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"Who wants to play chicken?" Jeff asked.

"What's chicken?" Harry asked.

"Okay, chicken is a pool game where two people are on one team and one person goes on the other person's shoulders. Then, the person on the shoulders try and knock off his or her opponent who is also on shoulders. We will have to be careful because of Faith, though." Jeff explained.

"Okay, lets play!" Hermione said.

"Yeah...me and Jeff are on a team and you guys are on the other team." Jess said. They started to play chicken and it was one fierce battle indeed. That is, until one girl was knocked off of a boy's shoulders.

Chapter 9:
At such a close competition the winner of the chicken was..Hermione and Harry. (Yes, I know what you are saying.."Of course they would win, they are the main people and blah blah blah." But, the reason was because of more of the training they endured during their years at Hogwarts. I have a method to my madness...anyway back to the story.) Then the teens just swam around a bit and played with Faith. Next, they went to the hot tub.

"Uh Hermione can Faith come in here?" Harry asked Hermione, who was turning on the stereo.

"Yeah just sit her on your lap." Harry took Faith out of her floaty and slowly climbed into the hot tub, which was comfortably warm, and place Faith on his lap. Hermione climbed in and sat next to Harry. Harry shifted Faith so she could play with the jets and bubbles.

"So?" Jessica asked.

"So what?" Hermione asked.

"What do you guys want to do today I mean are we gonna swim all day?" Jeff said.

"I didn't give it any thought actually." Harry said.

"I soppose we could, but I really don't want to do you all?" Hermione said.

"If we all want to be prunes then yeah, we could sit here all day and swim." Harry said which everyone laughed.

"I don't think so." Jess said.

"Then what are we going to do? We were just at the mall last night, we just swam, and..." Harry said.

"And...what? Something else to do lets think." Hermione said and bit her lip. Everyone else sat there and thought. Harry wasn't able to pace around to think so his face went as if he had drank truth potion. Jeff sank down a bit and twiddled his thumbs under water. Last was Jess who like Hermione was biting her bottom lip except the oppisite side of her lip than Hermione did, Jess bit the right side while Hermione bit the left side.

"Okay anyone come up with ideas?" Jeff asked.

"No not really for me." Jess answered.

"Well I haven't got an-" Hermione said.

"I GOT IT!" Harry shouted; which made Jeff shoot up from his spot under the water, Jess bit her lip harder, Hermione look at him quickily to where it cracked her neck, and Faith scream and giggle as she watched everyone's reactions.

"What?" They all shouted weirdly at the same time.

"We can visit my cousin." Harry said.

"You mean you want to go to the Dursley's? Are you MAD? They almost killed you and you want t-?" Hermione said.

"No, Mark." Harry said as if thinking Hermione was dumb then realising he hadn't told her about it. So he explained who Mark Evans was.

"Oh I see now. Yeah, we can go." Hermione said.

"Sure what about you hun?" Jess asked Jeff.

"Uh I dont know, sure! Why dont we-" Jeff was intrupped by the sound of someone apparating.

"Oh no! You guys hide at your house! Go!" Harry said pulling out his wand as did Hermione.

'Lets go see what it is.' Harry thought.

'Okay.' They made their way inside to find a tall man with a long sliver beard and hair, along with half moon spectals with twinkling blue eyes with his back to them. Harry was in so much shock first of all Dumbledore was here and he wasn't soppose to know why Harry came early,... it was Dumbledore personally, and why did he apparate?

'I wonder if Ron or Luna told.'

"Ah Mr. Potter and Miss. Granger. I have come to-" Dumbledore turned around to face them, he didn't know about Harry's condition. Dumbledore mouth lightly dropped, as close to a gasp as the normally collected man got... at the sight of a bruised and cut Harry. Harry thought he didnt look all that bad, he had healed alot since he got to Hermione's house.

"Harry what happened?" Dumbledore said with a sence of urgency in his voice.

"Well...I...er... tripped while running and fell down and into a thorn bush." Harry said, trying to fool the wisest man in the world.

"Now do you expect me to belive that. I have belived many things but this seems illogic. Now what really happened were you attacked by Voldemort or...was it your family?" Dumbledore asked Harry. Harry knew there wasn't a way out of this one.

