Getting Ready
Harry woke up to notice his glasses were still on his face. He sat stirring and noticed that his room looked all clean, the clothes were all picked up and all of the papers that were all around were gone. Ron's bed was folded and had the pillow and blanket Harry had threw on him last night on it. Harry looked over on his nightstand to see that the book for his Occumlecy lessons was sitting in place of the letter saying he needed it. Harry figured that Mrs. Weasly probably went to Diagon Alley again, because Ron and Hermione needed their school supplies. Harry was going to pay Mrs. Weasly back later.
Harry was going to start reading his book when he felt really hungry. He got out of bed and, since he was still in his clothes from yesterday, didn't have a need to change, so he just ran right downstairs. Harry all of a sudden remembered about him becoming Quidditch captain and couldn't wait to tell Ron and Hermione. He practically ran through the hallway that leads into the kitchen. He burst through the door to see Hermione reading, and Ron playing himself in chess. Ginny was fixated on Penelope's long golden hair. Harry looked over at the clock and saw that it said four o'clock.
"Finally decided to get up sleepy head." Said Ron noticing that Harry walked through the door.
"I AM GOING TO BE QUIDDITCH CAPTIAN!!" Harry bust out before saying anything else.
"Quidditch captain! Oh Harry, can I be one of your chasers, remember how I told you that being a seeker wasn't my thing anyways! Oh please please please Harry!" Ginny begged.
"Harry I can't believe, well actually I saw it coming, but that is so cool that you are Quidditch captain!" Ron burst out before Harry could answer Ginny.
"Harry I am really glad for you, but you better not let this interfere with your studies, especially Occumlecy, I saw that little book you have to read…" came Hermione's voice.
"LITTLE!! Hermione, its over two-thousand pages!" Harry yelled back.
"Harry don't you know what little and huge are for Hermione by now?" Ron asked. Harry laughed and before anyone could say anything else he grabbed as much food from the table as he could fit into his mouth.
"Whoa, someone must be hungry." Ron chuckled. "Hey Harry, what time did Dumbledore eventually leave? When I tried to touch the door it flew me backwards and made me fall into a deep sleep. The next thing I know is that Fred and George are yelling in my ears to wake me up. I also had a pillow and blanket."
"Oh yeah," Harry spoke through a mouthful of food, "I put that pillow and blanket on you last night when you wouldn't move, I tried to wake you up. You snore really loud," Harry joked, "Dumbledore left at six in the morning."
"SIX! No wonder you slept in so late." Ron said.
"Harry, did Dumbledore give you any answers?" Hermione wondered. They all shot looks at Ginny as if to say 'get out of here we need to talk' look. She got the message and grunted before she left.
"Does master Harry likes what Penelope has done wif 'tis room?" Penelope wondered.
"Oh so it was you who cleaned it, yes Penelope I liked it very much."
"Oh good, Penelope must be's going to do's more chores for master."
"Pen, you don't have to call me master, call me Harry."
"Oh's Penelope's forgot's sir." And she ran off away to do more chores.
"Do you think she will ever call me Harry?"
"Not a chance." Ron replied.
"So anyway what did Dumbledore tell you?" Hermione asked. Harry told Hermione and Ron the whole thing; how he got memories extracted from him, and how weird it felt, how Dumbledore visited them, where Voldemort's whereabouts were, about the giants and the guards of Azkaban; Harry told Hermione and Ron everything, everything except for how he forgot that Sirius was no longer alive when the memories were no longer rested within him. He couldn't stand having any more pity than he had already received from Lupin and Mrs. Weasly.
When Harry had finished explaining everything to them, they just sat in disbelief. No one had said anything for a while when Hermione was about to open her mouth Snape entered the room.
Snape gave them all a look of evil and pain all wrapped into one. As if the trio were just little bugs standing in his way from getting somewhere. Ron and Harry tried not to look at each other so as not to laugh.
"Potter, Weasly, Granger." Snape grunted. They all just stared at him because since they were not in school they didn't feel that they had to be polite to him. Snape felt the same way towards them and right when he was about to leave Penelope runs in and bursts out to Snape,
"Penelope think you mean to master Harry, Penelope think you should be more nice to him."
"Get out of my way you house elf!" Snape yelled and speed walked out the door.
"Master Harry, Penelope thinks you should teach that man a lesson. He is mean to Harry and his friends."
"Penelope, we've wanted to teach Snape a lesson for five years now." Harry replied. Just as Harry was finishing saying that Snape bursts back through the door and stared at Harry as though he just heard what they were talking about.
"Potter, I'll have you know that it was Dumbledore who made me take you again this year for he wants you to become an Auror, otherwise I would have failed you. Where is Lupin?"
"Why do you want to know?" Harry asked
"Hogwarts business."
"IS HE GOING TO BE DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS TEACHER?!"
"You wish Potter." And he was off once again.
"I hope Lupin is going to be the DATDA teacher. That would be so cool." Came Ron's voice.
"Yes Ron but you heard Professor Snape, there's not a chance with Lupin's background being released." Snapped Hermione.
"Yes but Dumbledore probably wants extra protection for Harry so he might make an exception Hermione." Ron replied.
"Thank God for Dumbledore making Snape giving you the grade you needed Harry."
"Hermione, maybe Snape just doesn't want to admit the he gave me the chance to become an Auror by himself. I wonder if I really did get the grades to make his NEWTs class. Malfoy probably did." Harry replied.
