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Chapter 40

Halliwell, not Potter.

Harry ambled down the stairs, the events of the last night coming back to him in a rush of images. The Dance, the Sanctum/ Chamber, Headmaster Dumbledore coming at him with a wand in front of many other Professors, the way that he; Harry, had used his Charmed powers to help them escape, then there was passing out at the bottom of the stairs in his home out of sheer exhaustion. Yes, it had been an interesting night and Harry was sure that his friends would be looking to him for some explanations; especially Hermione.

He knew that his friends were up because it was what had woken him up. Their voices were soft at first, but soon they rose in volume and spread through the rest of the house. There was a tone to the voices that Harry knew too well; Ron and Hermione. They were doing their best to stay quiet, though they seemed to be failing miserably. Harry gave a heavy sigh as he pushed the door to the kitchen open. There sitting around the table were his best friends, who were arguing a little quieter now, and his girlfriend who was shaking her head slightly. She saw Harry come through the door and sent a smile his way. Harry returned the smile and made his way over to them and sat down; but not before planting a kiss on Ginny's cheek.

"Harry, you're awake." A shocked Hermione said as he sat down.

Harry gave her a smile "It's kind of hard not to be with you two," He said pointing between her and Ron, "going at it, and just so you know, in this house voices carry."

"I told you that it would be your bickering that woke him up." Ginny added giving the two a knowing look.

Ron and Hermione blushed slightly and mumbled their apologies just as the kitchen door opened yet again. "Hey kiddo, I was just about to come and wake you up," Leo said as he walked over to the coffee pot pouring himself a cup, "How'd you sleep?"

"Well enough, I remember everything up until I keeled over due to exhaustion," Harry paused a moment to look at his friends, who looked as though they were also recalling the previous night. Turning back to his dad he asked "Who got me into bed?"

"I did, but Chris helped." Leo answered.

Harry smiled "How is Chris, is he still asleep?"

'Crap' Leo thought to himself, 'We still need to tell him about that'. After taking a sip of his coffee he said "Chris is out with y- his Aunts and they should be back soon."

He had been about to say 'Chris is out with 'your' Aunts', but since he was not sure as to what Harry had told his friends, he decided to keep comments like those to himself, he would also need to mention that fact to his wife and sisters-in-law. "Oh by the way Harry, Hedwig is getting better and is out hunting right now."

"Really," Harry said excitedly "So she is able to fly now?"

"Yes, though she was advised that doing so could hurt her wing again." Leo answered.

"She's always been that way, so if she thinks that she is able to fly then I will let her. Besides I don't need to have two angry birds at me." Harry said with a smile.

"Flynn lost again did he?" Leo asked.

Harry nodded and said "Yea, last night. Though I would have thought he would've come around by now."

"Well that explains why he showed up in a mood last night. I think that he is actually out with Hedwig right now, the two of them left early this morning." Leo commented.

"Those two," Harry began shaking his head "are conspiring against me." Harry shared a quick laugh with his Dad and was about to continue but was interrupted.

"Umm, Harry," Hermione began quietly, "Who is this?"

Harry turned to look at her sheepishly for only a brief moment, smiled and then said "I'm sorry guys, this is Leo." throwing his Dad a knowing look. "And he is married to…um…where is Piper?"

"She had to go to the store to pick up a few things about," Leo paused to look at his watch and then continued, "an hour ago and should be back any minute now."

Then, as if on cue, the front door opened and a voice penetrated the silence that had washed over the house. "Sorry it took so long Leo; those damn Demons have no concept of timing. He got me pretty good too."

At hearing this Harry flew from his chair and out of the kitchen with Leo following close behind. "Mom/ Piper, are you okay?" Both Harry and Leo called as they ran to meet her. She had a towel wrapped around her arm so as to stop the bleeding. But Harry and his Dad could see the crimson red starting to soak through. Leo went up to his wife and began to take the towel from around her arm, wanting to see how bad it really was.

Piper saw the looks of horror on the faces of her husband and son and decided to try to lighten the mood. "He may have gotten me pretty good, but I got him better." And after a brief moment of silence she said "Leo could you?"

