disclaimer : I don't owe Harry Potter
Chapter 14 : Jealousy, Fighting, Beetles and Oaths
Harry was starting to wonder if he was ever going to get any sleep, between the mounds of homework and his scar hurting all night, he thought that answer was no. He was never going to get any sleep, he couldn't even sleep in on the weekends due to all the weekend homework the teachers began to give them.
Harry's hope to spend more time with Ginny was dashed too, because for some reason her and Rigel were now spending a lot of time together, either in the library or walking around the castle, as if they were looking for something. Harry couldn't help but start to feel jealous, Ginny was his girl, why was she spending so much time with Rigel, Harry's jealousy only got worse when he found out Rigel and Alicia broke up. Ginny and Rigel would disappear for hours at a time leaving Harry only Teddy to hang out with.
Jesse was now spending a lot of his time away from the castle doing whatever he and Bill Weasley along with Mr. and Mrs. Weasley was doing. Whatever it was Harry had a feeling it had something to do with Rita Skeeter, because around the time Jesse had started wandering off, Skeeter's stories about him and Ginny in the paper went from slowing down then completely stopped. He really wanted to know what Jesse was doing, but right now he didn't care, he was more worried about what his so-called best friend Rigel was up to with his girlfriend. Ginny and Rigel might have been good friends too, but she's never really hung out with him by herself, not all the time like this.
Right now Harry was in the Great Hall with Teddy eating lunch, it was a Saturday, and he hasn't seen Ginny all day, nor has he seen Jesse, his head was hurting, he hadn't had a descant-night sleep all week, he has piles of homework he left to the last-minute to do. (Mainly because his headache made it impossible to do it.) He was grumpy, in pain, tired and on top of all that he was jealous and afraid. Afraid he was losing Ginny to his best friend.
Harry was at the Gryffindor table picking at his food, across from him was Teddy, he was eating quietly, while casting worried glancing across the table at Harry. Rigel and Ginny were wandering the castle once again. At least he thought they were, but Rigel came walking in the Great Hall alone and sat down next to Teddy.
"Hey, Trouble, where have you been?" Teddy asked. Harry ignored him.
"Sassy and I have been working on something." Rigel said. He had this smirk on his face. And Harry was sure he knew why. He slammed his fork down and picked up his goblet of pumpkin juice and drained it in one drink. He rubbed his scar as he tried his best to ignore his so-called best friend.
"Where is Sassy now?" Teddy asked. "And what are you guys working on anyway."
"Can't say." Rigel said. "I was told not to, but you'll know when the time is right. We're done now anyway." Harry slammed his goblet down and stood, then walked to the exit.
"Hey, Lighting-Bolt, where you going?" Teddy demanded. Harry didn't answer as he left the Great Hall.
"What's wrong with him?" Rigel asked. Teddy shrugged.
"He's been in a grumpy mood all day, and has hardly said a word." Teddy said. "I think his scar is bothering him."
"Let's go see what's wrong." Rigel said. "I was supposed to tell him to go meet Jesse in Dumbeldore's office anyway."
"Why's he suppose to go to Dumbledore's office?" Teddy asked.
"I don't know." Rigel said. "That's what Ginny's brother Bill said when he showed up and got her."
When they made it to the entrance hall, they saw that Harry had only made it to the bottom of the marble stairs and was sitting with his face in his hands.
"Hey, Lighting-Bolt." Teddy said. "What's wrong? Is it your scar?" Harry raised up to answer, saw Rigel with him and scowled. Rigel raised his eyebrows.
"Are you mad at me or something?" Rigel demanded. Teddy looked between him and Harry in surprise.
"Gee, what gave you that idea?" Harry asked. Rolling his eyes.
"Don't get smart with me." Rigel said. There was nothing he hated more than someone getting smart with him. When his friends teased and really didn't mean it was one thing, but when they were being a smart-ass he couldn't stand that.
Harry rolled his eyes his temper flaring. But staid nothing, just gave Rigel a glare.
"Harry, what in Merlin's magic is wrong with you?" Rigel demanded. Harry wasn't the only one out of the four friends, who had a temper they couldn't control.
"What's wrong with me?" Harry repeated. "If you don't know that then you're more stupid than I thought."
