Remus opened the front door to his cozy cabin, allowing the others entry.
Sirius laid Harry down on the sofa as if he was a fragile piece of glass, just as Ginny Weasley came running down the stairs with Luna Lovegood, Nevile Longbottom and Tonks.
Seeing Harry's questioning look, Ron explained.
"Almost all of the adults are trying to keep us in the dark. Me, the twins, Ginny and Hermione were secretly planning to come and get you when you stopped getting our letters. Sirius and Remus walked in on us and joined in, and also told Tonks. We needed Luna and Neville's help with some of the things, and so they joined in too."
Sirius sat down on the edge of the couch, as Remus, Hermione and Ginny went to get some healing potions.
"Dumbledore gave me and Remus a mission, and Ginny, Fred, George, Ron, Hermione, Luna, Neville, Tonks and you somehow ended up coming with us." Sirius said.
Remus came back with Hermione and Ginny, carry potions, tea, and sandwiches.
Everyone was given a cup of tea and a sandwich.
"Drink your tea, and then we'll check you out." Remus said, setting the potions on the coffee table.
Harry tried to raise the cup to his lips, but the small weight was causing his hands to shake.
Sirius, seeing this, set his own cup down and helped Harry drink his, causing the teen to blush, but didn't resist.
Remus turned to the other kids. "Why don't you take Harry's things to his room?"
They nodded and began dragging the trunk up the stairs.
Once they were out of sight, Tonks turned to the two men.
"What the hell happened?" she asked.
Remus sighed, setting his tea down next to Sirius, who was still helping Harry drink his, but was listening.
"We found him in the smallest bedroom, tied to the bed, starving, and with a full bladder." Remus explained.
"Those arse holes!" Tonks exclaimed.
Sirius put Harry's tea onto the coffee table. "Wish we didn't send that fake invitation. I would have gladly turned them all into toads."
Harry was once again very happy they had taken him away from the Dursleys. They would ben furious when they found out the invitation was fake, and it would have been taken out on Harry.
"Turning Muggles into toads passed, lets check out Harry." Remus said
Harry shifted uneasily, as Remus set up a piece of parchment and put an enchantment on it.
Tonks, sensing Harry's unease, got up from her seat. "I'll go help the kids."
Once she was away upstairs, Remus began waving his wand, from Harry's toes and up.
When he reached the knee's, the wand tip went red. Remus frowned, and pointed the wand at the right knee and the red light brightened.
On the paper wrote:
Right knee, twisted, 1 month ago, pushed down the stairs, caused by Dudley Dursley.
Sirius growled upon reading the parchment, and Harry saw a flash of amber in Remus's eyes.
With a deep breath, Remus continued moving his wand up Harry's body.
The tip went red again when it reached Harry's stomach.
Stomach, empty, 5 weeks ago, starvation, caused by Vernon and Petunia Dursley.
Sirius was shaking with anger and Remus knuckles were white on his wand.
Remus moved his wand up Harry's body, over his chest, and it went red at his throat.
Throat, surgery, 3 weeks ago, Voice Box removed, caused by Dr. John Thomson and Vernon Dursley.
Remus dropped his wand.
The two Marauders mouths were hanging open, staring at the parchment with wide eyes.
Then Sirius was on his feet, swearing at the top of his lungs.
The kids and Tonks came running down the stairs.
"What's going on?" Ron asked.
Remus said nothing, his eyes amber, and shoved the parchment towards them.
"Twisted knee... starvation... Voice Box removed!" he exclaimed.
Tears were in Hermione's eyes, and her hands were covering her mouth.
"Those bastards..." George whispered, shaking with rage.
Even Luna was shocked into silence.
"Keep going." Tonks said.
Remus picked his wand back up and continued from Harry's neck to his head, where it again went red.
Head, concussion, 6 days ago, hit in the head by a frying pan, caused by Petunia Dursley.
Head, tiredness, 1 month and 1 day ago, nightmares, caused by Tom Riddle Jr a.k.a. The Dark Lord.
Sirius closed his eyes, trying to keep himself under control.
His godson has been pushed down the stairs, starved, tied to the bed, locked into a small room, denied to use the bathroom, hit in the head with a frying pan, has been having nightmares, and was forced to have surgery to get his voice box removed, even if he didn't want or need it.
Shaking with rage, Remus slowly got to his feet, his eyes amber.
"I'm going to get Madam Pomfrey." he said calmly, before grabbing some floo, throwing into the fireplace, shouting "Hogwarts!", and vanishing into the green flames.
Sirius, still shaking with rage, sat down on the floor by Harry's head, and took his godson's hand, squeezing it.
It only took 4 minutes for Remus to return with Madam Pomfrey, who immediately set to working on Harry.
First, she worked on his knee.
"I would mend it immediately if I could, but the injuries to old. Look like you won't be walking to much, Potter." Pomfrey said, wrapping the purple knee in white bandages.
Then she forced Harry to drink some disgusting potions to stop his stomach from digesting itself, before going to his concussion.
"Again, it's to old." she explained, once she was done waving her wand around it, giving Harry potions, and had begun rapping it in bandages. "Make sure you don't bang your head of anything."
Pomfrey then moved to his throat, and sighed.
"Can you fix it?" Hermione asked, her voice small.
"It will take a couple months, but yes. If he's lucky enough, he'll be able to have a verbal conversation by Christmas." Pomfrey said, waving her wand over Harry's throat a few times, before making him take more potions.
Finally, after a full hour, she got to her feet and walked over to Sirius and Remus.
"Mr. Lupin has already explained how this happened. And I promise not to tell Dumbledore about you taking Harry. But you must understand, he only wanted to keep the boy safe. He had no idea what was going on in the inside. I will inform Professor McGonagall and a few others, and I am sure they will agree that Mr. Potter is not to go back there." Madam Pomfrey said.
Remus nodded. "Thank you, Poppy."
Pomfrey smiled slightly. "Your welcome. Here are the potions he'll need." she dug into her bag. "He must drink this before and after every meal, it's to regrow his voice box. A Dreamless Sleep Potion, but only if he really needs it. He should have large meals, and a snack every now and then. Make sure he goes outside and has some fresh air, and he shouldn't be left alone for more than an hour."
"Why?" Sirius asked.
"He's had little human contact over the summer, and the few contacts he has has probably been mostly violent. We wand him to get used to non-violent contact again." Pomfrey explained.
"Yes, thank you again." Remus said.
Pomfrey nodded, before vanishing through the fireplace.
A moment of silence.
"Well... this has been one interesting night." Tonks said.
"You got that right." Fred said.
"Come one, let's get to bed." Remus said.
Harry tried to sit up, but his thin arms shook under his light weight.
Sirius picked him up again and, ignoring how Harry had turned a deep shade of red, walked up the stairs, the others following.
They walked down a hall, passing a bunch of doors.
Fred and George went through one, Hermione, Ginny, Luna and Tonks going through another, and Neville, Ron and the others through another.
There were three beds, Harry's trunk sitting at the end of the one closest to the window.
Hedwig hooted from her perch on top of her cage.
Ron and Neville climbed into their own beds, while Sirius laid Harry on his.
"Night, pup." he whispered, pulling the blankets up to Harry's chin.
Harry opened his mouth to say night back, but, again, no words came out, so he closed his mouth again.
Sirius smiled sadly at him, quickly kissed his forehead, and speed-walked out the room to where a smirking Remus was waiting, as if Harry would have been unhappy with the kiss.
But instead, Harry clung to the warm feeling in his chest, and allowed sleep to take him.