A/N: Hi everyone!! I am so sorry that I haven't updated in a while. I have been busy… reading other stories. A MAJOR THANKYOU to my co-writer Lover of Solid Snake. Without her, this story wouldn't have ever made it. Check out her stories.
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This chapter is dedicated to Lion of Gryffindor who was my first reviewer.
Warning: OOTP SPOILERS!!!!
Last Time
As the sun set low in the sky, Harry yawned, and made his way up to his room. He changed into his pyjamas that had been laid out for him and went to sleep. As sleep washed over him, a very worried Albus Dumbledore was pacing around in his office.
Harry's friends had sent him an owl but Harry had never responded, they had owled Professor Dumbledore and an alarm rose between the teachers and peer alike.
What happened to Harry?
Harry was very excited and proud of himself. He was excited because it was the last week of summer vacation, which meant that he training was coming to an end, and he was proud of himself for accomplishing all that he had learned. By now, he was able to do almost all spells wandlessly, was able to defend himself from most magical and physical attacks, had become a little wiser, and was a DANGEROUS prankster! He sat reading over his books as he remembered his latest prank.
§FLASHBACK§
Harry was sitting in the courtyard of Midnight Manor, mindlessly gazing about. He had had his butt kicked that day in a dueling match and he wasn't too pleased about it.
Godric and Salazar had been teaching him new tricks when they both decided to pull something on him. They had sent a charm his way, knowing that he didn't know what it was. It had turned out to be a charm that made his voice sound like a house-elf's. To make matters worse, Merlin, Helga and Rowena had chosen that moment to walk in and check on him. When they noticed what had happened, they started laughing their heads off.
Needless to say that Harry wasn't amused in the slightest and made a promise to himself to show these people that he wasn't the son of a Marauder for nothing. When he voiced these thoughts out loud, they all turned to look at him. Rowena looked like she was about to say something, when another voice cut in.
'You've got that right. The Marauder's always came up with amazing revenge plans and they almost always worked well in the end.' Harry turned to see that his parents had walked in. He had been amazed earlier in the summer when Merlin had explained to him that his parents had never really died and that they had only created illusions of themselves to fool Voldemort. Apparently, they had to take off because it wasn't safe for them to stay in Godric's Hollow anymore.
So here he was, sitting and pondering, when he suddenly had an amazingly large craving for some ice cream. That's when the idea hit him in the face like a brick wall. He carefully formulated his plan in his head so that nothing would go wrong, and then decided to put his plan into action the next day.
Early the next morning, Harry woke up before everyone else. He stealthily crept into Merlin's room first and set all of the charms into place before continuing into the other founder's rooms to place similar enchantments. Once he was done, he headed downstairs to go and make himself some breakfast.
About an hour late, he heard shrieks of surprise coming from upstairs. He chuckled happily to himself with the thought of, 'That's what you get when you mess with the son of a Marauder' and ran to grab the wizarding camera that Ron had given him the previous year.
He sprinted up the stairs two at a time, so he wouldn't miss the sight of the adults' horrified faces. When he arrived up there, he saw them all crowding around the mirror to see what they looked like. Harry saw his parents walk in wondering what the problem was, when they fell to the ground laughing at the sight of the founder's.
'Say cheese,' and CLICK, Harry had taken a picture of them. 'Thanks a lot you guys. I'll be sure to make copies of this to pass around.'
When they saw Harry, they all scowled at him and tried to reprimand him, but all that came out was shrieks of opera songs from the women and gurgling sounds from the men. Harry laughed and took many more pictures to put into a new scrapbook. Oh, how he would cherish these moments forever.
He had turned Godric, Merlin, and Salazar into large globs of human sized globs of flavoured ice cream, that would change both colour and flavour depending on the emotion that was running through their minds, and the also had weird googly eyes.
For Rowena and Helga, well… let's just say that whenever they tried to communicate or reprimand him or just plain complain about something, all that would come out would be different styles of opera songs.
They all gave him a look that promised revenge, but for some reason, Harry didn't buy into it. He knew that they wouldn't try anything after they had seen what he could do, and that was without the help of his Marauder of a father.
§END OF FLASHBACK§
That was one of his best pranks yet. Of course he had pulled some more, but as he suspected, no one tried to retaliate back against him. Oh well… more fun for him anyway. What really put a damper on things like this was the fact that Sirius couldn't be here to witness them with him.
Harry missed his godfather deeply, and at the beginning of the summer, he was really really feeling guilty. It wasn't until his parents caught him wallowing in pity, that he was forced to sit down and listen to an incredibly lengthy lecture about how it wasn't his fault and that Sirius was responsible for his own actions. It had made him realize that he should move on and get over it.
Merlin and the other founder's found Harry in the courtyard gazing mindlessly around, looking as though he were in a trance, which was most probably true. It was almost the end of the young man's training, and he would be returning to school the next day. They hurried over to where he was sitting, just incase he was planning another one of his pranks.
'Harry, what are you thinking about?' Helga looked at him with a look of concern.
'Not much, just thinking about some of my old pranks and how it's not the same without Sirius here to witness them with me. I still miss him you know, even though I may not feel guilty about his death anymore.'
'Don't worry about it. These feelings will eventually pass by, though, you will always have the memory of Sirius in your heart, and don't you ever forget that.' Rowena had taken over the conversation. ' Come, let us return inside the castle.'
They all walked up to the castle and went inside. Once they were seated in the lounge, Salazar took over. 'Harry, do you remember how we said that if you had done an excellent job on your training, that we would give you a special gift?'
'Yeah!! What is it? What is it?' Harry asked these questions as if he were a 5-year-old waiting to open a special Christmas gift. He held his hands out and closed his eyes.
