Chapter two
Harry was having fun for the first time on Privet drive and that scared his aunt and uncle. Harry was not doing any thing that the other occupants could fault him for. He was cleaning and cooking dinner, it was more the face that he wore as he did those things than what he did. Harry went into the living room and once he came out his smile was wider. When Uncle Vernon went into the room he couldn't see or hear any thing out of the ordinary but something didn't feel right, That Harry potter had done something. Harry was going to sleep when he pointed his wand at his aunts door and muttered a time delay charm, it would be very interesting around here at Christmas time.
Harry woke up at just after seven in the morning. He sent off his coarse selections which he had forgotten about until now but decided to take the same classes that he had before. He filled his trunk and found the remainder of the belongings that he had left in the room before he left for the summer. He left all of his clothing in the dresser and took the remainder of his sweats from under the floorboard. H masked his magical signature and sent his school trunk to his godfather's house and put on the only muggle clothes that would fit him. As he went down the stairs and heard the snores coming out of his uncles room he thought that he maybe able to stand being there if he was able to use magic.
Once on the street he went over to his former babysitter's home and let himself in. He went strait to the fireplace and flooed to Diagon ally and went strait to Gringotts bank. After he picked up some gold from his vaults he exchanged about a thousand pounds and bought all the clothes he wanted. He also went a head and went to Hogwarts and bought Hermione her birthday gift. Once he ate lunch at a diner in London he apparated to the Burrow. He went to the door and was met by Ginny who jumped up and kissed him before bringing him into the living room.
"I almost forgot Harry, Dad just won the lottery, were going to Egypt to see Bill." She went to her room and grabbed a suitcase full of clothes and put it by the front door. "Harry, do you want to come with us, I know dad wouldn't want you to but we could get our own hotel room. I'm sure Hermione would like to come as well."
"I would love to go with you; I'll pop over and ask her if she wants to." Harry disappeared with a soft pop and reappeared half an hour later with Hermione's bags. "She is going to stay with her parents until after diner and then come over. If I remember correctly you have a port key? Than you take it and I'll just come when Hermione gets here." Ginny levitated her bags to the car and then gave him a kiss good buy and got in and drove off.
Harry wandered into the kitchen and found it was occupied by Mrs. Weasley. He snuck up behind her and surprised her. "Morning mum, don't like port keys?"
She jumped and turned around to see Harry standing there with some flowers in his hand. "Oh Harry, no I had a bad experience with them. I fell off to early and was lost in the dark forest for three hours."
"Mine was when I was fourteen, I don't know if it will happen next year or not now that the rat has been put away but, I was transported to a grave yard where my blood was used to resurrect Voldemort. I figure, with your permission, that I just apparate with you and Hermione. Before you say any thing I want to tell you that Ginny and I will be staying in a room that I paid for, as are Ron and Hermione."
"Harry you are more than welcome to come along. I don't… remember exactly but I feel like you're my son. And from what I can tell you and Ginny are married. But I do wish you would just let us pay for it dear."
"Don't worry about it mum. I was rich before I killed Voldemort and now I am richer. I am down to my last billion though." Harry laughed at Molly's face as he stepped in and finished drying and putting the dishes away.
The two caught up but Harry wouldn't say much about the future even though he was sure he had changed it a lot. He did tell her after receiving her word not to tell anyone, who her children would get married to. She was surprised that Charlie was still single but was happy that all of the rest of her children were happy. The two ate together a simple lunch that Molly "for the firs time ever" let Harry cook in her kitchen. At ten after eight Hermione arrived dressed more casually than Harry had seen her after the time exchange and they left.
Ginny was loosing to Ron in chess when they arrived in the lobby of the hotel. Harry bought two rooms and after Ginny lost to Ron for the six-thousandth and eighth time they went up. Whilst Hermione and Ron went to "sleep" Harry and Ginny went for a swim.
The four friends were sitting in the lobby of their hotel one day after breakfast when a sound like a gunshot defended them. They ran outside and saw a terrible sight. On what looked like a pole, spinning, was a young child. There were several wizards in black robes with skull masks walking threw the town and half a dozen men and women were laying unconscious, Harry thought that they must be the ones that had tried to help.
Harry stepped forward to the group and pulled out his wand. The group was caught by surprise when Harry was some how able to get the child down who quickly ran behind Harry's group. "Give that back kid, we weren't done playing."
"You will have to take her back from under my dead body." One of the robed men shot a green light at Harry and he just blocked it. That was the signal to send wave after wave of the killing curse at the boy. Harry held his hand out in front of him and was pelted by spheres of emerald light. The spells that hit Harry spread over him and when they hit the ground a cloud of dust erupted from the path he was on.
The dust began to settle and the dark wizards were happy to see a limp form on the ground, they dropped their wands and then it happened. A strong wind blew the remaining dust away and in the same spot was a boy who was glowing a pail red color.
