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Summer of Realization

Chapter 1: visitors

It was the summer after his fifth year and Harry was laying in his bed at Privet Drive. The Dursleys had been uncharacteristically quiet after the Orders warning.

He was laying on his bed trying to forget the horrors of the Department of Mysteries, he had dark circles under his eyes and was gaunt and underfed. He rarely slept, and when he did his dreams were plagued by images of Sirius falling through the veil over and over.

Pushing his glasses up his nose and trying in vain to flatten his black hair, Harry exited his room upon hearing the ring of the doorbell.

He was all alone in his house this afternoon, with the Dursley's meeting Aunt Marge for supper. They didn't want her coming back to the house after the incident his third year.

Focusing on the task at hand, Harry made his way down the stairs wondering who would call to his aunt and uncles home. He looked down at his tattered jeans and dirty t-shirt hoping he was at least decently presentable, as not to upset friends of the Dursleys.

He slid back the bolts and opened the door slowly, his wand raised in fear of attack. He was very surprised to see two red headed figures standing in the dark night outside the house.

"Hello Harry," said a deep voice Harry recognized as Mr. Weasley's.

"Oh hello, Mr. Weasley, what are you doing here?" he questioned while backing up and allowing him and the other red head into the house, bolting the door behind them. "Do I get to leave this place already?"

"No Harry, you will actually have to remain here for the rest of the summer," he said while pulling his daughter, Ginny, up next to him. "Ginny here is going to be staying with you, the Burrow is not a safe place to be so all the kids are spread around."

Harry looked over at Ginny, her red head was bowed down and she was staring at her feet, shuffling uncomfortably.

"Oh, okay," said Harry. "Should we head up to my room then?"

With that he turned on his heel and beckoned, with a wave of his hand for the others to follow. He wasn't quite up the stairs when he remembered the Dursleys. "Um, Mr. Weasley, are you sure the Dursley's will Be ok with Ginny staying here?"

"I don't think that will be a problem, some order members are going to wait for them outside till they come home later. They'll fill the in on the situation."

"Ok," said Harry when reaching his door. He swung it open slowly, and waited for Ginny and Her dad to enter. "Well here it is, home sweet home."

His room was a mess. Clothes strewn all about, bed unmade, spare parchment and quills littered the floor.

"Sorry I didn't clean up a bit, this was quite unexpected," he said with a glance at Ginny's face. She was looking around his room with an unreadable expression on her face. She looked over to him meeting his eye and causing him to quickly look away with a blush.

"Well I've got to get going, kids, behave yourselves and owl everyday." as he said this he pulled as miniature trunk out of his pocket, gave it a tap with his wand, and turned in back to it's regular size.

"Bye dad," Ginny said giving him a hug.

"Bye Mr. Weasley."

With an apparation "pop" as their response, he was gone leaving Harry and Ginny alone in the house.

A/N: chapter 2 should be up soon! Tks for reading, see that button down there? Plz push it!