Chapter Four

Since the house was livable, Petunia decided that it would be okay to move in right away so; she sent the house elves to The Leaky Cauldron to gather their things.

Harry went to the library after the tour. He was going to read his mother's diaries but the more he thought about the two house elves the more he wanted to find out about them. He would have asked Hermione about then if she were at home but Hermione was with her parents in France. So, he decided to take a page from Hermione's book so-to-speak and look up house elves. He did have access to Rowena Ravenclaw's personal library after all.

It didn't take Harry long to find the book that he wanted and he sat down in an over stuffed leather chair. Putting the massive book on his lap he started to read. What he found shocked him for he realized that his aunt had been telling him the truth.

House Elves chose to serve the wizarding world. They might have their own magic but they never use their magic to help themselves. They use it to serve the wizarding family that they work for. If their master is a good master, their powers grow and their love for the wizard grows as well. The bond between wizard and house elf could grow so strong that a house elf would die to protect the wizard and their family.

The opposite could be as well. If the wizard is bad and mistreats the house elf the bond between elf and master weakens. The house elf could turn on their master, not using their magic to harm the wizard but they would do things they knew the wizard would not approve off. The elf could also in the end take his own life to free itself from his master's bounds.

Harry sat there thinking about this for he wanted know to what kind of bond the Potter elves have to him? It was at this time that Harry heard two high pitch shrieks from Snips and Sheers. "Bad Elf!" He heard them cry and suddenly a small house elf in rags appeared into the room with the two elves close behind it. It leaped over the desk and vanished, magically dropping a letter as it disappeared. Harry noticed that the letter was his and started reach for it. Sheers pointed a finger at Harry yelling, "No, Master Harry!"

Harry suddenly found himself half way across the room on the couch looking at the elf, stunned. Petunia and Dudley rushed into the room right then. "What is going on?" she exclaimed.

The two elves bowed to her both of them speaking at once. "Bad Elf, messing with Young Master's mail. We tried to catch it but it got away."

"Bad Elf?" Petunia said puzzled and walked over to the letter. She noticed that was a letter from Ron. Petunia checked the letter out but there wasn't a spell on it so, she held it out to Harry. "Here you go." she said as she handed it over.

"What is going on?" Dudley asked.

"A wizard must have sent their elf to curse Harry's mail but Snip and Sneers caught it in the act," Petunia said.

"Why would someone want to curse me?" Harry asked.

Petunia sighed at this and said, "Come on, I think it is time to start your lessons on the Wizengamot and its members." Petunia took the boys into her father's old den and started to explain how the wizard world worked.

While, Petunia was explaining to the boys the structure of the Wizengamot, Albus was getting an earful from a very worked up Cornelius Fudge. Fudge was not happy about the idea of Petunia taking over the Evan's seats. It wasn't because she was a woman he had a problem. He was worked up over the fact if she took control of the Evan's seat he could loose his seat in the Wizengamot. It was the Evan's seat that he filled. The Lords elected members of the unused seats to keep a nice balance in the voting structure. Fudge did not want this to happen and demanded Albus to fix it.

Albus sat at his desk with a neutral express on his face sighing. He thought Fudge was overreacting. Petunia might have said she wanted to be in control of Evan's seats but this did not mean she was going to do it. She just said it and that is what he told Fudge. "Calm down, Cornelius. I'm sure Petunia is not planning on taking over family seats. She has two boys to take care of."

"Albus, you were not there. She looked serious in taking those seats. If that happens, she could disrupt the natural course of things," Fudge complained.

"I think you are over reacting, Cornelius. Petunia has just left a very delicate situation. She does not want to add to her troubles. I assure you. She will not do it," Albus said and he smiled for he saw someone walking up the stairs. "Cornelius, I hate to cut our meeting short but I have another appointment. So, if you do not mind," Albus said as he slowly guided Fudge to the fireplace.

"But…" Fudge tried to say but Albus had already thrown the powder into the fireplace giving Fudge a slight shove as he muttered. "Minister of Magic!" Fudge was gone in a burst of blue flames. Albus sighed after Fudge was gone and turned his attention to his guest. "Come in, Remus," Albus called out.

