H P Boy who lives Year 7- Summer
Chapter 13
Karaoke
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They get to have a little fun...
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Harry felt fine, but that didn't mean anything to the dozen or so Healers that gathered in discussion about if he was to be allowed anymore freedom that night.
He could hear all the fun going on outside and felt guilty that he and Hermione were missing it. "Look I feel fine. You fixed my hand, which was the only thing that was really wrong with me. So can we please go have some fun now?"
Healer Genevieve Rona walked over and looked down at her patient. "Harry your energy was low; you lost an excessive amount of blood, it's better for you to stay in here and rest." Then she looked over at Hermione. "You young lady forgot what was going to happen if you didn't take the second potion that Severus gave you. If Harry hadn't fallen unconscious from loss of blood then you would have been the one lying in this bed in pain."
"I took the potion and I feel fine and so does Harry now please let us out." Hermione pouted.
"Look you're all being overprotective of me and the reason I had no energy is that I'd only eaten one sandwich all-day and was starving!" Harry was on the verge of losing his temper. "I'm not going to lie in this bed while everyone else is outside having fun! It's not going to happen!! We are going to leave this..." He stopped in midrant Remus, Albus, Minerva, Lily, and James entered the room.
"I DON'T CARE! I DON'T CARE IF YOU GROUND ME! I'M GONNA HAVE FUN OUT THERE WITH HERMIONE WHETHER YOU GIVE ME PERMISSION OR NOT!! WAIT A MINUTE I'M SEVENTEEN! I DON'T NEED YOUR BLOODY PERMISSION ANYMORE DO I!!" He was throwing a royal snit, it caused the fire in the lanterns to go out, and then shatter throwing them all into darkness. That's when Harry took out his wand, said a silent prayer that his plan would work, gathered Hermione close to him, and disapparated with her out of the tent.
A dozen wizards shouted Lumos, but it was too late they were gone.
"I say Albus. He really is a powerful young man. He disapparated with her in his arms and he's not even up-to-par yet." Rona was impressed. "If he can do that then he doesn't need to stay in bed."
"Aunt Minerva? Do you think that you can come up with a challenge for Harry this year?" Lily arched a brow at her aunt.
"Last year he scored high marks in every class, because he finally put his nose to the grindstone. This year I was thinking of challenging the three of them to try their hands at becoming animagus. If he could conjure a corporeal patronus at thirteen then he should more than be able to complete this assignment." Minerva had a plan about how she was going to keep them all busy.
"James you were an animagus before fifth year, but you never could get that patronus down not to the extent of Harry's until seventh year." Remus smirked.
James casually adjusted his spectacles with his middle finger, "I'm not the subject here Moony."
Lily socked him in the gut. "You really are an ass aren't you James. You can do that to anyone else, but if Harry flashes that middle finger at you then there's hell to pay!"
James bent over in pain, but said nothing.
"You okay there Prongs? Remember when she did that to you sixth year? No that wasn't the location of the punch now was it…She broke your specs and gave you two black eyes just for trying to put a move on her." Remus chuckled. "Welcome back Lil's maybe you can keep both your boys in line."
James glared a Remus.
"Oh yes that day when he grabbed me in the corridor and kissed me. Well I didn't mind the kiss that much it was his hands that got him into a fix." Lily grinned. "Thanks Moony it's good to be back."
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Harry and Hermione appeared in the courtyard of Lazy Meadows.
"Wow Harry that was amazingly powerful magic!" Hermione hugged him.
"I wasn't so sure it would work." Harry looked around at their location and grinned. "It's time to go muggle my love."
"Go muggle?" Hermione frowned.
"Yeah, we change out of the official clothing and into something more us." Harry had a brilliant idea they would change into their matching outfits that although were in theme with Gryffindor were nowhere near what anyone would expect to see them in.
"That's brilliant Harry!" She kissed him. "Mum and Dad are in London for the 90th birthday party for one of the family. The tweebs are off at camp for two weeks. Mattie is off taking a holiday herself. Uncle Remus is our adult supervision, so we're pretty much free at the moment."
"So that's where everyone went." Harry took her hand and they raced into the main house.