"Alright... my... uncle did it, okay! I didn't want to tell you because then you would add more members onto my watch and then I wouldnt be able to do anything and I was too young. I am tired of being treated like a little kid that cant do anything. I can...I CAN." Harry said.

"Well I must admit, you have done more than most... something you or anyone your age should have to deal with. But mostly, after this past year I have looked at you in a different way. You arent a child, but neither a man. You are Harry Potter, a person who has the right to ask questions and recive answers. But you mustn't lie to me." Dumbledore said to Harry. Which he noticed was a bad idea. Harry was on fire, which was weird because he did have a weird red glow around him which made LITERALLY him seem on fire.

'Harry please calm down!' Hermione then grabbed Harry's hand but pulled it back because Harry's hand felt like it was on fire.

'But did you hear what he said?' Harry thought angerily.

'Yeah, Harry, but what does that have to do with-'

"ME... NOT LIE TO YOU. HOW DARE YOU SAY SUCH A THING AFTER WHAT YOU DID TO ME? I HAD TO LIVE WITH THE DURSLEYS FOR YEARS UNTIL I KNEW I FOUND OUT ABOUT MY PARENTS AND MY LIFE! EVERY YEAR I TRUSTED YOU TO TELL ME ABOUT MY FATE AND LIFE, BUT NOW I FIND OUT THE TRUTH ABOUT MY FATE. I AM NOW VICTIM OR MURDERER... ON TOP OF THAT INNOCENT HAVE DIED BECAUSE OF ME. DONT SAY IT ISN'T MY FAULT BECAUSE IT IS!" With the outburst, Hermione was in silent tears. Harry was glowing red, madly. The old man just stood there and looked at this teen who had kept all emotion inside, for so long, he hid the pressure so well. Dumbledore looked away from the teens firiy, green eyes by turning around to face two teens and a baby at the front door, peering in to see what was happening. As the proffesor fiddled with the idea of telling the teen about a hidden secrect, but no the man thought he would be more upset... he would find out when the right time came. He turned around to face the peircing green eyes but they were gone.

"Proffessor may I?" Hermione said with small tears running down her cheek that glistened in the setting sun.

"Go, only you could preform this task. As for Harry, calm him down and please bring him back here... I am not to tell him the news, but I must talk to him but if you aren't back in about a half hour I will leave, with a excuse to tell the order this can be a one of many secrects between the headmaster and students. Now hurry, I will greet your friends I belive there names are Jessica and Jeffery but musn't forget of your sister Faith?" Dumbledore said to the sad girl. As the man knew of his many things, she wasn't upset that her best friend burst but because of his destiny to fulfill. Even though Harry hadn't told anyone of the prophecy, many as we all know, one of them being Hermione could figure out in the end it was between Harry and Voldemort. Hermione nodded and walked out the back door onto the deck and set off to the woods.

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'I can't belive that man!' Harry thought fuming in the woods behind Hermione's house. He was surrounded by beautiful senery of a small waterfall falling into a little pond full of lily pads and other aquatic plants. "Lily..." He breathed. Other things that surrounded him were no longer in his mind too many thoughts that consumed him. A thought of Dumbledore came to him -- this again made him think of the events that had happened moments ago.

'He told me not to lie but it is okay for him?' He thought his anger cunsuming his body again.

'Why did you run?' A voice asked him in his head.

'Because of Dumbledore.' Harry answered a bit calmer for some odd reason, this voice calmed him.

'I assumed that. I just want to know what you meant about you said about you fate.'

'Hermione?'

'Yes... it is me. Where are you? I am at the edge of the wood, and Dumbledore wants to talk to you he is inside. I want to talk to you. What did you mean by you are either victim or murderer. Tell me if you want, but I want to know where you are." Hermione thought to Harry soothingly.

'I am near a pond on a rock I don't remember how I-'

"Got here?" Hermione said coming from the direction where Harry had entered and sat on the rock near Harry.

"Yeah how did you-?"

"I come here to think and I knew exxactly where it was." Harry wasn't glowing red anymore. Hermioen leaned closer and hugged Harry and he hugged back. Hermione remembered how Harry used to hate being hugged, but now he was the one to hug first.

"I'm sorry." Harry said still hugging Hermione.

"For what?" Hermione whisphered back.

