Disclaimer: See chapter 1. Just remember that this story is just a
translation and that the author who wrote this is Khari.
2. The Burrow.
When they arrived at the Burrow, it was nearly dawn; they had needed practically the whole night to get here. Harry had barely got out of the car when he felt himself being lifted into a big hug from Mrs. Weasley.
"Harry! Oh, Harry! We were so worried about you," said Mrs Weasley. "When Arthur got the call about you being in danger, I thought I was going to go mad with worry. Are you alright, Dear?"
"I'm fine, Mrs. Weasley. Thank you very much for worrying about me." Said Harry, still in her arms.
"Harry!" Cried two voices at once.
When Harry looked to the place where he heard the voices came from, he found himself face to face with Ron and Hermione, both of them looked very worried. He quickly felt that Mrs Weasley's arms were releasing him and he then went into Hermione's, who hugged him tightly while the redhead looked him over carefully, trying to determine if he was alright.
"Ron, stop looking at me like I'm going to break," said Harry.
"I'm glad to see you're alright." Said the redhead, who looked like he was about to hug him too. "Never scare me like that again."
"Yeah, of course, like Harry wants You-Know-Who to kill him," answered Ginny, appearing in front of them.
When Mrs. Dursley saw the redheaded girl, she whimpered slightly and made a small sound that sounded like 'Lily'; that resulted in the Weasleys noticing that they were there.
"Ah, Mr. and Mrs. Dursley. Did you come with Harry?" Asked a very surprised Mrs. Weasley. "How kind of you. Allow me to introduce myself; my name's Molly Weasley and these are my children. You already know Bill and Charlie and my husband. This here is Percy, the twins are Fred and George, this here is Ron and she's my only daughter Ginny."
"I'm Petunia Dursley, and this is my husband Vernon."
The twins started to look around with the same evil smile edged upon their faces, and Harry, knowing who they were looking for, watched them as the evil smiles faded; he guessed they had given up on their search. Then Aunt Petunia walked up to him.
"Well, Harry, we're going. You know we've left Dudley alone. Write to us, ok?"
After that, they said goodbye to the Weasley, Sirius and Remus and returned to Privet Drive.
"Well, it seems that they have really changed." Said Ron surprised.
"We better go inside, we can't have anyone seeing Harry's here because else this wouldn't be a safe place for him." Said Mrs. Weasley. "Ron, why don't you and your brothers get Harry's trunk to your room?"
"I can bring it myself, Mrs. Weasley, don't worry." Said Harry.
"No problem, Harry. We'll put it away." Said one of the twins.
"Come on, Harry, you've not had breakfast yet, have you? You must be hungry! Come with me, I'll cook you some breakfast. You too, Mr. Lupin and Mr. Black."
They entered the house and Mrs. Weasley started to cook breakfast for everyone since no one has eaten anything since the night before. When she finished, she served lots of food to Harry, Sirius, and Remus, deciding they had to eat a lot. Harry barely was able to ask the question over the noise.
"Remus. What happened last night?" He asked when everyone was quiet.
"Well." he started, "let's see. When Voldemort attacked you, the defensive shield rose, right?"
"Yes."
"Ok, well, actually, that shield was put there to protect you from the Death Eaters, not Lord Voldemort, so when he attacked you, the shield would break down. We also built the shield to be a kind of warning, so if some dark wizard, either Voldemort or a Death Eater, tried to get into the house, the shield would react, sending a warning to certain people. At first, it was only Arabella, Mundungus, Dumbledore and I, but after what happened at the tournament, Sirius asked to be part of the group, as did the Weasley's, as you saw tonight. Is that enough?"
"Not yet, where will I be going?"
"Ahh, that." Everyone in the kitchen except for Ron and Harry smiled mysteriously, "you'll know that when the time's right." Answered Sirius.
"You told me that last night." Protested Harry.
"Then just wait until it's time."
The few days they spent at the Burrow where comfortable and peaceful. Just as Ron had said before, the twins were working harder than usually on their pranks; it seemed that those thousand galleons had been very useful, and they used that money to buy new supplies to make new pranks. They had also kept their word and bought Ron a new dress robe; the dress robe was a flaming red.
