Hello there and welcome to the fourth chapter to this story! I am glad I am at least getting reviews. 5 is a good amount for 3 chapters, I suppose. Well, I'd like to thank Moodring, charl1e, and harrypotter,move over for reviewing! Especially charl1e and harrypotter,move over for continuous reviews! I'm so happy!

Disclaimer - J.K. Rowling owns Harry Potter, not me. I never will, either. If I did, Percy would NOT be alive! Or at least he'd be a death eater… and Sirius would be innocent… blah, blah, blah…

Reminder: I am a Percy LOATHER!! I hate him after the letter he sent Ron badmouthing Harry, and I hate him for saying bad things about his parents and such, so he WON'T be in my fics! I hope you understand. Sorry, Percy lovers! Everyone else shall make an appearance, though! He is the only one who I truly don't like out of all the characters, along with Voldemort and Wormtail and Lucius! THEY MIGHT BE BADMOUTHING PERCY, NOTHING MORE!!

Chapter 4 - Invitation To Stay At The Burrow

Over the next few days, Harry and Draco found everything to be rather boring. They went into Diagon Alley every day and hardly found anything to do worthwhile. Harry had sent some letters to Ron, Hermione and Sirius but was still waiting for a reply from all of them.

One day Harry was reading a book while Draco had gone out, Hedwig flew in the room with a letter from Ron. He took it and read it:

'Hey Harry,

Mum wants to know if you and Draco would like to come here for the rest of the Summer. I know at the Leaky Cauldron life can get pretty boring, especially after doing everything there is to do there. So, what do you say, Harry? I owled Hermione as well to see if she can stay with us, but I haven't gotten a reply yet. Well, let me know!

Ron'

Well, that gave them something to do at least. But Harry still had to ask Draco. Ron and Draco still fought, even after they have had over a million truces. Ron was always a little bit jealous of Draco, because he got to spend more time with Harry than Ron had.

He was really glad that he wasn't at the Dursleys anymore. But, he didn't remember anything before waking up in the hospital where Madame Pomfrey worked in Hogesmade village. Did Draco…? That was the only conclusion - Draco saved him from the Dursleys. He had to thank him later.

He took out a piece of parchment and wrote back to Ron.

'Ron,

Draco isn't here at the moment, but I'll ask him about going to the burrow as well. You and he still fight, don't you? Why is it that you two fight, Ron? Is it because that Draco and I are together and you don't have a girlfriend yet?

Well, reply soon, I guess.

Harry

PS: Sorry if I offended you in any way.'

"Hey, Hedwig, can you send this to Ron, girl?"Harry asked. She gave a hoot and nipped him affectionatley before flying off with the letter.

The door to the hotel room opened and Draco walked in. "Hey, there, finally woke up."

"Couldn't sleep,"Harry said.

Draco laughed. "It is kind of impossible to do around here."

"When did you get up?"

"Around 7 in the morning. I couldn't sleep, either,"Draco replied. "So I went out."

Harry nodded. "Oh, Draco?"

"Yeah?"

"Hedwig came earlier with a letter from Ron. His mother was wondering if we wanted to stay at the Burrow for the remainder of the Summer."

Draco thought about if for a minute. "If you want to, I'll go. I'm not leaving you behind after what happened."

"Thanks, Draco,"Harry said. "I will tell Ron when Hedwig comes back."

"Okay."

A few days later at the Burrow, Ron and Hermione were waiting for Harry to arrive. They had owled Sirius, and when they told him that Harry was coming, he wanted to as well.

"A little overprotective, isn't he?"Hermione asked.

"Yeah,"Ron asnwered. "It's only been a week since he last saw him, and he's a total worry wart."

"Kind of like you were about Harry in your second year, huh?"

"They were barring his windows and starving him, 'Mione! And now they're abusing him!"Ron exclaimed.

"They starve him?"Hermione asked, shocked. "But - that's not healthy!"

"Don't we all know that? But do you really think the Dursleys would consider anything that's healthy for Harry?"Ron asked.

"Point taken, Ron."

"Harry should be here any minute, 'Mione. Is everything set?"

"I think so,"Hermione answered. "He doesn't know Sirius is coming so it'll be a surprise."

"Speaking of surprises,"Ron said, "July 31st is his birthday, and that's in three days. What do you think we should do?"

"Like you said, speaking of surprises, since he hasn't had a proper birthday since he was born, I think it would be best to have one for him."

"Good idea, Hermione,"Ron said. "But where would we have it?"

"Maybe when Sirius gets here we could ask him if we could have it at Grimmauld Place,"Hermione suggested.

"But what about the portrait of Sirius' mum?"Ron asked.

"I heard they took it down with a simple muggle knife,"Hermione answered.

"Seriously?"Ron asked. She nodded. "Then why didn't the spells and charms people from the Order used work if all that was needed was a muggle knife?"

"Who knows, Ron,"Hermione answered.

"She was a bitch, anyway,"Ron mumbled.

Suddenly, a POP was heard behind them, signalling that Fred and George were there. "C'mon, mates, Harry and Draco are here."

"Coming."

Downstairs, Ron and Hermione saw Mrs. Weasley fussing over Harry and Draco, who were holding back their embarrassed looks. They ran down the stairs and over to them.

"Hey, Harry, Draco!"Hermione greeted.

They turned towards Ron and Hermione and waved, but were being too fussed over by Mrs. Weasley.

"Oy, c'mon, mum, give them a break,"Fred said.

Mrs. Weasley finally decided to leave the two of them alone, and the four of them walked up to Ron and Hermione's room.

After a while, commotion downstairs started to break again. They all looked at each other. Draco and Harry were confused, by Hermione and Ron were grinning.

"What did you two plan?"Draco asked.

"Oh, nothing,"grinned Hermione. "Just Sirius coming over."

"So that's him making all the commotion downstairs?"Harry asked.

"Yep,"Ron said. "Let's go down."

The four of them went downstairs to greet Sirius, but what they didn't know was the horror downstairs awaiting them.

Kohaku: This is where it gets juicy! Or rather, bloody. Take your pick! : ) I really wish FF . net would allow the emoticons and stuff back again, this really sucks.

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