Fuzzball- My cousin didn't actually hit puberty until he was 17 years old. Really damn late. My friend hit his when he was like 11. I hit mine when I was 13. Everyone has their at different times, I just figured hey, Harry could be a late bloomer, so I'll make him one!

TuxedoMac- This story is going to be a lot different then the other one but there is going to be some similarities. The ending of Chapter 8 was going to be different but then in one of my reviews the person said they wanted to know what happened with Bellatrix and an explanation about the potion Bellatrix gave Harry and the magical core. So I modified the rescue and added those parts in, hoping to clear up some confusions people might have. The end with the newspaper was going to be the beginning of this Chapter but I decided to make it the end of Chapter 8. I'm hoping I didn't add more confusions with the way I wrote Chapter 8.

Chapter 9 Summer Days, Drifting Away

Harry laughed as Godric ran around him. The little crup was very energetic and eager to do just about anything. The Dursleys were adamant to have the dog in their house but Harry just showed them a page on Crups and how he was the only reason the crup wasn't killing them, and they agreed readily.

Harry was laying in the park, in a hopefully secluded spot, with only his shorts on and soaking up the sun. It was two days since his birthday and one day ago he spent his time playing with Sirius, Remus and Ron.

"Woof, woof!" the crup barked happily as it sniffed the ground.

"Calm down you over excited bugger" Harry said to the little beast.

"Hello?" a feminine voice called out. Harry sat up quickly and looked around. He was in a small clearing that sat in the middle of a clump of trees in the park by Number 4 Privet Drive.

'Where the hell is my shirt?' Harry thought as he looked around for the piece of clothing. He finally found it and hastily put the shirt on.

"Oh...hello" Harry looked up. At first all he could see was brown eyes and brown hair before the girl came out of the woods. When Harry saw her he realized that she wasn't a girl, but not yet a woman. She had a upturned nose, with freckles splashed across the bridge of her nose. She was tall, at least for a girl, maybe a couple of inches shorter then Harry. She wore a tight shirt and a short skirt which showed off her hour glass figure She looked very familiar to Harry but he couldn't quite place his finger on it, though he wouldn't mind putting his finger on her.

"Hey" Harry responded. Godric ran up to her, barking like a mad dog with his tail swinging away.

"Aw, is this your dog. He is such a sweety!" she bent down and started to shower Godric with attention. "What happened to his tail?" she asked.

"Birth defect" Harry answered.

"Aw..but you are still such a cutey!" the girl/women said to the energetic crup. "Are you new here?" she directed this at Harry.

"Nope, been living here since I was one" Harry answered. The girl looked at him closely. His messy hair, glasses and vivid green eyes.

"Harry Potter?" she asked. Her voice was calm but Harry could see a hint of fear in her eyes.

Harry stared at her. "Right in one"

Harry could see a small shiver run through her body. "I'm not going to hurt you" Harry said. "I would never hurt a lady. It is after all against the Code of Gryffindor"

"Code of Gryffindor?" she asked. 'Shit! Forgot about not mentioning that' Harry berated himself.

"It is a set of rules on how to behave oneself that I follow" Harry explained. And it was true. In the Gryffindor boys dorm rooms for every year was a plaque with a list of rules they should follow. Several of them concerned how to treat a lady while others were such things as 'Don't Pick On Those Who Are Weaker(Unless They Are Slytherins)' and 'Do Not Steal For Real Men Earn Their Money'

"Is it like for a club or something?" she asked.

"It is for my school" Harry said.

"Oh you mean St. Bronto's or something" the girl said.

"I don't go there!" Harry snapped. "I go to a private school in Scotland. Man I'm sick and tired of everyone believing I go to that school"

"Sorry" the girl muttered weakly. She looked like she might cry.

'Why are girls so emotional and confusing?' he asked whoever was out there. "It isn't you fault" Harry said gently. "You had no idea. Come on don't be upset" The female sat down on the ground and put her face in her hands.

"Girls!" Harry mumbled softly. He sat down next to her and awkwardly started to gently rub circles on her back.

After a minute she seemed to calm down. "My name is Liz Jones, incase you don't remember"

Now he knew why he remembered her. In Harry's last year at primary school she was brave enough to give him a Valentine, while blushing like Ginny use to do when he was in the room. Harry was made fun of constantly and Liz was made fun of for liking the Potter boy. She talked to him once in a while when Dudley and his friends weren't around.

"It has been a while Harry" she said softly. "I'm just relieved you don't actually go to that school."

"Nice to see you Liz" Harry replied smiling a small smile. "What are you doing in my patch of trees?" he asked her.

"I hear a dog barking and thought someone must of lost it" she said. "I didn't realize someone would be dumb enough to come in here" she joked.

