Chapter five

Harry and Charlie were in their bed giving each other a good time with their mouths and bodies when they heard Spirit growling again. Harry gave a whistle which would have told the wolf to sit and not attack but not let whoever it was go. It took Harry a while to teach Spirit, but he learned everything and as far as Harry knew, Spirit loved him and was happy to do what he was told.

'Blimey, what is it with people dropping by all of a sudden. We weren't finished yet.'

'We can always get back to it later Harry, so move that cute arse and go see who stopped you fucking me.'

Harry laughed, then grabbed a towel and wrapped it around himself. He glanced over the landing and saw Spirit had Ron and Hermione up against the wall.

'It's your brother and his girlfriend.'

'Go down, I'll be there in a moment,' Charlie sighed.

Harry walked slowly down the stairs, 'Spirit,' the wolf instantly sat beside Harry, 'So no notice again and I was busy. What is it this time?'

'This memorial that you're involved in, why, when the ministry is putting it on and giving out the Order of Merlin awards?' Hermione asked.

'Because it's the ministry and I won't have anything to do with the ministry.'

'Were you up there with someone?' Ron gestured towards the towel.

'Not really any of your business. Now if that's all, I'd like to get back to what I was doing.'

'Why won't you just give this other memorial up and go to the ministries one, it's the real one and the only one that counts.'

'That's bullshit as far I'm concerned Ron and I won't be involved in all that superficial shit. So we're putting on one that is for the people it's meant for.'

'And we have a good night planned, not just a boring ball, isn't that right Harry,' Charlie grinned as he stepped next to Harry and he was only wearing a towel as well.

'Oh yeah, it's going to be a good night Charlie, lots of fun and we're getting a good response as well.'

'What's going on here, why are you both wearing towels, were you both swimming?'

'No, that comes later my dear brother, we've been fucking each other and I just had Harry inside me when you disturbed us, again with something unimportant.'

'Are you saying you're both gay?' Hermione asked.

'Yeah, we are and you're disturbing our fun here.' Harry said.

'That's disgusting,' Ron grimaced.

'If that's what you think, fine, we don't and a lot of other people don't. So if we disgust you, leave so we can go shag each other again especially since we didn't invite you. Spirit, show them out, we'll be upstairs,' Harry nodded to the wolf as Charlie threw him over his shoulder, 'Hey, put me down Charlie or you won't get my mouth sucking you again.'

'Oh you'll do that anyway Harry, you're addicted to my taste,' Charlie laughed then ran up the stairs to continue their fun.

The day of both memorials arrived, Harry, Charlie and few others helped Minerva and the staff get Hogwarts ready. It turned out to be a beautiful day so as their memorial and celebration was going to run right through to late that night, everyone would have a great time. The stage was set up with everything, there were lights all around the grounds, so the moment the sun went down, the grounds of Hogwarts would light up and look like a glistening land of sparkling lights.

The staff, Hagrid and Grawp were checking invitations of the people that turned up and they made their way up to the tables that had been set up all around the black lake and grounds, so by the time they were ready to start, hundreds and hundreds of people were all talking happily even if they knew it had been a year since some had lost their loved ones.

Minerva McGonagall stood on stage and waited until it fell silent, 'We're here to honour the ones that can't be here with us, some we lost one year ago today, some before, years before. For everyone that we did lose, we are having a plaque with their picture and name on it, they will be displayed permanently on this memorial wall that sits in this beautiful garden that was designed and lovingly tended to by Neville Longbottom. At the moment, you can't see the plaques, but when you come up to receive their awards and place them on the wall their plaque will appear. There will be five awards handed out today. The Battle of Hogwarts award, for every one that turned up to fight, it showed true courage but it also showed it was the right thing to do. The Albus Dumbledore award to all that aided our side, even some that might have looked like they were on his side or were on his side at one time but ended up doing the right thing and joined the right side, the side of good. Albus Dumbledore used to say do the right thing and not the easy thing and that's what everyone did, the right thing. The Order of the DA, as most of you could guess, that is for all members of the DA or Dumbledore's Army that stayed to help even though some were underage at the time and none of them fully trained, but it showed great courage, bravery and Spirit. The Order of the Phoenix award is for all members of the order of the phoenix which Albus Dumbledore formed when Voldemort first started to gain power, but the DA were made official members of the order of the phoenix not long after the fighting. The Harry Potter bravery award; that is what people brought forth, their brave and courageous sides when they fought Voldemort and his supporters.' Minerva waved her wand and everyone sitting on the grounds of Hogwarts had a medallion shaped like the Hogwarts castle hanging around their neck. Then the order of the phoenix members and DA members that had turned up all stepped on stage as Minerva pinned gold award in the shape of a phoenix, then the order of DA which she pinned a gold award in the shape of stag to their chest. The Albus Dumbledore award were presented next and they had a white dove on them to represent peace, which is what Albus Dumbledore had been trying to achieve for so long. The Harry Potter courage award was for the plaques of everyone that died and Minerva started with the plaques of James and Lily Potter, she handed Harry two small golden awards that he placed on his parent's names and the plaque with their picture and names appeared. Then she handed Harry another small golden award for Sirius Black, Harry again placed that on Sirius' name and his plaque appeared. Then it was for Ted Tonks, Nymphadora Tonks Lupin and Remus Lupin, Andromeda and Harry both helped young Teddy Lupin place their small awards on his parent's names while Andromeda pinned the other award on her husband's name, then their plaques appeared. George Weasley took his brother's award and placed it on Fred's name and Fred's face appeared on the plaque. Molly Weasley took her two awards, for her brothers Fabian and Gideon Prewet and placed their awards on the plaques. Dennis Creevey and his parents took Colin's award and all three held it as they pinned it to the plaque and Colin's face appeared. One by one everyone was called forward to receive their small award and to activate the plaques of the people that died. Then on both sides of the wall inside the garden was two large fountains with the phoenix perched on top of one and a stag on the other. Both fountains instantly sprayed different coloured water as it shot water from one to the other over the memorial wall.

After that, everyone had a break so they could all pay their respects and honour the people that died fighting for the freedom that everyone had today thanks to these wonderful brave souls. Just as the sun went down, the lights lit up the Hogwarts grounds and the two fountains glowed brightly around the memorial wall and the house elves of Hogwarts along with all the other creatures that also helped fight had another wall displayed and everyone had their names on it. Then the food arrived and the people that were at Hogwarts ate and talked about this last year and how much had changed since Voldemort had died, but mostly they talked about the ones that wouldn't be with them ever again.