Here you go. This one was actually fun to wright… until I got to the more serious parts but oh well

Oh wait before I begin eh hem

I do not own the rights to ANY original Harry potter character, location or spell. This is a FanFiction I wrote for fun and make no money from it. Additionally I have never met the Queen of England nor any other member of royalty and all dialog with afore mentioned monarch is, like the rest of this, a work of fiction.

Enjoy

Chapter 6

A few days after the trial of Harry's aunt and uncle found Charles walking thru Buckingham Palace for his appointment with the Queen as he walked in to the room he noticed the Queen already sitting at the table set for their afternoon tea.

Charles bowed to the Queen saying "My apologies for being late."

She waved him off "Things happen, especially in your world."

Once Charles was seated she said, "If I'm not mistaken I saw you in the news a few days ago. Something about a young boy who was abused by his relatives."

Charles nodded "I was. The boy is Harry Potter my daughter's betrothed."

The Queen raised an eyebrow "The boy you've been searching for, for nearly a decade?"

Charles nodded "Yes. It was actually because of my finding him that I had to cancel our last few meetings, and the reason behind several incidents."

At the Queen's nod he continued Charles went on to tell her of the events of the past 3 weeks. By the time he finished the Queen sat with her eyes closed trying to absorb the various events that had gone by right under her nose.

After a few sips of her tea she sighed "Please pass my apologizes onto Heir Potter and Lord Black if I had known what had happened this could have been rectified long ago."

Charles shook his head "Neither of them blames you. Harry has placed full blame, in his eyes, on Dumbledore. And Sirius Blames the previous minister of magic. You cannot hold yourself responsible for events you had no knowledge of."

The queen shook her head "Two ancient and noble families were wronged right under my nose Charles. One was the head of the Family and the other the orphaned heir, I should have known."

Charles sighed excepting that she would not budge on taking responsibility for Harry and Sirius being wronged "Very well I shall pass along your apologizes. However I request that you allow them to answer either in person or by letter and let them tell you themselves whether or not they hold you responsible."

The Queen nodded her agreement and their meeting continued as normal with Charles informing the Queen of any major events in the magical world.

2 weeks later Charles returned carrying 2 letters that brought an amused smile to the Queens lips.

One of the first thing Sirius did after being declared mentally stable was to track down his cousin Andromeda. After the expected shock over his release and sudden appearance, Andromeda and her husband Ted let Sirius into their home and after introducing him to his niece who he quickly learned not to call by her first name, Sirius got to the heart of why he was there.

"Andromeda I know you were disowned by the family and cast out for marrying your husband simply because he is a muggle. However I'm the head of the family now and I would like to welcome you your husband and your daughter back into the Black family."

Andromeda sat in stunned silence for several minutes before she responded "Sirius… I don't know what to say."

Before she could continue Sirius stopped her "You don't have to say anything Andy, our Family is almost extinct and I would rather not see it reborn under Lucius Malfoy. The two of us are the only ones left willing to lead the family out of the Dark reputation we have due to our parents and your sisters."

Andromeda looked at her Husband and daughter and sighed, "Just promise you won't become like our parents."

Sirius gave her a wide grin "Deal."

It was early morning on July 31st and Harry was still sleeping unaware of the fact that his door was slowly being opened or of his attacker quietly making their way to his bed. When the intruder got to the side of Harry's bed they looked to the large pillow next to the bed that served as a bed for Harry's Basilisk familiar. Satisfied that the great snake was unaware of their presence, the intruder struck.

The attacker jumped on Harry and yelled "WAKE UP HARRY."

Harry groaned and rolled over pulling the blanket over his head, causing his blonde attacker to fall of the bed with a squeak.

Having grown used to Astoria's hyper personality, he groaned, "Astoria it's too early for this."

Astoria quickly stood back up and pouted, "But Harry it's your birthday. Daphne is even making you Breakfast."

By this point all the noise had woken Harry's Familiar who gave a disgruntled hiss causing Astoria to jump.

