Harry walked through Hogsmeade village with the same wonder as the rest of the third years. "Hey want to visit the shrieking shack?" Ron suggested pointing to the ominous house on a hill.

"Nah." Harry said shaking his head. "I was thinking of hitting up that Honeydukes place everyone is always talking about. Besides I don't want to give McGonagall an excuse to ban me."

"Good point." Ron agreed remembering the argument he had with the professor. She had tried to deny Harry's permission slip claiming it was to dangerous for him and before he could argue against her, Hermione of all people laid into her. Saying that if it was so dangerous why were regular students allowed to go or were they not important enough to protected and that if Sirius Black could sneak past the dementors and everyone in Hogsmeade and several dozen protective enchantments around the town than what use were the wards of Hogwarts when they were open today to allow students to pass through to Hogsmeade.

"I don't think I ever saw Mcgonagall so speechless." Harry said chuckling at the gaping expression she had held when Hermione started to argue against her.

"I didn't know she could disagree with a teacher." Ron chuckled before stopping as Hermione came back.

"So Ron what was that thing you said you had to do?" Harry asked as she caught up with them quickly changing the subject.

"Oh right apparently Fred and George wanted to show me something, I think it was a secret entrance or something like that." He began to walk off and waved back at them. The truth was that was just an excuse yes he was being shown a secret passage back up to the castle but really he, Ron and the rest of the Weasleys at Hogwarts were preparing for her birthday which had just passed two weeks back but since they had no chance to celebrate they decided to do so on Hogsmeade weekend.

"I would follow but I'm pretty sure that is a trap." Hermione said knowing the Weasley twins they most likely were going to test their pranks on him. "So Honeydukes?" she asked turning to Harry, with a gleam in her eye. For once she had no dentist parents around to stop her from eating all the candy she wanted, and she didn't have to worry about her teeth because magical sweets didn't do any dental damage!

"Yeah." Harry nodded and the two headed for the candy shop.

Harry opened the door and he and Hermione split up both going their separate ways looking for sweets as both of them never really had the chance to indulge their sweet tooth growing up.

"Harry try a few of this!" Dean Thomas told him pulling over to a few lollipops. "Apparently they can make anything a lollipop even hot chocolate try one." he offered holding out a cheery one.

Neville nodded. "Yeah th-there a more tame version of Bertie Botts every flavored beans." Harry saw Neville was right instead of a thousand flavors there seemed be only a few dozen.

Harry saw next to each row of lollipops was a coin slot he assumed you put money in and it gave the sweets in turn. A pretty efficient business practice given that when they were busiest it would be faster just to have the more basic candies on a dispenser. "Come Harry try a random one!" Seamus Finnigan challenged as he put in a few Knuts and got a sucker. He took a lick and grimaced. "Carrot flavored." he spat tossing the sweet in the rubbish bin.

Harry put in a few Knuts himself and got a red one. He hesitated before putting it. "Come on Potter don't be chicken!" he teased Harry shrugged took off the wrapper and popped it in.

"How is it?" Neville asked.

Harry nodded before he pulled it out. "Really good." he smirked making Seamus groan and Dean laugh. The boys wandered off and Harry looked at the wrapper wondering what it was he froze when he read the description. Blood pop: made with real blood. He crumpled up the wrapper and stuffed it in his pocket and grabbed a bunch of sweets and before he left he grabbed a couple of different lollipops before he stopped at blood pops. He hesitated for a minute before he decided to go for it and grabbed a few dozen. He froze when he saw the man behind the counter looking at him.

"Try not to get into to much trouble with those." the man warned with a smile, and Harry sighed in relief the man thought he was using them for pranks. He put his purchases in a bag and left the store. He found Hermione outside waiting for him.

"Sorry Ron wanted me to get him a few sweets." he apologized the girl shook her head before she indicated towards the Three Broomsticks.

"Come on let's get a drink before we head back up Ron told me that we shouldn't wait for him." Hermione said clearly annoyed that he had ditched them.

The two sat down and Harry saw the Professors McGonagall and Flitwick had just entered the pub with a flurry of snowflakes, shortly followed by Hagrid, who was deep in conversation with a portly man in a lime-green bowler hat and a pinstriped cloak - Cornelius Fudge, Minister of Magic. They all ordered a set a drinks from the very pretty Madam Rosmerta.

"A small gillywater -"

"Mine," said Professor McGonagall's voice.

"Four pints of mulled mead -"

"Ta, Rosmerta," said Hagrid.

"A cherry syrup and soda with ice and umbrella -"

"Mmm!" said Professor Flitwick, smacking his lips.

"So you'll be the red currant rum, Minister."

"Thank you, Rosmerta, m'dear," said Fudge's voice. "Lovely to see you again, I must say. Have one yourself, won't you? Come and join us..."

"Well, thank you very much, Minister." she walked past and sat down. "So what brings you here?"

Harry saw Fudge look back and forth to make sure no one was eavesdropping and he realized how strange it was that he could hear them from where he was sitting. "What else?" he asked sighing.

"Sirius Black." Hagrid growled. Harry listened in horror as the truth of what happened that night when his parents were murdered was revealed to him. Harry snuck up with them when they went up to the private room, using his invisibility cloak which he always kept on him nowadays realizing the use of having it in a fight.

