H P Boy who lives Year 7- Summer
Chapter12
Celebration
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Draco, Hermione, Ginny, Harry, and Wills all finally make it to the celebration, but what is in-store for them when they get there...read on to find out.
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Harry squeezed his eyes shut, as he continued to go down an unwanted path of his memories. It was as if Voldemort's phantom memories still echoed in his mind. He was going down the same path the Dark Lord had taken all those years ago. He tried to focus on what was going on around him.
"I don't really care that much as long as I get to be around them like this for a while." His voice was hoarse with emotion, because of the memory flashes and that his parents were around him now. He buried his face in Hermione's hair, so as not to let anyone see that he was near tears.
"Harry it's okay for you to be happy about your parents being with you again." She reached up and stroked his cheek.
Sirius was now perched behind the two of them and was leaning over to look at Harry. "I don't think this is a good idea. He's on overload as it is."
That got James and Lily's full attention. "Is he crying?"
Sirius got a little closer. "Not yet though it's awful close. I think that watching the two of you is doing him in."
"He hasn't interacted with them for sixteen years exactly what did you expect?" Hermione was in lioness mode now. "Back the hell off Uncle Sirius or I will hex you!" She growled.
"Easy there lioness I'm just checking on him." Sirius backed away.
"That's the same look that she gave Snape before she hexed him." Ginny whispered into Draco's ear.
"So that's why he called her that. Yeah, it does fit." Draco agreed.
"Is he all right Hermione?" James frowned.
"I think he's just overwhelmed. None of us thought about what going down this road at night with flashing fireworks overhead was going to do to him. I'm warning every one of you, if someone so much as makes him upset, I am going to hex them into the next century." Hermione growled.
"Down girl all of us will protect him." James eyed her warily.
"There was no invite list, so there are sure to be ingrates like Delores and Cornelius." Lily growled. "I would like to hex those two into the next century and back for everything that they did to them."
"Draco aren't you glad that you're on their side now?" Sirius arched a brow at his nephew.
"Oh yeah," Draco nodded. "I've been on the firing end of her right hook."
Harry looked up at them his eyes looked pained. "Not even dust in the wind and yet he still haunts me. I can see the path he took that night. I know that his plans were far more extensive than anyone thought. He was going to kill anyone in a five-mile radius and Wormtail was waiting at the gates of Lazy Meadows to begin...I took the long way to the pitch this morning. I didn't think I could handle stepping where our house used to stand."
"Oh honey, we didn't think about that..." Lily bit down on her lip.
"I think it will be better this way full of life and fun again." James mused.
"Look at it this way Harry. The snake is dead and can never rise again. Just shove him out of your mind, like how I'm shoving my dark side away." Draco tried to help.
"You know what Draco you're right! The snake is dead its just going to take a while to exorcise him from my mind. Thanks for the support it helps a lot." Harry calmed his mind and forced himself to think positive.
"Hey, that's what friends are for." Draco grinned.
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"All right everyone we're here." Hagrid stopped the carriage in front of the biggest celebration that any of them had ever seen. He turned to look at Harry. "All right there, Harry?"
"Yeah Hagrid, I'll be fine." Harry managed a weak grin. "I think this tops the Quidditch World Cup during fourth year."
Enormous tents were set up everywhere, to a muggle it would look like a circus was in town. There were wizards and witches of all ages happily having the time of their lives. They could hear both Muggle music coming from one massive tent and the Weird Sisters were set up in another. The smell of food was everywhere.
"Oh this is only the first day. Now that the dark days are gone this is only the beginning of the celebrating." Hagrid grinned.
"I have never seen anything like this ever." Draco was awed by the site before them.
"This is truly going to be an amazing experience." Ginny couldn't wait to check everything out.
Harry eyed the scene with wary eyes. "I brought the invisibility cloak with me and I think I just may use it." He spotted Cho and her gaggle of friends not very far from the carriage.
"Is that Cho Chang?" Draco looked in the same direction.
"WHERE!?" Hermione looked around at the crowd. "She had better not go near Harry!"
"Hey look everyone its Harry!" Cho had spotted who was in the arriving carriage.
Any girl within shouting distance came running up beside her.
"It's him, but he's with Granger." Cho growled. "Let's go see him!"
The mob of girls rushed the carriage.
