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Innovo Adorior
A New Rise
CHAPTER 5 'Of Nightmares and Secrets'
"This will be your room," He said and Harry walked through the door to be completely shocked at what met his eyes, "It was an old spare room I had. The house elves fixed up for you. Do you like it?" Severus asked with what sounded like worry in his voice. Harry looked around at the room; it had a large four-poster bed, a chest for his clothes, and a nightstand beside the bed with a light on it for reading. But mostly what caught his eye was that it wasn't decorated in Slytherin for as the rest of the living space was, but in his own Gryfindor colors and Lions where the snakes used to be. And the wood on his four-poster and chest were done in a very deep mahogany. Harry looked up at Severus, not sure what to say.
"I... Yes, I do like it, a lot, thank you!" He said beaming at his fathers now relaxed features. "Is my stuff down here already?" Harry asked. Severus looked thoughtful for a moment.
"I am not sure, why don't you check." Severus told his son. Harry walked over to his chest and opened one of the drawers, and sure enough, there were his things. "If you have to go to bathroom, this door here will lead to your own bathroom." Harry looked where he was pointing and there was a door there that he hadn't noticed before and another next to it. Harry went over to the other door and opened it to find a closet, but what surprised him was there leaning in the corner, was his Firebolt. He bent down and retrieved it carefully from its resting place. Severus saw this and smiled.
"Ah, yes, Albus thought that you might like that back now." Severus said with a small smile at Harry's reaction, "Alright, time to sleep." He felt weird saying that to his son. He had only ever told that to his Slytherins when they stayed up to late, but even then it had been angrily. Harry set his broomstick down and nodded. Soon they were both in a deep slumber, one peacefully, and the other not so. Harry was joined by a nightmare that night.
Harry was walking through the castle halls, with a destination in mind but he wasn't sure where it was. The halls were deserted and quiet except for the pounding rain outside and the thunder echoing through the halls. Then Harry came upon Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Neville, and Luna. They all smiled at him and stood there as if expecting him. Harry felt drawn to them and went, but when he reached them he had no control over himself. He waved his hand at them and they all fell one by one to the floor, dead. Harry pushed hard against the wall blocking him from control of his body. He had to stop, but he was to late, he had killed his best friends. But whoever was in control of his body didn't care, just kept him walking. He sensed he was close to wherever he was headed when he met three more people, Sirius, Remus, and Albus. Harry tried to stop himself again but to no avail, he had tortured and killed the three. Harry was starting to go mad and tried to stop himself. He couldn't lose his Godfather, or his mentor and teacher. 'No!' Harry screamed through his mind, pounding furiously on the mental block harder than ever. Then whom he saw next in his path made his heart stop. Severus. Suddenly his heart was pounding furiously as he did everything he could to try and break down the wall that still blocked him as strong as ever. 'NO! Father, no not father, please, me instead, he doesn't deserve this!' he screamed out madly hoping to detour himself from torturing and killing a father he just barely knew. "STOP! No I won't let you. Father run!' he screamed out but his father only smiled and walked to him. 'No, please, no' Harry said softly, his mind giving out beneath him. He felt so helpless; he couldn't save his own father. Harry watched with tears as he tortured his father. His father in silent screams of agony, looked up at Harry accusingly. "Your not my son. You never can or will be, I hate you." He had said. 'No!' Harry yelled once again, trying to get his father to notice that it wasn't him. But then he had killed him, and watched his still, dead body lying on the ground. 'NO!' Then everything around him started shaking violently. The world seemed to fall around him. Then he opened his eyes to see his father sitting on the bed beside him shaking him trying to wake him.
"Oh, I'm sorry, please, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to I couldn't stop, please don't be angry..." Harry said tearfully to his father who looked at him with concern. Severus' heart broke at these words; Harry thought he was angry with him? Then Harry had started...crying? He had never seen this side of Harry and didn't know what to do, so he let his instincts take over. He pulled Harry into his arms and rocked him slightly.
"Shh...it's all right, it was just a dream. Shh...it's okay, Harry..."Severus whispered into the child's hair. He wondered what would get this sort of reaction out of a boy who seemed so strong, then he realized that was what Harry was, a boy. He couldn't be expected to be able to stand against everything that came his way. Then he noticed Harry had stopped shaking and crying. He looked down to find the boy searching his face, for what he didn't know.
