.
By the end of the third week Harry was up and out of bed. Madam Poppy still insisted that Harry stay in the infirmary till this weekend. Every day for the last three weeks Severus had come to the infirmary to have dinner with Harry. At first it had been a little awkward they didn't really know what to talk about. Then on the third night Severus asked about quidditch, and that broke the ice. They talked about Harry trying out for a different place on the team. Severus' response to Harry asking how he had known he'd made a chose had been 'How are things going with Miss Granger?' They talked about every thing (except how Severus knew) and by Thursday they were getting on fairly well. On Friday the kids were sitting in the infirmary talking about the Hogsmeade visit tomorrow.
"I can't wait to get out of this room" Harry said smiling over at Madam Poppy who was sitting at her desk working on something. "I'll be right back" He got up and walked over to Madam Poppy said something to her and walked into the back of the room were the showers were.
"So what time should I tell them to be ready?" Ron asked as soon as Harry was out of the room.
Draco pulled out a little book titled 'Harry's Surprise Party' Hermione had insisted they stay organized and that's how they came up with the book. "The Hogsmeade trip ends at 7:30pm so we can hang back while they set up. So tell them to be ready by 8:00" Draco said as he wrote something down "Hermione you told Professor McGonagall we'd be late right?" He asked
"Yeah, I let her know this morning" Hermione said
"Who's bringing what?" Ginny asked. Draco opened to the food page and read a little.
"Well Neville is getting the butter beer. And Seamus is bring the food, his Dad owns a restaurant and said he'd be happy to help" Draco said. "Hermione your still making the decorations right?"
"Yeah, I've got it all planed out." Hermione said with a smile "This is going to be so much fun. How are going to keep Harry back?"
"I don't know, we'll have to come up with something later." Ginny said when she saw Harry walking towards them. "Put it away" She said in a whisper. Draco shoved the book into his bag.
"I need a new chess board" Ron said as Harry sat down. "That cat of yours decided that my old one was its new litter box"
Hermione suppressed a giggle and asked "Why didn't you just clean it?"
"I did clean it" Ron said "But I can't get the smell out. You need to work with that cat"
"Bolt.Bolt" She called looking around. There was a small 'pop' and then "Mrow" Harry bent over and picked the cat up.
"Bolt are you being mean to Ron" Harry said as he scratched him behind the ear. The cat looked up and him as if to say 'I wouldn't do such a thing' "So what were you four whispering about over here?"
"Nothing" They all said at the same time
"Right" Harry said skeptically "You guys are all crazy"
"Yeah we're the crazy ones" Hermione said taking Bolt from Harry "Who here continues to go against Voldemort all by him self?"
Harry looked down at the floor to avoid the question and saw the book sticking out of Draco's bag. He reached over and took it out. Hermione looked over and said "What are you doing?"
"Just wanted to see what you guys were huddled around" Harry said. He looked down at the book and read the title. "Vampires and were to find them" Harry said he looked over at Hermione with a questioning look.
"Well you see Ron has this crazy idea that Professor Snape is a..." She trailed off as she saw the color drain out of Ron's face. She turned around to see Severus walking up behind her.
"I'm a what, Mr. Weasley?" Snape said as he came up to stand next to Harry, who looked like he was going to die of laughter.
"A...uh...Really nice guy?" Ron said looking over at Hermione and scowling.
"Yes of course" Severus said "I believe that its time for dinner" Which of course meant go to dinner.
They all got up and started for the door. Hermione got to the door turned around walked back looked at Severus then back at Harry bent down and gave him a big kiss before turning and running back to the doors.
"Did you just kiss him in front of Snape?" Ron asked in disbelief as they walked down to the Great hall.
"Yeah, so what?" Hermione said with a smile.
"Nothing, I was just checking" Ron said and Ginny and Draco snickered behind them. "Stuff it you two" Ron said as Hermione walked over to ask Fred and George something about the party. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hermione, Ron, Ginny and Draco were walking a few steeps ahead of Harry. He was back there talking to Neville.
