A/N: I'm sorry but this chapter is slightly shorter than what most are used to but didn't want to start another subject in this chapter. Thank you to all those that have been reviewing. Please continue. I'm open to suggestions to the story which will take a few chapters to implement if I decided to use the suggestion because I've written a little ahead so please R/R.

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 9
The Night After the Arrival

Harry stood up and walked over to a window and stared out onto the open ground. He waited as everybody was getting comfortable in their seat. He sighed, turned around and said, "Two days ago, around eight in the morning, I decided to go and take a walk. My daily routine had been disrupted so much over the past few days that I decided to take a break from training until I get settled in school. I was having a nice stroll in a forest that I'm not too sure of where the forest is but just ended up there."

Remus said, "Harry, it's not safe for you to be wandering around like that. Next time, will you please take more precautions?"

Harry nodded and continued on with his story, "After wandering in the woods, I decided to head into Hogsmeade to see what there was to buy or just go window shopping. I ended up on a side street where the Hogs Head is located. I'm not sure why but curiosity got the better of me who was in there and I went in. I ordered a butterbeer and sat in the corner just thinking about the start of the new school year like what trouble I'm going to end up getting into, what adventure will take place this year, who the new defense teacher will be, you know stuff like that."

Hermione interrupted Harry and said, "Harry, you know, the new defense teachers are Remus and Tonks."

Harry's face lit up and said, "Congratulations Professors."

Remus and Tonks both said, "Thank you," at the same time.

Remus continued on by saying, "Harry, you better not go on any more adventures as all of your years here so far. I have a feeling that this year is probably going to be like your fourth year with the Triwizard tournament."

Harry was confused for a second and than Ron filled him in about the challenge from Durmstrang. After being told the challenge from Durmstrang, Harry couldn't but help feel a little down because it brought back memories of Cedric being killed at the end of the tournament.

Dumbledore interrupted Harry's train of thought about Cedric and said, "Harry can you continue with your story please?"

Harry said, "Oh, Sorry about that Professor. Well, the place was pretty quiet and I got bored fairly quickly so I left the Hogshead but what I didn't realize was that somebody was following me. Apparently, I didn't remember to wear my hood to cover my face and a few people recognized me. I must have been walking around for about half an hour before I noticed that somebody was following me. So I turned and headed away from the village trying to get away from whoever was following me just in case it was about to turn nasty. And boy did it turn out to be nasty."

Everybody in the room except for Harry was filled with anticipation for the rest of the story. Harry sighed and continued on, "I made my way near the Shrieking Shack and at that point there were a series of popping noises. I turned around and there were seven Deatheaters with there wands drawn at me."

There were gasps from Hermione and Ginny when he mentioned the Deatheaters. Harry looked at both of them for a second and continued with his story. He took a deep breath and said, "All of the Deatheaters fired spells right at me which helped me out because I was able to dodge the spells by dropping and rolling towards my left." Harry just stopped his story and thought, 'It's not going to do any good to tell them what happened. It would be better if they could see the fight.'

Harry turned to Dumbledore and asked, "Professor, can I borrow your pensive so I can show everybody exactly what happened?"

Dumbledore said, "That would probably be a better idea." He got up and went to a cabinet along his back wall and pulled out his pensive. Dumbledore brought it over to his table and asked, "Harry, do you know how to use this?"

Harry said, "I'm not sure, can you show me how?"

"Concentrate on that moment in time, point your want to the temple, and think of the word 'extract.' Than pull your wand away slowly and deposit the material that it pulls out into the pensive."

Harry did as the professor just instructed. After he completed it he said, "If anybody wants to see the fight scene than come and see it."

Dumbledore said, "There's a better way to do this." He tapped the side of the pensive with his wand and the Harry's memory appeared over the pensive like it was a holographic image. Everybody gathered around to see the memory that Harry just pulled out of his mind.

Harry rolled on the ground away from the Deatheaters and when he came out of his roll, Harry had drawn his holly wand in his right hand. Harry yelled, "Reducto!" The spell hit the ground just in front of the middle Deatheater. Three of the Deatheaters went flying in the air while the other four started firing stunning and bludging spells at a rapid rate. After Harry's reducto spell, all he could do was cast shield charms after shield charms to protect himself from the onslaught of spells. While casting his shielding spell, Harry made his way behind a tree that was quickly destroyed by a reducto spell and splinters from the tree made its way all over Harry's body.

Harry was wobbling on his feet as he could barely stand from all the wood fragments that pierced his body from his upper chest to his upper thigh. Blood started to spill from all of the wounds. At seeing that, Ginny and Hermione went to hug the real Harry. Harry said, "It looks worse than it felt. I knew that I was hurt but it wasn't as painful even though I was losing control over my body."

