Harry and Ginny met Remus and Sirius in the spot they had indicated, the two men walked on either side of the teens under the cloak. They walked across the grounds to Hagrids hut, the door was locked but Remus flicked his wand and it opened. They walked in and shut the door. The windows were all shuttered because Hagrid was not back yet. Sirius levitated Hagrids bed and Remus opened a trap door and climbed down. Harry and Ginny went next. Harry held the cloak so that she could climb down without being seen and then he followed. At the bottom of the ladder Remus was already visible again. Sirius was the last down, he closed the door and then dropped the levitation spell. The bed hit the floor with a muffled sound as Sirius had put a silencing charm on it. He then waved his wand and the trap door was gone as well as the ladder.

Harry looked at Remus with the question on his face.

"They're coming a different way." Was the whispered reply. They walked a few meters down the tunnel and Remus waved his wand and dirt reappeared in the area under the trap door that had vanished.

They walked for a long way before they found another ladder with a trap door at the top. Remus and Sirius had replaced the dirt as they walked, Harry was glad he had the map and knew it was Remus and Sirius or he'd be seriously creeped out. At the ladder Remus again went first, when he cleared the door he checked the room then called back down the hole, "Ginny next then Harry. Come on up to your new home."

The two looked at each other with speculation and then Ginny started up the ladder. Once she was up all the way Sirius whispered, "You can thank me for that, he was going to have you go up first."

Harry grinned at his Godfather as he admitted in his own mind, "I never thought about how cute her bum was before." Then he climbed up the ladder. Ginny was sitting on a sofa in a room that looked like the Gryffindor common room, except no pictures. He did note that there was a fireplace.

Remus saw him eyeing the fireplace and said, "The smoke is removed magically. No floo at all so we don't have to worry about anyone coming in that way."

"How do we get in and out of here?" Ginny asked.

"Portkey." Sirius replied, "Which should be here any minute."

Harry sat by Ginny on the couch and they held hands. After a few minutes Ginny leaned her head on Harry's shoulder. "They remind me of James and Lily." Sirius whispered to his friend.

"Yes except Ginny never fought it. Harry was the blind one in this set." Remus chuckled.

"I don't think that's it." Came the reply, "You'd take your time too if she had six older brothers."

Remus laughed loudly and Harry looked at him in question. Remus waved him off pointing to a wickedly grinning Sirius. Harry shook his head, he really didn't want to know.

A few seconds later Remus said, "Incoming."

Ginny looked up in time to see a blue glow start in the middle of the room. Six people landed on the floor of the common room. At the same time they all pulled their wands and covered those already in the room.

"Ginny why is the grass green?" Fred asked.

"Because," Ginny laughed, "the trolls that live underground don't cover their mouths when they sneeze."

Sirius fell off his seat laughing at Ginny's answer. He was literally howling with laughter. Everyone else in the room was also laughing.

"Where in the world did you get that from." Remus asked when he calmed down.

"When I was like five or something I reached the why stage." Ginny replied, "One day Fred was forced to take me out for a walk to pick flowers, he let me ask every question I wanted and he gave me all the answers. Anything he didn't know he made up. That was his answer for the grass."

"What's the why stage?" Harry asked.

Hermione answered, "That's the point small children get to where they want the answers to everything and they ask why is the sky blue, why is the grass green. Many parents think that is the hardest stage to get through because they drive you nuts with the questions. My Mum said I was worse than any child she ever knew."

"That's because you never left that stage." Neville said, and Hermione lightly hit him on the arm.

Harry chuckled and Ron said, "I once asked Bill why we all had red hair. He said because only the best people can have red hair. And Weasley's are the best people."

Fred said, "I asked where babies come from. I thought Dad was going to kill himself laughing when Charlie said the dragons hatch them in eggs and deliver them through the floo network."

"I asked Bill what the stars were," George said, "and he said they were boys who had asked too many questions and got thrown away. It was probably the fortieth question in five minutes that I had asked him."

"The time my Uncle accidentally lost me and Professor Dumbledore found me, he bought me an ice cream, I asked him where ice cream comes from," Neville said, "He said, every time I was a good boy for my Gran another scoop would fall from the clouds and be saved up for me to have at another time."

"What about you Harry?" Sirius asked, Hermione was trying frantically to get Sirius to stop asking his question but he didn't notice her.

