Don't Say A Word

by Yamikeckley

When Harry comes back from his fifth year, despite warnings from the Order, Vernon abuses Harry and locks him into the attic. When he is finally rescued, he finds he has became mute from the shock of what happened. He closes up to almost everyone near him

2. Chapter 2

Don't Say A Word
Chapter 2

Harry started shaking uncontrollable as he remembered what Professor Trewlaney said back in his third year. She foretold his death by a grim. It
now looked like it would come true as the grim was bearing down on him snarling. Harry started stumbling backwards towards the wall till he was
finally up against it. The grim still advancing till it was right up next to his face. Harry started to get transfixed in its eyes when it blinked, wait
no it winked at him.
"Dogs don't wink," he thought to himself confused as the grim started to wag its tail and winked again. The grim then turned and started to growl at
both Vernon and Dudley. Vernon looked furious.

"Stupid dog can't even do it right." He turned towards his son. "Well Dudley it looks like we will have to do it ourselves." But Dudley wasn't paying any attention. He was standing behind his father with a terrified look on his face. He pointed a shaking fingerer and stammered out."Mur, murd, murderer!" He finally got it out. Vernon turned around just to be face to face with a furious looking wizard with wand in hand. Vernon looked at him wide eyed in fear. Sirius Black had returned.

Vernon looked at him wide-eyed in fear.
"You. You are supposed to be dead. It was in their paper." He choked out with clenching fists. Sirius was fuming.
"The rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated." he assured him. "Now what is the meaning of this!" He asked pointing to the now unconscious form
of Harry. Vernon started to just smirk.
"Oh that piece of filth." He said with the utmost disgust. "We decided to teach him and your kind a lesson." he told him proudly.
"Yeah I needed a life like punching bag." chimed in Dudley. Sirius raised his wand and cried "Ricashampra!" the force of the spell sent Dudley through
the wall behind him. Sirius then pointed his wand at a very purple-faced Vernon Dursley.
"Now Dursley lets see you treat me the same way you treated Harry." At seeing this Vernon immediately took a swing at him, connecting to the side of
Sirius's face taking him down to one knee.
"Not so tough are you?" Vernon said smugly getting ready to take another swing. But this time Sirius saw the punch coming. In one fluid motion Sirius
grabbed his wrist and slightly turned it. Then brought his arm up in an uppercut motion, at Vernon's elbow, snapping his arm in half. Vernon let out
a howl in pain, holding his arm that was sticking out in an odd angle. Sirius then gave him a quick right hook that knocked Vernon clean out. Sirius then walked over to Harry and picked him up into his arms. Leaving the room he headed down stairs. He reached the landing by the stairs and
heard Petunia call from the kitchen for Vernon.
"You done doing your business already? That didn't take you long." she said not even noticing Sirius walking into the kitchen. She started turning
around. "I guess I will go clean him up." then she saw Sirius and almost fell to the ground. "Oh, my god, Sirius." He just shook his head and left
the kitchen and left the house. When the reached the road he pulled out his wand and summoned the Knight Bus. The bus pulled up and Stan stepped out.
"Welcome to the Knight Bus the." he didn't finish when he saw Sirius.
"I know all of this already. Can you please take us to Grimwauld Street in London, as fast as you can." he asked with urgency in his voice.
"Of course Mr. Black it would be a pleasure." He replied in a bow. "It'snice to see you back with us, but what happened to Harry?" He added while
letting Sirius on to the bus.
"He was attacked." he simply told him while brushing by him and glaring at him that told him to be quite. He took Harry over to the back of the bus and
laid him down on one of beds. He brushed the hair out of Harry's eyes and for the first time took in his appearance.
"I'm sorry Harry. I should have got back sooner." he whispered. The bus came to a sudden stop.
"London!" Stan called. Sirius grabbed Harry and made his way to the front of the bus.
"How much do I owe you?" he asked.
"Nothin' Mr. Black, just make sure Harry is alright." Sirius nodded and got off and made his way to number twelve. He got to the space between numbers eleven and twelve and thought of the address as he approached. When the door showed up he ran up to it and kicked it open. Instantly the room filled with
the screaming of Mrs. Black's portrait.
"Someone Help!" he started screaming. No one came since the screaming of the portrait was drowning his voice out. "HELP!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. He heard voices and followed in the direction in which they were coming. He burst into the kitchen still holding Harry's limp body. It seemed that there was a meeting going on, as the whole room turned towards him. He heard a shriek from Mrs. Weasley as she and everyone else rushed towards him. Everyone started talking at once that he could only catch pieces of it.
"Sirius is that you?"
"What happened to Harry?"
Then Dumbledore with a booming voice shouted "Quite!" everyone stopped talking at once. "Now we need to get Harry upstairs to a bed and taken care of. Then I am sure Sirius will answer any questions we have for him." Mrs. Weasley came over and took Harry from Sirius's arms. She led them to Sirius's room. When
they all got there, Dumbledore summoned Madam Pomfrey immediately. When she got there she quickly bustled over to Harry.
"Merlin what happened to this boy this time. He is in extremely bad shape." She told him as she started performing several spells on him. "Yes he will
be in this bed for a while so he can heal properly. It seems he has at least a couple broken rib, 2 crushed vertebrae, and a ruptured disk, along with
several minor injuries I was able to heal quickly." Mrs. Weasley turned and started to sob into her husbands shoulder. While the rest turned to Sirius
waiting for an explanation, Sirius just collapsed while Pomfrey was examining Harry. He sighed and sat up., beginning to tell them.
"I finally found a way out of that bloody veil, but I didn't return in the Ministry. I landed in a jungle. It only took me a couple days to get back to
England, so I figured I should go see Harry first. So I waited outside of his house for him for a couple days. He never came out so I started to get
worried. I got up to the house to see if I could at least sneak a peek, when his uncle got a hold of me. He took me in the house and immediately led me
up two flights of stairs into what seemed like the attic. The first thing I saw when he opened the door was Harry lying on the floor….." he paused there
for a couple seconds, then continued on. He told them everything that had happened. Everyone seemed pale after he had finished.
"Well I do believe that I will go collect Harry's thing and have a word with Mr. Dursley." Dumbledore told them walking towards the door, but turned
back around to add. "Care to join me Remus, Sirius, and Arthur." The three nodded, got up and left with Dumbledore, leaving Tonks, Mrs. Weasley
and Madame Pomfrey to take care of Harry.

Over the next week and a half Harry laid in bed healing as good as could be expected, but his injuries were taking longer than they had hoped for. They had
placed him in a deep sleep throughout the healing process to save him any unnecessary pain. Sirius had hardly left his side since he returned with
Dumbledore. Even though he was a free man he would never be able to enjoy it without Harry there with him.