Disclaimer, I would never have put Hermione with Ron after the way he treats her, it is so wrong to show an abusive relationship as 'true love' too kids as young as eight or nine. So the Potter books are definitely not mine, they belong to JK Rowling as do all the characters.

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Harry's House 2. The Weasleys

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Arthur Weasley and his family gathered together all the things that had been thrown from the house, then still feeling highly annoyed at the sheer stupidity of his wife he conjured a Patronus and sent it with a message to Auror Tonks at the ministry asking her to get in touch with Dumbledore urgently. It was an hour before the leader of the Order of the phoenix arrived with several members accompanying him. Arthur who was still tired and far too angry with Molly to tell what had happened, asked his daughter to repeat all she had told him. As Ginny finished speaking to Dumbledore a beautiful white owl appeared and landed on Arthur's shoulder, holding out its leg the owl, Harry's familiar known as Hedwig, delivered a long role of parchment to the red haired Weasley patriarch.

Arthur opened the letter he knew to be from Harry, and began to read, as he read his face changed colour, passing from its normal pale shade to angry red colour through fiery raving mad red to a ghostly pale white. When he finished reading the letter he passed it with hunched defeated shoulders to Dumbledore, who having read it also turned a rather pale sallow colour. It was an itemised bill for all the money that had been taken from the Black family bank vault, along with a copy of the bank statement showing Molly Weasley had been the one to authorise every thing, and informed them that Harry had contacted the Goblins about the theft of his money.

Molly Weasley had spent just over eleven thousand galleons since the beginning of the summer holiday. She had charged every sickle and Knut that had been spent either by herself or members of the Order, to the Black account. An account that now belonged to Harry, and which none of them had a right to use. The last item on the list was an estimate for the rent owed by the Weasleys for the time they had stayed unwanted, unasked and uninvited at the house.

Albus Dumbledore stared at Molly with his blue eyes fixed in an icy glare, "Did none of you think to ask Harry for permission to use his money or to stay at his house, and why on earth did you buy all this, this, 'paraphernalia'?" he asked as he stepped toward where the house should have been. He needed to talk to Harry, to put things right. He was certain that he would be able to make Harry see sense and allow them all back into the house. He had to as nobody else he knew wanted to put up with the bossy overbearing Molly Weasley. Who thanks to her interfering ways just happened to be one of the most hated women ever to be in the order. After several failed attempts to get through the wards of the house by both Dumbledore and his second in command Mad Eye Moody, it was decided they would have to send Harry an owl asking his permission to use the house once more.

While outside the house several order members talked about what had been done while others tried to enter the wards. Harry told Hermione all that the headmaster had told him at the end of the last summer term, and how he had placed Harry with the Dursleys so that he could have a more normal upbringing and not grow up as a pampered prince.

He then had to tell her the things about his life at the Dursleys that he had tried to hide from everyone until now. He also mentioned that from the way Dumbledore had spoken he was quite sure the old man knew how he was treated by his so called family yet did nothing about it even though each year Harry asked and almost begged not to be sent there.

Hermione was furious that Dumbledore would chose just an hour after Harry had witnessed Sirius dying, his friends being injured, and himself being attacked by Lord Voldemort the most evil wizard for centuries, to tell Harry that the responsibility for the saving of the wizarding world rested firmly on his young shoulders. She was also quite suspicious about all the other things that had only just been revealed. Things Harry should have known years before, he should have been trained, specially taught how to fight, how to survive.

She knew he never should have been sitting at Hogwarts just learning the normal curriculum, the prophecy told to Dumbledore if believed should have been revealed and the future prepared for, she was raving mad at the treatment from the Dursleys, but more angry because Dumbledore had known about it and done the opposite to what he should have done.

Hermione's faith in authority figures died as she thought things over, "I think Dumbledore has been a whole lot less than honest, Harry. You should never have been sent to live with the Dursleys, your parents died to give you a chance to live, to be prepared for your destiny. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they had expected you to be raised by Sirius and trained, readied for what faces you. In fact I find it rather suspicious that Sirius was imprisoned with out a trial while you grew up at the Dursleys, it is Dumbledore's job as head of the Wizengamot to ensure people get a fair trial.

Why did he place you with the Dursleys even before Sirius had found Wormtail or been accused of a crime. Why did Hagrid show up at Godrics Hollow so soon after the attack on you and your parents to take you straight to Privet Drive, and why was McGonagall watching the Dursleys for the whole day, when you were placed there the same night as the attack on Godrics Hollow, it would have taken Hagrid no more than two maybe three hours to fly from your home to the Dursleys. She must have been watching them even before Voldemort set out to kill you. I think we should try to stay away from Dumbledore, something is just not right. I don't think he wants you to survive. He should have no right to say where you live, or with who. I should have thought of all this before. I should have realised with all that has happened to you over the past few years, and Dumbledore was never actually there for you when he was needed," Hermione said working out more suspicions as she spoke.

"But we have to go to school, how can we stay away from him at Hogwarts?" Harry asked as he thought about all she had said.

"Well you may have enough money to hire private tutors; you can be home taught, meanwhile we should be safe here. We should get in touch with Gringotts," Hermione told him.

