Chapter 6

The Date

by Cherokee Girl

Disclaimer JK still owns Harry and I still own nothing so there I admitted it Harry's not mine but I sure wish I had thought him up.

Authoresses Note Well you asked for it and drum roll please ..... here it is chapter six hope you like it and thanks for the nice reviews.

Friday morning dawned bright and beautiful. It was the perfect spring day warm and sunny with the smell of newly bloomed flowers wafting on the air. The distinct scent of heather and lavender hung in the sweet Scottish Highlands air.

I rolled out of bed my mind still reeling from the events of the night before. Harry had kissed me and we were going on a date tonight. Those two thoughts had been enough to fuel my imagination the night before. I had some of the weirdest dreams that night, Romantic dreams where Harry was my knight in shining armor taking me away from all my troubles to live happily ever after. And then there were dreams where we were married and absolutely hated each other. And then there was another dream where we were married and apparently got along very well considering I was at home with a houseful of children with messy black hair and emerald green eyes. Yeah I'd say we got along very well or my imagination was working overtime considering there was like twelve of them. I was reminded of the nursery rhyme about the old woman who lived in a shoe and had so many children she didn't know what to do.

I was abruptly pulled out of my reverie by Dierdre's rather loud attempt to rouse a sleeping Antigone, or should I say a pretending to be asleep Antigone.

"Come on Antigone" I said shaking my friends shoulder "come on I know your not asleep" I said getting annoyed with her she was going to make us late. "You couldn't be after having Dierdre jumping on your bed like that you'd have to be dead not to notice that and I can plainly see your still breathing" I said.

"Okay" she said grumpily "I'm not dead but I'm not going to classes today either I don't want to see HIM" she said

I knew who the HIM referred to it was Professor Snape she hated potions to start with. Not because she was bad at it on the contrary she was very good at it, And since she was much better at it than even Professor Snape's best Slytherin students he always gave her an unnecessarily hard time. She had never done anything to deserve many of the detentions she had received from him. It seemed he just enjoyed making her life miserable. So I could understand considering the circumstances why she wouldn't want to see him.

"Well" I said "You know you'll only be in more trouble if we're late so you may as well get up and get ready"I said trying to reason with my stubborn friend. "You don't want to miss breakfast and have to put up with him on an empty stomach", He might give you detention if he hears your stomach growling to loudly" I said teasingly.

"Okay Okay!" "You win." she mumbled and got dressed. While swearing about meddling friends daft ministry officials that make bloody stupid laws and then something about hating that greasy git.

I just giggled and gave Dierdre a knowing look we both knew what Antigone could be like when she was having one of her bad mood days. After we had each finished getting dressed we headed for the great hall.

Breakfast that morning was mercifully uneventful we made light conversation with several other first year girls. And spoke briefly to Ginny before heading to potions class.

Potions on the other hand was not really as eventful as it was just plain creepy. Snape was NICE to EVERYBODY even Dreama Dillow who managed to make almost every one of her potions explode. To say the very least everyone was a little weired out. He smiled he even laughed no one as far as I knew had ever heard him laugh. I started to ask Dierdre if it were possible that someone had made polyjuice potion and was impersonating him when class ended. And everybody rushed to the door leaving Dierdre Antigone and I as the last to leave. Just as we where about to walk out the door Snape put his hand on Antigone's shoulder and whispered I'll see you tomorrow night at eight and WINKED at her. Before smiling and waving as we walked off down the hall in a state of shocked silence.

"OH" I said.

"MY" said Antigone.

"GOD" said Dierdre.

"That was weird" I said.

"No that was creepy" said Antigone.

"Yeah but I wonder what Dumbledore did to him to make him act like that" I said.

"Must have him under the Imperious curse" said Dierdre with a laugh.

The rest of the day passed quickly and before I knew it it was three and classes had just ended. Dierdre Antigone and I quickly made our way back to the girls dorm so that they could help me get ready for my date. Finally after going through practically our entire wardrobe I decided on a pair of dressy black jeans with glitter on them and a rose colored peasant top, both borrowed from Antigone. And my mums pink pearl earrings. I borrowed a heart shaped rose quartz pendant on a silver chain from Dierdre, who had also done my make up and put my hair up into a stylish bun. I slipped on a pair of slippers and I was ready.

Just as I made my way down the stairs to wait in the common room for Harry the portrait hole opened and in stepped Harry. He was dressed in blue jeans and a burgundy shirt and his hair was once again tied back in a neat ponytail. I was shocked to see that he was carrying a dozen red roses.