"So how far are they on the cure for your parents?" Harry asked. They had talked about it last year and Neville had told him they were very close to curing his Mum and Dad.
"They are a little more coherent now." Neville said with a small smile. "They think they should be completely cured in a four or five weeks"
"Wow, that's great" Harry said "I'm so happy for you"
"Yeah me too" Neville said with a big smile. They walked in silence for a few second, Harry was thinking about how lucky Neville was that his parents were going to be ok. It was the first time in six years that Harry felt a twinge of jealousy towards Neville. Harry was so lost in his thoughts he didn't see the person headed right for him till he was sitting on the ground next to him. Harry looked up and saw Dean sitting with a big smile.
"Sorry bout that Harry" He said as he got up and offered his hand to Harry.
"That's all right" Harry said as he took Deans hand. "What are you doing?"
"I came to look for you" He said dusting himself off "Professor Black wants a word"
"Ok" Harry said he turned to his friends "I'll see you guys in a few minutes in the common room" He turned and ran up the stone steps and was gone.
"What is he going to talk to him about?" Hermione asked as they were heading up the stairs to help set up.
"Don't know" Dean said "He said there was something though"
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Harry knocked on Sirius door and waited till he heard him say 'come in' He opened the door and walked over to his desk. He was looking over some paper. He gestured for him to sit down so he did. He sat there for a few minutes waiting for him to say something. He finally looked up and smiled at him.
"There is something that I want to give you" He said as he moved around the desk.
"Ok, what is it?" Harry asked as Sirius walked over to his book self.
Sirius opened a big wooden box and took something out and walked back over to Harry. He sat down on the corner of his desk and handed Harry a little red drawstring bag. Harry looked down at it and back to Sirius.
"Your mother had that made the day she found out she was pregnant. She told me what it was but I always just assumed it was Potter. But anyway open it up." Sirius said.
Harry opened the strings and reached into the bag and withdrew a ring. It was the Snape family crest. "Wow" Harry said looking at the ring. "My Mum had this made for me?"
"She wanted me to give it to you when you were old enough, if they didn't make it" He said with a sad smile. "Put it on"
"It's to big" Harry said as he studied the ring.
"What finger will you wear it on?" Sirius asked
"My middle finger of my right hand" Harry said holding up his hand
"Well put it on then" Sirius said again
Harry slipped the ring on his finger and was amazed when the ring started to form to his finger.
"Wow" Harry said again he looked up at Sirius and smiled. "This is really cool, Dose Severus know about this?"
"Yeah, I asked if he wanted to give it to you but he said Lily wanted me to give it to you so so did he" Sirius said. There was a knock at the door and Severus came walking in.
"So what do you think?" Severus asked with a smile
"Its really cool" Harry said, "Do all wizarding families have crests?" He asked
"No not all but a lot of them" Sirius said, "I have one as do the Weasley's'"
"The Potters had one too," Severus said. He looked over at the clock and thought the party was probably all set up. "You better go, your friends are waiting"
"Ok, well I'll see you guys later" Harry said.
Harry walked back to common room wondering what his Mum was like. He fingered the new ring; it was deferent to wear a ring. His Dad had given him his baby ring back a week ago in the infirmary so Harry again had it around his neck. He was standing in front of the common room trying to remember the password.
"Lions Heart" Harry said when he remembered the password he looked up at the Fat lady and smiled.
"To right, and have fun" She said. Harry wondered why she had said have fun when the door swung open and every one yelled---
"SURPRISE!!!"
Five and a half hours later Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco and Ginny were sitting on the floor in a circle. Every one had gone to bed at about one o'clock and the five of them were still up talking.
"Have they found your dad yet?" Harry asked Draco as he opened another Butterbeer. Lucius had been missing ever sense he broke out of Azkaban. No one knows were he was or how he escaped.
