disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter
A.N. Sorry it took so long to put up the next chapter. it was hard to write one, and you guys get a little surprise about the Potter children in this chapter, hope you like.
Chapter 2: A surprise visitor.
Harry woke feeling dizzy and in pain. A lot of pain, in both his arm and his head. He moved his arm and it felt heavy, he lifted it up to see it was covered in a muggle cast. Harry frowned, then used his good hand to feel of his pounding head. And felt bandages. He was confused at first, where was he, he was laying in a bed, in a room that was dark all but the bit of sunlight coming through the window. Harry closed his eyes trying to remember what happen, and it suddenly all came back to him, the message from Rigel, the carnival, the dementors and Sirius' bike.
"Oh Merlin." Harry whispered. "Sirius is going to kill us." He groaned and laid his head back down. He and Rigel had wrecked Sirius's bike. He loved that thing like it was his kid. How Rigel was even able to sneak out with it he didn't know.
Harry wondered how long he had been out, his arm was broke he knew that for sure, he could still hear the sound of the bone snapping. Harry could also remember feeling blood running down his head, so he guessed he busted it open. Which would explain the bandage on it. Harry glanced over to the window and groaned at the sunlight coming through.
Forget Sirius, he's been gone from home all night, Jesse was going to kill him, and Cody must have bounced off the walls with worry. He was never going to see outside of their house again that was for sure. At least until he gets Hogwarts.
Harry heard footsteps coming down the hall, then the door to his room in walked in a young woman who was carrying a tray of food. She laid the tray down on a little table with wheels and pushed it over to Harry, when she saw him looking at her she gave him a friendly grin. Harry couldn't help but think she was pretty, with long light brown, maybe dark blonde hair, with light blue eyes.
"Oh, good you're awake, just in time to eat something." She said, pushing the table with the tray next to Harry. "How do you feel?" She pulled the table around and slide it up under the bed where it was over Harry's lap. She even stuck a straw in his drink and handed it to him. He took a drink but didn't touch the food. It hurt too much to eat. Besides if muggle hospital food was anything like the food at St. Mungo's, he didn't want to eat it.
"Head hurts." Harry said. "Is Rigel okay?"
"Rigel, is that his name?" She asked. "Ops, I thought he said Nigel. Are you two related?"
"He's my friend." Harry said.
"I'm sorry, but we're not allowed to tell you." She said. "Unless you are family." Harry frowned, then gave her his big pleading eyes. The ones, Sirius and Cody, ( along with his parents when they were alive.) never could say no to.
"But he's been my best mate since we were five." Harry said. "We grow up together, can't you at least tell me if he's okay."
The pretty nurse looked Harry in the eyes, and sighed. "Fine, who could say no to those green eyes. Your friend, he doesn't have life threatening injuries, but his left leg is busted up pretty bad, the bike landed on it after it flipped. He's in surgery now getting it repaired." She explained. "Now, I have to check you over, see how you're doing. Is that alright, Harry?"
"How do you know my name?" Harry asked. The nurse smiled at him, as she began to undo his bandages to take a look at his head.
"We found your ID in your wallet." She said. "By the way, my name is Kaylee. If you need anything, little cutie, just ask for me." She went over to a cabinet and got out more bandages and came back over and put fresh ones on Harry's head. Jesse made Harry and Cody carry around muggle IDS. He said you never know when you might need one. Maybe it had been a good thing.
"Do you know if my glasses were found?" Harry asked. "Or anything else." Harry was suddenly fearful that he had lost his wand.
"I was told your glasses broke." Kaylee said. "And I don't know if anything else was found. All your stuff was given to your brother."
"My brother?" He asked. She gave a nod.
"Took us all night to find someone to contact about you, I was told anyway." Kaylee said. "I wasn't here last night. My shift just started an hour ago." She was done was Harry's head and was now checking his blood pusher. "But I was told your family was hard to find. They finally got a hold of a family friend whose number had been in your wallet. He got a hold of your brothers and Rigel's uncle." She gave him a pity look, he turned from it knowing she had heard about his parents and felt sorry for him.
"How did you get that cool scar on your head?" Kaylee asked. "The Doctor said it's not from the crash you were in. It's too old."
