I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while. I've really been working on the story,and up to chapter 10, and I cough forgot to update cough sorry, I'm also thinking of writing a Prologue, what do you think, thanks for the reviews, if you keep righting them I'll keep updating!
Chapter Three
The Hearing
Sirius had his hearing in the same room as when Harry had his hearing last year for use of underage wizardry. Harry took a seat outside the room while everyone walked in except for Sirius. "Harry, they're making it like a huge public scene, a lot of people are there to watch me get thrown into Azkaban again!" he said sadly. "I thought it was just the Wizengamot council?" asked Harry slowly. "So did I, until I saw this" he opened the door a crack so Harry could see the very crowded room.
"Good luck" Harry said slowly and Sirius walked into the room. Harry kept the door opened a crack so he could hear and see what was going on. He watched as the court introduced them selves, but then something strange happened two very large Aurors walked a short chubby man into the court, Peter Petigrew. Fudge's face looked very screwed up, he said "but, but Black killed you." One of the two Aurors said "he is the one you want to use Veritaserum on, not Black, and take the girl out of here, if we need her we'll get her." Colleen walked out happily, and then sat down next to Harry.
"Are you worried Harry?" she asked sweetly. "Yeah, a little" he answered. "You really shouldn't be, he has a really good chance, better than anyone I've every known, about" she said lightly "but it'll still be a while." "What is America like" he asked quietly. "HORRIBLE" she roared "ever heard of Salem?" she asked angrily. He nodded "isn't that the place in America where they hung witches?" he asked. "yeah, and well they never really got over it, they have these reenactments you see" she said cooling down a slight bit. "And well they use witches and wizards so that we don't die if you put a spell on the rope so you're just suspended above the ground, rather uncomfortable." she said angrily once again. "They lock you in cells so you can't get away, it's really very horrible" she said more sad than angry.
"I can't wait to see what Hogwarts is like, even though it is weeks away" she said cheering up a bit. "Er- does Gryffindor have a good Quidditch team, and um- by any chance are they missing any er- chasers?" she said nervously. Harry smiled, then said "we do have a good team, yeah we need a chaser, why?" he asked still smiling. "That's my position, just wondering but who's the Captain?" she asked nervously. "Umm....I think that's...me" he said with his smile widening. "Really? That's great, what position do you play?" she asked happily, the second she did he reached into his pocket to find the snitch his father gave him that morning. He pulled it out and opened the box, it flew out quickly "Seeker" he said at last.
"That's great" she said, Harry got out of his seat to go and catch it when someone walked out of the door. "Showing off I see, Harry" said James snickering slightly "favorite thing to do when I was in school, show off to the girl I liked, your mum mostly!" when he said this Harry blushed beat red. "I just wanted to tell you everything is going fine, I'm pretty sure he going to get off, especially because they caught wormtail" James said this name angrily. "Harry did you say you were now Quidditch captain?" he asked curiously. Harry answered "yes, I'm seeker too." "Same as me, well I've got to get back in there, because they want to know if Sirius was our secret keeper or not and about all the Animagus stuff" he said groaning. "It'll probably be another half an hour or so, and Harry keep at it" he said, winked, then disappeared behind the large doors.
Thankfully Colleen didn't seem to care too much about what James had just said. "What kind of broom do you have" she asked him. "A fire bolt, how about you?" when he said this she smiled and said "a lightning bolt, only out in America so far, they'll be out next year in England. It's as fast as a fire bolt, but it goes by what's in your head, instead of what you say." "Whoa!" he said in astonishment.
Just then they all heard a roar of both applause, and jeers. The next second Sirius came out smiling "I got off! Cleared of all charges, I'm a free man, FREE!" Colleen ran into his arms, he stroked her hair for a moment then they let go of each other, and smiled at each other, then turned back to Harry. Sirius looked like he wanted to jump up and down he was so happy. Since it was so much earlier than they expected they went back to Grimmauld Place were everyone was sitting in the kitchen eating breakfast.
"Well?" Ron asked as everyone except Sirius was in the kitchen. "HE GOT OFF, HE'S FREE, FREE" Colleen answered smiling. Just then Sirius appeared in the fireplace smiling. "Congratulations Sirius!" roared every one at the table.
"Since you're home so early we can go strait to Diagon Alley" said Mrs. Weasley. "Alright Molly" answered Serena. They all took the Floo- Network to Diagon Alley.
