A/N: I own nothing in bold nor the characters
Chapter 3: The Letters From No One
"Who wants to read next?" Arthur asked.
"I will" Hermione said removing her arm from Harry's shoulder and grabbed the book. "The Letters from No One."
"Weird title" Ron mused.
"What did you do about school?" Hermione asked Harry.
"We're never going to get through this chapter" Ron groaned.
"Apparently I had a bad flu" Harry answered Hermione's question earning a growl directed to the Dursleys from Sirius, Remus, and Molly.
"Well, shame it doesn't work for another group we know" Ron whispered.
"Yeah. Harry whispered "Then Goyle would be the leader. Life would be so much easier."
Harry sunk into the couch at the angry flash in his godfather's eyes.
"No you won't" the younger group told Harry.
There was a moment of silence and Hermione placed the book in her lap and turned to her friend.
"Did you honestly say that?" she asked as Ron, Ginny, Tonks, the twins, and the Marauders roared with laughter.
Harry nodded looking quite pleased.
Sirius smirked but refrained from saying anything due to the stern glare the cat animagus was sending him.
Ginny and Tonks gagged.
"Good thing we don't get those" Ron said.
"Yes we do" Harry said. "They're called wands."
"But we don't hit each other with them" Hermione argued.
"Not with our real ones" Ron pointed out. "But those fake ones…"
He trailed off at the sight of his mother's glare.
"Please continue Hermione" Ron said.
"It WAS rather ridiculous" Harry recalled.
"Another good one" Fred said.
"Where's that wit now?" George asked.
"He's actually making Dudley DO something?" Tonks gasped.
The younger crowd laughed except for Hermione who cuffed her friend upside the head.
"What was THAT for?" Harry asked.
"So you know not to do that to me" Hermione said. "I don't appreciate smart mouths."
She leaned over and glared at Ron to tell him that it went for him too before going back to the book.
"That's not true!" Ron said. "Ginny wrote at least 50."
Harry laughed. Not at the information, but at the look Ginny was sending Ron. Something told Harry that had she been of age or if they were at school, Ron would be covered in greenish-brown bats.
"Well," Ginny said "Let's not forget the 20 you sent him yourself."
Harry rose his eyebrows at his blushing friend.
"Hogwarts" Sirius said proudly.
"I don't think Petunia's going to take this laying down" Snape told Sirius.
"I know!" Harry said when Hermione paused and turned to him. "I should have thrown it in my cupboard and read it in private. I was just so stunned that I got a letter, I wasn't thinking."
"Serves her right" Harry muttered.
Remus looked over having been the only one to hear Harry due to how quiet the teen was and the werewolf had superb hearing. However, he remained quiet figuring that an answer would come at a later time.
"That's it" Harry said with a chuckle when Tonks gave it a try with her metamorphmagus abilities.
"Sh**" Sirius swore. "Lily's temper."
"I thought we addressed that when we heard him yell at his friends when he came here" Remus said to his friend.
"We do now when the boy is there" Moody said. "At least MOST of us do."
Everyone knew he was referring to Mundungus.
"Won't work. If you ignore it, we assume the child DIDN'T get the letter" Sprout said.
Hermione froze and the temperature in the room dropped much like it had done for the cupboard revelation.
"What?" Harry asked.
"Harry. Stamping out magic is VERY dangerous" Hermione explained before Remus could open his mouth. "If they had succeeded, if you had survived…I don't want to THINK what could have happened to you."
Harry turned to the adults for additional information.
"If they had succeeded, there's a chance you'd be in a permanent 'spell' damage ward" Remus explained.
"I will DEFINITELY be having a word with the Dursleys" Dumbledore assured them.
Ron then nudged Harry. Harry turned to his friend and Ron whispered, "switch seats."
Noticing that Sirius was shaking a bit, Harry nodded and switched with Ron figuring that Sirius needed physical evidence that Harry had survived the abuse. When Ron and Harry were settled in their new seats, Harry gripped Sirius' hand. Sirius turned and slung his arm around Harry's shoulder and pulled the teenager closer.