'It's not a small gift Harry; it's actually quite the contrary. You won't be able to hold it in your hands, but keep your eyes closed.
There was a rattling noise, Harry screwed his face up in confusion and whined impatiently, 'What is it?'
Lily shook her head while smiling contently at her son. 'My goodness Harry, your even worse than your father when he wants something, and that's saying something. Just calm down, because if you don't, then you're not going to get it.'
'Humph' was her only reply.
Once the gift was set out, Rowena told Harry that he could open his eyes and once he did, he saw two cages with new robes as well as his new school supplies. 'Hey, what's with the two cages and new robes?' he asked.
Salazar decided to work his jaw muscles and dryly stated, 'Do you not see that one cage is quite a ways larger that the other one, or are you to blind and thick to notice?'
By now, Harry was used to Salazar's biting sarcasm. It was just the way the man was. 'Um, ya, Salazar…whatever you say, and just to clear something up for you, I am not thick and blind. So get those ideas out of your empty head!'
Helga mumbled some curses in Gaelic and Salazar yelped childishly. 'I heard what you said Salazar Slytherin. You had better knock it off if you want to stick around. It's Harry's last day here, at least try and make it enjoyable. Sorry Harry.'
Godric explained to Harry that one cage was for Hedwig and that the other would be for his new Phoenix that had hatched just the other day. Harry had named her Ariel. She was just an egg at the beginning of his training and was born from Merlin's own Phoenix.
Ariel was an unusual one though. She wasn't the usual red, orange and yellow; the colours of flame. She was blue and silver, the colours of the sister element of fire.
The founder's explained to Harry that he couldn't tell anyone about his summer training because Voldemort would most likely have spies at Hogwarts. He understood that and went to pack his belongings.
The next day, Harry's parents, who were in disguise, saw Harry off at King's Cross. He said goodbye and went to look for a compartment on the train. He found one and settled in. No sooner than about ten minutes later, the door opened and there, in the doorway, stood his two best friends, Ron and Hermione.
'Excuse us, do you mind, everywhere else is full.' Hermione looked rather hesitant as she asked.
Deciding to use the same answer he did in his first year, Harry replied, 'Not at all.'
'Than…Hey wait a minute! I know that answer anywhere! Harry?!?!' Ron had put two and two together to get four when Harry had answered.
'The one and only!' He laughed. 'How are you two? I missed you both so very much!' That was about all he could say before he found both Ron and Hermione on top of him.
Hermione started one of her infamous lectures. 'Harry James Potter! We missed you so much! How could you just take off on us like that and then don't send us any letters to say that you're ok? Do you have any idea how worried we were about you? Mrs. Weasley was a mess.'
'Ya mate. Mum kept owling and fire talking to Professor Dumbledore everyday saying how he wasn't doing enough to try and find you! Where did you take off to anyway?'
'I am so sorry for all the trouble that I've caused you all, I really didn't mean to. But where I was, I wasn't allowed to communicate with anyone in case Voldemort intercepted it. As to where I went…well…let's just say that we shouldn't talk about here where people can easily listen in.' Seeing their disappointed faces, Harry quickly added, 'Don't worry, I'll tell you later tonight. I promise.'
'Ok, but you had better not back out mister,, or you are never going to see and hear the end of us.' Harry and Ron both had to chuckle at Hermione's comment, though all of them knew that she meant it.
Just then, the train gave a sudden lurch, throwing them all to the ground. 'What's going on out there Harry?' Ron asked because Hermione had landed on top of him and he couldn't lift his head to look out of the window.
Harry looked out and saw a bunch of Voldemort's Death Eater's attacking the train. 'Why those low life eating scumbags! Death Eater's are attacking the train. I have to go out there.' At that Harry changed his appearance. His cloak changed to a pitch black colour with real silver flames going around the edges and drew up his hood. All in all, Harry looked pretty intimidating. 'Please cover for me.' With that said, Harry left.
He reappeared outside the train and called the attention of the Death Eater, who he supposed was leading the attack. 'You low life eating scumbags! How can you attack a train full of innocent people who are unable to defend themselves?'
'Why do you care what we do? Besides, it's easier for us to get rid of them if they are unable to fight back. Now move out of my way or I'll personally kill you.' The voice was unmistakably that of Lucius Malfoy's.
Harry smirked and retorted, 'Never Malfoy! You and your fellow scumbags have to go through me first.'
'As you wish! But before I do, who are you?'
'I am your worst nightmare.' With that, Harry attacked. 'Exuro' and a bright red light shot out and just grazed by Malfoy's right arm, forcing him to drop his wand. Malfoy screamed in pain as the curse burned off most of his right shoulder.
Again, before Malfoy could do anything else, Harry shouted, 'Mucro Glacialis'. Sharp pieces of ice flew straight for Malfoy and hit its target. One of the pieces flew and his him straight in the heart, killing him instantly.
When the other Death Eaters saw this, they instantly disapparated away, not wanting to be the next victim of this dark wizard, who was obviously fighting for the Light. Just as the last one left, the Order of the Phoenix as well as several aurors arrived at the scene.
Harry saw Dumbledore make his way over to him and decided that it was time for a few things to be revealed.
When Professor Dumbledore reached him, he started to give his thanks. 'Thank you so much for protecting the students. I can't thank you enough for what you have done.'
Disguising his voice, Harry replied, 'No problem, it's my purpose in life to help others and to defeat Voldemort once and for all.'
'Well thank you once again. But, who exactly are you? I don't really know anyone who knows those curses.'
'Oh… I think that you will be surprised Sir.'
'Really? How so?' Harry lowered his hood and Dumbledore gasped.
'Hello Headmaster.'
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