H P Boy who Lives 7th year
Chapter Three
Journey to Hogwarts
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Questions abound Harry and Hermione are converged on by their friends. Treasures long ago thought lost are found...
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Royal Car, Hogwarts Express
"Congrats you two on your wedding last Saturday." Dean sat on the bench seat with Rad in his lap. "So spill it. Was it real or just a promise ceremony?"
"Oh, it was real at least in our world, but neither of us wishes to be parents to triplets yet." Hermione wasn't caring that she was telling more than she should. "So we're just promised until at least January, when this whole Morgana mess is behind us."
All eyes turned to Harry, who was now choking on the Butterbeer that had gone down the wrong pipe.
"Hermione, they did not need to know that." He wheezed.
"You had another vision didn't you?" Draco was sitting up on the top bunk with Ginny.
"You saw triplets? So Merlin wasn't joshing or trying to scare you both?" Ginny wide-eyed with interest stared down at the two of them on the bottom bunk.
"Look, this whole year is all first year Auror training, not just final classes leading to our N.E.W.T'S. Draco and I have a 4 in the morning wake up call to join Master Chen for gods knows what torture..." Hermione arched a brow at him and he changed his tune. "I meant training where we're allowed only rice and herbal tea for breakfast."
"I thought that was a typo on the class schedule." Draco frowned.
"Hang on a minute! Why am I training with the two of you?" Ron did not like his schedule one bit. "I'm not becoming an Auror. I wanna run The Quibbler not save the bloomin world!"
"That's what you get for being so indecisive last year." Hermione stated haughtily.
"I reckon dying helped make up my mind." Ron sighed in defeat. "So, I'll stick it out with Harry and Draco at least for now."
"Hermione," Ginny frowned down at her. "Isn't your schedule the same or nearly the same as Harry's?"
"That's right you do have the same morning schedule as Draco and I." Harry was rewarded with an icy glare from his princess.
"I do have class with Master Chen; but it is at eight not four in the morning. The three of you have early morning training, followed by breakfast at seven. Then Draco and Harry have practical Auror training with Grandfather Stephen. Ginny and I are also with you, but I believe Master Chen is teaching us other things. Ron has Muggle Studies for four hours with Aunt Lily. Then the four of us have two hours with First-Grandfather Merlin. Then we break for lunch for an hour. Then its DADA assistant professor all afternoon for Harry. Then two hours of DADA for Draco, Ron , and I, followed by two hours of Healer training with Aunt Lily for me. Potions Assistant Professor for Draco, and Ron I believe you have what they referred to as library time." Hermione sounded off Monday's schedule.
"Uh, sweets, that was Monday's schedule. Tomorrow would be basically the same morning schedule for you, Draco, Ron, and me. But, the afternoon would be two hours of transfiguration first then Mum for you, Potions Assistant follows that for Draco and Dad for me. I don't see why Ron is growling, he seems to have free afternoons." Harry shot Ron a glare.
"Yeah, what exactly is Library for two hours anyway? Do ya need extra study time?" Dean smirked at Ron.
Ron's ears that normally reacted to his moods were flushing a shade of crimson. "Look, I didn't write this schedule! So, how the hell should I know?" Ron took out his schedule and glared at down at it. "I have Muggle Studies all week in the mornings! I mean what's that all about!?"
"Seriously, Ronald you can be so muddleheaded sometimes. If you're going to help manage The Quibbler, you will need Muggle Studies. So, Deputy Headmaster Professor Snape made sure that you had at least one year of the class." Hermione was reading one of Merlin's books and his constant complaining had annoyed her. "Now as for Library Studies in the afternoon, well, that one is simple. If you are going to try to run a paper, then you will also need to learn organizational and referencing skills."
"I don't envy any of your schedules this year. They're completely loaded. When you add Quidditch, DA meetings, and Head boy/Head Girl/ Prefect duties you'll have zero free time." Neville prayed that his class load wouldn't be as bad as theirs was.
"Neville is right. How are ya gonna squeeze all of that in?" Seamus didn't see how that was possible without a Time Turner.
"Well..." Hermione looked up at them from her book. "There's always the Time Turner."
"Hermione Anne!" Harry, Ron, Draco, Ginny, and Luna glared at her.
"It was only a suggestion." She grinned sheepishly.
"With all that's going on this year what's going to happen to Quidditch?" Lavender pondered aloud.
"She does bring up a good point. Besides, it wouldn't be fair to the other House teams. We would decimate Hufflepuff." Dean grinned.
"So, Ron, now that you're back in the land of the living are you gonna wanna play?" Seamus arched a brow at him.
Ron wrinkled his brow at Seamus. "What's so wrong with me being on the team?!" He snarled.