"Nice, but if your master couldn't kill me with that that spell, why would you think you could?" from his still outstretched arm Harry launched stunners wandlessly and silently. The group of evil wizards fell to the ground and did not get up.
"Harry, are you alright." Mr. Weasley was standing up to his side; he had fallen trying to get the girl to safety.
"I'm fine Mr. Weasley. Dad?" Harry asked the last part but he could already see that it was alright to call him dad. He wore his 'Do you even have to ask?' face. "I bet you didn't know that if you get hit by a killing curse it actually feels pretty good, if you don't die anyway."
The four of the students wondered around the town they were in and got tours of the tombs that Bill was working on for almost a month after the incident. Harry and Ginny celebrated a birthday in Egypt and before they knew it they were heading back to the Burrow. Hermione was going to stop by for the night get her supplies the next day and spend the rest of the time with her parents. The group of Weasleys showed up to a seen of chaos. There were half a dozen Hit wizards and Aurous standing in front of the house and hundreds of broken splinters of wood were on the ground.
A young woman walked up to them. She had a fairly round and pretty face with wide eyes. Her eyes were a strange color half way between gray and purple and had flakes of blue in them. He hair was down just past her neck and was a dirty red-blond color. Harry thought that he vaguely recognized her but couldn't place her face.
"Arthur, Molly we were called here when one of your wards was breached. We have some bad news; Peter Pettigrew escaped from Azkaban. He some how got out two nights ago and we think he is after you."
The couple paled but the witch was concerned when she saw the looks on the faces of amusement on the children. "Don't you get it? He wants to kill all of you." She looked at the faces and saw a scar on Harry's forehead. "Your Harry Potter, right?" He nodded which caused the woman to grab him in a tight hug and when he took a step back she fell on him. "I'm so sorry, it just its because of you that I'm married." The woman got off Harry and showed a simple gold ring.
"Tonks? No I guess it would be Lupin now, you just look different than the last time I saw you. Is this how you normally look?"
"Yes, Remus likes it, he proposed to me half an hour after he left your house on Christmas." She remembered why she was at the house at that point and looked at the group again. "Why aren't you concerned, Wormtail could kill you."
"Ah, my dear Nymphadora every thing happens for a reason, I am sure he will be brought back with in a few years." The witch left and after repairing the rest of the exterior the rest of them did as well.
That night only the four who knew what had happened knew that this could be a blessing. In the night Harry went to the black forest and destroyed a brass eagle. He climbed down the hollow of a tree and with out actually moving the object he sent a white hot flame at the metal raptor and in a shriek of pain and a flash of green there was nothing left of it.
Next he went to an old orphanage and shattered a golden cup. He snuck into the kitchen and there in a wooden case was the challis. He repeated the spell and left with out a second word. He was part of the way out and decided to put it back together; he didn't want it to get out that it went missing.
After those challenges it was a piece of cake to go into Grimwood place and defuse the locket which he now had clutched in his hand. . It was a simple matter of transferring the portion of the soul that lived in the locket into anything else. He chose a sheet of parchment and destroyed it as well. He was back in the bed of his girl friend before he was even missed by the other occupants of the house.
The next few weeks passed in a blur for everyone and the group found themselves on the crimson steam engine of the Hogwarts express. The group was walking down the train and once again found the only compartment had a lone passenger. "Harry, nice to see you, come on in and sit a while."
"Morning professor Lupin." After much small talk and a lot of sitting around and in Ron and Hermione's case going off somewhere to snog. Just after dark the train stopped. "Damn, I was hoping that this wouldn't happen." The lights in the compartment went out and a layer of frost.
The door to the room opened and a scabbed hand worked its way in. The dementor on the other side of the glass stepped into the doorway. As one four voices shouted "Expecto Patronum" Four animals came out of the wands of the students, A stag an otter an eagle and an owl. The four animals which were usually silver were swirled with color.
The dementor was pined against the all of the compartment. After being touched by the mass of silver with reds and greens the thing convulsed and several small blue objects shot out of its mouth and flew up to the sky. The beast fell to the ground and the robes that covered it deflated into the air releasing a cold and foul smelling mist.
"Harry, What happened?" The man picked up the black robes from the ground and looked at them. As he tried to open the front a second mist escaped and the robes dissolved but in there place a cross made of silver and onyx fell to the ground. Lupin picked it up and looked at it.
"That is the anchor point, its how they can collect souls. We put a spin on the patronus charm and with the contact with the new spell negates the effect of the anchor." Harry took the cross and conquered a chain and strung the small fetish on the end.
"Here, give this to Tonks, Lupin, whatever she likes being called nowadays. It would protect her from the dementors." The group settled back down as they relaxed on the train and when the food cart came Harry bought everything there. Once they arrived at the castle It was much like Harry remembered it, the group was sent to Professor McGonagall's office where They were forced to eat pounds of chocolate. They were aloud to go to the feast where the sorting was just finishing.
