The next morning had most of the school up and ready for the weekend, the group were excited to visit Hosgmeade and see Sirius and Remus who had decided to visit their favourite person and try to embarrass him.

However the two were amazed as the stream of carriages entered the towns limits and several individuals got out looking rather aggravated at the bright orange and pink striped outfits they were wearing not only this but a waterfall of bubbles would erupt from their mouths as they spoke.

"What do you think?" Came a cheeky voice and the adults turned to see Harry walking leisurely towards them with the others following him. Bringing him into a hug Sirius eventually stepped back to pass him onto Remus and looked towards the colourful students again.

"I mean I love it, but why?"

"The twins decided the puffs needed to have a bit of revenge pulled on them for all the grief they gave me. The soap will last for about 3 hours apparently, for all the bad things they said about Daphne and me."

"Daphne and I." Remus corrected absentmindedly as he ran his eyes over the students and therefore missing the rolling of eyes. "Quite ingenious, ingested?"

"From what the twins said. Yes, and times from the moment they leaves Hogwarts grounds so the Professors can't even tell them off for pranking in the corridors."

"Rather brilliant."

"Humph, whatever. We did it better." Sirius said, still slightly ticked off at the Twins but at the glee on his Godsons face that so resembled his fathers the older man shook off his irritation, determined to enjoy the day.

Many looked on their group as they strolled around the village, making jokes and catching up with each other.

"You've turned the Ranch into a muggle school?" Neville said incredulously as he stared at the non-plussed Sirius.

"Yep, figured I'd start looking into investing and so many muggles want to ride horses nowadays its paying off."

"And it would piss off your mother?" Harry guessed.

"Of course, anything else wouldn't be worth doing." Sirius said with a wicked grin as he buffed his nails.

"You should hear his ideas about the castle, he wants to create a haunted experience for people." Remus injected rolling his eyes though the quirk of his lips suggested he was on board with the idea too.

By this time they were in the middle of the high street and had wandered into Tomes and Scrolls. Harry and Neville were still trying to find some old records of duelling tournaments and the spells used to distract as well as defend against opponents. Tracey and Daphne were looking at the darker Runes and how close to being illegal did they come, and Theo was happily skimming through Trials and Tournaments with Remus looking over his shoulder as they discussed the use of riddles while Sirius went from group to group demanding to go to Honeydukes. They were soon thrown out after a scuffle between the 'adults' (about whose prank ideas were better) resulted in two of the book cases being tipped over, they left the store laughing and unfortunately Neville ended up smacking straight into a little blonde Ravenclaw who wobbled slightly before regaining her footing.

"Oh I'm so sorry."

"Oh don't worry, people sometimes miss the obvious." Big silver blue eyes were trained on the group and the soft, lilting voice was rather hypnotic. Harry stepped forward with a hand outstretched.

"Miss Lovegood I believe? I'm Harry Potter, I wish to thank you for the wonderful articles you and your father have written about my Godfather."

A smile broke over the girls face as she shook his hand.

"Call me Luna and it was our pleasure, I always knew the Grim was the protector not the attacker. The hardest part was convincing my father you weren't a member of the Weird Sisters and drank unicorn tears for breakfast." She said bluntly whilst looking directly at Sirius who had a completely flummoxed expression on his face, luckily Remus remembered her from last year and decided to step in.

"Yes, he isn't that odd though plenty weird and most certainly a protector though I wonder how you know that."

"Professor Lupin, its wonderful to see you again I have missed your classes they were incredibly knowledgeable and inclusive." There was evident delight in the tone of the girl and Harry immediately liked her more.

"Oh I'm not a Professor anymore, Luna, call me Remus if you like."

"Don't you continue to spread knowledge even now?" The little blonde asked seriously.

"Well, I suppose…in a roundabout way I do."

A beaming smile took over Luna's face and she nodded happily.

"Then a Proffesor you are."

"Oh I like her." Sirius said with a grin as his friend struggled to reply. Harry agreed and was going to ask Luna if she would like to join them when her expression blanked suddenly, he felt only shock as her voice spoke, light and airy. "The Grim and the Wolf will always protect the Fawn, they are watched, trusted and loved by the Lilium and Prince of the Forest. The Darkness will try to take Him but He has been marked by Death and cared for by Gaia's love, it will take the weakness of the four to break Him." Just as quickly as it happened Luna's eyes came back into focus and her voice was once again more human though still fairy-like.

