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Chapter 5 Hit The Floor

Harry pulled his invisibility cloak over his head as he flew out the window holding onto his broom with his knees. As far as flying a broom while ripped out of his tree went, for Harry this was a first, but he made a mental note to himself to remember to try this again under different circumstances, where he wasn't holding onto three pots of Ganga with one arm, his broom with the other arm, and his cloak with his teeth, the experience was so amazing that Harry couldn't help but release the laugh that escaped from inside him, in fact it was the first real; joyful relieving laugh that he'd had for a very long time, even if he was sharing it with himself, it was as if by letting this laugh out, he felt a couple hundred tonnes lighter, at the moment, there was no Voldemort, no Dursleys, no responsibilities, he wasn't an orphan he was free.

He started looking for a place where he could touch down, and gather his thoughts and not be in danger of being caught. Finally after scanning the area for a few minutes, he saw the park that he had hung out at all of the previous summer. The police chopper was still patrolling the area so Harry decided to keep the cloak on rather than run the risk of being found by the authorities, he did after all have three enormous plants of some particularly strong and illegal substance on his person and if he were to be found with them in his possession, he would be in more than just a little trouble. The question still remained; where in the hell could he go, and find sanctuary, from the authorities? At this point another thought came over him, what if one of Voldemorts followers was to find him. Harry decided that it was best to lie low, but in the home of a family who had the ability to do magic, where he would be safe. And the only place that he could think of at the moment was with the family of his best friend Ron Weasley, even though that would mean going back to a place that was filled with the problems that he had been escaping from all summer, also it would mean facing his destiny.

Harry started scanning the sky for any sign of his friends it seemed that with the passing of his high, a feeling of desperation had set into him, he didn't know how to get to The Burrow from his current in order to get there he would have to follow them back, that's when another thought hit him; "What if they weren't staying at the Burrow? What would he do if they were staying at 12 Grimmauld-Place?" In the end Harry decided to through caution to the winds deciding that it did not matter where they went but that wherever they went, he would be safe there. After scanning the sky a few more times he finally spotted them high above the action that was occurring near the Dursley's home. Harry shrunk the plants and placed them both in a small bag that he placed in his pocket which allowed him to hold onto his broom with both hands. Keeping the cloak on he flew up to where his friends where hovering, deciding the he would be better off just tailing them instead of making his presence known right away which would only lead to a mid-air inquisition.

As Harry reached the group he couldn't help but notice the evil looks on the faces of Fred and George, the looks made it look like they were waiting for something that would carry the same significance as Christmas coming a whole three months early, they made him feel if anything more uneasy than he had been at the thought of finding the Burrow without all of their help. At almost the same time another question surfaced in Harry's mind, "What the hell was she doing here with them?" in all truth Harry hadn't even realized that Cho, was Cho; in fact he had been more preoccupied by what the last person who had flown through his window had been saying than who they had been. As if he hadn't had enough on his mind, the revelation that Cho Chang was among those people in the party that had arrived at number 4 Privit Drive, brought a wave of confusion into Harry's head in the form of questions; brain twisting questions and at the top of that list of questions were:

1) Why was she there?

2) Why were Ron and Hermione not ripping her to shreds after what had happened the previous year?

3) How did he himself feel about her and her him?

Rescue Party's POV

The scene below the group was finally starting to settle down, the muggle police had started to leave. Ron noticed a group of police officers carrying something as they were leaving the house, he quickly pulled out the omnioculars that Harry had bought him when they had gone to the Quidditch World Cup, and started to survey the officers and what they were carrying. Ron did a double take, from the looks of it; Harry's closet had contained more than just the three plants that he had grabbed, because the police officers were carrying what looked like a whole forest of the suspicious looking plants. "Hey Mione what do you make of this?" Ron asked Hermione passing the omnioculars to her while pointing at the line of police officers who were carrying the plants out of the house. Hermione looked down and let out a cry. None of the others were sure what the cry meant; they all looked at her with confusion written all over their faces, well confusion and evil on the twins, but confusion none the less. "Ron you thought that the line that was carrying all those plants was weird? Well then how about the invisible force that seems to be summoning them out of the truck and making them disappear into thin air?"

