HELLO READERS
I hope you're enjoying this. LOL pretty boring chapter, but it needed to be written. But you'll all like the next chapter, huge secret revealed! And I mean HUGE!
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ch7
Harry and Hermione walked together to Dumbledore's office, both wondering what Dumbledore wanted with Harry.
"Harry do you hate me?"
"No, of course not. I'm just annoyed about what you did to Amanda and the fact you broke my nose."
"Ohh yeah about that, I'm really, really, really sorry."
"I know, but why did you do it Hermione? She's knew and it was only her first day."
"I dunno, I guess, I was a little jealous."
"A little?"
"Okay maybe a lot."
"So does Ginny like me?"
"Yeah she's still mad at me about telling every one that. Like it matters everybody, already knows. Don't act as if you didn't know."
"Yeah I knew she likes me when I stayed at her house over the holidays she made me breakfast nearly everyday."
"Do you like her?"
"Of course I like her but not in the same way she likes me, I only like her as a friend."
"Are you going to tell her that's how you feel?"
"No! I don't want to be the one to break her heart."
Totally out of the blue Hermione broke out in tears, "I'm going to be expelled aren't I?"
"I don't know, maybe."
"Harry, what will I do if I'm expelled?"
Harry stopped outside the gargoyles, "We'll soon find out, 'Chocolate Frogs'"
The pair jumped on the stairs as they began to move, in a clockwise upwards direction.
Hermione knocked on the door and took a deep breath while waiting for a signal to go in.
"Enter."
Harry and Hermione entered at a slow walk. They saw Professor Dumbledore sitting in his chair behind his desk and Professor McGonagall standing next to him, like a loyal dog.
Dumbledore spoke in his usual soft tone, "Miss Granger we'll deal with you first."
Hermione nervously nodded, "Yes Professor Dumbledore."
"I was discussing the situation with your head of house here," he bowed his head in Professor McGonagall's direction, "your future."
Hermione looked at her feet in shame.
"And we both agreed you were to be expelled, as violence of this nature will not be tolerated at Hogwarts."
Hermione started sobbing, apologising and pleading.
Professor McGonagall finished the sentence for him, "But after Miss Torque begged us not to expel you so we changed our decision, every night for the next two weeks you will be serving detention with me, I'll see you in my office at six o'clock Monday."
Hermione didn't know how to feel, on one hand she wasn't expelled but on the other it's going to be hard to keep up in class if she doesn't have any time to do her homework. Hermione waited to hear what the pair wanted with Harry.
"Professor McGonagall will you please escort Miss Granger here, back to Gryffindor Tower to collect her things, then you may take her to the empty Defence Against the Dark Arts office where you will find a bed awaiting her."
Dumbledore then looked at Hermione, "as further punishment you will stay there alone over night as part of your punishment, to give you time to reflect on your behaviour, also you are to sit in the front row of all your classes and if you show any negative behaviour towards Miss Torque you will be expelled on the spot."
"Do you both understand?" McGonagall and Hermione nodded their heads, showing that they understood the orders.
Professor McGonagall walked out of the headmaster's office with Hermione a few feet behind her.
Once they had left Dumbledore broke the silence, "Take a seat, Harry."
Harry did as Dumbledore suggested and took a seat opposite Dumbledore.
"Professor why am I here?"
"Have you been reading the Daily Prophet over the last few weeks?"
"Yeah, now everybody knows about the Prophecy, and the Hall of Prophecy."
"No Harry they don't, the only two people in the world that know the whole content of the Prophecy are here in this room." Dumbledore looked at Harry over his half moon spectacles, "they're just peoples guess' and speculations, however they seem to be rather accurate."
"Now I'll assume I would be correct in saying, you have told nobody about the content of the Prophecy."
"Of course not"
"A wise decision on the whole," Harry waited for the 'but'. "But you do your friends Miss Hermione Granger and Mr Ronald Weasley disservice by not confiding in them something so important to them."
"But I don't want -"
"- to worry or frighten them?" Dumbledore surveyed the look on Harry's face.
"Or perhaps you don't want to confess to yourself that you are scared or frightened? Also I wanted to ask you how are you coping with Sirius' death? It was so cruel that you had such little tie together, it would have been a long and happy relationship."
"Okay I think, but I really miss him."
"Understandable of course, he was the closest thing to a father you have ever known and a best friend at the same time."
"It's just hard to think he'll never write to me again."
"I understand he must have loved you a lot."
"Why do you say that?"
"Not only did he dye rescuing you he also left you everything he owns which includes quite a bit of gold, all of Sirius' possessions, and possibly a house."
"You can keep using it for headquarters I don't mind in fact you can keep it."
"A very generous offer but of course the Black family put many curse's on it, so it remains with the family as Sirius was the last in the Black line it would go to the eldest relative which is Bellatrix."
"I don't care if she has it."
"Ahh but you are forgetting if the house goes to her so does Creature, do you really want the house elf that lived at headquarters living with that wicked woman?"
Harry knew there was no way that was allowed to happen, "of course not."
"There is a simple test to see whether or not you own number twelve Grimmauld place." Dumbledore clicked his fingers and Creature appeared muttering, "won't Creature won't, Creature live with Miss Bellatrix, yes, yes."
"Harry give him a order."
"Creature shut up."
Creature looked like he was choking as he grabbed his neck, but sure enough he stopped talking.
"Well that settles that matter, now we only have one more thing on our agenda."
"Wait do I have to keep Creature with me?"
"No you don't, may I suggest you order him to help in the kitchen?"
"Creature go work in the kitchen." Harry ordered, Creature clicked his fingers and vanished.
"What was the other thing you were going to tell me professor?"
"You are having private lessons with me this year."
"I get private lessons with you Professor? What will you teach me?"
"We shall talk about that on our first lesson, which will be on Tuesday starting nine sharp, now run along take advantage of your last day of holidays before school officially starts."
Harry got up and left leaving Dumbledore smiling to himself.
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Yes I've included private lessons but know I'm not going to write about them directly but we will hear Harry tell his friends. Otherwise it would be to repetitive. Hope you're liking it, I am.
Next chapter:
It is hard learning how to control your Healing powers without professional training at St. Mungo's Hospital and doing a course. So it was very convenient that her mother was a qualified Healer. Amanda had always wanted to follow in her mother's footsteps and become a healer so she could help people. That was before she realised there are better ways to help people, for instance you could stop the darkest wizard of the century. This had been her new goal ever since her parents were murdered by him, leaving her an orphan at only sixteen.