"Welcome to another year at Hogwarts. We have several start of term announcements, first off the dark forest on the grounds is off limits. Hogsmeade is going to be restricted to all those who are unable to defend them selves. To obtain the ability to go to the village you will have to duel one of the professors, if they find that you are able to take care of your self then you will be granted visiting privileges. But be warned, if you are allowed to go to the village, you are also agreeing to help defend the castle in the event that it is attacked, I do not foresee any type of attack happening any time soon but beware."
Harry was surprised in the other time he had not gone on about this; it was not a problem for the students to go out. He wondered if something more drastic was changed. He decided to drop it and dug into his food but also spent an absurd amount of time feeding Ginny hers. He carried her up to the tower and into his bed. It was strange that her things were there as well and even stranger was that Hermione's were by Ron's bed.
He picked Ginny up and set her in the bed before going to the restroom and brushing his teeth. When he got back to the room he could hear squeaking from the bed next to his, the one where he saw Hermione's scarf hanging from the bottom.
"Would you two use a silencing charm, please? Some of us are going to sleep, yah sleep." The squeaks and groans became silent from Harry's own spell and he got into his own bed. Before him was the sexiest sight he had ever remembered in his life. His Ginny, a name which he still wouldn't say out loud, was sitting in nothing but one of his shirts and a pair of his boxer shorts that hung low on her hips and a thin silver strip on her wrist. He smiled and kissed her. The pair didn't get to sleep until very late, or very early as the case may be.
As they were the previous year Harry and company found the classed extremely easy. In potions and herbology the classes that Harry was the worst in when he went threw it the first time he was excelling. The only person who was better than him in their group was Ginny, who after some smart comments was accepted into the year. The only one that knew more than her at herbology was Neville.
The next class was there first defense against the dark arts lesson and in it Harry made a point to Professor Lupin that his boggart would not become Voldemort. Voldemort was a hack, nothing compared to what his fear was.
"Books away wands out, that's good. Today we are going to be working on boggarts. Can anyone tell me what a boggart is?"
Hermione's hand shot up and explained about the fact that they would turn into a wizard or a witches worst fear. "Now then Hermione, what is your worst fear?"
"That the potion would run out." She said looking at Ron who understood. "Before you ask sir there is nothing that I can think of that would make that funny. If it happened I would be scared to death."
Seeing that he shouldn't ask for any more information he went to Ron who had a small smile on his face. "Mr. Weasley, can you make your worst fear funny?" Ron nodded and walked to the front of the room. The door opened and a small bronze colored eagle flew out. After the shock of seeing it like it was he performed the spell turning it into a roast turkey causing the class to laugh.
The class went threw the cycles and it was Ginny's turn. When she stood in front she wasn't sure what it would become. The boggart spun and fell to the ground with a clink. In front of the class was a simple golden cup with a badger on it. Ginny thought of the only thing that she could think of that would be funny she cast her spell and the cup now was leaking.
It was Harry's turn last. He stepped forward and prepared for his worst fear, now it was his only fear. He took his place and the boggart changed forms. The cup disappeared and in its place lay a girl dead. The class recognized it as Ginny. Harry didn't try the rediculas and just vanished it. He walked out of the room with tears in his eyes and went to his dorm.
About thirty seconds later Ginny showed up and pulled him to face her. "Harry, I'm your worst fear?"
"No, Ginny, my Ginny. My worst fear is now, and has been ever sense I told you that I loved you the first time, living without you. I want you to be happy with or with out me as your husband, but no matter what you want, what you do, I will always be in your life somehow." He kissed her softly. "I love you, my Ginny." Harry's eyes went wide as he realized what he said. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean it like it sounded. It was just some thing that slipped out. Please forgive me."
"For what?" questioned Ginny.
"I said you were mine, you aren't. You don't belong to any one, you are the most beautiful amazing woman that has ever lived I don't own you no one does." Harry looked into the girls eyes and could see that she wasn't angry, she was smiling.
"Harry, are you mine?" Ginny asked and waited staring into Harry's soul, she already knew the answer.
"You own my body mind and soul. I gave them to you the first time I told you I loved you, I never want them back."
"If I can own you because you gave me your body mind and soul what happens if I gave you mine the same time you gave me yours? Why do I own you and you not me? I am not owned by any one Harry just like your not, your just mine."
"And you're mine, my Ginny." Harry felt something in him break. He could no longer keep from thinking it and he felt it was okay this time.
The first Care of magical creatures class was just as Harry remembered it. They were once again studying Hippogriffs but this time Harry actually did volunteer to show the class, not just out of pity. Harry was just leaving the class thinking that he had just gotten around the incident with Malfoy and the beast but he was wrong, he heard screams and knew that this was going to be a long year.