"Excess me." Rigel demanded, taking a step toward Harry, Teddy got between them and held his hands out.
"Hold up." Teddy said. "Come on, we're all friends here. We can work this out without trading blows."
"Friends." Harry said. "Yeah right, friends don't do what he did."
"I like to know what the hell I did." Rigel said, glaring at Harry.
"You should know." Harry said. Jumping to his feet.
"Come on, you two, just calm down." Teddy pleaded. He turned to Harry. "Lighting, you've been in a bad mood a lot lately. What's wrong?"
"Everything!" Harry yelled, a few students going by stopped and looked. "Let's start with someone putting my name in the goblet of fire. That person most likely wants me dead. I got piles of homework waiting for me upstairs. I can't get any sleep at night and my bloody scar won't stop hurting." Harry took a breath, his voice rose with every sentence. "And to top it all off, my so-called best friend is trying to steal my girl."
Rigel suddenly started to laugh. "Is this what I was supposed to have done? Harry there is nothing between me and Ginny. Sassy is just a friend."
"Ginny is my girl!" Harry yelled. "Leave her alone." Now just about the whole school was watching and whispering. Not once has any of them ever seen any of the Gryffinclaws even arguing, little long about to attack each other.
"Harry, I don't want Ginny." Rigel said. "She's like a sister to me."
"Why Have you been spending so much time with her?" Harry asked. "I barely even get to see her anymore." He started rubbing his scar. He didn't really know where all this anger was coming from. He just knew he couldn't lose Ginny, for any reasons.
Rigel rolled his eyes. "Never knew you could be so jealous. Harry, you need to just stop. You're making a fool of yourself."
"I'm not a fool!" Harry yelled, then, suddenly, he tackled Rigel to the ground and started punching him. The whole school gasped, not many people were brave enough to fight Rigel, with fist or with magic, just a few stupid Slytherins who always ended up regretting it.
There was more gasped as Rigel started hitting back, and soon they were rolling around the floor punching each other. It was a good thing they had been best friends for so long, that they were just punching each other and not going for their wands. They both knew enough spells that could really do some damage to the other person. Teddy didn't know what to do as he watched his two best friends rolling around on the floor beating each other to a pulp. The other students were no help, they just cheered whoever they wanted to win.
Harry brought his foot up and kicked Rigel off him, he then stood, as Rigel did. Harry took swing at Rigel, but he ducked. And came back up and caught Harry in the jaw. He stumbled back, then came back and punched Rigel in the eye, knock him to the ground. He let out a growl of anger, jumped up, and tackled Harry to the ground and started punching where ever he could reach.
"Stop, Rigel! Harry!" Was all poor Teddy was able to say, he didn't know what to do. He's seen Rigel beat people up before, but never one of their best friends. Harry was now on the ground Rigel now on top of him, but he still was able to give Rigel a good punch in the nose.
The crowds suddenly parted as Sirius and Cody pushed their way through. "What's going on here?" Sirius demanded. He then cursed when he saw his nephew on top of another student punching him.
"Rigel, stop!" Sirius cried, moving forward, he grabbed his nephew around the waist and pulled him off. "What have I told you about..." Sirius' words died in his throat when he saw who his nephew had beaten up.
"Harry," Cody said. Shock on his face as he had to restrain his brother, who had jumped up and went for Rigel. Cody held Harry around the waist, holding him back.
Harry had a bruise forming on his face and his jaw was starting to swell. He reached up to wipe of the blood coming from his busted lip. His glasses were also off, and laying on the floor broke. Rigel didn't look any better, he had a black-eye forming, and a bloody nose.
Cody turned and glared at Rigel. "Look at him, why would you do that? He's your best friend."
"I don't like being accused of doing things I didn't do." Rigel said. "Besides, look at my nose. I think he broke it." Sirius pulled a handkerchief out of his pocket and handed it to his nephew. Who took it and held it and covered his nose. As Cody picked up Harry's broken glasses.
"Mind telling us what this was all about?" Sirius demanded. Harry and Rigel looked at each other, both their anger leaving them and fading away. As they saw the shape the other was in.
"Just a misunderstanding is all." Rigel said. Sirius looked between his godson and nephew. Who both looked as if they had been ran over by a runway hippogriff.