'How could killing everyone you cared so much about be alright?' Harry thought savagely to himself. Harry had realized that he was crying. 'How stupid of me, and in front of Severus too. Great now he is going to think I am weak. Harry looked up to Severus' face looking for any hint of disappointment or dislike, but found only concern and care for him. Harry was surprised to say the least. Then he wondered what had brought him out here. Had he talked aloud?
"Umm... why did you come in here?" Harry asked quietly not wanting to anger Severus. He looked down at Harry, brow furrowed. He had heard Harry screaming out to him, he had come, and realized that Harry wasn't doing it aloud but telepathically. He was worried by what he had heard, what was happening to him in Harry's dream that he didn't like, and would sacrifice himself for? Who was doing it?
"You called out to me telepathically Harry. Harry what was going on in your dream?" Severus asked watching Harry for any hint that he had out stepped his bounds. He didn't want to ruin things for him and Harry. Harry looked away from his face and down at the bed.
"I saw...I...My friends, and Sirius, Remus, Albus, and...and you. I..." Harry broke off remembering what exactly had happened. It scared him to death, "It...it was nothing." He finished lamely, but he didn't want Severus to think anything worse of him than he already did. Severus seemed to realize this and frowned.
"Harry it is alright you can tell me you know. I won't think any less of you." Severus said to the gloomy child before him. Harry looked up.
"I did it. But I didn't want to I tried to stop, but I couldn't, someone was controlling me I think, I...I'm sorry, I don't mean to be so weak, I just never..." Harry said quietly almost in a whisper. Severus' frown deepened, he didn't think Harry was weak. Is that what his boy was so afraid of? That his father would look down upon him for this?
"Harry, I don't think your weak. Now what did you do?" Severus replied gently to Harry who let a small smile flash briefly across his face before it was gone again. His father didn't think he was weak. Harry felt better now about this. But that changed as he realized his father didn't know what he did in his dream and wanted to know.
"I... I tortured and killed them...and, and you too." Harry said quieter than anything else he had said. Severus drew back quickly at Harry's words. 'He had tortured and killed us?' a small part of Severus' mind thought. He then looked into Harry's face as Harry winced. Did he think he was going to hit him? Did he do something wrong already? He moved down quickly to pull Harry into another hug but Harry flinched away.
"Harry...what is it? I...I'm sorry, what's wrong?" Severus asked hoping to be able to fix what ever the problem was. Harry looked up at him in shock then back down to the floor.
"You aren't mad?" he asked. Severus' face softened at these words.
"No I am not mad, there is no reason to be." He told Harry, who seemed better now that this was revealed and hugged Severus shortly then went back down into his bed and covered up.
"Thank you." Harry said and Severus stood to leave and at the door he heard Harry whispering again, "Good night father." Severus smiled to himself and kept walking, everything was fine between them. The rest of the night went peacefully, without nightmares.
The next few weeks passed without any problems, except from McGonagall who kept insisting to Harry that he could be moved if he would like, there was plenty of room elsewhere in the castle, she would tell him. But Harry remained adamant about staying in his fathers' rooms with him. Though McGonagall didn't know of the relationship. Harry had been getting to know his father better over the past few weeks and spending time with Sirius and Remus. Remus who had just found out that Harry was an animagus, was shocked to find how quickly he could do it and even more shocked when he turned into a werewolf that looked exactly like his during the full moon. He had also finally agreed to let Harry stay with him and Sirius during the full moon in one of his shapes. The night of the full moon, Moony, Padfoot, and Prongs Jr. walked Hogwarts grounds once again; as Harry had decided to become a young stag, and James had been a full-grown stag; which earned him the nickname prongs. Remus agreed to let Harry come along for the full moons to come, but first he had to tell Albus of his abilities. Harry agreed quickly and searched the castle with his mind to find Albus. He found him in his office at his desk where Harry gently prodded his mind seeking admittance. He felt Albus agree and talked.
Albus? I was wondering if there was a time we could talk? We might want father there as well, as he will need to know. Harry told Albus, who smiled at Harry's unconscious use of Severus' title as his father.
Of course Harry. I have some free time now if you would like. I could call Severus up as well? Albus ventured
Alright then. See you in a couple of minutes. Harry replied. Then he turned to Sirius and Remus who were looking at him curiously.
