AN: Sorry i missed posting last week, work and life got in the way of fun and story writing. As for this fic, a few people have pointed out that i'm 8 chapters in and i said this was going to be 12 chapters in the beginning. First off that was a rough estimate. Secondly, i underestimated the amount of setup i needed for the characters and the group as a whole. Also, as for their schooling, their not going to spend seven years at Hogwarts and i'm going to go back to skipping through the more boring day to day life thing after the next chapter where the action is going to happen like i did at the start of the story. I covered three years in three chapters. As for the fact that Harry is super OP, all i can say is, yeah he is. Magic in my stories is funny like that, if you think about it, if you just spend time learning spells and if you keep working your core you become powerful. Hermione is a good example of this in the books. She spent time learning spells, if she was just a little bit morally ambiguous, and had an imagination she could have been very OP. instead she followed the rules and they barely made it to the end of the books. Harry and the group are very powerful, Voldemort is not much of a match for them, the point of the story is not some big final conflict with a big bad. It's a story about a boy that stumbled onto something and through luck, hard work, friendship, and imagination he's going to fix a broken magical world. Voldemort and Dumbledore are not the end of the story just the end of this particular storyline. Harry and Hermione want to be Unspeakables and fix the world's problems. That might be a later storyline i pick up somewhere down the line.

Harry got up with the sun thanks to Blaze's small bladder. The big dog licked his face before walking to the door. Harry rolled out of bed summoned his robe and slippers and followed the big dog down the stairs and out the back door, on the way out he ran into Hermione with Shadow coming down the stairs. They nodded to each other as Maggie and Snow came running down the stairs heading for the backyard. They all picked a spot by the tree by the side of the garage. Harry pulled the sunglasses out of his robe pocket and put them on as he took a seat at the big outdoor table. Hermione sat next to him and looked back and forth between her dog and Harry. She was about the say something but Harry cut her off.

"Blaze and I had a very mature and Manly conversation last night and we decided that both he and Shadow should come with us to school. They can spend most of the day in the dormroom and we can walk them in the morning, during lunch, and after dinner." Harry said making two cups of caramel cappuccino with whipped cream on top.

"A manly conversation?" She asked with a knowing smile.

"Yes." Harry said looking away and took a drink from his cup as Hermione laughed at him. Dan and Emma came out in their robes and slippers.

"What are we laughing at?" Emma asked as she took a seat next to the kids.

"Harry got bullied by Blaze into taking him to school. It would seem the dogs are staying with us." She said with a smile as Shadow came to her side and laid her head in her lap.

"We had a manly conversation." Harry said making two more cups for them as well as four plates of bacon and eggs with french toast. Blaze came and sat next to him. "Right boy? Manly conversation." Harry said. Blaze looked at his master and nodded as his tail wagged. "See." Harry said making four bowls of bacon, scrambled eggs, and cubes of rare steak for the dogs.

"Right." Hermione said laughing as she tucked into her breakfast.

"SO today's the day?" Emma said with a smile but there was a sad look to her eyes.

"Please mum, we'll be back later today. We'll have lunch right here at this table. In fact we're already here. We're in the shed right now. When we leave we'll come out and stretch our legs. By the time you get back from dropping us off we'll be sitting here taking a break for lunch. From the note I left myself we've been doing mind numbingly boring work for the last 36 hours. After lunch we'll go back to work. We'll take the door back to Hermione's trunk and we'll join back up with the group for dinner." Harry said with a smile.

"36 hours? I hope you both took time to sleep." Emma said.

"Well we didn't do anything, we're the up time us, but our turned selves took time to rest." Hermione said making both her mum and dad go crossed eyed.

"Time travel." Dan said shaking his head with a smile.

"Tell me about it. I have to live it. I'm glad I have this one here to keep track of the days." Harry said with a smile.

"Speaking of the time we have to get going soon. We have a tight schedule to keep." She said looking at her watch.

"You're right." Harry said checking his watch too.

"You two are always rushing off to do God only knows what. Can't you take it easy this morning?" Emma asked holding Hermione to her side.

"Mum, we have things to do, responsibilities, and mission prep. Now if you'll excuse us, we have to shower and get dressed. We have some horses to look after. Because just like you, they can't grasp the fact that we'll be back tomorrow." Hermione said rolling her eyes with a smile as she hugged her mum and headed back into the house.

"She's feeling just as emotional as you are, she's just hiding it under her work. I think when we come back tomorrow she'll have a different tone, it'll be the first time she sleeps away from home." Harry said hugging Emma as he headed into the house.

"Those two are growing up too fast." Emma said choking back a sob.

"Em?" Dan said taking her hand as she cried.

"It's fine I'm fine. It's my damn emotions, they're all over the place. I think it's the potions the kids made for me. I feel like I'm pregnant already. Damn mood swings." She said wiping her eyes as she smiled.

"Hormones." Dan said nodding.

"I'll be fine. I'm just happy the kids are going to be coming home everyday." She said.

"Aside from the mood swings are there any other side efects?" Dan asked looking her over with his medical eye.

"Not really. I think my boobs are getting bigger. Plus there's the sex drive which I think you've noticed." She said blushing.

"Yes I have." Dan said with a big dumb grin as he slid closer to her. They were just getting into some heavy snogging when Hermione cleared her throat from inside the house causing them to separate as she and Harry came out the back door.

"Are you two sure you want us to come back every day? It seems like you two could use the space?" Hermione said with a smirk as she walked by the table headed for the barn with Harry following her and the two dogs walking with him.

"We're going to take the horses out and then we have to get going. So be ready in an hour?" Harry asked looking at his watch with a smirk.

"An hour sounds good." Dan said grabbing Emma in his arms and carrying her into the house as she laughed.

The kids took the horses around the trail and spent some time brushing their coats. After an hour they headed into the house and changed into the clothes Harry made for this mission. When they came down the stairs Harry was wearing black jeans and and a white button up shirt and Hermione was in a black skirt and a white blouse. Both of them were wearing black leather dress shoes, oxfords for him and low heeled Mary Janes for her. The shoes were nothing to write home about but what was strange was the fact that they made no sound when they walked. Dan and Emma were waiting for them by the front door and Emma ran through a short checklist of things they needed which made both kids grin.

"Okay then I think we're all set. We decided to take two cars and make a drive of it. Harry you're with Dan in his car along with all the dogs." Emma said as they stepped out of the house. They saw the silver Aston Martin and the silver BMW roadster sitting in the driveway.

On the drive to London both kids got an awkward conversation with both adults trying to impart words of wisdom. For the most part the kids just grind and nodded. When they got to the train station they walked to the platform and said their goodbyes. Emma got weepy and Harry had to try hard to stop the laugh from coming out. Dan was having no such luck and it earned him an elbow to the chest.