"What are you talking about Hermione?" Ron asked her his confusion very evident by the sound of his voice as he took the omnioculars back from her.

"What I'm talking about…" Hermione said as if she were explaining something to a very slow minded child, "Is that I think that I have figured out what Harry's been up to and also where he is at this very moment" she finished talking in a very matter of fact way. Ron looked down at the scene again he instantly saw what Hermione had been talking about. A policeman would place one of the potted plants into the van and as soon as his back was turned, three plants would float out of the truck and once they reached a certain height above the ground it was as if the would vanish into thin air. He turned to Hermione again "So how do you suppose that Harry is doing it? I mean he isn't supposed to do magic out of school right? And if he was he would have been receiving a notice from the Ministry wouldn't he?" Hermione was about to answer but three annoyed voice behind her cut her off,

"Seriously Ron do you ever listen to what mom and dad say?" it was Ginny, and the twins "Don't you remember them telling us that Harry had been granted permission to do magic out of school by the M.O.M. (Ministry of Magic) this summer because of the threat of Voldemort, which would mean that he would need magic in order to protect himself if he was attacked" they finished. Ron stayed silent looking down in shame at having forgotten.

"So what do we do now?" Cho, who again had been silent for quite a while "Hermione didn't you say that you had figured out what it was that Harry had been up to, well what is it?"

"I'm not going to say anything just yet until I'm absolutely sure about my hypothesis but for the moment I think we should wait and see what happens" just as she finished saying this there was a cry from the Officials below, they had finally noticed that what they had loaded onto the truck had gone missing, and as the took a closer look with the omnioculars they quickly saw that there were no plants remaining in the back of the truck. Movement out of the corner of her eye showed her the very last plant fling up to its unseen owner. "Ok you guys where that plant disappears is where Harry is. When it disappears we storm that spot as quickly and quietly as possible" Hermione told the rest who simply nodded to show that they understood. The group watched as the small tree continued to rise. Without warning it simply vanished into this air; "There; go!" Hermione gave the order and the group set off flying as fast as they could towards the last spot they had seen the plant.

Harry's POV

A few minutes after reaching the group something in the now calming scene below caught Harry's eye there were 3 policemen carting the rest of the plants that he had left in his closet. Inside of his closet, was where Harry kept the plants that had been grown from the original seeds that had been in his possession; The funny thing was that his closet had begun to look like a miniature rainforest due to the height that the plants had reached, in all truth Dudley and Harry had been discussing the moving from the closet into greenhouse that they were going to build, but because the idea had only hit them close to the end of summer, the combination of the last minute orders from their clients before the went back to school, and dealing with the problem of what they were going to do with the plants when they both went back to school. When Harry had run into the closet the plants that he had grabbed were the two smallest plants that resided in his closet. The original plants that Harry had grown, had given seeds that he and Dudley had collected eagerly expecting the same quality product; perhaps it was that the growing environment had changed, perhaps there had been a variation of some kind during the growing processes of the plants but the new plants, though they had matured successfully enough, had not been as potent as the crops from the originals. It was for this reason and this reason alone that Harry risked retrieving the plants from the back of the police vehicle, they were the most valuable. At the time that the problems began to be noticed, Harry had only one seed from the original batch left thinking farther ahead than he had all summer, Harry had kept the seed separate from the new ones that had been collected, so as to compare them at a later time with the new seeds, in order to possibly discover the difference between them.

It was just as Harry was summoning the final plant that the muggle officials seemed to notice what was going on. Ignoring the cry from the officer below him, focusing on making the plant rise up to him more quickly, when the plant was finally within his reach, Harry grabbed it and brought it underneath the cloak hiding it as best he could. Harry had just shrunk the plant and placed it in his pocket when something or someone rather; flew into him from the left side causing them both to fall off there brooms.

(A/N: Ok people I hope that you enjoyed that chapter and I'll have the next one up as soon as possible for those of you who reviewed the last one I would like to say thank you very much, you all know who you are. This chapter took me much longer to write than the last one because for some reason I just could not get into a rhythm when writing it. Anyway hopefully the next chapter won't be as hard to write and will be up sooner than this one.

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