"No, but they've got a few leads" Draco said looking a little sad. "Mother says she hasn't heard from him but I don't believe her"
"You think she would lie to you?" Hermione asked taking Harry's hand
"Yeah I do" Draco said. Harry sensing that Draco didn't want to talk about this anymore he changed the subject.
"So does anyone have any news" Harry asked looking around to all of them. Hermione looked up at them she had a shy smile on her face.
"I have some news" She said then took out an envelope stuffed with a long letter. "I...I got a letter from my dad" She said as she put it in the middle of the circle.
"When?" Harry asked as he picked up the letter. It was written on muggle paper and about seven pages long front and back.
"The day after the Voldemort thing" Hermione said "I found it on my bed when I went back after you woke up. I was going to tell you guys but I put it in a my trunk and I.well I kinda forgot it there"
"So, what's it say?" Ginny asked.
"The first few pages are family history with periodic apologias. Then it goes on about how he thought if I new I'd be miserable at school. He also didn't want me to befriend Draco just because we were related" Hermione said. She looked at Draco and smiled "That was of course before you went good"
"Of course" Draco said with a smile "I still can't believe we're related"
"I know, I still can't believe I'm not a muggle born" Hermione said with a smile.
"Well I'm glad he wrote" Harry said taking her hand. She smiled at him and tried to stifle a yawn but failed "Ok, bed time" Harry said as he got up and offered Hermione his hand. Draco and Ginny got up too. When Harry looked over to where Ron was sitting he saw he was fast a sleep.
Draco picked up a pillow and threw it at Ron. Ron woke and sat strait up. He looked around and smiled "Bed time?" He said while yawning.
"See you in the morning" Draco said as he walked over to the portrait.
"Good night" Harry said. He was half way to the stairs when a school owl flew in and landed in front of Harry.
"What's that?" Draco asked walking back over to Harry.
Harry bent over and untied the letter. He opened it and read it "It's from Hagrid" Harry said with a smile. "He wants us to come down for tea tomorrow"
"Cool, sounds like fun" Ginny said. She turned and kissed Draco on the cheek and went up to bed.
"Ok well see you tomorrow then" Draco said he turned and walked out. Ron walked up to the dorm room and left Harry and Hermione alone in the common room. She looked over and saw that Harry looked a little worried.
"You ok?" She asked as Harry put the letter in his pocket.
"Yeah I'm fine" Harry lied "Just tiered" He said then bent down a little and gave her a kiss. "Thank you for the party, it was great. Good night"
"Good night" Hermione said. She turned and walked up the stairs. Harry pulled out the note from Hagrid and was again worried. Hagrid had addressed it to Mr. Potter 'but he never calls me that' Harry thought 'not even in class.' So it was with a lot going on in his head that Harry headed up to bed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*Hagrid's Hut*
There was a warm fire burning in the fire place and Fang was laying on the floor whimpering. Hagrid was sitting in his big chair. He was however unconscious and tied to the chair with some magic cording. And he was not alone; sitting at the table was a man with cold grey eyes the color of icicles. He had just sent a letter off to Mr. Potter and could hardly wait for tomorrow at noon. He would finally get his revenge, for his son and his master. Tomorrow would be the end of Harry James Potter-Snape.
A/N- Hi all.You may not have noticed but I changed a little thing in this story. When Harry and Draco are talking about Draco's Dad I forgot to mention that Lucius had escaped from Azkaban. So it's there now. :-)
At around 8:00am the next morning Sirius came running into the room with Lupin right behind him. He looked around and saw that every one was still asleep. Dumbledore had filled them in on every thing and given them there letters; they had been very similar to Severus' letter.
Sirius walked over to Harry's bed and looked down at him. Poor guy, he thought I can't believe he did that, unlike Severus he had not been mad when he found out what Harry had done, he was well I guess the only word for it was proud. That Harry would give up every thing for the one's he loved made him want to cry.