"Must have been one hell of a misunderstanding." Sirius said. "Look at the two of you. Prongs, Moony and I might have gotten into little fights or misunderstandings ever once in a while, but we never beat the shit out of one another." He turned to Rigel. Who for the first time in his life looked ashamed about something he did. "You're grounded." Rigel's looked at his uncle shocked, Sirius has not once in his life ever punished him for anything. He's yelled at him, but never grounded him. How could he ground him they were at school. It's not like Rigel could go anywhere.
"What do you mean grounded." Rigel demanded, sounding like he didn't know the meaning of the word.
"Just what I said." Sirius said. "No more Hogsmeade visits for the rest of the year." He pointed at Harry. "Look what you did to my godson." He turned to Harry and pointed at Rigel. "And look what you did to my nephew. You know what I'm grounding you too, no Hogsmeade visits for the rest of the year." Harry would have loved to tell Sirius he couldn't ground him, but he was unable to move his jaw to talk, he tried but it hurt too much. "Don't think I can't ground you, Jesse might be your guardian, but I'm you godfather and hae some say over you. And you know once Jesse sees you he'll agree." Harry put his head down and Sirius turned back to Rigel.
"Just go on and have Madam Pomfrey have her look at that nose. Teddy," Teddy gave a start, looking like he was afraid Sirius was going to tell him he was grounded too. "Go with him. Make sure he doesn't get into anymore misunderstandings." Teddy nodded, before following Rigel up the stairs.
"Come on, Harry, your healing is going to have to wait I'm afraid." Sirius said, motioning for Harry to follow him. "Your eldest brother is waiting for you." Harry said nothing, he just rubbed his jaw as he followed Sirius up the steps, Cody right behind him. "I can't believe the two of you. Best friends tearing each other apart. And did you see poor Teddy, you guys had that boy scared to death. He didn't know what to do."
"Come one, Sirius." Cody said. "Jesse can wait. Lighting needs his jaw taken care of."
"We'll take care of it in Dumbldore's office." Sirius said. "Okay, kiddo." He said, ruffling Harry's hair.
Sirius led Harry up to Doubledore's office. Told the statue the password and then they went up the moving staircase. When it stopped. Sirius lifted the round piece on the griffin head door knocker and knocked.
"Come in." Was heard from inside. Sirius opened the door and allowed Harry to walk in first. Upon entering he heard a gasp and looked to see Ginny sitting in one of the chairs in front of Dumbeldore's desk. She jumped up out of her chair and ran right to him.
"Oh my god!" Ginny said. "Harry, what happen?" Harry didn't answer. He searched for something in Ginny's sapphire eyes. He saw all the concern and love there and suddenly felt like a fool. Rigel might be a girl chaser, but Ginny would never cheat on him or leave him. No matter who it was.
"He was in a fight." Sirius said. Jesse who stood in a corner next to Bill Weasley rolled his eyes, and came walking over to them, pulling out his wand. "I grounded him. I'll explain everything later." Jesse gave a nod.
"His jaw's broke, Jesse." Cody told his older brother. "Fix it for him." The way he sounded you would have thought it was him with the broke jaw.
"His jaw wouldn't be breaking if he hadn't been fighting." Jesse said.
"Who did it?" Ginny demanded. Her eyes narrowing. Harry shook his head, pointing to his jaw, trying to tell her it hurt to talk. She understood what he was saying, and took his hand as Jesse pointed his wand at Harry's jaw. He closed his eyes tight, squeezing Ginny's hand. He couldn't help but to be nervous when someone. No matter who it was. pointed their wand at him. After what happen that Halloween night, who wouldn't be.
"Episkey." Jesse said. Harry felt a little pain, as his jaw bone went back together, then just like that the pain was gone."
"Thanks." Harry said, rubbing his jaw. It was still sore, but not as bad. Jesse said nothing as he went and stood by Bill.
"When I find out who did it this, I'm going to curse him in the middle of next week." Ginny threatened. Harry smirked, imagining Ginny hexing Rigel.
Someone cleared their throat and they both looked at Dumbeldore. Ginny's face turned red when she realized she had just threatened another student right in front of the headmaster.
"Please the both of you have a seat." Dumbeldore said, pointing to the two chairs in front of him. Ginny took Harry's hand and led him over to the two chairs in front of Dumbeldore's desk. The chairs were close enough together that they were able to hold hands. Harry looked around to see who all was here.