"For you" he said as I finished making my way over to him

"You shouldn't have" I said.

"But I wanted to" he whispered "you do like them don't you" he asked.

"Oh yes their beautiful" I said "You didn't have to buy me anything but thank you anyways I love them".

"Well here let me put them in a vase for you" he said transfiguring an empty ink pot setting on one of the tables into a vase full of water placing them in it and setting the vase down on a end table beside one of the couches.

"You look very pretty this evening" he said "I like you hair it looks beautiful that way".

"Thank you" I whispered I knew I had to be blushing the deepest shade of red every eye in the common room was on us.

"So are you ready" he asked.

"Yeah I'm ready" I said "So where are we going anyways"?

"It's a surprise" he said smiling "I hope you like it." Then he took me by the hand and led me outside. When we had finally gotten a safe distance from the school he took two items out of his pocket, and enlarged them one was a cloak and the other was his old firebolt broom.

"You do like to fly" he said.

"Yeah I like it" I said.

"Good hop on" he said with a smile "Here you sit in front and hold this for a minute" he said handing me the cloak. "Oh and by the way it's an invisibility cloak we'll need it for when we fly into town" he said.

After we had both climbed onto the broom and got situated he pulled the inviability cloak around us and kicked off soon we were soaring over the countryside headed south towards London.

"You like" Harry whispered in my ear so that he could be heard over the rushing wind as we sped along I blushed as I felt his warm breath on my neck.

"Yeah it's I love the view of everything from up here it's really sorta peaceful" I said taking in the lovely view.

"Want to go faster" he asked.

"Sure why not" I said.

"Okay then hold on" he said as suddenly the broom picked up speed and we were climbing straight up higher and higher.

"Harry" I screeched starting to get a little scared.

"It's Okay don't worry I gotcha" he whispered holding me tighter. Suddenly he tipped the broom down and we were in a very fast dive Harry pulled out of the dive at the very last second before we crashed. I was still screaming from that little stunt when he did a series of corkscrew turns and loopty loops.

"Harry" I screamed "Please stop it I know your a professional Quidditch player and you know exactly what your doing but your scarring me to death not to mention all the acrobatics are making me queasy."

"Oh sorry he said I get carried away sometimes and forget not everybody likes the whole daredevil thing. "It's just that this is how I blow off stem I take my broom out and well fly like a madman I guess." he said with a hearty chuckle.

"It's Okay it's really kinda a thrill but as nervous as I already am tonight I'd prefer it if you didn't fly like a madman as you put it."

"Do you ant me to go slow" he asked

"No the speed doesn't bother me the dives and stuff are another story though".I said

"Okay I'll behave" he said and for the rest of the flight while we speed along at breakneck speed Harry didn't pull anymore stunts. Before long I noticed the lights of a very large city.

"Where here" he said as we started to descend into London. Harry brought the broom to a gentle landing on a dark street in a rundown neighborhood

"Where are we" I asked suddenly feeling rather uncomfortable.

"Here" Harry said handing me a slip of paper "read this not out loud but to yourself and then look up." Taking the piece of paper I read Number 12 Grimmuald Place London England to myself then looked up now where moments before had be nothing now stood an ancient looking building.

"Welcome home" Harry said "I know it's not much but I plan on fixing it up nicer soon now that I have a reason to."

"So this is your house" I asked as he led me inside.

"Well yeah I inherited it from my godfather Sirius it was his family's ancestorial home." he said shrugging. "Hence that thing over there he said pointing at the portrait of Sirius's mother just as she started screaming." "Hateful old bat isn't she" he said a frown playing across his lips "we've tried almost everything short of tearing down the wall to get her down but she used some strong black magic to keep that portrait from being taken down."

"That was your godfathers mother she was a dark witch." I asked incredulously.

"Yes most of Sirius's family were with the exception of Sirius his cousin Tonks and her mother." "The rest were pretty dark characters his brother Regulus and his other cousin Bellatrix were both death eaters". He said a eerie haunted look in his eyes his facial expression becoming hardened so unlike his usually kind expression "Sirius's mum actually disowned him for not becoming one". He said with a mirthless laugh.

"So what are we doing here" I asked.