Being brought back to reality, Leo nodded and extended his hands over the wound. As usual his hands began to glow and his Whitelighter magic began to heal the damage that the Demon had caused. Piper breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the wound close up completely and was about to speak but was unable to as Harry had beaten her to it. "I am so glad that you're okay." He said as he launched himself into her arms.

Piper smiled at the antics of her eldest son and replied in kind, returning the warm embrace. "Me too, though I wasn't worried, and you shouldn't be either. I sent that Demon straight to he…" but she stopped suddenly when she heard a 'gasp' come from not too far away. She looked up and saw her son's three friends standing just in front of the dining room table. One of whom had a hand over her mouth in shock, the other two just stood there gaping in shock. Piper sighed and looked at her husband, who promptly took her hand and gave a warm smile. She returned the smile, along with a peck on the cheek, and made her way into the next room, with Leo's hand still in hers.

Having also heard the gasp, Harry turned and looked into the eyes of each of his friends. Giving a sigh he turned his body completely to them and said, "Guy's I have a lot that I need to tell you." Before turning and heading in the direction of the conservatory.

"Harry, what's going on?" Hermione began as she followed him, Ron and Ginny close behind her "All this talk about Demons, also how you got us here, her arm being healed by his 'glowing' hands, and there is the fact that you called her 'Mom'."

"Like I said before, there is a lot that I need to tell you and you are just going to have to be patient with me." He replied with a sigh as he sat down next to his Mom; his Dad taking a place behind him.

"We won't interrupt you Harry." Ginny said as she took the empty spot next to him.

"It would be best if there were no interruptions." Harry said as he looked at each of his friends. Taking a deep breath he began, "Okay, like I told you all on the train, Sirius set some stuff up in the event that he died and I also said that he really only expanded upon what my parents had set up…" Harry was cut off by the front door opening and three, voices filling the entry way.

"I told you we could take care of it Chris, you worry too much." A voice said that Harry knew belonged to his Aunt Paige.

"Well just look at who his mother is, he was doomed from the start to be a neurotic nag." Phoebe had been the one to say this, though Harry was not sure why she was talking about his brother Chris that way.

Then Harry heard the third voice, one that he did not know who it belonged to say "If you two would focus a little more on what you were supposed to be doing, then we would not have had to re-do it six times."

"But we did get it done, and we had fun while doing it. It will be the best…" Paige had started to say but was cut off by Phoebe, who had yelled out, "Piper, are you home yet?"

Harry turned to his Mom, who had already begun to answer, "Where in here."

"Good, because we want to take you to…"

"Phoebe." Piper exclaimed cutting off the middle sister.

"What are you…oh hi Harry," but Phoebe paused for just half a second and then recovered, "Oh Harry, I…uh didn't know you were up yet. Did you sleep well?"

"Uh yea, what's going on?" He asked.

"Oh nothing, what are you all up to in here?" Paige said intervening on Phoebe's behalf.

Not convinced Harry gave each of his family members a look that said 'We will talk' and then answered his Aunts question. "I was just about to tell my friends here," He said gesturing to Ron, Hermione, and Ginny, "What happened to me over the summer."

"Ooo, cool, can we join?" Phoebe asked.

"Sure, just…"

"Don't interrupt, we know Harry." Paige said as she raised her hands to cut him off.

"Thank you." Harry said to his Aunts. "Now where was I?"

"You had just said that Sirius had expanded on something that your parents had set up." Hermione said answering his question.

"Thank you, anyway like I was saying before we were interrupted," He said with a smile and threw his Aunts a playful look and was about to continue when he stopped mid-thought, a blank look of concentration spreading across his face.

"What is it Harry?" Piper said concern in her voice. She had seen the look Harry's face and had remembered seeing it only once before. It was the night before he was set to leave for Hogwarts. She was about to ask Harry again, but he had started to talk.

