"I would be honored Mr. Potter."

Harry was so happy. He pulled out the ring he had bought for Hermione. She gasped again when she saw it.

"Harry it is beautiful! I love you so much!"

Harry slipped the ring onto her finger. They kissed, kissed, and then kissed some more. Harry spoke "We better go back to the common room because Ron is going to kill us if he can't talk to us soon. He says he will come and get us if he has to."

"How do you know that?"

"Ron and I can talk telepathically. We don't know why but we can. Let's go."

They walked slowly back up to the common room. Ron was very pleased when they came back.

"That is so great you two! I am very happy for you!"

They went to bed after that and slept wonderfully. The next morning when Hermione woke up she thought that it all might have been a dream. She looked down at her hand and there sure enough was her ring. It was five thirty but Hermione could not sleep anymore. She got dressed and went to the owlery she used Hedwig. She put a spell on Hedwig so that she could be magically transported to Hermione's parent's house and after the reply is magically sent back. She was practically floating towards the common room when she ran straight into Sirius.

"Aren't we up early today? What are you so happy about?" He asked. Hermione held up her hand. Sirius' eyes went wide when he saw it.

"D-did Harry give that to you?"

"No Ron did. Honestly Sirius don't be stupid."

She walked off to go find Harry. When she reached his room she smiled. He looked so peaceful and happy sleeping there. Just then Hedwig came back looking very ruffled. Hermione grabbed the letter from her parents.

Dear Hermione, We are so proud of you and Harry. I wish you two the best and we will be seeing you at Christmas. With all our love, Mum and Dad

Hermione walked quietly out of Harry's room. She was glowing when she went into the regular common room. The first thing she sis was go wake up Sarah. "Look Sarah! Harry proposed last night! Isn't it beautiful?" That woke Sarah completely up at once. She gave out a loud gasp that woke the rest of the girls in her dorm up. They all crowed around Hermione to see the ring. They all congratulated Hermione and asked when the wedding would be. But Hermione simply told them that she had talked to Harry about yet.

Back at home James was not sure how to break the news of Harry's engagement to Lily. She was so protective of him when it came to his love life. But he did not have the time to tell her. Hedwig flew through the window that day and Lily took the letter she had with her.

Dear Mum and Dad, As you both all ready know I proposed to Hermione. She accepted. We have yet to set a date or even other important matters but I am so happy and I wanted you to know. Thank you for the advice about the ring Dad. All my love, Harry

"JAMES!!! Get in here RIGHT NOW!" Lily yelled.

James walked into the kitchen from his study.

"Yes my love?" Then he saw Hedwig and went white. Lily held up the letter.

"Our son wrote us a letter it seems that he is to marry Hermione. Of course I am very happy for them but then I saw the last line of this letter." She handed the letter over to James who took it nervously.

"'Thank you for the advice on the ring Dad.'" James read aloud. 'Thank you Harry.' He thought to himself. Lily was not looking very happy.

"He told you that he was going to propose to Hermione and asked you about the ring. That is what you must have been doing when you went to

Hogwarts that night. But instead of coming home and telling me right away you didn't say a word. I want to know why you did not tell me."

James was afraid now. He knew Lily's temper better then anyone. "I was trying to figure out how to tell you, I wasn't sure how you would react." He said in a very small voice.

"You were not sure how I would react to my son getting married? Didn't you know that I would be excited and happy for him? You should have told me straight out!" She said sharply.

James hung his head. "I'm sorry Lily." He said as though he was going to cry.

Lily at once felt awful for yelling at him. She went over to him and gave him a kiss on the lips. They stood their making out until there came a 'pop' from behind them.

"Just what I need more love birds!" Groaned Sirius.

"Don't you have class Sirius?" James asked without taking his eyes and barley any of his lips of Lily.

"No it is lunch right now and I don't have a class for another hour. Did you know about Hermione and Harry?"

"Yes Sirius now go away, I am very busy right now."

Sirius rolled his eyes and left with a 'pop' again.

Sirius ran up to the castle to give Harry 'the' talk because James didn't seem like he was going to. Before going to see Harry Sirius wrote James to tell him that he was going to talk to Harry so that James wouldn't have to worry about it. He went to the Gryffindor Common Room and braced himself. Harry was sitting with Hermione on his lap and they were whispering to each other. Sirius went over and cleared his throat. Harry looked up.

"Yes Sirius?"

"I need to talk to you Harry, alone." He said looking with a stern gaze towards Hermione. Understanding Hermione got off of Harry and went to go find Lavender to tell her the news.

"Harry is there someplace that we can go and talk without being interrupted?"

"Yeah, the Chamber of Secrets. If you want to go there though you have to promise you will not say a word to anybody what is down there." "I promise, let's go I really need to talk to you." They walked to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom and Harry hissed at the sink. As they headed into the main area of the Chamber Sirius gasped. There were potions everywhere! There was also what looked like spells being created and test tubes all over the place. Harry lead Sirius over to one of the couches.

"So what do you want to talk to me about?" Harry asked. Sirius snapped back to him.

"Well I heard about you being engaged and I need to have a talk to you about it."

"Sirius if you want me to break the engagement don't bother trying. I love Hermione with all of my heart."

"That was not ummm what I was um going to talk to you about." "Then what?" Harry asked impatiently.

Now that it was, actually time to talk Sirius was suddenly nervous. "Well Harry when a man and a women..."

Harry went white in the face and his eyes got big. "This really isn't necessary Sirius I know all about um that already."

Sirius shook his head. He continued explaining. Harry got more and more horrified as Sirius went on. When he had finished Sirius got up to leave.

"Now that you understand I will leave you."

Harry sat on the couch to stunned to move. He had never thought that he would get 'the talk'. On his way off of the stairs Sirius saw Hermione standing there looking as though she was about to go in.

"Oh hi Sirius, is Harry down there? I have been looking for him everywhere." "Yes he is. You may go see him now if you like." Sirius swept past her and Hermione looked after him wondering what had just happened. She went down to find Harry still sitting on the couch looking shocked.

"Sweetie are you ok?" What happened?"

Harry snapped into reality.

"I am fine, Sirius just gave me 'the talk' and I was a little shocked I guess." Hermione looked at Harry. "Poor baby, my mum gave me that talk when I started dating you, it was horrible." She sat on Harry's lap again.

"Anyway we need to work on getting our house ready now. Today is meet the neighbors day and we need to get ready. Remember we are moving into that house tonight and we also have the party that we planned. The better we know our neighbors the better the grade we get. And then we need to take our aging potion and meet our 'baby' that we have to take care of for the next three weeks."

"Baby?" Oh yeah McGonnagal said something about that, I wonder if it is going to be a girl or a boy."

"Let's go so that we can get ready then. We have to use the port-key and here it is."

Harry looked nervously as the port-key. Ever since his fourth year Harry had hated them.

Hermione noticed how Harry was feeling.

"Harry it is ok, it will take us straight to our house but no where else. No here is your potion. We should age about five years so be ready."

"Oh that reminds me I have something for you to wear during the next three weeks." Harry pulled out the wedding band that went with the engagement ring. Hermione gasped as he put it on her finger.

"Harry it is beautiful!"

"Not as much as you." Harry said.

Hermione blushed. They took their potion and grabbed the port-key. They arrived in a beautiful room that they recognized as a babies room. In the middle of the room there was a baby cradle. Inside there was a small baby girl fast asleep. There was a piece of paper on the baby.

Your last name while you are here is Porter. Your babies name is Rebecca Anne and is a year old. Remember you are in a muggle neighborhood so you have to act like muggles. NO MAGIC at any time in less it is an emergency Mr. Potter. There will be more instructions later on tasks you must complete on this trip. Have a good time. Yours truly, Professor M. McGonnagal

"Well isn't that friendly. We better go meet our servants and then get dressed for the party Hermione. Hermione!"

Hermione was staring at the little girl.

"Harry look she is so beautiful and tiny. Her eyes and hair look like yours but she had my face structure and my ears too. I wonder if this is what a little girl that we will have together will look like."