"Don't remind me that we have another year with Malfoy. Wouldn't you think that Dumbledore would expel him, Crabbe and Goyal seeing as they could be spies for their parents who are Death Eaters?" Ron wondered.
"I don't know, but we better go get packed because we have to leave for school the day after tomorrow, and you know how hectic things get the day before." Hermione suggested. So Ron and Hermione left to go get packed and Harry was following behind them when he decided to stay back and bond with his house elf.
"Penelope, when I'm gone at Hogwarts the Order is going to take care of you so trust them ok?"
"If master Harry says so."
"You really can just call me Harry."
"Ok. May Penelope ask master a question?"
"Shoot."
"Is it true what they say master, about, your past?"
"What about my occurrences with Voldemort and my scar?"
"Yes, Penelope wishes to not be rude sir."
"Oh not at all, and yes they are unfortunately true." Said Harry showing Penelope his scar.
"Penelope pity's the sir."
"Please don't I get enough pity from everyone else."
"Penelope's sorry sir. Penelope wishes not to make master upset."
"It's ok you didn't know. So tell me about you and where you came from."
"Penelope sir came from a magical place. Penelope had to go to a special place where they trained us how to be a good house elf sir. They's trained us. They assigned Penelope to you sir and the other elfs beat on me sir. They's jealous sir. They's make Penelope feel bad sir. Penelope is going to try to be the best house elf she can sir. Penelope had to be given so many tests after that sir. They say Penelope's a spy, that she wants to hurt Harry Potter, but Penelope never wants to hurt her master. Only help and please sir. Penelope cries many times during tests because she doesn't know any of the answers. She doesn't know what is right to say and wrong. Penelope saw you and knew how important you are Harry. Penelope was scared at first, but now Penelope is glad to have you as her master."
Harry smiled in appreciation and walked up to her and kneeled down to her level.
"Harry is happy to have Penelope as his friend." Harry replied and Penelope also smiled and said,
"Friend sir? As an equal! Penelope has heard of your greatness sir, and now is experiencing his kindness."
"Thanks Pen, now call me Harry, no more master and sir, as a friend, can you do this for me?"
"If you wish so, Harry."
"I do, now I have to go pack up my things for Hogwarts, do you wish to join me?"
"If master, Penelope means if Harry wishes for her to then Penelope will."
"Okay then." And Harry stood up and started to walk down the hall. Penelope ran up behind Harry and grabbed hold of his hand. Harry looked down at her and smiled. They walked up two flights of stairs to his and Ron's room, and Harry started to walk throughout the room and pick up the neatly folded clothes and finding his books that he had left around the house as he tried to finish up his Hogwarts homework. Harry walked through every room twice to make sure that he had everything. When he was done he went back to his room and let Hedwig fly out for a hunt because she hadn't been out in a week, since Ron and Harry aren't allowed to let their owls out every day. Harry then got out his Occumlecy book and started to read.
Crooshanks jumped on Harry's lap and started to purr.
"I totally forgot about you Crooshanks! Where were you hiding this whole summer?"
The cat/lion purred and meowed as if trying to tell Harry her story of greatness and after a while of petting her, he had to make himself start reading. He flipped through the pages and tried to make sense of everything that he was reading. He had to reread a couple passages over again, but he was basically getting the flow of the book. Harry couldn't understand many things, as he has not been taught them yet. When Harry had read about three hundred pages it was time for dinner. Harry noticed that Percy was actually not working for once, and Mr. Weasly was also there. Harry hadn't seen Mr. Weasly since the first night he arrived. Fred and George looked really exited about their business and couldn't stop laughing about something that happened in work today. Tonks was amusing Hermione and Ginny with her noses again and Ron was talking to Lupin about Snape. Harry decided to listen in a little but couldn't really pay attention to any of the words. Harry just wanted to read more about Occumlecy because Harry had never known how interesting it was. When dinner was over he raced upstairs and read a couple more lessons before calling it quits and going to bed. He took off his glasses and slipped under the covers falling asleep to the heavy breathing coming from Ron as though it were a lullaby.
The next day, since Harry had everything already packed, he spent the day eating and reading. By dinnertime he had finished 2/3 of the book. He ate dinner and then Mrs. Weasly made them all get to bed early because they had to get up extra early because they had to take many safety precautions on their way to the train which would be leaving at 11:00 sharp. Harry double-checked his suitcase for everything and had an owl fit lying on top of it in which he was going to wear on the train tomorrow. He also had to give Penelope one great goodbye tomorrow because he wasn't going to get to see her until, maybe Christmas depending on Voldemort's actions. Here we go, Harry thought, this time tomorrow I'm going to be at Hogwarts as the new Griffyndor captain! And with that Harry fell asleep to the thought of Quidditch and the look on Malfoy's face when he found out the great news.
Author's note: Sorry I haven't updated in a bit, marking period closed this week so I had to do good! Tonight is Halloween and I'm going trick or treating to get my candy! I'm going as the The Pumpkin King from the Night before Christmas! Ya so review and in the next chappie we go back to Hogwarts! FINALLY!!! And we meet someone new who is hott and cute and all for...Sry im giving it away!! Stay tuned fans and u wont be regretful!! REVIEW!! And HAPPY HALLOWEEN!