H P Boy who livesYear 7- Summer
Chapter 21
Night Out
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Harry and Hermione try to have fun. How long will it last?
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They appeared in front of the cinema and to their relief they weren't seen.
"Let's see we have The Princess Diaries 2, Spiderman 2, I-Robot, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Van Helsing, and that's just a few on the list." Hermione read the outside roster that showed the movies and the times.
"The first one is a definite girl movie. The second is, well, I liked the first one. The third Will Smith what can I say. The fourth I haven't seen yet, but lived it and the last one is too dark magic for me at the moment." He went down the list out loud.
"I know that you don't really want to, but let's go see our story on big screen. It says IMAX that's like an eight-storey screen." Hermione made her choice.
"Us on an eight-storey movie screen? An eight-storey Dementor?" He looked into her eyes and saw that she wanted to see it. "It's your night you choose." He sighed in defeat.
Hermione pulled him with her into the cinema and up to the ticket area. "We would like two tickets for the Harry Potter movie please."
The clerk was looking at them as if he were seeing things. "Let me get this straight. You want to go see POA and you were the ones that starred in it?"
"Oh, you think we look like Emma and Dan!" Hermione giggled. "We get that all the time don't we Harry."
"Yeah, unfortunately Hermione we do." Harry hadn't styled his hair, so the fading scar was not hidden by his bangs it was in plain view.
"Blimey you have a scar on your head." The clerk rudely pointed it out with his finger.
"You don't say. To tell you the truth old Voldy planted it on me when I was one." He leaned in close so the clerk and only the clerk could hear him. "I also vanquished him in sixth year and will do the same to you if you don't give me the bloomin tickets and bugger off."
The teens Adam's apple bobbed up and down in his throat as he eyed Harry as if he were slightly crackers. "You really are a fan aren't you? Although, everyone knows, that Harry is gonna buy the farm in the sixth book. That and Ron and Hermione will get together." He used the machine to produce the tickets. "Your also way off cuz Harry Potter wears specs."
"Harry James Potter don't you dare!" She hissed. "Ignore him!"
Harry looked around the theater; it was deserted now, so he pulled out his wand. "Cedric is it?" He looked at the blonde teenager's nametag. "See this in my hand?"
The boy gulped.
"Lumos," Harry barely spoke the words and the wand lit up. "Nox," He put the wand away. "Now you clueless git do ya have any other snide comments or cheesy half-arse remarks?" He showed him the final piece of identification, when he opened his wallet to pay him, his drivers license fell out onto the counter verifying his identity. (Harry James Potter, 11 Gryffindor Lane, Godric's Hollow, South Wales. DOB July 31, 1987, eyes Green, height 6ft 3inches, weight 159lbs, spectacles worn when driving, and his picture with the old unruly haircut at 16 smiling at him the scar in plain view.)
"Please don't press your luck. He's in a bad mood today and you tactlessly made it worse by the commenting on sixth year. You see Ron and Luna died in the final battle, so it's a very touchy subject for him." Hermione took control of the situation, paid the boy, and took the tickets from his shaking fingers.
"We were never here. You did not see us. We do not exist. One slip of the tongue and I will find you. You don't want that now do you?" Harry narrowed his eyes down at the teen.
He nodded in response for the first three, and then shook his head no for the final one.
"Good. Sorry if I spoiled the book for you. Oh and just between you and me. Ron is with Luna... Draco is with Ginny...and all is at peace in our world." He and Hermione set off towards the concession stand to get popcorn and other goodies before the movie.
Tonks walked up to the poor teen and adjusted his memory. "I would like two tickets please for Harry Potter POA." She smiled at him her hair was strawberry blonde and Charlie was with her.
"Just think, Dori. It's just the beginning of their date and already he's lost his temper with the muggle fans." Charlie chuckled as they went off to shadow the unsuspecting couple.
"I don't blame him in the least. The prat deserved it. How dense can you get? Telling him that he dies in the sixth book, and Ron with Hermione! Muggles are so daft sometimes!" She dragged him over to a corner when Harry and Hermione were heading their way. "Now shut up and plant one on me." She ordered.
Charlie grabbed her to him and kissed her.
Harry and Hermione grinned when they walked passed.
"It's nice to see two people in love like we are." Hermione sighed.
Harry paused to look at the couple. "They look familiar." He narrowed his eyes. "I know them somehow."
