Harry Potter and the Superlative Ability

By FrighteningShadow

Disclaimer: I own nothing but my plot bunny and any additional characters/items not mentioned in the HP books so far.

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Harry choked. "M-mine?"

Remus just laughed at him. "Your parents wanted you to have it on your 16th birthday. And Dumbledore wants to use this place for the Order. Kreacher has been leaking information to the Lestranges, it seems."

"Oh..."

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"Harry!"

At the front doors, Hermione, Ron, and Ginny were waving him over. He ran up and they all gasped.

"Whoa, mate! You're looking...different..."

Harry laughed. "Come on- I want to see this place on the inside."

The interior proved to be even more spectacular than the outside. There were four floors, each decorated in Gryffindor colors. The ground level had a training room(like a muggle gym), 2 spacious living rooms, a kitchen, and a bathroom. The 2nd and 3rd floors were just bedrooms and bathrooms, and the fourth floor...

The fourth and final level of the house was amazing. It was one huge room and had swords, scabbards, sheaths, 2 dueling platforms, maps of the world, thousands of books on defense, and 3 large portraits. Harry gasped- they were of his family.

His mother inhabited the first painting, wearing a gorgeous lavender silk dress and lavish jewelry, smiling down on them sadly. His father occupied the next portrait, sporting fine golden robes and drinking deeply from a goblet of pumkin juice. He wiped his face with a sleeve and made a refreshed sound. And Sirius justiced the third, deeply emmersed in a Quidditch magazine and ocasionally snorting at the wording.

"Mum?...Dad? Sirius! What-Why-How-"

"Hello, son," James cheerily replied."Ok, when we died, we were put here. Every wizard who dies gets a painting put where they choose. Remus, Sirius, Lily and I decided on getting stuck here. Peter was mad at us about not including him in a prank on Snivellus then, so he didn't know. And I'm glad he didn't,"James spat, looking murderous. "Stupid little traitor."

Sirius nodded his head. "At least I get to see you, kiddo," he smiled. James agreed- he looked ecstatic at the thought.

"Visit us, often, would you? I'd really like to know you, hon," Lily asked. Harry readily agreed.

"Um, Harry? We need to get back downstairs now," Hermione's timid voice spoke up. Harry whirled around-he'd forgotten they were there.

"Oh. Alright," he conceded, disappointed. He'd come back soon-this was too good to be true.

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