Chapter 2

Correspondence

Dear Harry

You are my best friend, and after what you have told me any respect I previously had for Albus Dumbledore is now obsolete. I now wish that I had never returned that time turner so I could go back and get you out of the that house thirteen years ago and you could grow up with me and my parents. I understand now why you call Hogwarts your home and not that place. I'm still in shock so you have to forgive me if this letter is a bit disjointed. I showed your letter to my parents, we were just finishing dinner when I received it and letting them read it was the only way to explain the state I was in. To say her and my father were upset would be putting it mildly. I know the Weasleys have first dibs on adopting you but my parents come in close second. In fact they say that if you like you are more than welcome to come spend the summer here with us. You are like the brother I never had Harry, and though they've only met you once my parents feel the need to do anything in their power to help and protect you. The package I have sent you includes sandwiches, soup, and other hearty foods to tide you over for now. I'm sure you can find a way to heat them up, just think of a certain bouncing ferret and use that energy. It is not by chance that the patronous uses a happy memory instead of a bad one. Good, positive energy is ten times stronger than negative energy. If you want to come live with us just let us know and we'll be there as soon as we can. Dad thinks it would take us just over an hour to get to you, forty minutes tops if we leave Mom at home. I love you Harry. You are the strongest person I know, but please don't try to do this on your own. We are here to help you, whatever you want (no matter how small and insignificant it may seem) just let us know and we'll do it for you. For now I'll be researching some nasty hexes that I can place on jerk-off (my new pet name for Dumbledore) come September.

Your Sister in Heart and Soul

Hermione

Dear Hermione

As much as I would love to spend the summer with you and your family, I don't think that it would be a good idea. You, and your parents, are already in enough danger because of me, I couldn't in good conscience put you in any more. Thankyou for the food, you were right (as always) about positive energy being more powerful than negative enregy. I've been practising constantly and I'm already able to do most second year charms and transfiguration, I haven't been able to do any DAtDA stuff seing as how their aren't any dark creatures here for me to practise against, a fact for which I am thankful. I wonder who our teacher will be next year, seeing as how Moody was actually Bartemus Crouch Jr.? Did you realise that at some point each year, except third, the DAtDA teacher has tried to kill me? And each year, other than third, the only reason I trusted the teacher was because jerk-off trusted them? Based on these facts I have decided that I will only trust someone if my gut tells me I can trust them, I no longer care if he trusts them, since he can't be trusted. Do you think you could send me some more food? I was really hungry and ate all the stuff you sent me already. Also could you send me some books to read? Another week or two and I'll be up to fifth year skills and I tend to analyze what happened too much when I don't have anything to do.

Do you know of any curses that makes one's beard fall off? That might be a good one to use on him. Maybe even make it impossible to grow it back? Or that whenever it reaches a certain length it falls off again? I love you too Hermione, you mean the world to me. In my mind's eye my family consists of; you, Snuffles, Professor Lupin, Ron, the rest of the Weasleys and your parents. (wow that's actually a pretty big family, ironic huh?) Sometimes I feel like a mother bear or wolf. Anyone dare to hurt my family, my pack and they have to answer to me and there will be hell to pay.

Love

Harry

Dear Harry

Why is it that you insist on making me and my mother cry with every letter you send? I know you aren't doing it on purpose, but still. Of course this time they were tears of happiness and love instead of anger and sorrow as they were last time. I am, as are my parents, honoured to be included in your pack. I think wolf pack describes us better than bears, though a Dragon Clan would be the best comparison.

Since you haven't actually had a chance to read the multitude of books that I have sent you yet I will just explain what a Dragon Clan is. Dragons as you know are fierce and powerful creatures and could conceptually protect themeselves all on their own, but they don't. Every dragon is a member of a Dragon Clan from birth, though if a young dragon is seperated from his clan then another clan will take him in until he can be reunited with his or her original clan. Clans are not made up of one specific species, this is believed to be a way of compensating for the inherit weakness a specific species may have. Even though members of the clan are often seperated by great distances if one member is threatened the entire clan will come to its defense.