Jesse was back standing in a corner next to Dumbeldore's desk, by Bill Weasley, Bill was looking at Harry amused, but Jesse was giving him a look that told Harry he was going to get a telling off later. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley stood on the other side of the room. Mrs. Weasley was giving Harry a disappointed look, but Mr. Weasley's expression said boys will be boys. Cody and Sirius had decided to stand behind Harry and Ginny's chairs. Tonks was also here she was standing behind Dumbledore holding a glass jar in her hands. Harry couldn't see all that good without his glasses, but he could swear the jar had a beetle in it.
They were also two people Harry didn't know sitting in chairs on either side of Dumbeldore. Dumbledore himself beamed at Harry and Ginny.
"Who would like to explain everything to this lovely couple?" Harry and Ginny both blushed as Dumbeldore's eyes twinkled madly.
"I guess I will." Jesse said, stepping forward. "Harry, Ginny, you know that Bill and I have been up to something." They both nodded. "Well, right before the second task I got a letter from Bill, so I went to the Leaky Cauldern to meet him, he convinced me to come to the Burrow with him and talk to his parents about the stories Skeeter keeps putting in the paper about you two."
"A friend of mine has the Daily Prophet sent to him in Egypt." Bill cut in. "He saw the stories and showed me. The one about the ball really ticked me off. I know my little sister and I know she isn't the type of person that just... that does the things Skeeter was saying. Ginny writes to me a lot, and she told me about dating Seamus Finnigan, she also told me about dumping him and then about her and Harry being together." Bill looked at Harry. "Ginny has liked you since second year."
"Bill!" Ginny said, her face turning red as Harry looked at her surprised.
"My point is, I know Ginny better than anyone else in my family." Bill said. "So, I knew what Skeeter was saying were lies, so I sent an owl to Jesse, had him meet me, then we went to talk to mum and dad. We all decided it was about time that someone was to put a stop to all Skeeter's lies. So that's were my friend here comes in at." Bill pointed at one of the people sitting by Dumbledore. It was a guy, a year or two older than Bill and Jesse, he had brown hair and brown eyes, and wearing robs of black with silver trim.
"This here is an old friend of Jesse and mine." Bill said. "Though he left Hogwarts two years before us. "This is Ethan McPherson, he is a wizard lawyer. He is in the middle of a case, that Mum, dad, and Jesse filed against the Daily Prophet and Rita Skeeter."
"Case?" Ginny asked.
"Yes, Ms. Weasley." Ethan McPherson said. "Your parents and Mr. Potter's brother, are suing the Daily Prophet and Rita Skeeter, for defamation of character, stalking, harassment, and emotional distress. We have already brought the case up against the Wizardry courts, a judge granted the okay to bring this to the Wizengamot and has filed a Restraining Order against Ms. Skeeter, she is not allowed within five hundred feet of any Wealsey or Potter, if she is caught in violation of this order she will be charged, and giving a fine and might even spend a little time in Azkaban."
"She might just go to Azkaban anyway." Tonks added, holding up the jar and giving it a shake. The beetle looked as if it was trying to hold on for dear life.
"Um...what's with the beetle?" Harry asked. Ginny laughed.
"That's what Rigel and I have been up to." She said, pointing at it. "You know I've tried to figure out how Skeeter is following us and getting them pictures of us. Well, Rigel came to me one day after talking to Sirius and told me he thought maybe Skeeter was an animagus, so we went and looked Skeeter up and found she wasn't registered. We couldn't figure out what she could be, so I thought back. Thinking about any weird acting animals that was always around us when the pictures were taken. And I thought back. Do you remember when we were in front of the fountain, I said I had tried to kill a nasty looking beetle?" Harry nodded.
"I thought back to the second task. I heard Victor Krum tell Hermione that she had a beetle in her hair." Ginny went on. "Well, that got me thinking about the time you and I were in the Ravenclaw common room, right before you came in Chaser had chased around a beetle. And when we first kissed on the marble staircase and when Hermione had given you that Newspaper in front of the Great Hall, there was a beetle on the banister both times."
"Hang on." Harry said. "You're not trying to tell me that beetle is.."