"We have a meeting with Albus now." Harry smiled at their baffled looks but turned into a Phoenix and flew off to The Headmasters office. Meet you up there! He called over his shoulder into their minds, trilling happily at their even more startled looks and watched as they darted to the entrance doors. Harry spotted a window he was sure was the one into Albus' office and landed on the sill looking through the open window at Albus who was sitting behind his desk. Harry looked around and saw Fawks Albus' pet Phoenix. Harry trilled softly from the sill a soothing note. Lo, Fawks. Harry thought at the other phoenix and flew to perch beside him.
Evening. Fawks replied to Harry looking at him. Harry started but soon regained himself and looked at Albus who had heard Harry s soft note of greetings and turned to see them. And widened his eyes when he saw two Phoenixes perched on the stand behind him.
"Well hello there little fellow, who might you be?" Albus asked the second Phoenix. Harry trilled a note of joy as he saw Remus and Sirius enter the room shortly followed by Severus. They all came in and sat around Albus' desk and looked at him.
"Which one are you? You little bugger. You know we can't fly." Sirius had told the two Phoenixes perched on the stand. Harry flew down onto Albus' desk and trilled again to answer Sirius' question. Then jumped to the floor amid the small group and changed back into his natural form causing Severus' eyes to widen and Albus to stare shocked while Sirius and Remus stifled their laughter.
"When did you learn to do that? Why didn't you tell us you've been studying to be an animagus?" Severus demanded. Albus just looked at him for a minute.
"So, tell me, how did you keep your studies from us all this time?" Albus inquired. Harry just smiled sheepishly.
"Well, because I have only learned how a couple days ago." Harry replied simply. Now Albus and Severus' brows shot up, "I am also a polyanimagus." They completely lost their brows in their hairline at this.
"You're a what?" they both exclaimed at the same time. Harry just smiled bigger. He knew they heard him so didn't repeat himself. Severus looked almost faint and Albus looked like a five year old who was told Christmas would come every day this year.
"Are you really?" He asked, "Would you show us another animal or two?" Harry smiled and nodded, then proceeded to his lion shape, and the Pslank that Hermione had wanted to see. They all enjoyed watching how effortless it was for him already. Sirius beamed in pride as he watched the young polyanimagus. After he was done he met applause from all around him.
"Err, Albus. I was going to register, but only one of my animagus forms, do you think that is possible?" Harry asked looking to the old man. Albus smiled.
"Of course Harry. We will get that done just now if you like." Then with a wave of his hand he produced paper work with the Ministry of Magic's seal on it. Headed by Animagus Registry Form. Harry beamed. He took it and immediately set to work filling it out. He finished quickly. He had decided to register his Phoenix form. He beamed and handed Albus the paper work. He smiled and with a poof the paper was gone, and almost immediately a Ministry representative stepped through the fireplace to test Harry, which only included showing him the form and changing back and forth quickly. Harry passed with flying colors. They shook hands and he was gone again that quickly.
The time flew by and once again in was full moon and Harry and Sirius joined Remus that night, Harry as his Lion form, and once again began exploring the forest, the elder two showing Harry places in the forest he might otherwise have never known about. Harry also seemed to be getting to know the castle better than anyone else. He often explored testing his knowledge of the place. He always knew where he was without asking. Which was very good for the upcoming year. Harry planned to spread the laughter through some pranks, but none that would do damage, physically, mentally or emotionally. He made that promise to himself after he had seen what James had been like to Severus in their childhood.
Soon the end of July came and with it Harry's Birthday. He couldn't wait. His friends were going to be able to come and visit him that day. The night before his birthday, Harry could have burst with happiness. He lay down to sleep hoping to dream of the next day to come. He was wrong no dream of happiness came that night.