"Nonsense you're seeing things and we're going to miss the movie." Hermione dragged him off towards the IMAX wing of the cinema sending popcorn flying on Tonks and Charlie.
"Bloody hell! He really is a natural isn't he?" Charlie finally broke off the kiss.
"What? Oh yeah, he's an Auror-in-training already. Just doesn't know it yet. None of the three do." Tonks blinked at him a few times to clear her head and then dragged him off to get goodies for the movie.
"Hermione, we have fifteen minutes till it starts and that looked like Tonks and Charlie." Harry planted his feet firmly ten feet away from the entrance to the IMAX theater doors.
"Well they are a couple. Maybe the two of them are on a date." Hermione glared at him.
"I think that we have chaperones!" Harry looked behind them and there was Tonks and Charlie hiding behind a huge potted plant kissing again.
"He is your big brother, maybe he's just being overprotective or something." Hermione managed to get him up to the doors.
"Ever made spit-wads Hermione?"
"In the IMAX Theater we will be thrown out!" She snarled.
"Not gonna happen because I have this to aim." He patted his wand.
"Look if it looks like they're following us then send as many things as you want at them, but it looks to me as if they're enjoying their date." She growled.
"I know when it's a date and when its not and those two are really putting on a show." Harry took out the cloak, draped it around them, and they vanished. "Now we can enjoy our date in peace." He found seats in the upper seating area and they settled in to watch the previews.
"He brought the cloak with him!" Tonks snarled in frustration.
"He's on his second attempt at a date with his love, so of course he brought it with him." Charlie led her into the theater.
Tonks took out what looked like a compact and it showed something on its tiny screen. "Ah ha there you are." She looked up at the upper level where the two were seated under the cloak. "Let's sit this way." She situated it so she was three seats down from them.
"Dori, he's gonna make us pay if he figures it out." Charlie put an arm across the back of her seat and pulled her closer to him.
"Trust me Charlie I have it all under control." She kissed him on the cheek.
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The lights went dark and the other previews began to play on the screen.
"Harry James!" Hermione hissed as he created several spitballs.
"What? I'm under the cloak, no one can see, and I have the target at point-blank range." Harry loaded up his weapon that being an extra straw, aimed, and fired.
Charlie jumped when the wad hit him on the neck. I deserve that we're spying I will not kick his ass. He thought.
Harry fired again this time it hit Tonks on the cheek.
"Gross!" Tonks wiped the wad off her face. "Who did that?!" She looked around.
Splat! This one got her between the eyes.
"Two guesses as to whose doing this." Charlie made sure the ushers weren't watching and tossed M & M's at where Harry and Hermione were sitting.
"Ouch!" Hermione was hit in the forehead by a sweet. "Playtime is over boys!" She took off the cloak so she could glare down at the other two.
"Tonks you need practice." Harry narrowed his eyes down at them. "I made you in less than a minute of seeing you."
"We're on a date." Tonks shrugged.
"So are we." Hermione growled. "So stay out of ours.
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Harry and Hermione gawked at the size of the IMAX screen. It was surreal to see their very likenesses on a massively large screen acting out their life in third year or attempting to do so with the script that they were given.
Harry watched as various scenes played out on the screen. His blood ran cold as an icy river when it came time for the Dementors to make the scene. They were so realistic like that, he could actually hear the echo's of that horrible night in his head.
He didn't realize it, but he was squeezing Hermione's hand so tightly that she yelped in pain. "It's not real, Lion." Hermione reached over and touched his cheek; he was shaking badly and had broken out in a cold sweat. "They are only computerized CGI images. Not one of those up there is real nor will they jump out of the screen and get you."
Harry watched as one of the Dementors did in fact float out right at them of the screen.
"You were saying, Lioness?" Harry stood up and faced the creature. "Goddamn it!! Just once I would like a Frickin night off!" He ignored the screaming in his head, it didn't matter his parents were around him now, and focused on the evil sight that was floating near him.
Tonks and Charlie also had their wands out, but their meager little patroness' were nothing to it. Charlie's was a minidragon and Tonks patronus was a cute adorable koala. Hermione shot her little otter at it and it just proofed out of sight.
"My god you three should never try those on anything!" Harry shot his stag at the Dementor, one so powerful that it went from a stag and morphed into an unicorn. The result was the Dementor then ceased to exist.
"Now that's what I'm talkin about!" Harry watched as the unicorn stood in front of him, bowed its head in recognition of him, and then vanished in silver smoke.