Rena gave them both a halfhearted glare and said to Harry, "Just listen to the girl and get up so I can go back to sleep."

Harry sighed and said, "Ok, ok I'm up. I'll be down in a couple of minutes."

Astoria grinned at her victory and ran out the room. Once she was gone Harry slowly got out of bed and shut the door. As he was getting dressed for the day Harry thought about the nearly 3 months since Sirius's trial. In that time the Greengrass mansion had become home for Harry. But despite both Michelle and his parents saying he could call the elder Greengrasses mom and dad. He couldn't bring himself to call them that.

Before he left the room Harry looked at the clock, which read 7:30 and sighed. It seemed Astoria wouldn't even let him sleep in on his birthday. While the hyper 9 year old had quickly became a little sister to Harry, she still annoyed him by waking him up every day, and always so early.

As he was walking down the stairs Harry saw Daphne walking up. Harry took one look at her face and sighed "Nice try Tonks."

Daphne gave Harry an exasperated look before her skin started to bubble and shift until said 14 year old metamorphmagus was standing in front of him with an annoyed look on her face,

"Oh come on I didn't even say good morning, how do you always know it's me? Hell we can stand right next to each other with the same look on our faces and you can still tell us apart."

Before Harry could answer her Tonks got an evil grin, "Unless she has a birthmark somewhere and you just know where to look." Like say under her shirt? I mean you two have slept together"

Tonks started laughing at Harrys red face until a stinging hex hit her in the butt. She quickly turned around to find an equally red faced Daphne still pointing her wand at Tonks "Don't twist what happened."

Tonks pointed an accusing finger at Daphne "AH HA you admit you and Harry slept together and so young."

Tonks statement earned another stinging hex to the butt this time from Harry "We were talking and fell asleep, stop twisting things Tonks."

Tonks turned her mocking smile on Harry "Coming to the defiance of your bride to be? How cute. Daphne better be grateful you two have a marriage contract otherwise I might want you as my knight in shining armor."

This got Tonks yet another hex to the butt, this one stronger than the last 2 causing her to yelp and turn back to Daphne but before she could make a comment to the still blushing 11 year old an even stronger stinging hex hit her in the butt from Harry, making her jump again. This went on for several more turns before Tonks yelled "WOULD YOU STOP STINGING MY ASS."

Harry was going to send another one when he heard a giggle and turned to the other end of the entry way to find Charles, Michelle, and Sirius, with Sirius levitating his parents painting.

Harry and Daphne blushed and Harry asked "Uh how much of that did you guys hear?"

Sirius gave an evil grin "Every word pup," Sirius used a weak sticking charm to place James and Lily's painting on the wall before continuing causing some confusion, "I must admit getting a pretty, young witch in bed before starting Hogwarts. You have surpassed the master pup I bow to you."

The reason for putting his friends painting on the wall made it's self apparent when Sirius suddenly had to run out of the house with his godson hot on his heals causing the remaining adults to laugh at the foolish man.

Lily got a cruel look in her eye and said "Daphne would you be a dear and bring Harry and Sirius back so everyone can have breakfast?"

Daphne nodded before quickly walking up to her room, returning with her new broom Harry had gotten her for her birthday 3 week ago.

15 minutes latter a grinning Harry and Daphne walked into the dining room with smug looks on their faces followed by a battered looking Sirius. Charles gave Sirius an amused look and said "I thought you were an Auror before the war, yet you got beaten by two 11 year olds."

Sirius huffed like the child he acted like and said "It's Hardly fair when Daphne is on a broom overhead firing jinxes and hexes down on me."

Daphne just gave him a dirty look and said "You had it coming."

Over the next few hours several more guests arrived. Amelia and her niece Susan came first, causing Astoria to try and run off and play with her friend. Shortly afterward Daphne's friend Tracy Davis arrived.

Once everyone had arrived Harry started opening his presents. He started with Daphne's which was a new Nimbus 2000. In appreciation Harry hugged her causing the slowly thawing ice queen to blush. Harry reached for his next gift which happened to be from Astoria, when Charles and Michelle felt someone pass thru their wards.

