Part One-Summer of Fun

Chapter One

A/N- This is my first story so I hope you guys like it. Also this is my first time writing so it will probably get better as I keep going.

A/N2- This story is canon up to the end of Harry's 5th year with one exception, Bellatrix didn't kill Sirius, and he has been confirmed innocent by the Ministry of Magic.

Harry ran up the Astronomy tower with Hermione right in front of him. Harry leapt to the side as a flash of green light passed right by him, hitting the wall. "Reducto!" Harry fired back and nailed the enemy in the chest and sent him flying into the wall. He felt bile rise in his throat as he heard a sickening crack. There was another flash of blue as he cast again, this time at the ceiling, cutting off the Death Eaters. Harry and Hermione reached the top of the tower and saw all the death and destruction around them. Hermione walked to the edge and felt sick seeing it all. All of a sudden the ground started shaking violently. "Hermione, get back!" Before Hermione could react the edge of the tower started to crumble. Before Harry could do anything, she fell. "HARRY!" "HERMIONE!"

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10 Months earlier

Middle of July

Harry woke up sweating. "You okay Harry?" asked a voice.

Harry looked around to see the bushy brown hair of one of his best friends. "Yeah, It was just a dream." Harry subconsciously rubbed his scar.

"You're supposed to be blocking those out you know."

"Do you want to try having Voldemort in your head?" Harry snapped. "Sorry Hermione, I shouldn't have snapped."

It's okay, I'll let you get dressed, Sirius has breakfast going."

"Maybe I'm better off staying in bed, he's not the best cook." The two of them laughed. "Maybe."

As Hermione left, Harry thought about what has happened in the past few weeks. He left Hogwarts after the whole Ministry thing. He and his friends were known as the Ministry Six now. Since Sirius was now a free man, Harry was staying with him at 12 Grimmauld Place. Hermione's parents had decided to move out of the country till this whole Voldemort thing passed so she was staying there as well. That was decided after the end of the school year. Harry was so glad that he didn't have to go back to the Dursleys after that, especially after being possessed by Voldemort. Sirius had been approved for adoption so legally Harry was now his kid. After Harry got dressed he went downstairs. "Hey pup, nice to see you finally get up."

"I was going to eventually, I just wanted to sleep."

"Yeah, well, I made you some eggs."

"Well, not even you could mess up eggs" Harry said as he went to sit down. He looked at Hermione and she shook her head at him and gave him a look that said, 'yes he can, because he did.' And Harry found out just how much Sirius could mess up those eggs.

A little bit later, the Weasleys arrived, and Ron was wondering how Harry was doing. "I'm doing okay, I mean how else can you be when you see Voldemort murder someone in your sleep almost every night?"

"Harry, aren't you practicing Occlumency to prevent that?"

"Yeah, but I'm not the best at it, Snape is going to keep training me at school." "Do you trust Snape that much?" asked Hermione.

Harry, grudgingly, said "Dumbledore does, so yes, I do." The three of them started talking about things that friends talk about. Then Harry and Ron went up to the attic to play some Quidditch. Sirius had magically expanded it so that it was big enough. They did that for a while until lunch.

At lunch more people in the Order of the Phoenix showed up for a meeting. "Wotcher Harry"

"Hey Tonks, how are you?"

"Doing good, the ministry is keeping us Aurors busy."

"I'll bet."

Sirius, who is sitting at the head of the table, stood up. "Since we are all here, let's get started. We are meeting because the Ministry of Magic now knows that Voldemort is back. Cornelius was fired and Rufus Scrimigeour is now Minister."

Moody spoke, "He's a good man and a good Auror, I helped train him myself back in my younger days. I believe we can trust him."

Tonks agreed, "He was the Head Auror before he became Minister and I can vouch that he is a sensible person and a good leader."

Sirius moved on, "Okay, now that we have that out of the way, we need to talk about Harry."

"Why do we need to talk about me?"

"Because as much as I hate to think about it, you are the one fated to defeat Lord Voldemort"

"And to be honest, right now, you aren't ready" Snape sneered.

"As much as I hate agreeing with Snivillis, yes, he is correct. Maybe Harry can learn from Albus, you are a great fighter and also very knowledgeable."

Albus stood, "While I do not deny that I am a great duelist, but I can't teach Harry my style of fighting."

"Why can't you teach me, Professor?"

"My style took me decades to master. I'm afraid you don't have that kind of time, nor do you have the power equal to mine to do it, at least at this moment and time."

"Who else will teach me?" "

I will." Everyone in the room was shocked into silence at who stood up. "

No, there is no way in Hell my godson will be learning how to fight from a Death Eater, especially not you, Snivillis!"

"Who better to teach him how to fight Death Eaters than one?"

"Anyone but you! My godson will learn from anyone but you"

Dumbledore spoke "Sirius, be reasonable, who else would have access to Harry at any point to be able Harry to teach him the things he needs to know?"

"I don't care, anyone but him." Sirius stormed out of the dining room. Harry stood up,

"As much as I want to agree with Sirius, I need to learn to fight, the Ministry this year showed me that. So I will go talk to him and try to come to a compromise."

Harry found Sirius in his room stewing. "Harry, what did they annoy you too?"

"No, we need to talk about this."

"Harry.."

"No Padfoot, listen. I don't want to do this anymore than you want me to, but I need to learn how to fight, and Dumbledore can't teach me. Snape volunteered. He wants me to survive this fight and is willing to teach me how."

"But we don't know what he will be teaching you, he could be teaching you Dark Arts."

"Do you think I would stand for my teacher teaching me Dark Arts? No, I would go straight to Dumbledore and ask for a new teacher."

"But I don't trust him to teach you spells."

Harry sighed and thought for a moment. "Okay, Dumbledore only said that we don't have time for me to learn his fighting style right? So he can teach me spells and Snape can teach me how to fight. Sound good?"

"I guess. When did you get so smart?"

"I've been hanging out with Hermione, what did you expect would happen?"

When they got back into the dining room they heard minimal talk which immediately quieted down. Harry then spoke to Dumbledore and Snape about what he and Sirius had talked about. Both Dumbledore and Snape agreed. "Albus and I will work together, and this works out for me because I will not have to deal with you as much."

"I don't know about that Severus, I was wondering, will you be the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher?" The entire room was stunned.

"Albus, why now?"

"Because you need to have a reason to teach Harry extra, and everyone knows how good he is at DADA so you will claim to be accelerating his learning, which you technically would be."

"Who will be taking over Potions?"

"Your former teacher, Horace Slughorn."

"You got him to come back? I thought he refused."

"I have found him, and I mean to convince him to come back. Harry, I will need your help to do this."

"Yes professor, though may I ask why?"

"I can tell you that Harry," Sirius said. "He wants to collect you."

"Collect me?"

"Slughorn, or Sluggy as we called him, has always had a need to form a group with all the already famous and those he believes will become famous at some point."

"So you think he will want me?"

"I know he will," said Dumbledore, "And that is why I want you to come with me."

"Okay when are you planning on doing this?" asked Harry.

"Sometime in the next few weeks, so you have some time."

"Okay. I'll go with you." After they got that settled they just had small things like guard patrols, and who would be doing what with the smaller missions. All the adults blocked all of the Gryffindor Trio's requests to be part of any of those missions, stating while they may no longer be kids, they aren't adults yet. After the meeting was over, Harry said goodbye to the rest of the Order as they left. The only ones who didn't leave were Ron and Hermione. Ron because he was going to be staying with Harry and Hermione because she lived there for the time being. They wanted to spend it together because they didn't know if they would be alive next summer. Because of that they decided to have some fun.

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