"For the outburst to Dumbledore in front of you. I...I-" Hermione put a finger to his lips to quiet him.

"Look I know it must be hard to be in your posititon. You have been though 4 deaths, but none of it was your fault. Your parents died because of Peter they were in danger because they betrayed Voldemort anyway, not because of you. Next, Cedric, he went with you on his will and again, Peter was the cause of his death. Sirius was Bellatrix's doing along with Voldemort... not you." Hermione said. The old man who had been watching from the shadows of the trees after excusing himself for a moment of the teens and baby.

'So much like Lily and James.' The old man thought as he walked back to the Granger's household to talk to the group of three he left behind for a few moments.

"You have a point, but I still feel it a bit my fault. I mean it is my fault my parents had to go into hiding, next I said to Cedric for me and him to take the cup... and now Sirius had to go to the ministry for me." Harry said to the chestnut haired girl next to him.

"Well it isn't your fault... at it was all their decisions. Your parents most likily knew of the consiquinces of having you. Cedric decided to take the cup with you. Also Sirius wanted and he decided to go to the ministry. They all decided to do what they did. It isn't your fault." Hermione told Harry. A chilly breeze driffted through the trees to the two teens still in bathing suits.

"Thanks Hermione." He kissed her cheek.

"Harry there isn't any way I wouldn't ever refuse to help you with anything -- including potions. The way I see it, we should be getting back or we could get colds. For that matter, we can afford to get Faith sick." Hermione said. Harry smiled he and Hermione both knew this is how to handle a conversation, like they just had it nevered happened -- even those last few thoughts lingered it 'never happened'.

"Okay."

"I think Dumbledore is gone though. So we may have to owl him." Harry nodded he was a bit sad that he wasn't able to apoligize to the headmaster.

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10 minutes earlier...following Dumbledore back to Granger's...

"Are you Jessica, Jeff, and young Faith?" The old man asked the two teens and baby.

"Yes and you must be the wizard they have great respect for. Harry and Hermione speak highily of you." Jeff said trying to be poliet man and not a young adolesent.

"No need to stand on ceremony, Jeff. You have no need to talk in such manner" Dumbledore said to the young man.

"Yes sir. They spoke of you in a manner of so much respect that I felt I must talk in such a manner. To show you that we can hold such a secrect so... well -- seecretly." Jeff said while smiling at the old man.

"Ah I see but the matter I have come to discuss didn't refer to that subject. Your friends are coming back in a moment I would like for you two to stay here with them for tonight because the area may not be save for you two tonight, as you are friends of the family because of your parents occupations, your parents are not home. So, if you two will go home and pack a few overnight items as it is getting dark come back and spend the night, I have already contacted your parents and they agreed for you to spend the night. Now if you will leave the charming young Faith and proceed to your homes, come back and spend a lovily evening with Harry and Hermione, I can be relived of worry."

"Yes sir we will go now... here is Faith." Jess said handing the little baby to Dumbledore.

"I may not be here when you return, so if I am not have a nice evening." Dumbledore said to the two teens, passing over the threshold of the house.

"You too sir, Mr. Dumbledore, or I am sorry Professor Dumbledore." Jess said.

"Well even though I am not a Professor to you, everyone calls me that. Or just Dumbledore is how I am refurred to, but call me what you like." Dumbledore said, the teens nodded and left.

"Now, where is Harry and Hermione." Dumbledore whispered to the baby in his arms. The baby looked up and giggled at him.

"Dadda!" Faith shouted at the jet-black haired boy walking in the back door along with a girl with chestnut hair.

"Ah, Harry, Hermione... your friends are spending the night and they went home to get some overnight items. Also, you have the most happy baby here... well that is if you don't count Harry here when he was little. You used to smile all the time, even when you were done crying which you rarely... did mind you, but that isn't why I came. Harry, I wish to have a word on what happened and why you are hear early. May I ask what happened and why you came early?" Dumbledore said to the teens.

"Well Professor I came early because of a...mishap and I didn't wish to stay with my 'relatives'... so I decided I was coming to Hermione's house soon anyway, so I just brought my stuff on our run. That morning, we were owling back and forth and we decided to catch up on a run. Next thing I knew, I was in a park, then I woke up here and I have been here since." Harry said to the old man. Dumbledore sat there for a moment while the baby on his lap blew bubbles with her mouth.