"I'll see you guys soon." She said hugging them one more time.

"See you back at the house mum." Harry said with a smile as they saw Neville and his gran walk through the barrier followed closely by Susan and Hannah being escorted by Hannah's mom. The kids joined the group as the parents all gathered around.

"Come on Nev, let's go set up a compartment before someone takes the last one." Harry said walking onto the train with his buddy and dog as the rest of the group said their goodbyes.

The two boys walked to the back of the train and found the last compartment on the right. Harry walked in and with a few waves of his hand the compartment was four times bigger and the benches were now big soft couches. He made the table bigger and opened the window to let the fresh air in. when he turned around he saw Neville was talking to an older kid with black hair down the hall and an awkward looking red headed boy was spying on his work. When he saw Harry looking at him he stood up and turned red around the ears. He fixed a big dumb smile on his face and Harry had to stop himself from facepalming.

"Hi I'm Ron Weasley. And…" That's as far as he got because Harry was on him. He grabbed the boy by the front of his shirt and pulled him into the compartment. He locked eyes with Neville and the boy nodded as Harry shut the door and rounded on the red head.

"You will tell me what you are doing." Harry intoned as he waved his hand in front of the boys face.

"I was told to befriend Harry Potter and report on him to the Headmaster." Ron said in a vapid tone.

"Why are you spying on me?" Harry asked.

"Because if I do then the Headmaster will give me gold." Ron said.

"How much?" Harry asked with a smile, he wanted to know how much he was worth to the old man and how cheap you could buy a fool.

"One gold galleon a week." Ron said.

"One galleon!" Harry said indignantly. "You will forget everything you saw in this compartment. You will find a place to sit in the second train car. You will report you couldn't find me on the train. You will stay the hell away from me and my group of friends." Harry intoned and opened the door for him. Ron walked out and drug his trunk out and down the hall. Neville came in with half the group including Hermione.

"Was that Weasley?" She asked with a cold look.

"It was, do you know I'm only worth one stinking galleon a week to spy on me?" Harry said indignantly.

"Well, you're worth more then that. I wouldn't sell you out for less than twenty gallons a week." She said making everyone laugh.

"Well at least I know that someone knows my price." Harry said as the rest of the group came into the compartment with their trunks. Harry shrank them and when everyone was seated Harry locked the compartment door and closed the curtain. "Okay, let's party!" Harry said with a smirk as he pulled a radio and a bag of candy and drinks out of his bag of holding.

"You know, since I've met you yesterday I've had nothing but a good time. Man I like hanging out with you." Dean said grabbing a bottle of coke and a mars bar out of the bag. "All we need now are some board… You two are the best!" He said as Hermione pulled out a wizard chess board, two backgammon sets and a box with four decks of cards.

"Well it's not a pool table and a full bar but it's something. Now who wants to get beat in poker? We're playing for gold, so no cheating." Harry said pulling a hand full of coins out of his pocket and turning them into two big handfuls of gold coins.

"I would love to take you on but I'm afraid I'm out of cash." Dean said with a big grin.

"I'll front you. My Gran let me keep the case of gold coins Harry gave her. I'll front you for the first few games until you can bank roll yourself. Harry plays like garbage and I know his tells." Neville said pulling the briefcase out of his bag of holding and setting it on the table.

"You know my tells?" Harry asked with a cocky smirk.

"Please Harry, you're eye twitches every time you have anything better then a pair." Neville said handing Dean a stack of gold coins "Anyone else want to get in on this action?" Neville asked grabbing a deck of cards and shuffling them like a Vegas dealer.

"Sirius and my father have been really terrible role models for you two." Hermione said setting up the chessboard across from Padma.

"You say terrible, I say important. They taught us to be morally ambiguous." Harry said with a smirk as Neville started dealing the cards. "Hey! Deal it strait! No dealing off the bottom of the deck! You're not Sirius, your hands are not fast enough yet to get away with it." Harry said catching his friend trying to cheat.

"Morally ambiguous." Neville said shrugging as he took back the cards and reshuffled them with a girn.

"You two are crazy. I love it." Dean said laughing.

"Hey bookworm twins, you two want in on this?" Harry asked Michael and Terry who were both talking about a book and sipping sodas.

"What are you playing?" Michael asked looking up.

"Five card draw. Deuces and jokers wild and we play for gold." Harry said.

"We don't have any gold." Terry said.

"Do you have pocket change? Knuts or sickles?" Harry asked.

"We do." Michael said pulling out a small coin bag.

"Then you have gold scoot over and change places with the real twins." Harry said as Susan found radio 1 one the small portable radio. Harry turned their bronze knuts into gold coins and they spent the next hour playing cards. The girls spent time playing board games and chatting. The boys were mostly even when it came to cards. None of them had good poker faces except for Dean who turned out to be a total ringer. Between Harry's twitchy eye, Neville's uncontrollable breathing, Michael's tapping foot and Terry's lip licking Dean ended up with a big stack of gold. They called it quits when the rest of the boys were out.

"How much did you end up with Dean?" Harry asked.

"We'll after I give Neville the 20 coins he gave me to start with I have… 93 gold coins. How much is that worth Harry?" Dean asked putting the coins into a small bag Harry handed him.

"210 pounds a coin, 19,530 pounds." Harry said.

"This bag has almost twenty thousand pounds!" Dean said looking at the bag.

"It's gold Dean. hopefully, by the end of the year you'll reach the arch mage level and you'll be able to make a bag like that when ever you want. But even then, you have to remember, it's just gold. Now, who needs to use the can? Also we should really start thinking about lunch." Harry said standing up and stretching.

The guys walked out of the compartment and headed to to the front of the train car where the bathroom was. The bathroom had three stalls so Harry, Neville, and his dog Blaze went in first. When they came out they were met by a group of older kids in green trimmed robes. There were six in total and they all looked to be about second or third years. Terry, Michael, and Dean were being held by three of the boys and the other three looked ready to attack them. A shorter boy with blond hair stepped around the taller boys with a nasty smirk on his face.

"The famous Harry Potter." The boy said in a high pitched whiny tone.

"You got the name right, what do I call you?" Harry said in a calm tone. When they saw his relaxed stance the rest of his boys relaxed their stances. All except for Neville who looked like he wanted to rip the blond boy limb from limb for touching Terry, Michael, and Dean.

"I'm draco Malfoy, your group put my father in Azkaban and your godfather disowned my mother. And while I can't do anything to them, I can do something to you and your little group of friends." The boy said with a sner.

"And let me guess, my friend's families put members of your families in Azkaban as well?" Harry asked older boys with an understanding tone. He got a few nods and cold stars from the older boys.

"Okay, this can go one of two ways, you can either release my friends and walk away, or you can stand with this fool and you will be humiliated. The choice is yours, you have five seconds to make up your minds." Harry said in the same calm tone he used for this whole exchange. Harry looked at the older boys and they held fast but most of them looked unsure and panicked now.

