Chapter thirteen

Return to Grimmauld

"Well, children?" Mrs. Weasley asked as she sat them down in the family room. They just looked at her confused. "Which one of you is going to tell me what happened?"

"Well that would be easy." Harry said.

"All of us probably," Said Ginny.

"It seems to be easiest for us." Serena said.

"Should we start at the beginning?" Harry said.

"That would be a long story." Serena said.

"Yeah, goes all the way back to the train and Malfoy insulting all Weasley's" Ginny said.

"Calling Hermione a mudblood, and us mudblood lovers." Harry said.

"Malfoy in his underwear!" Serena said, causing all three to laugh at the memory.

"CHILDREN!" Mrs. Weasley shouted. "What happened to get you suspended! Just that story Please!"

"Oh well we were in defense class." Harry said.

"Harry and Serena having a beautiful duel" Ginny said.

"But going nowhere, we are too evenly match, never hit our target." Serena said.

"Still too early we need to get to where Malfoy wanted three on me." Harry said.

"Ok Malfoy said his duel wasn't fair, Moony gave him a chance," Serena began.

"Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle against Harry, with Harry only using one wand." Ginny said.

"Malfoy had already insulted Moony's teaching once." Harry said.

"Harry beat them muggle style, with no wand." Serena said.

"Then he snapped their's." Said Ginny, giggling.

"They got mad and started screaming at Moony," Harry said.

"Moony mentioned Sirius' death and Harry lost it," Serena said.

"I stopped Dumbledore, while Harry began beating on Malfoy." Ginny said.

"And I merely sat back and watched, even though me and Gin have this strangely soothing way with Harry." Serena said.

"Yeah they can manage to calm me down no matter how angry." Harry said.

"Professor Dumbledore knows this and so we got suspended for not stopping it." Ginny said.

"And I got suspended for doing it." Harry said.

"That's our reasons for being suspended." Serena said.

"This is exactly what happened? Harry did you 'lose it' as Serena said, before or after Remus mentioned Sirius?" Mrs. Weasley asked.

"After. Serena and Ginny didn't stop me because they said that by having a fit, I managed to stop blaming myself." Harry said, then nodded, "It seems they are right. I don't blame myself anymore."

Mrs. Weasley thought about this a few minutes pacing around the room. Then she looked at the children. She smiled as she looked at them. They seemed like a family. She laughed to herself. These children! Worse than Fred and George! She thought. "Children, I have come to a decision." She started. "While I am not pleased, I understand why this happened today. Harry, you finally had to deal with the pain you had in you. Serena and Ginny, you were trying to help, so I am not mad at you for this. Now take off your robes and we can have dinner." The three looked at each other.

"We'd rather not" Harry started.

"If we do, we'd have another story to tell." Serena said.

"And that could be a very long story." Ginny finished.

"Though it is entertaining." Harry said, laughing.

"I'm not sure I want to hear this, but take off your robes. While we are eating you can tell me this story." She said. They all nodded, and took off their robes, revealing that they were still in their bathing suits from lunch. "CHILDREN!"

"We told you, its a long story." Harry said.

"I hate talking on an empty stomach," Ginny said, laughing.

"Yeah, there's dinner to talk over." Serena said and the three walked into the kitchen, Serena with her arm over Harry's shoulder, while he was holding Ginny's hand. Mrs. Weasley just shook her head and sighed.

"This is going to be some story." Mrs. Weasley said laughing. "Maybe Remus was right." She followed them into the kitchen to hear this tale.

While they ate dinner, Harry, Ginny, and Serena began telling the tale of their very short time in Hogwarts. Starting with the train ride, and continuing on to the end of the competition and revenge of the Patil's. For the most part, Mrs. Weasley was quiet, though there were a few laughs, and a few times when she was appalled at their actions. However, she now understood the bathing suits, which made her laugh quite a bit. She jokingly congratulated Harry and Serena on their wins. She began to see these three teenagers could actually change Hogwarts forever, though for the good she wasn't certain. Either way, they would keep the headmaster on his toes. Then Harry decided to tell Mrs. Weasley about his trunk.

"Mrs. Weasley." Harry began, "During the summer, Tonks was teaching us defense. Since we don't have school for three weeks, I was wondering if when we do not have homework, would you mind if we continued on with that?"