"Well McGonnagal said that it would be what a baby would look like if it was ours so yes to your question. We better go now, you can carry Becky with you if you want."

"Becky?"

"Yeah I thought it sounded like a good nickname. We can't go around calling her Rebecca Anne all the time it is to formal."

Hermione nodded and picked up the baby with great care. They went to where the servants quarters were and knocked. The door was answered by a very proper looking man.

"Mr. and Mrs. Porter! When did you arrive we were not expecting you so soon. I will have Jessie and Kayla begin cleaning for the party at once and my wife Gina will begin cooking."

"Thank you Mr. Smith. You have met us but this is our daughter, Rebecca Anne. And please call us Harry and Hermione. We will let you carry on we need to go get ready now."

Harry and Hermione went upstairs to put their formal wear on. Hermione was wearing an ivory looking dress with a little glitter on it here and there. She wore her hair down and curled it at the ends so that it framed her face. (Because of the aging potion her hair was straight.) Harry couldn't stop staring at her. Hermione was also surprised at how good Harry looked. He was wearing a tuxedo and with his hair still as messy as always he looked quite handsome. He was also wearing contacts to show off his brilliantly green eyes. They walked downstairs arm in arm to greet their guests. They knew that one of the Hogwarts teachers would be there to observe their behavior. Harry hoped that it was Sirius. After about five minutes the door bell rang. Charles answered it. He led two people into the back room where the party was to be taken place. They looked incredibly snobbish and looked around as though they were trying to find something wrong in the house to show that Harry and Hermione were not good people.

Harry walked over and gave them a warm smile. "Hello I am Harry Porter and this is my wife Hermione, it is nice to meet you."

"The pleasure is all ours. I am Rolland and this is my wife Victoria." He said in about the snobbiest voice he could and shook Harry's hand stiffly.

Then another couple walked in the room. They were a little younger then the other couple but still looked like snobs. Harry got into a discussion with Herbert about what they did for a living.

"So what do you do Mr. Porter?"

"Please call me Harry. I am a stock broker." (Harry and Hermione had to pick fake jobs to tell people) "And yourself?"

"I am a lawyer so if you ever need one here is my card."

Harry and Hermione spent the night socializing with their neighbors and having small talk. By the end of the night they were worn out.

"Man, I didn't know that people could be as snobby as our neighbors. They are so full of them selves, they should use their money towards the good of others and not the latest fashions or cars." Harry complained to Hermione, as they were getting ready for bed that night. Hermione sighed. "Well we will have to remember that Harry after we finish out Quiddich career. You, Ron, and myself will have quite a lot of money by that point if things keep going the way they are."

They crawled into their beds. All the students had been told that they were to sleep in separate beds and not fool around at all, but they had to sleep in the same room. Harry and Hermione stayed up a little bit longer and went to sleep.

They were woken up a several hours later by the baby monitor. Harry told Hermione to go back to sleep. He stumbled down the hallway to Rebecca's room. He went over to the cradle and picked up the crying baby carefully. He fed her a milk bottle and then rocked her slightly. He actually sat there holding and rocking her singing little lullabies to her, even after she fell asleep. Hermione came into the room around 7:00 AM. She took out her camera and snapped a picture of Harry and Becky.

"Hey sweetie how are you?" Harry asked. Hermione had tears in her eyes. "Oh Harry, you are going to be a great father! I love you so much!" Harry carefully put the baby down and went and gave Hermione a kiss.

**To Lily and James..**

"I don't know James, it is strange that he rose and we haven't been hearing from him at all lately. No muggle deaths no torturing or kidnappings. He is up to something and we have to find out what." Lily said to her husband in a very worried voice.

"I know Lily. For Harry's sake we better find out soon. I couldn't live without either you or him. I am glad that he doesn't know about the order. He would feel awful that so much time and effort has gone into protecting him even though it is necessary, he wouldn't understand." "We better go now or we will be late for the meeting and Remus will never let us hear the end of it."

Together they used floo powder to get into a large room that had a banner of a phoenix on the back wall. In the middle of the room, there was a large table with six chairs on each side.

Over the next five minutes, more people began to arrive. When at last the last person there stood up and looked at the group seated around him. "Welcome to the 5th meeting of the Order of the Phoenix. Will everybody please stand and when I call your name sit." The man was interrupted before he could say anything else.

"Must we go through this each time? We all know that there will be one person not here and we are glad for it."

"Yes we must go through it. Now I will start with myself, Professor Dumbledore. Professor McGonnagal. Professor Sprout. Professor Flitwick. Professor Snape. Professor Black. Mr. Potter. Mrs. Potter. Mr. Lupin. Mr. Fletcher. Ms. Figg. Mr. Pettigrew." On the last name, no one sat down or moved.

"Fine then on to business. As you all know this is the 5th meeting of the order. Is there anything that anybody wishes to discuss?"

James stood up. "Lily and I feel that Voldemort is up to something. There have been no attacks recently and we take that as a bad sign and not a good one."

As soon as James sat down Sirius stood up. "I agree with them but we need to find out what he is up to. Snape you are our spy we need to know what Voldemort is planning before it is to late. You have not given us any information in the last four meetings and I think that it is due time that you tell us what you have been up to."

Snape glared at Sirius and stood. "He is planning to use giant snakes to attack Harry. He of course does not know that Harry is a parseltounge. The plan is for them to surround Harry and capture him. That is all the information I have. I do not know the time or the place." He sat down. "Then I think that it is time to discuss what we know about Harry so that we can protect him." Dumbledore said. He waved his wand a huge screen appeared in front of the room where the banner had been.

Lily began to speak. "There is one thing that only four of us in this room know about Harry. You see he did something that James did while he was in school. He became an anigamus."

Murmurs were whispered from person to person. When it had quieted down Lily continued.

"He turns into a lion with a lightning shaped stripe on his head and bright green eyes. Hermione and Ron did the same thing. Hermione is an owl and Ron is a fox."

Dumbledore had a look you didn't get to see often at all. He was very surprised. When he recovered he was going to tell everybody what he knew about Harry.

"Harry, Ron, and Hermione created something that only one other wizard has created. It explains how the three are able to pull their pranks and get high grades. They created a time vortex. I have seen it myself, it is an wonderful machine. Also Harry is the Lanoitome. Professor Snape I believe that he was the cause of your incident at the beginning of last year. I believe that you said something insulting and Harry heard."

Snape was furious. "He should have been punished for attacking a teacher then! When I get my hands on him..."

James stood up abruptly. "You will not touch my son. If you so much as brush past him in a mean way I will be there to take you down." Sirius started yelling at Snape as well.

"You deserved what Harry did to you! He told me what you said and I would have given you worse injuries then that if I were him."

"Gentlemen calm yourselves. We are not enemies in this room. Harry will not be punished because he lost control and he can not help it now please sit down so that we can carry on." Dumbledore said in a calm voice. They spent the next three hours discussing what to do with Voldemort and how to stop Harry from ever having to go against him again.

**Two and half weeks later, Harry and Hermione..**

"Hermione can you believe that we have to go back to school in two days." Harry sad his voice sad.

"I know. I really have fallen in love with little Becky. I wish she was a real baby." Hermione said just as sad.

"We have to plan our going away party. Remember we found a bigger house then this and we couldn't help but buy it. I really wish we didn't have to get back together with those neighbors of ours. But I can't wait to be able to use our magic again. I hate doing things the muggle way. Now we need to invite the children of the families for this one. And we should tell them that it is casual party. Which to these people means they need to where their 200 pound clothing not their 500 pound clothing."

Hermione laughed. "Now Harry be nice. They are not that bad."

"Yes they are. Let's make it earlier in the evening so that we can show Becky off to everyone. I am really going to miss her, I hope we have a little girl just like her."

"Me too Harry. That reminds me we have a lot of work to do when we get back to Hogwarts. We have a wedding to plan."

"I wish it would just happen no planning but oh well. Right now we have to plan this party. Now we have to come up with games for the kids and write out the formal invitations."