Harry was luckily that when it was revealed that Sirius Black was his godfather Hagrid banged his hand on the table in anger otherwise they might have found him out when his rage exploded and shattered one of the glasses on the table.

"'Orry." Hagrid apologized as professor Flitwick waved his wand and cleaned up the mess and repaired the glass.

"It is understandable Hagrid I feel the same way." McGonagall said an angry look on her face as well. Nothing else was said on the subject and as soon as Madam Rosmerta came back in the room he snuck out through the open door. The entire time back up to the castle he was fuming. Hermione understood he was angry and decided to leave him alone for now, letting him gaze out the window in rage. Of course if she had been looking she would have seen his eyes flash red several times.

Harry led Hermione up to his old training room which had been decked out in decorations. With a bellowing cry of "Happy Birthday!" his anger was pushed to the side for now and he focused on enjoying the party.

The twins walked up to him halfway through the party. "So Harrykins." they said unison,

"how was Hogsmeade?"

"Snog any pretty girls?"

"Make any friends?" he rolled his eyes amused at their antics yet was slightly red at the teasing.

'What do you two want?" he asked looking at the suspiciously.

Fred put a hand on his chest looking betrayed. "Harry how could you?"

"After all we have done for you?" George finished beginning to tear up.

"So you don't want anything?" he asked grinning in amusement at their antics.

"Well now I wouldn't say that?" Fred said.

"We were just wondering"

"where do you keep sneaking off to?"

Harry looked at them confused he told them he was training. "What do you mean I have been going to train?"

"Oh really?"

"Because we know you haven't been coming here like you claim." How did they? As if reading his mind one of the twins produced a piece of parchment. "We would like to show the key to our success." Fred touched the tip of his wand to the paper. "I solemnly swear I am up to no good." he pledged.

And at once, thin ink lines began to spread like a spider's web from the point that George's wand had touched. They joined each other, they crisscrossed, they fanned into every corner of the parchment; then words began to blossom across the top, great, curly green words, that proclaimed:

Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs

Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief-Makers are proud to present THE MARAUDER'S MAP

It was a map showing every detail of the Hogwarts castle and grounds. But the truly remarkable thing were the tiny ink dots moving around it, each labeled with a name in minuscule writing. Astounded, Harry bent over it. A labeled dot in the top left corner showed that Professor Dumbledore was pacing his study; the caretaker's cat, Mrs. Norris, was prowling the second floor; and Peeves the Poltergeist was currently bouncing around the trophy room. And as Harry's eyes traveled up and down the familiar corridors, he noticed something else.

"It's missing some places."

Fred and George nodded. "At first we thought it was just missing the Chamber of Secrets."

"But then we noticed you vanishing up on the seventh floor."

Harry gave a grin. "Why should I tell you though?" he asked seeing where their thoughts were going. He knew it would drive them insane not knowing. The thought of there being a place they didn't know about in their pranking domain would drive them mad.

"We will give you the map." they said after a moment's conference, it's not like they needed it any more. They knew all the secret passages and they had long since learned to detect when a teacher was coming plus it wasn't like they remembered to check the map when they were sneaking around normally they were too busy setting up the prank to check.

"Deal." he agreed, before telling them of the Room of Requirement.

"That makes sense we once found a cupboard to hide in from Flich."

"But it was gone when we went back later."

"But that does leave the question."

"Why are you training so much?" they asked staring at him intently.

Harry sighed and told them about the demons. They reacted predictable scared before their eyes harden, Harry wasn't surprised when over the next few weeks the number pranks dropped. Ron and Hermione were told as well but Hermione had faith in Dumbledore and so did Ron but he also felt Harry was being paranoid.

Harry was training in the room against the knight once more he still wasn't good enough to force more than one to fight him and he was pretty sure that he hadn't pushed it to go all out yet. His blood magic had increased greatly with the inclusion of actually training, the blades used by the knight was dull and never let anything more than a bruise no matter how hard it hit but it still caused him to improve by leaps and bounds now he was able form a sword once more but this time it was far more than a mere pointy stick looking much more like a real sword. He based it's appearance off the only sword he had every held and used, the Sword of Gryffindor. He had began to practice more wand waving spells as he called them. He could do basic stuff without a wand basic moving things around telekinesis, but when it came to combat spells he realized he was lacking he realized this after the disastrous quidditch match in which he was overwhelmed by dementors he had tried to stab it with his blood blade but it just froze and shattered. He felt strange around them not just the fear brought on by being in their presence but also a strange anger at them challenging him. Harry didn't notice that he called it a challenge and not an attack.

"I knew it!" called a voice behind him. He turned around to see Ginny standing in front of the door of the room with a smirk on her face.

Done now before people get on my ass about Ron remember he showed in the first three books to have a major hero complex for him. Seeing him as this untouchable figure that could easily destroy the demons.

And also I hate Movie Ginny she is a creepy fan girl who did nothing to earn her supposed badass status unlike like Book Ginny who is a badass. And this might be a canon pairing but as those of you who have read Jaded Brother know I love a good curve ball. last thing remember neither Ron nor Hermione have been disillusioned with Adults, Harry's entire did that to him but they still have complete faith.