"Well I don't mind but how would you? I'm sure Tonks would be needed wouldn't she?" Mrs. Weasley said, then gasped. "I'm sorry children I didn't mean to say it that way!"

"It's alright Mrs. Weasley. We choose not to think of her as gone though, if you don't mind. We don't need her here for the practice, and Remus has offered to test us. I have a trunk with many different rooms. well actually I have five trunks. They are all inside of one. I have one set up for magical defense and attack, and another one for physical training, hand to hand combat, and Dodging." Harry said, then smiled. "Its pretty much like auror training in my trunk. Anyway, all three of us were doing this, Serena had the same stuff put in hers so she didn't fall behind us. Anyway, all three of us have passed our first test before summer began, and out next test is supposed to be at the beginning of November. So would you mind?"

"As I said before dear, I don't mind." Mrs. Weasley said. "I will ask that you all be careful, and you must do your homework. Preparing yourselves will be for nothing if you fail school."

"Okay Mrs. Weasley." Harry said. "Oh, and I sort of need to go to Diagon Alley again." He added sheepishly.

"Why is that Harry?" Mrs. Weasley said.

"Well, with all the times my clothes have been banished, I need new robes." Harry said, laughing. Molly stared at him in shock.

"How Many times did you lose you clothes dear?" She asked, shocked.

"Well, three, but I didn't have that many school robes. I didn't think they would be banished every few hours." Harry said, all of them laughing. "Also, I didn't have enough money on hand, so I could only buy five robes for everyone. Remus didn't want me to go back to Gringotts, because most of the Order left when you did."

"Alright dear, I cannot let you leave here, so how about if you give me a list to give to the robe maker? I can get all of the robes for you. You three will be safe here, and you will have your robes." Mrs. Weasley said.

"Alright. I will send Hedwig to Gringotts to allow you to access our vault." Harry said.

"Our vault?" Mrs. Weasley asked.

"Yes, me and Serena's. She has 3 and I have 6, but they just keep transferring money to our joint vault when it runs low. If it runs low. I still don't know how we will ever spend all that money." Harry said, shaking his head.

"We could buy muggle London!" Serena said laughing.

"Serena I think we still wouldn't have drained that vault!" Harry said laughing.

"How much do you children have?" Mrs. Weasley asked.

"Well I have close to 200 million galleons," Serena said, "but Potter here has three times that easy."

"Hey, Ginny isn't doing to bad either, and she's a year younger than us. I don't think I had that much last year!" Harry said.

"Ginerva Weasley, How much do you have!" Molly asked.

"Wait she doesn't even know!" Serena said laughing.

"What do you mean I don't know? Sirius left me 10 million galleons!" Ginny said Triumphantly.

"Does that count the money that Harry gave you for your 'going back to Hogwarts' present?" Serena said, grinning.

"Harry James Potter! What did you do!" Ginny screamed.

"Thanks Black" Harry muttered. "Well I didn't see a need in having 7 vaults, you see."

"What do you mean 7 vaults? You said 6!" Ginny screamed.

"Exactly, as I said I didn't want 7, so I talked to Tonks. With her being my guardian she had access to my vaults. She was told all of my vaults were full, like I told her, so she listened to me and transferred the gold from the vault my parents left for me to yours." Harry said quietly.

"How much did you GIVE ME HARRY!" Ginny shouted, now angry.

"Oh I know I know, I was there! I know! Oh dear god Ginny, just ask me!" Serena said, hopping up and down in her seat.

"Fine! Serena, how much did he give me?" Ginny asked

"17 million galleons!" Serena said smiling. "He actually tried to get Tonks to give up his parents vault to you, then you really would of been rich! 300 million in that vault! Only reason she didn't is because there is stuff that belonged to his mum and dad." she laughed. "She put up a hell of a fight though. Goblins were furious! Said they would kick her out of Gringotts, all the work she tried to get them to do!"

"Wow I had 17 million galleons?" Harry said looking at Serena who nodded. "I never knew!"

"YOU TRIED TO GIVE ME 300 MILLION GALLEONS!" Ginny shouted, "THEN SETTLE FOR ONLY 17 MILLION! DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU COULD DO WITH THAT KIND OF GOLD!"