He sat down in the chair that Hermione had been in and took Harry's hand. Lupin sat down next to him in a chair he pulled over from the other side of the room.
"Do you think he'll be ok?" Sirius asked looking over at Lupin.
"I hope so, this kid has been threw a lot, what's one more thing?" Lupin said looking down at Harry. Dumbledore had told no one that Harry had woken up last night, he didn't want to get there hopes up.
"Not a...kid...anymore" Harry said in a very horse whisper. Sirius' head shot up and he looked at Harry. He's eyes were open and he was talking these were all very good signs.
"No I guess you're really not," Sirius said smiling and handed his a glass of water "How you feeling?"
"Alive, which is more then I expected so." Harry said with a faint smile after he took a drink. He went to look around but found that his neck hurt a little "Is every one still here?" He asked "And is there something on my arm?"
"Yes, Draco, Ginny and Ron are asleep on the bed next to yours and the thing on your arm would be Hermione" Lupin said smiling. "She looks very comfortable, and Severus is still asleep on a bed in front of yours"
Harry nodded "Did it work?" he asked with hope in his eyes
"As far as we know it did, Severus' mark is gone; Dumbledore sent 30 Auror's to his last know hide out at Malfoy Manner. Dumbledore hasn't heard anything yet but they were only sent about half an hour ago"
"Good..." Harry paused and took a deep breathe "What time is it? And how long have I been out?"
"Its 8:20am and you've only been here since last nigh" Sirius said "You hungry?"
"No not really. I've only been out for the night? She said it would be longer" Harry said looking up to try to loosen his neck and saw the confused looks Sirius and Lupin were giving him.
"Who told you" Lupin asked
"My Mum" Harry said looking a little sad.
"Your Mum?" Sirius asked looking at him "What do you mean?"
"I saw here, while I was out, she helped me decide" Harry said then seeing the confused looks again he added "If I wanted to come back or stay there"
Sirius hadn't seen Severus sit up and look at Harry; he had a very big smile on his face when he saw that Harry was awake and talking. But the smile faded when he said he'd seen his Mum, and when Harry said he had to decide to live or die it was gone.
"What did you give up?" Severus asked looking at his very much alive son.
While the question confused Sirius and Lupin, Harry seemed to know exactly what he was talking about.
"I gave up my quidditch skills" Harry said looking a little sad at the thought. This seemed to confuse Sirius and Lupin even more. 'I wonder if Harry had it give it all up or just his seeker skills' Severus wondered. I'll have to talk to him later.
"At the same time Harry was thinking 'I wonder how Severus new I had to give something up?' But just as he was about to ask Sirius jumped in-
"Could some one explain this to me, please?" Sirius asked getting a little frustrated.
"Harry had the choice to live or die, but because he would have died by his own hands, he had to give something up to come back" Severus said looking at Sirius as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "So anyway" Severus said turning back to Harry "Do you still have your magic?"
"Didn't Dumbledore explain this to you Severus? He bound his magic with Voldemort" Sirius said in a quite voice. "His magic is gone"
"Do you?" He asked Harry totally ignoring Sirius.
"Yes I do, she said the PTB said I could keep my powers because I gave them up to save the world" Harry said smiling at Severus who along with Sirius and Lupin had big happy grins on their faces.
"Good, good" Dumbledore said who they had not heard come in. "I was hoping that's what they'd say"
"Have they been here the whole time?" Harry asked pointing to his friends. And then with a little effort he looked down at the still sleeping Hermione.
"Yes, they feel asleep about seven hours ago, Well Draco passed out after we found you" Dumbledore said "They wouldn't leave your side the whole time. They were all a little upset with you, but Draco set them strait when he woke." Dumbledore said with a chuckle.
"I'm sorry I scared you" Harry said looking over at Sirius and Lupin then looking at Severus. "I only did what had to be done."