They spent that night and all of the next day planning the party. Then the night that Harry was dreading came. Harry was surprised to see that one of the children that came over with Katie Bell. Her father, John, introduced her. "This is my daughter Katherine. She has just graduated from college."

"KATIE?!?" Harry asked. "I had no clue you were a muggle born!" He said the last part quietly so that no one over heard him.

"Harry? Why are you here? Your last name is Potter not Porter."

"Oh it is the 7th year field trip remember when you did it?"

"Oh yeah, and wow I had thought that this would be one of my parents really boring parties that they dragged me to. So what have you been up to? I have been at Muggle College so I have no clue what is going on in the magical world."

"Well I am playing for England with Hermione and Ron."

Katie was in shock. "But you are not even out of school yet!"

Harry spent the rest of the night catching up with Katie. He had a great time. Hermione was happy because she got to show off Becky.

At the end of the night before she could leave Harry called her over. "Keep your summer open. There is going to be a wedding." He grinned.

"You are engaged Harry that is great! That is great, who is the lucky girl?"

"Hermione."

"That's great Harry. I should see you this summer!"

The next morning Harry and Hermione were a little sad. They had not been woken up once in the night by Becky because she was gone now. They got their things and went to Kings Cross Station and boarded the Hogwarts Express. The aging potion had worn off and they looked like their normal selves. Hermione gave back the wedding ring sadly. They found a very happy Ron on the train. "Thank God that is over. I never thought that it would. My 'son' Arnold was a pain. He was always crying or wanting something I never got a moments peace! And then Lavender insisted that I always took care of him because she thought that the man should have some of the reasonability. I can't wait to get back to Sarah! How did you two do?"

"We had a wonderful time Ron! Look at this picture of Harry with Becky."

"Becky?"

"Rebecca Anne. Harry wanted to call her Becky for short. I miss her already!" Hermione said. Ron looked at the picture.

"Harry she looks just like you! I bet that if she got older she would act like Hermione here though."

"And what is that supposed to mean Ronald Weasley?" Hermione asked in a stern voice.

Harry started talking before Ron could. "He means more sweet and beautiful everyday sweetie."

"Awe Harry you can always make me feel better that is why I love you so much!"

"Really you two can't you keep your hands off each other for five minutes?" Ron asked annoyed.

"Ron do you know why I didn't feel your feelings when we were gone?" Harry asked him.

"Because I disabled it before we left. I thought that we needed to be separate for the trip."

"Oh. Could you re-able it then?"

"Already did, I was hoping you wouldn't notice."

They had a great train ride back. Harry and Hermione had decided to 'keep their hands off each other' for Ron's sake during the trip. About halfway through Harry asked Hermione.

"Who is going to be your maid of honor?"

"Sarah of course! Not having her for my maid of honor would be like Ron not being your best man!"

"Right!"

Ron blushed. He was really happy for his friends. Dumbledore gave a feast to the returning students. Classes began the next day. Harry had double-potions first period. Snape was completely awful the entire class. Harry had gotten there five minutes early so Snape couldn't yell at him.

"Potter! You are to early five points from Gryffindor!"

Then later on, "You are holding your knife the wrong way! Another five points! Potter! Why don't you pay attention! You took that cauldron off the fire five seconds to late! 10 points from Gryffindor!" All in all Snape took off sixty points in one lesson from Harry alone. After class, Harry went straight to the owlerly. He had been about to blow Snape and it took all he and Ron could do to keep Harry calm. Harry took out a piece of parchment.

Dear Dad, I am sorry to bother you because I know you are busy making sure Mr.Weasley is minister but Snape is being awful! You told me to write you if he was being mean, and he is! It took all the self-control I have not to blow him up! He took a total of sixty points from Gryffindor for things like 'holding my knife the wrong way'. I will get Sirius to give us the point back but he also insulted our family. Please come 'talk' to him because I cannot until I get out of school! All my love, Harry

James got the letter the next morning. He was very angry. He set off for Hogwarts as soon as he could. He rushed into Snape's office. He started yelling as soon as he got in there. "HOW DARE YOU TREAT MY SON LIKE THAT! HOLDING HIS KNIFE THE WRONG WAY! YOU CANT HOLD A KNIFE A WRONG WAY! SIXTY PIONTS! AND YOU INSULTED OUR FAMILY! I AM GOING STRAIGHT TO DUMBLEDORE ABOUT THIS! I WILL NOT REST UNTIL I SEE YOU AT LEAST SUSPENED FROM THIS JOB!"

James stormed out of the office before Snape could say anything. Snape walked up to Dumbledore's office several minutes and found James complaining to Dumbledore about Snape's behavior. Snape swept in the room. "Severus I am very disappointed in you! Harry was here earlier telling me about what you said to him! He is just 17."

"But Professor..."

Dumbledore held up his hand to silence him.

"I will have another teacher observe your seventh year classes for the rest of the year. That was completely un-called for. You may leave now." Snape swept out of the office glaring at James who had a look of great triumph on his face.

Harry, Hermione, and Ron were in the Chamber of Secrets planning the wedding.

"Hermione how many should be at the wedding? I don't know anything about your family except your parents and Sarah."

"Well I have six cousins. Two of them will be perfect for the flower girl and ring bearer!"

"That's great Hermione, who else?"

"All our friends from school Dean, Seamus, Neville, Lavender, ect..." "Oh and the old Gryffindor Quiddich team Oliver, Alicia, Angelina, and Katie." "Hey what about my brothers?" Ron asked.

"Well they are a given your whole family is." Harry replied. Ron looked embarrassed.

"Wait Hermione! Isn't your family muggles?" Harry asked, worried.

"Yes but we don't have to invite them to the reception. Most of them will not want to stay anyway. Ron we are going to keep your father away from them. They think that I am weird enough without his questions on the po- leece men."

They all laughed at this.

"Ok Hermione, what about bridesmaids?"

"Well Sarah, I was thinking Kristy and Fiona from Quiddich." "Anymore? Maybe Lavender, Parvarti and Ginny?"

"Oh yeah defiantly Ginny. I guess we have known Lavender and Parvarti for seven years so we should ask them. As long as they don't get all giggly. Oh and Jenny! We have become such great friends with her!"

"That makes Sarah, Kristy, Fiona, Lavender, Parvarti, Ginny, and Jenny. That is seven brides' maids now I need seven ushers. Well Ron is one. Then my father, Remus, Sirius, and then Mr. Weasley. And Fred and George. Ron will Percy, Charlie, or Bill be offended?"

"I know that Bill and Charlie won't be, you barely know them! But who knows about Percy? You can't do anything without offending him!" They laughed again.

"Ok other guests then."

"Dumbledore." They all said at once. Ron conjured up a screen so that all they had to do was name somebody and it would appear up there. "McGonnagal, she is strict but has been a great teacher." Hermione said.

"Hagrid, though we might have to have him sit in the back because he is so large. And hopefully he won't scare your relatives, Hermione but we can't not invite him."

"True and as long as we are inviting teachers Professor Sprout, Professor Flitwick, and my Arithmancy teacher, Professor Vector oh and don't forget Professor Sinstra.

"And there is no way on earth that I am inviting Snape or Trewlany." Harry said with a look of disgust on his face.

"Of course not, Harry. How about Fleur DeLaCour and Victor Krum?" Harry, who had been very happy, got a saddened look on his face.

"Harry." Ron said sternly knowing what he was thinking. "That was three years ago, it was not your fault."

Harry looked down.

"If only I had just taken the cup, like he wanted."

"What? Harry you never did tell us what happened that night. All we know is that Voldemort came back again that night." Ron said, he really wanted to know what happened to his best friend that night.

Harry shuddered but told his friends what happened, every detail. Hermione was sobbing by the end of the story and Ron looked as though he was about to cry.

"Harry how could you possibly stay strong after that? I would have fallen into depression in the least." Hermione asked.

"I would have too. But then my life took a turn for the better. I got my parents back. After they came back I had something to live for and someone who loved me. And then I got you Hermione. You gave me more reason to stay strong then anything else."