"Dress robes!" Colleen said as soon as everyone was there. "I think I need a pair as well" Harry said thinking about his own from two years previous to this one. "I didn't have a pair in the first place" said Ginny quickly "I borrowed Luna's at the Yule Ball two years ago" she explain to her mum. "Mum I need some as well" said Ron, once again, trying to make sure no one heard him. "What?!" she asked angrily "You've gotten a new pair two years in a row Ronald!" she roared. "Mum I've grown this summer" he answered. "Alright Ron, but they will be second hand of course, so you may not like them very much" she replied he nodded and left to find the robes shop.
When they got there Colleen ran strait for the racks of Dress robes in the center, of course the girls section and Hermione followed, then Ginny. Colleen picked out a dark blue dress that matched her dark blue, almost purple eyes. She went into a dressing room and started to change. Harry and Ron made there way over to the boy's dress robes. James and Sirius walked over to the men's section to look for new robes all together. While Lily and Serena walked over to the women's section, to look at robes of all kinds.
When Colleen walked out of the dressing room she looked amazing, everyone turned their heads to look at her. Harry's mouth dropped in amazement. The dark blue silk clung around her skinny body, the dress flared out at the hips, in the center section of the large flare was a lighter blue silk. The top of the dress had open shoulders, but then had clear white sleeves, so you could see her skinny, pale arms, and the sleeves drooped across it's self purposely.
"Whoa!" said Sirius looking very impressed. "You look amazing!" said Serena very happily. Harry's gaze didn't leave her until she went back into the dressing room to change back into her regular robes. "Harry, do you er- like her?" Ron asked quietly so no one except Harry could hear. "Uhh- yeah" he answered hesitantly. "I knew you would, I said so in the letter didn't I!" he said excitedly.
Ron picked out a teal green pair of dress robes. Harry picked out a pair dark blue ones, almost the same color as Colleen's. Colleen got a few pairs of school robes and the dress robes she tried on. Hermione and Ginny both got a pair of dress robes, Hermione's light blue, and Ginny's maroon.
Next they went to flourish and blots for all there books for the next year at Hogwarts. Harry already had Practical Defensive Magic and it's Use Against the Dark Arts because Sirius and Lupin had given it to him for Christmas last year. He needed The standard book of spells; year six, N.E.W.T.s level potions, N.E.W.T.s level transfiguration, Astronomy year six, Fantastic Beasts and were to find them, Charms for N.E.W.T. level witches and wizards, History of magic; year six still. They bought all there books and left flourish and blots.
They found everything else they needed before heading back to twelve Grimmauld Place for a late lunch. After they ate lunch they went up to Ron's room to talk.
"Look what my dad gave me this morning" Harry said happily pulling the box with the snitch in it and let the snitch out. "Whoa that's great Harry, do you think McGonagall is going to let you back on the team if Ginny becomes a chaser?" he said curiously. "I think so, and I don't think Katie is going to want to be captain so....I think I'm the new Gryffindor captain!" he said excitedly.
"That's terrific Harry!" said Hermione almost as excited as him. "Who do you think they're going to get to play the other chaser?" Ginny asked sweetly. "I'm going to try out" said Colleen nervously. "Really?" asked Ron curiously "I'm keeper, Ginny is Chaser, or so we think, Katie Bell is a chaser, Harry is seeker, and we have two nimrod beaters." "But if you're any good, we've got a good chance at the cup, especially with Harry's fire bolt" said Ginny and Harry and Colleen looked at each other and snickered slightly. "What?" Ron asked happily. "I have a lightning bolt; only out in America so far, they'll be out next year in England. It's as fast as a fire bolt, but it goes by what's in your head, instead of what you say."
They all looked at each other in astonishment except Harry and Colleen. "Do you want to see it?" she asked curiously. "Then we can also show you where we live now too!" said Harry excitedly. "Alright" said Ron happily walking over to the door open and said "are you coming?" They walked down stairs, and into the kitchen where Mrs. Weasley, Sirius, Serena, Lily, and James.
"Dad we're going to see Colleen's broom, and see if it's faster than mine, we'll be back later, alright?" said Harry. "Right, go on" said James happily. As soon as they left James told him his thoughts about Harry "I think he's flirting" he told them and they all smiled and agreed, then James told them about the snitch incident.
Ron, Ginny, Hermione, Colleen, and Harry walked down to 3 Stag Horn Way. Harry and Ron went to get Harry's broom, Ron was amazed at his bed room. Hermione, Ginny, and Colleen went to get Colleen's broom, and they all met out side behind the house to see the brooms race. She held out her broom for Harry to see. It was perfectly groomed, like his fire bolt. It had the same shape as his fire bolt, but it was blue and silver, instead of his that was wood.