"Five, four, three, two, one. Wow, what a shame. I'm going to need you six to release my friends, stripp off your clothes down to your skivvies and walk to the first compartment singing…. Let's go with Good King Wenceslas." Harry said waving his right hand. The bigger boys backed up from the three boys and started stripping off their robes.

"WHat are you doing!" Draco yelled turning red with anger. His eyes turned to Harry who was watching and smirking. "You're going to pay for this!" Draco said pulling his wand and firing a the leg locker curse.

Harry raised his hand and took the spell into the palm of his hand. The spell had no effect. He fired an itching spell followed by a boil hex and ended with a static shocker jinkx. Harry blocked all of them with his hand and laughed. He stopped laughing when Draco fired a overpowered wide arcing cutting curse at Harry and his friends. Harry had to block that one with a big shield and the smile fell off his face. It was replaced by a cold look and Harry raised his hand lifting Draco off his feet and pulling him closer. He took the wand from Draco's hand and tossed it to Neville who promptly snapped it in half. Harry waved at the window and it opened. He floated Draco out of the window and the boy started to scream. He silenced him with a wave of his left hand. Draco could do nothing but panic as he flew through the air next to the train flying across the English countryside at eighty miles an hour. Harry stepped close to the window and turned Draco to face him.

"I could drop you right now. Let you hit the ground going this fast. The fall would probably kill you. Or I could fling you into one of these trees and make sure you die. I want you to think about that fact. I want you to understand that bit of information. Then I want you to think about this. No one would know I did it, and if they found out? No one would throw The Boy Who Lived in jail over a bout of accidental magic. Not after the son of a Death Eater tried to kill him and his friends. You see Draco, you think you're a tough guy. You think you're powerful. But in the grand scheme of life you're an ant compared to me. Now ants can hide and live, or they can get stepped on and die. You fuck with me or my friends and I'll stomp the shit out of you. Consider yourself lucky. If you would have hurt one of us with that spell I would have thrown you already. For now I'm going to let you live. I'd spread the word to any of your other friends. They fuck with me and I'll kill them. Now get back in here." Harry said waving his hand and launching Draco back into the train and slamming him into the wall next to the bathroom door. Draco rolled over onto his side and saw the older boys finish stripping off their socks. As one they started singing and they walked through the connecting doors to get to the next train car. Draco scrambled to his feet and ran after them.

"The bathroom is free boys, have at it. I was thinking about chicken sandwiches for lunch. What do you think?" Harry asked his group of friends who were too shocked to answer him at first. Neville was the first one to break the tension.

"That sounds good. Maybe we can do some fish and chips to go with it." Neville said with a smile.

"I'll go set it up and go check on the girls." Harry said patting Neville on the back as he walked past him. When he was out of earshot Neville rounded on the other boys.

"What the bloody hell is wrong with you three. Harry just saved your life and you just stood there acting strange." Neville said.

"Neville he just threatened to kill that boy!" Michael said in a hushed yell.

"But he didn't did he? No he put the fear of god in that little shit and he won't come bothering us ever again. That was a cutting curse. It would have killed us if Harry hadn't have stopped it. If that's what he was willing to throw at us here and now on a train can you imagine what he would have done to us in the halls of the school. What if he caught up to the twins late one night? Or Susan and Hannah? Or you three for that matter. One spell like a blasting hex to the back is enough to kill. Instead Harry made him shit his pants. Now go take a piss and let's get back to the compartment. And if you three treat Harry any different I'll kick your ass. Harry's our Brother. We stand by our Brother." Neville said crossing his arms.

"You're right Nev. I feel like crap. Come on." Dean said dragging the other two into the bathroom.

"That was a touching speech." Harry said dropping his hood and becoming visible again.

"It's the truth. Thanks Harry for watching out for us." Neville said turning to his best friend and pulling him into a hug.

"I wouldn't have done it you know." Harry said softly.

"I know that. You're a good man Harry. Too good to go around killing kids. Now go back and start lunch. I'm hungry." Neville said with a smirk.

"You got it, Brother." Harry said heading down the hallway back to the compartment at the back of the car.

"You're a good friend Nev." Hermione said as she dropped her hood on her invisibility robe and hugged him from behind.

"Harry's going to be the next Merlin, and he's going to change the world. But he can't do it on his own. We all have a part to play. You keep him organized and on track. It's my job to watch his back and keep an eye on the group. I trust all of the people we added to the group, but with power comes temptation. The second I see one of these guys start to abuse their powers I'm going to stop it." Neville said in a calm tone but there was a hard edge to his voice.

"And that's why we love you Neville. You always have our back." She said hugging him again before she vanished as the guys came out of the bathroom looking guilty.

"Drop the pitiful looks boys, you're not in trouble. Now come on, it's lunch time." Neville said with a smile. When they got back to the compartment Harry was just finishing making a huge basket of chips to got with the serving platters of chicken and bacon club sandwiches and fried fish fillets.

"What took so long guys? You almost took longer then the girls." Harry said laughing.

"Hey that's is not cool Harry. There was a line for the girl's loo." Hermione said leading the girls through the door.

"And Just three stalls in the bathroom." Susan said.

"Well, we ran into a group of Death eater kids. They tried to beat us up. Harry mind tricked them into stripping to their skivvies and walking to the front of the train as they sang." Neville said laughing as he made a plate of fish and chips and covered it in malted vinegar.

"Really? That happened fast. I was expecting it to happen when we got to the school." Hermione said looking mildly shocked to play along.

"Well they won't be messing with us anymore. Not after what Harry made them do." Dean said laughing as he patted Harry on the back.

As Dean said that Hermione locked eyes with Harry and they both nodded. As much as they hoped that was the end of the would be bullies attempts they both knew it was not. They would have to stick together and they would have to start teaching the group combat awareness first. Spells and potions would have to wait.

The group spent the rest of the trip to the castle playing games, listening to the radio, and munching on snacks as only a group of growing kids could. The two dogs sat with the group and loved having so many people pet, stretch, and snuggle with them. When they started getting closer to the castle the prefects came through the train and told them to get changed into their robes. The guys left the compartment so the girls could change and then they switched. When the group was all back in the compartment Harry called for silence.

"Okay guys, we have to let you in on the plan." Harry said standing with Hermione by the compartment door.

"Tonight we are going to be sorted into one of four houses. The sorting is done by a magical hat. To keep the group together and make it easier for us to work and keep up our advanced schedule we have to all be sorted into one house. To accomplish this sorting Harry and I are going to kidnap the sorting hat and have a very enlightening talk with it." Hermione said.

"To do this we are going to use two things. The time turner and these robes. They look like normally school robes but when you pull the hood up," Harry said flipping up his hood and vanishing. "You become invisible." he finished as he dropped his hood.