A smiling Remus Lupin walked into the room shaking his head. "Sir, I'm amazed at how you do that," Remus said as he walked into the office and sat down in the chair across from Albus desk. "I hope I wasn't interrupting anything. I thought I heard you talking to someone." Remus looked around the room but didn't see anyone.

"Oh, that was just Cornelius. He had to run though. He is very busy man our Minister," Albus said smiling his eyes twinkling and he got right to the point to why he had Remus stop by in the first place. "I heard that Petunia asked you to send over some of James' things for Harry. I was wondering how that worked out."

"She hasn't gotten back to me yet but I hope Harry liked what I picked out," Remus said.

"I'm sure he will. Harry is a nice boy. Are you planning on seeing him any time at all?" Albus asked.

"You told me not to see Harry and I agreed. I haven't," Remus said thinking that Albus thought he betrayed his promise and went to see Harry personally.

"Oh, no, I think you should see Harry. The reason I asked you to stay away before is because of Vernon's feelings of people from our world. I did not want to make things worse for Harry. Now, that Petunia had moved into Rosewood Hall, I do not see any problem with it," Albus said smiling brightly. He wanted Remus there because he needed someone to spy on Petunia for him. He couldn't blame Petunia for moving out of her home on Privet drive. He understood why she had done it. It just left Albus with several small problems. One, he didn't know what was going on with Harry because there was no one close by to keep an eye on him like Mrs. Figg had done. Also, there was the problem of Harry entering the wizarding world. Albus would have wanted Harry not to know about much about their world. He wanted keep him from being corrupted by it. The trouble is now that he was living in it he would find out more and more about their world and how much power he could control. It was a situation Albus didn't like.

Remus was sitting there stunned. Albus wanted him to see Harry. "Um, sure, I'd like that," Remus said the only thing he could get out of his mouth.

"Good, why don't write Petunia tonight and see if it would be okay for to stop by," Albus said smiling.

"Thanks, I think will do that," Remus said liking the idea more and more. He always wanted to get to know James' son and this was a perfect time for him to do it.

Albus just sat smiling and nodding. They talked about other things but Albus had what he wanted done, Remus would get close to Harry, and every now and then he would tell him about was going on in Harry's life.

Early the next morning Petunia sat having a cup of tea enjoying her quiet time before Harry and Dudley joined her. She was reading her morning mail when an old gray owl landed hard on the table and knocked over looking dead. "What the?" she said shocked to see the owl. As Petunia reached owl, it sat up and blinked at her. "Well, at least you are not dead," she said to the owl taking the letter from it. As she read the outside of the letter, Petunia had to bite her lip. It was from Molly Weasley. Now, Petunia knew that Harry good friends with the Weasley's youngest son. Petunia had no problem with this. She even liked Arthur Weasley. He had been nice to her during her first year at Hogwarts. He had been a seventh year and helped her out when she needed it. Molly was the problem. Petunia remembered that Molly Prewett didn't bother helping out the kids from Slytherin house. She was head girl but she didn't think that they were worth her time or effort. Petunia remembered this and it darkened her view of the woman. Lily had tried to convince her sister that Molly had changed. The trouble was every time Petunia and Molly met; Molly had said things to Petunia that verified her opinion of the woman.

Petunia opened the letter and sighed. Molly wanted to know if Harry could come over to play with her sons. Now, Petunia knew she couldn't force Harry into taking Dudley but she thought it would be common courtesy for him to be invited. He did live with Harry after all. Then there was the visit from the elf last night. She had that worry about. Harry was safe inside the wards of Rosewood Hall. She wasn't sure he was safe at Molly's home. Petunia read the letter looking for the name of the house and noticed it was called the Borrow. "Fitting," Petunia said, thinking Molly had named it. She didn't realize that it was the home of Arthur's family for years.

As Petunia sat there thinking, she saw the letter Remus had written her the night before and smiled. Petunia had meetings set up today at Gringotts to see what she had to do to take over her family's seat on the Wizengamot. She couldn't be at home and have guests. She was going to leave the boys alone; they were old enough after all. Molly's request did put a new twist to things and Remus might be the answer to her problem.