Harry and Ginny were standing in the line of students that were trying to get permission to go to Hogsmeade. Ron and Hermione had already been granted passes from professors Sprout and McGonagall. Ginny went forward to be tested by Professor Lupin and Harry was standing in the line for the next opening.
"Ah, Harry. Why don't I test you my self?" All the duels in the room stopped. Not for the first time Harry wondered how Dumbledore was able to be heard over all the noise.
"Thank you sir." Harry stepped into the clearing that had been created in the room. The combatants were just starting to draw there wands when some one shouted down the hall that Dumbledore was dueling Harry Potter. Within thirty seconds the great hall was full with every student and every teacher. Off to the side Harry could see the twins taking bets, he saw that he would pay ten to one if he won.
"Bow to your opponent, turn and walk five paces." Harry didn't recognize the voice but he and Dumbledore obeyed and when they faced each other again all playfulness and kindness were gone from the headmaster. Harry could feel the power from the professor from where he stood and matched his power to the letter.
Dumbledore was impressed, he had never needed to use all of his power to match anyone but Voldemort yet Harry was able to mach the power and wasn't even straining to keep it there. For the first time in years Albus Dumbledore was scared. He had reached the height of his power, Harry had not. Harry's body began to glow an eerie red glow and then it vanished. Dumbledore could no longer feel Harry's power at all.
The duel began with the headmaster sending out a full power stunning spell which Harry blocked with a flick of his wrist, but as he did he felt his power. Dumbledore was scared shitless. The reason that he couldn't feel Harry's power was that it was at the same level as all of Hogwarts. The aged professor began sending the most arcane spells in his arsenal at the boy but Harry was able to block deflect or disarm every one. After ten minuets Harry began to attack. He was using mainly stunning spells but also one that Dumbledore didn't know.
A pink and blue light hit the old man in the big toe on his right foot and it froze in place. He was being petrified by a simple spell. The spread was not fast but by the end of the next five minuets he could not use his legs and was forced to being purely defensive. He was hit by a second spell that he didn't know and the petrifaction was reversed, Harry sent one final spell into the professor who tried to block it but was unable to. Dumbledore had run out of power, he had lost his first duel in nearly one century.
Fred and George had to pay out almost one hundred galleons but had mad nearly six. Hermione had made almost thirty on her own. Harry had helped the professor off the ground and gave him some power back. "Sir that petrifaction spell feeds off of your own power, it took roughly half of it before I reversed it, I also took half of your power to change your body back to normal. If I would have waited you would be in magical exhaustion for weeks, as it is you should be fine by dinner." Harry began to leave when he remembered why he had dueled, "Professor?"
"You will be granted a pass Harry, obviously." Harry left the room to a stunned silence except for the sound of gold changing hands.
It had been a while sense this happened to Harry, teachers and students alike were staring at him with what looked like fear. When he was at Hogwarts the first time, as he thought of it, the pointing would have bugged him, so would the profit article that had resulted, he had a copy of it next to his bed with the picture that Ginny had given him last Christmas.
Is the Boy Who Lived Too PowerfulBy Rita Skeeter
Harry Potter, The Boy Who Lived, 13, was involved in a duel at Hogwarts school for witchcraft and wizardry last Sunday the twenty-third of September. This might not scare any of you readers, it happens every day, right? Wrong, this duel was between third year student Potter and Headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
It has been learned threw our accurate sources that Mr. Potter was engaged by the head master to test the boys ability. One of our sources tells us that a student has to face a professor at the school to be granted the privilege to go to the village of Hogsmeade. This reporter believes that it is just a scam to test the powers of trouble students.
"Potter was getting bead back by the headmaster." One student said, "But then he did some strange dark spell that turned Professor Dumbledore to stone. It scared the hell out of me."
Other stories correspond with this one and it is definitely a bad sign when a student that saved us all from you know who is able to defeat the most powerful wizard of our time. It is only made worse that it was done with the aid of a dark arts spell.
It is my understanding that the use of any dark spells would result in the expulsion of a student that would use it, Mr. Potter was not. It makes you wonder, if Mr. Potter would use one spell that could have killed the professor would he be willing to use the unforgivable curses? Think about it.
The fall out of the article was more positive than negative except telling everyone that he did not use a dark arts spell. Harry could see that almost all the Slytherins were acting almost civilly towards him, excluding Malfoy of course. After Harry had him put in jail and later the same year Ginny had as good as killed him, he was always mumbling about doing something, he had yet to do anything.
Harry and Ginny were in the middle of transfiguration class when they decided that rather than just acting like they were doing something, they would. Harry and Ginny looked threw a book that they had stolen from the restricted section of the library about animagi. They had already brewed the potion to see what they were going to become and took it in the back of the class. In Ginny's mind she saw a magnificent red fox with brown spots going down her back. She woke up and started the process.