"HE FIT!?" the twins, Bill, Charlie, and Tonks chorused.
Ron shuddered.
"THE FAT GIT HAD A SECOND BEDROOM!?" Hermione interrupted herself.
Ron leaned into Harry who leaned into Sirius. The kids that KNEW Hermione looked scared enough to wet themselves while the teachers gapped at the muggleborn witch.
"Miss. Granger!" Flitwick gasped.
"Sorry professor" she apologized before going back to reading while blushing brighter than any Weasley.
That earned a lot of eye rolls.
Sirius turned to Remus and they shared a knowing nod. Harry was going to get a LOT of Christmas and Birthday presents for the next few years.
"Aww. Ickle Dinky Duddydums didn't get what he wanted" the twins chorused in baby voices.
"This ought to be good" Ron and Hermione chorused jokingly.
"Hey!" Harry said indignantly.
"That's actually not a bad plan" Ron mused.
"Please be the walrus. Please be the walrus" Ginny chanted.
"Now Ginny. That's an insult to walruses everywhere" Harry teased getting a laugh from everyone. Even Snape's black eyes shone with humor as that was so something Lily would have said.
"There's that wit!" the twins chorused.
"Hermione. Whack him for me" Ginny said as she wasn't within reach of the Boy-Who-Lived.
Hermione reached over Ron and whacked Harry before she picked back up.
"NOW she gets it" Snape muttered.
"Thank goodness for that" Arthur said.
"ANOTHER image I could do without" Bill said.
"Another?" Ron asked his brother.
"Dumbledore blushing when Pomfrey complimented him on his earmuffs and a scar he has above his left knee which is a perfect map of the Muggle underground."
"We didn't need to know. Just stating that you learned some things about the headmaster would have been fine" Ron told him.
"But then you three would want to know what" McGonagall told Ron as she pointed to the Trio. "You three are too curious for your own good."
"Dare I ask what you mean?" Sirius asked.
"You'll learn in this book" McGonagall told her ex-student.
"Ginny, me, Ginny, the twins, Ginny, Mum, Ginny…" Ron listed who'd write before getting whacked by Hermione via the hardcover bookat Ginny's signal.
"Why?" Charlie asked.
"Why didn't you pick one off the floor?" Hermione asked.
"Seeker blood" Harry said with a shrug and felt Sirius' arm tighten a bit at the mention of the Qudditch skills.
"It's about time someone knocked some sense into that boy's head" Moody said.
"Poor baby" Fred teased.
"Some of us have NEVER blowing up an alien on a conpudder."
"Computer" Hermione and Harry corrected.
Molly went red in anger. That was no meal to feed a growing boy.
"Yep" Fred, George, Bill, Charlie, Ron, Harry, and Ginny chorused.
"Expect a LOT of presents come your next one" Sirius told Harry.
"You don…" Harry started but Hermione interrupted before Harry's modesty could cause an argument. She was agreeing whole heartily with Sirius on the matter.
"WHAT KIND OF RATIONS ARE THOSE!?" Molly exclaimed.
Harry felt Sirius' arm tightening around him a bit as if trying to keep him warm. Harry decided it was probably safer just to humor Sirius as he laid his head on the godfather's shoulder trying not to grin at what was to come.
"Do it!" the twins chorused smirking at the idea of waking Dudley..
"HERMIONE!" the twins exclaimed while pouting.
"What?" she asked.
"You did it wrong" George said grabbing the book "it's supposed to be read, 'Three…two…one…BOOM!"
"GEORGE GIDEON WEASLEY!" Molly exclaimed as half the readers jumped at George's explosion sound.
Hermione took the book back and picked up where she left off not bothering to correct her 'boom.'
"How bad was it?" Sirius asked his godson.
"Why don't I read next?" Harry suggested figuring it was safer to read now than when he would get into the mischief at Hogwarts.