"Rita Skeeter." Ginny grinned. "Rigel and I found her just today, she was sitting outside the Ravenclaw common room."
Now Harry really felt like a fool and an idiot. Rigel and Ginny has just been trying to catch Rita Skeeter."
"Now the Ministry is bringing up charges against her." Tonks said. "Trespassing, and being illegal aniamgus. I get to take her there myself."
"Now, for the reason the other person is here." Bill said, pointing at the other person Harry didn't know, a woman with golden blonde hair and blue eyes wearing red robes. "This is Ethan's wife Beatrice McPherson, she is Head editor of The Wizard Word News Press, and she is here to tell the truth, and to hear what really happened between you and Harry and his scar hurting and the fits Skeeter said he has and to write about our case, because you know the Daily Prophet will tell nothing but lies."
"Why don't you guys go ahead and tell me." Beatrice said. Pulling parchment and a quill out of her bag. Harry and Ginny sat in Dumbledore's office for over two hours telling their stories. And when they got done they were finally allowed to leave.
"Now tell me what happen to you." Ginny demanded. Harry chewed on his lip, not hat he was calm down and knew the truth, he didn't really want to snitch on his friend.
"Hold up there, Harry." Jesse called, after he had followed them out. Sirius and Cody were with him.
"What is this about you being in a fight?" He demanded.
"I've already grounded him." Sirius said. "No more Hogsmeade weekends for the rest of the year, Rigel too."
"He was fighting someone too?" Jesse asked.
"He was fighting someone alright." Cody scowled "He was fighting Harry."
"What?" Jesse asked.
"Rigel did that to your face?" Ginny demanded. Harry looked away. "I'm going to kill him!" She took a step down the corridor, but Harry grabbed her hand and pulled her back.
"Don't, Gin, it was my fault." Harry said.
"Your fault?" Cody asked. Harry nodded and looked down.
"What happen?" Ginny asked, laying her hand on Harry's arm.
"I um... got jealous of all the times you and him were spending together, and accused him of.." Harry kicked the floor with his foot. "I accused him of trying to take you from me and attacked him." Ginny's mouth dropped in shock, both Cody and Sirius burst out laughing.
"Harry, I want you to find Rigel and say your sorry." Jesse said. "And Sirius' grounding stands, he has a right to punish you." Harry just nodded knowing there was no use arguing, he doubted he would have had time to go to Hogsmeade anytime soon, all the homework he had, he would probably still be doing it next school year.
Jesse and the other two soon left Harry and Ginny alone, Jesse and Sirius went to go to the Ministry with Tonks and Cody went to see what Fred and George was up to. Ginny turned to Harry.
"Harry, how could you think that?" Ginny demanded. "You're the only one.."
"I know." Harry said, sitting down on the floor and leaning against the wall. "I already feel like a fool. I think it's all this stress, the tournament, not getting any sleep, my scar hurting all the time."
Ginny wanted to yell at Harry and tell him he was an idiot, but he looked so lost sitting there, so tired and stressed out she couldn't do it. So she sat next to him and put her arm around his shoulder and pulled him to her. Harry put his head on Ginny's shoulder.
"Harry, everything is going to be fine." Ginny said.
"I'm scared." He admitted. Ginny kissed the top of his head.
"Of what?" She asked.
"Voldemort is coming back I just know it." Harry said, in an almost whisper. Ginny shook her head.
"Baby, you don't know that." She said. Harry pulled away.
"I can feel it." Harry said. "He's coming back and it scares me, because I'm afraid he'll kill everyone I care about, like he killed my mum and dad."
"Harry, that won't happen." Ginny said, taken his hand.
"And now because I'm a jealous idiot I just lost one of my very best friends." Harry said.
"No you didn't." A voice said. Harry and Ginny, looked up to see Rigel and Teddy standing over them.
"Rigel, I'm sorry about earlier." Harry said. "I don't know why I did what I did. I think..." Harry was cut off by Rigel holding his hand up.
"It never happened." Rigel said.
"If that's true then you got grounded for something that never happened." Teddy said. Rigel glared at him. Before turning back to Harry.
"Harry, just forget about." Rigel said. "We've been friends for so long, we were bound to get in a fight over something sooner or later."