He was watching himself walking through the halls. His eyes were focused on the ground and he seemed to be walking out a map that was in his head. But there was something different about him. He had a tattoo on his face, just between his eyes on his forehead was a mark he focused on looking closer and was surprised when he actually came closer to look at it. It was a picture of Harry saw on a banner in the Great Hall. It was the four Hogwarts animals all intertwined and battling together. Then all of a sudden the Harry walking down the Halls looked up almost straight at Harry who was watching. The eyes scared Harry. They were all black no color at all, even the white around the iris was black. But where the pupil should be was like white flames. Then he walked right by and through a door that Harry was standing in front of. Harry recognized it as the one he had dreamt about that last time when he had killed everyone around him. This time though, he got through the door. Inside the room was a high ceiling where he couldn't see where it ended. The floor was done in black marble with white streaks and the furniture was designed with an assortment of Lions, Snakes, Ravens, and Badgers. The four house animals. Harry noticed there were many doors leading off of the room, and wondered where exactly they led. Then the dream Harry walked up to one next to the largest fireplace he had ever seen, and walked through. Harry followed quickly and found himself in a small dark room, no a closet, he corrected himself. The dream Harry then opened the closet door to lead him into another room, it appeared to be Sirius and Remus' rooms, and He wondered what he would be doing here. Then a couple of figures moved in the room. Harry turned quickly to see something that made his heart beat a mile a minute. Death eaters, they were surrounding the beds that his friends slept in. Harry stepped between them and the beds as they raised their wands. They didn't even seem to notice he was there. 'Stop! Don't come any closer.' Harry told them but still they came. The dream Harry just behind them. Harry stared at the other daring him to make a move, and he did, the black-white eyes shifted from the two sleeping forms directly into Harry's own green, and smile an evil malicious smile that made Harry queasy to look at. Such hate and malice from his own face was unbearable to see. Harry turned to Sirius and Remus. 'Get up! Get up! You're under attack! Come on get up please!' Harry said to them but they didn't stir. SIRIUS! REMUS get up now! NO! No please no not them please what did they ever do? DON'T KILL THEM! NOO, STOP! Sirius, Remus. Harry had pleaded as much as he could, but had in the end been forced to see their tortured faces glaring at him accusingly, much the same way as his father had in his last dream. He finished in a whisper and fell to the floor, unable to go on. He had done it again. He'd killed. And not just anyone, his Godfather and teacher, they were his friends. Why did he keep doing this? Why was he killing the people he cared most about? Then his head jerked up as someone ran into the room. 'No.' Harry thought wishing it weren't true; he knew what was going to happen next and tried again fruitlessly to stop himself from killing Albus. As he stood staring down at the body of his most trusted confidant and Headmaster, Harry then put a hand to his own chest right above his heart. He heard himself mutter the killing curse before everything went black and he just seemed to be floating between consciousness and sleep. He heard voices around him but not what they were saying. He tried to open his eyes but they were pounding and his body ached if he tried to move anything. Somehow he must have actually tried casting the curse on himself. Which caused him to shoot his eyes open and he instantly regretted it. He moaned and tried to sit up. But a hand restrained him from doing so.
"Shh...little one lie still, you must rest." Said a soothing voice that was Albus.
"Albus, how did this happen? What does this mean?" Said another voice that was in the room, it was Remus. Soon another voice came into focus.
"What can we do? Is there anything we can do to keep this from happening again?" His fathers voice was so worried. Harry wondered what they were all doing there. But before he could ask he was answered.
"And why did we hear him? Is it because he is a telepath or what? He sounded worried, that we were getting killed...Albus what's happening to him." Sirius asked confused and concerned for his Godson.
"Well, I am not sure but there is something he is keeping from us, Harry please are you using an concealment charms?" Albus asked him gently and quietly. Harry thought about it for a moment.
"No..." Then remembered, he was using a concealing charm to hide his powers from them, he had forgotten he had it up, "Yes actually sir. Do you want me to take it down?" Harry asked warily. He saw Albus give a small nod.
But sir please, it is not good to leave it in the open. Harry pleaded at Albus, but Albus sent him encouragement and so Harry took down the charm he had automatically set up since He had woken up in the hospital wing after the battle. He saw everyone gasp as his power filled the room and coursed through their bodies. A faint glow came from his eyes as his power continued to grow within him. Everyone was wide eyed in shock and looked at him in confusion.
A charm I used to hide my power from you all, I thought it would be kind of frightening for you, as it scares even me. Harry told them all through his thoughts. They all nodded in understanding.
"Harry it is not good for you to keep a concealment charm up all the time. It might do you damage..." Harry cut him off.
"Like my dreams? And how I was actually affected by the killing curse outside of my dream?" He asked and instantly regretted it as they all gawked at him, obviously they hadn't known that much of his dream.
"What! The killing curse! It was in your dream and set on you? By who?" Severus demanded.
"Yes, it was in my dream, a lot and the last one too, but it was silently set then, now it was set on me by myself after I had been forced to kill you three..." Harry said barely audibly then looked at Albus, Sirius, and Remus. Severus frowned, he remembered last time he Harry had this sort of dream. He felt sorry that his son had to go through this and instinctively moved up to him and held his son in his arms once again. Not caring that the other three stood there looking like goldfish. The other three looked at each other, it appears this is not the first time it has happened. But they said nothing, Severus seemed to know what he was doing and it was calming Harry down.
