Chapter seven

'So what do you need us to do, hex Hermione?' Fred said making Harry and George laugh.

'Maybe another time, no, I need a product of yours, something that will keep me in the hospital wing for about four to five days.'

'Okay, we can do that, do we get to know why you want to stay there for that long?' George asked.

'You know we'll keep your secrets mate,' Fred said.

'I know, that's why I'm giving you a helping hand,' Harry handed over a bag of galleons, 'That should help you towards owning your own shop, you can pay it back if you want, but I really want to help.'

'How about this, we'll accept this if you agree to be take a ten percent share of our shop when we open it.'

'Okay, you seemed to have come up with that idea quickly, suspicious in my books.'

'No, we were going to ask for a loan, probably next year,' Fred said.

'So this is just bringing it forward.'

'Oh, okay, well, you can still have the loan if you want, but I'll accept if it's not a loan but payment to join you two in your adventures, sort of.'

'Great, now why do you want to spend time with Pomfrey?'

'I heard something, Voldemort who has got a little bit of a body back intends to take me, I'm not sure why. Now I know he will have a supporter inside Hogwarts this year and it just happens to correspond with the triwizard tournament that Hogwarts is going to host. Sorry boys, no one under seventeen can enter.'

'Damn,' Fred said.

'Too right,' George grumbled, 'Okay, his supporter could get you into the competition but if you're sick then it would look suspicious.'

'Right.'

'Leave it to us, we'll have something for you before we return to the old castle.'

'I knew I could count on you two, oh, don't say anything about the tournament, no one is supposed to know,' Harry smiled then left the room, heading back to Ron's room for a good night's sleep.

The quidditch world cup was brilliant in Harry's books, there were only two down sides, Hermione trying to talk to him, he would glare then ignore her. The other thing that annoyed Harry was the Malfoy's were in the same box with them. Harry made sure Draco Malfoy heard him say to Ron that Mrs Malfoy looked like she had dung under her nose and wondered if her son stunk, that he might need to have a shower. Ron and the twins who heard laughed as they glanced at a scowling Draco Malfoy.

After the Irish team won and they were back in the tent, they all enjoyed themselves. Ginny and the twins kept talking and laughing with Harry and Ron, Hermione was left alone, but she kept watching Harry at all times. He didn't care, he just ignored her and had a great time with the Weasley family.

Even though he was now emancipated he knew he would still spend time with the Weasley's, they were just great people. He did finally take Ginny aside and explained, he was surprised that she accepted his explanation so they decided to stay friends, good friends.

There was only one small incident that night, some death eaters did attack but they were quickly captured and the muggle they were torturing was rescued and had their memory of the incident wiped. What Harry and the Weasley's liked was the fact one of the death eaters was Lucius Malfoy, this time he won't talk his way out of a cell in Azkaban.

Mr. Weasley decided to get back home early as he knew his wife would be worried. Harry kept the fact that he had another dream right before they had been woken by the noise outside the tent. He didn't want Hermione to know just in case she was telling Dumbledore, he wanted Dumbledore kept in the dark. Dumbledore knew Harry had dreams of Voldemort, he used to tell the headmaster about them but last year he stopped. He wasn't telling Dumbledore anything and planned to use that in the hope to get what he wanted.

After a lot of reassurance that they were all fine, Molly Weasley explained that Albus thought it would be wise for them all to stay at headquarters of the order of the phoenix until they can find out what those death eaters had been up to and if this was the first of many incidents that they may hear about. They knew dark witches and wizards who followed Voldemort during the last war loved to cause trouble.

When Harry heard about going to headquarters he knew this was more about him than the Weasley's, but if it kept that family safe then he didn't care. Harry, Ron, Ginny, the twins and Hermione all packed their trunks and were port keyed into a very dark and dreary room. Harry couldn't stop grinning before he was being hugged by his godfather.

'I didn't know you'd be here Sirius.'

'This is my parent's old house, it has so many enchantments on it that no one can find the order. But Albus put this place under the fidelius charm with him as secret keeper. Anyway, let me show you lot which rooms you'll be using. I figured you could stay with me Harry, then Ron and the twins could take the large room that used to be my parent's, all the rooms are decent size.'