"Well you came in didn't you?" Harry asked her with a raised eye brow.

"Yeah well...I had reasons that justify me being in here!" she exclaimed.

"And I did too. I don't like being out there. Everyone staring at me because they think I am an insane or I'll rob them all. Nice and secluded in here" Ironic how in his neighborhood he was treated almost the same way he was treated in the Wizarding World.

"So how has life been treating you Harry Potter?" Liz asked. 'If only you knew' Harry thought

Harry spent the rest of his much like he did the first couple of weeks. He practiced his magic, went to his defense classes and the activities after the classes, finished the pond for his relatives, hung out occasionally with Sirius and Remus and hung out with Liz whenever he could.

It was Sunday August 26 and tomorrow after his kick boxing lesson he would be leaving to go to Grimmauld Place. Liz was at the Dursleys with Harry and was trying to convince him to go to a party but Harry was very reluctant.

"Come on Harry! Everyone from primary school is going to be there!" Liz pleaded.

"Woohoo!" Harry twirled his finger in the air. (He is being sarcastic) "Now I get to hang out with Dudley and all those people that picked on me when I was younger!"

"Come on Harry! It can be like a primary school reunion! Everyone is always there except you. Please?" she pouted. "It will be the last time we get to hang out before you leave here for school and who knows if you are coming back!"

"Fine!"

"There now that only took thirty minutes of our time! Now hurry up and get dressed." Harry saluted her before going upstairs.

Harry went to his trunk where all his clothes were packed away. He opened the second compartment and waited as a electric revolving clothing rack came out of the compartment. (I remember they talked about it on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air when I use to watch it. If you have no idea what I'm talking about then...) It was shaped as an oval and had two levels for the racks. It was big enough so it could fit in the trunk with out squishing all the clothes against the side of the compartment interior. He was able to make it run on magic instead of electricity using a complicated charm.

Deciding on a pair of khakis and a navy blue shirt, the dark haired teen changed into the cleaner pair of clothes. Checking himself in the mirror he was about to make an effort to tame his hair when he realized it wasn't worth it. Why spend time trying to fix something that you know you couldn't?

He went back downstairs where Liz was waiting for him.

"You ready to go?" she asked, eying him.

"Might as well get it over with" Harry said solemnly.

"It won't be that bad!" she said.

"Easy for you to say...you were actually treated nice by these people!" Harry mumbled to himself as they walked down the road.

They walked in silence, until they reached a house where music was blaring from. Several cars were parked out front and Harry could see a group of teens walk into the house.

"Let's go!" she said excitedly, dragging Harry into the house.

"Liz!" some girls screamed. A group of girls who reminded Harry of Lavender Brown came running over. Hugs and kisses were exchanged between the girls.

'Never seen that form of dancing before!' Harry thought as he saw teens rubbing their bodies all against each other. 'The wizarding world is so formal and stiff sometimes. No one in the wizarding world ever danced like that.'

"And who is this?" Harry was brought back to reality. One of the girls was looking at him with a funny look in her eyes.

"This is Harry Potter. You guys remember him, don't you?"

"Potter?" another asked surprised. She took a closer look at him. "Well what do you know. It is him! You sure have grown up!" another looked at him with that same funny look. It was the look he saw in Ron's eyes when he was staring at the Gryffindor table when they arrived for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

The first girl to eye him with that look in her eyes came up to him. "Do you wanna dance?" Without waiting for an answer she grabbed his hand and brought him into the living room where everyone was dancing.

Before Harry could do anything she was rubbing her body up against his. Harry stood there for several seconds before finally not caring and going with the flow. This muggle type of dancing seemed a lot better then the formal wizarding kind.

Harry was having a great time. He drank a couple of beers and danced with a couple of girls. For once he was carefree and enjoying every minute of it.

"Boom!" his fun was interrupted however when the door was blown of its hinges and five masked figures with black cloaks walked into the room.

"Not again!" Harry yelled.

"Potter? What the hell are you doing here? Wait who cares! Our Lord will award us greatly for your capture" the leading Death Eater said maliciously.

Most of the teenagers at the party ran out of the house via the back and side door. However some were cowering in corners and behind furniture.

"You four take care of the muggle scum! Potter is mine" the four Death Eaters moved out to obey their commanders order.

"Incarcerous!" Harry shouted his wand appearing in his hand. Thick robes flew out of his wand and bound themselves to two of the Death Eaters. The two Death Eaters struggled vainly against the thick ropes and fell to the floor, their wands rolling off to the side. "Uh oh! Potter learned how to fight." Harry mocked the three remaining Death Eaters. "Favilla!" Silver sparks shot out of his wand and towards the three Death Eaters in front of him. Two of them jumped out of the way but one wasn't lucky enough as the sparks collided with various parts of his body. "AAAAHHH!" the Death Eater screamed. The sparks hit the mans robes and burned through them and if there was skin underneath that area of robe then the man had the bad luck of his skin being boiled.