They sat in silence for a few minutes gathering their emotions together. "Now we need to talk about the last meeting of the Order Of the Phoenix. I cannot believe they still think that it is secret. They most think we are really stupid. I mean they try so hard to cover it up and make it so obvious when they are lying. But I think that I agree with my parents. Voldemort has

been way to quiet recently. And Snape has to wrong about the attack because Voldemort does know that I can talk to snakes. It was in the Daily Prophet for the whole world to see!"

"Well I always thought that he was a tad on the slow side." Ron said. Harry would have laughed if they were talking about anyone but Voldemort. Ron looked at the look on Harry's face.

"Sorry Harry, I was just trying to lighten up the mood." He said, apologetic. "That's ok, Ron let's get ready for our end of the year prank. I see that the charm you invited is coming along well Hermione."

"Oh it is. But remember guys the graduation in the night before the night we leave, we pull our prank at the end-of-the-year feast, when it is to late to be expelled."

"Hermione, we know! You have only told us what a million times?" Harry groaned.

Hermione faked a pout. "Also guys Sirius is dying to know what we are doing down here, he was looking around for ten minutes before I could get him to look at me and not the potions and spells."

"Why was Sirius down here?" Ron asked. Harry blushed. In his mind Ron heard 'He gave me 'the talk''.

Ron looked sorry for his friend. 'I feel bad for you Harry but not as bad as I do for me, you see my father told me he had to 'talk' with me at Christmas. I already know what is coming.'

Harry grinned at Ron.

'Good luck, mate!'

"Would you two stop? I mean really, I am still here." Hermione said annoyed that Harry and Ron were not talking aloud.

"Sorry Hermione!" They said together.

The next couple of weeks were full of work. Between classes, Quiddich, planning the wedding, and planning the end of the year surprise Harry, Ron, and Hermione had almost know free time. A week before Halloween Dumbledore stood up during dinner. Everyone in the hall got silent.

"Our muggle studies class has decided to have a Halloween ball, but taking the muggle approach to it. This ball is for 3rd years and up. You must wear costumes but you do not need a dancing partner. That is it; please return to your dormitories because I believe that you have class tomorrow!" They all walked out of the hall talking about the dance. Harry looked at Hermione.

"You don't even have to ask!" She said and gave him a kiss. He smiled and said

"We better go get Ron and go see Dumbledore. I believe that it is the head students job to organize the all ball."

When they found Ron he was busy making out with Sarah, who by the looks of it, had just been asked to the ball.

"Ron, we have to go talk to Dumbledore now. Oh and Sarah it is seriously gross to see your sister making out like that!" Hermione said giving her 'stern' look that reminded everyone of Professor McGonnagal.

Sarah laughed and said, "So you know how I feel when I see you making out with Harry! I have to get back to the Ravenclaw Common room anyway." She left with a big grin in her face. They headed to Dumbledore's office. He looked up when they entered the room and smiled. "I was just about to call you three, but it seems you know what is going on at Hogwarts even better then I do."

Just the Sirius entered the room. "You wanted to see me Professor?" He asked with a side ways glance at Harry.

"Sirius how many times do I need to tell you? Call me Albus; you are no longer a student here. I believe you act more like a student then Harry here."

Sirius scoffed and glared at Harry for a couple of seconds. "I have decided that the four of you will plan the ball along with the ideas from the muggle studies class. But I am assuming that you already knew that, Mr. Potter?"

Harry grinned and nodded and Sirius looked confused.

"So we get to plan everything?" Harry asked when Dumbledore nodded an evil grin could be seen from Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Sirius groaned. "Harry Potter you are worse then your father and that is saying a lot!" "Thank you. But I could never do it without Ron and Hermione." They all smiled. As they left the room Dumbledore called after them, "And try to keep the pranks to a minimum."

"So to the Chamber?" Hermione asked, Harry and Ron nodded. "You too Sirius, we will need teacher permission for this!" Harry said. Sirius groaned again. He was sure that Harry had requested him as the teacher help so that they could get away with their pranks. He was such a push over when it came to his Godson.

When they had gotten comfortable on the couches Ron conjured up the screen again.

"We need to make a list of all the things we need to do to get ready for this ball."

"The first thing we need to do is talk to the muggles studies class. Hermione will you please see when they are?"

Sirius was surprised when Hermione took out her wand and muttered something toward the screen. First Harry, Ron, and Hermione's schedules appeared, then along side them was what appeared to be the muggle studies classes.

"We need to meet with the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh years. That means five classes that we have to miss. We can't make people suspicious by being in two places at once." Harry turned to Sirius with puppy dog eyes. Sirius looked at Harry blankly for a couple of seconds before it clicked. "You want to miss MY class?"

Harry nodded and told Ron to make the puppy dog face too, then Hermione caught on. So Sirius sat there with three teenagers looking at him with the most pathetic looks on their face. He sighed and said "Fine, miss my class! It's not like you don't already know what we are learning anyway." Harry smiled. "Thanks Sirius you're the best! Now back to planning. We have to get entertainment for the dance and the people in third year and below since, they will not be at the dance. And we have to order drinks and food ect. But for now let's talk about entertainment. It needs to be like a muggle dance. I was not allowed to go to muggle dances with Dudley, so it is up to you Hermione because we know the muggle studies class's ideas are going to be out of date."

"I never went to a muggle dance either, I was to busy studying." Hermione said in a small voice. Ron rolled his eyes at the same time Harry did. "Well then extreme times calls for extreme measures." Harry said looking at his friends. They gave him a confused look.

"I have to write Dudley."

They looked at him with shocked faces.

"B-but Harry you hate Dudley! With passion! He made your life miserable and you want to write him!" Hermione said.

"Yes, now please stop looking at me like that! I am going to go write him now so that we can get the information as soon as possible." He pulled out a sheet of parchment and began to write.



Dear Dudley, Incase you haven't noticed this is Harry writing you.("I bet he won't notice." Ron said. Harry laughed.)The muggle studies class at my school wants to hold a muggle (non-magic) style Halloween dance. The problem is no one here knows what muggle dances are like. Please write back a.s.a.p so that we can start planning the dance. Just write your letter and then attach it to Hedwig (my owl) and she will take it to me and don't worry she will wait for you to return this letter. I will see you at Christmas.

Your Cousin, Harry Potter

Harry, Ron, and Hermione went to the owlerly and sent the letter with Hedwig.

Dudley received the letter the next morning at breakfast. He of course did not know that it was customary for owls to deliver letters at this time. Hedwig scared the headmaster out of his wits. Dudley took the letter and read it quickly. He was amazed that Harry had finally written him! However, he was not sure how to explain a dance so he did something that shocked Harry into dropping the letter in is cereal the next day. It read:

Dear Harry, I am not quite sure how to explain a dance. But if you want, we are having a dance in two days and are allowed to invite family members of our age to this dance. Not many people do this because if they do have family members our age they go here or to the all girls school across from us call York's School for Girls. You may bring your girl friend if you wish but your friend is not allowed. You know where my school is. If you wish to attend the dance, you must come here a half an hour before hand to see the headmaster. Maybe I will see you soon, Dudley

"Harry, what's wrong? Earth to Harry." Ron said trying to get Harry's attention. Because he was un-able to speak from the shock he just got he handed the letter to Ron. Ron read it, and he was to in shock and then he handed it to Hermione. It was a funny sight to see the three head students looking completely blank and shocked. Malfoy took this opportunity to swagger over to the Gryffindor table.

"Oh look Potty is marring the mud-blood. What's the matter Weasel? Can't

afford to go to the wedding. I wouldn't worry too much about it; Potter is

not going to be around long enough for there to actually be a wedding."

Malfoy's face was suddenly covered with bright red pimples. His cold blue

eyes looked like they had been infected because they were red and puffy.

The pimples started showing up on his arms and legs as well. He stood there

horrified when Sirius came into the hall and saw what was happening. He

had Hermione escort Harry and Ron out of the hall so that he could yell at

Malfoy. "Mr. Malfoy 150 points from Slythrine for insulting another student

like that. Two weeks of detention for talking to Harry like that. Also your

Hogsmeade privileges have been revoked for the next two visits. I hope that

makes you think before you say something as insulting as that again."