"Well there has been a little change in plans we will be needing to get married sooner, since someone at the school told the Daily Prophet that we had been paired up together" Harry said his voice taking on a note of anger. "So they will be all over Hogwarts come tomorrow morning. His voice held a definite bit of dislike as he mention the reporters that would no doubt be all over Hogwarts tomorrow I vaguely understood Harry had suffered quite a bit of abuse by the press every since he had been a contestant in the Tri-Wizard Tournament but from the sound of his voice he really disliked the press what he said next though really made me angry with him the press and Professor Dumbledore. "Dumbledore thought that it would be best for you to just stay here until the wedding." He said a hint of nervousness creeping into his voice. I was speechless for several moments. I had to stay with him alone in his house was that even proper would he try anything did it really even matter if he did.

"But don't worry we're still going out this evening, and tomorrow we will go shopping for things for the wedding." Harry said starting to ramble a little in his nervousness. "And then Sunday I wanted to take you to meet some friends of mine, Don't worry they'll love you you already know Ginny the rest of the Weasley's are just as nice. Now he was blushing furiously and the last words came out almost as one word. "Then I thought we could get married next Saturday."

"Ah okay I guess it's alright I just hoped we'd have more time to talk and get to know each other" I said my mind spinning the whole time. "I really was hoping for a chance to talk to each other about some of the things we're going to have to talk about sooner or later" I was starting to feel angry and trapped again just thinking about the situation "We both know what the law says we're not going to just be getting married we're supposed to do more than that, and I want to know what I'm in for are you going to rush that too just to get it over with or are we going to wait awhile." I was starting to get hysterical. I knew it from the way my voice was becoming high pitched and by the way I was shaking from anger. "Please Harry it will be a lot easier for me to accept if I know what to expect" I said feeling the tears starting to sting my eyes. I was shaking in fear and anger why did everyone else get to decide my life for me. Harry had just stepped in and took over never really asking me what I thought.

"Sayward honey" he said pulling me into his arms "it's ok I won't push you for anything your not ready to give yet" he said while holding me closer. "It's ok if you want to talk about it we will but later I really wanted you to have some fun tonight" Then looking me in the eyes he whispered "I didn't mean to make you upset if you want to wait a little longer to get married we can I just want you to be safe and happy thats all really" he said smiling down at me". "So are you ready to have some fun" he asked brushing away a tear before gently kissing me on the lips

My mind was racing did he are we kissing and then oh my he is good at this and then but am I Harry silenced the dialog running through my mind when he gently deepened the kiss still being very careful not to seem too pushy. Harry let the kiss linger for a few more seconds before he pulled away looking me in the eyes.

"So" he asked his bright emerald green eyes boring into my blue ones "was that good for a first kiss or should I try again"

"It was amazing" I gushed out before I realized what I had just said I was blushing deeply when a smiling Harry took my hand and said

"We had better get going I have so much I want to show you". With that he took me by the hand again and led me out the back door there sitting in the drive way was a large black Harley Davidson motorcycle with the picture of a large black dog that looked a lot like a grim painted on it.

"My godfather's" he said pointing to it. "I had his picture painted onto it right after I found out I had inherited it".

"Your godfather" I said in confusion looking at the picture of the dog.

"Well yeah in his animagus form but yeah it's old Padfoot that was Sirius's nickname he was Padfoot my dad was Prongs Lupin is Moony and Pettigrew the man who betrayed my parents and framed Sirius was known as Wormtail" he said. "It was their nicknames they used for themselves after my dad, Sirius and Pettigrew learned to be animagi so that they could be with Lupin when he transformed into a werewolf." "Yeah my dad was a stag, Sirius was a dog, and Pettigrew was fittingly a rat".

"Here". he said as he helped me onto the bike "hold on tight" he said after he had helped me put on a helmet we rode through muggle London until we stopped at aquite restaurant where we had a nice dinner Harry being quite the gentleman opening doors for me and helping me into my chair. Dinner went smoothly enough with very few awkward pauses. With Harry asking me about myself and my friends and a few things about school I noticed that he shied away from asking me about my parents. Harry answered most any of my questions about himself his friends he told me about his job playing professional Quidditch and about some of the traveling he had done with the team I asked him if he thought he would miss it when he started teaching his answer was no that he was tired of all the traveling and it had done nothing to help get the press of his back a much as he liked playing Quidditch Harry hated being famous and as long as he was the star player on a professional team he would always be in the spotlight. Harry was actually excited to be going back to Hogwarts even if it was as a professor he said it had always been home to him and that he had missed it.

After Dinner Harry and I walked around the corner to what he told me was a muggle movie theater. I had heard about them but had never been to one and was giddy with excitement. Harry bought to tickets for a romantic comedy called Fifty First Dates. Harry bought us popcorn and drinks and I tried by first muggle soda Dr. Pepper not as good as a butterbeer but I was still addicted.