You are my clan brother Harry and no matter what happens I will be there for you. I, and my parents, are well aware of the danger that Voldemort poses for us being part of your clan but you matter more to us. Not just to us but to the Weasleys, to Sirius, and to Professor Lupin, you are a member our clan and you have not only been threatened but you have been harmed. And as a member of our clan that is not acceptable. Voldemort may think you as an individual are the greatest threat to his power and in part you are, you are because with you comes a number of powerful wizards who will stand by you no matter what. I know you may be wary of Ron's loyalty after what happened last year, but you didn't see him pacing the common room at two in the morning before each of the challenges. He wasn't jealous of you, he was worried that something might happen and that he might lose his best friend. He loves you Harry. To him you are just as much his brother as Fred, George and all the others are. I think at times he feels more protective of you than he does Ginny, mainly because he knows you didn't have loving parents to grow up under like they did.

I know that I know very little about what happened but I know you and I know that you did everything you could to not only save Cedric but to prevent Voldemort's resurrection as well. You cannot blame yourself Harry. It is not your fault that Voldemort is obsessed with you, you shouldn't be expected to be able stop him. Fully grown, fully trained wizards and witches are scared to speak his name (which is completely idiotic) let alone face him, who are they to expect you to be able to defeat him? You may be the boy who lived, you may have been able to get away from him a few times but you are only fourteen years old. You haven't even written your O.W.L.'s. Next time you or someone else places their ridiculous expections on you say 'hey, most kids my age don't worry about more than test scores and whether or not anyone will notice that pimple that showed up last night, not about how they are going to stop the most powerful dark wizard ever, so fuck off'

I hope you enjoy the books I've sent you, let me know when you need more. I also included some order forms I picked up last time I was in Diagon Alley so you can get your supplies and maybe some clothes from Madame Milkin. I sent enough food to last the week but if you run out sooner just send me an owl.

Your Clan Sister

Hermione

Dear Ron

I don't know if Hermione has told you yet but the great jerk-off (also known as Albus Dumbledore) has decided that not only am I not allowed to go to the Burrow this summer but I'm not even allowed to venture outside the house. The Dursleys of course took this as permission to lock me up in the attic all summer.

The good part is that they can't put bars up on the windows to prevent me from letting Hedwig out because one of the windows faces out onto the street. Jerk-off can't put up wards either since if I don't keep in constant contact with Snuffles then the man will go beserk and be liable to do something that will get him caught. He did try and order me not to write anyone other than Snuffles (who I'm supposed to lie to and tell that my summer is going simply splendidly) on the account that someone might notice her flying out my window. So on the off chance that a death eater happens to walk by my house, dodging the million and one protective wards surrounding the place, and some how knows what my owl looks like and Hedwig actually allows herself to be seen I am not allowed to write letters to my friends. Letters which are at the moment the only thing keeping me sane. In case you are confused on my response it was pretty much fuck off you asshole (though I didn't actually say this to him).

Believe it or not Hermione's the one that nicknamed him jerk-off. I think she's pretty much decided that even though he isn't enemy number one, that spot's revserved for ol' moldy voldie, he's pretty high up in the ranks. This is because not only did he leave me with a bunch of magic-hating muggles and force me to return to them every summer, it turns out he knew all about the things they did to me growing up. These are the things that cause me to have nightmares at night. I know I always told you they were about voldy and I'm sorry I lied to you but in the beginning I was scared that if you knew what they had done to me that you would think me unclean and not want to be my friend. I later realised that wouldn't have happened but by that point I just wanted to forget it ever happened since they hadn't actually done anything since Hagrid showed up with my letter. Hermione's currently researching hexes that she can place on jerk-off.

There's something Hermione mentioned that I wanted to tell you. We were talking (well writing) about how protective I feel about you, your family, her, her parents, snuffles and moony and I said that I felt like a mother bear or a member of wolf pack. She had a better comparison though, a Dragon Clan. She described to me the aspects of a Dragon Clan and she was right, everything fit perfectly with the way I feel about you guys. What I'm saying is that you Ronald Weasley are my clan brother and no matter what happens in the future remember that. Know that no matter what I will be by your side supporting you in whatever you do and fighting along side you through whatever dangers you may be forced to faced. For you and the rest of your family are my clan and noone, noone hurts my clan.

Your Clan Brother

Harry

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