"So let me get this straight... have your 'relatives' ever abused you?" Dumbledore asked Harry looking into his emerald eyes with his twinkling blue ones.

"Yes sir." Harry said quietly, somewhat, because if he didn't say it then he would end back up in the woods mad. At the moment, he had enough emotions running through him -- sadness, hatred, embrassment, confusion, angry, needing, and last lonilyness. Even the most company wouldn't bring the company of the three he lost, one a little bit ago and the other two he barely knew. But still, missed severly.

"Well then I must inform the order. I will be on my-"

"No!" Harry jumped and said.

"Why not?" Dumbledore asked placing the baby in Hermione's care.

"The whole reason I didn't tell anyone was because I can take care of myself. I don't want them to think I can't because I can. I can. Just tell them I couldn't wait to have company or something?" Harry plead.

"Yes I could and will. But I must warn you that you will have people watching you here and Remus has been quite worried of you. He will most likily be begging me of information. Oh look at the time I must be leaving Molly is making meatballs. Good bye is there anything else you would like to ask or tell me?" Dumbledore asked.

"I don't think so Professor. But sir could I ask you something?"

"First of all just call me Dumbledore as you always do if I am not being in the room or area. And you just did but I will answer what I can."

"Er... okay Dumbledore anyway am I studying Occumency this year?" Harry asked.

"Yes."

"With Snape?"

"Well I figured 'Professor' Snape wouldn't enjoy teaching it this year so I am. I realised he may not be the best for Occumency Lessons because of emotions. Now I must be going and ah yes here this is from Hagrid summer homework. I belive you will like it."

"Thank you Dumbledore." Hermione said along with Harry both taking their packages. With that there was a loud crack and the old man was gone. The two teens opened the boxes that were poorly rapped in thick brown paper. Inside the boxes were a long roll of parachment and two securly rapped chalk-white eggs. An egg the size of the one he had in the Tri-Wizard Tournament.

Dear Harry,

I am assigning you a project over the summer along with Hermione and Ron. Other people in other houses who took the class and got a good grade on it will get one. Open your package and the instructions are in there.

Professor Hagrid

Harry contiued to read the parchment that was underneath the egg. He read it.

Magical Egg Instructions:

1. Pick up the egg with both hands and hold it at an arms length in front of you.

2. Say: I your full name am your owner.

3. Next put egg in a box or any of the sort with many blankets and keep warm. Suggest setting in front of fire in the container.

4. At first egg with turn colors mainly purple at the start but when it is red it means 2 days, blue means 1, gold means 12 hours. It may be different per owner.

5. When egg hatches give your animal a bath and fill out birth certificate in the back of Magical Egg Raising by Hubert Richardson. Follow instructions from there in the book. Good luck.

When Harry finished he looked at Hermione who was still reading. So he picked up the egg put it at an arms length.

"I Harry James Potter am your owner." Harry watched the egg turn from chalk white to a mild red color.

"Oooooooooh Harry look wow that must mean yours will hatch soon lets see yeah it means two days! Congrats Harry your animal will hatch in two days let me try. After I have something we can put our eggs in." Hermione said she went over and picked up her egg. "I Hermione Jane Granger am your owner." The egg gave a small jolt and turned a light red but mostly pink.

"Nice what are those?" Jess asked fromt the door way with an duffle bag and Jeff on her right with an army rucksac.

"We have no clue I thought you guys were taking forever." Harry said.

"Well we figured we should stay for more than a night maybe a few days because to keep each other company you know?" Jeff said.

"Good point and you are always welcome to stay. But we only need to worry about is the guest rooms see the other rooms aren't ready. So Jeff and Harry could share a room and we could share a room. Me and Harry can transfigure something into beds or we could share beds or something." Hermione said. Hermione then disappeared upstairs with Jess and the bags they went to arange the rooms. Harry and Jeff were left alone.

"So what are these?" Jeff asked pointing to the eggs which Harry was rapping into blankets then lighting a fire.

"Well I am not sure but from what I gather they are a homework assignment. They are eggs which hatch into an animal." Harry explained.

"Interesting. What is quidditch?"

