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Disclaimer: I wish I could be as good as JK Rowling but I'm not. This is her stuff and not to mention the influence that this story took from various fanfics.

Chapter 5

Grimmauld Place

Harry started out the day with his usual Physical Training which was followed by his session in wandless/wordless Defense. Harry just left the training arena and headed into the kitchen for a snack before he went to go work in the potions lab which was a long session today because it was the last day to the Wolfsbane potion that he wanted to try just in case Remus was to need it one day. While sitting in the kitchen eating his snack, he heard his name being called. It took him a second to realize that it was his mirror because he hadn't used it for so long. Harry pulled the mirror out, enlarged it again, and said, "Ginny Weasley."

Ginny's face appeared in the mirror and seemed excited for some reason, Harry asked, "How are you?"

Ginny blushed just by seeing Harry's face and noticing how he changed and looked more confident and rested. He looked so much better to her, more so than she has ever seen and she hasn't seen the rest of Harry yet. She said, "Hi Harry. I'm fine. The owls just arrived delivering everybody's letters and Hermione is extremely hyper right now." With an annoyed voice she said, "Like it's a surprise that she didn't get all O's in her scores with the exception of astronomy where she received an E."

Harry finding it amusing that Ginny seemed a bit annoyed said, "That's great. I'm really happy for her. Is everybody there?"

Ginny said, "Pretty much. Your letters have been delivered here and Hermione was trying to open your letter but you can thank Ron for protecting your letters. It's on the kitchen table and everybody seems afraid to go near it."

"Why is that?"

"It's just that everybody hoped that you would show up to get your own letters. They don't want to believe that you've disappeared. After all, how are you supposed to know that the letters arrived anyway?"

"I guess, but who is there exactly?"

"Well, my entire family is here and Hermione's family is still here. You know I think it's a good thing to have my dad and Hermione's dad together because they constantly ask each other about each other's world. It turns out that Hermione's dad is just as fascinated with the wizarding world as my dad is about the muggle world. You can definitely tell where Hermione got her thirst from knowledge from. Well, in addition to the two families, Remus is here along with Tonks. I think that Professor Dumbledore and McGonagall are showing up a little later."

"This is going to be interesting. Can you get my letters and read them to me?"

Ginny's faced changed to a hint of anger and said, "Mr. Potter, you can come here and get them yourself. Everybody is waiting to see if you will show up."

Harry smiled and said, "I tell you what Ms. Weasley, just because you look so nice, I will be there to pick up my letter."

Ginny's face lit up and asked, "When are you coming?"

"That will be a surprise." Harry wanted to get ready before going over there because he was all sweaty and smelly from his training in the morning so he said, "I have to go do something but I'll see you soon."

"Do you promise?" She paused for a moment to hear his response but he didn't so she asked again, "Harry, do you promise to show up soon?"

Harry still had a grin on his face said, "I promise that I will show up soon. Don't worry."

"Alright, I'll see you soon than Harry."

With that, Ginny disappeared and Harry went to get ready for his appearance at Grimmauld Place. He took a nice long shower and got out of the shower feeling refreshed and energized. He wore his two wand holsters again and polished his three wands. He inserted his rose wands in their respective holsters and got dressed. Harry slid his third wand in his right pants pocket. Harry was dressed in some casual clothing that complemented his body very well.

Harry walked back down to the kitchen to let Ray and Rain know what is going on. He told them that he would probably be gone for hours and will be back at night. Blaze and Nightlight were going to accompany him on his trip. Harry walked out to the barn and told the animals there that he would be leaving for a few hours. Sunrise and Sunset flew down as if they were going to follow him but Harry said, "Sunrise and Sunset, I want the two of you to stay here and watch the place. I want to keep some secrets for now."

The two phoenixes went to fly out of the barn as if they were going to go play. The three phoenixes and Harry had been having some fun playing around when Harry changed into his animagus form. Harry walked back to the kitchen and ate lunch joined by Ray, Rain, Nightlight, and Blaze.

After lunch Harry was thinking about what is about to happen. After a moment of contemplation, he decided that it was time. He called Nightlight down to him and Blaze jumped into his arms. With a flash of blue flames Harry appeared in the middle of Sirius' old room. Harry looked around the room and saw that somebody finally decided to clean up the room a little but didn't seem like anybody stayed in the room though. There was still dust on much of the room and a pile of old clothes in the corner of the room. He looked in the dresser and it was all Sirius' clothes and things in the closet.