"Not to worry I'll handle this you just sit here." Hermione stood up in the carriage, she had Harry's wand in her hand, and it was pointing at the mob of girls. Sonorus She thought of the spell in her mind and the wand was set to amplify her voice. "Listen up all of you!! Harry James Potter is mine, so back the hell away from this carriage! I can and will make the hex that I used on Cho's stooge friend Marietta look like child's play! I'll add donkey ears and a tail to the hex!!"
"That's big talk coming from someone who only wants Harry because Ron is dead! You don't care about him at all he's just second choice!" Cho shouted back in a haughty tone of voice.
"Hermione Anne don't you dare." Harry hissed.
"But Harry..!" Hermione pouted.
"I mean it Hermione. She isn't even worth hexing and you would be lowering yourself to her level." Harry growled his voice could be heard throughout the crowd.
"Cho you leave them alone! Ron and Luna liked each other! Everyone with eyes could see that! Just as everyone who knows Harry and Hermione could see there was something between them. Why else do you think that he wouldn't warm up to you fifth year." Neville's voice rang through the air. "I believe that you were on the rebound from Cedric and were only using him anyway, so button it!"
"Neville!!" Harry and Ginny grinned.
"Thanks Neville, but I can handle this bitch myself!" Hermione smiled at him for a moment then zeroed back in on Cho. "Harry James has been betrothed to me since we were toddlers! He is mine!!" Hermione found herself kissed by Harry.
"You see a guy can only hear the words mine so many times before they have to act on instinct." James grinned. "Yep that's my boy right there kissing her in front of god and everyone."
Flashbulbs were going off during their kiss. Bozo The Daily Prophet photographer was taking shot after shot of them.
Wills stood up, took the wand that Hermione had dropped, and brought it up to his mouth. "Is this thing still on? Good now here is what is going to happen. My cousin and my cousin of sorts are going to be left alone! Because I'm the future king of this country I believe that my wish is law. This is my first Wizarding celebration and I am damn well going to enjoy it without getting mobbed by you girls and I'm taken so your out two princes!"
"Prince William." The girls all sighed.
Hermione heard that and broke off the kiss. "He is so off-limits so don't even try it!"
"The hell with this! Quietus!" Harry took back his wand pointed it at the crowd. "Neville I would either get up with Hagrid or move out-of-the-way. I am about to do some crowd control."
Neville knew what that meant and climbed up into the carriage. "I love it when you use him."
"Him?" Sirius, James, and Lily all looked at Neville.
"Oh wow you got your parents and Sirius back!" Neville beamed.
"Yeah, it just happened tonight. The blonde sitting with Ginny is Uncle Sirius's nephew Draco Sirius Black. I had to take care of his darker half." Harry grinned at Draco who grinned back.
"Oh he did that in spades and I just want to say that I was an ass and I am sorry for everything that I did to you for the past 6 years." Draco stood up next to Harry and the Crowd went silent. He took out his wand and thought. "Sonorus." He looked at everyone. "Listen up because I'm only going to do this once. My name is Draco Sirius Black. Draco Lucius Malfoy is dead and so is all the darkness and evil that went with the family name. Harry and I are now friends and if any of Slytherin has a problem with that..." Someone threw a tomato at him and Ginny stood up to protect her man.
Draco was interrupted by Harry who deflected the vegetable. "They can answer to me! Many of you know what happened to Lord Voldemort and what just the touch of my blood will do to a Dark Wizard. That this scar on my forehead can detect one at twenty paces! Draco shook my hand while it was bleeding and he does not have a single mark on his skin! He is a Black now, the Malfoy line is dead, and so is the war that went with it! This ring!" He held up his right hand for all to see the glowing ring on his right ring finger. "My birthright will help me make certain there is never going to be another Voldemort for centuries or ever if I have my say on it! I can and will weed out any of you that are Dark Wizards in hiding! You will be caught and you will go to Azkaban! This is the prophecy right here before your very eyes! The four of us united as one and no one is going to bring the dark times back!"
The crowd went wild with applause and shouts of long live the peaceful times.
Albus Dumbledore was clapping the loudest. "Well done Harry! Well done indeed!"
Tonks, Kingsley, and Moody were standing guard beside the carriage. The DA was trying to clear a path for them but it wasn't working.
"Expecto Patronum!!" Harry sent his patronus stag to do a little crowd control and they parted like the Red Sea. "That's much better. Shall we go enjoy the celebration?" Harry jumped down off the carriage, as did the other three boys. "I've got you love." He helped her down out of the carriage.
Ginny jumped into Draco's arms and kissed him. "Let's go have some fun!"