"HOLY HELL!" Daniel Radcliffe, who was watching the screening with Emma Watson, exclaimed in shock and awe. "You can't be who I know you are!?"
Emma stood next to him. She was clinging to his arm. "They're real..." She whimpered.
"Oh, bugger the kids on the screen are standing right behind us!" Tonks groaned.
"Bloody hell, you're right Dori. It looks just like two younger versions of them." Charlie blinked his eyes as if to see if he might be seeing double.
Harry turned on his heel to glare over at the person with his voice. "Oh, shit this is so not good..." He muttered under his breath before losing his cool completely.
"JUST ONCE I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A FUCKING NIGHT OFF!! DO YOU HEAR ME UP THERE!! I WANT PEACE FOR ONCE!!" He roared up at the ceiling, his wand was still at the ready.
"I think all of London heard that one." Daniel muttered.
"DID I ASK YOU TO SPEAK TO ME!?" Harry pointed his wand at the actor/teenager. Harry's eyes were blazing green and he was just tearing to jinx someone. "WOULD YOU LIKE TWO EARS AND A TAIL?!"
"Harry James Potter you will behave yourself!" Hermione growled.
"I will not behave myself! Those two make a living being us! We didn't even get a say!! He deserves two ears and a tail! My life is not something to profit off of!! I'm sick of seeing all of this crap with my likeness on it and that next book will be worse!! I don't need to read about RON AND LUNA dying!! I don't want to read about you almost dying! About using the unforgiving curse, two times once on Bella and once on Voldemort even if they did deserve it! That my blood somehow cures every bloody wizarding illness except Lockhart's, because of Ron's wand!! My very touch, when bleeding, can either mark a Dark Wizard or turn them to not even dust in the wind!! My dad was the Half-Blood Prince making me the heir! Godric was one of my grandfathers or that his mom was Queen Guinevere!! I don't mind the fact that I'm set for life, because of that, and my other grandfather was the creator of the snitch, but this other crap is just too much shit for one guy to have to handle!! Seventh year should not be this much of a pain! It's nice that Aunt Minerva and Uncle Albus are related to me! Draco is a good guy now and betrothed to Ginny! I love it that your parents are my godparents! Ron's parents are my legal guardians and my parents and Sirius can get out of their portraits and bitch at me at will!!" Harry was venting out his frustration, the projector booth went dark, as did the whole theater complex. "LUMOS MAXIMUS!!" The light that flared out of his wand lit up the area around them.
"Remus is cured and marrying his sweetheart from school! The Wizarding World is at peace for hundreds and hundreds of years! We finally admitted that we loved each other and will be married by the end of seventh year! You are Head Boy, Quidditch captain of the best team ever to play at Hogwarts! You actually got me up on a broom and in one of those god-awful uniforms! I played against the all-stars, destroyed them, and I got this broken arm! We destroyed Puddlemere United and you, Draco, and Ginny all get to be on their team! Draco saw the light because you were willing to give him another chance and just look at him he's thriving with goodness. Not to mention that fact that he's in Gryffindor now! You always have to dwell on poor you all the time! Well it ends this instant!! That Dementor does not mean that you are doomed to never have any fun!! In fact if you don't stop this tantrum you won't get any cookies for a very, very longtime!" Hermione was furious with him.
"You can't mean ever with the cookies?" He went from furious to pouting in seconds.
"That is not going to work Harry James, so stop it with the poor little boy routine! I mean what I say!" Hermione glared up into his eyes. "No cookies means no cookies!"
"I'll behave I promise." He looked over at Daniel. "I'm sorry about that. I've just had a time of it these past six years or so."
"That's understandable. I know all about it remember. I have to read the books to get to know who you are and let me say that they don't even scratch the surface." Daniel reluctantly walked over to the other four with Emma tucked against him.
Tonks sealed the door temporarily, as to not let any Muggles in the theater. It had been a private viewing by the looks of it. "Hermione you really know how to rein him in." She winked at her.
"Someone has to put a muzzle on my Wolfe and it might as well be me. Daniel and Emma did nothing wrong and he went off the scales on them. He can't take out his frustrations on anyone who angers him. I would like to have a life of some sort that has balance and I will not have my girls subjected to that temper of his! No cookies means no cookies!" She stalked down the aisle and towards an exit sign.
