Ron weasley was angry. His best mate had gone off with his girl and the ferret and turned his back on everything the weasleys had done for him.
Ron wanted Harry to come back, marry his sister Ginny and lift the Weasley family out of poverty.
Six years ago, Dumbledore had turned up at the Burrow on the last day of august and informed both Ron and his mother to be on the lookout for Harry the next day. He had promised that Harry would view the Weasleys like his own family and that they would share his wealth.
Rom stalked up the spiral staircase to Dumbledore's office. Pushing open the door, he noticed that his mother and Malfoy's dad were sitting in chairs in front of the desk. "What's going on? Mum why are you here?" he asked with excitement. Had they found Harry?
"Ron, we know where Harry is. He sent a letter saying that he will be coming to the school for a few hours tomorrow. He says he doesn't want to see either you or Ginny" his mother replied. Ron's jaw dropped, Harry his best mate didn't want to see him or his girlfriend?
"Do we know if Malfoy and Hermione are with him?" he asked scornfully. "We don't know but, we assume so." Dumbledore answered. "While I can't speak for the Granger's, the Malfoys have a residence in Paris, where Draco might be staying." he continued looking at Lucius.
"We do have a house, but the elves would have alerted me to Draco's presence there" Lucius Drawled. "Well we will corner Him when he gets here" Dumbledore decided.
The next morning at 7:30 Harry walked up the drive to the front steps where the headmaster and Mrs Weasley were waiting. "Good Morning Headmaster. Mrs Weasley." Harry said coolly. "Harry we have been worried sick about you!" Mrs weasley said with barely concealed anger.
Harry merely shrugged. "Then you shouldn't have tried to force me to marry Ginny. Mrs Weasley I'm a Veela and I have a predestined Mate. so please kindly shove your false concern for me or more accurately my fame into the lake." Mrs Weasley looked ashen, and pale.
Harry turned to the headmaster. "I need to see Ms Luna Lovegood. Please send for her, I'll be in the great hall eating." he walked past them and sat down at the Gryffindor table. There was hushed whispering as he did so.
His former roommates were sitting there around Ron who was looking Murderously at Harry.
"What are you doing here Potter? Why did you come back?" he spat. Harry placed his cutlery down and Turned to Ron.
"What Is your Problem? I know all about you and your desires Ron. I watched as you lead the whole school against me, however covertly on your part. You abandoned me when I needed you most, all because you thought I had entered the Triwizard Tournament. You are lazy, greedy jealous of everyone and needy. You don't study and complain when you get bad marks. So please tell me why I was ever friends with you?" he spoke calmly and coolly and smiled when He saw Luna walking up to them.
"Hello Harry. You look well." the blond Ravenclaw sang. "What do you want Loony?" Ron sneered, his pride hurt by Harry's words. "Don't be mean to Her Ron, she is my friend, and I'd thank you to respect her." Harry said looking at the Hufflepuff table.
"Sure I'll respect Loony, when you are back here, planning your wedding to Ginny. Ah!" Ron yelped in surprise, as he was now on the floor with an angry veela straddling him. In a snarling voice Harry said "Get it through your thick head Ron! Ginny cheated on me with Dean. she says it was practice for when we got married but I don't care. If she could cheat like that when we were dating, Who is to say she wouldn't cheat on my while I was her husband?
"And another thing. You do not own Hermione, she is her own person. So stop sending her letters asking her to come back and marry you. She is too good for you!" with that the Veela leapt off him and landed as Harry.
Everyone in the hall was silent, and Pansy was approaching cautiously. "Potter, can you please pass a message to Draco?" she asked hopefully. Harry looked at her and smiled "sure." he reached out and took hold of the rolled up parchment and swore.
His hand was burning, and Pansy smiled. "That is for stealing MY Draco!" she flounced away when Luna's voice rang out "petrificus Totalus" and Pansy froze, falling face first into a pile of owl droppings Luna had charmed.
The whole school laughed and Luna murmured a spell to block the pain. She lead him to the Hospital wing and Madam Pomfrey did a double take. "Mr Potter is that You?" Harry sighed "yes Madam it's me. Can you please stop my hand from burning?" "oh Finite."she said and Harry sighed with relief.
"Now Mr Potter can you tell me where you have been for the last week? I would like to thank who ever healed you. For the last six years the headmaster has had me under the imperious curse and forced me to ignore you and your conditions. Thankfully I've finally broken his control and want to go with you."
"Great! We should go now before he seals the school." harry said panic entering his voice. Luna sighed "oh Harry, he's already done that. We have no way of leaving." Harry smiled "oh but we do." he quickly explained about the tunnel under the whomping willow and how it could be reached. "If Madam Pomfrey and I use the invisibility cloak, while you walk, we can get there." Luna nodded and Harry threw the cloak over both himself and Madam Pomfrey, who had go bend over slightly to fit.
Luna lead the way out of the school and to the whomping willow. Once they arrived at the malevolent tree, Harry froze it and they all climbed under it. As Harry was kneeling down, he could hear Ron shout "the tree, their at the Tree. Get them. Come on" he was running towards the tree. Harry smiled and crawled further in, the tree unfreezing.
Ron stopped just beyond the tree's reach and shouted "Harry I know how to freeze the tree too!"
The three kept crawling and eventually reached the shrieking shack. "Here take my hands we need to go." Harry said and he twisted and they vanished with a loud Crack as Ron appeared in the shack. "No! I'll get you Harry. Your money will be Mine!"