DINNER AND TWO VERY ENERGETIC COUPLES
That very night, Dumbledore had dinner brought to the students in their common rooms. He was planning to have a private dinner with the Jedis and the Maruders.
'Achilles, I was hoping to have a private dinner with you all, including Harry and his friends. I believe they called themselves the Maruders?'
Achilles smiled, 'Yeah, sure. We'll be down at 8.'
'Oh and Achilles, I have decided to move the Maruders' to your quarters, if that's alright with you? I thought it would be better for you and Harry and I have also transferred Luna Lovegood to Gryffindor. It seems that the sorting hat had wanted to put her in Gryffindor but she insisted that she belonged to Ravenclaw. I believe she has fallen for a certain quiet Gryffindor,' Dumbledore winked.
'Really? Thank you! It means so much to me… Father,' Achilles ended with a smile.
Dumbledore smiled warmly at his newly adopted son and left.
On his way back, Achilles flew through the corridors, sometimes flying through walls, making his way to his quarters as quickly as possible.
'Achilles!' Briseis saw him appearing in front of the entrance and quickly ran to him.
'Briseis…' Achilles murmured as he hugged her, feeling the warmth flowing through his body once again.
'Achilles, your back!' Jon and the others exclaimed as they rushed down the stairs.
'I've good news for all of you. First of all, Dumbledore's my new father.'
'That's great Achilles!' Sammy said.
'Yeah! We're all happy for you Achilles!' Rave exclaimed.
'And the next best thing is that the Maruders are moving in with us now!'
'Really? Oh that's great news!' Patroclus exclaimed.
'When are they moving in?' Sam asked.
'Right now, we could all tell them the good news and help them pack. We are having dinner with Dumbledore later, all of us!'
'I happy for you Achilles, you finally found love after all.'
'Oh really? I did but there's still one unaccomplished mission…' Achilles said.
'And what mission might that be that could leave the mighty Achilles begging for help?' Briseis playfully taunted him.
'Hey! I didn't say I was begging for help…' Briseis was laughing at Achilles but he smirked, 'but if you insist…' and he began tickling her.
'Ah!!! Achilles you big prat!!!! Stop it or I'll hex you into obliv….Hahahaha….Oh stop….please…..haha….' Achilles smirked, 'Now who's doing the begging?'
'I've never seen Achilles this happy before. This is so great.'
Emili sigh, 'I wish my darling was as passionate as Achilles.'
Apparently, Sammie was behind Emili, listening to her words. He immediately went to Emili and whispered, 'What makes you think I can't be as passionate as Achilles?'
Emili quickly turned around and saw her dearest Sammie. Sammie then pulled her into a kiss. Emili was shocked but quickly returned the kiss.
'Oh boy! Seeing Achilles and Briseis is no good for my eyes, and now is Sammie's turn. What's this world getting into?' Rave said.
'Er Achilles… We'll take our leave now… I think Harry and the rest will need help packing…' Patroclus said quickly, wanting desperately to get out of the room, while the rest nodded and left as quick as a flash.
'Man! If we stayed any longer, we would be influenced by both of them!' Jon exclaimed.
'Yeah… true…' Sam agreed as Rave muttered the password and went into the Gryffindor common room to get the Maruders.
'Hey Harry!'
Harry turned and saw Sam, Patroclus, Rave and Jon.
'Oh…Hi guys! Where's my brother?'
'Er… You could say he's a little…… busy…' Jon said.
'You could say that again,' Rave muttered but got elbowed in the stomach by Patroclus.
Harry cocked his eyebrows, 'Right… So what are you all doing here?'
'Well, Achilles said that Dumbledore has let you move in to our quarters and has also moved Luna to Gryffindor.'
Harry practically jumped out of his seat when he heard this, 'Really? When can we move in?'
'Er… right now… actually…but you can take your time packing…' Sam said.
'Yeah cause you don't want to see what your brother is doing right now… ouch!' Rave muttered to himself but got elbowed again, this time, by Jon.
'We heard that!' the three of them whispered.
'Alright…alright…' Rave grumbled, 'but there's gonna be a lot of it with Harry and the rest anyway…' the three glared at him, daring him to continue, 'Alright! Stop elbowing already…'
They followed Harry up to his dorm and found Ron and Hermione snogging.
'See! I told you so!' Rave shouted.
Ron and Hermione quickly pulled apart, sensing that they weren't alone.
'Oh shut up Rave!' Sam said.
'Er hi…' Ron said nervously.
'Right… er Dumbledore has just allowed us to move into Achilles and the rest.'
'Oh that's great!' Ron exclaimed but muttered, 'so who's moving again?'
'Oh god! We are moving Ron! To Achilles's quarters with Neville and Luna,' Hermione rolled her eyes at Ron.
