Mr. Tibbles started the tour out with the dining room. Since Harry hadn't had the tour yet either, he was looking forward to seeing what his new home had.
There were five chandeliers arranged in a star pattern hanging from the ceiling. The combination of the cut crystals and the candles gave off a warm glow. The polished oak circular tables were situated below each chandelier with another smaller rectangular table along the south wall that was on a platform that raised a foot above the floor. It reminded Harry of the high table where the professors sat at Hogwarts.
The two men just glanced into the ballroom, not really interested in dancing at this time being men. Harry compared it to pictures he had seen in a couple of Hermione's books.
The next room that was of interest those was the muggle room. In the southwest corner was a full size billiards table covered with Gryffindor red felt. There was an ebony rack on the wall next to it filled with cues and balls lined up on the bottom. Nearby was a dartboard. The northwest corner had a largish corner desk with a familiar computer on it. The southeast corner had a wide screen television that was taller than Harry with a state of the art sound system attached to it. There was a couple of racks nearby that had Harry's CD's on it that he had purchased in London. Harry had not realized that Mr. Tibbles was that efficient.
The next set of rooms that they visited were Harry's suite of rooms. Remus was very impressed. Harry had to physically drag him out of his library though with a promise to let him visit it later.
Harry's stomach started growling, causing Remus to laugh and exclaim, "I guess our tour will be cut short due to a hungry Harry!"
Harry glared at the werewolf, embarrassed and mortified by his betraying stomach.
Mr. Tibbles appeared with the typical crack of a house elf with a large picnic basket filled to the brim with various goodies and suggested lunch to be held on the Quidditch pitch where Master Harry could practice afterwards. Harry brightened at the suggestion and asked the elf to join them for lunch as well.
The trio proceeded outside to the pitch after making a quick detour to the Quidditch room to pick up a couple of Nimbus 2000 brooms, a Quaffle, and a practice snitch for Harry. The intention was to have a pickup game after lunch between the two wizards.
As they proceeded, Remus reminisced to Harry about one of his father's more interesting games in which both Sirius and James played Chasers during their fifth year. Of course the match was between Gryffindor and Slytherin. James and Sirius were competing against each other to show off their flashiest, boldest, and most dangerous moves in order to impress the girls in the crowd. In James' case, it was solely to try and catch Lily Evan's eyes. In Sirius Black's though it was a group of about six different girls, each of which he had been trying to get alone in a broom cupboard for the past month.
Although his gaggle of girls were ooohing and ahhhing over Sirius's antics, Lily was pointedly ignoring whatever James did since she had caught him tormenting Severus the prior day.
Madam Hooch, who was the referee, even back then, gave the pair of them so many penalties that Slytherin actually won the game, even though the Gryffindor seeker actually caught the snitch. Needless to say, this did not make the boys popular with either Professor Mcgonagall or the rest of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team. She ended up giving them both detentions scrubbing all the boys toilets for the next week. The team got even with James and Sirius as well. The pranksters found themselves pranked, when the next morning stuck to their sheets with honey and their heads engorged to twice their normal size, in large glowing letters hanging over their heads stating in no uncertain terms that playing like that would not be tolerated again.
James and Sirius readily agreed to it since scrubbing dirty toilets is no fun, but it started a prank war between them and the rest of the team that lasted all week. Marauder honor was at stake now.
The tale brought tears and laughter to Harry, having never heard much of anything about his parents except what insults Professor Snape decided to heap upon him about his father.
After an enjoyable repast, it was time for Quidditch! Harry spent several minutes after getting on his broom, just flying around, diving, and doing other aerial maneuvers. He was just so happy to be back in the air. Mr. Tibbles left at this time, begging
Since there was only Harry and Remus playing, both wizards played Chaser, leaving the goals unguarded.
After a couple hours of them, Remus begged off and sat down to watch Harry practice with the Snitch. His heart nearly stopped though when Harry did a Wronski Feint and immediately caught the snitch afterwards.
Calling it quits for the night on the pitch, Harry asked Remus to help him practice dueling then in the Salle. The werewolf was hesitant since they were so tired, but Harry reminded him that Death Eaters would not be lenient on him if they knew he was tired and so needed practice dueling while tired. Reluctantly agreeing, the pair retired to the Dueling Chamber.
Harry and Remus agreed on the rules before beginning though. Since they were working on stamina and speed while dueling tired, specified that only stunners and shield spells would be used.
The duel resembled something out of Star Wars. Bright red bolts zapping across and bouncing off invisible shields that glowed blue for a split second on impact.
Since the werewolf undeniably had better reflexes and stamina, Remus was keeping Harry on the edge of his current abilities. Harry was panting and gasping for breath near the end, as he had to nearly continuously dodge curses thrown at him non-stop by his ex-professor.
Getting frustrated with his lack of success against Remus, Harry had had his wand extended towards the werewolf when a powerful stunner was released from it without an audible incantation.
Barely blocking it in his disbelief, Remus gaped at Harry in shock momentarily and then gave a grin worthy of Sirius Black.
"Harry, do you realize what you just did? You did the spell without the incantation being spoken! Only powerful wizards can do that!"
Harry nearly dropped his wand at this revelation.
Great, yet another reason for me to be thought of as a freak Harry thought as he grimaced in reaction.
Seeing Harry's expression, the werewolf quickly tried to reassure him that it was not a bad thing.
"Harry, there are many wizards out there that can do that with spells such as closing windows or doors. Even Snape can do it on occasion!" said Remus.
A little mollified, Harry relaxed and promised himself he would think about what just happened objectively later before bed while doing his Occlumency review for the day.
"I'm okay with it Moony. Just a tad bit shocked right now is all. However, I would like to stop now and eat dinner by myself right now and think it over and get a bit of reading done before I fall asleep. I promise I will not brood about it as you put it earlier!" replied Harry.
Sensing that this was the end of the discussion, Remus said, "I believe you Harry but hope you do not mind if I ask Mr. Tibbles to check up on you later to make sure you ate! You still look too think and Molly will have my hide if I do not make sure you are eating properly."
At this amicable parting, the two wizards parted company for the night and headed back to their respective rooms.
After Harry arrived at his room, he summoned the house elf and asked him to prepare a simple muggle dinner for him known as Grilled Cheese with cream of tomato soup with some milk to wash it down.
After the house elf left to prepare the dinner, Harry settled down in one of his comfy chairs in his sitting room with the book on wand making that he found in his master library.
Author's Note: I know it's short and been a while. Chapter Ten should be out in June. Anybody have any guesses what Harry is going to do with the book? I'm not saying but of course I know. One or more of the Weasley's will be showing up in either the next chapter or the one right after it. The question is should it be Ron, Ginny, or the twins?
stay tuned as I plan on updating much sooner than I have.