"We know" Severus said looking sad "I just wish you could have told us"
"Yeah I'm sure that would have been a fun conversation," Harry said then he took on Severus' voice and said "There is no way in hell your sacrificing your self for man kind"
"Yeah, that just what I would have said," Severus said with a smile. He looked down at Hermione "I think you friend is waking up" Severus looked over at Sirius, Lupin and Dumbledore and said "We'll leave you to have a little time with your friends, don't strain your self"
"Ok, thanks Dad" Harry said as they got up and walked out the door. Hermione moved around then opened her eyes and looked up and Harry. When she saw that his eyes were open and he was smiling she sat strait up and looked down at him.
"Are you ok?" She asked when she got her bearings
"Yeah, it will take a few days but I'll be fine" Harry said.
Hermione put her head down to Harry's chest; she lay there for a second and let out a very content sigh. "I was so scared Harry, don't you ever do that to me again."
"Well let's hope I won't have to" Harry said with a smile. Ron was the first one to sit up over on the other bed. He looked over at Harry and jumped to his feet.
"Thank god" Ron said as he walked over "You had us pretty worried mate"
"Psh, nothing I can't handle" Harry said with a smile. He'd tell them about the quidditch thing later. Right now all he wanted was to be happy he was ok and be with his friends. Ron picked up a pillow and threw it at Draco.
"Get up you lazy git" He said when Draco threw the pillow back and forgetting that he wasn't on his queen size bed rolled over and feel to the floor. The sound of him hitting the floor woke Ginny. She sat up and looked over at Harry, a big smile forming on her face as she jumped out of bed and rushed over to Harry, not taking notice of the blond boy on the floor.
"Ginny.oxygen.becoming an issue here" Harry said in short breaths.
"Sorry" She said as she flushed red "I'm just glad to see you're awake." She smiled at him. Harry's eyes traveled to behind Ginny where Draco was now standing with his arm around Ginny's waist and a smile on his face.
"You feeling ok?" Draco asked
"Yeah, I'm great." Harry said smiling. But when Draco looked he saw that the smile didn't reach his eyes.
"When are they letting you out of here?" Hermione asked sitting up and stretching out, then her face became panicked. "Oh no" Hermione said jumping up out of the bed.
"What is it?" Harry asked looking worried
"Bolt" Hermione said "I forgot to feed him last night, and this morning"
"Oh is that all" Harry said like she had just told him she forgot to water a plant. "Call him"
"What?" Hermione asked thinking maybe Harry hit his head on the ground when he fell. "I can't call him, he's like three floors away"
"Just call him" Harry insisted
"Ok" Hermione said not sounding very convinced. "Bolt, come here baby, come on Bolt"
Hermione looked at Harry like he might just be going crazy. She was about to call in the nurse when she heard a small 'pop' sound and looked down at the floor where Bolt was now rubbing her leg. She looked up at Harry gaping at him.
"Did I not mention that Bolt was a special cat" Harry asked all innocent.
"No Harry you didn't" Hermione said picking up the cat and rubbing his belly. "What is she?"
"He is a very rare species of cat called 'appline'" Harry said as he reached out and pet Bolt on the head. "There pretty rare and hard to find. They can apparat to there master when ever called" He explained.
"Wow" Hermione said "That's so cool"
"You can even train him to bring things with him when you call" Harry said "I thought that might be good for you sense you always forget something when you go to the library."
"Well that's really cool I think I'll train him to bring." But she didn't get to finish because right then Severus, Sirius, Lupin and Dumbledore all came running into the room.
"We fond him" Sirius said in a sing song voice, with a big smile on his face.
"He was on the out skirts of the forbidden forest, all his "loyal" Death Eaters abandoned him there when they found out his power was gone" Severus said. He looked over to Hermione who was still holding Bolt. "How did he get up here?" Severus said "You know Madam Poppy would have a problem with having animals in her infirmary" Severus said in a voice that said he clearly didn't care.