Unlike last year, Percy didn't seem to be as obsessed in his work, and even with the death of Mr. Crouch, and he had gained more responsibilities it seemed that with Voldemort's return, he had been thinking about things and had realized that some things were more important than work. Besides his high position in the International magic Department allowed him to have a lot of influence with the other countries and he was able to help form an alliance against Voldemort.
It seemed that Bill and Charlie had asked for some time off and planned to stay the remaining summer with their family. And just last year, they showed that they were good people and nearly as mischievous as Fred and George. They had told some jokes to Harry that made him laugh a lot.
Ginny was as shy as ever, but it seemed she was slowly starting to get over it. On a few occasions, you could see her happily talking with Harry or Sirius, who had decided to stay at the Burrow to make sure nothing happens to Harry. Remus, on the other hand, was always going from one place to another, but he always had some time to come by.
So, for Harry, those days were really happy; he was nearly able to forget that Voldemort was after him and that Voldemort would not stop until he had accomplished his objective, which was to kill Harry. With Ron and Hermione at his side, the days passed nearly without notice and so July 31st arrived soon, and with it, Harry's fifteenth birthday. During the day, Ron and Hermione kept Harry busy, at Mrs. Weasley's request.
"So, Harry, how about a game of chess?" asked Ron.
"Oh, well, why not?" smiled the boy, "maybe this time I'll be able to win."
"Not in your dreams," told Ron.
When they finished the game, it was already dinnertime and Ginny called them to the garden for dinner. When they reached the door, Harry saw Ron and Hermione look at each other with wide smiles. When he walked out, he saw the garden was full of tables filled with food, all the Weasley with Sirius and Remus standing around it.
"SURPRISE!" Shouted everyone. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY!"
Harry stayed rooted in the doorway with his eyes wide open and a slack jaw. Ron found his friend's reaction rather funny and he dragged Harry towards the tables, where everyone was waiting, smiling down at him.
"Congratulations, Harry, dear." Said Mrs Weasley smiling.
"I. this. I didn't expect it." Said Harry surprised.
"Well. that was the whole point," said George. "You didn't have to expect it."
"Else, it wouldn't be surprise." Added Fred.
"I. Thank you." Said Harry.
"Don't thank us." Said Bill, "thank Ron. He was the one who came up with it, we just helped pull it off."
That was, without a doubt, the best birthday Harry had ever had. Mrs. Weasley had baked a large chocolate cake with fifteen candles, and Fred and George had placed lots of pranks in the food, most of them mysteriously went to Percy, except for two, which Dumbledore got. It nearly seemed that Percy had the summoning the charmed food to him.
When it became dark, a lot of presents appeared, coming from the people gathered there; everyone went to stand around Harry as he opened his gifts. The first one was from Mr. and Mrs. Weasley; it was a simple present but Harry liked it very much; it was a magical picture of every Weasley, who were happily waving towards Harry. The next one was from Bill; it was a small pyramid, in which there was even a small cursed mummy. Charlie's present was a small Regbly cub; it was a small animal that looked like a dragon, it reached the size of a cat when it became adult, and it was, of course, much less dangerous than a dragon. In fact, it was nearly as kind and loyal as a dog, although it was really strange and valuable.
"I have a friend who has a Redgby that had a litter not long ago. I told him I wanted to give you one, and well, here you are." Explained Charlie with a smile.
"Thank you very much, Charlie. You know, I think Hagrid would love to have one, too."
"I think he would like it much more if it was as big as a house and a much more fierce." Said Ron.
After the Redgby, came Percy's present. It was a Muggle book that he had found while wandering around London. After that, Sirius and Remus gave him a big photo album, with pictures of the Marauders when they were students; thankfully, there was not a single one of Peter, he would not have been able to bear it if there had been one. After that, Hermione gave him a small box.
"Here you go, Harry, this is our present." Said Hermione.
"Ours?" He asked, confused.
"Yes, it's from Hermione and I." Said Ron. "We bought it together."
"Together?" Harry smiled mischievously. "Both of you, together?"
"Yes. we decided to buy the present together." Said Hermione, blushing. "We wanted something that was from both."
Harry arched an eyebrow amused, while he looked, both blushed even more at what he was insinuating, then he noticed the twins had disappeared.
"Where are the twins?" He asked surprised.
"Here!!!" Answered two voices, although sounding like one.