"Well it was nice to meet you all but the bookshop is closing soon and I need to find more information on the Heliopath army that Fudge is creating." And with that she skipped into the shop they'd just left leaving the group standing in a stunned silence.

"Well, that's Luna." Said Neville looking amused and confused.

"Anyone know what she meant? If it could be true?" Theo asked.

"I think I remember my mother telling me that the Lovegoods had Seer blood in them." Said Daphne taping a finger against her chin as she tried to remember.

Remus cleared his throat, his eyes suspiciously bright. "I think its pretty obvious who the Grim and Wolf are, the Prince of the Forest is commonly known as a stag and the Lillium is the star constellation Lily that would make the fawn, Harry. As for the second part, the Darkness must be Voldemort."

"And Harry was marked by the killing curse – death- and Gaia's love, well mother earth, mother's love?" Sirius picked up as his friend tailed off and looked towards the group. "And the four, well, look at you."

"So our weaknesses can be Harry's downfall? What a nice light conversation for a Saturday morning." Neville said throwing his hands up.

"At least we're not boring." Said Tracey brightly making the others stare at her. "Oh come on, look there is no point in worrying about something when we still have so much more to talk about. If Lovegood has just given us a Prophecy then we shall worry about it later, my mother once went to a Seer and was told that a beast of moon and fur would leave her marked, the next month my grandad brought home a white puppy and two days later it bit my mum on the finger and she has the scar to this day!"

"Tracey is right, we have to many other things going on, lets figure it out one at a time, okay? And it might be that it gets dark and Harry gets lost. Besides I think Sirius is right-"

"Thank you! Wait about what?"

"I think its time we go to Honeydukes."

"Oh what an excellent notion, onward Miss Davis!"

The two of them linked arms and immediately headed through the crowded street which abruptly split to let them through. Although the news that Sirius was innocent was common knowledge now, there were still plenty that feared him or at least were weary of the man they'd only ever known to be a mass murdering psychopath. Therefore, it was with no small amount of amusement that the usually scrammed Honeydukes found itself rather more empty that it could ever have imagined on a student weekend. However it didn't really matter as someone else seemed rather inclined to buy all the produce.

"Cinnamon balls oh yum! Ah gummy worms, we need lots of they're my favourite! Ohh Blood pops, extra for Remus of course! Shoc a Chocs, have you had some, kids? No, they're brilliant here eat eat! Oh the exploding bons bons, do you remember when we gave them to Mrs Norris, Moony? Peach rings and acid pops! They were your mum's favourite! Pepper imps brilliant! I thought they'd stopped making these."

"We have an entire cupboard already dedicated to muggle and magical sweets." Remus sad with a long suffering sigh.

"He does…eat…normally, right Moony?"

"I promise he does." With another sigh the man started towards his friend. "If you'll excuse me I need to make sure he doesn't spend his entire inheritance in here."

Eventually they all managed to leave with a still protesting Sirius as he strained against Moonys arm to be let back in.

"But what about the fudge flies? We're running low."

"We have four packets of them unopened." Growled Moony.

"And the snowflakes? And Berties Beans." Padfoot asked looking suspiciously at Moony wile clutching the sweet bag to his chest as though they were going to be ripped from him.

"I promise you we have enough of everything, Pads."

"Chocolate wands including?" Sirius said slyly.

Remus blanched as he thought of his precious mountain of chocolate that had deteriorated especially quickly during the time of trial. Sirius inwardly cheered as he quickly walked around his friend to grasp the Honeyduke handle.

"We'd better get some more just to be sure."

"Hmm, oh oh yes, just in case. I mean what if there's an emergency, what if Harry does something even more dangerous, what if you do something stupid? What if!?. Yes your right Pads more chocolate is required." The werewolf said, nodding briskly and following his friend inside.