Harry sat in Severus' arms for a while before the pain came back and he tensed trying to ward it off, and gritted his teeth to keep from making a noise, he didn't want to interrupt his father, he felt safe in his arms. Severus felt Harry tense and heard him clench his teeth. He quickly backed away and lowered Harry gently back into his bed. Albus came over and set a pain relief spell on him and Harry relaxed somewhat. Harry looked into the faces of the people that cared so much about him and didn't know what he did to deserve them, then his eyelids drooped and he gave in to a light slumber.
The three men backed quietly out of the room to leave Severus and his son alone while Harry slept. Severus gently stroked Harry's hair and smiled when Harry leaned into his touch. He really loved his son, and he was going to do anything and everything he could to help prevent this from happening again. Severus glanced at the clock, 1:00 am. The first thing his son saw on his sixteenth birthday was not good, he would have to make this the best birthday party ever for Harry. Little did he know, Harry has never really had a birthday party before.
The next day when Harry woke up there was no hint of the pain he had earlier that morning. He then remembered it was his birthday, and jumped out of bed and quickly dressed. He went to put on his glasses but then realized he saw perfectly well with out them. He smiled to himself. He wondered if anyone would notice. Then headed out of his room to meet his father in the living room. He smiled his father was with him last night; he didn't feel his presence leave his side once.
Morning father, Harry thought cheerfully to Severus, who turned and smiled at Harry's approach, is everyone else here yet? He asked. Severus looked thoughtful for a moment.
"Well, you know I'm not sure, why don't we go check? And Harry, where are your glasses?" Severus added noticing they were gone. Harry grinned, of course how could he think his father wouldn't notice?
"My eyes are better, the charms mum put on me must have included my eyes. I've noticed other things as well, you see I'm almost as tall as you now." Harry said grinning and stood on his tiptoes to be taller than his father, who pushed him back down to his normal height. Severus grinned; their relationship sure had changed dramatically from about a month ago. Severus noticed the other changes in Harry though as his hair was now longer to his shoulders and much more tamable and a sleek blue/black color like his own, though with slight waves from his mother. He was definitely taller than he had been last night. And then a really intriguing detail was that his startling green eyes had an outline of back around them.
"Come on lets see if any one's here yet." And with that, the two headed down to the great hall. On the way the armor still bowed and saluted Harry, but he paid it no mind as he had seen them do it every time he passed. Severus however had not seen this happed before and actually jumped at the first one then stared at the rest. He saw Harry acted as if nothing out of the ordinary was happening.
"Do they always do that for you?" Severus asked in shock as they reached the doors to the great hall. Harry looked confused, then remembered his father hasn't walked with him down the halls yet so wasn't used to the armors strange behavior. Harry grinned.
"Yes, the portraits as well but I guess I've tuned them out. I've given up telling them to stop, they never listen anyway." Harry explained. Severus just blinked.
"Why?" He asked.
"Well, I am not sure they just started doing it after the battle at the Department of Mysteries." Harry said looking down at the floor.
"Ah, we'll figure it out later come on now let's go in." Severus told his son. Harry nodded in agreement and they pushed the doors open. Harry had to blink a couple of times before the room came into focus. It was pitch black, even the windows seemed to be blocked. Harry wondered what was going on, if it could be an attack, but it couldn't he destroyed Voldemort, hadn't he. He looked where his father should be, but he was gone. Harry heard some whispering in a far corner and slowly reached for his wand. Suddenly the lights burst into life and the windows shown light and a thunderous 'Happy Birthday Harry' sounded through the room. Harry let the hand that was now holding his wand fall limp at his side as he looked around. Everyone was here. All his friends and people from the Order, Harry couldn't have forced the smile that spread ear to ear off his face even if he had wanted to. He was having a birthday party. A real one, there was cake and ice cream on a table at one side of the room along with any kind of foods you could think of. On the other wall across from the food table was another table, but it was filled with presents, more than Harry had ever seen. In the center of the floor were many smaller round tables with place settings and in front of him were his most faithful friends, Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Luna, Neville, and the others from Gryfindor tower. Right behind them were those from the Order that he knew best; Moody, Tonks, Kingsley, Dedalus, and of course Remus, Sirius, Albus and his father. He couldn't find the words to let them know how happy he was. He fought the tears back and was glad he could hold them so not cry like a baby in front of everyone he knew and cared about.
