Chapter 3 – back to privet drive.
It had occurred to Harry that if he was going to teach he would need some of the things he had left in his old room, at number four, privet drive. As much as he dreaded this he decided that he must go, if not to get his things then to show off his new family to his old one. As the three of them left the burrow, Ron and Hermione, who were staying there as plumbing work was done on their new apartment in the centre of Nottingham were sat in the kitchen, and Ron shouted jokingly after Harry
"Don't decide you like it there better mate, yeah? Come back to us"
"No problem" Harry replied "well be back before dark, ok?"
Harry had decided to use muggle transport so as not to arouse any twitching blinds in the windows of the suburban street, and when he pulled up in his rented car (which he had bewitched to drive its self, having no idea how to do it himself) he looked up to the house he had so loathed as a child and sighed, he had promised himself he would never be back here he with his arm around Ginny and a hand pushing the pushchair he had Annie in rang the doorbell and, to his surprise a very morbid Dudley answered the door
"Oh, Harry, it's you, you've herd then?"
Harry guided his wife and child through the door and into the living room, which was now far from pristine as his aunt had kept it
"What's happened Dudley? Where's uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia?"
"They're dead Harry"
"What?" he replied, scarcely believing it.
"They're… dead"
"Jesus Christ" Harry muttered under his breath, he had never loved them, nor had he even liked them, but to wish them dead? No, he couldn't ever do that he suddenly realised something and pointed his wand at the window, the curtains shut, and he did the same with the kitchen windows and then locked both the doors with a wave of his free left hand leaving Dudley and to his surprise Ginny looking scared
"Dudley, what do you remember? He said "tell me exactly what happened that day"
"Well, it was normal enough" he started and looking at him Harry realised he had lost a lot of weight, he was still bigger than average, but the signs were there
"I was going out later on that night, and I was getting ready and I remember shaving…" he said straining to remember "and I herd a bang so I ran to my room and grabbed my cricket bat I remember running down the stairs then…. Then a woman sat right where you are telling me its ok and then the police came and she said there'd been a break in and they'd got caught in the heads with something."
Harry turned to Ginny
"He's had a memory charm put on him"
He went back to Dudley
"Right Dudley there's no need to panic, but I'm going to put a charm on you" he was speaking very slowly. "I believe that your memory has been modified, I'm going to try and see what actually happened, ok"
Harry didn't give him time to respond. He pointed his wand at Dudley, sat with his eyes tight shut and said
"Legillimens"
Harry was into Dudley's mind. He saw Dudley's reflection as he shaved… he herd the loud bang (which Harry assumed was a curse)…he Dudley's arm reach for a cricket bat… he saw him thundering down the stairs. Ti was then he was baffled, he knew who the person on the stairs was, it was a death eater, the black billowing robes and the while mask told him that, but, as he saw Dudley's arms reach up to hit him with the bat, he saw a golden light radiate from him and throw the death eater back down the stairs.
Harry removed himself from Dudley's mind and sat down
"Dudley, what was that golden light coming from you?"
"I… I don't know."
"Thinking out loud he said "shield charm"
"What? A charm? What are you on about? I'm… I'm not one of you! No, I can't be"
"Have you ever made anything happen? Anything you can't explain?"
"I don't know…."
That summer, when we got attacked in the alleyway, tell me exactly what you saw"
"We were walking yeah, and then like these things…" Harry cut him off,
"That's all I need to know Dud. Either you're a squib, or there's something going on that I don't know about. I'm going to tell you everything, its only fair" Harry paused
"It starts almost 20 years ago my mum and dad were killed by a dark wizard, and he tried to kill me, but he couldn't that's why I have this scar. After he cursed me, the curse rebounded and hit him, but he had protected his life with charms and ancient curses and evil magic, it didn't kill him, it took his body away and he was cursed to roam the earth. In his height, he had a private army of other evil dark wizards at his disposal and they were picking us off one by one. After my parents had been murdered, my godfather was blamed with their death and sent to a prison, but it wasn't him, it was another man, Peter Pettigrew, and he betrayed them, but he was an animagus, which meant he could turn into an animal, he lived as an animal for 12 years, until one night he escaped, and ran back to his master, back to Voldemort. A year after that, they managed to resurrect Voldemort's body and he was back. Then in last part of my seventh year, I fought him, and killed him, but now his followers are lead by another man, Lucius Malfoy, I believe that now, his death eaters are coming for anyone connected to me, and I believe that you may have a part to play stopping them"
Dudley was gob smacked.