Harry was looking around his mind and saw a black shadow like animal, he looked down and saw a jet black raven with a lightning bolt shaped silver spot on his left wing. He came back to the waking realm and almost immediately started to change. He could control it but it was almost like he was let out of a box and his conciseness expanded to let him see what to do. He felt a strange poking sensation when his body covered in feathers and shrunk into a large black raven. Next to him was sitting a gorgeous red fox that he knew was Ginny, he could see on her front paw was a silver band. He looked at his wing and saw a gray ring on it as well.
The fact that two of her students changed into animals in her class didn't escape McGonagall she walked over and they changed back to themselves. Her lips were gone and replaced by two lines that were barely a millimeter apart as she signaled for them to follow her out of the room and to the headmasters office.
Once inside The stern professor scolded the students for trying to be animagi. "Don't you know how dangerous it was, you could have gotten stuck like that."
"Professors, you already know that we know more than you would think. We could both pass our N.E.W.T.s right now if we wanted, we got pretty good at transfiguration when we figured the golem limb spell." Professor McGonagall's jaw dropped but she couldn't make a sound. "We just knew what to do, don't ask me to explain it but we did."
"Harry Ginny in the morning we are going to take you to the ministry to register your forms. For now I would say get a good nights sleep you will need it to get threw the registration process."
Harry and Ginny transformed and ran to the dorm and lay down. Harry wrapped his wife in his arms and drifted into a nap. Meanwhile down in the great hall Hermione and Ron were sitting down for lunch when a black owl swooped down and landed on Hermione's shoulder. It had a letter in its talons and when it was relieved from its burden it stayed on its spot, nipping at her ear.
Hermione unrolled the parchment and read a note that Harry had put on yet it looked like Ron's handwriting.
Dear 'Mione
I remembered what your happiest moment was so I asked Dumbledore which owl delivered your letter to you. It turns our that it was Starlight here. Happy birthday love, I was aloud to take him if I bought a new one so, Starlight is my birth day present to you.
I hope that you like him,
Love from
Ronald
Hermione threw her arms around Ron and hugged him so tight he couldn't breath all the time saying thank you over and over again. She had just let go of him when it was time for there next class. Ron was trying to figure out what she was thanking him for when he saw the letter.
Ron,
Just go with it.
Harry.
He didn't know or care about how or why he had done it but it was a great deal better of a present than the flowers that he had gotten her and he vowed to try to do the same for Harry sometime.
It was late at night and Harry and Ginny hadn't made it down for dinner but they didn't care. Harry was just laying awake his head on the bed board when he heard a noise. He repositioned Ginny onto the bed but in the process she woke up. Putting a hand to his lips to shoe that he wanted her to stay quiet. There was no noise in the room anymore, it felt like a silencing charm. Harry wordlessly reversed it and could hear a hushed conversation.
"Wormtail, just do it." A voice said.
"But what if they wake up, they could kill me, look at what the article said. Potter could beat me in no time, and so could the girl." Wormtail spoke softly even though he thought that he had silenced the room.
"Just do it, all it will take will be two killing curses. The will be dead and we can go on about our lives, we can bring our master back."
"We jut have to be quick. The charm can't last to much longer, Lilly was the charms student."
Harry moved forward and opened the curtains and sent two stunning spells out and one hit the unknown man and as the second on was about to hit the rat he transformed and jumped out the window and ran into the forest.
"Harry, this is Grayback, the werewolf that bit Bill." Ginny sent half a dozen more stunning spells into the beast and brought him to the headmasters office by apparation. The pair bound and gagged the werewolf and Harry petrified him so that he couldn't get away. They went back to bed and tried unsuccessfully tried to get back to sleep.
For some reason Harry and Ginny never needed to testify at the trial of the dark creature, Grayback was a dark creature not because he was a werewolf but because he was evil. The next month passed quickly and soon it was time for the first Quidditch match. Harry was once again flying around the pitch and was once more being marked by Cedric Diggory.
The game was just starting and Harry decided to try out a simple move that he had always wanted, a Wronski feint. Acting like he had just seen the snitch Harry started the dive as fast as his broom could go. He went strait down and kept speeding up. Cedric was following him close, just about a foot behind his tail. Harry put on a burst of speed and pulled up about three inches from the ground, Cedric couldn't quite manage it, he crashed into the earth and the wind was knocked out of him.
As Harry was climbing he felt the cold in his bones and flew strait up towards the snitch. At the same time he was going up he had sent a patronus down, it wasn't a stag however. From the end of his wand was a red and silver fox, it glowed so bright that he could see everything despite the rain that was falling. He caught the snitch and spun around to see over one hundred dementors floating off the pitch as quickly as they could. Harry dropped to the ground and waved the Snitch above his head before going on a victory lap with his teammates.