Harry got dressed in record time, one of his Gryffindor t-shirts, jeans, his leather jacket that went with the theme of his house, and Nikes. He was just getting his other contact lens in when Hermione still fully clothed stomped into the bathroom. "Angel why aren't you ready yet?" He blinked at her a few times before the contact set into place.
"I can't get out of this thing!" She snarled. "This dress has an old fashioned lace up corset and I can't reach the ties to untie it!"
Harry now knew the problem and he winced at the thought of her having to wear something like that. "So they've got you in some sort of female straitjacket?" He arched a brow at her.
"Something like that now please help figure a way to get this thing off!" She turned around so her back was toward him.
Harry could see the problem. "Can you even breathe in this thing?"
"Well you can but it isn't easy." Hermione stood patiently waiting for him to untie the corset.
Harry worked for five minutes on one knot, but finally it loosened, and the decorative corset was loose enough for her to manage it herself. "All set there angel." He had his eyes closed when she turned to kiss him on the cheek.
"You are such a prince!" She raced back out of the room to go change.
"Master Harry... Kreacher wishes to go to festival." He appeared behind him.
"Kreacher you're free now, so sure go enjoy the festival." Harry walked into the closet to get his coin pouch. "Here ya go have some fun with that." He gave Kreacher 25 galleons.
"Oh master this is much too much for me." Kreacher went to hand it back to him.
"Consider that back pay, now go have fun." Harry grinned.
"Kreacher will Master Harry!" He vanished.
Harry put his coin pouch into his jacket pocket and went to go check on Hermione. She was leaving her room dressed similar to what he was wearing and had her hair up in a genie style ponytail. "Mine all mine." He growled under his breath. "So you, uh, ready there angel?"
"All set, so Harry how are we going to get back? Are we going to walk?" Hermione frowned.
"I said we were going Muggle and I meant it." He headed down the stairs until he was standing next to the key holder that contained several sets of keys. "We're going to take the Landrover." He grabbed the keys off the hook.
"And where exactly are we going to park without being seen?"
"It's a Landrover it can go anywhere, besides it's my land I can park where I want to." He grinned and put on his shades.
"Its night you don't need those."
"It's called a disguise." He headed out the front door.
She put hers on as well. "If you say so, but I still think we're going to get caught."
"Trust me angel we're going to blend in with the muggles just fine." Harry hit the button on the key chain and the door to one of the garage doors opened revealing the SUV. The two of them got in and they headed back to the celebration.
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They parked a little ways away from the celebration right behind the statue of his parents.
Harry got out and shut the door, two pieces of gold glinted at him in the moonlight.
"Hang on what's this?" He bent down and picked up two rings. He stared down at them in his hand. It was his parents wedding rings two simple gold Claddagh rings one with a ruby for its center the other with a citrine.
"Harry what is it?" Hermione walked over to the other side of the SUV to see what was keeping him. "Oh those look like..."
"My parents wedding rings...This is where the house used to be." Harry clenched the rings in his fist. "We're standing where the nursery must have been." He blinked back tears.
"Harry, everything that you have ever gotten of theirs was given to you by someone...this time you found something that has more value than any photo, or even the cloak." She placed her hand over his. "These are Claddagh rings they represent the promise of love, loyalty, and friendship for all eternity."
Harry uncurled his fist and looked down at the rings. "Give me your hand." He growled hoarsely.
Hermione held up her hand to him and he placed the ring with the ruby on her finger. "Oh Harry, it's beautiful." She looked down at the ring sparkling on her left hand. She took the ring other ring from his hand. "Now you give me yours."
Harry held out his left hand and she place the other ring on it. "Now it's official we belong to each other." They kissed.
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Draco and Ginny were sent to look for them by the statue and spotted the SUV beside it.
"You don't think they ended at Lazy Meadows do you?" Draco thought the car looked very familiar.
"Why would they do that?" Ginny looked around and spotted two teenagers snogging against the SUV. "Oh this place must be where the teens go to snog." She gave the two of them privacy.
"Snog?" Draco eyed the two teens and smirked, "Those two aren't going anywhere any time soon."
"We could ask if they saw Harry and Hermione." Ginny bit down on her lip.
"Red, those two have probably been here for awhile and don't even know about the Celebration that's just a stones throw from them." Draco took her hand in his and they went searching elsewhere.
Harry and Hermione broke off their kiss and smothered their laughter, so Draco and Ginny couldn't hear them. "See I told you this was gonna work." He grinned.
