Harry Potter and the Summer of Change
As Remus left the Dursleys house he gave one last threat to big uncle Vernon, a threatening wave of his wand to Dudley who screamed and ran from the room clutching his buttocks, and left the house apparating to 12 Grimmauld place. When he arrived, a crowd of people surrounded him waiting to hear of the happenings with Harry that morning. These people were either from the order or friends of harry. Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley were there of course, his family excluding percy and Charlie weren't there. Also the professors dumbledore, Mcgonagoll, and snape were there.The people from the order were mudungus, remus, shacklbolt, and mad-eye.
"How did it go?" asked Molly Weasley and Hermione Granger simultaneously.
"What did Harry say?" shouted Fred and Bill at the same time.
"Did you see any new elecktic appliances?" asked Arthur excitedly.
"ARTHUR weasley how can you be thinking of that at a time like this?" Molly yelled. Arthur started apologizing profusely and Molly looked gratified.
Remus felt a hand on his shoulder and a beigin voice spoke to the crowd.
"Perhaps Remus will be willing to tell us what has transpired if you give him breathing room and time to talk" Albus Dumbledore said as he smiled down at the crowd around Remus with a twinkle in his eye, Remus sighed in relief and said "Thanks headmaster I didn't know how I was going to get myself heard". The crowd all trooped into the kitchen eagerly awaiting the news of Harry's demise.
"Well here's the thing" Remus started "I'm going to be blunt he hasn't gotten any better if anything he has gotten a bit worse for the wear. I don't know what to do I gave him a whole speech and still nothing".
During this Hermione and Ron especially had gotten steadily paler and finally Hermione spoke up. "But Remus are you sure ......I mean this is harry we are talking about here the "moody" one no?" Hermione finished with a slight look of apology at Dumbledore.
He though didn't seem to mind if anything he agreed to hemione logic by stating "this behaviour is most unusual to be associated with harry".
"I'm just as baffled as you dumbledore and Hermione but you remember how he was when you went to visit him"
"Well this visit of mine wasn't a total waste of time".
"How do you see that? lupin" sneered Snape "if you ask me Potter is looking for attention againï"
"That will be enough severus" said Dumbledore firmly "please continue remus"
"Well before I was rudely interrupted" continued Remus "At the end of our conversation harry said no one can understand him any more, no one alive anyway".
"So what does that tell us we know his godfather died already?" Snape burst out with an ugly look on his face.
"Severus" said Dumbledore warningly "please continue Remus".
Several ugly looks were shot at the potions master to get him to shut up.
"No problem headmaster I have learned to accept fate that snivellus (cough) sorry I mean severus will never master the art of jealousy. Anyway back to harry" said Remus "in my opinion I think that he needs a good wake up call not a regular one that we have all given him. He needs to know we are there for him but don't brook any pity for him, that is the worst thing you can do to him because in essence you are destroying his chances of letting him get back to leading a normal life once again." Remus finished with a slight flourish.
"I think it's a good plan but how to execute it is the problem as harry can't suspect anything beforehand" said Professor McGonagoll.
"So let's get down to business, ok what do we want to do for this wakeup call? Any suggestions?" asked Remus briskly taking a slip of parchment to write their ideas on.
Immediately the room ensued into a state of chaos with ideas going around the table and consequently being shot down for inadequacy. Once again Remus sent a helpless look towards Dumbledore but before he could do anything a loud bang went off emmiting a heavy cloud of smoke everyone suddenly became deathly silent and a voice could be heard coming through the smoke. "Excellent spell, I believe it was a powerful silencing charm though I never thought to add in the smoke part I'd give you points if it was the school year one not very effective since I believed the situation called for it Ms. Granger" said albus dumbledore. Everyone turned to see at the center of the smoke a sheepish looking Hermione with a wand in her hand.
"You men just don't know how to behave yourselves even in a important situation" huffed Mrs. Weasley.
"Really Molly I didn't fail to notice that your voice was right up there with us boorishly behaved men" said mudungus in a rather dry voice.
"Take a shower before you give me a real reason to raise my voice?" exclaimed molly in a raised voice. Hermione and remus looked at dumbledore for help, he shrugged his shoulders in defeat and said "you have found my one and only weakness, Molly weasley in a temper".
"A worthy fear headmaster" said Remus solemnly. Heads nodded around the table at this fearsome admission.
"Back to the plan my colleagues" said the headmaster sharply.
After a couple hours of discussing different plans while taking in to account their scope and range, the group settled on a final plan to be executed on the day of harry's birthday.
"All right then are we all agreed on this plan?"
There were nods of assent all around the room, with the exception of snape who said "I don't see how this outrageous plan can work, so let me the first to offer my condolences on the downfall of harry potter" at this all the voices in the room broke out into one big shout "SNAPE".
"Really Severus if you can't behave like a grown adult you won't attend and I daresay you'll have to go to the weasley twins for some extendable ears" said Dumbledore in a serene voice while throwing a twinkling gaze at Ron, hermione, fred, and george.
After the meeting Ron and Hermione went outside to the backyard to talk about Harry.
"You are writing Harry right?" asked Hermione anxiously "I mean remember what happened last year when we didn't write him, he became very moody---
"That would be a welcome change in his attitude and behaviour, I mean even you would agree to that" interjected Ron "You know he wouldn't even respond when I spoke to him about the chudley cannons and that's a first for harry" said Ron shaking his head in disbelief that someone wouldn't respond to his favorite quidditch team.
"Do you mean to tell me Ronald weasley that you aren't writing Harry" shouted Hermione.
"Keep your knickers on of course I write him every day and they're bloody long letters if you must know" said ron hastily.
"Good because it's at times like this that harry could use our help the most we are like his family since he has no one else to turn to, it doesn't look like he's taken to remus as I thought he would" said hermione.
"Give him time" said ron "I mean he's just had his godfather killed in front of him and he thinks it's his fault, I don't blame him for not immedietly turning to another person with his grief".
"True but there's a limit to the amount of grieving a person can do, look at everyone else they've gotten over the death of Sirius" said Hermione thoughtfully, she continued "Harry must be going through unimaginable grief he's had so much to deal with I don't know how a human being could go through so much without shattering into small pieces"
"So what can we do?" asked Ron
"Be there for him when he needs us, this is some thing harry has to do on his own and we can't try to interfere or it could make him worse" said hermione.
"Alright sounds like a good plan to me" said ron indifferently, for ron was to busy looking at the hand hermione had placed on his arm to notice what she was talking about.
"Hello ron" said hermione waving her hand energetically in front of his face.
"What......Huh........."mumbled Ron, a blush suffusing his cheeks.
"Honestly" said hermione turning and leaving muttering distinctly "boys".
(A.N.: hope you all liked the chapter I tried to make it long and fix up my grammar and spelling, I know it's bad but this is my first fanfic so be nice and review I could use the help I don't mind if you flame (not too much (sniffle)).