"So from one prison to another just like Sirius, still it's all we have for now. We need to get a message to your parents then," Harry said as he found all she had told him made good sense.

"Are you going to owl my parents?" she questioned.

"Yes well if you go back to Hogwarts then I might as well go with you, they will only try to use you to get to me if we separate. I don't want you to have to suffer because of me and I know how much your education means to you. So they will need to come pick you up. If you stay here to be taught with me, then Dumbledore might try to get at you by using your mum and dad so we will need to keep them safe as well," Harry said "Dumbledore is going to be mad if he can't control his weapon."

"Harry James Potter if you think for one minute you are going to get rid of me now you told me you love me you have another think coming, now who do we know who we can talk to and trust to help us, and don't say Ron or Ginny cause they have both been acting like prats this year." She said as she rubbed her temples.

Harry paced the room trying to think of some one he knew who wasn't a member of the order or the Weasleys. They needed someone Dumbledore did not control or manipulate. The more he thought about it the more he realised that his entire life had been manipulated. The only people he knew who were not either directly or indirectly involved in keeping him a prisoner at Privet Drive were some of his school mates and Hermione's parents.

He was just about to voice this thought when he thought about Susan Bones. Her aunt had been the one instrumental in getting the charges of under age magic use against him dropped. He could trust her he did not know why he felt that way, he just knew it.

Hermione agreed with him and together they wrote a letter to Madam Bones asking her to visit them, they explained that they did not dare to leave the property they were in, and they would provide explanations if and when she arrived to see them. Harry then began to use his so long repressed intelligence and he decided it would not be safe to use Hedwig as she might have a tracking charm on her, she might even be under some sort of compulsion charm to take all his mail to Dumbledore first.

The only other person he thought might help him was the Goblin Griphook, who was his vault keeper. The one who had questioned the use of so much of the Black fortune in such a short time, and had personally sent Harry a statement. It did not take the two teens long to decide they needed to talk to Griphook rather urgently in case Dumbledore tried to cut off Harry's access to his money.

Five minutes later he had a talk with his familiar, gave her a letter to take to Remus saying that they were doing fine on their own. He also asked Hedwig to find another post owl that Hermione could use to contact her parents. Hedwig gave him a quick gentle peck on his finger to let him know she understood and then flew out through the open window and off into the sky.

Hedwig returned twenty minutes later with a large brown owl that neither Harry nor Hermione recognised, having escorted the owl into the kitchen Hedwig set off again to deliver the letter to Remus. Harry and Hermione taking a chance with the unknown owl they sent letters off to Madam Bones at the ministry, and Griphook at Gringotts.

An hour after the brown owl had left them Harry and Hermione were surprised by a knock on the front door, after asking who was there and hearing Griphook answer Harry opened the door and welcomed the Goblin into Black Manor.

Harry and Hermione related their suspicions about Dumbledore to Griphook who verified that he had acquired a copy of James and Lily Potters will just a few days previous, he had actually made arrangements for Harry to be shown into his office on his very next visit to Gringotts to discus things.

The arrival of the letter earlier and the change in circumstances had brought forth a need for him to pay a very rare home visit to a valued customer. Griphook went on to tell them that placing Harry with the Dursleys was in direct contravention of his parents will, according to the will he was to be placed with either Sirius Black as first choice, the Longbottom's as second choice, or Amelia Bones as the third and final choice, and was under no circumstances to be left with his Aunt. His trust fund had been set up with provision to provide full magical training, to begin on the day following his fifth birthday.

Griphook had spoken to Madam Bones earlier in the week and together they had made an approach to the parents of Harry's best friend, a Mr and Mrs Granger about becoming Harry's legal guardians in the muggle world. The Grangers having accepted the responsibility should be arriving within the hour by goblin portkey to sign all the legal documents.

There was also a small matter of two and a half million galleons that had been removed from the Potter family vault by Albus Dumbledore using his supposed magical guardianship of Harry. As Harry had no legal right to use the vault until his seventeenth birthday and so could not authorise anyone to use the vault, and according to the Potter will on the death of Sirius Black Amelia Bones became Harry's true magical guardian the matter of the two and a half million was being dealt with as theft by Dumbledore.

Harry assured Griphook he did not even know he had a family vault, Griphook then smiled. Albus Dumbledore was in for quite a surprise when he found out his two vaults had been seized. Both his personal vault and the one he used for the Order of the Phoenix, and the stolen money plus all due interest had been removed and returned to the Potter vault, leaving his accounts at Gringotts permanently closed and his possessions confiscated.

Harry asked about the Weasleys use of the Black family vault, and Griphook promised to place the unauthorised removal of funds into the hands of Madam Bones, she as head of the law enforcement office would take care of it, two of the people who had tried to control his life completely would soon find themselves in court accused of either embezzlement or theft. Dumbledore would be facing more serious charges of kidnapping and illegal detention of a minor.