"He's an appline." Hermione said. Severus nodded with a smile, 'he must know what that is' Hermione thought
"So what did you do with Voldemort?" Draco asked
"He's in Azkaban, in a very safe little box" Sirius said with a big smile.
Over the next few weeks' things got back to normal. Harry got better day by day, and by the middle of the second week he was aloud to do homework again. (To Harry's dismay) He hadn't been able to before because Madam Poppy said it was to stressful. People got use to the idea of Voldemort being gone, and they celebrated, a lot.
By the end of the third week Harry was up and out of bed. Madam Poppy still insisted that Harry stay in the infirmary till this weekend. Every day for the last three weeks Severus had come to the infirmary to have dinner with Harry. At first it had been a little awkward they didn't really know what to talk about. Then on the third night Severus asked about quidditch, and that broke the ice. They talked about Harry trying out for a different place on the team. Severus' response to Harry asking how he had known he'd made a chose had been 'How are things going with Miss Granger?' They talked about every thing (except how Severus knew) and by Thursday they were getting on fairly well. On Friday the kids were sitting in the infirmary talking about the Hogsmeade visit tomorrow.
"I can't wait to get out of this room" Harry said smiling over at Madam Poppy who was sitting at her desk working on something. "I'll be right back" He got up and walked over to Madam Poppy said something to her and walked into the back of the room were the showers were.
"So what time should I tell them to be ready?" Ron asked as soon as Harry was out of the room.
Draco pulled out a little book titled 'Harry's Surprise Party' Hermione had insisted they stay organized and that's how they came up with the book. "The Hogsmeade trip ends at 7:30pm so we can hang back while they set up. So tell them to be ready by 8:00" Draco said as he wrote something down "Hermione you told Professor McGonagall we'd be late right?" He asked
"Yeah, I let her know this morning" Hermione said
"Who's bringing what?" Ginny asked. Draco opened to the food page and read a little.
"Well Neville is getting the butter beer. And Seamus is bring the food, his Dad owns a restaurant and said he'd be happy to help" Draco said. "Hermione your still making the decorations right?"
"Yeah, I've got it all planed out." Hermione said with a smile "This is going to be so much fun. How are going to keep Harry back?"
"I don't know, we'll have to come up with something later." Ginny said when she saw Harry walking towards them. "Put it away" She said in a whisper. Draco shoved the book into his bag.
"I need a new chess board" Ron said as Harry sat down. "That cat of yours decided that my old one was its new litter box"
Hermione suppressed a giggle and asked "Why didn't you just clean it?"
"I did clean it" Ron said "But I can't get the smell out. You need to work with that cat"
"Bolt.Bolt" She called looking around. There was a small 'pop' and then "Mrow" Harry bent over and picked the cat up.
"Bolt are you being mean to Ron" Harry said as he scratched him behind the ear. The cat looked up and him as if to say 'I wouldn't do such a thing' "So what were you four whispering about over here?"
"Nothing" They all said at the same time
"Right" Harry said skeptically "You guys are all crazy"
"Yeah we're the crazy ones" Hermione said taking Bolt from Harry "Who here continues to go against Voldemort all by him self?"
Harry looked down at the floor to avoid the question and saw the book sticking out of Draco's bag. He reached over and took it out. Hermione looked over and said "What are you doing?"
"Just wanted to see what you guys were huddled around" Harry said. He looked down at the book and read the title. "Vampires and were to find them" Harry said he looked over at Hermione with a questioning look.
"Well you see Ron has this crazy idea that Professor Snape is a..." She trailed off as she saw the color drain out of Ron's face. She turned around to see Severus walking up behind her.
"I'm a what, Mr. Weasley?" Snape said as he came up to stand next to Harry, who looked like he was going to die of laughter.
"A...uh...Really nice guy?" Ron said looking over at Hermione and scowling.
"Yes of course" Severus said "I believe that its time for dinner" Which of course meant go to dinner.