"So" he asked as the movie previewsstarted "Having fun?"

"Yeah this is so cool" I said as I watch the images play across the giant screen.

Harry laughed "Yeah I just went to see my first movie about a year ago I mean I knew all about them growing up with muggles but my aunt and uncle never took me when they took my cousin Dudley".

"Why did they never take you" I asked innocently never knowing the can of worms I was about to open.

"Because they hated me" Harry said I could here the hurt in his voice "Lets just say I didn't have a very happy childhood till I went to Hogwarts and then I had Voldemort after me the whole time."

"How could they have hated you Harry you were only a baby when you went to live with them" I asked

"They hated me because I'm a wizard" Harry said "My mum was a muggleborn her parents were thrilled when they found out she was a witch but her sister was livid she was always ashamed of my mother after that and considered her a stain on the family name." "When she married my father the rift between the sisters got wider then shortly after my parents were married my grandparents my mums parents that is died and they two stopped speaking altogether and then one morning about two years later my aunt finds me on her doorstep" Harry's voice had became soft and it sounded as though he was trying very hard not to cry.

"I'm sorry Harry" I whispered "I had no idea".

"It's ok" He said putting his arm around me "We came here to have a little fun and we're going to do just that so no more of my depressing life story we can talk about that tonight when we have our little talk".

"You were serious about that you weren't just trying to get me to shut up earlier?" I asked.

"I was serious he said I know we have things we need to discuss and there are things we need to know about each other I promise not to treat you as though you don't have a say in this the way I see it if the Ministry wants to consider you an adult and they must since they want to marry you off then if you have to deal with all the responsibility of being an adult then you deserve all the rights that come with it besides a marriage is supposed to be fifty fifty and while I will try my best to protect you and make things as easy on you as I can I won't patronize you".

"Thank you Harry" I whispered "You don't know how much that means to me".

"Your very welcome but we need to shut up now the movie previews are over and the movie is about to start". He said giving my hand a squeeze.

Harry and I sat in silence for the rest of the movie he with one arm around my shoulder and the other holding my hand. When the movie was over we spent some time in the arcade in the lobby Harry and I laughing hysterically as we each tried to play the muggle video games and found that while we may have been able to fly a broom neither one of us would have made a very good race car driver and while Harry was deadly with a wand he wasn't much good with a muggle gun.

When we finally decided it was time to go home Harry held my hand as we left the theater and walked back to the his motorcycle after helping me back onto it

He asked. "Would you like to see a little of the city before we call it a night".

"I'd love to I" answered as he fired up the Harley.

"Hold on then" he said as the motorcycle lifted into the air.

"It's enchanted" I squealed as we rose higher and higher into the air.

"Yup" said Harry "Sirius had it enchanted to fly while being invisible years ago."

After admiring the city skyline at night from our vantage point sitting on and enchanted flying motorbike we finally flew back home.

NOTE

Well thats chapter six and I want to thank all my great reviewers I tried to the best of my ability and I suck at punctuation to fix the format problems Also some people were put off by the whole age difference thing and I'll say again I do Not advocate those types of relationships but geez this is Fiction and everybody's all thats not right but this sort of thing happens everyday in India some parts of Africa, Saudi Arabia and many Arab countries and it's happening to REAL people not fictional characters and I don't see anyone pitching a fit over it besides I read a lot of fanfiction and my story is mild compared to some I've read I mean we have Harry/Snape fics Snape/Hermione Snape/Ginny Sirius/Harry or Hermione or Ginny Remus/Harry or Hermione or Ginny and I've even read a Dumbledore/Hermione and Yikes that almost gave me nightmares . So please I realize the relationships are way taboo but it's just a story you'll see and here stranger on Jerry Springer Anywho I got the idea after reading a book called Princess by Jean P. Sasson it was the story of the real life abuses and human rights violations that real Saudi Arabian women go through everyday and forced marriages at young ages is just the tip of the iceberg it was so sad in parts that I cried and even felt guilty to have been born in such a wonderful country so please give it a read it's a real eye opener as for my story you never know what plot twist I may throw in I believe on of my reviewers said the Ministry really screwed the dog this time and Yep your right and by that I manly mean Fudge is about to get whats been coming to him for along time and who do you think I should make the new Minister of Magic Author Weasley or heres a novel idea how about a woman maybe Mc Gonagall or how about Hermione we all know she's smart enough for it and she has a political side remember S.P.E.W.