Harry and company were walking threw Hogsmeade on the last weekend before Christmas break and everyone was once again going to be going to Harry's home for the holiday. Ginny was looking in the shop window when her eyes clouded over in happiness. Harry snuck a peak and recognized what it was instantly. The promise ring that he had given her when she turned seventeen. Pretending that he hadn't noticed he pretended to use the restroom and bought the ring.
The group hadn't really had a Christmas except for last year because of Voldemort but this year they were going to go crazy. Harry had already bought over a grouse of butter beer and a barrel of mulled mead. He had asked some of his family, Molly and Arthur and the Grangers. The four people had not Gotten gifts really but they had gotten there traditional dinner, Firewiskey. During the war it was the only thing that they had on several days around Christmas except what could be conjured.
Everybody had what they wanted and they didn't need anything from the school so they decided to start there vacation early. Harry and Ginny were just wakening up the next morning when Dumbledore was climbing out of the fireplace. Harry looked at the aged professor and felt his heart freeze, something had happened.
"Harry, last night Mr. Finnegan was attacked in your place. He was stabbed threw the neck with an enchanted sword and almost died. He was spared by Mr. Longbottem and Miss Brown. Neville was able to share his life force with Mr. Finnegan and sustain him until Miss Brown had retrieved me and the Phoenix tears that you didn't need earlier this year. He is resting Comfortably but we are going to need your help. It is obvious that you are a talented spell crafter, we as the staff of Hogwarts would like your input as a way to stop more attacks."
"Use the Fidelity charm. I will be secret keeper." Harry looked at the shocked face of the professor, "I've done it before. No place was safe so I took the burden to do it and I would do it again if I can stop this."
"Harry, do you understand that this will be a strain on your mind and body?" The head master looked at the young man before darting his eyes across the room, away from Harry's gaze. I can see that it would be a wise if dangerous task, I will have it set up for the first day of term, for now I suggest that you put it from your mind. Have a happy break. It may well be the last on that you can have with out the weight of the school on your head."
Harry and Ginny did just that and Ron and Hermione helped to some degree but basically got in the way. The Weasleys and Grangers helped a lot but Ginny always liked things a certain way, and it was different than her mothers.
Christmas morning dawned to a smaller crowd then there was last year, Percy had stayed at school with his girlfriend and Bill and Charlie were in different countries. The twins were ecstatic with the dead to a shop in Diagon Ally. The grangers were given a new office set including a thousand pound computer system and ten year subscriptions to ten different magazines for there waiting room.
Mr. and Mrs. Weasley had been given all new clothing, from formal to muggle. They had also been given a car that had been magically enhanced but with out the ability to fly. Ginny had started to cry when Harry had given her the ring and apologized for not getting him anything. They really did have everything they could want.
Harry popped over to his "home" at number four Privet Drive. Ginny was with him and she knew why as soon as Harry opened the door. All of the Dursleys were covered in grayish green slimy bat bogies. She had to bit her lip when they tried to grab things like a flyswatter to beat them off but they just caused more of the things to come. Harry thought that this was a very good Christmas.
The next day Remus and Lupin (A.K.A Tonks) had come over and celebrated the day. After dinner and drinks the house was left to just the Hogwarts students and parents. They all walked around the grounds and found a strange substance on the lawn. Harry didn't know what it was but the second that he touched it he fell to the ground screaming. Ginny tried to do everything that she could but whenever she touched him an electric shock sent her to the ground. Harry's scar burst open and out of the wound black blood poured. The blood pooled around the boy and caused him to scream louder. Hermione had been doing spells to find out what the material was and when she matched it she gasped, It was Voldemort. Harry was thrashing and trying to stop from passing out, he knew it would be bad if he did. The last of His strength was gone and the darkness claimed Him.
"Foolish people," Voldemort's voice came from Harry's mouth, "I have heard that this boy was able to defeat my servants with ease." The thing controlling Harry laughed. "I was able to defeat him with minimal effort. Don't worry, Hell see and hear when I kill the slag that he likes to shag." The thing laughed again.
Voldemort raised Harry's wand and pointed it at Ginny. The killing curse slipped from the mouth of the man but nothing happened except for a slight breeze. Over and over he tried to kill the girl who was crying, not at the situation of trying to be killed, but that it was her husband was the one trying to do it.
"STOP" Harry's voice came from his mouth with just a touch of a second darker voice. "I WILL NEVER HURT MY FRIENDS, MY GINNY!" Harry managed to scream threw the pain that he was in. the red of Voldemort's eyes was fading to the bright emerald green of Harry's.
With one last burst of power that shattered the glass on the side of the house that they were on Harry sent a dark almost solid cloud of semi solid smoke. Harry fell to the ground and the blood coming from his scar turned red once more. Harry fell and let unconsciousness take him. The last thing that he said before he lost all sense was "I'm sorry."
Ginny never left Harry's side once in the next week. Harry rested comfortably in his own bed after having been to St. Mongos. The healer was only able to close the bleeding scar on his head and force a potion into him to regenerate his blood. Harry lay unconscious until the day before they were due to return to Hogwarts.