It seemed that while Harry started to open his presents, the twins had ran into the house to get theirs, and from the look in their faces, he shouldn't be expecting anything good from it.
"Open our present, Harry!" Said Hermione.
Harry grabbed the small package and began to unwrap the paper. Inside, he found a small box and when he opened it, he found a locket attached to a long golden chain. Inside, there was a picture of the three of them just after they had gone to the Quidditch World Cup, and on the other side was an inscription that said: 'From your friends: Ron and Hermione'.
"Wow! Thanks, it's beautiful." Said Harry while putting it around his neck.
"You're welcome." Said Ron and Hermione at the same time. "It's so you will always remember us, no matter where you are." Added Hermione.
"Thanks."
"Awww, stop with the mushiness and open our present!" Said the twins.
Harry dropped the locked under his shirt and took a large box that immediately attracted everyone's presence. When he unwrapped it and opened the box, he saw all kind of pranks.
"WOW!" Cried Harry when he saw what was inside.
"They are our most recent creations!" Said Fred with a smile while George was running around the table, trying to get away from his mother's roller, who was chasing after him for having had the idea to give such a present to Harry. "We thought about selling it to Zonko's but the first party is for you."
"Thank you very much. I will be able to pull a lot of pranks at. emmm. well." said Harry, glancing at Dumbledore out of the corner of his eyes.
"Ohhh. don't worry about me, I'm sure you're going to have a great time next year, and those pranks are going to help you a lot." Said Dumbledore, very amused, with a twinkle in his eyes.
As Harry started to close the box, George, who managed to get away from his mother's killer roller, looked horrified at this and told Harry so.
"What are you doing!? You can't close the box yet!" He said, drawing Fred's attention, who was at the moment being chased by his mother. "You have not seen everything."
"That's true, you've missed the best thing!" Agreed Fred.
Harry started to carefully rummage through the large pile of pranks, and after nearly five minutes, he found a big but narrow box in the bottom of the box that had been charmed so it was much deeper than it seemed. When he opened it, he saw three simple lockets with a different name inscribed on each of them. On the first one, the name 'Harry' was written in italics; on the second locket, also in italics, was written 'Sirius' and on the third, 'Ron'; inside the locket were written the other two names.
"What's this?" Asked Harry, surprised.
"It's our best invention." Said Fred proudly.
"Yes, and it has nothing to do with pranks," added George, seeing his mother out of the corner of his eyes.
"And what is it?" Asked the boy curiously, wondering what it could be if it wasn't a prank.
"Ah. it's wonderful." Assured George. "We got the idea two summers ago when Ron tried to phone you through that muggle phone."
"Yes, at that moment, we thought that it would be very useful if wizards had something similar to that, but it stayed as that, just an idea."
"But then, at the beginning of the summer, we got a benefactor who took pity on us and decided to invest on our pranks, without any conditions and without having to repay him anything." The boy's mother looked like she would love to murder whoever it was who had given them the money. "When Harry's house was attacked, and we found out that Professor Dumbledore wanted to send him somewhere safe so that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named would not be able to find him, we thought that we would use some of the money we got from our benefactor to make something useful for Harry."
"We remembered that thought we had had two years ago and here it is." Said Fred pleased. "It's a pocket communicator, quick and efficient. We have made three, one for Harry, one for Mr. Black and another one for Ron, so that the three of them will be united. When one of them wants to talk to one of the others, he just has to slide his finger to the name of the person he wants to talk to and that person's communicator will be activated."
"An image from said person will appear in the blank space and you will be able to normally talk. It works in every place and under any circumstances. It has been tested a lot of times."
"The two of you. had invented this?" Asked Mrs. Weasley, astounded.
"Yep." Said George. "We had thought we might also be able to use them in the upcoming war against You-Know-Who, it could be very useful to communicate with each other when there's an attack."
Dumbledore seemed to be very interested in the communicators and looked at it curiously while Mrs. Weasley looked like she had received the best news in her whole life; she went from wanting to hit the boy's heads with her roller to huging and kissing them. After that, Dumbledore approached Harry and he seemed to be divided between sadness and happiness.
"I don't think you're going to like my present very much, Harry. My present will be your safety."
"What do you mean?"
"Harry, tomorrow, you're going to go away."