Charles subtly nodded to Michelle and went to the front door. When he opened the door he saw the last person he ever expected to see at Harry's Birthday party. Standing on his front step was Dumbledore with a package in his hands.

Dumbledore gave Charles his patented kind grandfather smile and said "Hello Charles I trust you've been well since we last talked."

Charles just glared at the old man "I assume you mean when you came to my home and threatened my family?"

"Come now Charles that was 3 months ago let us put the past where it belongs. Now I believe it is young Harry's Birthday, what do you say we use such a happy occasion to move past our troubled history?"

Charles's glare only intensified "You don't seem to realize just how angry Harry is concerning you I will not have this day tarnished by your presence. If you wish to make amends with Harry, do so when he arrives at Hogwarts. If you wish I can pass your gift to him but you will not stay or enter my home."

"If Dad says Harry doesn't want you here. He doesn't want you here." The two men turned to see Astoria standing behind her father arms crossed with an annoyed look on her face.

Dumbledore was about to make a condescending remark about Astoria not interfering in adult matters when he saw the dangerous look on Charles's face and sighed but handed over his 'gift' and began walking back toward the front gate.

Charles walked back into the family room to see Harry thanking Tracy for the wand holster. Charles walked up to Amelia and quietly handed her the gift from Dumbledore and whispered "It's from Dumbledore can you check it?"

Though Charles tried to do this without Harry noticing he failed "What's wrong Charles?"

He looked to see the eyes of the entire room were on him. Charles sighed "This gift is from Dumbledore so I wanted Amelia to check it before I gave it to you."

Harry's expression grew dark at the mention of the old man. An expression every adult developed after Amelia ran her wand over it and said, "There are tracking charms on it but I can remove those after Harry opens it."

Amelia Handed the gift to Harry who took it and read the card aloud "Your Father left this in my possession it is time it was returned to you."

Everyone gave James a confused look to which he just shrugged. Harry opened it and pulled out a black silk cloak "My invisibility cloak."

Harry's head snapped to his parents painting with a questioning look, before throwing the cloak over himself and vanishing from sight. Wanting to see just how 'invisible' he was Harry quickly got up and moved behind Sirius a dropped an ice cube from someone's drink down his shirt as Sirius was looking around the room for any sign of his god son. Upon feeling the ice in his shirt Sirius Jumped and started trying to get something out of his shirt, much to the amusement of the rest of the room.

While Sirius was getting the ice out of his shirt Harry walked up behind Astoria and fired a tickling charm at her. Causing her to fall to the ground and roll around trying desperately to stop whatever was tickling her. By this point most of the room was laughing at Harry's antics. Harry was beyond thankful toward Charles and Sirius for letting him and Daphne practice what they would be learning at Hogwarts. For his next attack he grabbed a peace of wrapping paper wrote "Hello my name in NYMPHADORA" and used the strongest sticking charm he could and put it on the front of her shirt.

When Daphne saw Tonks shirt she started laughing loudly which got everyone's attention. Daphne just pointed at the improvised name tag which made everyone start laughing knowing how much Tonks hated her first name.

Tonks though didn't find it amusing and yelled "HARRY." In response the back door banged open and Tonks tore thru the house after him. Once the door closed behind Tonks Harry uncovered his head and walked back into the room with a huge grin on his face.

Harry turned to his parent's painting and thanked them, which confused everyone, "But Harry it was from Dumbledore." Harry looked to his mother "No he was just returning something of dad's. He just wanted to act like it was his to give away."

His response caused the adults to smile, it seemed Harry was far more aware of his surroundings than he let on.

Daphne spoke next "How long do you think it'll take Tonks to figure out you never left the room?"

Harry shrugged "When she hears that it's time for cake."

Sure enough it took Tonks a good 10 minutes to come back in and even then only because Sirius had called her back for cake. Though she was still annoyed about her name tag, she waited until after they sang Happy Birthday to get her revenge. She took a fork full of cake and flicked it at Harry's face. Unfortunately for her Harry was pulled out of the way by Daphne causing the ballistic cake to hit Sirius instead.