"THat's awesome!" Dean half yelled with excitement.

"It is. But in order to pull this off we need to walk into the school surrounded by the group, filp up our hoods, vanish from sight, and sneak away. By the time the group gets to the main hall we'll be back and we need the cover of the group to reappear without drawing attention to ourselves. For you guys we will vanish and walk away and a few seconds later we'll bump past you guys to get back into the center of the group. What we need you guys to do is not acknowledge us if we bump into one of you guys." Hermione said.

"What we need to do is practice this a few times before we do it for real. Can you all stand up, I'm going to shrink the seats and table back to normal to give us some space to practice." Harry said.

When the train stopped at Hogsmeade station the students got out and they were met by a giant man with a lantern. He lead them to the boats and they split up with Michael and Terry sharing a boat with the twins, Hermione and her dog Shadow sharing a boat with Sally, Susan and Hannah, and Harry and his dog Blaze, Dean, and Neville in the last boat. All of the kids shared a look of wonderment when they saw the castle. When they hit the shore and got out of the boat they were lead to a big set of door where Minerva was waiting.

"The first years Professor Mcgonagall." Hagrid the half giant said.

"Thank you Hagrid. Come along children." She said in a prim tone as she lead them into the castle.

As they crossed the main doors Harry and Hermione flipped up their hoods and vanished. Their dogs and the rest of the group moved across the hall to a small room off the main hall across from the Great Hall doors. As they crossed into the room Neville was pushed aside a bit and Harry and Hermione were once again standing in the middle of the group with grins on their faces.

Meanwhile Harry took Hermione's hand and lead her down a side hall that ran the length of the great hall to a door that lead to the teacher's wing at a good jog. The door was normally password locked but Minerva left it open for them. They slipped through the door and into a long hallway lined with doors. Each door had a nameplate. In the middle of the hall was a bigger door and sitting in front of the door was a stoll with an old witch's hat on it. Harry let go of her hand and he saw a black bag hanging in mid air. The bag floated closer to the hat and that was Harry's cue. With practiced speed Harry snatched the hat off the stool and shoved it into the bag before the hat could even make a sound. Once it was in the bag it's yells couldn't penetrate the soundproof charms on the bag. They could feel themselves in the hall as they passed each other. They kept heading down the hall with the struggling hat in the bag at the end of the hall was a broom closet. They opened the closet door and saw Hermione's trunk sitting there open. She went down first and Harry tossed her the bag and followed her down as he closed the lid. They rushed through the door to the shed and turned back time 48 hours. They dropped their hoods and took a deep breath. Harry looked at his watch, from the time they pulled up their hoods to the time they dropped them it took 18 seconds. Hermione opened the bag.

"...Demand that you unhand me this instance!" The hat shouted.

"Oh shut your trap." Harry said grabbing the hat out of the bag. He opened the hat box and dropped the hax in the hat box. He shut the lid and the box flashed.

"Hey! What was that!?" The hat yelled. Harry opened the box and pulled the hat out and set it on the table. He closed the lid and the box flashed again. This time he pulled out a copy of the sorting hat. "WHat is that!?" THe hat yelled looking shocked and panicked. The new hat turned to Harry and bowed.

"What are my orders, master?" The new hat asked.

"You will take the place of the sorting hat and you will sort the students as we see fit. You will hold this position until you are relieved of duty." Harry said.

"Yes master." The hat said bowing again.

"Thank you, we don't want to do it this way but it's the only way to insure our continued work at the school. We really don't want to kidnap the sorting hat but from everything we heard from Minerva the hat can be a bit certankerus and we really don't have the time and patients to talk him into playing ball. This is easier, even though it's unethical. It's not what we want to do but?" Harry said shrugging.

"Well have you tried asking me?" The real Hat asked.

"No, but Minerva told us…" Harry started to say.

"She told you her opinions. What I just witnessed was Maker magic. It's rare, 1 in a 100,000 wizards are born on the arch mage scale. Only 1 in a 1,000 arch mages are makers. It's a once in a generation gift and you have it. You're powerful too. Very powerful. Put me on your head, and let me see what we're working with here. You could have saved us all a trip if you just would have told me you're a maker. A Gryffindor as well. I can feel my maker's power in your magic. I'm guessing by the look of you you're a Potter, you're a descendant of Godric who was a descendent of Merlin. I was made by the house of Gryffindor, I am loyal to the house of Gryffindor. Now put me on your head." The hat said.

"Why?" Harry asked.

"So I can see what you have planned. If it's noble and good then I'll, as you stated, play ball. Your bloodline has never been happy with the way things work, they always have to change things. Merlin had to unify the kingdoms and make one house under which magicals could live without persecution. It cost him his life because he trusted the wrong people. Godric had to teach weak magic users how to harness their power. Again he trusted the wrong people. You're great great grandfather William wasn't happy with just the minister running the magical government in the UK so he made the Wizengamot. He was stabbed in the back by a friend who wanted to be the head of the Governing body. Your great grandfather burned through most of his his fortune helping the muggles fight the Nazis and Grindelwald when every other magical house hid under their wards as the war raged on around them. He died in the London bombings. Both your grandfather and father died fighting Voldemort. So young Arch Mage with the blood of your forefathers, what are you going to die trying to do?" The hat asked with a sigh like it was hurting his head to deal with the foolish bloodline that made him. It was a tone that put a smile on Harry's face.

Harry put the hat on and took of his watch so the hat could access his mind. After looking at his thoughts for a few minutes the hat hummed.

"You can take me off now. Well atleast you're not thinking about too many revolutionary things. You might live long enough to see the natural end of your days. You'd be the first in the blood line to make it." The hat said with a sigh.

"So the Merlin blood line is that bad?" Harry asked in a tone that was an odd mix of Pride and sadness.

"Fools the lot of you!" The hat yelled out as he chuckled sadly.

"So you'll help us?" Hermione asked.

"I will if I get a look inside your head. The real Merlin curse is trusting the wrong people. I want to see what's inside your head." The hat said eyeing Hermione with an untrusting look.

"I understand. You have nothing to worry about and neither does Harry." Hermione said taking off her locket and watch and set the hat on her head. The hat was silent for a few minutes.

"No you're right, he has nothing to fear from you and I must say I've never been happier for a Potter in the last hundred years. You are even more untrusting and cautious than he is. Good. build a core of people you trust explicitly. Everyone else you keep at arm's length. I'll sort anyone you want me to. In fact hold me over that couch over there." The hat said.

Harry picked up the hat as gently as he could and walked over to the couch. As soon as he held the hat over the couch things started falling out of the hat starting with a gold and jewel encrusted sword. A wood jewelry box followed it along with four big leather bound books, and a pair of long daggers. Harry and Hermione stood there looking at the pile of things on the couch with shocked looks on their faces.