"Someone's coming." He said exhaling the breath that he, unknown to him, had been holding. And as soon as he had said this the air began to crackle with magic. "There, look." He said pointing to the open, double doors that led out of the conservatory. Everyone in the room, including the person Harry did not know, turned to look at the place he was pointing at. Not only could they hear the crackling of the magic, but they could now see it. Whatever was going to appear there was taking a lot of magic to do so.

Then as the magic reached its high-point, a blinding, white light filled the entire room that they were in, causing everyone to shield their eyes. Along with the white light came two loud cracks. No one spoke for a few moments; then out of the silence came a fierce voice that Harry knew all to well.

"You will give me my children back or I will make you sorry that you ever dared to mess with a Weasley!"

"Mum, Dad?" Ron asked in shock as he stared wide eyed at his mother, who's wand was drawn and being pointed everywhere.

"Oh Ronald you're safe." The Molly Weasley said as she rushed forward and pulled her youngest son into a hug. "When your and Ginny's hands on the clock just stopped moving we thought the worst."

"We're fine Mum see, Ginny's here along with Harry and Hermione." He said patting his mother on the back.

"Hermione and Harry?" the Weasley elder said in confusion.

"We are all safe Mrs. Weasley; there is no need to worry." Harry put in trying to reiterate what Ron had already told her. "You can put your wands away."

Mrs. Weasley stood there for a second just staring at Harry, and then as though she had finally realized who was talking to her she said. "Harry Professor Dumbledore is so worried about you. When you left the castle like that he put the entire Order on alert, and we were told that if we saw you then we needed to get you back to him as soon as possible."

"Harry will not be taken from me and if you think that you can just waltz in here waving your wands around, then you've got another thing coming." Piper said angrily. These people had barged into her home and no matter how friendly Harry said that these people had been to him, there is a way to act in public; especially in someone else's home.

Molly Weasley was taken aback. Never in her life had she been spoken to like that. "And who do you think you are to be giving me orders?" She began going into Mother-mode. "You kidnapped Harry from his relatives and then brain-washed him so that he would not want to go back there. However bad those people are, you have committed a crime and you will not get away with it."

Piper was getting upset now and it did not take much to get her that way. "I do not know who you have been getting your information from lady, but I assure you that we have committed no crime." Piper began in a calm, but serious tone. "Harry is free to leave us whenever he chooses, but I will not tolerate someone who appears in my home without invitation and begins to accuse my family and me for kidnapping."

Molly Weasley was at a loss for words and at seeing this Piper walked toward her and continued. "I want you to look at him, really look at him," She said pointing to Harry, who was standing now, and was making his way over to Piper. When he got there he wrapped an arm around her shoulder in effort to try and comfort his mother. "He has been clothed, watered and as I was…well still am a great chef, he most certainly has not gone hungry. I am a good Witch; a good wife; and dammit I am a great mother and I will not let anyone tell me differently."

She just stood staring at Piper, taking in everything that she had been told. If she was to be honest with herself then she could not fault this woman in front of her for acting the way she had. Had the roles been reversed and she was the one having to defend her home, she was sure that it would have gone down the same way. "Mrs. Weasley," Harry said breaking the silence that had fallen around them all, "There is a lot that needs to be explained and if you would like to take a seat, then I…we will do our best."

After giving a slight nod, she followed Ron; who had begun to guide her to where he had been sting, and sat down. "Mr. Weasley." Harry said bowing his head in a greeting.

"Harry." He replied as he walked over to where his wife was and made to stand behind her. Harry turned to look at his mother and gave her a smile before he too went to sit back down.

When seated, he looked around the room at the different people assembled around him. Feeling a hand pat him on the shoulder, he turned and saw Leo looking at him with a smile on his face and comfort in his eyes. Harry returned the smile and turned back around, took a deep breath and said-

"Over the holiday I found out that my last name is not Potter, it is Halliwell, and that Piper and Leo are my real mom and dad.

A/N: I know that it is not my usual length for a chapter, but as school I starting again I am going to have to take what I can get. As it is, the next chapter is written and ready to go. And I will be starting on the next one very soon, within the next day or so. Please take this time to now Review,

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