Chapter Six

Harry wiped the sweat on his forehead across his sleeve. It was early and he was up, again. His fists were red from hitting his shield. It was something he had gotten in the Elvin Realm. The shield was a little darker than silver. It was separated in to four parts. One with a stag from bright blue, one with a werewolf from silver lines, one with a shaggy dog from red lines, and one with a phoenix from dark purple lines. The metal from which it was made was the strongest substance you could find in the Elvin Realm.

The sun had reached its point in the sky where it would be about eight. Harry threw his cloak on and pounded upstairs to his room. He threw on jeans and a red shirt. Ron walked out of the bathroom with a towel on his waist. He also put on jeans but with a black shirt.

As they walked downstairs the girls came out of their room. Harry noted that Hermione looked nice in her jean caprice and white angel tank top. However, he decided that Ginny looked amazing in her pleaded red and black shirt and black tank top with a red rose on it with black boots that went to her knees.

Harry shook his head and ridded his mind of those thoughts. They found that the rest of the Weasleys (minus Percy- duh) were seated in the kitchen eating. "Good, you're here," Arthur said. He motioned for them to sit.

"What's up, Dad?" asked Ron.

"You all are coming to the ministry," he said.

Late the night before Dumbledore, Remus, Arthur, Tonks, Moody, and a few other order members had returned from Malfoy's trial. They were in very good spirits as they had gotten Malfoy to say Sirius was innocent.

"Why?" asked Hermione.

"Well, this morning Dumbledore owled them saying that in truth Sirius was very much alive. They already declared him innocent last night and gave his Gringotts vault and inconvenience reward of five hundred thousand galleons. The fact that now they know he's alive doesn't change anything. Sirius wants you to come with us when we go. That givesyou all of ten minutes."

The four scarfed their food down. With five minutes to spare, they added a few more people to their liatops. Then Sirius came down and they all headed to the ministry. Once there, many people stared openly at Sirius and Harry as well as the rest. Everyone there knew that Ron, Hermione, and Ginny had all been present at the end of last year.

"Arthur," the minister said. He was standing with Dumbledore when they reached the corridor where his office was. The four children took seats after Harry gave Sirius a hug for good measure. "Sirius."

"Fudge," Sirius said icily. Remus had accompanied them and rolled his eyes. Fudge smiled weakly. "Look, I don't like you; you know that; they know that. Why are we playing a charade? You didn't like me before, why now? Nothing has changed but the fact someone forced you to see the truth."

"Sirius," Harry said softly. "You may be right, but don't jump at people. I highly doubt it but maybe Fudge has changed." In no way did he mind the man was right there. Before he had left he had despised him with every fiber in his body. Now he understood things more but he didn't like him at all. That didn't mean he wouldn't give him a chance to redeem himself.

"I'm sorry that I accused you," Fudge said quietly.

"Let's take this into your office, Cornelius," Dumbledore said. They walked down a smaller hall attached to the wide, open one and filed in quickly, leaving the kids outside in the wide hall. After only three seconds they heard Sirius's voice ring through the corridor.

"YOU'RE ONLY SORRY YOUR ACCUSATION WAS WRONG! YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT ME AT ALL! AND I DON'T REALLY CARE! IT'S SAD THAT YOU THINK YOUR POSITION MEANS SO MUCH! I'M THOGUHT OF AS DIRT BY MANY BUT I DON'T REALLY CARE WHAT MY POSITION IS OR WHAT I AM! ALL THAT MATTERS IN REAL LIFE IS WHO YOU ARE! AND I KNOW I'M A GOOD PERSON!"

They heard no more of the conversation as it must have been in more controlled voices. After about an hour, Ginny and Ron went to get some food. When they came back Ginny was laughing at Ron. Suddenly she stopped, eyes fixed over Harry's shoulder.

Ron saw whatever it was al well. Both of their eyes and faces darkened dangerously. "What do you want?" spat Ron. Hermione and Harry spun around.

Percival Adam Weasley (no I don't care if that's his name) stood behind Harry, biting his lip. Harry felt so many feelings within him he couldn't tell what they were at first. He left his face plain, using his elf mask.

"H-hullo," Percy stuttered. He look terrible. His hair was messy, unwashed, and hung halfway down his cheek, as though his hair had grown rapidly over the summer and had not been cut. His eyes were red and tired. His face tired and worried. His clothes were rumpled and muggle. His cloak was on his shoulders, dirty and tattered.

"You lost your right to say that to Harry," growled Ron. Harry shot him a look. Ron didn't notice.