Over the hologram of what was happening, Harry had just collapsed onto the ground. The Deatheaters were excited as more of their friends showed up to join the celebration. A Deatheater walked over to the group and said, "I have an idea. McNair, Nott, hold up Potter's body and let's let the entire wizarding world know that their boy hero is now dead. The Deatheater that was talking disappeared and reappeared instantly with a camera in his hands. He took a picture while the other Deatheaters were celebrating. After taking the picture, the Deatheater disappeared while the others continued to celebrate. They threw Harry's body back onto the ground and continued to jump up and down, drinking firewhiskey and spitting and throwing things on Harry's body.

Hermione, Ginny, and Tonks were crying. Tonks was being held by Remus. Hermione was being held by Ron who was filled with anger at what he was seeing. Luna lost her lost airy look and looked determined as she continue to stare at the image over the pensive. Ginny was being held by Harry. Dumbledore, McGonagall, Neville, and Remus were all sharing in Ron's anger as all of them had their hands clenched in a fist. Harry whispered to Ginny, "It's all fine. See I'm here. You know how everything turned out."

Ginny only nodded her agreement as she was leaning on Harry as she dried her tears on Harry's robes. Everybody slowly turned there attention back to the pensive as Harry said, "I did not realize that they were doing that while I was out."

Dumbledore said, "Your conscious self may not have realized it but your unconscious side was recording everything that was happening."

There was a pop and a Deatheater reappeared and said, "The Dark Lord is arriving."

At that moment, Nightlight appeared in a ball of flames over Harry's body and took a hold of him with her claws. In the next instant, there was another burst of blue flames and Harry and Nightlight were gone. Harry realizing what might happen next so he hurried over to the pensive and tapped it with his wand hoping that that will end the memory.

Remus asked, "Harry, why did you end the memory?"

Harry said, "If Nightlight took me where I thought she did than you can't know about that place yet."

Ginny, Ron, and Hermione saw their opportunity to find out where Harry was hiding when Harry finished his statement. There eyes went wide as they rushed towards the pensive but were held off by Remus and Dumbledore. Dumbledore said, "We must respect Harry's wishes for us not to see his memory."

With that, the Headmaster turned around and with a flick of his wand the silvery substance of Harry's memory floated in the air and went back into Harry's head. He asked, "Have you fully recovered yet?"

Harry said, "I am about 80 percent better. I still feel a bit of pain here and there but the wounds are all healed. I guess you might have noticed that Dobby and Winky left Grimmauld Place yesterday."

Dumbledore said, "I thought it was awkward that Dobby and Winky took off in such a hurry while they were setting the table."

"They told me that they were in the middle of setting the table. Well, I summoned them to help me heal myself yesterday. I was recovering fairly nicely and wanted to also tell them to be careful and keep an eye out for anything that may be suspicious."

"Harry, I would like for you to go visit Madame Pomfrey to make sure everything is fine."

"It's alright Professor. There's no need. I feel much better, but if I do feel like it's getting worse than I'll go to her."

"Alright Harry, but it is getting late now. Harry, you along with your friends go on back to Gryffindor Tower." Dumbledore lowered his voice and leaned towards Harry and said, "Your suite is also ready. It's behind the first portrait on your left as you enter the Common Room. The password is 'Fire Flight."

Tonks and Remus escorted the Gryffindors back to their tower after the group escorted Luna to Ravenclaw Tower first. The Gryffindors bid Tonks and Remus good night as they left the two professors and went into the Gryffindor Common Room.

It was late and the Common Room was empty. Harry told them, "I'm tired. I'll see you all tomorrow morning."

Ron asked, "Where do you think you're going? The dorms are up the stairs." Neville, Hermione, and Ginny were also sharing in Ron's confusion.

Harry said, "Oh, I guess I forgot to tell you all that I'm going to be getting my own room. Or should I say suite for this year."

Hermione asked, "Why are you getting your own room?"

Harry replied, "Well, there's a special circumstance why I require my own room and one of which is my training regiment now. Dumbledore knows about it. Plus it gives me some time alone when I need it."

Harry said the password and the portrait opened up. They walked into a smaller common room that had a fire place with three sofas facing it. There was a small coffee table in the middle of the sofa. On the other side of the room there was a mini kitchen that had a table with six chairs around it probably for studying and eating because along the wall behind the table, there was a wall length counter. Below the counter there were several cabinets charmed to be cool which had various foods like fruits and vegetables. It also contained drinks in it like pumpkin juice and butterbeer. Above the counter there were cabinets filled with sweets and dry goods.