A/N: Thanks for all reviews. And thanks to my beta-reader, Vinnie.
2. The Burrow.
When they arrived at the Burrow, it was nearly dawn; they had needed practically the whole night to get here. Harry had barely got out of the car when he felt himself being lifted into a big hug from Mrs. Weasley.
"Harry! Oh, Harry! We were so worried about you," said Mrs Weasley. "When Arthur got the call about you being in danger, I thought I was going to go mad with worry. Are you alright, Dear?"
"I'm fine, Mrs. Weasley. Thank you very much for worrying about me." Said Harry, still in her arms.
"Harry!" Cried two voices at once.
When Harry looked to the place where he heard the voices came from, he found himself face to face with Ron and Hermione, both of them looked very worried. He quickly felt that Mrs Weasley's arms were releasing him and he then went into Hermione's, who hugged him tightly while the redhead looked him over carefully, trying to determine if he was alright.
"Ron, stop looking at me like I'm going to break," said Harry.
"I'm glad to see you're alright." Said the redhead, who looked like he was about to hug him too. "Never scare me like that again."
"Yeah, of course, like Harry wants You-Know-Who to kill him," answered Ginny, appearing in front of them.
When Mrs. Dursley saw the redheaded girl, she whimpered slightly and made a small sound that sounded like 'Lily'; that resulted in the Weasleys noticing that they were there.
"Ah, Mr. and Mrs. Dursley. Did you come with Harry?" Asked a very surprised Mrs. Weasley. "How kind of you. Allow me to introduce myself; my name's Molly Weasley and these are my children. You already know Bill and Charlie and my husband. This here is Percy, the twins are Fred and George, this here is Ron and she's my only daughter Ginny."
"I'm Petunia Dursley, and this is my husband Vernon."
The twins started to look around with the same evil smile edged upon their faces, and Harry, knowing who they were looking for, watched them as the evil smiles faded; he guessed they had given up on their search. Then Aunt Petunia walked up to him.
"Well, Harry, we're going. You know we've left Dudley alone. Write to us, ok?"
After that, they said goodbye to the Weasley, Sirius and Remus and returned to Privet Drive.
"Well, it seems that they have really changed." Said Ron surprised.
"We better go inside, we can't have anyone seeing Harry's here because else this wouldn't be a safe place for him." Said Mrs. Weasley. "Ron, why don't you and your brothers get Harry's trunk to your room?"
"I can bring it myself, Mrs. Weasley, don't worry." Said Harry.
"No problem, Harry. We'll put it away." Said one of the twins.
"Come on, Harry, you've not had breakfast yet, have you? You must be hungry! Come with me, I'll cook you some breakfast. You too, Mr. Lupin and Mr. Black."
They entered the house and Mrs. Weasley started to cook breakfast for everyone since no one has eaten anything since the night before. When she finished, she served lots of food to Harry, Sirius, and Remus, deciding they had to eat a lot. Harry barely was able to ask the question over the noise.
"Remus. What happened last night?" He asked when everyone was quiet.
"Well." he started, "let's see. When Voldemort attacked you, the defensive shield rose, right?"
"Yes."
"Ok, well, actually, that shield was put there to protect you from the Death Eaters, not Lord Voldemort, so when he attacked you, the shield would break down. We also built the shield to be a kind of warning, so if some dark wizard, either Voldemort or a Death Eater, tried to get into the house, the shield would react, sending a warning to certain people. At first, it was only Arabella, Mundungus, Dumbledore and I, but after what happened at the tournament, Sirius asked to be part of the group, as did the Weasley's, as you saw tonight. Is that enough?"
"Not yet, where will I be going?"
"Ahh, that." Everyone in the kitchen except for Ron and Harry smiled mysteriously, "you'll know that when the time's right." Answered Sirius.
"You told me that last night." Protested Harry.
"Then just wait until it's time."
The few days they spent at the Burrow where comfortable and peaceful. Just as Ron had said before, the twins were working harder than usually on their pranks; it seemed that those thousand galleons had been very useful, and they used that money to buy new supplies to make new pranks. They had also kept their word and bought Ron a new dress robe; the dress robe was a flaming red.