"Well the real test is walking around the celebration, so let's go." She took his hand in hers and they snuck back into the throng of muggle and wizarding folk.
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"Excuse me, have the two of you seen these two teenagers?" Kingsley held up a photo of Harry and Hermione in their royal clothes. They were smiling at them looking really happy.
Harry tried to keep a straight face as he spoke. "No Governor haven't seen them. Why are they missing?"
"In a matter of speaking yes they are. You see wizards can vanish using magic and these two tried something usually not possible for their age. They vanished together using the same wand." Kingsley explained.
"Really and that's why you're like searching for them because they like did a dangerous spell or something?" Hermione was in full ditzy teenage mode.
"This one," He pointed to Harry in the photo. "Is the Half-Blood Prince," He pointed to Hermione in the photo. "This is his Princess Consort and they are sort of AWOL with their family."
"AWOL? I bet they're gonna get it when their family finds them." Harry whistled under his breath.
"Can you imagine how boring that would be? All this and not be able to have any fun?" Hermione rolled her eyes at Harry.
"No Annie I can't. Sorry hope ya find them." Harry winked at Hermione.
"Let's go check out the singing tent Jamie!" She had a wicked gleam in her eyes and started to pull him away from Kingsley. "Hope you find them!"
Fred and George were staring intently in their direction.
Harry had to think fast so he really went all-out in trying to be muggle. "Blimey Annie ya know I hate ta bloody sing in public!" Harry whined in an accent that was so not his own it was thick and welsh.
"You promised me Jamie!" Hermione's accent was similar to his.
"All right doll-face you win, but I ain't bloomin singin'!" He was dragged away.
Fred and George walked up to Kingsley. "I thought you were supposed to be looking for the kiddies?"
"I am looking for Harry and Hermione." Kingsley growled.
"Well chatting with two teenage muggles isn't lookin in my book." George frowned.
"Look boys the way to find someone is to show a photo to people that might have seen them. Now if you will excuse me I have to go find the kiddies as you put it." He stalked off.
Fred and George looked down at their feet. "Hey now what's he doing here?" Fred frowned
Crooks was carrying Isis in his mouth and was heading towards where Harry and Hermione had gone.
"Ya don't think that Annie and Jamie were them do ya?" George arched a brow at his twin.
"Well desperate times call for desperate measures?" Fred grinned.
"Wills must have his invisibility cloak and they chose another kind of disguise." George nodded.
"They just fooled Kingsley. I think they might just make decent Aurors." Fred chuckled.
"Let's just let them have some fun." George and Fred headed back to their tent to sell some more of their goods.
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Harry and Hermione ducked into the massive singing tent where someone was singing I will survive badly off-key. They had it set up like a café there were tables to sit, have a bite to eat, and areas where one could watch in private.
"Hi there welcome. Here's a list of songs that we have for you to sing." Franc seemed to be running the tent. He wasn't paying attention to whom they were, so for now they were safe. "If you wish to watch that's fine, but there's a minimum of one song per person if you wish for something to drink or eat."
They took the menu from him hightailing it to the darkest corner of the tent.
Crookshanks wandered in and headed straight for them.
Hermione bit down on her lip, as he stopped in front of them. "Shame on you naughty cat, she's a baby she could get lost in all of this." She picked him up and handed Isis to Harry.
"We might as well have painted 'here we are' on us." Harry unzipped his jacket and put her in the large pocket inside. "She's still asleep he must have thought that he couldn't leave her alone in the house."
Hermione read the menu and then looked at him. "I want an ice-cream sundae."
Harry narrowed his eyes at her. "Well then you're gonna sing, because I'm not."
She blinked up at him with amber eyes that looked so mournful. "Please."
"Oh no that's not gonna work this time. I am not gonna sing." He fought the effect that always got him to do her bidding.
She kicked it up a notch adding tears and a full on pout. "I want one."
He swore under his breath and then took the menu out of her hands. "You owe me big for this one! This had better be one hell of an ice-cream sundae!"
She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. "I love you soooo much!"
"Yeah, sure whatever…" He grumbled, as he looked over what was on the list. "Clay Aiken? Isn't he an American singer?" He frowned not about to admit that he had that CD back in his trunk.