"I know I probably did but, well, I'm your brother, at least hear me out," he pleaded. Ginny spoke this time. Her voice ice, cutting the tense airsharply.

"Our bother? If you were really our brother you wouldn't have done what you did, wouldn't have said what you said. You cut us, Percival," she spat his name. "You are a power hungry blind man with no sense. Not a brother."

"I-" tears slowly slid down his cheeks. Ginny let her face relax slightly with guilt. Ron seemed immune to his tears.

"You don't deserve to talk in front of Harry. After what you said of him," Ron said heatedly.

"I'm rrreally sorry, H-harry," Percy began.

"Harry? I thought he was Potter!" Percy sent a distressed look at Ron.

"I'm sorry! I was stupid! Why can't you even listen?!" he yelled in frustration. His tears came more rapidly. Harry stood between the Weasleys.

"Stop," he said; his voice empty to emotion.

"Harry you read his letter! You know what he said!" Ron yelled. Percy paled.

"Yes, I do and I had a long time to think about it," Harry said. Ron pulled out his wand. Ginny started. Hermione bit her lip, a tear slid down her cheek. Harry's eyes were hard. He sent up a shield in front of each as Ron shot a spell. It was absorbed into the wall.

"Ron!" Hermioen yelled. She had tears streaming down her cheeks and was standing next to Harry.

"All of you are going to sit down and shut up," Harry said. He muttered something in Elvish and all of their wands flew to his hands. He slipped his own wand into his pocket and his shields vanished. They all consented. Ron sat between the girls and Percy had sat opposite them. Harry sank down next to Percy, dizzy. He had let too much confused emotion into his wand calling spell.

"Harry?" questioned Ginny. He shook his head.

"We're sorting this out, as soon as Fudge and them are done, all of us are going to the Burrow and we're sorting this out." No one spoke until the men came out. Harry stood up. "Sirius go get the rest of the Weasleys with Re. Meet us at the Burrow. We bid you farewell minister, headmaster. Mr. Weasley you're coming to the Burrow."

A blinding power filled the room. A moment alter Dumbledore and Fudge stood with Sirius and Remus in an otherwise deserted hall. Dumbledore smiled. "Good day, minister. You heard Harry's orders."

Ten minutes later every last one of the Weasleys were seated in the living room. Ron and Hermione on the loveseat, Molly, Arthur, Bill, Fleur, and Charlie on the two couches, Ginny perched on the arm of the second loveseat where the twins were seated, and Percy sitting in an overstuffed chair.

Harry stood in the center, Sirius and Remus behind him on the carpet, playing Exploding Snap. Harry made the cards explode with force, leaving them with nothing.

"Listen up. This is it. You are all patching this up NOW. Percy's going to be at Bill and Fleur's wedding. This family was once made up of nine and in this case it was a prime number. Only divisible by itself. And now you've divided yourselves," Harry said.

(I KNOW NINE IS NOT A PRIME NUMBER! I AM NOT AN IDIOT, I AM IN ADVANCED MATH! Sorry, it really is nice when people tell you about mistakes you make so you can fix them, but I specifically had Harry say in this case meaning that I know it's not prime, however the point is the Weasleys could only divide themselves. Thank you for reading!!)

"Nice," Remus said softly. Sirius nodded in agreement.

"Oldest to youngest, Percy not counted, say whatever the hell you have to say!" snapped Harry irritably. He conjured three chairs and sank into one's purple fluffiness. Sirius and Remus snagged the other two. Arthur sighed.

"I miss you Percy. But I'm not going to apologize for nothing. I didn't do anything wrong. It may sound childish, Percy, but we've all acted in that manner."

"Mrs. Weasley."

"Oh, Percy," she wept. "I love you so much. I don't want our family to fall apart. I just can't stand it."

"Bill."

"Perc, you're the only other Head Boy this family may see and you're my brother. But you've acted like a shit head. Not to me personally, but you deserve something bad."

"Charlie."

"Like Bill said, you're our brother but you've been a remarkably arsy- "

"That is not a word," said Harry smugly. He blushed "Sorry, reflex. Continue."

"That's it. You've been an arse head."

"Fred."

"Well, then. You may be able to be forgiven by some of us but there are those you've cut deeper than flesh."

"George."

"Yeah, you've got serious groveling to do and I'll be pleased to see it."

"Ron, oh, and no spells. I'm sick of making shields."

"You don't deserve to be here. Not in this house. You don't deserve to be here after what you've done to us. Especially to Mum. Not to mention the shit you pulled on Harry. The crap you said."