"I don't remember any of my questions." he said.

Before Sirius could ask any more questions Hermione changed the subject, "What are we doing here anyway?"

Remus realized what she was doing and decided to ask her about it later, "We are in the Merlin common room. This is a new house just started and you have been handpicked to be a part of it."

"Actually," Sirius said, "It was made to get you out of Umbridges clutches. We think she was trying to get Harry and drag him to the ministry or possibly even Voldemort."

"The rest of you are here because Harry needs his friends." Remus said.

"Which is Dumbledore for, he thought if she couldn't get Harry she may try to lure him away by taking his friends." Sirius said.

"You don't know that." Remus said, "I believe that's what he meant, but that isn't what he said."

"Whatever." Sirius said dismissively, "why don't we show you to your rooms so you can unpack. Then we can give you the tour."

"We don't have our things." Ginny said.

"We have them." Hermione replied, "I packed for you and Harry. All the trunks are shrunk in our pockets."

Sirius led them to the first door on the left . He opened the door and they saw three more doors, "The middle door is for Moony and I. Girls on the left, boys on the right. The door at the back of your room is your bathroom. Unpack and meet us back in the common room in about twenty minutes."

There were five doors in the round room. Remus started with the one on the far left, "As you know these are the bedrooms. This," he indicated the next door, "is your class room. All classes will start in this room."

"Next door," Sirius said, "Is the practical room, we will practice the practical application of magic in this room. That includes dueling and combat training."

"Next is the potions lab." Remus said, "Snape will assign the subjects, but he will not be here." The teens all cheered.

"Last but not least is the physical fitness room." Sirius said, "It includes everything you need to be physically fit, including a quidditch pitch." Again a cheer rose from the teens.

"Who is teaching the subjects?" Hermione asked.

"I'm teaching DADA," Remus said, "potions, ancient runes and arithmancy."

"I have the rest." Sirius said, "Transfiguration, charms, herbology and flying coach. Then we are sharing physical fitness."

"Today we will just relax and get comfortable with the place." Remus said, "We have several forms of entertainment including the quidditch pitch, a pool and a chess board."

"Do we have a library?" Hermione asked.

"In the class room area, its linked to the Hogwarts Library." Remus answered.

Ginny and Harry got up and headed to the dorm rooms and Sirius asked, "Where are you two going?"

"To change," Ginny said, "I want to go swimming." The rest of the teens followed proclaiming it as a brilliant idea.

Five minutes later the boys were in the pool splashing each other. Remus and Sirius were sitting on the side watching and using their wands to make the splashes more powerful. Remus had charmed Harry's glasses so that he could see while swimming and he was having a great time. Around ten minutes later the three girls walked into the pool area. All five boys paused for a moment as they saw the girls in swimsuits for the first time. All three had dark blue one piece suits and they all looked good.

Fred, George and Neville decided Harry and Ron were to engrossed in watching the girls, they decided to get their attention, and the splash war restarted. Harry was so transfixed watching Ginny that the first wave of water caught him. Without thinking about it Harry held up his hand to block the next wave. Not only did it block the wave but it sent it back, with extra force. Fred, George and Neville were hit with a tidal wave of water than knocked them off their feet, poor Ron was in the middle and got caught by both sides. Sirius and Remus looked at each other in surprise, Harry was doing wandless magic.

Fred came up sputtering, "That wasn't nice you two, we just wanted to cool them off."

"We didn't do it." Sirius retorted, "Harry did it wandlessly."

The four boys turned to stare at Harry who was still watching Ginny, with one hand held up pointing towards them. Ron decided to test it and he sent a splash at Harry. The water started towards him and then curved and headed back towards Ron with additional water and velocity.

By this time the girls were starting to get into the pool and called for the boys not to splash until they were used to the water. Ron swam over to Harry and bumped him, "Blink once in a while mate, or your eyes are going to fall out."

Harry blinked several times while he chuckled, "Sorry, I was just caught off guard. Merlin."

"Tell me about it." Ron said, "I mean I knew Hermione was a girl and all, but those uniforms hide so much."

Harry turned to his friend, "So when are you going to ask her out?"

"Doubt I ever will," Ron said, "I mean we're friends and I wouldn't want to lose that. Besides she doesn't like me that way."