The room looked so dark and still had the green paint in the room that seemed old and moldy and ready to peel off the wall. Harry pulled out his holly wand and with a few incantations cleaned up the room to make it look like new. The room was now in Gryffindor colors. All of Sirius' things were packed and stored in the closet for Harry to go through them later. Harry than went into the bathroom and with a flick of his wand everything was immaculate again. The room seemed so much easier to stay in now.

With the help of his glasses, Harry scanned through the door of the room and saw that nobody was in the hallway. Harry scanned from room to room and noticed that nobody were in their rooms. It didn't take him long to realize that everybody was either gathered in the kitchen or in the drawing room. There didn't really seem to be a meeting going on and everybody just seemed to be in some kind of conversation. The drawing room door was open and nobody seemed to recognize that Harry was there. The Grangers were sitting there talking with Ron, Ginny, Fred, and George about what to expect in their sixth year as the twins were trying to scare Ginny about the O.W.L.S.

With all the training in stealth movement, Harry managed to slip into the room undetected and crawled around the room so that he was directly behind Ginny. He reached his hands up and covered her eyes and said, "Guess who?"

Ginny jumped up and screamed with all the joy and excitement in her, "Harry!"

The twins fell off of their seats as Ron was choking on a piece of chocolate frog that he was eating. Hermione jumped up and drew her wand pointing it at Harry while her parents were trying to hold back their laughter from everybody's reaction. Ginny turned around and gave him a hug so tight like she was afraid that he was going to disappear again. Hermione lowered her wand and ran over and gave him a hug also.

Ron managed to spit out the piece of chocolate frog that he was eating and said, "Bloody Hell, mate! Where have you been, we've been worried sick. You should've seen Ginny and Hermione."

He walked over and gave Harry a pat on the back. Harry was still hugging Ginny as Hermione broke away. He said, "Nice to see you too Ron."

Harry than continued on by saying, "I'm sorry everybody for my disappearance but it was important. I'll tell you all about it one day. Well, how is everybody though?"

Ginny was in a daze because as she was hugging him, she felt how developed he became over the last few months. She didn't want to let him go and everybody in the room seemed to pick up on that. Harry whispered to her, "Ginny, you're going to have to let me go. I don't know if I can move around with you on me like this but I don't mind."

Ginny became so red that it was hard to hide her excitement as she reluctantly let go of Harry. The twins came up and patted him on the back and Fred said, "It's good to have our investor back."

George said, "I agree, it doesn't look good if the investor disappear and nobody can find him."

Ginny turned to them with her wand drawn and said, "You leave him alone or I'll teach the two of you a lesson."

Everybody laughed at the twins as they slowly walked away. Harry interrupted it by saying, "It's good to see everybody again." He walked over to Mr. and Mrs. Granger and said, "How are you?" while shaking their hands.

Mr. Granger said, "It's good to have you back Harry. It's good to see that you're well and safe."

Harry nodded and turned to Hermione and she said, "Where have you been? Why haven't you written to us?"

Harry raised his hand for her to calm down and said, "Calm down Hermione. I'll tell everybody at the same time. Let's go to the kitchen and surprise them."

As everybody followed Harry out of the room, he got a wicked grin on his face that Ginny picked up on and asked, "What are you thinking?"

Harry said, "I have a nice way to surprise everybody." He called down Blaze who jumped into his hand as everybody tried to get a good look and touch the small white tiger. Harry told everyone, "Blaze is about to change into a full grown white tiger so don't jump or scream because it could ruin the prank."

Everybody nodded and gasped as Blaze turned into a full size white tiger. Harry said, "I want you to go into the kitchen and scare the adults a little for me."

The twins got excited about this prank and were trying to contain their excitement as the tiger made its way into the kitchen. There were several screams and sounds of chairs hitting the ground as Blaze walked into the kitchen. Everybody walked in and Blaze shrunk back down and jumped back into Harry's arms.

All of the kids were laughing at the adults while the adults were trying to recover from the shock of seeing a tiger walk into the kitchen and than seeing Harry standing in front of them. A few seconds later, Mrs. Weasley, Remus, and Tonks ran over to Harry and gave him bone crushing hugs after hugs.

Mrs. Weasley broke the silence by asking, "Where have you been Harry? We've been worried sick. The Order has been trying to find you for months now."

Harry stepped back and said in a calm voice, "I've been hiding out in a secret area. I'm sorry to worry everybody but I had to do this."

Remus asked, "Are you going to tell us where you've been and what you've been doing?"