"You're going to have to shake me, something is still stuck." The hat said sounding frustrated.

"Okay, tell me if I go too hard." Harry said before shaking the hat. As soon as he started going a 6 foot long gold staff with a dragon head on top holding a baseball sized red ruby in it's mouth fell out followed by a gold breastplate and finally a wood box that looked like a small trunk with a lock on the front that looked like a gold dragon fell out. "Wow you had a lot of stuff hidden inside of you." Harry said looking at all the stuff on the couch.

"It's my duty to store House heirlooms. These all belong to you now as the next Arch Mage in the family line. When you pass from this life these items and any other items you link to me will vanish from where you have them and come back to me so I can pass them on to the next Arch Mage of the house." The said proudly.

"It's a good idea. Now if you would please explain what this stuff is that would be great." Harry said setting the hat down on the coffee table in front of the couch.

"Certainly, although I would expect most of this is self explanatory. The Staff is called Dragon fire and it was Merlin's staff. You will be the first in the line of Potter powerful enough to use it." The hat said as Harry picked up the staff and the ruby glowed. He felt a rush of power shot through his body. It was a feeling he felt before. The day he took the overpowered energy potion.

"I can feel the power in this staff." Harry said looking at the gemstone.

"I bet you can, Godric charged the gem before he was killed. You see the staff lets you store power by sucking in ambient magic from the air, and when you need it all you have to do is channel a very small bit of power through the staff and you can perform great feats of magic. Godric made every stone that the castle is built from. It took his just two months to make and place every stone. then again the castle was built on a magical ley line so the staff can recharge very fast there." The hat said with a smirk.

"Unreal." Harry said passing the staff to Hermione who touched it and was shocked. "Oh! Are you okay?" Harry asked holding her hand.

"I'm fine. It just felt like a good static shock." She said as Harry ran his thumb over her hand.

"I forgot to mention this but the Staff, the daggers and the house rig are charmed so only the bloodline can touch them." The hat said.

"Good to know." Harry said setting the staff off to the side. "What's special about the daggers?" Harry asked grabbing the two long thin daggers in shiny black leather sheaths. He pulled one of the daggers out exposing the shiny silver 14 inch long single edged blades. He tested the weight and and the handling of the blade and found it to be perfectly balanced for fighting. The handle was made of some kind of bone and although there were no gemstones or fancy etchings on the blade he knew he was holding a piece of history.

"Those were forged by Godrics' hands along with the sword and the breastplate. You see back during the late years of the 10th century the land that the castle sit on was all a magical forest. Humans were afraid to go in and the animals themselves were fearful of going too deep into the woods. The centaurs lived on the land that is now Hogsmeade. They protected the other animals of the forest from the dark creatures deep within. Werewolves were not the nice people you know now. Back then they were mindless beasts for all time except on the night of the full moon. They held the patch of woods by the east bank of the lake. Hags and harpies held the other side of the lake. The land where the castle sits was home to a big nest of Basilisks. And just to add to the list of living nightmares in the woods an ancient black dragon lived in the mountains to the east. Everyone saw the land as cursed but Godric saw what the land was. A power node. A well of pure magical energy. He would take the land and build his seat of power and within those walls he would teach weak magicals how to channel their power. He made a deal with the centaurs to grant passage to him, his three powerful Archmage friends and his army of magical warriors. Godric lead an army of a thousand into the forbidden forest. Godric and his three friends were the only ones that came out the other side two weeks later and they were promptly met by the huge black dragon. Godric took one look at the huge dragon and pulled the staff from his back and held it aloft. He channeled every bit of magic he had left into a blasting curse that ripped the dragon in half. Godric collapsed and when he woke up he found his friends clearing the trees to build the foundation of the castle. Rowena Ravenclaw had bound the dragon's heart to a slab of bedrock and used it to power the wards. To this day the wards of the school run off the power channeled through the massive dragon's heart in the bedrock of the castle. The weapons and armor were what he wore when he stepped into the forbidden forest that day. The other three founders had similar weapons and armor." The hat said in a reminiscent tone.

"Wow, these are truly the tools that made wizarding history in this country. We're going to have to find a way to display these. That story and many more like it deserve to be told." Harry said.

"The breastplate and the daggers yes, but you should keep the sword with you at all times. It's very powerful and unlike the daggers anyone can pick up that sword and wield it's power." The hat said as a warning.

"Understood. I will keep the staff with me at all times too. Now what's in the box?" Harry asked picking up the locked box.

"Merlin's dragon." The hat said with a smirk.

"Say what now?" Harry asked setting the box down very slowly.

"According to his journal which is the black leather bound book on the top of the pile. Merlin had a pet dragon named Ignis. He hatched it from an egg and as it grew he tamed it with calming magic. The dragon acted like a pet hound and not a fire breathing killing machine. Later when his big pet got too big to keep indoors he made a collar for it to shrink it back down to the size of a hatchling so it could stay with him. Ignis was his faithful companion for decades. When the war came and Morgana turned on him Merlin feared his days were numbered. Not trusting anyone but an Archmage to keep his pet safe he spent a full charge of his staff to make a gem that stored Ignis in a timeless slumber. He put the gem in his magically sealed trunk and used the same spell that was used on me to vanish the rest of his most prized possessions back to the trunk at the time of his death. He sent the trunk and six chests full of gold and jewels along with his three year old son renamed Author Gryffindor away with his trusted servants on a ship to Rome. Godric was the first of the bloodline to be able to open the box and release the dragon from the stone but his fear of dragons stopped him. After he made me I kept pestering him to open the box but as brave as he was his fear of dragons was well founded. He had killed a few of them in his day and he locked the box away inside of me as soon as he could. He vowed to never open the box unless he had to. He was not much for making small talk with a dragon. Now the question is young Potter, are you too afraid to open the box and bond with the Dragon?" The hat asked with a clear smirk in his voice.

"I have the stones to open the box but I refuse to do it inside this small room. We'll open the box in two days. For now we'll set it aside." Harry said picking up the box again. This time he studied and saw the word Ignis carved into the lid under a carving of a dragon with it's wings outstretched.

"What in here?" Hermione asked picking up the jewelry box.

"That box holds the bloodline's house rings." The hat said as she opened the box. "Remember! Don't touch the Gryffindor House ring." The hat warned as she reached out to touch the six rings in the box. "It's charmed so only Harry can touch it. But once it's on his hand you can touch it. Harry, the large gold ring with the Gryffindor house crest belongs on your finger. With that ring you control the castle. It's yours after all. There's no vaults of gold or mansions or anything like that but the castle and the land it sits on belongs to you. It's your responsibility like the two Makers before you to build the family back up to what it once was. Hopefully there will be more left of a legacy then was left to you by the time the next Maker comes around. Godric was born into a penniless family that worked as sell swords. You grew up with just a trust vault after Godric made the family the wealthiest house in the world. Try to leave a good legacy Harry your bloodline loves to burn through it tilting at windmills." The hat said laughing.