"Um...I'm not really sure." Harry lied. "I've had it ever since I can remember. Something that happened when my parents died." Kaylee frowned.
"Oh, sorry." She said. She took the blood pusher thing off and wrote something down. "Well, your brothers both of them are waiting outside, along with some blue hair boy, and a couple of friends. They'll be in here once they get done talking to the police.
"Police?" Harry asked. She nodded.
"Well, Little cutie, you and your friend did break the law." She said. "Speeding down the street on a motorcycle without a license, in fact you're even too young to have a license, on top of the bike having no plates or insurance."
"It was Rigel's uncle's bike." Harry said. "I didn't mean anything by riding it. I just wanted to see Ginny."
"Ginny?" Kaylee asked, smiling a little. "And who might Ginny be?"
"She's my girlfriend." Harry said. "I hadn't seen her since getting off our school train. And Rigel picked me up so I could spend some time with her. There isn't a pretty red-haired girl out there too is there?"
"Sorry, sweetie, only red-head out there is that gorgeous brother of yours." Kaylee said. Harry frowned. "Don't worry, s I'm sure she just hasn't been told you're in here." She patted Harry 's hand "I shouldn't be surprised you have a girlfriend. With those eyes, I doubt any girl can tell you no. Good looks must run in your family, that friend of yours isn't so bad himself. Too bad you both are under age." Harry blushed as she gave him a smile. "I'll just go tell your brothers they can come see you when they want." She picked up her clipboard. "Eat, it'll make you feel better." She walked to the door and gave Harry a wink before leaving and shutting the door behind her. Harry couldn't help but like her she was nice. Though he was glad Ginny hadn't been here to hear her talk about how good-looking he was.
Harry rubbed his head, then pushed the food away, before lying back down. His eyes began to close, he was kind of sleepy, but then his room door banged open and Cody came running in and next thing Harry knew he was being squeezed.
"Cody, I have enough injuries." Harry mumbled, and Cody pulled away and began to look him over, worry clear in his hazel eyes. Cody was eighteen now, he had turned eighteen a few days ago. But he was still in Hogwarts, he had taken a year off when Voldemort had killed his parents which put him a year behind. Cody was tall, and good-looking, with thick dark red hair and Hazel eyes. Girls of all ages followed him around at school.
"I was so scared Voldemort or one of his Death Eaters had gotten a hold of you when you didn't come home last night." Cody told him. "Ginny and Teddy had said they thought something happened to you guys. She's at headquarters now having a big fight with her mum, because she wouldn't let her come see you. Jesse is ticked off. First you get an owl saying you're expelled from Hogwarts and then you never show up home. Then Moony came knocking on our door at three this morning to tell us..."
"Hold up." Harry said. "What do you mean expelled from Hogwarts?"
"You got an owl saying you did a Patronus charm in front of muggles and you were expelled. " Cody said. "Don't worry Dumbledore went and talked to Fudge, you're not expelled right now, but you have to go to a hearing about it. They'll decide there. Ginny, Teddy, and Rigel all got one too. Harry, what happened? Jesse told me Ginny and Teddy came back to headquarters last night shaken up saying something about being attacked by dementors."
Harry nodded, then told Cody what happened. "Where's Jesse?"
"Out in the hall with Sirius talking to the muggle doctors, he'll be in here in a minute." Cody said. Harry groaned.
"Do me a favor and open the window so I can climb out it." Harry said. Cody snickered.
"Yeah, I can see you now, climbing down a few stories up with one good arm and the wind blowing open your hospital gown, showing the world your bum." Cody said. "I bet Ginny would love to see that." Cody laughed when Harry's face turned red.
"Shut up." he mumbled. Which only made Cody laugh more and Harry glare at him. Then the door opened and Jesse came walking in. He walked to the foot of Harry's hospital bed and put his hands on his hips.
"What the bloody hell were you thinking?" He demanded. "Stealing Sirius' bike, going out when Voldemort and his followers are once again on the loose." Harry opened his mouth, but Jesse held up his hand. "I don't want to hear it. No, excess. You are grounded for the rest of the summer." Harry snorted.