Ron, Neville, Hermione, and Ginny followed Harry into his new suite. There were two doors along the wall directly across from the wall that contained the portrait that they just entered through. They walked through the door on the right and entered a bedroom. It was a large and spacious bedroom with another door on its right wall. In the middle of the room on an elevated platform is a large four poster bed with Gold cloth covering around the bed except for two sides where it is parted to get on the bed. The bed sheets were red luxurious sheets. There was a desk along the opposite wall of the door that they just entered. On both sides of the desk there were large floor to ceiling windows that allowed for lots of external light to enter the room. Harry's new trunk arrived and is at the foot of Harry's bed. The room was finely decorated in Gold and Red Gryffindor colors.

The group entered the side door in the bedroom and entered a bathroom. The bathroom had a large wall length and waist to ceiling tall mirror. The bathroom is different shades of pastel blue and white. There was both a multi-head shower that shot water on the body from all different angles and a large bathtub that could easily fit four people that had several nozzles to turn the bathtub into a Jacuzzi if wanted.

They left the bedroom and went back to the Head's common room and went through the door next to the one that led to Harry's bedroom to a room that was bare except for padded walls. It was decorated in all different solid colors with lots of windows for external light. There was a side door that led into another bathroom that was similar to the one in Harry's bedroom.

They walked back to the Head common room and Harry said, "This is really nice."

Ron said, "Yeah mate. I wished I could stay in here with you."

Ginny said, "Harry, you're lucky. Did you see that bed? If I were to get a bed like that, I don't know if I would even bother waking up in the morning."

Harry smiled and thought, 'How could I forget. I already have my own practice room in my trunk. Hmmm, I wonder if they would want to stay here with me.' Harry than said, "Would you all want to stay here? The girls could take one room and Neville and Ron can share my room."

Ginny jumped up at that prospect and said, "I would love it."

Hermione said, "I don't know if McGonagall will like that very much."

Harry said, "We can always just switch back to the way they are now if she says anything, it's not going to harm anybody." At that moment, Harry noticed three individual portraits along the wall farthest wall with no door opposite that of the mini kitchen. One of them had Helga Hufflepuff, one had Rowena Ravenclaw, and the last one had Salazar Slytherin.

Hermione saw what Harry was staring at and said, "The head suite all have portraits that allow the head boy or head girl to enter each of the common rooms just in case they need to. In order to enter that house you need their main password to enter and to return to this room, they need your password."

Harry thought about it and said, "I wonder if Luna would want to stay here also."

Ginny said, "I'll ask her tomorrow."

Harry said, "Alright than, why don't you all go get your things and I'll set these rooms up." Everybody left except for Harry who went to each room and conjured a bed and a desk for each person. Harry floated his bed off to the side of the room so now each room has three beds similar to that of Harry's and a desk next to it. Even after all the conjuring that Harry made, the two bedrooms were still nicely spacious. He also added a large mirror to each room.

Harry was just finished with the girls' room when everybody arrived with their trunks levitated behind them. Harry helped them unpacked there things and get settled in their rooms. After he was done, they were sitting around the fire in their new common room.

Hermione asked, "Harry, there was a reason why Dumbledore gave you these private rooms. Wouldn't this interfere with whatever you're supposed to be doing?"

Harry responded, "Hermione, the original reason why I received these rooms is because of my training. The room that you are in now was supposed to be my training room, that's why it was padded and there were no furniture."

"But how are you going to train now?"

"I wanted to keep it a secret but I guess I should tell you. Well, my trunk isn't just any ordinary trunk. It is one of those compartmentalized trunks and one of the compartments that I've set up is a training room."

Ron jumped up and said, "I want to see your trunk."

The group got up and followed Ron over to Harry's trunk and opened up the top of his trunk. There was a ladder that leads down to the trunks sitting room. The sitting room had four sofas facing each other at the center of the room. The room was in different shades of blue. Along one wall there were two doors that led to two identical bedrooms with attaching bathrooms. The bedrooms were roomy with a single bed and a dresser. One bedroom was all white while the other bedroom was in different shades of red. The bathrooms were simple with just the essentials in there and were the same colors as there respective bedrooms.

The wall to the right of the bedrooms led to a large library. The library had different pastel colors running along the walls and ceiling. The library was filled with books and had two four person tables in the middle of the room. There were about ten aisles of books on each side of the room that were perpendicular to the study tables at the center of the room. Along the opposite wall there were two large sofas facing each other with a simple coffee table between them. Running parallel to these sofas were an additional five aisles of books on each sides. The library was divided into muggle and magical and than divided further. Each aisle that ran parallel to the sofa was dedicated to the muggle world. The aisles were subdivided into sociology, philosophy, history, chemistry, physics, technology, foreign languages, geography, and fiction. The aisles perpendicular to the two study tables were dedicated to the magical world. These were divided into Charms, Transfiguration, Arithmacy, Geography of the Magical World, Potions, Magical History, and one fourth of the magical section of the library was dedicated to Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Hermione wanted to run around the library and look at the various books but the rest of them managed to pull her out back to the sitting room. They walked towards the wall with the ladder that they entered the trunk through which had two doors on either side of the ladder. The door to the right led to a potions lab. The potions lab was lined on two walls with potions ingredients in circular reagent bottles lined next to each over three rows along the wall above a counter. The wall between the two walls with potions ingredients contained shelves reagent bottles stocked with potions that are already made. The larger bottles were below the counter while above the bottle they were in smaller bottles for single doses set to roll down when the bottom bottle is taken out so it can be easily retrieved. In the center are four empty table tops to make potions on and below the tables are different equipments and stocking bottles to make potions. The table tops and counter tops were all black while everything else was white.