Harry stood there and thought about it for a moment and said, "I can't tell you where I've been but I have a feeling that you already know or will know Remus. Please don't tell anybody yet. I'm not done yet and need to keep it a secret for now. On the second matter though, I can tell you. I've been training. I've been trying to fine tune everything I've learned so far and increase my ability and knowledge in several other fields."

Remus finally realized where he saw that white tiger before and said, "Blaze."

Harry nodded and said, "I want everybody to meet my friend Blaze. He's my white tiger."

Everybody looked at it for a moment and than tried to pat him. At this moment Nightlight flew into the room and landed on Harry's shoulder. Harry said, "This is my phoenix friend, her name is Nightlight."

Everybody's face in the room was either in awe or confusion at Harry having a pet phoenix and a white tiger except for Remus. Remus said, "If you have been where I think you've been than I want you to take me there."

Ginny, Hermione, Ron, Fred, and George all said, "Yeah, we want to come also."

Harry said, "I tell you what. Everybody can come over Christmas but I can't bring you there yet."

At that moment, Professor Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape showed up in the entrance to the kitchen. Harry sensed them approaching but nobody else seemed to notice that they had arrived. He was thankful that the professors showed up when they did. With his back to them, Harry said, "It's nice to see you professors."

Everybody noticed the professors waiting at the door. The Headmaster spoke up first, "It's good to see that you're well and safe Harry."

Harry turned around and saw the twinkle in the Headmaster's eyes and said with a large smile, "It's good to know that you're well and safe also Professor Dumbledore and McGonagall."

Professor McGonagall said, "It would appear that we have some business to discuss."

Harry asked, "What is it that we need to talk about?"

The Headmaster said, "Since you won't give us the details of where you have been and I don't believe that Remus will be giving up that information soon. Why don't we start with what you have been doing?"

Harry was relieved that he was going to be pressed about where he has been but didn't really want to talk about what he had been doing either. He decided to tell them, "Well, everybody better sit down. This could take a while."

Everybody took seats around the kitchen table or conjured chairs to sit. While everybody was getting ready to listen, Harry was looking into the fireplace and placed Blaze onto the floor. He turned around and saw everybody's eyes upon him. Nightlight went to sit on a shelf over the stove anticipating that this could take a while and to keep a look out.

Harry looked at everybody and said, "I'm sure everybody knows what happened at the Dursleys. Well, since that event I went into hiding to train. I've increased my knowledge and skill in five major fields, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms, Transfiguration, Occlumency, and Potions."

With a smirk and arrogance Professor Snape said, "With all the help in the world, you will be no good in potions. Besides without somebody to work on the Occlumency against, I don't believe that you have developed at all in that skill either."

Harry turned to Remus and said, "Here Remus. I made this for you. It should help you."

Remus asked him although he had a good feeling he already knew what it was, "What is this Harry?"

Harry smiled and said, "That's Wolfsbane Potion. I hope it helps you."

Hermione jumped up and said, "Harry, how did you make that? Many of the ingredients are hard to find and only a very skilled potions maker can brew it. It exceeds that of NEWT level."

Harry turned to Hermione and said, "The place that I was in already had the ingredients in stock. I've been working on very complex potions for several weeks now. In all honesty, I couldn't test out this potion for obvious reasons. But I am confident that it was brewed correctly."

Remus said, "I'll try it. Thanks Harry."

Harry said, "No problem Remus. Please let me know though, if it worked properly. I made some modifications based on the references that the library held and it should make the transformation much easier than previous potions but it will also not wear you down as much therefore you should only be worn the night of the transformation."

Everybody looked at Harry in surprise and Remus nodded his approval to Harry. Harry turned to look at Professor Snape and said, "You are right Professor that I can not truly test out this ability without an accomplished legilimens to test me. Therefore, would you like to do the honors Professor?"

Professor Snape stood up and said, "I'm not going to be easy on you. I'll come at you with everything that I've got and you better not run and hide because everybody here will know what a fraud you really are."

Harry said with a smirk, "Very well but I will also warn you that if you fail to break into my mind that I will blast your mind and I can't guarantee that you'll be too happy with the results."

Professor Snape looked at him loathingly, went to the front where Harry was standing, raised his wand, and yelled, "Legilimens!"

The next second, Professor Snape was shot across the room and slammed into the wall. Harry looked at him with no concern on his face and said, "I warned you."

Professor Snape stood up with anger in his voice and said, "How dare you Potter attack a teacher? You are just like your pathetic excuse for a father."