Harry dunked Ron and then swam away as fast as he could. He swam towards Ginny and as he neared she asked, "You aren't going to splash me are you?"

"No," Harry snorted, "I just got you as my girlfriend, I don't want to be hexed yet."

"Good answer." Was the reply.

After an hour of swimming Ron yelled to Sirius, "What time is dinner and how do we get snacks if it's not time yet?"

"Dinner is in fifteen minutes." Sirius said.

Ron was first out of the pool and he reached back and pulled Hermione out after him, and then helped Luna. He left the rest to fend for themselves and headed out to change for dinner. Hermione and Luna looked at each other then shrugged and followed.

Later that evening Harry and Ginny were sitting in a quiet corner of the common room snogging. Her brothers made sure their backs were to them but had Hermione watching them so no one stepped out of line.

After a while Harry whispered, "I want to stay here kissing you, but I need to make sure Ron doesn't feel left out. I don't want him to think he needs to intervene."

"Good point," Ginny conceded, "but we just got together today and they can put up with it for one evening."

Harry chuckled then went back to kissing her.

Voldemort wasn't happy. He had his body back, people were groveling at his feet, he was casting unforgivables again, but it wasn't enough. He wanted to know how he lost his body in the first place and how was he defeated by a mere child in that graveyard. What could he do about that infernal boy. As he thought Severus Snape walked into the room.

"Snape," he said, "come forward." The man came forward and bowed low and then he got on his knees, "I want to hear again the prophecy you heard." Snape recited the prophecy he had heard, "And that is all there is to the prophecy?"

"I don't know my Lord." Snape said, "I was found out and removed from the area."

"Yes," The dark Lord sat thoughtfully on his throne, "I want to hear the prophecy in its original form."

"My Lord," Lucius said, "There is a room reported to be in the Department of Mysteries that holds a copy of every prophecy ever made. However this is just rumor, I have no proof."

"Have our Ministry contacts look into retrieving this for me. And do not fail me." Was the hissed reply. The room began to empty and Voldemort said, "Severus stay."

Severus Snape stayed in his position kneeling before the Dark Lord. He waited for whatever was to come next, he knew better than to question the man. As he sat there the man in question grabbed his head and started groaning.

"Do you require a headache potion my Lord?" Severus questioned.

"No." Voldemort hissed, " This is no mere headache. Potter is behind this somehow. Find out for me what he is doing so that we can stop it. Tell no one of these attacks. Leave now."

Severus Snape jumped up and stepped quickly out the door. Several sent him questioning glances but he stalked out of the room and made his way back to Hogwarts. As he approached the Headmasters door he hesitated, wondering what exactly he should say to the man he was next meeting.

"Come in Severus." The grandfatherly voice said through the door. He entered and Albus asked, "What news?"

"He wants to hear the rest of the prophecy." Snape said, "He is having ministry contacts look into the Department of Mysteries."

"But that is not all that disturbs you?" Albus asked.

"No." He paused, "The Dark Lord believes that Potter is attacking him. It is causing him great pain and I am ordered to find out what he is doing."

Albus looked taken aback, "He isn't doing anything that I know of. What are the symptoms?"

"He didn't say," Snape said, "But he was holding his head and I thought he needed a headache potion. He said it is no mere headache and Potter is behind this somehow. Then he ordered me to find out what he is doing so that he can be stopped. I need to watch the boy and see if I can find anything."

"You can't." Albus replied, "He is no longer in this building. I have hidden him so Umbridge cannot disappear with him or his friends."

Severus sat down hard, "Not news I want to take back to him. So how has he convinced you of an attack this time?"

"He attended his detention with her and came back… with a scar. The woman is using a blood quill for punishment." Albus growled, "And I can do nothing to stop her."

"How would Potter even know what a blood quill is." Severus questioned, "I bet Granger found a reference and they have decided to use it. Although it does seem her style."

"Harry didn't bring this to my attention, Minerva did. She had a first year that came to her asking if she needed to go to the hospital or if it would go away on its own."

"Does she know they're gone?"

"No, all she knows right now is that they weren't at dinner."

"What are you going to do."

"Not a thing, until they start missing classes they are not missing."

"They'll try to force you to give them up. May even charge you with kidnapping."