"Crucio!"

"Furnuculus!"

"Evanesco!" Harry banished a lamp to intercept the two jets of light. "Stupefy! Accio Wands! Stupefy! Stupefy!"

"Imperio!"

"Crucio!"

The two dark spells whizzed at Harry, the same time he shouted the Accio Charm. The two wands were flying at him and he stretched his hand out to catch them but he had to jump out of the way as the curses collided with the side arm of a couch, sending stuffing everywhere.

Harry stared at the Death Eaters and they stared at him. "Hmmm...I got a wand, you guys don't. Question, who will win? Nah, I'm just playing with you guys. Of course I'll win so you guys can apparate away if you want but you won't have wands and that won't make Voldemort happy and you guys will most likely get tortured for hours. So I ask you this...what do you want to do?"

He was answered when the Death Eaters made a dive for their wands. "Stupefy! Stupefy!" the two red beams of light collided with the falling Death Eaters and they both landed with soft thumps as they hit the ground.

The muggle teenagers stopped cowering as they realized that they weren't in any danger. Though they still had scared and fascinated expressions on there faces.

Harry walked forward and pulled the mask off of the closest Death Eaters. A face Harry had never seen before stared at him. The man was young, maybe a couple of years older then him.

"A new recruit" Harry says, somewhat disappointed. He took the mask off of the other four. "They are all new recruits! Voldemort is probably sending these idiots out for scare tactics."

"What the hell was that?" a pudgey guy asked fearfully.

"Ministry of Magic freeze!" a voice shouted behind Harry. Harry held his hands in the air, showing them his wand.

Several people rushed past Harry to the muggles and two people approached Harry, one with their wand pointing in his back.

"We have reports of Dark Magic being used in the area in front of muggles. So are you going to confess?" a voice sneered behind him.

"Are Aurors so stupid now a days that they don't even notice five Death Eaters layign on the floor in front of them when they walk in?" Harry drawled.

The Auror in front of him looked over Harry's shoulder and spotted the five Death Eaters.

"Look five Death Eaters! The kid is right!" the Auror said. "What happened? How come there are now owls being sent by the Ministry for under age magic?"

"Five Death Eaters showed up at this party I was attending. I took care of them and I'm getting no owls because I was given permission to use magic." Harry explained. "Now if you excuse me I wanna go home" He grabbed a bottle of vodka that was sitting on the snack table and walked out the door.

'Damn Death Eaters, always ruining my fun!' he thought bitterly.

How could he agree to go to a party when tomorrow he would be leaving this place for ever, at least hopefully. He was going to spend his last days at Number Twelve with his Godfather, surrogated uncle and his best friends.

However Harry at the moment was still sleeping, soon to awake with a horrible headache.

'Hangovers should be illegal' Harry thought as he awoke to a pounding headache.

An hour later and Harry was still in bed, his pillow over his head. He lay like that for several minutes before his alarm clock went off.

"Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!" A hand shot out from under the pillow and punched the alarm clock. The alarm clock flew off the night stand and into the wall, where it stopped beeping.

"Damn thing...great now my hand hurts" Harry mumbled underneath the pillow. It was several minutes later that Harry actually got up out of bed.

Stumbling he went to his trunk and collected clean pairs of clothes. Then he stumbled his way out of his room and into the bathroom where he preceded to take a shower, brush his teeth, shave and put on some deodorant.

When he was finished the teen ate a quick lunch and went to the gym to work out before his kick boxing lessons.

At 3:00 he stopped buffing himself up and took a small break before he had to go to his kick boxing classes. When the class finished he started to make his way back home.

Harry was turning down Privet Drive from Magnolia Crescent when a voice stopped him.

"Harry wait up!" He turned around to see Liz running towards him, a site he didn't mind. "What happened last night? I mean when the cops came and busted the party up I couldn't find you at all!"

"Sorry, I was actually in the bathroom." Harry lied.

"Oh...so what are you doing?" she questioned.

"Going home and then I'm waiting for my friends to come pick me up" Harry told her.

"Forgot about that. I guess this is good bye then" Harry went to hug her but instead was pulled into a fiery kiss. It lasted for at least a minute, until Liz pulled away and ran off, leaving Harry in a daze.

"That was certainly...unexpected but greatly appreciated" Harry said to himself. Grinning like an idiot he continued his way to Number 4 Privet Drive where surprisingly Remus was already waiting for him.