"You know what little bro. You've done the impossible. You've ended up on the couch at least a year before the actual wedding and I don't see any sign of reprieve. Your new friend will be cold showers and Glacius. The others have nothing to worry about now. I mean she isn't gonna let you kiss her let alone anything else." Charlie shook his head. "You are so far in the doghouse that you'll be married for three months at least before you ever get a honeymoon."
"I'll die!" Harry was all but in tears. "I can't not kiss or touch my princess…Its like cutting off my oxygen supply!"
"You just can't catch a break can you?" Daniel shook his head in sympathy.
"You don't know the half of it." Harry groaned.
"It's our right to make our men pay for being prats." Emma gave Daniel a look and went off in the direction that Hermione had gone.
"Em, I didn't do anything! What are you toasted at me for?" Daniel chased after her.
"He has more courage than you do Harry. He actually chased after his girlfriend." Tonks smirked.
"Emma doesn't have a dragon heartstring/phoenix feather wand and isn't in a jinxing mood." Harry headed off after Hermione.
"He does have a point there, Dori." Charlie frowned.
"Did I ask for your opinion?" Tonks stalked off.
"Dori! Just my luck I've gotta deal with three girls with PMS!" Charlie stalked off after them.
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Hermione, Tonks, and Emma found themselves face-to-face with Moody and Kingsley.
"Get in the limo now." Kingsley growled.
"Go stuff yourself Kingsley!! I am not going back yet!" Hermione aimed her wand at him.
"Look you foolish girl!! There are three Dementors still at large!! Now get in the bloody car!" Moody snarled. "Where are Charlie, Harry, and the other one!?"
"Charlie and Daniel are with Harry. He can make sure that they aren't Dementor kissed. He can do anything! After all he's Harry Potter the Great!" Hermione fumed.
"That tears it!" Harry appeared behind her by means of the invisibility cloak, grabbed her, and kissed her until she all but melted in his arms.
"You boys are all alike just grab us and we..." Daniel who had finally found Em proceeded to follow Harry's lead.
Tonks looked around for Charlie and was not disappointed she was grabbed and kissed.
"ENOUGH WITH THE SNOGGING JUST GET IN THE FRICKIN LIMO!!" Kingsley roared.
"There are three Dementors are at large!" Moody snarled.
"Two Dementors, I got one in the theater." Harry glared at the two men. "How did they get loose and who did it?"
"Dementors aren't only in England you moron! They are here to avenge their dead comrades!" Kingsley glared back at him.
Harry looked around the dark parking lot. Kinglsey and Moody had used putter outers, so the lot was pitch back. He closed his eyes and concentrated on his ring, using it to detect any dark magic nearby. :Leo I need a little help. There are two more Dementors at large and thanks to the two paranoid wizards no light by which to see them with.:
:Or sense them since you lost your temper again and this time it has cost you something that you want very badly.: Leo lectured him.
:Oh, we shall see about the no cookie clause. She just challenged me. I love a good challenge. We'll see just how long she can keep that vow.: Harry looked down into Hermione's eyes and gave her the big bad wolf look. :Now enough about my love life. Do you sense any Dementors?:
:They don't really effect you as much as they did anymore do they? They are fifty feet to your right and closing in and there are about twenty not two.: Leo told him.
"All of you get behind me NOW!!" Harry powered up his wand and prepared to launch his attack on the all but invisible attackers.
"Moody!! We have twenty, not two, Dementors approaching not even fifty feet right over there!" He sent his stag at the first ten only it emerged, as the unicorn slicing through Dementor after Dementor. Harry was now just barely feeling the effects of having them nearby. "Oh, no you don't!" He sent it towards the others that were coming at them from behind.
Daniel and Emma were clinging to each other all they could see was the unicorn patronus slicing through something invisible and they were getting cold which was highly unlikely because it was eighty degrees outside.
:Well done young master. I detect the threat is no more.: Leo praised him. :You may proceed with operation James the conqueror if you would like.:
:Operation James the conqueror, eh? I like it.: Harry had done all of his attacks with one arm still around Hermione.
"All in a days work for Harry Potter the Great wouldn't you say so my love?" Harry shot the very words that she had snarled at Moody and Kingsley back at her.
"That was, um, very impressive." She eyed him with wary amber eyes.
"Impressive! That was bloody brilliant is what that was!" Moody was proud of him.
"I agree and next time Mad-eye let's not use the putter outer when there are Dementors on the loose." Kingsley rolled his eyes at him.
"Hold tight you two. This won't hurt much. I have to adjust your memory." Tonks had her wand out.