Her eyes lit up in delight. "Do you think you could sing one of his songs?"
"You like Clay?"
"I took the CD out of your trunk. It's in my player in my room." She grinned. "I wanted to know what you sang in the shower."
"Is nothing sacred with you?" He groaned in defeat. "So what is it that I have to sing to get you that treat?"
"The way that one is what you sing in the shower." She gave him the look again and he melted.
He signaled for one of the attendants that they were ready to order.
"Hi there so what'll it be?" A cheerful blonde man smiled at them, it was Beau.
Harry gave him the order and to his relief he didn't recognize him. "Those two must be on vacation or something."
Beau walked up to Franc and whispered something in his ear. Franc's face lit up in delight and off they went into another part of the massive tent.
"I think they know who we are." Harry hissed into her ear.
"Don't be silly. You just don't want to sing." Hermione rolled her eyes at him.
"Hermione this had better be the greatest sundae that you have ever eaten or you are so gonna pay for it later!" He jumped when a microphone appeared on the table in front of them. "So much for this being muggle only."
The off-key singer was finished with his song and that meant it was Harry's turn to sing for her dessert.
"Thank you for that wonderful attempt at singing and now we have Jamie, who has graciously decided to sing for his Annie's hot fudge sundae." Franc got up on the stage and announced the next victim.
Wills appeared next to Harry and sat down. "Go get 'em champ!" He patted him on the back.
"You set that on the table!" He growled pointing at the microphone.
"Yeah, I followed the cats in here and they led me to you." Wills grinned. "Now be a good boy and sing for her dessert."
Harry got up and stalked over to the stage.
"Now, now we wouldn't want that temper to give you away now would we Harry." Franc hissed into his ear.
Harry turned to glower at the man, "No that wouldn't be good now would it?" He bit out through clenched teeth.
Draco, Ginny and the whole family descended on the tent.
Harry took one look at the last to enter the tent his parents and knew that they were caught.
James floated right up to him, looked him directly in the eyes, and growled. "I think you should start singing son. Oh and by the way you and I are gonna have another one of those talks." Before he left him to sing, he looked at the cat in his inner jacket pocket that was clearly visible. "That's what gave you away. Kingsley saw Crookshanks as did the Weasley twins."
The music started to blast in the tent and the words were about to start scrolling on the screen. At least he knew that he could sing in key, he knew the song, and that he wasn't going to look like an ass in front of all of them. "Could we pause the music for a second?" He requested. The tent was packed with muggles and wizards who were curious why Dumbledore had gone into the muggle tent. "Angel you don't really think that I'm going to sing this song and not have you where I can see you do you?"
Hermione blushed crimson when all eyes turned to her, but got up to sit front row center as did Wills.
"That's better. Now you can hit pause." The music once again filled the air and he started to sing The Way.
He never took his eyes off Hermione; in fact he sat down on the stage, because he knew the song by heart and sung it just for her. When he was done, Hermione threw herself into his arms and kissed him.
The crowd went absolutely wild with applause.
"Thanks, I'll do anything, even break my cover, to give my angel whatever her heart desires in this case it was a hot fudge sundae." Harry still had the mike so he grinned at the crowd. "How many of you wish to hear this songbird in my arms sing?"
The crowd clapped and hooted madly.
"Harry!" Hermione glared up at him.
"What? I might just want something to." He pouted longingly at her.
"Damn it you know I can't take that look!" She took the mike from him. "You're lucky that I know some of the songs on that list!" She hissed, as she looked over the list of songs.
She chose one then stalked over and hissed into Franc's ear.
His face lit up with delight and off he went into the other room.
"Sit down Flyboy before I hurt you!"
Harry sat down where she had been sitting. He blew her a kiss then mouthed the words 'gotcha'.
"My prince and I have been through a lot these past six years and I think that this song by Celine Dion titled Because you Loved me says what is in my heart." The music started playing and she sat down and sang in front of Harry.
Harry stared into her eyes entranced by her voice and all the love that she brought to each note as she looked into his eyes.
If anyone doubted the two of them were not head over the universe in love then they knew it now.
Cho, who was standing in the entranceway of the tent, was crying on the shoulder of one of her friends.
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Draco got up and whispered something into Cho's ear.
The girl raced out of the tent in tears.
He went back and sat down next to Ginny.