"Can't, I already have permission from parents and guardians to move the group."

"Potters guardians agreed?" Minerva had made it well known just how horrible his guardians were, not that it made any difference to Severus, he thought she was just pampering another lion.

Albus chuckled, "I told them he was being removed from the school for discipline issues but would not return to them until summer. They were happy to agree."

"So they think Potter is getting the punishment he deserves."

"Exactly"

"Albus, I demand to know what you have done with those children." Cornelius Fudge said.

"I have done nothing." Albus recanted.

"Then why can't we find them in the school? Have they been abducted?" Fudge asked.

"Who do you think would abduct them?" Albus asked, thoroughly please with the direction this was taking.

"He's not back." Fudge hissed, "Where are they?"

"They are at school." Albus replied.

"Minister," Percy said, "Several of my siblings are missing we could charge him with abduction and endangerment."

"I have abducted and endangered no one." Albus said.

"Obstruction of justice." Umbridge screamed.

"Who's justice am I obstructing?" Albus asked.

"I want Potter in my class," She yelled, "He must learn with whom the authority lies. His behavior is intolerable."

"I assure you Madam, Harry is attending Defense Against the Dark Arts class." Albus said, "As well as all his other classes."

"You wished to see me Headmaster?" Snape drawled.

"What grade is Potter making in your class currently." Umbridge sneered.

"Average like always," Snape returned the sneer, "He won't amount to much more than a potion bungler. Did you need anything more Headmaster, I have a potion that needs to be stirred in about three minutes."

"That will be all Severus," Albus nodded, "Thank you."

"I want him in my class." Umbridge repeated.

"As the Headmaster, I have the ability to change courses as I see fit." Albus stated, "I felt that Mr. Potter and his friends were in need of a more advanced defense class. They are receiving training from a retired teacher that has no interest in teaching the school at large."

"NO." She screamed, "He must be in the regular class or I will have him expelled from this school."

"Enough," Albus said, "I have already explained to you everything I will. You may not expel students that alone rests with the Headmaster. Good day."

After they left Albus thought to himself, how anyone could put that woman with children I'll never know, aloud he said, "Enter Minerva."

"What did Fudge want?" The teacher asked.

"Harry and his friends." Albus replied, "Phase two will begin before long."

"You are leaving us?" she asked.

"Not voluntarily." He replied, "But she has now made it her mission to have my job."

Minerva nodded and asked, "But she can't get to them correct?"

"No," he said, "She will try to have me arrested. Hogwarts would never recognize any head person who would harm a child. Hogwarts will keep its secrets."

"Where will you go?" Minerva asked.

"I will be with them." Albus replied, "This is why I won't tell you where they are. You cannot be forced to reveal information you don't have."

"Be careful." Was her reply.

"Excellent." Remus said, "Well done. I believe you have that spell down nicely. Now while I am working with the others I want you to work on a wandless luminos spell. Lay you wand on the desk and…"

"I can do that." Harry replied, "When the dementors were after me this summer I dropped my wand. I couldn't find because it was so dark so I said luminos and it lit up."

"Why didn't you tell anyone, show me please." Remus said.

Harry did it and the tip lit up, he then put it out and then tried it non-verbally and it still lit up, "I didn't say anything because I didn't think about it. I was worried about the trial not about how I found my wand."

In the other classroom Sirius was talking to Hermione, "When we were talking about the why stage the other day why were you trying to get us not to ask Harry questions."

"It's not my place to tell you Sirius, but you need to ask Harry." Hermione said, "He hates talking about the time he spends with his Aunt and Uncle. We know they are unkind but… I think it may run more towards abusive."

Sirius couldn't really say he was surprised.

"Severus," Voldemort said, "What information do you have for me?"

"He's missing."

"What do you mean he's missing?" came the hissed reply.

"Dumbledore is hiding Potter and his gang." Severus said, "He won't even tell McGonagall where they are. He's afraid that Deloris is going to snatch him away. She has been most insistent in giving him repeated detentions. She is using a blood quill in all her detentions and it was brought to his attention. If she can use a blood quill on a first year he has no doubt she would do worse to Potter. Therefore he has moved the entire group."

"She showed her hand too quickly." Voldemort growled, "She will pay for this." Severus grinned inwardly and decided this might be one torture he wanted to see.