Sirius slowly turned to his niece with a raised eye brow. Tonks had her hands over mouth in shock, but started backing away when Sirius grabbed his slice of cake. The only thing that stopped Sirius from starting a food fight was Michelle saying in a dangerous tone "Not in the house." Sirius looked at Michelle and shrugged and walked by Tonks and dropped the cake slice on her head as he passed, causing her to sheik and everyone else to laugh.

After everyone had enjoyed the little show Sirius pulled his wand and vanished the mess and removed the sticking charm on her shirt.

The rest of the day passed without further incident the kids spent most of the day taking turns riding Daphne and Harry's Nimbus 2000s and playing quidditch with the quaffle from the set that Sirius had gotten Harry.

That night after everyone had left Daphne walked into Harry's room to find him sitting on the bed looking at the cloak Dumbledore had returned, he refused to look at as a gift. Amelia had removed the tracking charms while he and Tonks had raced around the property on brooms.

Daphne stood in front of him and asked "Do you want to talk about it?" At Harry's confused look she clarified "It bothers you that he had your dad's cloak." Harry nodded but didn't say anything. Daphne sat down behind him and pulled Harry back so his head rested in her lap which made him blush.

Daphne's cheeks were tented red as well but she tried to act like nothing was wrong "You can talk to me. Don't forget I feel the same about Dumbledore as you. He kept you away from me and made you live with people who hurt you."

Harry nodded and relaxed "The way he worded the card, it was like he thought it was his cloak or that my dad gave him so he could decide when I was old enough to have it. And then he went and put tracking charms on it so he would know where I was. Your dad said the old man wanted to put the past behind us and wanted my forgiveness, he sure has a funny way of showing it."

Daphne started running her fingers thru his hair "He is a senile old fool who has already made an enemy of you, Madam Bones and my father. And I would be willing to bet that Sirius would back you against Dumbledore." She paused and sighed "I want you to make your own choice on whether or not to ever forgive him, no matter what you choose we will stand behind you."

Harry looked up at Daphne and asked "What have you decided?"

Daphne shook her head "Never, he's done too much for me to forgive. But if you decide to forgive him I'll give him a chance."

Daphne continued to run her fingers thru Harry's hair. She was so focused on her inner thoughts that she didn't notice Harry watching her "What are you thinking about?"

Daphne blushed "Well we should be getting our Hogwarts letters any day and…" She paused embarrassed about what she was going to ask him "Well since we're betrothed we can have a private room in our house. But I didn't know how you felt about sharing a room."

Now Harry was blushing too but he remembered what Rena said before his aunt and uncle's trial about not running away from his problems "We're already engaged so I guess we should get used to it but it's up to you. If you're not comfortable then we don't have to."

Though she was still blushing she smiled at him "Then we'll have to let them know when we send our acceptance letters."

Unknown to the pair there were two listeners eavesdropping on their conversation.

The first was Michelle who was again standing outside the door with a smile on her face. The usual fear a parent had about their daughter sharing a bed with a boy was rather pointless when they were already engaged. So instead she chose to see this as a good thing. Daphne was not only opening up to someone she was showing incredible trust. Something she feared was destroyed when Draco Malfoy and his father talked to and treated her as a piece of meat at age 9. She left the pair to go talk to her husband about the pairs decision.

The second you couldn't really call an eavesdropper as Rena was in the room before Daphne was. She like Michelle was glad but for a different reason. For the first three weeks Harry was at the Greengrasses she used her bond to Harry as his familiar to take peaks into Harry's memories and constantly grew

more and more disturbed and angry at what had been done to Harry. She was overjoyed that there was a family that not only would properly take care of her little one but one that knew his parents and already saw him as a son. And the fact that Daphne cared as much about Harry's happiness as Rena made her even happier. Her little one had a loving mate already, even if it would be years before they consummated there mating.

The pair sat in silence for a while, Daphne continued to run her ringers thru Harry's hair. She started to think that he had fallen asleep when he asked her the question she had been praying he never would, "Daphne. Why do you act so serious and cold toward everyone, even your parents?"