"I already have been grounded all summer." Harry said. "I've been stuck in that bloody house all summer. I couldn't see my friends or anything."
"It was for your own protection." Jesse said. "I rather you be locked up then dead."
"Yeah, well, I rather be dead." Harry said. Cody gasped.
"Harry, don't say that." He said.
"Why not Jesse wishes I was." Harry said.
"What?" Jesse demanded. Cody looked at Harry in disbelief.
"Nothing." Harry said.
"No, you tell me what you said now." Jesse demanded.
"I said you wished I was dead." Harry said. Cody gasped.
"No, Harry, Jesse doesn't wish that." Cody said. "We love you. You're our little brother."
"Yes, he does." Harry said. "He wished I would have been killed along with Mum and dad, then he wouldn't have to put up with me."
"Harry, that is not true and you know it." Jesse said.
"Come on, guys, don't fight." Cody said. "I thought you guys got past all this last year. You two have got along better than you have in years. Now all you two have done this summer is fight with each other."
"What did you except?" Harry demanded. "I've been locked up all summer. I haven't been able to go anywhere or do anything. I can't even see my friends. You could have at least let me go to headquarters with you, I could have hung out with Rigel and Ginny while you were doing whatever it is you do while you're there. Rigel said it was under the Fieldus Charm. So it would have been safe."
Jesse said nothing, he just crossed his arms and looked down, Harry suddenly got a feeling he was keeping something from him. And frowned. Harry sighed and changed the subject.
"How's Rigel?" Harry asked. "Kaylee that nurse girl said he was having surgery on his leg. How bad is it. And where is Sirius, and Teddy, the nurse said a blue haired boy was out there, along with more of our friends."
"Slow down, you're going too fast." Jesse said. "Rigel is out of surgery now and he's recovering, Teddy, Tonks and Remus are the ones out there in the hall waiting. You can only have two visitors at a time. I'm sure they'll come see you when we leave. You have to stay one more night just for a precaution, because of your head injury if everything checks out okay tomorrow you get to go home then and Sirius has gone to see Rigel."
"Why does he have to stay?" Cody demanded. "Can't you do some memory charms on the nurses and doctors and take Harry and Rigel to a healer. His arm and head can be healed in seconds. You guys did memory charms on those cops to make them forget about the wreck."
"That was different." Jesse said. "We didn't really do memory charms anyway, we did a few charms to make them think that Sirius' bike had plates and that Rigel was sixteen and had a licensed, Sirius will just have to pay some fines and ticket for his speeding, we only did that because they are in enough trouble with the Ministry and besides, they could have been in real deep trouble if we hadn't. Muggle laws are pretty striked about that kind of stuff. And we can't risk the ministry finding out if they get wind of us using magic on muggles and besides, do you know how many muggles work at a hospital this size and plus the ones working last night have done left work. No way to find them. And if we do charms on the ones here, the others might ask what happen to Harry and Rigel. No, better just to let them stay here until the doctors let them go."
"Oh, well, I guess you have a point." Cody said. "You can take them to a healer after we get them home." Jesse frowned and looked down.
"Actually, no, Sirius and I decided not to call any healers." Jesse said.
"What?" Cody demanded. "You're just going to let our little brother lay around hurt and in pain. I think not."
"Sirius and I just had a talk with each other." Jesse said. "We might have dodged a bludger when it comes to the muggle police, but these two need to be punished. Sirius and I think the best way to get you to never do anything like this again, would be to let you guys heal the muggle way."
"What?" Cody demanded. "Jesse, you can't do that to him. Look at him. He's miserable."
"He only has himself to blame for that." Jesse said. "He knew better than to go running off when Voldemort is back. Oh, don't give me that look, it's not like they have life or death injuries. Muggles have to heal on their own all the time, and with worse injuries than they have. " Jesse turned away from Cody's look. "I said don't look at me like that."
"What did they do to Rigel's leg." Harry asked.
"They opened it up and put some pins and bars in his bone to hold it so it'll heal right." Jesse said. Harry wrenched, that had to be painful. "Don't worry, I'm sure Sirius will at least let him take some pain potion for the pain, when he gets home." Harry still frowned. It didn't really seem cruel that his arm had to heal the muggle way, but to make Rigel. With the pain he would be in did seem a little unfair and cruel to Harry.