'Yeah… and Luna's been transferred to Gryffindor. Neville should be glad. So where's Gin?'
'Oh, she's in the girls dorm, said something about reading and whoever dared to disturb her would get hexed into oblivion.'
'That really sound familiar you know,' Rave said but lucky for him, neither three were paying any attention to him.
'Hermione, could you get me into the dorm please?'
'Alright, anyway we better start packing. By the way, where's Achilles?'
The three shot a look at Rave, who was clever now to not get into trouble, merely shrugged.
Hermione lead Harry to the girls' dorm with the four of them tagging behind.
'Gin? You in there?' Harry asked.
'Harry?' What are you doing here?'
'Well… I wanted to tell you that we are gonna move in with Achilles and that Luna has been transferred to Gryffindor.'
'Oh that's great! When can we move in?'
'They,' Harry lifted his thumb over his shoulder, pointing to the four of them, 'said that we could move in now.'
Ginny moved her head to the left and saw the four of them waving at her. She raised her eyebrows and said, 'Where Achilles?'
'They said that he's busy.'
'Oh.'
After 10 minutes, the five of them, including Neville had their trunks with them in the common room. They were waiting for Luna's arrival before heading for the Jedi's quarters.
The 10 of them stood in front of a statue of a phoenix.
Sam snapped his fingers and it immediately sprang to life, 'Welcome back Master Sam.'
Harry and the rest of the Maruders watched in awe before Jon gently nudge them to enter.
'Sam, what happened? The statue, I mean.'
'Oh, yes… I almost forgot about that. The statue is charmed to recognize us so every time you wanna enter, just snap your fingers. Ok?'
'Yeah, thanks.'
'Ok, your rooms are upstairs and down to your left. All the rooms are connected but there are no doors so just walk through the walls, don't worry, you won't bang into them. Also, if you want privacy, just tap the walls twice and there will be a marking on those walls if they are sealed. Now, each room has a bathroom, a mini kitchen, those two are standards mind you, a desk, a large sofa and two beds which of course can be joined into one by a simple wave of your hand. Just so you know, all the things in this room can be summoned easily by a wave of your hand. There's a main kitchen in the common room here, a bathroom, and we also have a TV and some muggle stuff. Oh and you will be sharing your rooms. Harry with Ginny, Ron and Hermione,' before Sam could finish, all 6 of them ran up the stairs to their own rooms, 'and don't forget to get ready by 8 as we are having dinner with Professor Dumbledore!'
Briseis was leaning on Achilles's bare torso, watching TV in their room when they heard Harry and his friends running up to their rooms.
'I guess it's your brother,' Briseis said.
Achilles smiled and kissed her forehead, 'You mean your future brother-in-law?'
'Achilles Zeus Riddle! What makes you think that I'll marry you?'
'Well, a lot of things like my charming features, my arrogance and destructiveness, and most importantly,' Achilles looked into her eyes deeply and said, 'my love for you.'
'I love you too Achilles, and I don't wanna lose you,' Briseis hugged him.
'I can't lose you either.'
After a while, they pulled apart.
'I think we better go and get ready now,' Briseis said.
'Alright, I'll see you in a bit. I have to talk to Harry about something.'
Achilles went out of the room and headed for Harry's room.
'Harry? Can I see you for a minute?'
'Er… I'll be right up!' Harry called.
Achilles smiled to himself. Apparently, his brother was also busy snogging Ginny. Finally, the door opened.
'Oh… It's you Achilles.'
'I'm hurt, aren't you gonna invite me in?' Achilles said playfully.
'Yeah, of course!'
Achilles sat on the sofa while Harry was in the kitchen.
'Achilles! Do you want a cup of coffee or what?'
'Coffee? Who do you think I am?'
'Fine… butterbeer?'
'Ok…'
Harry brought 2 bottles of butterbeer out and sat beside Achilles.
'So, what you wanna talk about?'
'Well… Dumbledore spoke to me just now and we sort of… reconciled… so now he's my father.'
'Really? Are you serious? That's great! It's what you always wanted right?'
'Yeah… it's great.'
'So er… I don't really have to call him father right? Not that I don't respect him or anything but… it just feels weird.'
'I understand Harry… He's probably old enough to be your great grandfather,' Achilles glanced at his watch and said quickly, 'oh shit! It's already 7.30! I've gotta go, you too. You better get ready soon. Dumbledore…oh, father,' Harry smirked at his brother's mistake, 'invited us for dinner.'
'Alright! We'll be down in a few minutes…'
At about 7.50pm, everyone left their quarters and made their way to the Great Hall.
'Ah Achilles, Harry!'
'Father…'
'Professor…'
'Have a seat, all of you, please.'
Dinner started of well with Rave as usual, cracking jokes and ended with desert. At about 11pm, they slowly made their way back and immediately fell asleep the moment they reached their rooms.