Her fingers paused mid stroke and she sighed, "It was a couple years ago my parents and I were invited to a party being hosted by the Malfoys. To be specific it was the heir of the family Draco's birthday and they wanted the children of fellow pure blood nobles to attend."

Michelle had returned in time to hear Harry's question. She had left to get her husband and show him how cute the pair were, so they both got to enjoy the shock of hearing their daughter willingly tell someone what had happened.

"I had approached Draco to introduce myself, as my parents had taught me was proper in pure blood society, when I had I heard Draco's father tell him that if you wanted to know what a girl would look like when they grew up, look at their mother. Draco took one look at my mother and immediately demanded me."

Daphne paused to scoff "They talked clearly and in front of me as though I were a mindless slice of meat that would quietly do as she was told. Draco's father immediately walked to my father and demanded a betrothal. He may have worded it politely but make no mistake Harry it was no request even at 9 I saw that. Father politely refused telling him that I was already betrothed. Draco's Father told mine that it would be in his best interest to cancel my betrothal and make a new one to his son. Again my father declined this time far less politely, telling him the contract was iron clad and could not be canceled or voided.

"Draco's father told him that it was foolish to turn down such an opportunity and then left. The rest of the party Draco followed me around telling me that I belonged to him and should forget whomever I was betrothed to, as he was a Malfoy and no one was better than him. The more he insisted that I tell my father to find a way out of my contract, the more cold I became, I kept hoping if I was cold to everyone and unforgiving to any slight he would lose interest. It wasn't until I didn't even smile at the funniest of dialog, until I didn't respond to any of his questions, until I sat in a chair watching the crowd with an emotionless face did he finally walk away saying I had better improve my attitude as no one wanted such a cold…"

She stopped again this time shaking slightly whether on the verge of tears or yelling he couldn't tell. Outside the room Daphne's parents were listening intently as she had never told them some of this. After a moment Harry asked "What did he call you?"

"… A cold Bitch. At the time I didn't fully understand what that meant, to this day I don't think he did either he just knew it hurt people to call them such a thing. But at that point I didn't care, I really didn't I decided that I would be as cold as possible so that no one would try and act like they owned me because they like the way they thought I would look. I wanted to be so mean no man would come anywhere near me again. Especially him."

After a few moments Harry asked "Then why do you act so kind and warm to me? You're kinder to me than you are to your family."

Daphne smiled at him "You were paying attention. At first it was because we were betrothed and I at least didn't want to be in a cold relationship. But you never act like you own me. Even when you learned we were betrothed you didn't act any differently. If I remember correctly the first words you said on the subject were how were you supposed to marry someone you had never met and knew nothing about. You're different Harry."

Out in the hall Daphne's parents quietly left to give the pair some privacy and check on Astoria. Meanwhile in the room Harry was confused. Why had Daphne said that he was listening with such a happy smile?

His question was answered by his familiar whom he had completely forgotten was in the room. "Girls like it when boys listen to what they say rather than just nod and tune them out. They like it even more when the boy they're in a relationship with pays attention."

Daphne gave Harry a questioning look. She may not be able understand Rena but she did know when she was talking to Harry.

Harry looked back to Daphne, "I was wondering why you said that I was listening with a smile. She must have noticed because she told me it was because girls like it when a boy listens to them, especially when they're together."

Daphne gave Rena a grateful smile, and got a nod in response. Rena then laid her head down and went to sleep. Daphne looked at the clock and thought that was probably a good idea.

The next morning Astoria snuck into her brother's room like she did every morning since he came to live with them. Unlike every other time though Rena wasn't asleep, she had slept with her head on the hard wood floor so she could sense when Astoria came in for her morning wake up call. She just hoped it was amusing enough to warrant wakening up so early.