Before Malfoy could protest Sirius ran out of the hall to go find Harry. He knew that Malfoy must have said something really awful to make Harry lose control of his temper like that. He found him, with Ron and Hermione in an empty classroom. Harry was trembling in anger. Sirius went over to him. "Harry I need to know what Malfoy said. Other wise I will get in trouble for the points I took from Slythrine and the detentions I gave him."

"He called Hermione a-a mud-blood."

Sirius looked shocked that anyone would use that kind of language with Hermione. That was enough to the points he took from Slythrine. "Then he insulted Ron's family, which is pretty much the same as insulting you or dad or mum to me and told us that I would not live long enough to get married."

Sirius was fuming now. "Don't worry I am going to go see Dumbledore about this Malfoy problem. I am also going to write your father and make sure he lodges a complaint. Also Ron, your family will soon have more money then the Malfoys do so don't worry about it."

Ron's eyes got wide. "Why do you say that?" Sirius pulled out what he was going to show them earlier. There was a large headline on the Daily Prophet- Arthur Weasley new Minister of Magic! Harry suddenly had the urge to jump up and down and it took him a while to figure out that that was what Ron was feeling.

"That's so great Ron! He deserved it! That means something can be done about Voldemort now through the ministry and not just through-" Hermione covered Harry's mouth before he could continue. Sirius looked at Harry with alarm. 'Do they know about the order.' He thought to himself. Harry used the excuse "Um, we better get to class now. Don't want to be late for." he looked down at his schedule and cursed.

"DADA. Sirius today is one of the days we have to go talk to the muggle studies class. I will see you later."

The three ran out of the room as fast as they could. Then Sirius realized that

he was late for teaching his class and followed their example and ran out of

the classroom. Harry, Ron, and Hermione spent the next few days working

with the muggle studies class. When the day of the muggle dance at

Dudley's school came up Harry was surprised to see Hedwig with a letter.

The letter was from Dudley telling Harry that the dance was very formal and

that they needed to get dressed up for it. Harry hadn't even thought about

what he was going to wear. He had assumed that he would just wear his

dress robes but forgot that in the muggle world they didn't wear robes. That

night Harry and Hermione got ready for the dance. They had to be at

Smeltings by 4:30 because the dance started at 5:00 and went to 11:00.

Harry decided to wear a tux and to put his contacts in. He did his best to do

something with his hair but as the mirror had told him many times it was

useless. But when Hermione came down the steps Harry was speech less.

She was wearing a light blue sparkling dress with silver high heels. The

dress was not like a mini-skirt but it was to about her mid-thigh. She had

put sparkling lip gloss on her lips and light blue eye shadow. There were

silver bangles around her wrists but it she had kept her hands plain so that

you could see her beautiful engagement ring. Around her neck she wore a

silver heart shaped locket that Ron had given her with pictures of Harry and

Ron in it. She had curled her hair (not in the bushy way) and put the front

bangs into a small half pony tail that was clipped back by a diamond butterfly

clip that Harry had gotten her for her birthday. Every guy in the common

room was looking at Hermione with awe. They were jealous of Harry just as

the girls were jealous of Hermione. Harry held out his arm to escort

Hermione out of the common room. Dumbledore gave them a port-key to use to get to Dudley's school. They went straight to the headmasters office to present themselves to him. They knocked on the door. When they were given the ok to go in they saw a balding man with gray hair look up at them.

"How may I help you?"

"Sir, I am Harry Potter, Dudley Dursley's cousin. And this is my fiancé, Hermione Granger. Dudley invited us to the dance."

The mans jaw dropped. "You are Dudley's cousin? You look nothing like him at all! And here I was thinking I needed to order extra food if a cousin of his was coming."

Harry stifled a laugh. "Well sir Dudley looks like his father and I look like my father and we are cousins on our mother's side."

"I am pleased to meet you. Please take a seat." He said indicating to the two chairs in front of his deck. They sat.

"Mr. Potter what school do you attend?"

Harry had to think quickly and Hermione had a look of worry on her face.

"I go to a very small private school called Gryffindor Academy."

Hermione breathed a sigh of relief.

"And how are your grades in school, if you don't mind me asking."

"Not at all. I am currently tied for head of my class with Hermione here." "Well I can hardly believe that you are related to Dudley. But Dudley did say that his cousin's name was Harry Potter. Please just go down the hall and through the doors wear the dance is about to start. Before it starts however there will be a feast. You two are assigned to sit at Dudley's table. I hope you have a good time."

Harry nodded and led Hermione down the hall.

Above the door to the gym, a large poster said "NO SMELTINGS STICKS AT THE DANCE. YOU WILL RECEIVE DENTENTION."

Harry looked at it and laughed. Then he pointed it out to Hermione. There was a snobbish looking man at the doorway with a list in his hand.

"Name please." He said.

"Harry Potter and Hermione Granger."

"Table six."

They walked in. They immediately spotted Dudley with a not-very happy looking girl. She was of average weight/height/looks. Pretty much, she just seemed plain average.

Harry went over to the table and sat down next to Dudley. Dudley was staring at Hermione and his date was staring at Harry.

"Oh how rude of me! I am Harry Potter and this is my fiancé Hermione Granger." He said to break the awkward silence. He also said fiancé pointedly at Dudley so that he would stop staring.

"Oh yeah!" Dudley said and stopped staring at Hermione. "This is my girl friend Jane Hall."

"Hall? As in Yvonne Hall?" Hermione asked Harry gave her a questioning look.

Jane look startled. "Why yes, why do you ask?"

"It's me! Hermione! Your cousin. Your mother is my mother's sister!" "Hermione? You have changed a lot! I didn't even recognize you! I haven't seen you since you went off to that school of yours." Her eyes got wide.

"Is he also one of your type?" She asked looking scared.

"Of course he is! Harry was my best friend through sixth year until we started dating. He just proposed a like a month ago! Isn't the ring beautiful?"

Jane looked at the ring with longing. Harry heard Ron's voice in his head yelling at Hermione. Harry told him to shut-up.

"Hermione, Ron would like you to know that he was your best friend too. He is mad that you left him out!"

"Tell him to shove it. Of course he was my best friend too! And still is he is just being sensitive."

Dudley and Jane just looked at them with looks of confusion on their faces. Harry explained, "Ron and I are telepathic with each other. I am also allowing him to hear our conversations tonight so he can take notes on what is going on to present to the muggle studies class next week."

Just then two couples joined their table. One of the boys sneered at Dudley. "Hey Dursley, where is this cousin of yours? I haven't seen anyone your size around so is he just another one of your imaginary friends?"

Dudley was about to speak when Harry cleared his throat. "Ahem."

They boy looked over to Harry and did a double take when he saw Hermione. "I am Dudley's cousin, Harry Potter and this is my fiancée, Hermione."

The boy stared at Harry for a couple of seconds. The girl beside him spoke. "You can't be Dursley's cousin, you look nothing at all like him!" Dudley glared.

"I look like my father and he looks like his father and we are related on our mothers' side. Anymore questions?" Harry repeated the explanation that he had given the headmaster earlier.

"Yeah is your family even poorer then Dursley's here? Because I have never seen you around so you must not have enough money to go here." "No I go to a much more private school. It is almost impossible to get into it. And my family is very well off. Probably more so then your family. But un-like you we don't wave it in front of other people. We have enough class not to."

The boy was about to respond when the headmaster stood up. He could not command silence like Dumbledore could, but he gave a threatening look around.

"Welcome to the annual fall dance. Tonight we have two guests among us. They are Mr. Harry Potter and his fiancée, Ms. Hermione Granger. Mr. Potter is Dudley Dursley's cousin. They attend Gryffindor Academy. Would you two please stand up while we give you a Smelting's applause. Once again, everyone look surprised that Harry was related to Dudley. Servants brought the food in. Though the food was good, it was nothing compared to

Hogwarts food. After dinner it was time to dance. Harry led Hermione onto

the dance floor. They had both gotten quite good at dancing. Harry and

Hermione were having a wonderful time. It was a good thing that Ron was

taking notes because they wouldn't have remembered anything. The ball

was about ready to end when several people entered wearing black cloaks.