Harry took the case and grabbed the big gold ring with the carved rampant lion torso and head the same as the Hogwarts house crest. The lion had a round cut ruby for it's eye and the rind glowed as soon as he slipped it on his right middle finger next to his Potter house ring. The ring shrank and gave off a pulse. In the castle Dumbledore stopped eating his dinner as he felt the wards pulse and surge to life like he never felt them before. He stood up and went to his window to see if anyone was attacking the ward line but no one was.

"Fawkes, Flash me to the Ward chamber!" He called to his phoenix, Fawkes rolled his eyes, flashed to his shoulder, and tried to flash to the chamber deep under the castle but nothing happened. "What's wrong?" He asked looking panicked now. If something happened to the castle under his watch then what little reputation he still had left would be gone. The bird barked a few angry retorts in a very un-Phoenix like way before he flashed back to his perch. "What do you mean the wards stopped you!?" Fawkes called out a few more bitter sounding retorts before going back to his dinner of raw beef strips marinated in firewhiskey and HP sauce.

"We have to set the castle on alert!" Albus said slamming the red gem on the side of his desk, a siren sounded through the castle for a few seconds before the gem glowed, flashed, and cracked in half. As soon as the gem broke he felt his ward monitoring charm drop and he lost control of the wards. Outside his window the wards flashed and glowed red and gold. He saw the herd of centaurs come running to edge of the ward line as Severus and Pomona rushed out of the castle followed by Filius. "Fawkes flash me to the ward line!" He called out as the panic of his situation hit him. He was losing the last bit of control he had left. The bird rolled his eyes again, flashed to his shoulder and flashed him to the ward line in front of the forest before promptly flashing back to his perch.

"Headmaster! I see you found a way to power up the old wards of the castle. It's about time you got them working again. It's been a few hundred years since they were last powered up. You must have found a true heir to the castle." The Centaur elder said in a wise tone but there was a smirk that set into his jawline as he spoke. But Albus knew what he was saying. The bloodline was coming back to the castle. But who? The last recorded Gryffindor was killed in the 1300s. Since then the line has sat dormant. He would have to start looking for the heir. But that would have to wait, for now he needed to get ready for the welcoming feast in two nights. He was still waiting for his DADA teacher to come back from his sabbatical. If he wasn't here for the opening feast then he would have to answer to the board of governors.

"Yes, it's the funniest thing, I was checking the wards and they just powered up." Albus said with a big smile.

"I'm sure, are the other half of the castle guardians going to come back as well?" the elder asked.

"Other half?" Albus asked.

"Yes, the dragon and the king serpent. We have not seen the dragon before, Godric told my forefathers that he had one, but no one has seen it, we have seen the king serpent before. Every few years the trap doors open and small prey make their way into it's den but we have not seen the king in some time. The last time he roamed the forest was a long time ago, your were a much younger man and I was many moons younger." The elder said with a nostalgic glance at the moon.

"I'm not sure, I'll have to look into it. What's the other half of the guardians?" Albus asked. It was rare to get so many words out of the elder and he wanted to take full advantage of his chattiness.

"The whomping willow and the sea beast in the lake. They protect all of the holes in the wards. Now we must go and prepare for the heir's return." The elder said waving the herd back into the woods.

"Albus! What's going on?" Filius called out to him as the group walked towards him. Albus rolled his eyes before putting on a big fake grin.

"I found a way to activate the old wards. It would seem that the Heir to Godric Gryffindor has accepted his title. We need to look into this but for now we must continue our preparations for the start of term." He said in a cheery voice.

"Yes, I still have to finish my seventh year lesson plans." The head of Ravenclaw said with a nod as he turned back to the castle.

"Filius, where is Minerva?" He asked looking at three of his four heads of house.

"She left the castle before lunch. I'm not sure where she went?" The short professor said with a shrug.

"That's what I was afraid of." Albus muttered as the smile fell off his face.

Back in the shed Harry smiled softly as he felt a warm feeling in his chest. The hat took one look a his face and the same smile spread across his face too.

"You can feel the wards can't you?" the hat asked.

"I can, it's a really pleasant feeling in my chest and head." Harry said.

"Good. as you get to know the wards they should get stronger. Now on to the other rings in the case. The set of wedding bands act as a linked set of portkeys and they also monitor the other person's health. The ruby ring set acts as shield charm rings. Something I see you two figured out how to make. Lastly the ring with the red ruby dragon is Merlin's spell ring. It act like the staff but it doesn't hold magic it lets you channel it easier. The four books are journals written by Merlin and Godric. Aside from that you have everything." The hat said.

"This is all awesome and very useful stuff. We would love to spend the next two days playing with it all but we need to get to work. We turned back time 48 hours so you're kind of stuck with us um… Mr. Hat?" Harry said trying the name.

"My Name is Phillip." The hat said with a grin.

"How about Phil?" Harry asked with a smirk.

"If you must." The hat said rolling his eyes.

"Cool, well we're going to eat some dinner and then we'll work on a trunk or two tonight before calling it a night. You are welcome to stay with us or we can set you on the desk and you can rest." Harry asked.

"Well, if I stay with you I can tell you tales of Godric's adventures." The hat said.

"Now that sounds good to me!" Harry said picking up the hat and setting it on his head as they walked into the kitchen.

That night they worked on Dean's trunk and just finished the door as they started yawning. Ever since they started pulling 48 hour turns everyday Harry expanded the shed to have two bedrooms with full bathroom. They put the finished trunk off to the side and headed off to bed. They slept in late on sunday because they didn't need to get up to take the dogs out. They spent the day working on Terry and Michael's trunk before eating a late lunch and started on Sally-anne's trunk and started Padma's trunk but had to stop for dinner. after they finished her trunk they took a break and sat on the couch as Phil told them tales of Godric's adventures. after a few hours of relaxing in the study they were about to head off to bed when Harry remembered the note he was supposed to leave for himself. He scribbled a short note on a scrap sheet of paper and took the door in the shed to his trunk and set the note on the bed. He ran back to the trunk and shut the lid as the bedroom door opened. He slid down the ladder and doored back to the shed. The next morning they got up and got dressed in the same clothes they wore when they turned back time after a cleaning charm. They had breakfast before knocking out Parvati's trunk. At noon they took a break and headed out of the shed. Harry took the hat and the box with the dragon gem with him.

"You're really going to open that box Harry?" Hermione asked when she saw the box in his hand.

"Are you kidding? It's a dragon. Of course I'm going to open the box." Harry said as they took seats at one of the small tables Harry made the day before for the party and summoned two bottles of Rootbeer and two frosty glasses. After pouring the the two drinks Harry studied the box.