He swung her around in his arms. "I think I can handle that."
"Let's go check out this excellent party." Wills grinned.
"What do ya say angel ready to have some fun?" Harry kissed her on the nose, took her hand, and off they went.
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The problem with Harry's plan was that everyone wanted to shake hands and meet the new HBP. He shook hands, waved, accepted too many gifts to count that were piled behind him, and then smiled until he thought his face was going to crack, and his arm would fall off his body. There were so many names of important council members and various heads of the Wizarding World that Harry's mind went numb. If someone got too close for too long they were met with the glares from his parents, Remus, Sirius, Moody, Tonks, Kings, and Hermione.
Everyone was so happy that Harry didn't have the heart to just ignore them. There was the occasional Dark Wizard that he could detect with his scar and at last count fifty had been hauled away by Aurors.
He was so close to the massive food tent the aroma coming from it was making his mouth water and his stomach growl. "Hermione I'm starving." He hissed into her ear. "It bites that we got stuck with this and the others ditched us to have fun."
"So am I." Hermione hissed back.
"James do something the kids are wasting away!" Lily glared at her husband.
"Okay that's it break time everyone my son and my goddaughter need something to eat." James stood in front of them and glared at the crowd. "No hang that! This is over! These two have more than earned some down time. Buy a souvenir at the Weasley Twins tent! The official meet and greet is over!"
"Harry and Hermione need to be left alone for awhile so beat it!" Neville having completely come out of his shell was ready to hex someone with his wand. "I'm legal and I will use this!" He had lost all the baby fat and was quite the looker now.
Lavender Brown was near him and sighed. "I didn't know that Neville was like that."
"Lavender did you know that Neville took a curse that was meant for Harry and that's why he was taken to St. Mungo's" Hermione was playing matchmaker.
"I was with Ginny in the common room. I didn't know that." Lavender gave Neville an adoring look.
Harry was elbowed by Hermione. "That's right. Neville saved me from a nasty curse." Harry nodded.
"Yeah, well, it wasn't that big of a deal." Neville blushed he secretly liked Lavender. "And I just got out of St. Mungo's this morning. Harry I have to tell you that my parents are getting better. They gave them this new medicine and its correcting what Bellatrix did to their minds."
"Uh that's great Neville...they didn't give it to Lockhart did they?" Harry frowned.
"No for some reason whatever was wrong with Ron's wand really messed him up good. Uh Lavender would you like to go out with me sometime?" Neville sucked it up and asked her out.
Lavender nodded shyly trying not to giggle. "I haven't gone into the feast tent. Would you like to come with me?"
"Sure would." Neville took her hand in his and they were off.
Hermione went from content and happy to lioness mode in seconds. She had spotted Delores Umbridge in the line. "Why that evil witch actually dared to show up here!" She pulled out her wand and pointed it at her. "Petrificus Totalus!" She shot the spell at her just as the wicked witch was trying to flee. "Oh no you don't!"
"Hermione what the hell!?" Harry then noticed who she hit and fury like nothing he had felt since seeing Ron die poured through his veins. "Thanks angel that saves me having to hunt her down in this crowd. I was hoping that she would show her ugly toad face." He stalked over to where the crowd was gathered around old toad lady. "First I have to be fair." He unsheathed his sword, placed his hand around it, slicing deep into his palm.
"James do something!" Lily saw what he had just done.
"Quiet Lily, that's Delores Umbridge!" James snarled.
"If anyone deserves the mark it's that bitch!" Sirius snarled.
He now had the blood that he needed to see if he was right.
"Hermione end the spell please." He looked over at her.
"But you're really, really bleeding!" Hermione saw how deep the cut was.
"Just do it!"
"Finite Incantatem," Hermione ended the spell.
"You've done it now little miss know it all! You're underage!" Delores shrieked in her little girl voice.
"SILENCE!!" Albus was now standing next to Harry.
"Dumbledore she attacked me!!" Delores continued to play all innocent.
"I'm going to do more than that if what I think is true!" Harry stood next to her and shook his bleeding hand causing blood to splatter right onto her toad like face. It burned her like acid. Tiny little lightning bolt shaped brands appeared all over her skin. "I guess my blood really can leave my mark on something evil."
Delores screeched in agony, she covered her face in her hands, and fell to her knees. "I should have killed you when I had the chance! The Dementors should have killed you! My master should have killed you that day at the Ministry of Magic! We were in power and were not about to let that power go not for anyone! You ruined everything!!"