Ginny was laying on his chest that day holding him and trying to sleep, she hadn't slept well without him holding her. She could almost feel his arms around her, then she did, they pulled her closer which was no easy task. Ginny's eyes opened and looked into the smiling face of her husband. "I'm sorry," He said in a hoarse voice. "I couldn't stop him from taking over. I could just barely stop the curses, I didn't want to hurt you."
"Don't be silly Harry. I know that it wasn't you. It just scared me that it looked like you. The only thing that told me it wasn't was the eyes, red eyes." She kissed him lightly. "I know that you would never hurt me if you could help it, you told me so." Still laying on his chest Ginny slept late the next day.
Harry was standing in the headmasters office the day after he returned from break. In front of him lay an object that represented him, a black feather, and the marauders map, barrowed from Fred and George. "Now Harry, we are going to take all of the knowledge from every person alive about this building and put it in your head. This will hurt a bit because there is an almost infinite amount of knowledge about Hogwarts. Only those that you tell about it will be able to see it. You will be required to make a speech saying where it is to the students and staff, in order to reduce to a minimum the untrustworthy people that may find the location.. After you do this most of the pressure will be off your mind, but you will still feel it because of the sheer amount of living people that have been here." Dumbledore lifted his wand and with a complicated wand movement merged the feather into the map. Harry than lifted the map and closed his eyes, he knew this was going to hurt.
Harry didn't here Dumbledore say the incantation but he did feel his scull feel like it was going to explode. It hurt but it was downright pleasant compared to having Voldemort push his way into his head.
Down in the Great hall The students and staff began to get confused, none of them knew where they were. They knew they were at a school to learn magic, but they could not see it. It was like they were trapped in a void.
"You are in Hogwarts school for witchcraft and wizardry." Harry was standing in the door rubbing his temples. Once he said his short speech he felt a great deal of the pain bleed out of his mind, he could almost follow the knowledge to the students who were regaining there bearings. Nobody noticed the small beady eyed rat in the corner of the room listening intently.
The term passed quietly. Harry and Ginny were still to far ahead in there classes but now Hermione and Ron were just as board as them in there classes. They had been studding animeges transformation Hermione was going to become an owl and Ron was going to be a wolf. They were in the room of requirements when Hermione finely succeeded.
"Nice job 'Mione." Ron gave her a hug and then looked down at his furry arms. "I'm never going to do this."
"Ronald, if you just.." Hermione was cut off by Ron starting to shout.
"I Don't Need Your Help. I Know Your Better Than Me, You Don't Have To Prove It All The Time." Ron ran out of the room and Hermione thought she saw tears in his eyes. She thought she had to be mistaken, she only saw Ron cry once, at Charlie's funeral.
The next three days The only time Any one saw Ron was in classes, he hadn't even shown up for meals. When ever Hermione tried to approach him he just sent her a cold glair. It was at lunch time one day when Hermione decided that enough was enough. She set out to find him and threw a set of tracking spells she knew where he was. She left the great hall and apperated. She popped up in a secluded part of London, She knew this place well.
Stepping from behind a dumpster she saw him sitting at there booth with her favorite meal, grilled salmon with asparagus and cranberry juice, in front of him. She went to him and when he saw her he tried to leave.
"Don't you dare Ronald." Her voice was deathly calm "What did I do to deserve this?"
"You didn't do anything. You just deserve to be with some one better than Me. I love you 'Mione, I do. You know that but I know that there is someone out there that would be better for you. No matter what I do, what I am its not good enough for you. You do everything better, faster. You completed your animegus before I could even shape one bone of mine. I want you to find the person who you want to be with, some one that has more knowledge than a grapefruit. I know there is some one better for you than me, and It hurts to think of my life without you but it may be the best for you. I have been trying to get you to see that. I have been trying to get you to dump and get over me because I could never end it. I'm not strong enough for that."
Hermione was in shock when he tried to leave again. She found her Gryffindor courage and walked up to him and slapped him with all the strength she could sending him into a table. When he stood up again she did it once more. "I don't believe you could be that stupid Ronald. I love you just as much as you love me and I thought you knew that."
"Not that I want you to leave me, but why you could have anyone. I love you and I still want to marry you but why do you want to be with me?"
"Because Ronald, I love you. I didn't choose who I fell in love with, but I am in love with you and I am not going to give you up." She sat down at the table with him and ordered his favorite meal, a grilled chicken sandwich and a bag of crisps. She opened the bag and gave Ron a crisp, "I want to be with you because your different than me. You are everything that I'm not. What I am is only a bookworm, I'm not brave like you. I cant think so fast and I am rubbish at strategizing." She shifted over to Ron lap and closed his mouth with hers.