"Would you like to know how to open the box?" Phil asked from his place on Hermione's head.

"No need, it's maker magic." Harry said placing his hand on the lock and scanned the lock. He then held out his hand and made the key to fit the lock. It was an odd shaped key but when Harry stuck it in the small hole and turned it the lock popped open with a click. He opened the lid and saw a rough cut ruby the size of a golfball on a gold chain and a note on parchment. He picked up the note and tried to read it but it was in old english.

"Hermione can you see if you can make heads or tails of this?" He asked handing her the note.

"Sure let's see… um, it looks like the gem acts as the doorway to a pocket dimension where time is at a stand still. It says to let Ignis out all you have to do is put on the chain and hold the gem out in front of you and say 'Ignis out'. It works the same way to put him back in, you just have to hold it out and say 'Ignis in'. It also says the collar he wears can control his size and it works by commanding him to grow or shrink." She said handing him the note back.

"Seems straight forwards. Let's see." Harry said slipping the chain on over his head and holding the gem out he intoned, "Ignis out!" the gem flashed and a one and a half foot tall red and black dragon with a two foot wingspan was sitting on the table in front him looking at Harry with confusion in his red eyes. The Dragon looked between Harry and the gem in his hand before going back to Harry with an expectant look on his small face.

"Hello, I'm Harry Potter, the last of the Merlin line. And this is Hermione Granger, she's my friend. It's the year 1991 and you've been in this gen for a long time." Harry said. Ignis looked at him with a sad look before nodding and walking up to Harry to get a better look at him. "I'm sorry for your loss. I'm also sorry you were kept in the gem for so long." Harry said feeling bad for the little guy. Ignis nodded before bowing his head in a formal way. "It's an honor to meet you as well." Harry said smiling at the little red dragon. "You must be hungry. What do you eat?" Harry asked. Ignis locked eyes with Harry and he projected the information into his head.

"Wow that's strange." Harry said petting the small dragon as he Made a metal plate of raw beef cut into cubes and a metal cup. He summoned the scotch from the garage and poured a few ounces into the cup. "There you go, now you tell me if you want anything else." Harry said petting the dragon down his back as he turned to the plate and blasted it with a small jet of fire. It was like a blowtorch and Harry had to sit back to avoid losing an eyebrow. After he cooked everything to a crisp Ignis attacked his food with the veracity of a very hungry man. He cleared his plate in a minute and when he was done slurping the last of his drink he let out a belch that smelled of burnt meat and lighter fluid.

"Good?" Harry asked and Ignis nodded as his let out a contented sigh. He laid down on the table with his head on his arms and his wings covering him and they heard small snores coming from him.

"That was the cutest thing I've ever seen." Hermione said with a big smile.

"He is a very beautiful color. I like the red with the black wings and underbelly. Did you feel the heat coming off his little fire breath? And look at these tail spikes. He must be terrifying when he's bigger." Harry said looking at the small sharp spikes at the end of his long tail.

"I wonder what kind of dragon he is?" Hermione asked.

"He's a mix of half far east Fireball on his father's side, and continental Horntail and Mystical black drake on his mother's side. Merlin bread him for intelligence, firepower, combat armor, and magical abilities." Phil said.

"How interesting." Hermione said as Her parents came through the back door Emme saw them and ran over to pull Hermione into a big hug. She had red puffy eyes and Dan rolled his eyes as he followed her over at a slower pace.

"I'm glad you two are here. I didn't get nearly enough time to say my goodbyes at the station." Emma said pulling Harry into the group hug.

"Em you have to let up a bit. Hey kids, how was the train ride?" He asked as he took a seat at the table, that's when he saw Ignis and stopped in his tracks. "What is that?" He asked bumping the table as he backed up. Ignis's head shot up and he locked eyes with Dan for disturbing his rest.

"Ignis, this is Dan and Emma Granger. They're Hermione's Parents. Now be nice and Dan I think you owe him a small apology for disturbing his rest." Harry said.

"Absolutely, sorry for bumping the table." Dan said without missing a beat as Maggie looked at the red dragon. She sized him up and then licked his face much to Ignis's dismay.

"That's Maggie and this is Snow." Harry said introducing the dogs. "Guys meet Ignis, he's my new friend. He's a dragon." Harry said holding out his arm for Ignis who crawled up to his shoulder and perched himself on Harry's right shoulder and went back to sleep.

"Harry, where did you get a dragon?" Emma asked looking shocked.

"That's kind of a long story that involves Phil here. Why don't I make us a platter of sandwiches and we'll tell you all about it." Harry said waving a plate of sandwiches onto the table.

After lunch they all headed into the shed and the elder Grangers watched the kids work on making Bags of holding for their friends as they talked to the sorting hat. At seven they packed everything up and Harry put Ignis back into the gem. They put on their robes and headed through the door to Hermione's trunk. They came out into the broom closet and waited ten minutes for their other selves to come through the door at the other end of the hall and snatch the hat. They felt the other pair of them rush past and head down the trunk Harry waited a few seconds before shrinking the trunk and handing it to Hermione. They set the hat back on the stool and booked it back to the main hall. They were the last one's through the door to the room across the hall from the Great Hall. They bumped past Neville and he closed ranks around them as they dropped their hoods and became visible again.

"How did it go?" He asked under his breath.

"Good, we're all set." Harry said reaching out to pat Blaze on the head.

They were lead into the Great Hall and the sorting went by fast. It was amazing how quick the sorting ran when half the students houses were picked for them. The group was sorted into Gryffindor, Ron went to Slytherin. And just because he messed with them Draco went to Hufflepuff. The group sat together at the table and Harry made plates for the group to keep up their diet plan. They met Percy Weasley and Penelope Clearwater the fifth year prefects that were in charge of the first years. Harry thought for a second that he would have to mind trick Percy but the second the studies and prim Percy talked he knew he would be okay. Especially when Terry and Michael started to talk to Percy and Penny about potions. The boy was practically glowing. The twins on the other hand looked shifty. They came down the table and tried to boot Neville and Hermione from Harry's sides so they could sit next to him but they got two cold glars. and Harry's cold eyes locked on them stopping them in their tracks.

"Can we help you gentlemen?" Harry asked waving the twins to sit next to Susan on the other side of the table. Susan for her part slid over next to Hannah without having to be told to.

"Yes, we wanted to introduce ourselves" One twin said.

"I'm Gred"

"I'm Forge."

"Together we are master pranksters."

"And two of the most handsome faces in the school." One said as they both made silly faces at the same time.

"We wanted to introduce you to the house."

"It's an honor to meet you Mr. Potter." They said as they tipped imaginary caps to him.