Harry looked at Ron who shrugged but nodded, so the group headed upstairs, Sirius pointing to different rooms which still needed a bit of cleaning. Harry put his trunk against the wall but noticed Sirius had shut the door.

'So, it's the perfect time.'

'Yeah, it is, so I'll ask him about the prophecy, see what he says then go from there. I know he won't take me seriously, then he will try make me return to Hogwarts, one way or another.'

'Then you know what to do.'

'I want to return to Hogwarts but on my terms, especially now the twins are helping me out on my plans. I am looking forward to how he handles that situation. I doubt he will believe me until everyone else has done their school shopping and I haven't.'

'You're bringing out a bit of your dad, he could be very sneaky. But I can see it pup, you're so like Lily in many ways, they would be proud of you.'

'I hope they are, so let's get down there, I don't want to lose my chance.'

'You won't, he'll be here later to fill everyone in. I can ask Dumbledore to stay once the rest of the order leave, tell him you asked, that you needed to speak with him.'

'Great,' Harry and Sirius headed downstairs, but he felt the twins slip something into his pocket as they walked past, he chuckled but whispered to Sirius that he would explain later.

Molly was putting together a large breakfast for everyone and expected them all to have a nap sometime today since they didn't get much sleep since it was disrupted.

'So this place is where you grew up, depressing.' Harry said as he looked around.

'Too right, but when I was sixteen I left home.'

'Where did you go?'

'Your dad's place, your grandparents were great people and treated me like a son. I got my own apartment when I began my auror training, your dad shared with me for a while until he bought the cottage.'

'Okay, question, I know about Potter manor, why did my father live in a cottage?'

'Your mum,' Sirius grinned, 'She wasn't one for those big manor houses, she said they could stay there if James wanted to but would rather have a nice family home for the kids they planned to have, they wanted four kids.'

'Was I planned?'

'Strange question.'

'Well think about it, there was a war on, I figured I was an accident.'

'You weren't, it was planned, they told me I couldn't go near the house for a week.'

'Why a week?'

'Lily planned to take the pregnancy potion then they were going to shag non-stop for a week to make sure Lily fell pregnant. I used to let myself in all the time, they didn't mind, but I did not want to walk in on them going at it.'

'I don't blame you, well, that's one question answered. Now you said mum got the highest scores ever at Hogwarts, did she plan to work?'

'She was going to be a healer and did a couple of years, she actually did four years training in two. She really only needed another two years to become a full healer but she ended up happy as a medi-witch.'

'I've been thinking of healer or medi-wizard, knowing mum was makes me feel better about that.'

'Did Lily Potter really get the highest scores?' Bill asked.

'Yep, but the ministry were not going to advertise that a muggleborn beat all those purebloods.'

'So she got all o+?' Charlie asked.

'OO in every subject and she took every subject. Most don't know about the OO mark, Lily was the first person to get that for every subject, Albus did get OO in transfiguration but no other subject.'

'Wow, your mum was a brain mate, what happened to you?' Fred asked making Harry and everyone else laugh, except Hermione.

'I don't flaunt my brilliance,' Harry smirked, he knew most would believe he was joking and that's exactly what he wanted.

'So what about James, how did he do?' Bill asked.

'O's in seven subjects, E's in the rest.'

'What did dad do for a job even though he had all that money?'

'Like me, he was an auror, same with Frank Longbottom. The three of us often teamed up when we went on assignments. Sometimes when it was going to be a long one Lily used to head over to Alice or Amelia's place.'

'Do you mean Amelia bones, the head of the DML?' Charlie asked.

'Yep, that's her, she was good friends with Lily. She might have been two years older than Lily but they would spend a lot of time together, especially in the library or one of the study groups. I know Amelia got one OO, in defence, the rest were O's, she's one smart witch. She was a brilliant auror a well, helped train James and me.'

The Weasley's and Harry kept asking Sirius questions about Lily and James Potter, Harry loved it, he was finally learning more about his parents, something he had wanted for years. But what Harry liked as well, was Hermione, she didn't look happy at all. She did give Harry a very suspicious look when she thought Harry wasn't watching, when Harry did look at her she made it look like she was upset, sad that she lost her friend. Now that he had told her he finally got to see how good an actor she was, well so was he, eventually she would find out the truth about her old friend.