"Yeah, Gin, look at it pile up with the 7 or 8 hundred that is in my other vaults. I never wanted to be rich, Gin. Remember what Remus said, having the money is not what's important, its that you have fun when you spend it." Harry said smiling.

"Harry, with that money you could by an army to fight you-know-who for you!" Ginny said.

"And they would all die Gin, it has to be me." Harry said sadly, remembering the prophecy.

"What do you mean, it would still have to be you? Surely an army could beat him." Ginny said.

"I agree with her, Harry. An army has gotta do something." Serena said.

"Not according to the prophecy." Harry said quietly.

"What prophecy?" Ginny and Serena said together.

"The prophecy Dumbledore heard. The one that we tried to save in the department of mysteries." Harry answered sadly. "The one with the power to vanquish the dark lord approaches, born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies, and the dark lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the dark lord knows not, and either must die at the hands of the other, for neither can live while the other survives." Harry said emotionlessly, those words so many of his nightmares, competing only with thoughts of Sirius' death, he memorized them easily. "So you see, it has to be me."

"Wow, Potter, what's the 'power the dark lord knows not'?" Serena said.

"According to Dumbledore, its love." Harry said.

"Well that fits with what you said when you were yelling at Malfoy today." Ginny said.

"What do you mean? What did I yell?" Harry asked.

"You don't remember what you said after you beat them in the three on one duel?" Ginny asked.

"I didn't say anything, I dropped them all, and then you two came up." Harry said suddenly confused.

"No Harry, you said something like, 'anyone can be powerful, it takes a heart, it takes love to be what I am' I believe that's it." Serena said.

"Yup, good memory Serena, even I couldn't have gotten that close." Ginny said.

"But I don't remember saying anything like that." Harry said.

"Maybe that's the power that was spoken of. Maybe you don't need to know something, just have the power to do it." Ginny said.

"Yeah, I mean after all, you seemed to move faster against them than you ever have before. Maybe that's why you lost it, all this time you've been doing everything for someone. Your love for Sirius has sort of driven you this far." Serena said. "Maybe with the loss, it just got to be too much for you."

"I don't know." Harry said. "Remind me to talk to Dumbledore about that. Anything else happen?"

"Well, the windows exploded." Ginny said.

"Yeah just like-" Serena stopped.

"Like what." Harry asked.

"You two come with me a minute." Serena said, dragging Harry and Ginny upstairs to Harry's room. Then she placed an imperturbable charm and locking charm on the door. "Harry do you remember the day when you attacked Remus?"

"You mean the day he started talking about Sirius?" Harry asked.

"Yeah, just before you lost it there the window exploded." Serena said. "I couldn't say that downstairs though."

"So, when I get pushed to hard windows explode?" Harry asked still confused.

"We need to talk to Dumbledore, or Remus, and quickly. I don't know what it is you do, Harry, but I've never seen anyone do it before you. I've never even read about something like this before, and I've read a lot!" Serena said, smiling. "After all, I've literally read every book in your library, that's how I knew to recommend them."

"Wow! The original Hermione!" Harry said, laughing. "Seriously, though, when Remus comes with our schoolwork we can talk to him then. If he doesn't know at least he can talk to Dumbledore. Nothing we can do about it right now."

"True, but you have to work on controlling your emotions better." Serena said.

"She's right, sweetie. If you lose it like you did today, you could hurt a lot of people." Ginny said.

"Alright, I believe I have a book about that. I'll read it, if its possible to control emotions I will." Harry said, then grinning. "If I can learn occlumency from Snivellus, I can control my emotions." He had managed to master occlumency over the summer. Dumbledore himself was pleased with his progress, finding it hard to enter his mind, and pushed out almost immediately.

"Alright, then. We need to get some sleep now. Summer sessions begin tomorrow, for all of us." Serena said. "You two to continue, and me to get used to being like this. I may not be clumsy, but I can still improve. So can you two." Then she began smiling wickedly, "Besides, the better we are, the better our pranks. Dumbledore wants us to make the students laugh, and who are we to disappoint!" This caused them all to laugh. They went downstairs and bid Mrs. Weasley goodnight, then went to sleep after saying their own, Ginny and Harry's lasting quite a bit longer, until Serena put an end to it. They all laughed again, this time that Serena was still acting a bit like Tonks.