"Give me one reason I shouldn't say it!" He had his wand pointed at her forehead. "You tried to use Crucio on me during my fifth year! You banned me from playing Quidditch for no goddamn reason! You made me write with that detention quill!! I will not tell lies until my hand was bleeding so badly that I wanted to scream! I still have the words permanently etched into the top of my right hand!! You nearly got Hermione and me killed! I wish the centaurs had killed you that night, but then who could stand the stench of your pathetic body!!" He grabbed hold of her arm until it was sizzling and then released it when someone roared at him from the crowd.
"ALBUS YOU WILL LEASH YOUR NEPHEW AT ONCE!!" Cornelius Fudge former Minister of Magic stepped out of the crowd his face purple with fury.
"No Cornelius. I don't think I will. You see Delores just confessed something very interesting. She said we were in power. That would mean that you and Delores were both working for Voldemort." Albus was flanked by some of the Order and they all had their wands out and pointed at him.
"My father had Fudge on his payroll!! You bet your wand he worked for the Dark Lord!!" Draco and Ginny arrived. "Holy hell what the hell did he do to his hand! Hey we need a Healer over here!! His highness is bleeding a lot!!"
"I'm fine Draco." Harry still had his wand pointed at Delores. "START TALKING FUDGE OR I WILL DO IT!"
"You don't have the nerve to do that in front of the whole Council of Wizards!" Fudge wasn't about to talk.
"YOU TRIED TO SEND ME TO AZKABAN FIFTH YEAR BECAUSE YOU SENT DEMENTORS AFTER DUDLEY AND ME! SO YES I WOULD!! NOW START TALKING!!" Harry was no longer in control he was in HBP mode and his job was to rid the world of Dark Wizards.
"Harry is the Half-Blood Prince and has precedence over the council as you very well know Cornelius. Although as you were constantly begging me for this and that during your term as Minister of Magic I might very well be wrong. Let me refresh your memory. The Half-Blood Prince is our equivalent of the royal line of Windsor. If he chooses to use the unforgiving curse on Dolores, who has confessed to everyone including the Wizarding council that she tried to kill him many times, then that is his right to do so. Now if it turns out that you are also a Dark Wizard in disguise, then the same fate very well could happen to you. So I would strongly advice you to start as the muggles say spilling the beans." Albus was now acting as head of the Ministry.
"You had your chance Fudge!" Harry instead of cursing Delores placed his hand back on her arm. "Please continue to stay silent. First the arm goes, then the rest of the body, until there is nothing left not even dust! I have to warn you though if she's really evil. I mean really evil. This will go very quickly."
"NO!! IT HURTS MAKE HIM STOP!!" Delores no longer had an arm it had turned to dust. She was in fact Voldemort level evil and there was no way that he could have stopped it. "NO!!"
"Voldemort took longer than this, but then his minion Professor Quirrell took less. He was oozing with evil and that happened in my first year." Harry did not stop until she was not even dust anymore. "Now this leaves me to one conclusion since she was under you that you must be much worse than that thing was." He took a step closer to Fudge, who was being held by Neville and Draco.
"Merlin's beard! He has the touch just like Godric Gryffindor was said to have!" One of the council members was awed by the sight.
"Well he is his many-great-grandson." Albus informed him.
"My word then James was also..."
"I was the HBP, but I didn't advertise it." James was awestruck at the power that his son possessed just with his bleeding hand.
"James he doesn't even sound like Harry." Lily clung to his arm.
"You've never heard our son extremely pissed off."
Harry reached up and placed his hand to Fudge's face. "I would really start talking if I were you." It burned his mark into his skin.
"I'll talk!! Just stop touching me!" Fudge snarled.
"You knew that Sirius was innocent the whole time! You used that as an excuse so you could send the Dementors everywhere! You planned to kill Sirius, because you thought he could point you out, and Harry was just icing on the cake! It was all nothing but you scoring brownie points with Voldemort!" Hermione had her wand pointed at him. "You are an evil, evil man!"
"Be quiet you!! I am loyal to only one person and that is ME! The Dark Lord helped me get where I was and I was not about to let all of that fall apart! When he returned I knew that he was going to want to take control, so I made a deal with him. I would destroy 'The Boy Who Lived', if he let me stay Minister of Magic. I would make Potter look like he was a liar! Make everyone think that Potter was insane! It nearly worked, but Potter and his Damned Army had to ruin it all!! Showed up at the Ministry and so did the Dark Lord and I was ruined." Fudge glared murderously at Harry and Hermione. "My Dementors should have finished you both off third year!"