Unlike last year, Percy didn't seem to be as obsessed in his work, and even with the death of Mr. Crouch, and he had gained more responsibilities it seemed that with Voldemort's return, he had been thinking about things and had realized that some things were more important than work. Besides his high position in the International magic Department allowed him to have a lot of influence with the other countries and he was able to help form an alliance against Voldemort.
It seemed that Bill and Charlie had asked for some time off and planned to stay the remaining summer with their family. And just last year, they showed that they were good people and nearly as mischievous as Fred and George. They had told some jokes to Harry that made him laugh a lot.
Ginny was as shy as ever, but it seemed she was slowly starting to get over it. On a few occasions, you could see her happily talking with Harry or Sirius, who had decided to stay at the Burrow to make sure nothing happens to Harry. Remus, on the other hand, was always going from one place to another, but he always had some time to come by.
So, for Harry, those days were really happy; he was nearly able to forget that Voldemort was after him and that Voldemort would not stop until he had accomplished his objective, which was to kill Harry. With Ron and Hermione at his side, the days passed nearly without notice and so July 31st arrived soon, and with it, Harry's fifteenth birthday. During the day, Ron and Hermione kept Harry busy, at Mrs. Weasley's request.
"So, Harry, how about a game of chess?" asked Ron.
"Oh, well, why not?" smiled the boy, "maybe this time I'll be able to win."
"Not in your dreams," told Ron.
When they finished the game, it was already dinnertime and Ginny called them to the garden for dinner. When they reached the door, Harry saw Ron and Hermione look at each other with wide smiles. When he walked out, he saw the garden was full of tables filled with food, all the Weasley with Sirius and Remus standing around it.
"SURPRISE!" Shouted everyone. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY!"
Harry stayed rooted in the doorway with his eyes wide open and a slack jaw. Ron found his friend's reaction rather funny and he dragged Harry towards the tables, where everyone was waiting, smiling down at him.
"Congratulations, Harry, dear." Said Mrs Weasley smiling.
"I. this. I didn't expect it." Said Harry surprised.
"Well. that was the whole point," said George. "You didn't have to expect it."
"Else, it wouldn't be surprise." Added Fred.
"I. Thank you." Said Harry.
"Don't thank us." Said Bill, "thank Ron. He was the one who came up with it, we just helped pull it off."
That was, without a doubt, the best birthday Harry had ever had. Mrs. Weasley had baked a large chocolate cake with fifteen candles, and Fred and George had placed lots of pranks in the food, most of them mysteriously went to Percy, except for two, which Dumbledore got. It nearly seemed that Percy had the summoning the charmed food to him.
When it became dark, a lot of presents appeared, coming from the people gathered there; everyone went to stand around Harry as he opened his gifts. The first one was from Mr. and Mrs. Weasley; it was a simple present but Harry liked it very much; it was a magical picture of every Weasley, who were happily waving towards Harry. The next one was from Bill; it was a small pyramid, in which there was even a small cursed mummy. Charlie's present was a small Regbly cub; it was a small animal that looked like a dragon, it reached the size of a cat when it became adult, and it was, of course, much less dangerous than a dragon. In fact, it was nearly as kind and loyal as a dog, although it was really strange and valuable.
"I have a friend who has a Redgby that had a litter not long ago. I told him I wanted to give you one, and well, here you are." Explained Charlie with a smile.
"Thank you very much, Charlie. You know, I think Hagrid would love to have one, too."
"I think he would like it much more if it was as big as a house and a much more fierce." Said Ron.
After the Redgby, came Percy's present. It was a Muggle book that he had found while wandering around London. After that, Sirius and Remus gave him a big photo album, with pictures of the Marauders when they were students; thankfully, there was not a single one of Peter, he would not have been able to bear it if there had been one. After that, Hermione gave him a small box.
"Here you go, Harry, this is our present." Said Hermione.
"Ours?" He asked, confused.
"Yes, it's from Hermione and I." Said Ron. "We bought it together."
"Together?" Harry smiled mischievously. "Both of you, together?"
"Yes. we decided to buy the present together." Said Hermione, blushing. "We wanted something that was from both."
Harry arched an eyebrow amused, while he looked, both blushed even more at what he was insinuating, then he noticed the twins had disappeared.
"Where are the twins?" He asked surprised.
"Here!!!" Answered two voices, although sounding like one.