"Oh, Dumbledore is posting Order guards outside both yours and Rigel's doors why you are here." Jesse said. "Just in case."
"Cody said I got a letter saying I've been expelled." Harry said. " I wasn't really was I." Jesse shook his head.
"You, Ginny, Teddy, and Rigel all got the same letter." Jesse explained. "Dumbledore went and talked to Fudge, and they changed it to you guys being suspended until you attend a hearing on the twelfth of August. They'll decide what will happen there. Don't worry too much. Just keep your temper in check and tell the truth you all should be fine."
Cody snorted. "Try telling Rigel that."
Harry frowned though, his hearing was a day after Ginny's birthday, some birthday present, being expelled. That wasn't too far off from now. He still hadn't decided what to get Ginny. When it was his birthday, Ginny had sent his gift by Jesse. She had bought him a set of Quidditch robes. He knew she probably paid good money for. Last year when Rita Skeeter had written all kinds of nasty stories about them in the Daily Prophet, Jesse had got together with Bill Wealsey and had talked Mr. and Mrs. Weasley into suing them. They won the case and had got 50, 000 galleons a piece from the daily prophet, but Skeeter was yet to pay her 20,000 galleons she was supposed to have by June, but after what happened and the ministry acting like a bunch of idiots. Harry didn't count on seeing that money any time soon. If ever. He didn't care though.
"Do I really have to stay here overnight?" Harry asked. Jesse nodded making Harry groaned. Not long after that Cody and Jesse headed home and Teddy and Remus came in to see him. Then after they left Sirius stopped by, Harry said he was sorry over and over about Sirius' bike, he told him not to worry about, he was just glad they both were okay.
It was about ten minutes until visiting hours were over when she came in to see Harry, which was a total shock since he hadn't seen her since he was eight and she took off after their mom and dad's funeral. But about ten minutes before visiting hours were over, and it had gotten dark outside; Harry had been lying in the bed with his eyes closed. When he suddenly had a feeling he was being watched, he looked up and was confused at first, because standing at the foot of his bed was a girl with thick shoulder length dark red hair, and looking back at him with the same almond shaped bright green eyes he had. He frowned at her and she gave him a cocky smile, one that made her almost look like James Potter.
"Sophie," Harry gasped. Sophia Renée Potter smiled at her little brother. Harry hadn't seen her since he was eight and Sophia who went by Sophie was sixteen, two years younger than Jesse. She had dropped out of school and ran off with her boyfriend. Sophie had always been the wild one of the bunch, you would think as the only girl she would have been a daddy's girl, like most girls were, but no. James Potter and his daughter had fought like cats and dogs. She never listened, always done what she wanted, and was disrespectful to both her parents. Sophie had always been resentful to her parents; for leaving her and Jesse with family and friends while they played Quidditch during the summer. Lily stopped playing after Cody was born and James didn't stop until Harry was born. But by then Sophie felt as if her parents loved Quidditch more than her and was out of control. After they died Jesse tried the best he could to stop her from running off with her boyfriend, but she didn't listen, but then again. Harry couldn't remember Jesse trying all that hard. Him and Sophie never got along, not even when they were little.
"So, he remembers me?" Sophie cried. "I thought maybe he had done forgot."
"What are you doing here?" Harry demanded. Sophie didn't look much older than she did when she had left. She grow a little. But that was about it. She didn't age much, she looked about nineteen, instead of twenty-three which is the age she would be now. She wore all black, black pants, a black blouse that hung off the shoulders, and a black velvet choker with a silver raven hanging from it. There was something different about her. Something Harry couldn't put his finger on. Her skin was paler than he remembered. Then again she was a redhead so it probably wasn't a good idea for her to be in the sun too much. Cody burned in the summer unless he remembered to use a sun block charm.
"Can't a sister come see her little brother?" Sophie asked. She walked around to the side of the bed and sat down in a chair. "Man, you've grown."
"Yeah, funny how that happens in seven years." Harry said. Sophie laughed a little. And twirled a ring around her left ring finger, one that Harry was sure was a wedding band. "Why are you here?"