"AVADA!!" Hermione was beyond furious.
Harry reached over with his injured hand and took her wand away. "No! He's not worth that!! You don't know what it does to you to use that curse and you are not going to find out." He turned to Fudge. "Well Fudge you just pleaded guilty in front of god and everyone. I would say that there's a nice cell waiting for you. It's my Uncle Sirius's old cell in Azkaban!" Harry lowered his wand. "Get him out of my sight..." His vision was blurring and he was light-headed.
"I could really use that Healer now..." He was holding onto Hermione for support.
"Harry!" Draco raced over and caught him before he hit the ground.
:Well done young master. Now you are going to sleep for a while.: Leo growled in his mind.
Healers converged on the scene and they took Harry into Albus' of the private tents.
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Harry awoke in a conjured bed inside the tent. "That was stupid. I could have bled to death or something bad like that." He groaned. "My head feels like someone hit me over the head with something." Hermione was curled up next to him. "Now waking up with her in my arms is my kind of medicine."
Hermione sat up and looked down at him. "You had to have a potion to replenish the blood that you lost. They repaired your hand and sealed the wound. You were lucky that Leo prevented major damage to your hand. The Healers all surmised that because you should have lost more blood than you had, that Leo was doing something to heal you."
"He told me well done and that I was going to sleep and that was the last thing that I remember." He cuddled her against him. "Where is everyone?"
"Outside enjoying the celebration...Aunt Molly had just arrived in time to see you pass out, and fainted in Uncle Arthur's arms. Then when they told everyone that you would be fine and that you needed rest the others all went off to explore the celebration. Your parents are still pacing outside the tent." Hermione's stomach growled.
Harry's stomach growled. "Well help me up so we can go check out the feast tent." Harry was starving.
"How are we going to do that when you are supposed to be in here for the next hour resting?" Hermione frowned.
"I have the invisibility cloak my love and with that anything is possible." He sat up in bed happy to see that he was still dressed and even happier to see the sword was no longer there.
"Your uncle took the sword while they were treating you." Hermione helped him up to his feet. "Are you sure about this?"
He took out the cloak and grinned. "I wish the map could be used anywhere it could really come in handy right now."
"Look I have a better idea you just stay here and rest and I will go get our food. That way your father doesn't ground you for life. You should have seen him he was going mental." Hermione came to her senses.
"Or we can just bring the party to the two of you." Wills, Draco, and Ginny came into the tent with trays loaded with food.
"Feed me." Harry whimpered.
"Uncle James and Aunt Lily sent us to get you some food." Ginny grinned.
"There really is no hurry. This thing is going to last for days." Draco grinned. "I saw them setting up a camping area in the clearing not far from the pitch.
"I had this fascinating conversation with an architect that's of both worlds. He says that he specializes in Muggle/Wizard manors and he would be honored to design your future home. I thought you would like that, so he's going to start on some designs." Wills helped him back to the bed. "I'll take this. You don't want grounded for life do you?" He took the invisibility cloak.
"Really? That's great Wills." Hermione got back in bed next to Harry.
"I'll go tell the others that you're feeling better." He put on the cloak. "Then I'll enjoy this place in peace." He vanished.
"I just knew that he was gonna do that eventually." Harry piled pillows behind them, so they could sit up to eat.
"You should see the trail of girls that have been hounding him." Ginny sat down on one edge of the bed and Draco sat own on the other.
"Marry me your highness..." Draco chuckled. "Trust us Wills needs that cloak."
"I don't have that problem. No one would dare go against my lioness." Harry grinned.
"Not when she almost cast the unforgivable curse on Fudge." Draco still couldn't believe that she almost did it.
"That slime deserves it." Ginny growled.
"He's going to Azkaban for life. Let's just enjoy the fact that peace can settle over our world and we can finally relax and maybe have fun for once." Hermione smiled.
"There's a singing tent with Muggle music. That might be fun to try." Ginny suggested.
"Let me finish eating first and then we'll decide what to check out. That's if my wardens let me out of here." Harry sighed in defeat.
"Only if the Healer says you can go." James came in to check on them.
"Dad I feel fine." Harry pouted.
"Sorry kiddo, but I'm immune to that look. You're staying put." James chuckled when he gave him an even more pathetic look. "Finish your dinner and then we shall see."
"Thanks Dad." Harry went back to eating.
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Chapter 13
Karaoke
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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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