"The colors change when you are on a different Quidditch team" she said noticing that Harry was looking at the colors. "That's great!" said Ron in awe. "Well, what are we waiting for?" said Colleen mounting her broom "are we going to race or are we just going to stand around?" Harry mounted his own broom "on the count of three, one.....two.....three!" he said, they both kicked off from the ground and flew into the air and around the back yard neck and neck, first slowly, then sped up, but still neck and neck.
"Do you wanna crank it up or are we going to keep going slow?" Colleen asked Harry calmly, he laughed slightly then they both sped up. They went flying around trees and Harry yelled to Colleen "we'd better turn back; we're going into another muggle neighborhood!" "Alright let's go!" she said, and they both turned around back to Stag horn way, were they met Ron, Hermione and Ginny in shock.
Colleen smiled as she dismounted her broom and stood on the ground steadily and held up her broom "and that's a lightning bolt" she said. "Whoa!" that's one great broom!" said Ron in awe. "Can I try it?" Ron asked, Colleen nodded and handed him the broom. He mounted and kicked off from the ground and soared into the air and around the back yard and back down again. "That is so terrific, amazing absolutely amazing" said Ginny staring at the broom. Colleen smiled and thanked her for the complement and took the broom out of Ron's hands. She mounted her broom and flew up to a balcony on her house and walked into the door that stood ajar then came back in another minute.
She then went up to the rim, and flipped down two stories to stand before them. "I've been dieing to do that since yesterday" she said explaining what she had just done, then smiled. Harry smiled back and said "that's alright, there just impulses. She smiled and blushed to an extremely bright color, she thought that she really liked him, more than a friend.
They went back to Grimmauld Place to drop Ron, Ginny, and Hermione back off. When they got into the kitchen they found Dumbledore talking to Mr. and Mrs. Weasley who were smiling about something. "Ginny dear Dumbledore has something to give you" said Mrs. Weasley overly happy. Ginny walked over to Dumbledore and he handed her a red badge and said "Congratulations Ginny!" Ron, Hermione, and Harry looked at each other, their mouths open in awe.
"Fifth one in the family!" she shrieked. "I don't believe it!" Ginny said in disbelief "it can't be, it has to be a mistake, no way!" "Dumbledore gave it to you personally, it's not a mistake" said Mr. Weasley starting to smile.
"What'll it be Ginny?" asked Mrs. Weasley smiling even wider then before "a broom? No you have one of those, an owl, maybe?" asked Mrs. Weasley. Ginny considered for a second and then said "an owl, or at least a pet, can I come with you to pick it out at least?" Mrs. Weasley nodded and said "sure we'll go tomorrow dear."
"Er- Mrs. Weasley where is my mom and dad?" Colleen asked. "Your dad is up stairs with James, feeding Buckbeak, and your mom is in the drawing room with Lily" answered Mr. Weasley. "Thank you" she said smiling "come on Harry let's go get our dads" she said turning on her heel and walking out of the kitchen, and Harry followed her out.
They went upstairs to the room Buckbeak was and sure enough there was James and Sirius and of course Buckbeak. They closed the door and crossed over to where they all stood. "Hello" said James happily. "Had a good time?" Sirius asked both of them who were now petting Buckbeak gently. They both nodded and Harry asked "Are you ready to go?" "Yeah one minute I have to give Buckbeak this last one" he said holding up a dead rat then giving it to Buckbeak who devoured it quickly.
They found Lily and Serena in an intense conversation about how they died. When they walked in Lily and Serena stopped and looked at them. "Hello" said Lily happily. They walked back to Stag Horn Way engaged in conversation about Quidditch teams and moves.
The next weeks flew by very fast. They were either playing Quidditch, or racing brooms. But mostly they talked about Hogwarts, about teachers, feasts traditions, students, everything. On the last day before Hogwarts, they all finished packing then went over to Grimmauld Place for a back to school dinner.
They had a huge dinner and everyone was happy. Ron and Hermione briefed Ginny about what being a prefect and the first meeting they had to attend on the train. "You know I want to learn how to become an Animagus" Harry said quietly to Colleen and she nodded, then said "it'll be difficult especially because you might want to puck up the potion but, you'll probably be able to deal with it though" she said happily digging into her plate of food.
"I can't wait until tomorrow" Sirius said happily, James nodded but instead of talking he shoved more food into his mouth. Lily looked at her husband slightly disgusted "me too, first time back to Hogwarts in years!" she said excitedly. "Severus isn't going to take unjust points from Gryffindor any more" she said and Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Harry looked at each other, each with a pleased look on their face "those points will be coming from Slytherin from now on" she smiled.
They finished dinner and said good bye to every one and left for Stag Horn Way to go to bed. When they got to Stag Horn Way they said good bye to Sirius, Serena, and Colleen, and went home. Lily and James said good night to Harry, and he went to bed.