"Adjust our memory?!" Daniel glared at her. "I don't bloody well think so."
"My mind is just fine the way it is thank you very much!" Emma bristled.
"Dori look at them and tell me that you aren't jumping the gun! They could be their younger twins!" Charlie took the wand out of her hands.
The Limo door opened and a calm voice filtered out of it. "Would all of you please get inside the car before you attract any more attention?"
Six heads turned to look at the limo.
"Uncle Albus I was just taking Hermione out on a date and..."
"I know dear boy. Work got in the way again. You lost your temper, and she punished you dearly for that. I know everything nephew, now get in the car."
"We have Daniel and Emma here..."
"I am well aware of that now get in the car!"
The others had all piled into the car including Hermione, who had managed to get free of his hold on her waist.
"Shouldn't I put the lights back in the parking lot?" Harry stalled.
"Do not make me get out of this car and toss you inside." Albus growled.
Harry got into the limo that had more than enough room inside for all of them. :Sorry I'm just not in the mood to get flamed by anymore family members tonight.: He sat next to his Uncle.
:Understandable, dear boy, but you have much to learn about dealing with the gentler sex. Never lose your temper, always be a gentleman, and above all shower them with love any chance that you get.: He gave him some pointers.
:So are you and Aunt Minerva getting married too?: Harry continued their silent conversation.
:Dear boy, Minerva and I already are married. We just don't advertise it to the public and yes we are renewing our vows as well.: Albus chuckled.
:Daniel and Emma are the ones that play us in the movies.: Harry didn't know how much that his uncle knew about the muggle books and things.
:I am well aware of the Harry Potter empire in the Muggle World. Who do you think planted the idea in her head? Now as for Daniel and Emma, worry not all will be well. We will get back just in time for dinner.: Albus was as calm as ever.
"Oh, how rude of the two of us" He smiled at the other passengers in the limo. "I am Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts, and acting Co-Minister of Magic of the Wizarding World. You are the young actor and actress who portray my Grandnephew and future Grandniece in the movies about their lives. I am just getting into those, you see my nephew has brought the movies, and the books to Hogwarts. I am also getting used to muggle technology. It's quite fascinating actually. In fact Draco and Harry get to have his muggle toys up in their dorm room tower this year."
"Yeah, but if anyone finds out, then its so long toys and back to boredom." Harry rolled his eyes.
"How can anyone get up there with Ron's portrait guarding the entrance to what looks like a wall." Hermione was still displeased with him.
"So sorry little-miss-know-it-all, I was just making conversation." Harry wasn't too happy with her either.
"Children to your corners," Albus cleared his throat as if to get their attention. "We have some business to conduct with our two newcomers."
"You are such a baby!" Hermione snarled.
"Me?! I'm not the one with a burr stuck up my ass!" He snarled back.
Emma looked in her purse for something and produced a bottle of pills. "Hermione, I think you need to take one of these before you seriously hurt something or someone."
Hermione took the bottle and read what it said on the label. "Hey Wolfe hand me a Butterbeer now!" She all but commanded him.
"Wolfe!? Are you seriously mental today or what?" He gave her the bottle.
"Kiddo, haven't you ever heard of PMS before?" Charlie went over and growled into his ear, so he would not anger the females in the limo.
Harry turned to look at his 'Big Brother' and then at Hermione. "They call it the curse, but yes I know what PMS is, and that they could kill us and most likely get away with it in a court of law." He nodded.
"Well then little brother I suggest you cool it or she might hurt you." Charlie went back to his seat.
Harry looked over at the minibar and saw that it was loaded with chocolate treats. "Love would you like some, uh, chocolate?" He eyed her warily.
"Yes, please that would be lovely." She took a pill and downed it with the drink.
Harry handed her a selection of chocolates to choose from and she took them all. "Anything for my princess," He went back to the safety of his Uncle. "Uncle, do they have to sign that long parchment swearing that they won't divulge the Wizarding World like Kate and Wills did?"
"Actually, just in case they ever ran into any of you in the Muggle World they have a clause in their contracts that already covers that situation. Therefore, that is not necessary at this time. Wills was different he is of the Wizarding World therefore he needed to sign the complete contract." Albus explained. "The two of you are in for a treat, for Hogwarts is decked out to celebrate the wedding of Professor Remus Lupin and his bride-to-be Healer Genevieve Rona."
"Isn't he still a werewolf?" Emma frowned.