Harry spoke to Ron quickly. 'Ron go get Dumbledore RIGHT NOW! There

are death eaters here!' Harry felt Ron panic and knew that he was running

to Dumbledore's office right then. Harry pulled Hermione away from the

death eaters much to her dislike. They were terrorizing the muggles. There

were screams and crying all over the place. Harry stood in the middle of the room and yelled out at the top of his lungs. "LEAVE THEM ALONE! IT IS ME THAT YOU WANT! LEAVE THE MUGGLES ALONE AND TAKE ME."

Harry heard Hermione gasp. He took out his wand and held it up to the death eaters. They started to advance on him. Before Harry could curse them they all yelled "Expelliarmus!" Harry's wand flew out of his hands and he crashed straight into a deatheater. The deatheater grabbed him around the middle and disaperated. The rest of the death eaters did the same thing. Seconds after they had left Dumbledore came running into the room with some teachers and ministry members. They found Hermione in a corner in hysterics and shaking badly. Ron showed up as well. He ran over to

Hermione. "Hermione? Where is he? I can't communicate with him anymore!" Ron asked with much urgency in his voice. Hermione could not reply. Ron understood that the death eaters had taken Harry and he to, sank to the floor.









I really could just leave you there..



















Oh Nevermind.

Harry was woken up by a word 'enervate'. He looked around. He saw deatheater everywhere. In front of him was Voldemort himself.

"So Harry Potter, we meet again for the last time."

Harry looked at him coldly. "Tom, I can't say that it is a pleasure to see you again."

This did not please Voldemort. "Well then Potter if you call me by my muggle name then I will have to use some muggle torture devices on you as well as wizard ones." He conjured up a thick black leather belt and began beating the life out of Harry. Harry did his best not to cry out in pain. A couple seconds after he had finished with the belt Voldemort cried out

"Crucio!"

Harry yelled out in pain. It was terrible. Because Voldemort was so angry the curse was stronger then it had been last time. He preformed the curse again. Harry screamed even louder and this seemed to please him. "Potter it would be so easy to kill you know. But I love to see you in pain. So you get to keep the wounds for awhile. But don't worry you will not escape this time!" Voldemort waved his wand again and Harry was chained painfully to a wall. Then Voldemort disaperated.

As soon as he left Harry preformed the spell he, Ron, and Hermione had practiced many times. It was the opposite of the disarming spell and you could only perform without a wand. He concentrated hard and tried his best to ignore the pain. After about five minutes there is wand was in his hand. Harry did I few healing charms and then disaperated to Hogsmeade.

Because he could not walk he was going to summon his boom. Before he

could he collapsed on the ground and everything went black. Lily and James apperated to Hogsmeade, Dumbledore had alerted them as soon as he got

back to Hogwarts. They were walking up the street when they heard a moan

from behind them. James whipped around. When he spotted Harry and ran over to him. Lily was right at his side. James stood over his son and shook

him as hard as he could. But Harry was out cold. Lily pulled James away

from and Harry and picked her son up into her arms. Lily marveled over how light he was. As carefully as she could she carried Harry up to the school.

James meekly followed behind her, his head down in sorrow. Lily took Harry straight to the hospital wing. James went in first to make sure that it was ok to bring Harry in. He saw Dumbledore leaning over Ron who looked as

though he had fainted.

"Ah James, I have already started up search parties to find Harry." "You don't need to do that Dumbledore." Lily came in Harry still in her arms. She took him over to an empty bed and lay him down. Madame Pomfrey hurried over to wear Harry was lying. James sank down into the chair beside Harry's bed and watched as Madame Pomfrey fussed over him. She was muttering things like "Small healing charms.defiantly an unforgivable curse.probably some muggle torture .."

This caught James' attention. "Muggle torture? Voldemort would not use muggle torture!"

Madame Pomfrey winced at the Voldemort's name. "Mr. Potter I am afraid your question cannot be answered until Harry wakes up." She replied sadly. Just as she said this Ron woke up.

"Where's Harry? Is he alright..He stopped letting me know what was going on...felt pain...fainted..Where's is he? I still can't reach him!" Madame Pomfrey could not go over to Ron. She sent Lily to go talk to him because if she didn't keep trying to heal Harry then Harry might not make it. Lily did as she was told and tried to comfort the screaming Ron.

"Ron, it's ok, Harry is here in the hospital wing you don't need to see what he is seeing."

Ron tried to jump out of bed but Lily held him down as tight as she could.

"Mrs. Potter! I need to see Harry! I need to see that he is alive!" He yelled at her. She kept holding Ron down but opened the curtains so that Ron

could see Harry. Ron's eyes widened. "Oh my God! He looks dead! Please tell me that he is not dead! Is that why I can't feel him anymore? Please, please don't let him be dead!" Ron was totally out of control.

"Ron, shhh, Harry is not dead, but he is close to it. I am going to go get Dumbledore and then I will ask you to tell us everything you saw and felt from Harry." She said in a quiet comforting voice. She called Professor

Dumbledore over (who was standing over Harry in the next bed.) And asked Ron to tell them what happened. As calmly as he could Ron told them the

story. "Harry and Hermione were dancing and whispering to each other

when several cloaked men came into the room. Harry pulled Hermione out

of danger and went to the middle of the room. When he saw that the death eaters were terrorizing the muggles he told them to leave them alone since it

was Harry that they wanted and that they should take him instead. Before he got out his wand he said to me 'Ron I don't want you to see this. Take

good care of Hermione for me, and goodbye my friend.' Then I couldn't feel him anymore and everything went dark. I little later I felt pain, a burning

pain but I know that it was less then what Harry was feeling. A felt one more shot of pain and then passed out."

Lily put a hand over her mouth. She was so proud of Harry! She went over to her husband who was still in the chair next to Harry not moving, just holding Harry's hand tightly in his. Harry looked terrible. He was bleeding all over the place. He also was bruised and very pale. Harry slept straight through the night. The next morning Hermione was informed that Harry was in the hospital wing. She actually skipped all of her classes to stay at Harry's side. She tried kissing him to make him wake up but this time it did not work. Harry lay there as if dead for two weeks. For two whole weeks Hermione sat faithfully at his side talking to him, telling him everything. How that because of his sickness the Halloween Ball was delayed until he was well enough to go. That everybody was worried about it, and how Ron blamed himself. Finally just about as she was about to leave for the night hope gone Harry spoke to her.

"Hermione please don't leave me!" She turned around sharply. His beautiful green eyes were opened and looking at her in hope. She rushed over to him.

"Harry I will never leave you!" She gave him a tight hug, and he wheezed in pain. She quickly stop hugging him and started apologizing. After

comforting her he asked her what happened. She told him everything that had happened in the last two weeks. When he heard about Ron he remembered to switch their connection back on. He spoke to his friend. 'Ron I am awake now. Please stop worrying, this wasn't your fault. You couldn't have done anything to stop it."

There was no response but several minutes later Ron burst into the hospital wing. "Harry!"

"Ron, how are you mate?" Harry asked as causally as ever.

"I am a lot better now that you are awake! I haven't had anybody to pull pranks with for two weeks! The school is suspicious that the marauders don't exist anymore! And we can't have them thinking that now can we?" Harry laughed and agreed. Hermione scoffed, "Harry just woke up and you two are already planning pranks! Anyway I think that we should get Madame Pomfrey or Dumbledore and tell them that you have woken up Harry, it has been a depressing two weeks!"

"Ok Hermione, why don't you go get them and Ron and I will stay here and plan our pranks!" Harry said with a smile. Hermione rolled her eyes and went to go find the two teachers. As soon as Hermione had told her Madame Pomfrey rushed over to Harry asking him many questions and poking and prodding at him. Much to her dis-pleasment

Dumbledore came in half way through the examination. He made Madame Pomfrey stop and asked Harry many questions about what had happened with Voldemort. Harry told him everything except one little detail. Dumbledore knew that he was holding something back and asked gently, "Harry what did you say to make him so mad?"