"It's good to meet you." Harry said shaking both of their hands by crossing his arms and presenting opposite hands to each of them which made them grin. "These are my two best friends, Neville Longbottom, and Hermione Granger." Harry said.

"Good to meet you." They both said offering crossed arms to shake both Neville and Hermione's hands at the same time. While they were doing that Harry did a light scan of their surface thoughts. What he found made him grin. These two would be fun to hang out with. They didn't care for their mother's lack of fun, the rules, the old man, or anything that was stopping them from having fun. And fun seemed to surround them. They would be a good way to get an introduction to the rest of the upperclassmen.

"Likewise boys, you'll find that this group tends to take our work very seriously," Harry said watching their faces and shoulders sink. "But, we take are playtime even more seriously. You boys play quidditch?" Harry asked knowing full well they were on the house team.

"We're the house team's beaters." Fred said puffing out his chest.

"We're the best there ever was at it." George said.

"We usually don't play with beaters but we do play a mean game of five on five hoops. Really we just love the speed. We all have Nimbus 2000s." Harry said.

"Really?" Fred asked looking to his brother.

"Have you ever played Seeker?" George asked.

"Not really, I've played with a golden snitch before." Harry said.

"He's being modest, Harry has 20/10 vision and no fear. The reason we don't play with a seeker is because Harry's too good and he always wins." Hermione said figuring out the play.

"Guilty." Harry said smirking.

"Right, George, go get Oliver. He'll want to jump on this as fast as possible." Fred said and his twin practically vanished from the seat he was sitting in he moved so fast.

"Oliver?" Harry asked prompting Fred to think about the captain of the house team and by doing so he practically projected the information into Harry's head.

"Oliver is the Captain of the House team and we're looking for a Seeker." Fred filled him in needlessly as a taller boy came bounding around the end of the table to sit next to Fred.

"So, George here tells me we have our Seeker." Oliver said with a smile as he looked at the confident tall boy sitting across from him.

"We do, Oliver Wood meet Harry Potter." Fred said.

"Good to meet you." Harry said sticking out his hand showing off the Gryffindor and Potter Head of House rings. Oliver was about to grab his hand when he stopped in his tracks.

"Is that the… you're, um" Oliver said trying to process the information.

"A descendant of Godric Gryffindor? Yes I am. The last one I'm afraid. I have two great houses I have to build up." Harry said with a sad shrug.

"Did Professor Mcgonagall see that ring?" Oliver asked.

"No, but it won't be too much of a shock for aunt Minerva." Harry said before Hermione hit him in the shoulder.

"Professor Mcgonagall Harry, you have to use her title in school." Hermione said.

"Right, sorry. I'm used to aunt Minerva being at the house over the summer." Harry said suppressing the smirk that wanted to split his face as the three boys looked shocked.

"You know the professor?" Oliver asked.

"Yes, she was a friend of my parents and she took the whole group under her wing, hey Oliver, do you have a reserve house team because the whole group plays pretty good." Harry said catching everyone's attention.

"All of you? Do all of you have Nimbus 2000s?" Oliver asked.

"Yes, but some of us are more practiced than the others." Neville said.

"Still all of you can play and you have top of the line brooms. There are eleven of you, that's enough to field a full practice team with reserves." Oliver said with a scary look in his eyes.

"I have to admit we've never really played with bludgers. We usually just play chasers and keepers with smaller rings. It's more fair that way and it builds teamwork. That being said I'd put myself, Hermione, and Neville against any three chasers you have. Susan over there is a dominant force in front of the rings. The rest are good but with some practice they can be just as dominant." Harry said.

"Well, I'm looking forward to seeing you guys on brooms. We'll set aside some time this weekend to see how you handle yourselves. We need a Seeker, but I've always been a fan of trying out for your position every year to make sure you really deserve your spot on the team. We'll hold a full team tryout in two weeks. But this weekend I would really like to see you guys play a pick up game." Oliver said.

"I'm sure the group would love to, it sound's like fun…" Harry trailed off as a feeling of cold rushed through him. Something wasn't right and he could feel it.

"Hey Harry, you alright you just stopped talking mid sentence?" Oliver asked.

"Yeah, um," Harry forced out a burp. "Ops, excuse me, all the soda and candy on the train just caught up to my dinner. Speaking of, I have a trunk load of contraband and I can get more anytime I want so house team win parties are on me if I make the team or not." Harry said changing the subject as his mind analyzed the cold feelings he was sensing.

"A trunk you say?" Fred asked with a big grin.

"Yes and I'm more then willing to share but I wouldn't go poking around my trunk. I made that trunk and the curse on that trunk would do some very horrible things to you. I have a lot of things in there." Harry said making a few Mars bars under the table. "But these are just a taste of what I can get." Harry said passing the candy bars across the table.

"You know Harry, I have a feeling you're going to be a great fit in our house." Fred said.

"Yes, a very good fit." George agreed.

After dinner they headed up to Gryffindor tower. As soon as she could Hermione got Harry off to a dark corner of the common room.

"What's going on?" She asked.

"I'm not sure, I feel this cold darkness in my belly, I think it's the wards. I'm not sure. I have to meditate on it. I think we should do a normal day tomorrow and if this feeling persists then we'll spend our turned day tracking down the source of this evil. If it's in the castle then hopefully the wards will give me a fixed position on it. We'll get our cloaks and sabers and track it. If we find it we'll call in Amelia and the Aurors to keep it above board." Harry said.

"Okay. Try to get a good night's sleep. Maybe the power of the castle's wards will give you a better hint than a dark feeling." She said touching his arm.

"Yeah, before I get to sleep tonight I'm going to try to isolate the feeling. It could be anything. It could literally be the anger we saw in the old man and his dark greasy boy's eyes. Or it could be a dark creature in the castle. There are how many room full of unused desks and dust. There's probably a closet full of doxies or buggarts." Harry said.

"We also have to take the dogs out. I can do it if you want try to figure this out?" she asked.

"Yeah that would be helpful, take them back to the house through the doors though. Until we figure this out we should walk the halls in a group. Besides it's after curfew I think." He said looking at his watch.

"Good call."

Harry headed up to his dorm to find the other boys had picked out beds already leaving him with the one closest to the door. Neville and Dean joked that it was so he could guard the door. Harry changed into his PJs and sat on his bed crossed legged. He fell deep into his mind and located the feeling it was on the grounds then it was in the forest it was moving fast and it was hard to keep track of it but soon it was gone, either it left the wards or it had a way to cloak itself from the wards. Either way it was bad and he knew he was going to call Amelia tomorrow and tell her about it. He didn't want to, he didn't want to have to call for back up on the first day but if it was a real threat then having back up was a good idea. Blaze came out of his trunk and hopped up onto the bed and laid next to him breaking him out of his meditation. Harry smiled at the dog and laid down for bed himself.