"No you weren't paying attention when I ranted were you." Harry shook his head. "Not that I blame you, because I was out of line. I was just hoping to have some quality time with Hermione tonight. My blood is turning out to be the factor in curing most of the diseases that plague our world, one of which is the werewolf, and it's curing Neville's parents as well. Uncle Remus is free and clear of the disease and teaching at the school again."
"So that mysterious element in your blood is the key to several things in your world?" Emma arched a brow at him.
"What Harry has inside him, the element as you call it, hasn't been seen since Godric Gryffindor." Albus explained. "This makes him the true Half-Blood Prince."
"WILL YOU STOP!! HE HAS AN EGO THE SIZE OF AUSTRALIA ALREADY!!" Hermione actually snarled at Albus and everyone gawked at her in horror.
"I'm gonna to let that one slide, because you are currently OUT OF YOU MIND!" Harry forced himself not to lose his temper.
"I am merely stating the obvious. You have a hugely oversized ego to match your, well; we won't go there now will we." She munched on her chocolate, as if she hadn't said anything outrageously wrong.
"HERMIONE!!" Tonks, Albus, Kingsley, Moody, and Charley glared at her.
"WHAT?! It's true! He's not the only special one in the family! I may not have taken Sibyll's class, but I am a seer and can peak into the future now and then if I wish." She glared at them.
Harry's face burned scarlet and he draped his cloak around him so he could hide.
"Harry don't be all upset. Think of this as practice for when you're married, and she is expecting you're firstborn. This is nothing compared to the moods she'll be in then." Kingsley chuckled highly amused.
Harry said nothing and remained under the cloak.
"You can't catch a break at all can you?" Daniel glared at Hermione.
"Not in this lifetime." Harry muttered.
"Daniel, it's like this. Harry is destined to never live a nice quiet dull life, and the sooner he accepts this the better it will be for him. I made sure that he was ready to face his destiny and he has done so with flying colors." Albus had his hand on the invisible shoulder of his nephew.
Harry turned into prince with the cloak on; to his delight he remained invisible, so he hopped off the seat, and padded carefully over to Hermione. He then proceeded to jump into her lap.
Hermione found herself with a lap full of invisible wolf. "You big baby," She scratched his ears.
"Hermione who are you talking to?" Charlie asked.
"I am talking to Prince otherwise known as Harry's animagus form."
"Animagus?" Daniel and Emma stared at her.
"Draco is a wolf with silvery fur called Dragon. Harry is a jet-black wolf called Prince. I'm a tawny colored Kneazle called Princess, and Ginny is a reddish furred one called Cleo." Hermione continued to ramble on and Prince nipped her as if to say shut up. "Ouch you naughty Wolfe," She tried to take the cloak off, but it wasn't there. "Fascinating, so if you're wearing the cloak you stay invisible in your Animagi form now that is an asset to your arsenal."
Prince jumped off her lap and went back to his seat next to his uncle.
He went back to being Harry again. "For the love of Merlin will you button it already!" Harry threw off the cloak glowering at her.
Hermione burst into tears.
Harry swore in Parseltounge that was so not what he thought would happen. "Angel, don't cry. You know I can't take that." He went over and sat down to cuddle her in his arms.
"You hate me." She sobbed against his shoulder.
"I love you princess. It's just that I'm new to female moods and stuff." He tried to calm her down.
"Did I really make a fool of myself saying no cookies and that remark about your well you know...?" She moaned in misery.
"Oh yeah, that you did my heart," He rocked her in his arms. "No harm done."
"I just wanted us to have a nice night off." She sobbed.
"I know and so did I. It looks like we'll just have to take what we can get, until seventh year is up, and then I promise just you me and two months of no one bothering us." He vowed. "Because you and I will be married and they can't boss us around anymore after that."
Hermione looked up into his eyes. "Two months alone no one to bother us...it's too much to wish for." She sniffed.
"Wills can lend us the yacht that way no one will be able to find us." Harry grinned at her.
"My cousin the Royal pain would do anything for us. He loves us." She calmed down.
"That's right sweetness. He will do anything for us we're like sibs to him." He kissed her on the nose.
"Are you talking about Prince William?" Daniel frowned.
"You're related to the royals?" Emma gawked at her.
"I'm related to Will's and Harry on their mother's side of the family and their father's. Mum was Diana's cousin and Daddy is a cousin to the Windsor's. My parents are Lord and Lady Granger. They don't use their titles because they can't stand most of the royals. Wills and Harry are like big brothers to me and my parents are more like an Aunt and Uncle to them than cousins." Hermione told them.