"What did you say to her?" Ginny was curious.
"Nothing big, I just said that Harry was Hermione's in every way that counted except for the wedding night." He took a sip of his Butterbeer.
"Draco that was good." Ginny took his Butterbeer and sipped it.
"I wanted to be really cruel and say in every way that mattered, but then Cho might have her friends make life miserable for Hermione at school." He pulled her onto his lap. "If you want a sundae I'll sing, but then you would have to share it with me."
Ginny got up walked over to where Harry and Hermione were still kissing on the stage and whispered something into his ear.
Harry reluctantly broke off the kiss with his love to stare at Ginny in disbelief.
She nodded.
Harry mike in hand, took a menu from Franc, walked over to the table, and handed it to Draco. "Are you sure about this? I mean you don't have to do this."
"The only thing that I ever liked about the Muggle World is the music, so trust me when I say this is not a problem." Draco got up took the mike from him and headed to the stage. He told Franc what he wished to sing Everything I do I do it for you and Franc once again disappeared into the other section of the tent.
The whole place went dead silent and all eyes turned to Draco.
"I have recently discovered that it's okay to show emotion in public, that it's okay to smile, laugh, and have good clean fun. I've seen that there's more to life than power and hate. This song is for a very special flame that ignited all of these new feelings inside me. This is for my flame Ginny Molly Elizabeth Weasley." Draco saw only Ginny who was beaming happily up at him blowing him kisses.
He did not see Pansy Parkinson walk into the tent nor did he see her face as she listened to the words he was saying. That everything was true and that Draco Malfoy did not exist anymore. She was livid with silent fury.
The music began playing and he sang to the only person he saw in the room Ginny.
He pulled Ginny up with him onto the stage, as he sang the last note they kissed.
The crowd went wild even Ginny's parents were starting to see him in a totally new light.
Fred and George had teared up and were bawling on each other's shoulders.
Hermione and Harry were taking care of their unwanted guest.
"What did you do to DRACO?" Pansy glared murderously at them. "Did you cast Imperio on him?"
"Draco Lucius Malfoy is dead. That's Draco Sirius Black, kissing Ginny, and that means that you need to leave!" Hermione growled her hand over her own wand.
"SHUT UP YOU FILTHY NOTHING!! YOU MUDBLOOD!!" She screeched at her.
"You are so gonna regret calling her that you little pug bitch!!" Harry had his wand pointed at her face. "Hope you like pimples, because you're about to get the worst case in your entire bloody life!" He was livid with fury.
"OH, I'M SO SCARED POTTER YOU GOODY-GOODY!"
"Harry would you like to prick your finger?" Draco was beside him with the pin that had been on his cloak in his hand. "This is better than slicing your hand open and it does the same thing. We need to know if Slytherin should even continue anymore."
"YOU TRAITOR!!" Pansy clawed at him with her nails. "YOU WEAK-MINDED COWARD!!"
Harry took the pin and pricked his finger then handed it back to Draco. "Weak-minded. I don't think so. It takes a strong mind to overcome a dark side of himself, and that's what Draco has done. Coward. No I don't think that either. He has to face everyone that he's ever hurt and hope that they will take him for what he is now, not what he was. Oh and this didn't happen when I touched him with my blood!" He ran his finger down her cheek and it branded her skin with a string of lightning bolts. "Hmm this is not good for your House, not good at all."
She tried to run, but Neville was standing behind her.
"Strike one for Slytherin." Hermione looked behind them Dumbledore, Severus, Remus, and Minerva was watching.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY FACE? IT BURNS!" She grabbed at her cheek.
"Pansy you have been marked by the Half-Blood Prince." Draco seemed a little too calm. "What it means is that you're screwed. I really don't know what's going to happen next. They took the others to Azkaban." His eyes were a darker shade of gray, nearly pewter in color. He was fighting the urge to hex her into the next century, and had been since he heard her call Hermione that name. His hand fisted around his wand. "I would take back that comment that you made to Hermione if I were you. I haven't gotten my warning yet, so I could hex you into the next century if I wanted."
"YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A COWARD! YOU ALL ARE!! THIS IS ONLY TEMPORARY THE DARKNESS WILL RISE AGAIN! MY PARENTS WILL BE AVENGED! YOU WILL ALL..." She didn't complete that sentence Harry had cast Crucio on her and she was in agony.