They all got up and started for the door. Hermione got to the door turned around walked back looked at Severus then back at Harry bent down and gave him a big kiss before turning and running back to the doors.
"Did you just kiss him in front of Snape?" Ron asked in disbelief as they walked down to the Great hall.
"Yeah, so what?" Hermione said with a smile.
"Nothing, I was just checking" Ron said and Ginny and Draco snickered behind them. "Stuff it you two" Ron said as Hermione walked over to ask Fred and George something about the party. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hermione, Ron, Ginny and Draco were walking a few steeps ahead of Harry. He was back there talking to Neville.
"So how far are they on the cure for your parents?" Harry asked. They had talked about it last year and Neville had told him they were very close to curing his Mum and Dad.
"They are a little more coherent now." Neville said with a small smile. "They think they should be completely cured in a four or five weeks"
"Wow, that's great" Harry said "I'm so happy for you"
"Yeah me too" Neville said with a big smile. They walked in silence for a few second, Harry was thinking about how lucky Neville was that his parents were going to be ok. It was the first time in six years that Harry felt a twinge of jealousy towards Neville. Harry was so lost in his thoughts he didn't see the person headed right for him till he was sitting on the ground next to him. Harry looked up and saw Dean sitting with a big smile.
"Sorry bout that Harry" He said as he got up and offered his hand to Harry.
"That's all right" Harry said as he took Deans hand. "What are you doing?"
"I came to look for you" He said dusting himself off "Professor Black wants a word"
"Ok" Harry said he turned to his friends "I'll see you guys in a few minutes in the common room" He turned and ran up the stone steps and was gone.
"What is he going to talk to him about?" Hermione asked as they were heading up the stairs to help set up.
"Don't know" Dean said "He said there was something though"
~*~*~*~*~
Harry knocked on Sirius door and waited till he heard him say 'come in' He opened the door and walked over to his desk. He was looking over some paper. He gestured for him to sit down so he did. He sat there for a few minutes waiting for him to say something. He finally looked up and smiled at him.
"There is something that I want to give you" He said as he moved around the desk.
"Ok, what is it?" Harry asked as Sirius walked over to his book self.
Sirius opened a big wooden box and took something out and walked back over to Harry. He sat down on the corner of his desk and handed Harry a little red drawstring bag. Harry looked down at it and back to Sirius.
"Your mother had that made the day she found out she was pregnant. She told me what it was but I always just assumed it was Potter. But anyway open it up." Sirius said.
Harry opened the strings and reached into the bag and withdrew a ring. It was the Snape family crest. "Wow" Harry said looking at the ring. "My Mum had this made for me?"
"She wanted me to give it to you when you were old enough, if they didn't make it" He said with a sad smile. "Put it on"
"It's to big" Harry said as he studied the ring.
"What finger will you wear it on?" Sirius asked
"My middle finger of my right hand" Harry said holding up his hand
"Well put it on then" Sirius said again
Harry slipped the ring on his finger and was amazed when the ring started to form to his finger.
"Wow" Harry said again he looked up at Sirius and smiled. "This is really cool, Dose Severus know about this?"
"Yeah, I asked if he wanted to give it to you but he said Lily wanted me to give it to you so so did he" Sirius said. There was a knock at the door and Severus came walking in.
"So what do you think?" Severus asked with a smile
"Its really cool" Harry said, "Do all wizarding families have crests?" He asked
"No not all but a lot of them" Sirius said, "I have one as do the Weasley's'"
"The Potters had one too," Severus said. He looked over at the clock and thought the party was probably all set up. "You better go, your friends are waiting"
"Ok, well I'll see you guys later" Harry said.
Harry walked back to common room wondering what his Mum was like. He fingered the new ring; it was deferent to wear a ring. His Dad had given him his baby ring back a week ago in the infirmary so Harry again had it around his neck. He was standing in front of the common room trying to remember the password.
"Lions Heart" Harry said when he remembered the password he looked up at the Fat lady and smiled.