"I heard about Voldemort." Sophie said. Anger flashed in her eyes. Then she fell silent. Harry frowned at her. There was just something about her that was different, but he couldn't put his finger on it. He looked again at the band on her finger, but since she didn't bring it up Harry didn't mention it.
"Sophie, I haven't seen or heard from you in seven years." Harry said. "And then suddenly you show up here, in a muggle hospital of all places. How did you know I was here?"
"I have my ways." Sophie said. "And what do you mean you haven't heard from me. I have sent you letters and birthday gifts." Harry frowned at her.
"No you haven't." He said. Sophie scowled, and for some reason it looked a lot more scary than it should have.
"Jesse." She growled, sounding like some kind of animal. "Bastard. He must have stopped my letters from getting to you." She reached over and patted Harry on the hand, which made him flinched, her hand was ice cold. "You were the only one I did keep in contact with. The only one I cared enough for, to even bother." Harry frowned as Sophie leaned back. He didn't know rather or not to believe her, Sophie never had anything to do with him, she fought with Jesse and teased Cody even made him cry a few times, but when it came to Harry she ignored him, never even looked his way. He could remember when he was little he would color her pictures and picked her flowers, anything trying to get her to get her to at least talk to him, but she never even gave him a glance.
"Sophie, where have you been all these years?" Harry asked. She grinned a creepy looking grin.
"America." She said. And that's when it hit Harry that you could hardly hear her british accent when she talked. Like she had lived out of the country too long. "Well, I lived elsewhere before then. My boyfriend I ran off with turned out to be no good. Cheating jerk, he left me for a blonde tramp, but I met other people, other um...friends that are now family, I found someone else to love too, someone who actually loves me. When the time is right I'll let you meet them." She stood. And tossed a badly wrapped gift in Harry's lap. "Happy late birthday."
Harry frowned down at it, not sure if he wanted to open it or toss it in the trash. Sophie looked at Harry's arm, then his head and scowled.
"I can't believe he's making you heal the muggle way." She said. "Do you have your wand with you? I'm pretty good with healing spells." Harry frowned, where was his wand, he remembered it flying out of his pocket when he crashed. He hoped it wasn't broke.
"I don't know where my wand is." Harry said. "I haven't seen it since we crashed." He looked at Sophie. "Where's your wand?"
"Oh, I'm not allowed one in England." Sophie said. "So, best not be caught carrying one." Harry gave her a confused look, then how was she going to heal him. He wondered why she couldn't have a wand. Maybe it was because she didn't finish school, but he wasn't sure if they took your wand if you dropped out. Sophie hadn't been expelled. Harry yawned and his eyes began to close. Sophie walked up to the side of his bed and pointed down at the gift she gave him. "You wear that at all times. You hear me." Harry opened his eyes and frowned at her. "Don't give me that look just do it." Harry rolled his eyes at the sister he hadn't seen in seven years. She left so long ago, most the wizard world doesn't remember he had a sister or maybe they thought she was dead. No one ever talked about her. Not even Sirius or his brothers.
"It's getting pretty late I most be going now." Sophie said. "I'll visit you again when I get the chance." Harry whose eyes were closing just nodded his head. He felt Sophie's cold hand on his forehead one more time, then she was gone.
When Harry woke the next morning at first he thought seeing Sophie was all a dream, then he found the gift and opened it. She had given him an amulet, a sliver raven a lot like the one Sophie had been wearing. But this one was on a long silver chain. Harry doesn't know why he did it, but he did as Sophie told him and slipped it on over his head, then hide it under his hospital grown just as his bedroom door opened and in came Cody, he smiled real big at Harry and dropped a pile of clothes in his lap.
"You get to go home now." Cody said. Harry smiled about that then he frowned.
"You will never guess who I saw last night." Harry said. But just then Sirius and Jesse came walking in the room, and Harry fell silent. Knowing it wasn't a good idea to bring Sophie up in front of Jesse.
"Did you tell him?" Sirius asked. He reached over and ruffled Harry's hair. "Since they've done all they could with Rigel's leg, they are letting him go home now too."
"Yeah, but we're not going home?" Jesse said. "Dumbledore feels it best if you stayed at Headquarters for the rest of the summer."
