A/N: Haha. I left ya'll with a cliffhanger. Haha. Anyways, here is Chapter 6!

Disclaimer: Yeah I'm JKR…and my daddy's the Pope…(A/N: my dad isn't even Catholic by the way…just me and my brother and sister and mom's half of the family) And there you go! You have your daily history lesson of my family now…jk.

Ginny278: So sorry if I got those numbers wrong…my paper is upstairs and my nephew is sleeping so I really don't feel like waking him up to get it and I'm rambling so yeah…thanks so much for the review and I'm so glad you like it!

Chapter 6

Number 12 Grimmauld Place

"Hello Harry." Ron grinned at his friend.

"Uh…hi Ron. I guess you found me."

"Too right we did! I tell you, you're one hard guy to track down."

"Yeah…I'm sorry about that, mate, but—"

Hermione coughed discreetly (sarcasm). Ron jumped…who knew Hermione had such great cough imitation talent? (Umbridge…for those of you who didn't get it. Btw, is 'cough imitation talent' a real uhh sentence fragment? It sounds weird.)

"Why don't we talk inside?" Harry suggested. Hermione beamed.

"So Harry, what's with the disappearing act?" Hermione whispered. If the doorbell ringing incident were any indication, Mrs. Black's portrait was still there.

"It's a long story, 'Mione." Harry's eyes were pleading with her not to hate him.

"Well that's a good thing. No good story is ever short." Ron said.

Harry sighed. It was obvious that they really wanted to know.

"I just…I don't know where to begin. I…I need time. I killed men for God's sake!" Harry stood up abruptly and went over to a window. Hermione looked like she wanted to cry.

"Oh Harry. You killed evil men!"

"But what about the ones who weren't evil 'Mione?" Harry had a blazing look in his eye.

"What do you mean?" Hermione asked fearfully. 'Is Harry having trouble distinguishing good from evil? Oh God…what if he's insane?' Hermione shook these thoughts from her head as Harry continued.

"What about Dumbledore? Or my parents? Or…anyone really, who died for me? I killed them! Me! Why were they so damn stubborn? Why?" Harry started to cry. And not those baby whimpers, the shoulder shaking ones. Hermione wrapped her arms around him as Ron stared. (A/N: Emotional range of a teaspoon…lol)

"Harry. Harry look at me." Hermione said firmly.

Harry looked at her, wiping his eyes.

"Harry, you did NOT kill them. Voldemort did. They loved you Harry. They loved you so much that they died for you. They died so that you could be safe. You were the only one who could defeat him Harry. The only one. Don't ever forget it."

She hugged him and they remained that way until dark fell. More explanations could wait.

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"So Harry, what's your plan now that we've found you?" Ron asked, grinning.

It was around six and they had just finished dinner in the gloomy dining room of Grimmauld Place.

"Well," Harry put his fork down, "I think I want to stay here. I'm going to make this place livable."

Hermione beamed.

"Oh Harry! I think that's a wonderful idea! You can get rid of all of those horrid old elf plaques."

"And Mrs. Black." Ron said grinning.

"Definitely." Harry agreed.

"Speaking of elves, where's Kreacher?"

Harry shifted uncomfortably.

"I dunno. Haven't seen him." Harry kept his eyes downcast, something Hermione didn't notice, but Ron did.

"Oh well. Now, Harry…we need to go to the Burrow. Mrs. Weasley's been worried sick."

"Mum won't be at the Burrow 'Mione. She said she wanted to take the whole family to see…" Ron trailed off. "Well, she wanted to go to the uh…hospital."

Ron felt horrible. 'Why did I say that? Harry looks so pained.'

"Well," Hermione said, noticing Harry's expression, "let's go, shall we?"

She strode over to the fireplace and threw some powder into it.

"St. Mungo's!" She cried and with a flash of green, she was gone.

"Harry, wait." Ron caught hold of his friend before he stepped into the grate.

"Yeah, Ron?"

"What did you do to Kreacher?"

Harry grinned.

"He's at Hogwarts, remember? We uhh…never got around to telling 'Mione. I think she'd have a heart attack. She wants to free them remember?"

"Excellent." Ron grinned and followed Harry into the grate.

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A/N: Aww so sweet! Harry's got such good friends. Haha Kreacher's still at Hogwarts! Kreacher's still at Hogwarts! happy dance. Yes well…anyways, review please! Chapter seven will be up uhh soon…I just have to find the name of the Nurse again. Lol. Oh and I appear to suffer from some writer's disease because I was convinced I'd already posted this chapter YESTERDAY until I got on today and noticed I hadn't. So sorry!

Kat