It seemed that while Harry started to open his presents, the twins had ran into the house to get theirs, and from the look in their faces, he shouldn't be expecting anything good from it.
"Open our present, Harry!" Said Hermione.
Harry grabbed the small package and began to unwrap the paper. Inside, he found a small box and when he opened it, he found a locket attached to a long golden chain. Inside, there was a picture of the three of them just after they had gone to the Quidditch World Cup, and on the other side was an inscription that said: 'From your friends: Ron and Hermione'.
"Wow! Thanks, it's beautiful." Said Harry while putting it around his neck.
"You're welcome." Said Ron and Hermione at the same time. "It's so you will always remember us, no matter where you are." Added Hermione.
"Thanks."
"Awww, stop with the mushiness and open our present!" Said the twins.
Harry dropped the locked under his shirt and took a large box that immediately attracted everyone's presence. When he unwrapped it and opened the box, he saw all kind of pranks.
"WOW!" Cried Harry when he saw what was inside.
"They are our most recent creations!" Said Fred with a smile while George was running around the table, trying to get away from his mother's roller, who was chasing after him for having had the idea to give such a present to Harry. "We thought about selling it to Zonko's but the first party is for you."
"Thank you very much. I will be able to pull a lot of pranks at. emmm. well." said Harry, glancing at Dumbledore out of the corner of his eyes.
"Ohhh. don't worry about me, I'm sure you're going to have a great time next year, and those pranks are going to help you a lot." Said Dumbledore, very amused, with a twinkle in his eyes.
As Harry started to close the box, George, who managed to get away from his mother's killer roller, looked horrified at this and told Harry so.
"What are you doing!? You can't close the box yet!" He said, drawing Fred's attention, who was at the moment being chased by his mother. "You have not seen everything."
"That's true, you've missed the best thing!" Agreed Fred.
Harry started to carefully rummage through the large pile of pranks, and after nearly five minutes, he found a big but narrow box in the bottom of the box that had been charmed so it was much deeper than it seemed. When he opened it, he saw three simple lockets with a different name inscribed on each of them. On the first one, the name 'Harry' was written in italics; on the second locket, also in italics, was written 'Sirius' and on the third, 'Ron'; inside the locket were written the other two names.
"What's this?" Asked Harry, surprised.
"It's our best invention." Said Fred proudly.
"Yes, and it has nothing to do with pranks," added George, seeing his mother out of the corner of his eyes.
"And what is it?" Asked the boy curiously, wondering what it could be if it wasn't a prank.
"Ah. it's wonderful." Assured George. "We got the idea two summers ago when Ron tried to phone you through that muggle phone."
"Yes, at that moment, we thought that it would be very useful if wizards had something similar to that, but it stayed as that, just an idea."
"But then, at the beginning of the summer, we got a benefactor who took pity on us and decided to invest on our pranks, without any conditions and without having to repay him anything." The boy's mother looked like she would love to murder whoever it was who had given them the money. "When Harry's house was attacked, and we found out that Professor Dumbledore wanted to send him somewhere safe so that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named would not be able to find him, we thought that we would use some of the money we got from our benefactor to make something useful for Harry."
"We remembered that thought we had had two years ago and here it is." Said Fred pleased. "It's a pocket communicator, quick and efficient. We have made three, one for Harry, one for Mr. Black and another one for Ron, so that the three of them will be united. When one of them wants to talk to one of the others, he just has to slide his finger to the name of the person he wants to talk to and that person's communicator will be activated."
"An image from said person will appear in the blank space and you will be able to normally talk. It works in every place and under any circumstances. It has been tested a lot of times."
"The two of you. had invented this?" Asked Mrs. Weasley, astounded.
"Yep." Said George. "We had thought we might also be able to use them in the upcoming war against You-Know-Who, it could be very useful to communicate with each other when there's an attack."
Dumbledore seemed to be very interested in the communicators and looked at it curiously while Mrs. Weasley looked like she had received the best news in her whole life; she went from wanting to hit the boy's heads with her roller to huging and kissing them. After that, Dumbledore approached Harry and he seemed to be divided between sadness and happiness.
"I don't think you're going to like my present very much, Harry. My present will be your safety."
"What do you mean?"
"Harry, tomorrow, you're going to go away."
A/N: Thanks for all reviews. And thanks to my beta-reader, Vinnie.