Rena watched Astoria sneak across the room as quiet as possible. She stood up to get a better look at where she should aim, when she notice something wasn't right. There were two lumps under the covers, one of which had long blonde hair. For a moment she thought she had made a mistake and had snuck into her parent's room, when the blonde lump groaned and snuggled closer to the black haired lump until the blonde head was resting on the chest of the black haired lump revealing it was Daphne. Astoria stood staring at the pair before she walked out of the room with a very confused look on her face, much to Rena's amusement.

Astoria walked to her sister's room and opened the door to find her bed empty. Daphne really was sleeping in Harry's room. Astoria walked down stairs to the kitchen to find her parents already sitting at the table enjoying the paper and their morning coffee.

Michelle looked up from her paper to see her younger daughter walking to the table with a very confused look on her face. This caught Michelle's attention for two reasons, first Astoria was never so distracted that she didn't say good morning, and second she didn't hear any yelling or bangs from upstairs that was the elder Greengrasses signal that Astoria was awake and had woke the other two children.

"Astoria Dear what's wrong?"

Astoria Looked at her mother and said "Daphne wasn't in her room." This got the full and complete attention of her parents for obvious reasons "She was in Harry's"

Charles felt his blood pressure drop to a healthier level before what his daughter said registered, he stood and walked up to Harry's room, where he found exactly what Astoria said would be there. Daphne sleeping in Harry's bed using Harry for a pillow. Charles sighed to himself, he knew after Michelle told him of the pair's decision to share a dorm room that this day was coming. Still it wasn't something he, as a father, wanted to think about.

An hour or so later Harry woke up on his own for the first time in months he looked to the clock on the wall again thankful for the potions that corrected his vision. When he saw it was after 8 in the morning he wondered why Astoria didn't come in to wake him.

He tried to sit up when he felt a weight on his chest, he looked down to see blonde hair splayed out with Daphne's head resting on his chest. He tensed trying to remember why Daphne was in his bed. When she stirred and mumbled "Sit still Harry."

Now knowing she was awake he asked "Daphne why are you in my bed?"

She just snuggled deeper into his chest "Because I wanted to see if I could sleep like this."

Harry stared at her hardly believing that her answer was so whimsical "And?" Daphne smiled "You're very comfortable. I think I could get used to this."

"So does that mean you're going to be sleeping in here from now on?" Daphne nodded before she realized it wasn't Harry that asked that bolted up looking at the door to see her father standing there holding a cup of coffee.

Charles took another sip of coffee looking at the pair Harry looked pale and looked like he wanted to become part of the bed, which Charles found amusing, it seemed even the 11 year old knew that where he was, was a very dangerous place to be caught even if it was his bed, and Daphne had snuck into his bed.

After a minute he decided to take mercy on the pair and said "Hurry and get dressed your Hogwarts letters have arrived we should head to Diagon alley."

As he walked away Harry and Daphne shared a look and Harry asked "Did that just happen." Daphne nodded. And got up to go to her room and get dressed.

A few minutes later the two walked into the dining room where Charles was still sipping his coffee, and Michelle gave the two a knowing smile. The two sat at their usual seats and opened their letters and were quietly looking at their supply list and nibbling on some toast.

"So are we just not going to talk about you too knowingly sharing a bed last night?" Michelle asked over her coffee cup.

Before Harry could reply Daphne beat him to it "I couldn't sleep so I went to Harry. Can we go do our shopping early before the crowds get too large?"

Michelle nodded deciding that, considering how much she opened up to Harry last night, she wouldn't tease them too much.

After every one had finished their breakfast the family made for Diagon alley. Once they got there they looked at the list and decided to go to Madam Malkin's first so they could pick the robes up as they left.

As the family walked into the robe store Daphne's Ice Queen persona slammed back up so fast it startled Michelle until she heard why "Ouch Damn it woman watch where you stick those needles."

(AN)

Believe it or not I finished this chapter last week, but I couldn't post it last weekend due to the fact that I had to attend a funeral for the mother of a very good family friend.

I actually have to stop myself from making this story to long. I really don't want to be 15 chapters and 150,000 words in before we even get to Hogwarts. But we will make it to the train and possibly the sorting ceremony next chapter.