It took the combined efforts of the five to ultimately drag the two away and eventually walk to a few of the other shops that the teenagers actually wanted to see. The group spent a little longer catching up on the students research as well as the removal of a certain Slytherin for the school and Remus and Sirius cheered when they explained how they had got him fired.

"Well it sounds like you've been extra busy then." As they settled on the hill looking over the village, Madam Rosemerta had quickly run over to give both Remus and Sirius a hug before quickly packed a small bag for them and shooed them out of the bustling pub.

"You have no idea, Moony! But its been good, we've actually been able to act like teenagers for a bit you know." Harry said as Daphne sat between his legs and leaned against his chest happily.

"Oh you're so mean leaving all the boring adult stuff to us, he just doesn't love us Moony!" Sirius said with a distasteful look on his face as he flopped down on the grass dramatically.

"You were the one that wanted to tell him everything!"

"And you were the one that said he didn't have to know everything!"

"Well you were the one that said he needed to learn the responsibility."

"Well you were the one that said he deserves to act like a kid!"

"Damn straight we shouldn't have told him anything and gone with the first plan of locking him in a safe place!"

"Right! It was a good plan!"

"Yeah but then he wouldn't have met his marvellous miss."

"Ah true, and who are we to stop the course of romance?"

"Okay okay what's going on?" Harry said as he held a giggling Daphne close.

The men shared a look before leaning forward seriously, the others also stopped their munching of chicken bones and sandwiches as the tone of the conversation dropped.

"There are a lot of rumours going around the Ministry, Harry. Rumours that concern Voldemort and you and this tournament."

"Rumours that could be truthful or like the ones saying that Fudge is having sex with trolls?" Theo said bluntly, at the wide eyed looks he explained defensively "It was an article in the Quibbler."

Remus shook his head with a grin before he went serious again.

"No these are real rumours, the stuff that happened at the world cup and the dream that you've had-"

"What dream?" Theo injected sharply.

Harry sighed, looking over the hill towards the village before holding Theo's worried, dark eyes with his own.

"I've been having dreams of Voldemort and Wormtail. Only three but my scar is hurting and with everything at the world cup I decided I needed to tell someone."

"And why are we only hearing about this now?" Tracey said a little angrily.

Daphne immediately sat up straighter as she felt Harry tense.

"Its nothing personal guys, but when Harry first mentioned it we almost brushed it off too, it was nothing to really consider. We weren't deliberately hiding it from you, but well, we have been a little busy."

Theo and Tracey looked at each other before nodding in acknowledgement.

"Okay what are the dreams?" Theo asked.

"The first one was the end of summer before Hogwarts, I was in a rickety old house, and there was an old man creeping up the stairs and confronting Voldemort, there was another man there as well as Wormtail, they ended up killing the old man and then I woke up."

"And the second?"

"I was flying towards a house on a hill, Wormtail was being crucioed by Voldemort. He said that Wormtail's blunder hadn't ruined everything. The third was more just a feeling a vague image really."

"And that's it? I can see why you didn't want to tell us." Tracey said looking a little put out.

"Yeah its not much to go on. My scar hurt after each dream and it has been prickling all year but nothing more has happened. But now I know there are rumours floating around the ministry, what kind anyway?" Harry said looking towards his godfather for help.

"People have been mentioning little things, Prongslet. People going missing. Others having whispered conversations. You being entered into something and no one knows how. Not even the Minister is stupid enough to think you've cheated after the news of your vow leaked out."

"What Padfoot is trying to say, is that just like last time unusual things are happening. And while they might not be connected at all, we think it's a good idea to speak to someone who might be more knowledgeable."

"I think we need to at least consider the idea of speaking to the Ministry." Sirius held up his hand at Harry's protest. "I know you don't particularly like them at the minute but they have certain people who could shed some light. The Unspeakables, for one, would be our best bet of actually being taken seriously and they always consider the possibilities of visions or dreams and things like that."

"There's probably something else I should mention too." Harry said uncomfortable with all the attention but knowing it all needed to be said. "During my Occlumency lessons, I've found this…thing in my mind field. I can't really describe it so please bear with me, it's stuck tight, and every time I go near it I feel fear and evil. All I can really say is that it's like this, smudge. But the thing I, is that I'm pretty sure its not mine."