Harry smiled he was hoping that Dumbledore would ask. "I addressed him as 'Tom'"

Dumbledore raised his eyebrows. "Oh did you? I can't imagine that he liked that."

"No," Harry was about to go on put just then Lily and James came into the hospital wing. They ran over to Harry and gave him tight hugs until he complaining that if they didn't stop then they were going to break his ribs. They sat and talked for quite some time until Madame Pomfrey came in a kicked everyone out of the wing. Harry spent the rest of the night pleading to be able to leave the hospital wing. But Madame Pomfrey would not budge. "If I have to I will tie you down to that bed!" You are not strong enough to leave. You will be here for at least another two days, and probably more!"

Harry groaned. Later that night Ron snuck into the hospital wing. (He had to use a secret passageway to get in because Madame Pomfrey had locked the door.)

"Ready Harry?" He whispered in the darkness. Harry responded by crawling out of bed. They snuck quietly down to the dungeons and set up their next prank. Then they went back to the hospital wing they met an angry Madame Pomfrey. "HARRY POTTER!

How dare you sneak out of the hospital wing! You are not well enough to be out and about, especially at this time of night! And you Ronald Weasley helping him! 20 points from Gryffindor and get back into that bed right this instant!"

Harry walked over to the muttering to himself. Once he crawled into bed Madame Pomfrey put a spell so that he couldn't get up and then sent Ron to bed.

The next day before classes Sirius came to see a not happy Harry. He laughed when he saw his godson magically tied down to the bed. "What did you do to deserve this?" He asked laughing. "I didn't do anything! Well all I did was sneak out of the hospital wing! It wasn't that big of a deal! I didn't go that far only down to the..." Harry stopped himself. 'Why do I never keep my mouth shut?' he wondered to himself.

"And what were you doing in the dungeons?" Sirius asked.

"How did you know?"

"I didn't you just told me."

"So what were you doing?"

"Well maybe you want to sit in on the next potions lesson. There will be a great show." Harry said with a mischievous look on his face.

"And will you please take this awful curse off! I hate just lying here in bed!"

Sirius shook his head and laughed. "Nope, you need to be taught a lesson anyway. I knew that you would get caught sometime. I was only hoping that I was the one to actually catch you!" He laughed again and left a fuming Harry tied down to the bed. To get back at Madame Pomfrey Harry changed several things in the hospital wing. Here perfectly neat white beds were now tye-dyed orange and green. The walls were an awful orange shade of red to clash with the sheets. The floor was pink. When Ron and Hermione came and visited later they laughed. Ron said, "You might as well say that a pissed off Harry Potter was here!" They continued to talk. Ron told Harry that the Halloween ball would be on Friday. Hermione looked nervously at Harry.

"What's wrong Hermione?" He asked her worried.

"Well Dumbledore felt bad about what happened at the muggle dance. Of course none of the muggles except Dudley and Jane remember what happened. And well he um made me um write to um Jane and um invite her to um our dance." Hermione said the last part very quietly but Harry knew what she had said.

"So as inviting Jane, inviting Dudley? To Hogwarts? Is he crazy?" Harry burst out.

"Well Mr. Potter my sanity has been questioned many times." Dumbledore walked into the hospital wing, his eyes twinkling. Harry looked up. "Um hi Professor."

Dumbledore laughed and looked around the room. "I see that you have been rather busy." He said chuckling. "Madame Pomfrey will not be pleased but that was your objective I believe."

Harry nodded and waited for the blow. But there wasn't one. Dumbledore just smiled down at him. Unfortunately at that point Madame Pomfrey walked in to the wing and screamed. She started yelling at Harry telling him how inconsiderate he was. By the time she was done she barely had a voice. Harry looked at her impatiently, "Since I am so inconsiderate can I leave now?"

She gave him a sharp glance. "Fine, it is not like I can really keep you here anyway. You are worse then your father." She un-did the spell. Harry stood up said "Thank You" and left the hospital wing. As he walked out of the door he collided with Lily.

"Mum!"

"Harry what are you doing? Get back into the hospital wing right this instant!"

"But mum."

"No buts!" She pushed Harry back into the hospital wing.

When she entered herself she gasped. "Harry did you do this?" He nodded.

"And then Madam Pomfrey was so annoyed at me she let me go! Please let me out of this room now!"

Lily sighed. "Fine, but I want you to come here everyday and get a check up."

Harry ran as fast as he could to meet Hermione and Ron. He snuck up behind his to talking friends and poked them each on the back. They turned around startled. As soon as they saw Harry they relaxed.

"So Harry looking forward to the Halloween Ball?" Hermione asked slyly.

"I look forward to anything that involves me spending time with you!" They

kissed. Ron sighed. "Really you two, I swear you should lay off each other!"

They separated. "Oh my God Hermione! We have to go to Hogsmeade!

They must have our costumes done by now!" Harry said to Hermione. Ron looked at them curiously, "What costumes?"

"Our Halloween costumes!" Hermione said.

"I knew that but what are you two going to go as?"

Harry smiled. "You will see, let's go Hermione!" They left quickly so that Ron couldn't follow them. Harry and Hermione walked into a small shop in Hogsmeade.

"Ah Mr. Potter, Ms. Granger, you have come at last. I believe that your

costumes are ready. But before you leave I would like you to try them on."

They did. They both looked fantastic. They took them off and the cashier

said "That will be 200 galleons please." Hermione gasped, that was a lot of

money. But Harry simply took out his wizard credit card and paid. Before

heading up to the castle the stopped at the Three Broomsticks. They ordered

to butter bears and a chocolate sundae. They slowly fed each other the

sundae. Then an hour and a half later they were back up at the castle with

Ron. Ron was begging to know what their Halloween costumes were but

they told him that he would just have to wait. That Friday Dumbledore

informed Harry that Dudley would arrive in the morning and the Harry and

Hermione needed to meet him at the train station. So at 7:00 the that

morning Harry found himself at Hogsmeade station watching the Hogwarts

Express pulling into the station. He had only two classes today and they

were double potions and double DADA. Dudley and Jane would be attending

those classes with Harry and Hermione. When Dudley stepped off the

platform he spotted Harry and Hermione on the other side and walked over

to them with Jane not far behind them. They were wearing their school

uniforms. Harry sighed when he saw what they were wearing.

"Dudley there is no way you will be able to get away with wearing that!" Harry waved his wand and Dudley was wearing plain black Hogwarts robes but with no house on them. Hermione did the same thing for Jane. They lead their cousins over to the head students carriage and climbed in. Dudley

stopped Harry. "What about our luggage?"

"It will be taken up to the castle for you."

"Castle?"

"Our school."

Dudley looked out the window the whole way up to the castle marveling at the size of it. When the carriage stopped they went into the great hall where all the students were eating breakfast. They took the two over to the Gryffindor table and sat next to Ron. Dudley was amazed at the golden sparkling plates and the amount of food provided.

"Dudley today I have double potions and double DADA. Professor Dumbledore said that you are to come to class with me. In potions today there will be a great show for you." Harry grinned evilly. Harry led Dudley through the many corridors down to the dungeons. Sirius had to be at this lesson anyway today to make sure that Snape was nice (or as nice as Snape ever got) to Dudley and Jane. Half-way through the class Sirius wondered if anything was going to happen. Suddenly golden words appeared over

Snape's head. 'Mission Impossible: Get the Grease out of Snape's hair.' The Gryffindors laughed as a shampoo poured onto Snape's hair. Someone invisible rubbed into his skull. Then water appeared, washed it out, and then dried. Snape was trying frantically to stop it but he couldn't when the hair was dry it was actually clean. It also looked as though Snape dyed his hair because all the black came out and Snape was blonde! All the Gryffindors were clutching their stomachs from laughing so hard and Sirius pulled out a camera and snapped several pictures of Snape with clean, blonde hair. To say the least Snape was furious. He dismissed the class and ran to go fix his hair.

