Harry Potter: Changes Chapter 3
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. I do own the story line and the things that you do not recognize.
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After Harry apologized to Mrs. Weasley he headed back upstairs, thinking with every step. He wondered if you had to be looking at someone to know what they were thinking. Oh well, he would have to ask Ginny later. He had more important things on his mind right now.

He had brooded over Sirius for a month. He was also brooding on the fact that he needed to apologize to Dumbledore after he broke all of the things in his office at the end of last term.

'Well, he deserved it,' thought Harry.

'Did he?' said a voice in Harry's head.

"No," groaned Harry out loud. He hadn't realized that he made it all the way upstairs until Ron spoke to him.

"No what, mate?" he asked.

"Nothing," Harry told him, but whatever Ron was going to say was cut off by a loud shriek and giggling.

Harry raised his eyebrows at Ron questioningly. But Ron shrugged telling him he didn't know any more about it than he did. Ron turned back into his room and saw that Hermione and Ginny were whispering about something, and every few seconds they would giggle again.

"Girls," Ron muttered under his breath. Just then Mrs. Weasley yelled upstairs telling them that it was time for bed. Hermione followed Ginny into her room, and Harry and Ron fell asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillows.

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Harry woke up with someone talking to him.

"Harry wake up, for the umpteenth time!" shouted Ron loudly.

Harry opened one eye a peek and looked at Ron.

"It's about time," Ron said.

Harry sat up in bed and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.

"Mom says to come downstairs when your dressed," Ron informed him before turning and walking out of the door.

Harry got out of bed and threw on some clothes. Then he too walked out of the door and down the stairs and into the kitchen where Mrs. Weasley smiled warmly at him.

"Here you go, dear, eat up," she said, placing a plate of food in front of him that was so large he didn't think he could eat it all. Ron looked at Harry's plate with longing until his was placed in front of him and he started to wolf it down.

About halfway through breakfast several owls came through one of the open windows and to the people of whom the parchment belonged to. Mr. Weasley managed to grab his letter before andyone else. Holding the letter in one hand and a piece of toast in the other, he said that he had to be off and dissaparated with a CRACK!

Harry opened his envelope and noticed that it was much thicker than the years before. He broke the seal and read his booklist, it had the usual books. Then Harry read another piece of parchment:

Dear Harry,

You will be again learning Occlumency, although due to certain events this previous year, Professor Snape will not be teaching you. Therefore I will be teaching you. I will notify you of the times when I see you at the start of this term.

Albus Dumbledore

Harry was thankful that he didn't have to be taught by Snape. But what he saw last year in his pensive was not something he wanted to see again. He turned to his other two parchments.

One of them was his OWL results, they read:
Divination-P
Defense Against the Dark Arts-O
Potions-O
Care of Magical Creatures-O
Charms-O
Astronomy-E.E
Transfiguration-O
History of Magic-A

Harry was shocked how could he have managed that? He looked around at Hermione and Ron. Hermione was beaming proudly and Ron was staring at a piece of parchment with his mouth open.

"Harry, what did you get?" asked Hermione. He handed her his results and she jumped up and hugged him.

"Harry that's GREAT," she yelled, "7OWLS!"

Harry was still wondering how he had managed to get an Outstanding in potions and decided that it was probably because Snape wasn't breathing down his neck.

"You there mate?" he asked Ron waving his hand in front of is face.

"What?" he said looking up. "Oh, yeah. Harry I-I got p-prefect," he said turning his envelope upside down and, sure enough, a little gold badge fell out with a big letter P on it.

Hermione squealed, "Me too, Ron!" and she also went over and hugged him. But he simply looked appalled.

Finally Ron spoke. "What will Fred and George say?"

Harry just now remembered what the twins had done when Percy made prefect. He sincerely hoped that they wouldn't do that to Ron. Harry turned to his last piece of parchment. It was from

Professor McGonagall.

Dear Mr. Potter,

I am pleased to inform you that you have made Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Here is your badge.

Congratulations

Professor M. McGonagall

Just like Ron, Harry turned his envelope upside down, shook it slightly, and his badge came out gold and shiny.

Everyone turned to Harry.

"What's that?" asked Ron stupidly.

"I made Quidditch Captain," Harry told them.

"Blimey Harry! That's ruddy brilliant," said Ron excitedly. (A/N: I will never understand their lingo.)