"Hermione, please forgive me. I want to be with you, with all my heart. When I turn seventeen, I want to elope with you. It is still a long way away but I can still hope that we will make it to then. I have to believe that we will or there is no point in going on." The two of them stayed curled up on the chair in the little pub.
Harry was sitting in his dorm trying to forget all about Hogwarts that wasn't from his own knowledge. He was done with his home work for Divination but he remembered something. He disappeared with a crack and reappeared at the base of the north tower, Taking his time he climbed the stairs and looked into the tower. Once his body was entirely in the room he felt a chill run down his spine when a hand placed its self on his shoulder.
"Once more the servant shall go to the master. With his body and soul he shall resurrect the chosen ones sworn foe. Two powers will meat in one years time to decide the fate of the world. One good, golden and pure, the other slate silver cold and heartless. The pure will have to break an oath to win. The soulless will have to pay a high price. One shall not live to see the dawn of the day next"
Before Trelawany could react to his presence Harry transformed to his barely legal Animagus form and took off out the window. He flew strait to Hagrid's hut, even though it was on the grounds of the school it was not included in the Fidelity spell. He went down and saw that Ron, Hermione, and Ginny were already going down there. Just as He was going to transform and warn Ginny a green light came blasting threw the window, Inside the cabin he saw Hagrid laying on the floor, he didn't have time to do anything. Dropping and swooping faster than he had ever gone in his life he made it in front of Ginny.
The green spell hit the small bird like a plane crashing into the earth. He felt every bone in his body turn to dust but he wasn't done. He knew that Wormtail would never let Ginny live, not after what she had done to him. Wit shear strength of will he expanded his magic and transformed on his way to the earth.
His body was battered and nearly entirely purple with bruise after bruise. His body didn't touch the ground and any one that looked At the boy would be able to see that he was only still moving thanks to magic. Several more spells came after him and each one further shattered the bones in his body.
"How are you alive Potter. Wouldn't it be easier to let your self die, it would be so much easier." Pettigrew stood and aimed at Ginny, Ron, and Hermione in turn but each time Harry just moved into the new path of the wand as if it was attached to him.
Not able to talk because he no longer had anything that resembled a jaw he just narrowed his eyes and sent the last bit of his energy, the bit that he would have had when he was born at the man and sent him flying. Harry Felt out and drew power from Hermione, Ron, and Ginny and turned the branch that went threw the tats arm into a portkey and with a massive snap the limb and man were gone.
Harry collapsed into a pile on the ground and was making a noise that even with out a solid voice it was still obviously screaming. After a few seconds Ginny began working on Harry's wounds, the only thing she could do was put in a magical set of bones so that Harry's own weight wouldn't kill him. Hermione and Ron were returning to the sight with Madam Pomfrey. She quickly put Harry under some sort of sleeping spell and with Ginny's help brought him back to e castle.
He was awake every second of the night from the massive amount of bone regrowth that he was undergoing. Ginny was there as well in her fox form and when The matron wasn't in the room she was providing him with her own painkiller.
The day after the incident found Harry looking much better, he was still bruised. His skin was a sickly yellow color and his eyes were till bluish purple. He was getting ready to go when Dumbledore came into the room with his arm hidden in his cloak. After making sure that he was alone with Harry he sealed the room.
"Harry, I have some thing of yours." The aged headmaster showed Harry his arm, it was blackened and dead looking. "I found this, It is the ring that you were looking for. I can tell it is. It was guarded with the strongest wards that I have ever seen in my life. It very nearly cost me my left arm to break the charms on the ring, but it has been destroyed."
"I want to thank you, I don't know how I would have broken those, it may not have been possible." Professor Trelawany made a prophesy, it will happened in just under a year. I can beat him, It will take a lot of work but I'm sure that I can do it."
"There has been one problem that has come up. Because of Professor Lupin's relationship with Pettigrew he has been forced to resign from his post as Defense professor. Unfortunate yet un avoidable."
Dumbledore bowed a little and made to leave. "Sir, I think you should hire MadEye Moody to teach next year. I know what will be going on and I do believe that it would be a good idea to have some security at the castle."
Harry was finishing packing the things in his room he and Ginny walked hand and hand down to the train. "Potter," Malfoys voice could be heard, "You managed to survive again. Your life will be over soon, and I will take everything that you hold dear." The white haired boy was portkeyed away before Harry could do anything.
The group of friends went along on their way to barrier between the magical world and the mundane. On their way out Harry was stopped By Professor Lupin and was handed a small book before he left. Harry looked down at the book and on it was written The Marauders Guide To Mischief.
'This will Be a Good summer,' Harry thought to himself. He couldn't wait to get to prank Fred and George and then tell them it was the Marauders. 'This is going to be very, very fun'
Wit one last passionate kiss he left Ginny. He didn't know why but he was never able to relax and sleep with out her by his side. He silently vowed that this would be the last time he would need to.