It seemed that Griphook had saved his best surprise until last as he informed the two teens that they should pack, they were to leave the house of Black and move into the Granger house, which was now fully warded with the best Goblin wards available. Harry asked about the blood wards on Privet Drive, Griphook informed him there was no such thing as blood wards and if there were they would be practically useless as almost every house in the wizarding world would have them as most houses were at least a century old, so someone had probably died trying to save a family member in each house at some time in the past, it was not an uncommon thing to give your life to save a member of your family, even more so in times of war or danger.

Hermione left Harry and Griphook to talk while she went upstairs to pack away their things; at Harry's request Griphook made them a portkey so that they could travel between the two houses, in case they needed to use the Black library. He also promised to enlist some of the best Goblin teachers to teach both Harry and Hermione in Goblin magic, something not done with a human since Merlin. The two house elves Dobby and Winky had been enlisted to work at the Granger residence for a small allowance and were working on building new rooms and training facilities.

While checking through the house to see if there was anything else they should take with them Hermione checked out the room that Dumbledore had used as his office. In the bottom draw of the desk were some of Dumbledore's personal things, she thought it odd that they were still there until she remembered she had simply gotten rid of the Weasley and the orders property, these personal items did not belong to the order.

Beneath everything else in the drawer she found a small box that resembled a jewellery case, opening it she found it full of small vials, all of them contained a small swirling silver fluid or gas. Packing the vials back into the box Hermione decided to take them down stairs to show Griphook. She called to Harry as she walked down the stairs. Harry left Griphook and met her at the bottom of the stairs with a quick kiss and then he sighed into her hair, seeming to revel in her scent, his hot breath was on her neck making her spine tingle and her heart race, a strange pleasant tingling deep inside her most private parts made her squeeze her thighs together tightly once again.

"Harry I found some things in Dumbledore's office, there's some thing odd about them, Hermione said as she began to pull small vials from the box one at a time reading the labels. "What does this mean Harry? it says on this vial 'Hermione's acceptance'." She queried. "This one says 'Harry Proposal' and this one 'Granger house', this one says 'Ron payment."

"These look like memories, Dumbledore sometimes removes his memories and saves them with a Pensieve, so he can view them when he needs to. We should ask Griphook if he has a Pensieve so that we can see why Dumbledore has what appear to be yours and my memories in his office.

Griphook having heard what Harry had to say quickly decided he would return to his office to collect his personal pensieve, and promised to return with in thirty minutes; Harry and Hermione watched as the Goblin tried the floo and discovered it worked for him as he had been invited into the house by the owner.

Ten minutes later Griphook was setting up his pensieve on the kitchen table, he began by placing Harry's memories into the pensieve. All three of them were shocked by what they saw.

'It was the journey home at the end of last term Harry was sitting on the Hogwarts express with Hermione, they were in the compartment alone, where Ron or the others were they did not know. Hermione still hurting a little from her near death spell damage was sitting carefully in his lap kissing him, when they parted to take a breath Harry asked Hermione to marry him, the memory then ended without them seeing what happened next.

Griphook growled as he placed one of Hermione's memories into the pensieve, they watched Hermione's memory of the same event, she was sitting on Harry's lap kissing him she then leaned back a little as they stopped for a breath, Harry asked her if she would marry him, with a shout of joy Hermione kissed him then said a firm yes she would marry him, just then Ron Weasley entered the compartment a look of hate was directed at Harry before he hid it, smiled at them and sat down.

By the time they had viewed a few of the memories it was obvious that Harry and Hermione had been boyfriend girlfriend several times and each time they had had their memories of the events removed and new memories planted into their minds. The two teens were both furious with the manipulating old man. Harry used several words to describe Dumbledore that caused Hermione to blush before she chastised him for swearing.

A knock on the door put a temporary end to the pensieve session; Griphook went to the door to find the Grangers standing there on the door step with one of the banks Goblin guards.

Once the Grangers had been invited in and they had spent a few minutes greeting their daughter and her boyfriend. Griphook started to run through the rest of the memories, there were memories of many of Dumbledore's illegal activities, which Harry promised himself he would hand over to Madam Bones.

One of the last memories they watched Ron Weasley was standing in the headmasters' office receiving a payment for distracting Harry from his studies with talk of Quidditch and games of chess, he went on to be congratulated for his work in sowing seeds of doubt about Harry in Hermione's mind. Had Ron been in the house Hermione was sure Harry would have attempted to kill him.

Hermione's dad Richard was absolutely fuming when he learnt about Dumbledore interfering with Hermione's memories, he kept to him self the fear that anything could have happened to her and she would know nothing about it.

Helen, Hermione's mum asked Griphook if their memories could be restored, which the Goblin assured them would happen when they were trained in Goblin magic. After the discussion about the memories the Grangers got down to the business they had come to complete. They had signed all the legal documentation that was filled in to the Potter's requirements in their joint will to become Harry's guardians in the muggle world. Thanks to Madam Bones who had assumed her legal position as Harry's magical guardian Dumbledore no longer had any hold over Harry.

The two teens left 12 Grimmauld place with the two older Grangers, while Griphook left to take the memories to Madam Bones. He assured Harry that by the time the head of the law enforcement office had seen them Albus Dumbledore would find himself arrested, and stripped of all his titles and locked in a holding cell awaiting his trial.