"What do you mean?" Remus asked gently.

"It doesn't…feel like me. That's the closest way to describe it."

"It might be a past thing that you've shut out and locked away." Theo said. "Theres a lot of stuff in my mind that doesn't feel quite like me now, but that's since the ritual and I've changed a lot since then."

"That's the thing, this doesn't feel like anything I could ever of had or done anything to."

"So we mention it to the Unspeakable's. Or we go to a professional Legilimens."Tracey wondered out loud.

The next hour was spent discussing the pros and cons of going to the Unspeakables and who should do it etc. In the end it was decided that Sirius or rather Lord Black would go on behalf of his godson, who had been having realistic dreams and they would be most delighted for someone to visit him for the dreams to be examined and they could bring up this smudge while they were there.

"You know that for the Unspeakable to visit Harry, you'll have to get permission from Dumbledore… And I can't imagine he'll allow that without knowing more of the details." Remus mentioned as a side thought.

"Well maybe it would be easier to sneak him out to the Ministry then. You barely attend classes and lunch anyway, we could just get you out as soon as they reply and get you over there and then straight back after." Tracey declared.

"You guys know that as Sirius' heir he can actually pull you out for anything."

"I can?" Questioned Sirius, looking very surprised at Neville's statement.

"Yes you can, a head of house can take their heir out for practically any reason as long as its under 'house business' my grandmother has spoken about having me start attend a few sessions next year and it falls under that too, Dumbledore can't do anything about it."

Moony and Padfoot shared almost identical mischievous looks before they smoothed out their faces and attempted an air of innocence.

"Well, we'll have to put that to good use, won't we Mr Moony."

"Indeed we shall Mr Padfoot, in fact I think it should be in the loudest way possible."

"What an idea! But we shall consider it after this, I believe the little ones wish to speak more of old Voldy's return." Sirius said with a nod to Tracey who had been pulled aletter from her pocket.

"My father has sent me information about rebirthing potions and how they can be made, they require family blood, phoenix tears, unicorn blood freely given and a whole load of other things. My aunt on the other hand has said that all the things are in this country but while many have one or even two no one seems to have all three of the things that can be brought. Not only that but the process is incredibly long, lasting 6 months and must involve the change between winter, spring and summer. If it involves the summer solstice the potion can cause an even more positive reaction, my fathers notes include that the thing that comes back will be at the best condition rather than one that is lacking."

"Well that's not good." Theo stated almost absentmindedly as he looked over the village.

"Why?" Harry asked, completely clueless, he figured anything to get Voldemort back was bad but the way Theo said it meant something else was afoot.

Theo turned back to the group and shrugged his shoulders carelessly.

"Well for starters it will mean that if this is what is happening then he could come back with his full strength of power…Because this year the third task is taking place on June 24th…the summer solstice."

There was silence as everyone processed before Tracey summed it up for them all rather neatly.

"Well shit."

It took a little while before Sirius once more took charge of the conversation.

"Well, I'll send the Unspeakables a letter tonight and ask for an emergency appointment."

"Pads, its not a dentist appointment."

"Well what else do you recommend?"

"We go through Gringotts, they'll know the type of people to get a hold off without us having to worry about what side they're playing for."

"That's what my inheritance is going towards, the bloody goblins." Sirius grumbled good-naturedly.

"What else are you paying them for?" Harry asked.

"Well apart from the usual services, I also have them clearing out some of my other properties that have dark things in and around them."

"Dark… things?" Tracey asked grinning.

"Yes, things it's a very technical term. Anyway, they're doing that, keeping Dumbles busy and erm…well…"

"What have you done, Padfoot?" Asked Harry with a groan.

"Okay don't get mad, I've had them keeping an eye on the Dursleys for us."

"Is that all?" Harry said suspiciously.

"Well that…and helping us with a little bit of revenge."

"You know what, I don't even wanna know." Harry announced shaking his head.

"A wise decision, young padawan."

"Moving on." Remus said hurriedly. "We have the goblins going through a lot of legal stuff to do with the will, we're trying to get as many charges and issues filed against the Headmaster before actually taking him to court.

"Now that idea, I want to hear more about."