Seamus' eyes widened, as he watched Ron get heated about his question. "It's just that Draco is Keeper and I've never seen ya play as a Chaser, that's all I meant by it." He added hastily.
"We started his Chaser training yesterday evening and he has his own Firebolt now. He isn't half bad as a Chaser, plays like Colin." Draco, who was also reading one of Merlin's books, spoke up in Ron's defense.
"Visiting time is over. I need to give Harry his medicine and arm treatment." Lily opened the door to the compartment. "Draco you and Ginny can go to the Prefects car and brief them on what they need to know."
"I'll go, Aunt Lily. I have these for them." Hermione reached into the satchel beside the bunk and produced a bound stack of manuals. "Harry needs his rest."
"No need Hermione, we'll make sure that everyone gets one." Luna took them out of her hands.
"Kreacher has Filch's former job now, so don't forget to tell them that bit of news." Harry reminded them.
"It's all in the handbook." Hermione reached over and took the top two manuals with their names on them from the stack. "See." She flipped it open to the Castle staff section.
"When did you have time to do this?" Harry, impressed by her latest creation, grinned at her.
"Well, you were in Hospital Wing or laid up half of August, so I had time. Then the twins printed these for me." Hermione flipped to the map section. "The Camelot Wing is out of bounds, unless there is an emergency. The main Common Room on the other hand can be used for Prefect Meetings, DA Meetings, friend gatherings, and that sort of function, but the other floors are by invite only."
"Camelot is our home, so it's not really part of the school. It's its own separate part of the castle." Lily explained as she set things out on the table.
"Harry has always called Hogwarts home and now it really is." Seamus leafed through a handbook.
"We'll see you in a while then Harry." Dean, Neville, Lav, Seamus, Ron, and Luna left the compartment.
Draco and Ginny got down from the top bunk. "See you in an hour or two. Ravenclaw's password is Snidget and Hufflepuff's is Puffskein right?"
"That's right little brother. I made it easier this year password wise." Harry nodded.
"Don't fret about a thing Hermione, we'll handle it." Ginny and Draco also left the compartment.
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Thirty-minutes later, James walked in with a large ancient looking trunk. "I waited till they left to show you what Dad brought from Godric Castle." He set the trunk down on the carpet.
Harry recognized the trunk, but couldn't place where he'd seen it. "It looks really old."
"That's the trunk that was in the family room of your old house, but I thought that everything had been lost when the house was destroyed." Hermione walked over and ran her hands over the top of the ancient trunk.
"Dad saved many of our keepsakes and treasures." Lily smiled at Hermione. She was almost finished with Harry's arm treatment.
"Well, Dad, don't keep us all in suspense open it." Harry was eager to see what was inside.
James opened the trunk. The first thing that he took out was a leather bound baby book. "I haven't seen this in over sixteen years."
"It's Harry's baby book! Dad saved it!" Lily was overjoyed to see it again.
"Oh, let me see it." Hermione was eager to look at the book.
"Here ya go, Hermione." James handed her the book. "Let's see what else is in here."
James took out more leather bound books filled to the brim with photos. His hands shook, when he took out his scrapbooks from school, their wedding album, his Gryffindor team captain uniform, and then his Puddlemere Untied one. This trunk held a treasure of memories.
"Here's Harry's first snitch and all the things that Lily wanted kept safe. His first shoes, rattle, christening gown, baby clothes, the quilts that you, my mum, and your mum made for him and all his favorite toys were also kept safe in here." All that his father had saved elated James.
"We're back. It didn't take nearly as long as we..." Draco saw what James had laid out on the carpet. "So that's what was in the trunk. The ultimate treasure anyone could ask for filled with keepsakes and mementos."
"Oh, wow was Harry ever that small?" Ginny eyed the pile of baby clothes.
"Oh look, he was so adorable." Hermione held up the baby book showing them Harry's official baby picture. He was dressed in an adorable prince outfit.
"So, is this your school scrapbook?" Draco sat down beside James and picked up a thick leather bound book, with the symbol of Hogwarts and Gryffindor house on its cover. "You and Uncle Sirius look so young in this picture. In fact all of you do."
James glanced at the book. "That's first year. We were eleven, so of course we look young."
"Oh, this one has you, Hermione, Harry, and Neville in it as babies!" Ginny was leafing through a large thick album. "Here's Harry swallowing his first snitch and the three of you are chasing enchanted butterflies in this other one."
Harry held his first snitch in his palm. "All of this is worth more than all the gold in Gringotts."
"I suppose we can humor Dad and renew our vows on Halloween as planned." James smiled at Lily.
"Do you think your old tux will still fit you?" Lily having finished with Harry's arm reached inside the trunk and pulled out his tuxedo and her wedding gown. "He gave us this trunk as a wedding present and now we know why." Under the gown were the twins unused baby items that she hadn't had the heart to give away. "Even Rory and Dromi's baby things are in here...Dad saved everything that we wanted to save."
