Chapter Fifty-Six: A New Firebolt

"Harry? What are you doing here?" Hermione wondered.

"More importantly how did you get here and know that we were here?" Draco questioned him.

"When you guys came back to the future you explained it to me and gave me the time-turner to perform the patronus." Harry explained as Draco slightly nodded.

"Fair enough." He replied as Hermione giggled.

"I guess that pretty much everything goes in the wizarding world." She said as Draco smiled at her and they started walking back towards Buckbeak together. Even though Harry didn't say anything a thought kept running through his mind. His mother had told him that his birth father's patronus had been a stag and being a boy, he was sure that he would have had it be his patronus as well and it had been extremely curious to him.

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Later on that night Harry met Sirius and his father back in the courtyard. "Well done Son, you did a great job so I have to award fifty points to Gryffindor for your success." Severus said with a grin as Harry smiled up at him.

"I thought of you. My happiest memory is the day you told me that you were going to adopt me." Harry told him happily as Severus smiled back at him and slightly nodded.

"Glad to hear it." He began. "Now, I do believe that your godfather has something that he wants to say to you." He finished as Harry silently nodded at him and then turned his head back to look over at Sirius who bent down to his level and placed his hands on top of his shoulders.

"I have to go now Harry, but I just wanted to let you know not to let the werewolf define who you are. It's what you are, but it should never be who you are. Do you understand?" He asked him.

"I think so, but why do you have to leave? You're innocent." Harry told him.

"And you know it and right now it's enough that only a few people know the truth as it's better than none at all." He began. "Listen Harry, it's cruel that I got to spent so much time with James and you so little but just know this,.. the ones that love us never truly leave us and you can always find them,.. in here." Sirius told him before placing a tender hand on top of his chest and then hopping onto Buckbeak's back and flying off into the night.

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Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Draco all decided that it was for the better that they wouldn't want to be tempted to meddle with time again, so they all buried Hermione's time-turner in a chest out back in the courtyard. Their rest of the school year and school holiday celebrations was rather normal compared to everything that had happened the first half of the year.

Eventually it was the end of the year feast and to Harry's amazement and pure excitement Gryffindor had won the house cup once again. Of course this disappointed his younger sister Sarah, but he congratulated her in coming in second place and reminded her that there would always be next year. That's when suddenly Neville came hurrying over to them.

"Harry, you got a package." He began. "Hedwig delivered this to me by mistake." He finished and as Neville gave it to him his eyes lit up with excitement since he automatically knew what it was by the shape of it and quickly tore the package open.

"It's a firebolt, it's the fastest model yet." Seamus said with an astonished gasp.

"I wonder who sent it." Ron said before Hermione turned her head to grin at him and held up one of Buckbeak's feathers.

"This came with it." She told him.

"Why don't you try it out Harry?" Seamus suggested as everybody else hurried after Harry out through the castle doors including his father while Harry tied Buckbeak's feather around the broom handle and then hopped on top of it before shooting up like a rocket into the sky having the biggest ride of his life.

Meanwhile Ron turned his head to look back over at Hermione. "Do I even want to know where that stupid feline of yours is?" He questioned her as she turned to look back at him.

"Hmm? Crookshanks? No I haven't seen him actually." She told him before they heard a tiny little meow and turned their heads to see a humongous orange cat standing behind Hogwarts castle and Draco started screaming and started running.

"Bloody hell! How the heck did he get that big!?" Ron hollered while he started running as well.

"Probably accidentally drank an engorging potion." Hermione said anxiously while she and Harry just silently turned to look at each other and then back up at Crookshanks wondering what they were going to do now.