"So, so, that could mean I am one of you?"
"yes Dudley, I believe it may" Harry replied, slowly "and that is why we need to leave now, firstly you need a wand, then we shall go to Hogwarts and train you, because you will be attacked again, but this time you'll know what you're defending your self with, not just your cricket bat.
"right Ginny, you take this to the burrow" he said after picking up an ugly ornamental dog and muttering "portus" a trick he had learnt from Dumbledore.
"Ok" she said grabbing the push chair and moving over to Harry, she kissed him hard on the lips said
"Love you" put her hand on the dog and was gone.
"Where'd she go! She was there! Then not! Then!" Stammered Dudley, looking utterly befuddled.
"Right Dudley, I'm going to put a charm on you, to make it look like you're not there you'll be practically invisible" he said, tapping him hard on the head and seeing that it had worked perfectly. "Ok when I say go, run to the car, right?" he saw the blurred figure nod
"I don't know if any of them will be there, but it's possible. Right"
He held his hand to the door.
"1-2-3 GO" she shouted, forcing the door to burst open with a surge from his hand, and drawing his wand, they both sprinted to the car, half way down the drive Harry herd the tell tale popping noises of apparating wizards and he screamed
"DUDLEY, YOU KEEP GOING" and fired off a stunning spell at the death eater who had appeared at his side, flew back and hit the wall of the house. He knocked down another two who were charging at Dudley with a wave of his left hand and waited for Dudley to get into the car before running to it himself, then standing on top of it, he used the body bind charm to immobilise another encroaching death eater. He apparated himself into the car hit the wheel with his wand, and the car drove itself away, with Harry blasting the chasing evil wizards out of the smashed window.
Harry took the charm off of Dudley as they got out of the battered car which they had parked outside a small backstreet pub, The Leaky Cauldron. Harry said
"Follow me" to Dudley and he accepted his cousin's lead.
"Ah! Mr. Potter! What can I get you, sir?"
"Two butter beers please Tom; we'll be sat over there"
"Right you are sir!" he replied, bowing deeply.
The two men sat and drank their drinks in silence, just thinking about that had happened, and what effect it would have on everything. Harry suspected that Dudley wouldn't understand the sheer enormity if it all, and would be panicked when he did.
"Right then! You ready to see my world?" he said, his delirious tone taking even him by surprise.
"Ready as ill ever be" looking terrified already just at the customers of the pub.
The two stepped outside and Harry found the right brick in the wall, Dudley looked puzzled to see his cousin counting bricks. Harry tapped the brick and he saw Dudley's look of awe when the archway opened up
"Welcome" he said, just as hargid had done all those years ago to him "to Diagon alley" all Dudley could manage was to open and close his mouth like a goldfish.
"Righty-ho, now first place we need to go is Gringots, the bank, its run by goblins, so don't say anything or look at them funny, ok?" Harry knew he wouldn't get an answer
"then, it'll be Ollivanders, see if we can't get you a wand" again he didn't get an answer, but he found Dudley's look comical, he was staring all around him, mouth open and the look of a small child at the fun fair.
After they had finished at the bank, Harry drawing out much more than he needed, they went to Ollivanders.
"Mr Potter and what gives me the pleasure of your company?"
"It isn't me you should be talking to Mr Ollivander, it's my cousin, and I think he may need a wand."
"Ah, yes, I've known about you for a very long time Mr. Dursley, you mother did indeed make a pact with Dumbledore to suppress your magic, but you must be throwing that off as I see you have performed magic"
"How did?"
"Follow me" said Ollivander, Dudley followed him to the many shelves of wands and after several, over a hundred at Harry's last count, they found a suitable match, a rather thick wand made of oak, with a dragon heart string core.