"Mum, we lost the pups! We can't find them anywhere in the castle!" Rory appeared inside the train compartment. "We walked all the way to Shrieking Manor just so that we could disapparate here!" She was beyond upset.
"Katherine Aurora! You are never to apparate into a moving vehicle again!" James and Lily glared at her.
"Whatever!" She glanced around the compartment, finally spotting the pups. "YOU TOOK THEM AND DIDN'T BOTHER TO TELL US! I HAVE BEEN OUT OF MY MIND WITH WORRY ABOUT THEM!" She screamed in fury at her parents.
"Rory look, here are your baby blankets." Harry held up two pink and rose-colored quits one with fairies winking on it and the other with cheerful bunny's hopping around on it.
"That isn't going to..." Rory was about to let him have it, but all anger vanished when she caught sight of the blankets. "Goodness me were did those come from...wasn't all of that destroyed with the house?" Rory stammered, as she held the quilts close to her.
"Grandfather saved all of this for us." Harry was flipping through another scrapbook." Hey Dad, you look great with..." He held up the book. "Is that a black eye and bloody nose?"
"That was after he tried to kiss me by pulling me into a corner. When the first attempt didn't work he tried again. The result of his wandering hands was a broken nose, that black eye, and he needed ice for his lower anatomy." Lily remembered that as if it were yesterday.
"Oh yeah, those are some of my fondest memories of school." James grinned. "Rory, you may as well make yourself comfortable, now that you're here you can't disapparate back."
"This sucks! I told Wills that I'd be right back! Now because of some anti-apparition charm, I get to be stuck here on the train with all of you!" Rory grumbled.
"Wills can hang out with the Fred and George. It won't kill him to spend a few hours apart from you." James did not like his first taste of one of his girl's attitudes. "Now enough with the snot nosed attitude, you will sit down beside your mother, and relax."
"Daddy, it's not a snotty attitude! I have been searching for Lady and Rad since eight this morning!" She climbed up onto the top bunk and glared up at the ceiling. "I'm sorry if my frazzled irritated emotions are bugging you!"
"There you are! I've checked the whole train for you! When we didn't appear in the same place, I thought that you had gotten splitinched in transit or something." Dromi opened the compartment door and sighed with relief. "Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas showed me to this car, but I'm not so sure that their girlfriends were happy about it though. This exotic looking girl and a pretty chestnut haired girl were both glaring daggers at me." Dromi turned to smile at the two young men. "Thank you boys you can return to your girls now."
"Anytime babe...I mean princess." Seamus seemed entranced by Dromi.
"Yeah, beautiful...I mean your highness." Dean was nearly drooling over himself.
"Romi! You should have stayed with our guys!!" Rory climbed down to glare at her twin. "Wills and Henry are going to really lose it now."
"Two identical drop-dead gorgeous babes at our school, this year is so gonna rock." The boys were besotted with the twins.
"Two very taken older sisters, who are practically engaged to Prince William the next king of England and Prince Harry the next in line after him of the Muggle World. Now go see to Padma and Susan, before they dump your sorry asses." Harry walked over, pulled Dromi inside, and slid the door shut. "That tears it." He turned to his sisters. "You two are gonna crush these poor blokes hearts."
"Well, then that's their problem then isn't it. Wills got a call from his spy at The Sun, while we were at the manor." Rory smirked. "It seems that our Katarina is with Cedric now. He was so floored by that information that he gave him our first names, and told him that we're from a long lost royal family, which dates back to the age of Merlin. I think the reporter thought Wills was sloshed out of his gourd with grief."
"Cedric saw Kate standing on the platform and became entranced, like Wills was with you. He left Cho right there on the platform, howling mad at him, but I declawed her for now. I introduced them before the train started off, because it seemed that his staring at her was annoying Kate. I'm happy the two of them are hitting it off." Harry winked at Hermione.
"Serves her right for using dark magic on him," Hermione patted the spot next to her. "Come sit and look at this with me."
Dromi sat down in front of the trunk. "Is that his baby book?"
Harry sat down next to Hermione. "Yeah, with many other priceless family heirlooms, like your baby blankets are in there."
"Granddad did good this time." Dromi held quilts like Rory's in her arms, but hers were lavender and magenta in color.
"That he did big sister that he did." Harry grinned.
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Chapter four
The feast
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I do not claim any of JKR's characters only that I love being able to create my own kind of mischief with her beloved characters. I do not claim any other things that are owned by other companies that I may mention once and a while in the stories...Although the original characters and ideas are mine and I loved creating them. So please review if you wish but try not to flame me too badly.
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Cindra 2004-2008