"Ginny." She sighed shakily. Tears slipped down her cheek. She shook her head. Harry fought the urge to hug her and whisper it was alright.

"Percy, you're a Weasley. Somewhere inside you you're still a Weasley. I know it's there. But it sure as hell is buried pretty deep. I've seen the way you acted this year. The tings you did and said about Harry. About us. There may be a way for us o forgive you but you've cut us all much, much deeper than our flesh, broken things more painful than bones. The one really owe the largest apology to is Harry."

Silence held in he room. The only sound was Ginny sobs. Harry couldn't stand it. He walked over and hugged her tightly, possessively. Using his telepathy for the first time out of the Elvin Realm he thought o her, 'It's all right, Gin.' He kissed the top of e head and resumed his seat. Ginny stopped crying.

"Percy," Harry said softly. He swallowed.

"I've stopped eating, stopped sleeping. All I can do is be consumed by guilt. I know I've been an arse. I know I don't really deserve forgiveness but I'm here to ask for it. I've been stupid and a bastard. But I need you. All of you," he looked at Harry sadly, full of guilt. "Penny's mad at me, you're all mad at me. I'm alone and I can't take it anymore. I can't fight it. If I don't have my family back I'm going to die."

No one but Harry knew he was deadly serious. He was the only one who sensed how weak the young man was. Who knew he really was on the brink of death.

Slowly Ginny stood and hugged him. He returned it fiercely. And somehow with no words the Weasleys accepted his apology. Even Ron. Percy looked at Harry. Harry smiled.

"So, anyone up for a pounding in chezuke?" he asked brightly.

"What are you on about?" asked Hermione.

"Chezuke. It's a really fun game I learned. Oh, yeah, I was in the Elvin Realm," he told Percy. Percy's eyes widened. "And before I explain how to play I have to do this." Using a combination of wand magic and Elvin magic Harry cut Percy's hair, fixed his cloths, washed and shaved his face, and got him new glasses.

"Waoh!"

"Now then, chezuke is actually played while flying but we can use brooms. What you do is almost the same a quidditch. But instead of two bludgers there's two peztases and instead of two beaters there's one peztos. There's two razases for one quaffle and four razoses for chasers and one rozas for a keeper. In place of the snitch there's a yuzas and instead of seeker there's a yuzos."

He enlarged a chest from within his robes. Inside were two bronze, spiked balls called peztas(es), two dark green balls looking identical to quaffles but weighing a lot more called razas(es), and one silver ball, smaller than the snitch and which had many more wings (ten) called a yuzas. There were also two sticks like beaters sticks.

"Now, there's four hoops at each end of a field," he motioned to the shrunken hoops in the trunk. "You play three matches that make a game. Each is ended by catching the yuzas. It's the same general idea. However it's more challenging. Each goal is five points and each save is one point. Every bad throw is one point lost. The capturing of the yuzas is only seventy-five points. You have to have a total of at least five hundred points by the end of the three matches or no one wins. Otherwise its whoever has the most points all added up."

"Bloody hell," said Ron.

"It's a lot of fun. In the Elvin Realm you generally used brooms but if someone didn't have one you just flew on your own. It was much harder that way."

"Let's play!" exclaimed Ginny spiritedly. Harry grinned. "Mum and Dad never play so we'll need two more people. Mum can keep score and Dad referee."

"Done." Ron vanished returning ten minutes later with Tonks and Mel.

"Alright," Harry said. "Me, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Fred, Tonks, and Fleur on one team. Bill, Charlie, Sirius, Remus, Percy, George, and Melody on the other."

At the end of the day they had played three full games, the first two ended without a winner. The third time Harry's team won. Harry's had beaten Charlie nine times at the yuzas. Ron and Bill had been rozases, Sirius, Remus, Melody, Percy, Hermione, Ginny, Tonks, and Fleur had been the razoses, and Fred and George the peztoses. Hermioen was excellent and Ginny was perfect in that spot.

Tired and pummeled, they ate dinner and fell asleep. Everyone but Harry. They were back at Grammauld Place.

Harry was up until midnight, training. The next morning he rose at four and returned to training. And so went the rest of the summer.

A/N Next chappie they leave for school! YES! It ended that the Elvin Realm is rather important so shove off if you don't like it. Don't read this anymore than. Especially since it's about to get more important. TWO CAHPPIES IN ONE DAY! Are you not proud?! I'll update soon. REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Luvs to all.

TNIW (till next I write)

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P/A/N I forgot to mention that I changed my name. Well, I did =D