Harry took Dudley back to privet drive for a rushed visit, just to get some belongings and then they were off the Burrow. Harry decided it would be best to use a port key rather than to drive; it was quicker and harder to trace. Harry performed the incantation and told Dudley what to do, as soon as he touched it he felt the familiar jerk behind the navel and they were gone, landing a second later in the garden of the house. The first thing he saw was a ginger blur coming to him and Ginny was wrapping him in an embrace
"Harry, the order came here looking for you! What happened?" she began
"Shhh, its ok my love, we're fine death eaters appeared after you left, we held them off though, we're both fine" he said, patting her head and smoothing her hair.
"Harry, Harry?" said a soft voice, the breath pushing the sound playing softly on his ear, he groaned, he was tried, after teaching Dudley all week who wouldn't be? He had been focusing on the best spells he could learn for defence, stunning and disarming, these were the spells that could buy you the time you needed for a quick getaway.
"Harry?" said the voice now he felt a nibble on his ear lobe and he turned over to see Ginny, propping herself up on one elbow, looking at him
"Happy birthday" she said, a wide grin on her face, Harry had forgotten his birthday once again, and he was too busy to remember it really.
"Morning love" he said, drawing her closer to him and kissing her softly on the lips.
"Don't you want to open your present?" she asked him, a playful smile still on her face
"Where is it?" he asked
"Well, there's one downstairs, but there's also one right here" she said, straddling him as she spoke, then placing a bow on her chest
"I think ill open the one here for now" he said
She leant forward and kissed him hard on the mouth, his lips parted and her tongue and his became one, and he returned with his and he tasted her indescribable flavour. Starting with his hands on her bare thighs, he slowly made his way up her body, to her firm breasts, grasping them. As she felt this she removed her shirt, and threw it to one side, if she had things the way she planned she wouldn't need it for most of the day. They kissed passionately for several more minutes her fingers working through his hair, and his hands massaging her breasts feeling the nipples harden in between his fingers he sat up, she was still on her knees, one leg each side of him, he placed his hands on her back and began kissing her neck, moving down to her collar bone and then to her chest, moving rapidly in and out, she was panting, He then lay her on her back, still moving downwards as he kissed, his mouth now at her navel he moved ever downwards. Now he was kneeling at the end of the bed, she lay, her back flat on the bed, her hair spread over the sheets, reflecting the sunlight in a haunting manor, his hands left her breasts now, holding her sides he moved them slowly down almost tickling her as he went, reaching the tiny shorts she had been sleeping in he started to remove them, she lifted her hips slightly to aid him in this then they were also gone. He put his hands on her hips, and began to kiss the inside of her thighs, slowly moving upwards. She had began shivering, then an electric surge flowed through her body, her back arched and she began screaming, after this, he began to crawl up the bed once more, and when he grew level with her she straddled him once more, but this time she made sure she felt him slowly penetrate her, she moaned his name in pleasure and felt a shiver go through his body.
The rest of the day passed with much the usual birthday celebration for Harry. Ron had brought him a book "curse of worse: what do use and when"
Thought it would come in handy mate, what with the teaching and everything"
Fred and George, who he had not seen much of over his time at the burrow had given him a dragon skin jacket, like theirs
"Can't let our biggest shareholder show such a lack of style, can we?" the twins had said to him "especially not with him teaching now"
Mrs Weasley had made the usual giant cake and the other Weasleys had all chipped in to get him a set for teaching, consisting of some new quills, and a book of class room spells. Harry thought this was a great thought full present. He hadn't really had time to get those things from Diagon alley and as he would be a guard on the train he wouldn't be able to pick them up in Hogsmeade before classes had started.
His favourite present by far had been the one he had got from Annie though, Ginny had pressed her hand print into the bottom of a cup and on her card it said
To Daddy,
So you think of me every time you drink
From your little girl
Anissia
Tears had welled in his eyes when he saw it and he had had to take a few deep breaths to stop him from crying, Fred and George would have had a field day.
Authors notes: quite a long chapter for me, and a lot happening too, im trying to get one up a week but its gonna fall short soon I think, GCSE's aren't too good for you and your story! Just thought id like to devote this to Melindaleo whose fic was the first I read and the sequil the firt one I followed, shes inspired me loads and they kinda follow on a bit from hers.
Oh and…………. I OWN NOTHING!