Harry grinned. Happy that he didn't lose his best friend.
"You three and Uncle Siri are the only people I gave a damn about." Rigel said.
"How cute." Teddy said. "Hear that guys? He gives a damn about us." Rigel glared at Teddy.
"Would you shut up let me finish." Rigel said. He knelt in front of Harry, and smacked him lightly on the knee. "Our little fight got me thinking."
"Little." Ginny said. "Your little fight broke his jaw." Rigel looked at Harry in surprise.
"I'm fine now." Harry said. "Jesse held it."
"I really didn't mean to hit you that hard." Rigel said.
"He broke your nose." Teddy said. "You're even."
"Harry broke your nose?" Ginny asked, smirking. After hearing that, Ginny became friendlier toward Rigel. "What was it you were saying."
"Our fight made me think." Rigel said. "We're going to fight with one another now and then. But you three are the only ones I truly trust." Rigel held up his hand when Harry had opened his mouth. "I mean besides Uncle Sirius. I want to make sure no matter what we'll stay friends, and we'll be here for each other, and keep each other safe."
"Where are you going with this?" Ginny asked. Rigel looked up and down the hall before turning back to his friends. "Not here someone might hear." He stood up and held his hand out to help Harry up. He then slung his arm round Harry's shoulder as he led them away.
Rigel took them up to the seventh floor corridor, opposite of a tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy trying to teach trolls to ballet. They watched as Rigel walk pass a blank wall three times concentrating hard on something. Then to their surprised a door appeared. He opened it.
"After you." Rigel said, motioning for them to enter the room. All three walked in wondering just what Rigel was doing.
When they entered the room was almost empty, except for about twelve white lit candles that were in a circle on the floor.
"Trouble, where are we?" Ginny asked, as Rigel shut the door.
"Room of Requirement." Rigel answered. "I found this room last year when searching the castle for Pettigrew. Sorry I never showed it to you before, but I used it to come think." He pointed to the circle of candles. "Have a seat."
Harry sat down, Ginny sat on his right side, and Teddy sat on his left, as Rigel sat on the other side of him, making it a complete circle.
"I brought you guys here, because I don't what anyone to know what we are about to do." Rigel said. "Uncle Sirius would freak if he knew I knew about stuff like this. I know he cares about me, but I also know he fears whose side I would choose if Voldemort was to come back." Rigel said.
"Our side of course." Harry said. Rigel gave him an almost smile.
"Now, if you are willing to do what I want, you can't tell anyone." Rigel said.
"What do you want us to do?" Ginny asked. Rigel looked at each one for a moment. His light gray eyes looking spooky in the candle lit.
"I want us to make a magical friend oath." Rigel said. Teddy looked confused but Harry's eyebrows rose up. And Ginny's mouth dropped.
"Um, what the hell is a magical friend oath." Teddy asked.
"It's when you make an oath to be someone's friend no matter what and vow to protect them for the rest of your life." Ginny said. "It's illegal because you have to give said person a bit of your magic."
"How the hell do you do that?" Teddy demanded.
" ou cut your palm and drop four drops of blood into a fire, while you close your eyes and concentrate on your magic." Rigel said. "As you cut your palm, you have to will some of your magic in your blood, but only a tiny bit or something can go wrong."
"Trouble, you do know this is illegal?" Ginny asked. "Not that I think this is a bad thing to do, if done for the right reason, but if we are found out we could spend a lot of time in Azkaban." Rigel snorted.
"You have to be caught in the middle of the doing the oath to get in trouble." Rigel said. "They have no proof you did it. So they have to see you doing it to make the charges stick, besides, with who Harry is and who my family is." Rigel scowled at that. "They would never try to do anything to us. Look, Harry's feeling are always right, and we all know Voldemort didn't die. some thing kept him alive. Something I'm determined to found out, so we can stop him and finally have peace. We're not always around each other, by doing this we'll know if the other one is in trouble. But if we do this we really have to trust each other." With that he looked at Harry.
"I trust you, Rigel" Harry said. "Really I do. I don't know what was wrong with me before." Rigel gave a nod.
"But, we all have to be wearing something just like the other, like an amulet or pendant." Ginny said.
"We are." Rigel said and he patted his back.
"Our tattoos?" Ginny asked. "They'll work?" Rigel nodded.