Before anybody blinked an eye, Harry was standing directly in front of Professor Snape with his holly wand drawn and said with an eerie calm voice that made everyone scared when he said, "Don't you ever insult my father again. If you do, I will hunt you down and Voldemort will seem like a boy scout when compared to me."

There was nothing but dead silence in the room as everybody stared at what was happening in front of them. Professor Dumbledore stood up with the twinkle in his eyes shining brighter than when he arrived said, "That's enough Severus, and there was no reason for you to insult Harry or his father for he warned you before you attempted to break into his mind."

Professor Snape lowered his wand and Harry lowered his wand as a result. Harry walked away from Snape and returned to his place in front of the room by the fireplace. He slipped his wand back into his pocket and looked at everybody who was staring at him in awe for the things he managed to do in less that five minutes. Fred, George, and Ron were trying to hold back their laughter due to Snape's embarrassment.

Harry gave a sigh and said, "I think that proves a few of the things that I've been working on." His eyes scanned the room and saw a few things that made him wonder when it happened. He saw that Tonks and Remus were really close to each other along with Ron and Hermione. Harry decided against saying anything until they wanted to tell him or if they even realized what they were doing. He also saw Ginny staring at him with wonder and admiration.

Professor Dumbledore broke Harry's concentration when he said, "Harry, I believe that your O.W.L. results have arrived and your Hogwarts letter have arrived also. Why don't you open them and we can plan on what to do this year?"

Tonks handed him his letters and everybody stared curiously what he got. Harry read the letter revealing no emotion on his face and when he was finished reading his O.W.L. results, he said, "Interesting."

Hermione looked like she was going to strangle him when he said that. Harry saw this coming and felt like teasing her a little longer. He slipped the letter back into its envelope and put the letter in his pocket. Ron thought that he might have done bad and said, "Come on mate, it can't be that bad. You must have done better than me and I've got 8 owls where Hermione got the most with 12 owls."

Harry looked at Ron and said, "I did alright. I just did that to tease Hermione. After all look at her, she's ready to strangle me right now for holding out on her for fifteen seconds."

The entire room turned to look at Hermione and she shrunk down in her seat. Half of the people in the room broke down and laughed. Hermione ended up breaking up the laughter by asking, "Are you going to tell us?"

Harry nodded and said, "I got an owl in everything except for Divination and History of Magic. I got an O in Care of Magical Creatures, Transfiguration, Potions, and Defense. Everything else I got an E in it."

Hermione said, "That's great Harry," and ran up and gave him a hug.

Harry gave her a hug in return and handed her his O.W.L. letter. When she was reading the letter with everybody staring at her trying to get a look at the letter, Harry pulled out his Hogwarts letter to read it. It was the standard letter from Hogwarts along with a list of classes that he is eligible to take.

Professor Dumbledore broke up the chatter over Harry's O.W.L. results when he noticed Harry finish reading the letter. The Headmaster asked, "Harry, what classes are you going to take next year so we can schedule your classes."

Harry looked up and said, "I think that I'm going to take Charms, DADA, Potions, Herbology, Care of Magical Creatures, and Healing."

Professor McGonagall looked at him and gave two coughs. Harry looked at her and said, "I was wondering what you were going to say if I didn't take your class, Professor. I was just teasing you also. I would be crazy if I didn't take Transfiguration with one of the most beautiful professors in all of England. I am more than happy to take your class Professor McGonagall."

Professor McGonagall said with a hint of a smile, "Don't try to flatter me Mr. Potter. That sweet talking did not work with your father and neither with you. What ever happened this summer must have been good because I haven't seen you so confident and comfortable."

Harry looked at her and smiled for being compared to his father. Professor Dumbledore asked, "Harry, there are a few other things that I was hoping that I could talk to you about alone."

Harry nodded and the two of them left the kitchen to head to the drawing room. Everybody else stayed in the room as Mrs. Weasley and Mrs. Granger got up and decided to get dinner started. When the Headmaster and Harry arrived in the next room, they took seats opposite each other and Professor Dumbledore asked, "Would you care for some tea?"

Harry said, "Yes, please." He waited for Professor Dumbledore to conjure the tea set and poured some tea for the two of them before he asked, "What was it that you wanted to talk to me about?"

The Headmaster said, "I was wondering if you would be starting the DA again this year? If you do than you could make it a club opened to the rest of the school and have a teacher sponsor it just like any other student organizations."

Harry thought about it for a minute and said, "We really only started it because Umbridge was a complete idiot and we didn't learn anything. We needed to take things in our own hands in order to protect ourselves. I don't know yet."