"Wills got a letter and never got the chance to choose to go to Hogwarts. He just recently found out and joined in our world with his girlfriend Kate." Harry filled in the rest of the blanks for them.
"Unreal...this is so bloody unreal." Daniel pinched himself to make sure this wasn't some wacko dream, but he was awake and this was very real.
"The reason the story of Harry's life was leaked to the author was simple. Magic was dying out in the Muggle World and this was a way to keep it alive for future generations. I never imagined that my spell would have caused as much of an effect in your world as it has. I have tried to keep Harry from knowing about it, but it was just a matter of time. If you ask me my nephew is handling it rather well. He could very well have gone off jinxing the lot of you and been done with it." Albus took his opportunity to enter the conversation.
"Actually, the thought has crossed my mind at times. Draco wanted to sue them as did Fred and George." Harry was holding Hermione, who had fallen asleep against his shoulder.
"She has had a rough day of it." Albus conjured a blanket to put around her. "It's not easy coming back to a place that although is home held such great pain, anger, and sorrow."
"The final battle happened at Hogwarts?" Emma frowned.
Harry proceeded to tell them the ending of Voldemort and what happened after that. When all was said and done he looked tired beyond his years and it was clear that all of this was taking an enormous toll on him.
"I believe that you have said enough, I know how going through that in your mind affects you." Albus handed him some chocolate. "Not to mention that you fought the Dementors again and using a patronus of that magnitude is draining to the most powerful of wizards."
"I'll be okay Uncle. They needed to know what happened." Harry closed his eyes and relaxed.
"I'm sorry for what you lost, but you just need to think of what you gained. You gained the love of your life, an enemy is now your best friend, and you found out that you have more family than ever." Emma tried to cheer him up.
"You left out one major factor. He has his parents and Sirius back in his life again." Tonks grinned.
"You do?" Daniel frowned. "How is that possible?"
"James, Lily, and Sirius all have portraits which allowed them contact with Harry. Remus made a plea to the powers above to send him some help with dealing with the four of them. They answered by allowing James, Lilly, and Sirius freedom to leave their portraits at will. Thus he has his parents and godfather back in his life again." Albus chuckled when Harry opened one eye to glare at him. "Although, after all this time without them he doesn't know how to take having parents again."
"I tend to give my father the finger at every opportunity. Especially, when he goes off on one of his James Potter the Great or when I was your age lectures. He's so jealous that his astral image is green at times. You see I've surpassed my father and he doesn't like it." Harry smirked.
"Although, when his Dad says jump Harry asks how high." Hermione chuckled in her sleep. "His dad can turn semi solid and tan his hide but good. He did it this morning to get him out of bed."
"I forgot to mention the Prophet ran with another story and it has a picture on the front page of the two of you sleeping under that oak tree near your house. If I remember correctly it has more than one picture. There is one with Remus finding you and it says the time, which I believe was two o'clock in the morning, and there is a picture of William ready to pull his hair out." Albus told him.
"There's no crime in sitting under an ancient oak watching the moonrise over Godric Lake on my own property. If we fell asleep then that's all that happened and The Prophet is turning into a tabloid rag." Harry snarled.
"Harry you have to rein in that temper of yours. I am not the enemy. I am your uncle, and I will discipline you if you don't behave." Albus got deadly serious.
"You tell him Uncle Albus maybe he will listen to you." Hermione muttered in her sleep.
"This seems like one trial after another. If I didn't know any better I would think that I was undergoing testing, or training of some sort. Not possible since I haven't even started seventh year yet." He looked over at Tonks, Kingsley, Moody, and then at his Uncle.
"I believe that because you are a natural born Auror that they are going about your training differently. You were teaching DADA in your fifth and sixth years and that is very impressive. You handle pressure extremely well and do not hesitate to act in any situation. In other words yes, dear boy, your training as an Auror has been going on since the Celebration festival. They were extremely impressed with your becoming an animagus on your first try. Hermione is being trained and so is Draco. You just don't realize that it is occurring. Mad-eye, Tonks, and Kingsley are going to be taking turns teaching you three all that they know about being an Auror. You see your classes are going to be quite different from what you ever expected." Albus explained.
"I need a Time Turner." She whimpered.
"Nonsense, dear girl, you are 'The Smartest Witch of the Century' and seventh year is only a means of getting you started at what you have chosen to be that being an Auror. You will find that you will be able to keep up with your high marks without the use of a Time Turner." Albus chuckled.