"So are we going to do this?" Rigel asked.
"I'm in." Harry said. Ginny looked at him for a moment and their eyes meet.
"Me too." Ginny said. Teddy looked back and forth between them all.
"Me too." He finally said. Rigel only nodded.
"I'll go first." He pulled a pocket knife from his back pocket and opened it. "If you are not sure what to do, just say and do what I do." They nodded and Rigel held is hand over the small fire, palm up and closed his eyes.
"I, Rigel Regulus Black, willing gives a bit of my magic to Harry Potter, Ted Lupin, and Ginevra Weasley, and vow to be their friend no matter what and to protect them from danger." At that Rigel cut across his palm then turned his hand and let four drops of blood drip into the fire, before pulling his hand away. He opened his eyes, then handed the knife to Harry, who took it and took a deep breath, he copied Rigel and held his hand over the fire palm up.
"I, Harry Sirius Potter, willing gives a bit of my magic to Ginevra Weasley, Rigel Black, and Ted Lupin, and vow to be their friend no matter what and protect them from danger." Harry then cut his hand and let four drops of blood dip into the flame, then pulled away. He then handed the knife to Ginny, she took it with a slightly shaky hand. Then copied what the other two had done.
" I, Ginevra Elizabeth Weasley willing gives a bit of my magic to Harry Potter, Ted Lupin and Rigel Black and vow to be their friend no matter what and protect them from danger." She then cut her palm letting the four drops of blood into the fire, the flame got higher. She then handed the knife to Teddy who copied the other three.
"I, Ted Remus Lupin, willing gives a bit of my magic to Rigel Black, Harry Potter and Ginvera Weasley and vow to be their friend no matter what and protect them from danger ." He then cut his palm and let the four drops of blood into the fire,the flame got higher as he pulled back.
At first nothing happen, but then all four screamed out as their tattoos suddenly burn as if they were on fire, then the fire shot up to the ceiling. At the same time they screamed out real loud as it felt as if their tattoos had been ripped out of their back, as three tiny ink looking griffins flew into the flame, they connected and made one big fiery griffin, then four different fiery griffins flew out of the fire and hit them each right where their tattoo was. They gasped because it felt like they were getting tattoos. Then as quickly as it came the pain stopped and the fire went out all at once.
"Is that it?" Teddy asked. "Did it work?" Rigel looked at Harry. "Turn around and let me see your back." Harry did as told and Rigel raised Harry's shirt to look, he grinned at what he saw, their tattoos where no long regular griffins, they stood the same way and was just as big, but the griffin it's self now had two fiery wings coming from it's back and looked as if it was standing in flames.
"Look at Harry's tattoo, it worked." Rigel said. Ginny and Teddy came over and looked.
"Man, that looks wicked." Teddy said.
"What does it look like?" Harry asked. Teddy took his shirt off and showed Harry his.
"They'll be like that for the rest of our lives." Rigel said. "And the best part we'll know if one of us is in danger. That way if Pettigrew goes after Lighting-Bolt again or if Voldemort comes back and gose after Harry or one of us is in danger we'll know. We may fight but we'll never stop being friends this oath with make sure we'll be friends into the day we die."
"Why do I suddenly feel a little more powerful?" Harry asked. "Like I have more strength." Rigel grinned.
"That's because you now have all our magic in you." He said. "That's what flame and griffin was doing, it's usually done with using an amulet or a piece of cloth, so the other wizard magic doesn't go into you, but it has been done this way, and it makes you more powerful than carrying the others magic with you. Why do you think you had to do four drops of blood one for you and one for each of us."
"Oh," Harry said.
"Now if the bastard does come back he'll be sorry." Rigel said.
"Yeah, because the four of us will defeat him." Harry said. "Together."
"Together." The other three echoed, then didn't noticed , but their griffin tattoo glowed for a moment.
A.N. That last part with the oath just popped on my head while I was typing the chapter, hope it was good and not stupid and I hope the rest of the chapter was good too, next one well be a little time skip and Harry will find out what the third task is, I might even put it, in there, and I'm sure you realize this story doesn't have much more till it's done just a few more chapters, but I do plan on doing the next three books, so when this one ends I'll be starting Harry Sirius Potter and the order of the Phoenix.