Petunia decided to ask Ron and his siblings to come over for a visit. She would ask Remus, if he was willing to keep an eye on things for her while she was gone. Harry would stay safe at home and Dudley wouldn't feel left out. It was perfect, or at least that is how Petunia saw things. She quickly wrote two letters. One to Remus and the other to Molly, and sent them off.

It was about then that Harry and Dudley walked into the room. Harry had his nose in the diary of Lily's first year. Petunia was wondering how the boy could read and walk at the same time. The boys sat down for breakfast. Dudley quickly starting in on the pancakes and Harry just sitting there reading. Petunia slowly lowered the book and looked into Harry's eyes. "Are you going to eat?" she asked.

"UH!" Harry said startled, suddenly realizing where he was. He had been back at Hogwarts once again this time seeing it through is mother's eyes and he didn't want to quit.

Petunia smiled at him took book and placed it beside Harry. "You can read it later. You have to eat first," Petunia told him.

"Yes, ma'am," Harry said reluctantly and started to eat.

Petunia filled the boys in on her plans. Dudley was excited because he liked the twins and wanted spend more time with them. Harry was torn. He loved the idea of spending the time with his friends but that took away his reading time. He wanted to go back to his mothers' writings. Harry was happy to learn that they wouldn't show up until after lunch. He made plans to sit and read for the rest of the morning. So, he quickly finished his breakfast and went into the library to read his mother's diary for the rest of the morning.

Dudley decided to leave his cousin alone. He went outside to work on flying his broom. It was around ten when Harry was startled by the arrival of someone through the floo network as the network had just been reconnected and no one bothered to tell Harry. So, when a man stepped out of the fireplace He surprised Harry to the point where he fell backwards in his chair and on to the floor. Remus rushed over and helped him up. "You okay?" Remus asked him.

"Yes sir, you must be Mr. Lupin. Aunt Petunia told me that you were coming over today," Harry said getting up.

"Remus, please, my father was Mr. Lupin," Remus said smiling.

"Remus," Harry said and then it hit him. "You're the quiet one of my father's friends," Harry said picking up his mother's diary.

Remus looked at the familiar book and smiled. "Your aunt has given you that?" He asked.

"Yes, Mum, was a great writer. I feel like I'm back at Hogwarts," Harry said excitedly.

"I hope she had pleasant things to say about me," Remus said a bit worried. He knew that James and Lily didn't get a long to well the first six years at Hogwarts. In fact they hated each other.

Harry smiled, "You were the only one of dad's friends she liked," Harry admitted.

"Um, about that," Remus said. "You got to remember we were smart-mouthed boys and we didn't notice girls at first."

"Dad noticed, Mum. She said he asked her out on the train, but it was after he had just got done insulting Aunt Petunia and some kid name Severus, so she said no," Harry said smiling. "But don't worry, they got together in the end besides, they sort of remind me of my two friends Ron and Hermione. They're always fighting."

"I bet they're fun to be with," Remus said and he sat down to talk to Harry about what he had read. Remus had to laugh when Harry said there were areas in the diary that were blacked out. "May I see if there's a privacy spell on it?" Remus asked Harry and the boy handed over the diary. Remus was shocked when he noticed that he couldn't read any of it. He handed it back to Harry and said, "Harry, I think your mother wanted only you to have these. She set them up so only you can read what's in them. The blocked sections are either because you are not old enough to read them or she didn't want you too."

"I don't get it?" Harry said.

"Well, the not wanting you too, there are parts of your mother life she felt you didn't need to know about," Remus said messing the boys hair up.

Harry got the point and laughed. It was at that moment Petunia walked into the room with Dudley. "Oh, Remus, you have arrived."

"Yes, sorry. I should have sounded my arrival," Remus said getting up.

"It is okay. Harry and you can finish your conversation at lunch. I just came in to tell Harry that is lunch is ready," Petunia told Remus.

"Alright," Remus said and he followed Petunia and the boys into the dinning room to join them for lunch.