"We're here." Harry changed the subject, as Hogwarts was now clearly visible outside the limo window. "If the two of you look out the window you will see Hogwarts."
"Oh, wicked the movies don't even come close to the real Hogwarts." Daniel stared out of the tinted windows at the castle all lit up for the evening.
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Draco opened the door to the limo and growled his displeasure to two of its occupants. "You ditched us with the adults and the tweebs from hell!"
"You were glued to the video game and I wanted to go out on a date alone with my princess." Harry growled.
"Holy hell!! Who did you find this time?!" Draco saw Daniel and Emma.
"Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, meet Draco Sirius Black." Harry rolled his eyes at Draco.
"You just can't win can you?" Draco shook his head.
"Nope. We went to the movies to watch POA and I ended up fighting a Dementor with my new unicorn patronus...Hermione went all mental and grounded me from... Nope not gonna go there...because I lost my temper. Daniel and Emma were in the theater. Long story short we ended up outside, where twenty more Dementors awaited us and the unicorn took them out as well. Then Uncle took us all home." Harry filled him in.
"No cookies?" Draco winced.
"Nope no cookies," Harry muttered.
"Damn you didn't go into that whole Harry Potter bit did you?"
"No comment."
"Oh shit that's the couch till way after you're married."
"We shall see about that my friend."
"No cookies mean just that, but it doesn't mean no cuddling or kissing." She yawned.
"Well there is that in your future then." Draco chuckled.
"Damn straight there will be no cookies!" Lily appeared in the limo startling the two newcomers.
"Mum!! I would never do anything like that!" He was beet red.
"Oh, really and why do I see James in your eyes?" Lily gave him a knowing look.
"Mum these are your eyes not Dad's. I promised all of you and I will not break that promise." He looked her in the eyes.
"Don't think that I don't know that you're plotting something young man." She narrowed her eyes at him. "I married your father, so I know every marauder trick in the book."
"Yes Mum. Can we get out now or are you going to flame me some more. I mean I only defeated 21 Dementors an hour or so ago." Harry pouted.
"You must be so proud of yourself..." Lily noticed Daniel and Emma. "My stars you look like my kids."
"We, um, play them in the movies." Emma was the one to answer.
Daniel was staring at her.
"Oh yes, the movies James and I watched them. You two are very good actors." She smiled at them.
"Well we're filming the fourth movie, but we might not do the other three." Daniel finally found his voice.
"The devil you say! If the two of you go then the movie is over!" Harry and Hermione spoke in unison.
"It's not really up to us. We want to do the movies, but the ones paying for them think we're growing up too fast." Daniel frowned.
"You look exactly how I looked in fourth year, minus the fact that my hair is a lot darker than that. I don't see how they can say you look to old to play me. You're growing with the part. Both of you are." Harry growled.
"The fans would boycott the movie if they changed the cast, so it's an empty threat." Emma longed to go see the castle.
"I'm starving and the two of you must be dying to see the castle." Harry winked at Emma.
Hermione saw the wink and elbowed him in the ribs. "Quit flirting with the fourteen-year-old." She hissed.
Harry got up with her in his arms. "Behave!" He hissed back.
"You winked at her!" She was not happy with him.
"I was not flirting with Daniel's girlfriend!" He got out of the limo and set her on her feet. "You can walk up to the castle!" He stalked through the open gates then turned around to glare at her. "No cookies goes both ways!" He changed into Prince and took off at a run to the castle.
"You get back here HARRY JAMES!!"
"Harry isn't gonna listen Hermione and he has a right not to, he wasn't flirting with anyone." Draco frowned at her.
"Hermione Anne Diana Spencer-Granger get your fanny up here now!" Katherine Granger was waiting just up the path to the castle.
Hermione turned into Princess, but Draco caught her before she could flee. "Oh, no you don't you're gonna face the parents."
Princess snarled and hissed at him.
"Animagus transformations are fascinating." Emma mused.
"This one likes to go off and pout and since we're at Hogwarts I don't think the Dark Forest is a safe sulking place." Draco walked with them up to the castle.
"The castle is amazing and to think I thought the movie graphics did it justice." Daniel stared in awe at the castle, as it loomed closer and closer.
"Hogwarts is a magical and mysterious place and no Muggle Technology in the world can replicate its wonder." Albus smiled.
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Chapter 22
The Hermione tells all
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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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