"HARRY!!" They all shouted everyone but Draco and Albus.
"She needs to learn what it feels like to be under the Dark Lord's thumb, then maybe this won't be a game to her anymore! Because, that's all it is to her, she sees us as pawns!" Harry then cast Imperio on her and then Crucio again. "Had enough!? Do you see that it isn't a game! I won't allow another Dark witch or wizard to rise again!!" He snarled down at the girl, curled at his feet sobbing, and released the spells. "This is not a game! This is serious and when you make statements like that I'm sworn to make sure that doesn't happen! I would say ask Umbridge what happens when you go down that path, but then you can't she went the way of Voldemort! Fudge went to Azkaban and if you don't see the light you will end there as well!! All of Slytherin who even tries it will! I will test every one of you and those who fail will be on probation! Do you understand me!!"
Pansy spat on his Nikes in response.
Hermione, Draco, and Ginny together triple hexed her until she resembled a Flobberworm with batwings and a bad case of pimples that made Marietta's look like mere spots.
"Well then I think that might get her attention. She'll be taken to St. Mungo's and if they can sort her out then she will spend some time in Azkaban. That should open her eyes to the reality of the situation." Albus didn't seem at all fazed by anything that he had just seen. He had her taken away and then turned to Harry and the others. "I thought that you were off the clock, as the muggles are prone to say."
Harry shook his head as if to clear it. "That was so not fun and I don't wanna do it again." He held his head as if in pain. "I hate using dark magic..." He sat down on the stage, because he couldn't stand anymore.
"Harry!!" Draco, Ginny, and Hermione rushed over to him.
"I didn't want to do that. I hate dark magic, but she left me no choice and still she didn't get it. I didn't use Crucio correctly, because I just wanted to scare her and it didn't work. Maybe I should have used it then she might have learned." He buried his face in his hands.
Isis's head was poking out of his pocket glaring at him.
"Isis?" Draco spotted his kitten.
"Crookshanks gave us away. He sees her as his charge." Hermione was kneeling in front of Harry. "Its all right Harry some people can't be changed."
Draco held out a hand and the kitten jumped out of Harry's pocket. "She just wants attention."
"Son you really need to learn that some were just born dark. If you can mark them, like you did that girl, well, she can't be changed." James sat down next to him. "Its hell to realize that, but it's the truth."
"Dad she's a student at Hogwarts and half of Slytherin is like her. What am I suppose to do?" Harry felt like he had faced his first major defeat. He looked at him with eyes that were so tired of it all.
"Slytherin is a dying House and this is the final year. It does not belong in Hogwarts anymore and it never really did belong there. Godric believed that everyone deserved a chance, even the Dark Wizards, even after his falling-out with Salazar Slytherin, and that is why you wish to do the same with your fellow students." Albus sat down on the other side of him. "My dear boy it has taken me a century to learn that you can't change everyone. Although, I suspect that, the Dark Wizards will dwindle and die without any power base to draw from. All we can do is weed them out and deal with them accordingly."
Harry, when Dumbledore touched his shoulder, did something that no one was expecting. He turned around, and cried in Dumbledore's arms. "I DON'T WANNA DO THIS ANYMORE! I AM SO BLOODY TIRED OF IT ALL!" He sobbed in utter misery.
"Harry its okay to just cry. No one here is going to think the less of you for it." Albus patted him on the back, as if he were one again, and had scrapped his knee.
James held Lily in his arms. They were helpless to do anything for their son. It was clear just how much all of what had occurred during end of sixth year had affected him.
He had stepped up, taken his destiny in the hand, and fulfilled it thinking that when he did he would have peace. He had not known that his destiny had only begun.
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Later that evening
Harry, Hermione, Draco, and Ginny all sat dressed in their nightclothes on the huge overstuffed couches king-sized deluxe hide-a-bed in the entertainment room in Lazy Meadows. They had a huge bowl of popcorn in their laps and were watching the opening credits to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. They had decided that they had enough celebrating for one night.
Harry watched as Dumbledore set him down on the front porch of the Dursley's house. "I don't remember that...It's really fascinating to see how I ended up where I lived for nearly 16years." He popped popcorn in his mouth.