"Yeah," said Harry sharing in the excitement.
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After the excitement of breakfast everyone decided to play Quidditch for a while. But after that the day passed quickly and that night at dinner Harry's good feeling faded.

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"Everyone," said Mr. Weasley, "today at work I learned that we will be expected at the Ministry (all of us) due to the fact that Sirius's will is going to be read. I know that it will be hard, but we will have to do it. So everyone get up early tomorrow and find decent clothes and we will be off."
That night was another night that Harry picked at his food. His insides were turning and he felt like he was going to be sick. Harry trudged upstairs after dinner and went to sleep.

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That morning Harry was awake first, he didn't get much sleep. When Ron woke up Harry pretended to have had a good night's sleep as well. They went downstairs to find the whole Weasley family sitting down and drinking orange juice (except of course Percy)

After a small breakfast, because no one wanted to eat, they each grabbed a pinch of floo powder and were off to the Ministry of Magic.
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Once they got there they were led into a small room. In the middle of the room was a long table. And sitting around the table was a group of people. On one side was Blacks family, and on the other side was Lupin, Tonks, and a few other various people that Harry didn't know. Harry sat down next to Lupin. Lupin looked up at him and Harry could tell that he didn't sleep well.

"Hello Harry," he said.

"Hello Professor Lupin," Harry answered. The small smile that Lupin was giving him faded.

"Harry call me Remus, okay?"

"Okay," said Harry. Just then a man in a black cloak and robes strode in.

"Well, hello there," he said brightly.

Mrs, Weasley answered him back with a dull hello and Mr.Weasley shook his hand.
"Well," he said looking around the room, "I suppose we better get started."

The man reached into a pocket of his robes and pulled out a small ball that looked like it had a white mist flowing around inside of it. He set the ball on the table and pressed a small button on the top. The ball opened and a ghostly figure of Sirius floated out. The ghost/Sirius looked around and smiled. Then he started pacing the length of the table. Then it started talking.

"Well, you are all here because I am sad to say, I am dead. But not one of you should blame yourselves. Not unless you are the one who killed me of course." he paused and smiled again. "Well let's get down to business. First of all I would like to leave my estate to my godson Harry Potter. And I would like to leave half of all of my money in Gringots to him. And the remaining half I would like to split into ten parts. One tenth shall go to all of the six Weasley children. Except of course Percy. Another tenth shall go to my dear friend Remus Lupin another two tenths shall go to Arthur Weasley and Molly Weasley and the last tenth shall go to my dear cousin Nymphandora Tonks. And the rest of my belongings Harry and Remus will decide what to do with, but Nothing and I repeat Nothing shall go to any of the Black family. And lastly I would like to ask Remus Lupin to take good care of my godson Harry if he is still underage and if my dear friend Remus is here with me then I would like that privilege to go to the Weasleys if it is OK with them. Thank you and goodbye."

And with these last words the spirit/Sirius disappeared back into the ball. Harry had kept his head down the whole time. And when he looked up he saw all of the Black family giving him dirty looks and rushing out of the door. And he saw everyone else with tears rolling down their cheeks. Harry stood up and became aware that he also had tears running down his cheeks. As soon as he stood up Remus stood up too. They turned toward each other and looked into the others eyes and then Remus pulled him into a tight, fatherly hug. They stood like that for what seemed forever. Then Harry noticed a girl his age looking at him. She had dark, shiny black hair that was shoulder length and she had bright blue eyes. Even though she was smiling at him he figured that she was a member of the Black side and just wanted to get some money or something of Sirius's from him.

"Hello," she said.

"I suppose you are a member of the Black family?" he said without waiting for an answer, "Well, no, you cannot have any money, and no, you can't have anything of Sirius's. Didn't you hear it say 'Nothing to the Black Family?"

"Actually," she told him, "I'm not. I don't even know Sirius, although he seems like a good person. And I have read about that 'Black Family' and if I was a member of it I would've rid of myself long before this. I came here to get a look at you. And I thought maybe we could talk and get to know each other a little bit."

"Oh," said Harry a little taken aback, "And why would you want to get to know me?"

"Well," she said hesitating a bit.

"Because she is your sister, Harry," cut in Remus Lupin.

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Author's note: Haha a cliffy! Im sorrie but I had to do that to keep you guessin! Lol. Anyways, you know what I want you to do! Please? Ill love you forever and ever! Lol well REVIEW!