They left the potions lab and walked to the door on the other side of the ladder which led to the training room. The training room had a brown bottom and peach colored walls and a white ceiling. The training room was padded along the walls and had various muggle weapons lining its walls from broad swords to staffs to bows and arrows to sais.

The last room they went into was opposite the library and Ron's eyes lit up when they walked into it. It was a Kitchen decorated in shades of silver and white. The kitchen had a long wooden table running down the center of the room and was perpendicular to the door. The table could easily seat ten people. On the left and right wall there was a long running counter top with a large refrigerator that appeared to be only for looks at the end of the far side from the door. The refrigerators were charmed to either cool or freeze its contents. These two sides of the room mirrored each other and had a stove with oven at the center of the counter. The left side of the room was dedicated to things from the muggle world while the right side of the room was dedicated to things from the magical world.

After looking around and each person grabbing a butterbeer, they all climbed out of the trunk and exited the boys' room. They all sat back in their personal common room. Ginny said, "That's absolutely incredible. Harry, your trunk was amazing. When did you get it and did you design it?"

Harry blushed at the compliment and said, "Thanks. I got it the day during the second attack on Diagon Alley. I was finished shopping that morning and I did have some assistance in the design of the trunks from the sales lady at the shop."

Neville said, "It's two in the morning. I think we should go to bed."

Hermione yawned and said, "I didn't realize it was that late. We should go to bed. We have classes in a little while."

Everybody agreed with this and headed off to their respective rooms. Before Harry could clear his head, he heard Ron fall asleep and snoring almost immediately. Harry cleared his head and fell into a dreamless sleep almost as quickly also.

A/N: Here are the responses to my reviewers since my last chapter post.

Nightwing 509: Thank you. I hope that you liked this chapter also.

Ima Quidditch Fan: I agree with you that Ginny is a strong witch that will make a great match for Harry as his equal. I'm still laying the foundation for the story but it will show up later.

Bobboky: Thank you. I hope that you continue to like the imagery that is used.

Dancerrdw: Thank you, I'll try to keep up the update rate but currently dealing with a few computer problems again but will try to get the next one up by the end of the week.

Whitefish: Thank you. I guess there really are no recommendations on when to update so I'm not sure when to try to get the updates in but it seems like is a bit flaky lately because they seem to be down a lot.

Alyssia: Thank you. Don't worry there will be more Remus and Tonks later on but I want to get the character introductions set first.

Firebirdgs: Thank you for your compliment. I will try to answer your questions but be warned first that this reveal bits of the story so if you don't want to know yet than skip the response to firebirdgs. Harry and Ginny already do but won't tell each other but Ginny will be the one to push it first in a few chapters just before Christmas. Ron and Hermione will be thrown together by way of threat in about 3 or 4 chapters. Remus and Tonks are technically already together and will have a flashback that will explain their story in about 2 or 3 chapters. I do plan on using humor at least until Christmas but if you have recommendations on what to do than I'm open to suggestions because I can't think of a really good prank. I don't plan on using Peeves but haven't really given that much thought yet though. Christmas is the key to the timeline in this story because all hell will break loose afterwards because right now the foundation is still being set for what will happen later on. Well there will be one more all-purpose item later on but it won't be powerful. This will be revealed when the DA is formed and the item is just a more advanced form of the DA coin. This is more of a practical item than an accessory to counteract the knowledge of the DA coins by the rest of the school at this point and be able to remain as discreet as possible. There will be more internal struggle in the story but bits of it will be laid down before Christmas but after Christmas the struggles might just overwhelm Harry and that's where his friends and in particular Ginny will be playing a vital role to the story. I try not to read too many fics at this time because I tend to lose my train of thought on where my story is heading right now and not to mention I start to forget the contents of this story which I've reread my story several times already just so I can remember things. Last but not least, my recommendation to you is that if you have an idea and want to put it in writing than you should do so and don't degrade yourself. If you want, I will be more than happy to assist you in your story like give recommendations and be your beta reader. Again, thank you for your comments and suggestions.

Kaleena Mason: Thank you. I hope that you liked what I did to the trunk. The trunk will play a role in the training to prep Harry and the team and here's a hint, the library will be important to a certain aspect of the story later on.