"Cripes, Harry! Your Aunt looked pissed at Dumbledore for leaving you there." Draco reached for some of the candy that they had set out in front of them. Muggle candy and he had a liking for it. "I like these gummy things, the chocolates aren't that bad either."
"My parents have a stockpile of sugarless sweets." Hermione snuggled closer in Harry's arms. "Amazing how the cast looks similar to the actual people."
"They were beastly people." Ginny wrinkled her nose in distaste.
"They are beastly people that are finally paying their dues." Hermione corrected her.
Lily and James were curled up in one of the overstuffed chairs watching the movie. "They deserve to rot is what they deserve." Lily growled.
Remus looked up from the book he was reading and then at the screen. "Oh they'll get what's coming to them. We put them through hell the summer of his sixth year." He went back to reading a book on animagus.
"What are you reading Uncle Remus?" Harry didn't wish to watch the breakfast scene, so he looked over at Lupin.
"Minerva left you some books that she wants the three of you to commit to memory. It seems that you have a big assignment next term." He held up the book so he could see it.
"Animagi?" Harry read the title and thought of the stack of books that he had in his trunk. "What does that have to do with us?"
"You get to try it in seventh year, it's your assignment. She thought it might be a challenge, keep you busy as it were." Remus arched a brow at him. "I saw the books in your trunk. You were trying to be like James."
"I was thinking more similar a big cat or something." Harry smirked.
"Yeah, because Hermione would be the first to become one and we would need to keep up with a lioness. Don't they eat small animals?" Draco frowned.
"No, no that's not how it works at all." James seemed highly amused. "You still retain your human side and are just in animal form. Although Sirius he took it way to seriously."
"Hey!" Sirius growled.
"Well you did!" James and Remus grinned.
"Quiet! We're at the part where Hagrid shows up!" Ginny hissed.
Hermione got out of the bed and left the room. She came back with a jar that contained a fat ugly beetle. "I just don't want to be like her." Hermione set the jar on the end table beside the couch.
"Hermione, where did you get Rita from?" Draco knew exactly who was in that jar.
"She was attached to your jacket, so I took her off, and set her in her old home away from home." Hermione got back in next to Harry.
Harry looked over at the Jar. "Why are there two bugs in that jar?"
"She has a twin sister and they're both unregistered animagus." Hermione popped some popcorn in her mouth. "I haven't decided what I should do with them yet."
"Those two bugs are Rita Skeeter and her sister Lita?" Remus looked over at the jar.
"I say that we report them as unregistered Animagus. They're up to their old tricks again and you did warn her." Harry yawned.
"What's the punishment for not registering?" Draco asked curiously.
"I don't know, but it's really serious, because she didn't want me to report her to the ministry." Hermione grinned.
"I think its six months to a year in Azkaban." Remus got up and took the jar from the table. "You four behave while I'm gone." He gave them a knowing look.
Wills appeared in one of the chairs. "I'll take watch now. Everyone is turning in for the night. Oh, Dumbledore wants you to bring a jar to him? Whatever that means," He took off the cloak and threw it over at Harry. "Thanks for the use. I haven't had that much freedom in years."
"I'll be back in an hour. Behave!" Remus disapparated from the room and they went back to their movie.
"I think he just insulted us." Sirius frowned.
"I think he's losing it that's what I think." James growled. "Like I can't handle watching them… He's my kid. I think I can watch my own kid."
Harry laid the cloak over the four of them and they vanished.
Lily looked over at the empty bed and hit James in the arm. "They aren't there James."
James looked over at the bed and snarled. "Harry James, knock it off!"
The teens reappeared.
"I like that cloak!" Draco grinned.
"It has its uses." Hermione giggled.
"It drives the adult's nuts trying to figure out where you are." Ginny grinned.
Harry was sound asleep in Hermione's arms.
"I believe the boy has given up." Sirius went back to watching the movie. It was at the point where Draco was meeting Harry.
"I really was a little pain in the ass wasn't I?" Draco shook his head.
"I guess I was a little miss know it all." Hermione grinned.
"Ron and Harry really did hit it off right from the start didn't they?" Ginny was watching the movie intently.
Harry opened one eye and yawned. "Just watch it and please keep it down a little I need the sleep."
"Sorry about that." The three of them went back to watching the movie.
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Chapter 14
Harry's dream
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