Harry gestured for Sirius, Dudley, and Jane to follow him. He led them down to the Chamber of Secrets. "Sirius put that camera in this solution." Sirius did what he was told, wondering what Harry was up to. As soon as the camera was completely submerged in the solution the solution dried up and in it's and the camera's place there were several wizard photographs. They laughed the pictures showed each step of the transformation of Snape. "How did you create the solution?" Sirius asked them.

"I could tell you but then I would have to kill you." Harry said in a joking tone of voice. Dudley was on the other side of the room examining one of the potions. As he reached down to touch Harry yelled out to him. "Don't touch that!"

But it was to late, one of Dudley's fingerings had touched the liquid. Dudley's head began to swell twice the size of what it normally was. Harry quickly muttered a spell and his head shrunk back to normal. "Don't touch anything Dudley! You were lucky with that potion is perfected, otherwise you might have gotten hurt!"

Dudley nodded and looked scared. Harry looked down at his watch and cursed.

"We are late for DADA!" He started running toward the exit of the chamber

when Sirius stopped him. "Harry it is ok, I am the professor, remember?"

"Oh yeah." Harry said feeling stupid. They walked up to the DADA

classroom. There they found the rest of the Gryffindor 5th years talking and

laughing with each other. Sirius called the classes attention. "Since tonight

is the Halloween I have decided to give you a period of working on your

costumes. But before that I want to show you all what Harry, Ron,

Hermione, and I were doing before we arrived late for this class. He took out

the pictures and passed them around the room.

"Harry I have a special assignment for you and Hermione, because you have

told me that you have finished your costumes. He took out some money

handed it to Harry and whispered something in his ear. Harry smiled called

for Hermione, Dudley, and Jane to follow him. They came back about a half

hour later with butter bear and many sweets. They were having a great

time. Towards the end of class, Harry and Ron decided to have a friendly

duel. The class created a circle around them. They had fun shooting the

tickling spell and the jelly legs curse at each other. They both knew all the

counter-curses because of Harry's fourth year. Ron was about to shoot

another spell at Harry when the bell rang. Slowly everyone began to leave

the class talking about the duel. Harry and Hermione disappeared off

somewhere and left Dudley and Jane with Ron.

"What am I supposed to do with them?" He yelled after Harry.

"Show them to their rooms." Harry shouted back and ran after Hermione.

Ron didn't see any of Harry or Hermione before the dance. They seemed to

have disappeared and Harry wouldn't tell him where they were. Ron and

Sarah were going as Romeo and Juliet. Dudley and Jane went as Tarzan and Jane (go figure). The head students and their dates had to sit at the head

tables with the teachers. Harry and Hermione were still nowhere to be seen.

Ron saved them two seats next to Sirius. Suddenly there were sparkles all

over the entrance to the great hall. Two flying figures flew into the room.

Ron was shocked to see who it was. It was Harry and Hermione and they

had wings! Harry was wearing dark green robes lined in gold. Intertwined in

his messy black hair was a crown of golden thorns. He was covered in gold

glitter. Hermione was wearing a long slinky silver dress. Her skin seemed to

be sparkling. In her hair, there were woven wild flowers that made a crown. For necklaces and bracelets she was wearing what looked like enchanted daisy chains. But nothing in either one of their costumes were as spectacular as their wings. They looked as delicate as butterfly wings but were strong enough to hold their weight so they could fly. Everyone stared at them in amazement as they flew and sat down in the seats that Ron had saved for them.

Dumbledore clapped as the couple flew over to their seats by Sirius. "I am pleased to introduce you to the Fairy King and Queen, Oberon and Tatiana! And now that all of head students here I believe that it is time to eat!"

Food appeared on the many tables in the Great Hall. After the food appeared, Ron asked, "How did you two get wings?"

"A simple spell." Was Hermione's answer.

There was a pretty lady sitting by Sirius. She had beautiful brown hair that she was wearing in a long braid down her back.

"Sirius, who is the woman sitting next to you?" Harry asked wondering who she could be. Sirius blushed. "This is Ariel, my girl- my friend." He blushed even more.

"Ariel this is my godson Harry, his fiancée, Hermione, and his best friend, Ron."

"It is nice to meet you Harry, Sirius talks about you all the time." If possible Sirius went even a darker red. Harry laughed at the look on his face. "So Sirius what exactly are you two dressed as?" Harry asked eyeing their pointed ears and robes.

"Oh we are wood elves. Of course Ariel here is more beautiful then any of them."

Ariel blushed and gave him a soft kiss, Hermione giggled.

Finally, when all the food had disappeared and most of the tables moved there was the dance floor. The Weird Sisters were playing for them again. Because they were the head students (and head students dates) Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Sarah got to start the dancing. Slowly people joined them in the dancing. After about five songs, Harry led Hermione outside. He conjured up a blanket for them to lie down on. They sat talking for awhile but then decided to enjoy their wings while they still had them. They flew around the grounds talking to each other and holding hands. They returned to the great hall in time to dance to the last song. Harry conjured up a small dance floor for Hermione and himself. At the end of the dance everyone clapped. Dumbledore stood up. "I believe that that is the end of our dance. Please thank the head boys and girl for this wonderful occasion. And now off to bed, all of you!"

Harry and Hermione decided to fly up to the common room to give people something to look at as they climbed, tired, to their common rooms. As they flew into the common room there were cheers and clapping for them. They took a couple of bows and then hurried off into their private common room where Ron, Dudley, and Jane were waiting for them. "Harry, Hermione that was amazing! You should the pictures Sirius and I took! And please, please, please tell me how you did it!"

Harry just shook his head and smiled. Ron gave him an annoyed glance. He was silently yelling at Harry, but Harry just ignored him. "Let's go to bed shall we? It has been a long night." Harry said and before Ron could reply he gave Hermione a good-night kiss and went up to his bedroom. He closed the curtains around him and fell into a deep sleep.

The next Monday dragged himself out of bed. He had stayed up late last night talking with Hermione. He quickly got dressed and headed downstairs. When he got down to the common room Ron laughed.

"Harry I have one word for you. Caffeine."

Harry started to growl back but was interrupted by a yawn. Ron laughed again.

"Shut up Ron. Where is Hermione?" Harry asked.

"She already went to breakfast and if we don't hurry we wont get any." They hurried down to great hall and only had time for a couple pieces of toast before they had hurry off to DADA. Sirius laughed as they came into the room. "Rough morning?" He asked his eyes glinting. Harry gave him an angry glare. They took seats on other sides of Hermione as she started to lecture them about being late. Sirius began the class.

"Today we will be learning the legend of the Lanoitome. I know that it is technically a History of Magic class but seeing as Professor Binns does not believe in legends I think that it is important for you to learn about this." Harry, Ron, and Hermione stole glances at each other. Sirius continued on with the lesson telling the class information that Harry already knew. He ran up to Sirius after the bell. He was not happy. "Why did you do that lesson? How dare you, you practically told the class about Ron, Hermione, and me! How dare you!" Harry knew that Sirius knew about them because of the meeting of the order. Sirius raised his eyebrows.

"How did you know that I knew?" He asked suspiciously. Harry's face got red. He muttered something about not being late for Charms and ran out the door. After classes that day Sirius went to Dumbledore's office. "Peanut Butter!" He took the moving staircase up to the office and knocked. "Come in." Came Dumbledore's voice. Sirius hurried into the room. "I think Harry knows about the order!" Dumbledore looked at him quickly. "What makes you think that?" He asked in a sharp tone of voice.

"Today I did a lesson on the Lanoitome. After class he came up and yelled at me for telling. But he didn't tell me who he was and he knows James didn't. After I pointed that out he practically sprinted out of the classroom. He must know about the meeting."

Dumbledore nodded. "I will send for him then. I believe that he practicing with next years Quiddich team."

Sirius nodded and headed out the door. But when he got down to the field and into the locker rooms he couldn't believe what he saw this was no Quiddich practice.



Authors Note: And there you have it. I wanted to make up for my short chapter last time. As for Hermione/Harry, I have to say that I am about the most predictable fanfic writer ever. Sorry about that. Please Read and Reply!