"Fair enough, Harry. Is there anything that you would like to tell me about what is going on?"

"Well, there really isn't much to tell. All I can say is expect a year of surprises Professor."

The Professor smiled because he definitely knew that this year was going to be interesting. He than asked, "Is there anything you wanted to know or needed?"

"To tell you the truth, I've been pretty happy lately not knowing what has been going on. It gave me much time to train and clear my mind to get all of my priorities straight. There is one thing that could help but I understand if you won't be able to assist me with it though."

"What is it that you wanted?"

"I was wondering if you would permit me to have my own room. I've grown accustomed to a very rigorous schedule and today is actually the first day in about eight weeks that the routine is broken. It's just that my own room would make it much easier for me to continue my training."

Professor Dumbledore thought about it for a minute and said, "I think that we can accommodate you for this year because the Head Boy and Head Girl are in Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw respectively. You can take the Head Boy/Head Girl suite in Gryffindor. That way you have your own bedroom along with a training room and a common room to do your school work."

Harry smiled and said, "That would be great. I think that everybody is waiting for us Professor."

The two of them proceeded back into the kitchen where everybody was talking to each other and waiting for dinner to be done. Professor Dumbledore and Harry sat down at the table. The professors sat at one end of the table while Harry sat between Ginny and Remus on the other side of the table. Ron, Hermione, and Tonks sat across from the three of them.

They were talking with each other about trivial subject matters from school to quidditch. Harry slipped his hand under the table and grabbed Ginny's. He squeezed her hand and she began to blush but only a few people noticed but nobody knew why she was blushing. They released their hands when it came time to eat dinner. Dinner was an enjoyable event.

When dinner ended, the professors left to go back to Hogwarts. Shortly after they left, Percy showed up. Harry and Percy were staring at each other. Ginny saw the confusion on Harry's face and whispered to him, "He came back to the family a few weeks ago. Everybody seemed to have forgiven him except for Ron and me. It's still pretty uneasy when he's around but we all just put on an act so mum won't be hurt."

Harry whispered, "Thanks Gin."

Percy walked over towards Harry and said, "How are you Harry?"

Everybody was looking at the two of them when Harry said, "I'm fine."

"That's good. I wanted to apologize for insulting you last year."

"It's alright. You just have to remember how lucky you are to be in your family. Don't betray them again and we'll be fine."

Percy sounding very offended about being lectured by someone younger than him with an arrogant voice said, "I guess because you were right about You-Know-Who makes you right about everything now."

Harry stood up staring into Percy's eyes and said, "I never claim to know everything. It's not my fault that the idiot of a Minister screwed up because he is a coward and you can't seem to admit that you were wrong."

Percy returned the glare said, "The Minister was only doing what he thought was right. Besides, who would want to believe you? You have no credibility among the wizarding world. All you ever do is try to seek attention."

"Anybody who knows anything about the true me and not some glorified book knows that I hate attention. I have more credibility than that idiot of a Minister who lies and takes bribes from Deatheaters."

"Don't you ever talk about the Minister like that!"

"I will speak as I please because I know that the idiot isn't fit to lead a small business not to say the wizards and witches of England."

Percy's voice slowly started to rise when he said, "If you have a problem with the Minister than you are an idiot. You would do better not to upset him and follow him."

Harry's voice rose at the same rate as Percy when he said, "I will do what is right not to do something because somebody thought I should do it. Unlike some people, I will not compromise my principles for the approval of a public that would easily turn on me based on some unfounded lies."

The two of them continued to stare at each other until Ginny pulled Harry away. Percy took this moment to leave the kitchen and Harry shook his head after he left. Harry sighed and saw that Blaze was ready to jump all of Percy and Nightlight flew across the room waiting for the command to attack.

Harry picked up Blaze and said, "I'm sorry about that just now. Politics and me don't mix very well and I don't think that I will get along with it." He looked around the room at everybody.

Ginny spoke up first by saying, "It's not your fault Harry. Percy can't seem to get pass the point that he was wrong. It'll get better, just give him some time."

Harry nodded and said, "I think it's time for me to go too. I've got a busy day tomorrow and have to prepare for the start of the new school year."

Remus said, "Harry stay. We have so much to catch up on."

Harry reluctantly agreed to stay. He was glad later on that he did because everybody was gathered in the drawing room and talked into the night. Everybody enjoyed exchanging stories with each other and late at night, Harry, Nightlight, and Blaze went home to get some rest before the next day to continue their training.

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