"To right, and have fun" She said. Harry wondered why she had said have fun when the door swung open and every one yelled---
"SURPRISE!!!"
Five and a half hours later Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco and Ginny were sitting on the floor in a circle. Every one had gone to bed at about one o'clock and the five of them were still up talking.
"Have they found your dad yet?" Harry asked Draco as he opened another Butterbeer. Lucius had been missing ever sense he broke out of Azkaban. No one knows were he was or how he escaped.
"No, but they've got a few leads" Draco said looking a little sad. "Mother says she hasn't heard from him but I don't believe her"
"You think she would lie to you?" Hermione asked taking Harry's hand
"Yeah I do" Draco said. Harry sensing that Draco didn't want to talk about this anymore he changed the subject.
"So does anyone have any news" Harry asked looking around to all of them. Hermione looked up at them she had a shy smile on her face.
"I have some news" She said then took out an envelope stuffed with a long letter. "I...I got a letter from my dad" She said as she put it in the middle of the circle.
"When?" Harry asked as he picked up the letter. It was written on muggle paper and about seven pages long front and back.
"The day after the Voldemort thing" Hermione said "I found it on my bed when I went back after you woke up. I was going to tell you guys but I put it in a my trunk and I.well I kinda forgot it there"
"So, what's it say?" Ginny asked.
"The first few pages are family history with periodic apologias. Then it goes on about how he thought if I new I'd be miserable at school. He also didn't want me to befriend Draco just because we were related" Hermione said. She looked at Draco and smiled "That was of course before you went good"
"Of course" Draco said with a smile "I still can't believe we're related"
"I know, I still can't believe I'm not a muggle born" Hermione said with a smile.
"Well I'm glad he wrote" Harry said taking her hand. She smiled at him and tried to stifle a yawn but failed "Ok, bed time" Harry said as he got up and offered Hermione his hand. Draco and Ginny got up too. When Harry looked over to where Ron was sitting he saw he was fast a sleep.
Draco picked up a pillow and threw it at Ron. Ron woke and sat strait up. He looked around and smiled "Bed time?" He said while yawning.
"See you in the morning" Draco said as he walked over to the portrait.
"Good night" Harry said. He was half way to the stairs when a school owl flew in and landed in front of Harry.
"What's that?" Draco asked walking back over to Harry.
Harry bent over and untied the letter. He opened it and read it "It's from Hagrid" Harry said with a smile. "He wants us to come down for tea tomorrow"
"Cool, sounds like fun" Ginny said. She turned and kissed Draco on the cheek and went up to bed.
"Ok well see you tomorrow then" Draco said he turned and walked out. Ron walked up to the dorm room and left Harry and Hermione alone in the common room. She looked over and saw that Harry looked a little worried.
"You ok?" She asked as Harry put the letter in his pocket.
"Yeah I'm fine" Harry lied "Just tiered" He said then bent down a little and gave her a kiss. "Thank you for the party, it was great. Good night"
"Good night" Hermione said. She turned and walked up the stairs. Harry pulled out the note from Hagrid and was again worried. Hagrid had addressed it to Mr. Potter 'but he never calls me that' Harry thought 'not even in class.' So it was with a lot going on in his head that Harry headed up to bed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*Hagrid's Hut*
There was a warm fire burning in the fire place and Fang was laying on the floor whimpering. Hagrid was sitting in his big chair. He was however unconscious and tied to the chair with some magic cording. And he was not alone; sitting at the table was a man with cold grey eyes the color of icicles. He had just sent a letter off to Mr. Potter and could hardly wait for tomorrow at noon. He would finally get his revenge, for his son and his master. Tomorrow would be the end of Harry James Potter-Snape.
A/N- Hi all.You may not have noticed but I changed a little thing in this story. When Harry and Draco are talking about Draco's Dad I forgot to mention that Lucius had escaped from Azkaban. So it's there now. :-)