"Hello Moony!" Harry said cheerfully. "What are you doing here so early? I still have another hour"

"Sirius and I agreed you should come an hour earlier because if you didn't I would have to put up with Sirius for an hour by myself." Remus stated.

"Good reason" Harry said, nodding his head. "Just let me get my trunk" The dark haired teen ran upstairs into his bedroom. He shrunk his trunk and the owl cage, after releasing Hedwig and shoved both of them into his pocket. Taking one last look at the room, Harry Potter walked out of it, slamming the door behind him.

"You have thirty seconds to hide Harry!" Sirius shouted. Harry changed into his royal eagle animagus form and flew down the hallway. He was able to complete becoming this magnificent bird at will a week after the rescue mission. He wasn't even going to attempt his hippocampus form until he had some water because he didn't want to die and his dingo form was coming a long fine.

He had some trouble going down the stairs but was able to finally make it down. He flew into the living room and stopped when he saw a haggard looking Remus sitting there. Changing back to his original form Harry went to see what Remus was looking at.

It was a picture of a younger Remus when he was around Harry's age. He looked fit with brown hair that had a few gray. In his arms was a beautiful girl who was smiling up at Remus. She had curly black hair and hazel eyes. She reminded Harry a lot of his father.

"Who's that with you Moony?" Harry asked.

Remus sighed. "That is your aunt Harry, your dads sister." Remus explained.

"I have another aunt?" he asked wildly.

"No she was killed during my 6th year" Remus stated sadly.

"K-killed?" Harry stuttered.

"During Easter break Potter mansion was attacked. The only survivor was James's uncle but he had the same fate the Longbottoms had. Your aunts body was never found" Remus said. "I was going to ask her to marry me when she graduated." Tears streamed down Remus's cheeks.

Harry hugged Remus. 'They didn't find her body. She can still be alive!' Harry thought desperately. 'Then how come she never came home?' 'Maybe she was threatened or had a memory charm placed on her or maybe she hit her head and got amnesia' he thought.

Harry noticed a box sitting on the table and saw many other pictures of Remus and his aunt. Rummaging threw it Harry found a newspaper article and read it.

'Potter Family Destroyed

Last night the vacation home of the esteemed Potter Family was attacked by Death Eaters. Aurors were called on the scene when one of the families house elves popped into the ministry screaming "Me family attacked! Me family attacked."

The Aurors were able to coax the whereabouts of the family out of the house elf and immediately apparated to the home. The Dark Mark was found floating above the house. World renown Auror Harold Potter along with his brother-in-law Chester Patil were found dead in the front hall of the house Kurt Potter, the brother of Harold was found tortured to insanity.

"More shouts could be heard upstairs" Auror Alastor Moody said. "We rushed up the stairs and saw flashes of light coming from the room down the hall. By the time we arrived the Death Eaters had taken care of the family."

A small fight took place between the Aurors and Death Eaters but the Death Eaters were able to escape through a window in the room. Harold Potter's wife Juliet Potter, his brothers fiancé Kristen Prewett, his sister Marie Potter Patil, and his nephew Jonathon Potter were all found dead. The daughter of Harold and Juliet Potter, who the house elf told us was at the house to, is missing.

The only survivor of the Potter Family is now James Potter, son of Harold Potter. James is now 16 and in his 6th year at Hogwarts. James stayed at Hogwarts during the break instead of going home with his sister to see his family.'

"The morning I read that article and the night the event took place is one of three things I wish never happened" Remus said softly.

Sirius came bounding into the room in his animagus form. He stopped however when he saw the somber mood the two occupants were in. "What is with the not happiness?" Sirius asked.

Remus held up the picture he was looking at. "Oh!" Sirius said, understanding dawning on him. Remus sighed sadly before placing the picture back in the box and walking out of the living room, his shoulders slumped.

"Poor guy. His first and only love your aunt was. Never was the same since. You know he never use to be this quiet. I mean sure he was the quiet one of the group but anyone could be the quiet one with me and James there. But when she died he just closed in on himself. James went through the same thing for a while. Then in 7th year him and your mom started going out and he became himself again." Sirius explained to Harry.

"Your family was great Harry. The nicest family you could find. They were openly against Voldemort. In fact besides a few bad eggs your family has been against every dark wizard that ever came to power. That is one of the reasons you are so respected. Not everyone sees the boy-who-lives. Some just see the heir of the Potters, the Protectors of the Light"

Man I'm so stupid sometimes. I already have the ending to the story and everything figured out but when I go to write this chapter or the next one I always get so stumped on what to write. I always get these ideas but they don't fit into the chapter so then I write them down but I get caught up in them and totally forget about the chapter I am suppose to be posting.