"What?"

"It is on your shirt." Jeff said pointing to Harry's shirt that said 'Gryffindor Quidditch Team' (funny I am wearing a shirt that says the same thing go figure.)

"Oi! I keep forgetting your a mugg-non-magic."

"I don't mind the word muggle. But what is it I gather it is a sport Hermione scarcily meations it."

"Yeah I could see that because she is afraid of heights and usually buries in a book when ever me and Ron talk about it. Anyway it is a sport played on broomsticks and there are teams of seven. So in all there are 14 players who are divided up to play different parts. One is a keeper who defends 3 hoops which three of the players from the other team chasers try and score through with what we call a quaffle. With me so far?"
"Okay let me make sure but I think so. So there is a chaser who is like a goalie right and defends three hoops which three people from another team try and score with a quaffle which is the game ball? Then what do the other three do?"

"Yes you are with me. Anyway two of the seven are called beaters. They try to protect their team from bludgers which are thick balls that fly around trying to hurt anyone. But they carry bats small ones and hit them anywhich way they please even another person. The last position is seeker which I myself play. My potsion is the most depended I have to catch a snitch it is small and moves very fast. Wait a second." Harry said running upstairs to his trunk.

"I am coming Hermione and Jess I need something out of the room make yourselves decent so we don't have any embaressments in the future." Harry yelled coming to the door.

"Well we are decent but just talking about you." Hermione laughed.

"And what did I do to become such a livily topic." Harry said scaring the girls appearing through the bathroom doorway. He laughed at them. Harry went over to his trunk and grabbed his omminoculars.

"Can I borrow your omminoculars?"

"Hermione's what?" Jess asked.

"They are like bionuculars but magical." Harry explained while Hermione went into her trunk which she amazingly haven't unpacked.

"Thanks Hermione is my last quidditch game on here?" Harry asked wondering if she kept one or taped over it with the most previous ones because of the ban.

"Yeah I left the last one you played on there and ones from earlier than that." Hermione asked a bit suspiously.

"I wanted to show Jeff we aren't going to spy on you actually erase that last bit from your meomory thanks for the idea. I was just kidding you know I am not like that." Harry said rubbing the spot Hermione hit along with the other spot Jess hit.

"Well have fun." They both said as Harry fled for the stairs so he wouldn't be hit again.

'Man girls can hit hard.' Harry thought.

'Hey I heard that!' Hermione said/thought.

'Sorry.'

'This mind thing is starting to get on my nerves.'

'I heard that too.'

'I didn't mean it that way I just have lots of meomeries and thoughts and stuff and some are painful and scary. Just try to avoid my mind I dont want you to have to witness them.'

'Oh okay. I see what you mean okay I am thinking of something that might be the reason we can only hear the thoughts. It is when our mind is least valunrable and thinking of only one or two things or I am not sure. We will have to pick up a book when we go to Diagon Alley tomorrow.'

'We are taking Jess and Jeff with us? Okay I wasn't sure if they were to come with us or not. Well I am going to go and show Jeff one of the games you shot for me. Talk to you later."

"What's that?" Jeff asked Harry who was holding two bionoulars with tons of nobs and buttons.

"Omminoculars they are like bionuclars but magical it has one of my games on here you can watch." Harry explained. Harry showed Jeff the game.

"Wow that is so wicked, Harry. You are so lucky that is so cool." Jeff said.

"Well I don't think I will be playing this year see last year I kinda got into a fist fight with someone and got a lifetime ban. Anyways that isn't the subject Quidditch is so anything else you would like to know?" Harry asked remembering his broom in the dungeons of Hogwarts.

"I don't know but-" A loud crash of thunder sounded through the area of Surrey. The lights flickered and Harry looked at his watch forgetting it was still broken he turned his head to the grandfather clock. It was in the foyer which he could see from his position in the family room. It read 9:38 p.m. Harry sighed. Then his and Jeff's stomachs grummbled they both laughed as the girls came charging down the mahogany stairs. Jess ran to her boyfriend and sat on his lap. Hermione just went and sat close to Harry. He remembered just then she was afraid of thunderstorms. Harry put his arm around her and pulled her into a hug.

"Shhhhh it's okay I got you, you're okay." Harry said and kissed the top of her head.