His friends, who knew this was his first real birthday party, hoped that those tears he was fighting were of joy, and was glad to find they were at his huge smile. The group started singing the birthday song to him as a cake was levitated towards him with sixteen candles burning brightly. It was decorated with a snitch and the words 'Happy Birthday Harry!' scrolling across the middle. Harry smiled and blew out the candles when they finished the song. Every one applauded and cheered wishing him a great year. Soon everyone had dug in to their food and were chatting merrily. When it came time for presents Harry was pulled to the center of the table and surrounded by people handing him presents. The first was from the Weasley family, he had gotten his mince pies from Mrs. Weasley, and the newest jokes from Fred and George. Ron and Hermione got him Honeydukes sweets, which were most likely from Ron and a set of books on Advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts books, the stuff they don't teach in Hogwarts, which he knew were from Hermione. Charlie and Bill, the eldest of the Weasley children had sent him a set of robes that were specially made and would deflect most hexes, curses, charms, and spells fired at him, as well as Dragon fire (an addition from Charlie) Harry smiled and thanked them. Next it was Neville who had given him a plant of some sort he had never seen before. Neville was only too happy to teach Harry about them. It was apparently a Concerus Platel, something that when eaten would grant the person ten minutes of seeing the spirits of the dead and communicate with them. Harry stared at Neville wondering how he could have thought of something like this, now he could talk to his mother and James. Harry gave a very heart felt thanks. Neville just beamed at the thought that Harry loved his present. Now Luna came forward and handed him a box with holes in the lid. Harry looked at it warily at first then pulled the lid off slowly and looked into the box. Staring up at him with huge gray eyes that didn't blink, much like Luna's Harry thought, was a small-bodied creature. It was all blue and wrinkly with a horn that stuck out from the center of it's forehead that was slightly smashed looking, and it had a tiny mouth that a long red tongue stuck out of as it appeared to be smiling. It jumped around in the box, then at a surprised Harry and started liking his face like crazy. Luna just smiled.
"Good I knew it would like you, they choose their masters you know." She told Harry and he just blinked at her.
"Uh, Luna? What exactly is it?" She smiled at him then glanced to Hermione and back to Harry.
"It's a Crumple Horned Snorkack." Hermiones' eyes widened as she looked form Luna to the Snorkack that made itself comfortable in Harry's lap, "We found it on a search in the United States, apparently they like the rainy weather of only one of the states over there, something like Worshin tan or Wayshing town." Luna told the whole room as they gawked. Harry smiled.
"Thank you so much Luna!" He told her, but she stopped him.
"Please, thank you. He didn't agree to me or my father as its master and started wrecking up the house." Then she smiled dreamily and headed to the back of the group of people. Harry stared after her. She definitely was weird, but at least she didn't try to copy other people. Ginny came up quietly and set down a wrapped box and backed off quickly Harry looked down and opened it up. Inside was a very fine, delicate gold chain with a small charm hanging off it. It was a dragon and lion lying together and the lion had green eyes as the dragon had blue. Harry looked up to Ginny's deep blue eyes and smiled what he hoped was his most flattering he could muster. Ginny blushed a crimson to match her hair and looked down to the floor. Harry put the chain on and the charm fell just past the collar of his shirt and He grinned at her again.
"Thanks Gin!" He said really meaning it and she beamed right back making the breath catch in Harry's throat and he stared at her taking him her lovely face that seemed to have grown out of it's child like state. The battle had made them all grow up way too fast he thought to himself but quickly pushed that out of his mind and shook his head a bit as he turned to the next gift being offered to him. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Hermione giving the two a knowing smile and moved closer to Ron. Harry smiled and accepted the gift from Remus and Sirius. Harry wondered what they could have gotten him as took the wrappings off, that were quickly taken from him by the Snorkack and eaten Harry stared at it for a moment then smiled and looked back at his present. Harry looked confused. It was an old book as it was battered and torn, it had no title visible, He looked to Remus and Sirius who just smiled at him and he heard their thoughts.
Don't open it just yet. We will tell you what it is later, all right? Harry smiled
Alright. the last two real Marauders smiled knowingly at each other then back at Harry. Harry set the book aside as though it were made of glass and would burst to dust if he moved it too quickly, because he felt that it was something special that he should keep safe forever. Then smiled and looked back up at the next item being handed to him.
A/N
YAY C. 5 is done. Hope you are all liking this. If not... well R&R and I'll see what's up ï