"So, what was it you were saying?" Cody asked. Harry shook his head.
"Never mind." He said. "We'll talk later." Cody frowned at him but he let it drop.
"We'll step out while you get dressed." Jesse said.
"I should go see if Rigel needs any help." Sirius said, he ruffled Harry's hair again and walked out the door. Harry used his good arm to grab hold of Cody's arm.
"Would you help?" He asked, raising up his broke arm. Cody seemed to realize Harry just wanted him to stay so he could tell him something and nodded. Jesse said he would just go sign Harry's relish papers and left.
"Alright, spit it out." Cody demanded. Harry stood and grabbed his pants and put them on. "Who..."
"Sophie." Harry said. Cody's eyes got big.
"Sophie? As in Sophia Potter, our older sister?" Cody demanded. Harry nodded and grabbed his shirt.
"She just appeared in here last night." Harry said. "Said she's been living in America all this time. Cody she had a wedding ring on."
"Really?" Harry nodded.
"She didn't say anything about being married. " Harry said. "She mentioned the boyfriend she ran off with dumped her for some blonde and she found someone else, but didn't say they were married. But it was a wedding ring on her left finger. A silver one. She gave me this as a late birthday gift." Harry lifted up the raven and showed it to Cody, before he slipped his shirt on covering it up. "Sophie also told me she's sent me letters and birthday gifts all this time, but Jesse must have stopped me from seeing them." Cody frowned.
"You don't actually believe her do you?" Cody asked. Harry shrugged.
"I don't know, why would she lie about it?" Harry said. "But then I can't really see why Jesse would stop her letters or why she would write to me. Remember she never had anything to do with me, she fought Jesse, teased you, but ignore me." Harry sat on the bed to put his shoes on, this time Cody did have to help. "I'm going to owl her once I get to Hogwarts. Demand answers from her. I'm sure Hedwig can find her. Do me a favor and don't mention none of this to anyone. Mostly Jesse."
"I think you should be careful when it comes to her." Cody said. "Harry, it's no telling what our big sister has gotten into over the years. Just don't except anything for her, she's always been...well a witch. If you get what I really mean." Harry nodded. "I don't know if it's true or not, but I over heard Jesse telling Sirius a few years ago that Sophie has already went through all the money mum and dad left her, her bank account is empty. What she did with it I don't know, but maybe she heard of the money you got and thinks she can get some from you." Cody stood. Harry frowned at him, whatever Sophie wanted he didn't think that was it, she didn't seem like someone who needed money. No there was something else up her sleeve.
"I won't say anything to Jesse." Cody went on. "But I would suggest you not to owl her and just ignore the fact she came to see you." Harry didn't say anything, just then Jesse walked back in.
"Good, you're dressed." Jesse said. "We can go now." Harry followed Jesse out and down the hall. They stopped by Rigel's room. He was already dressed and waiting on them.
"Dose anyone know what happened to our wands?" Harry asked when they were on the elevator going down.
"I have yours." Jesse told him. "Sirius has Rigel's, he and Cody went back to your crash site last night and found them for you."
"Oh, good." Harry said. He looked at Rigel, who looked awful standing there with crutches and a cast on his leg. Harry tried not to feel sorry for him, because he knew his best friend would hate that, but he couldn't help. He still thought it was cruel to make Rigel heal the muggle way. The way his injuries sounded to Harry, he wouldn't even be healed by the time school started, how the hell did they except him to get around all those stairs at Hogwarts. Thinking about Rigel made Harry think about something else. Their tattoos, so if Sophie was a threat to him, they would have itched when she was around him last night. So, if she didn't want to hurt him, (he didn't think she did anyway) then what did she want.
When they made it outside, Jesse and Sirius lead them to an empty street, then Jesse grabbed Harry's arm and Sirius grabbed Rigel, and Cody didn't gab anyone's as they disappeared with a loud pop.
Harry found himself standing in a patch of unkempt grass in the middle of a small square. He looked around the surrounded houses was anything but welcoming; some even had broken windows.
"Where are we?" Harry asked. No one answered, Sirius dug a piece of paper out of his pocket and handed it to him. "Read that and memorize it." Harry looked at the piece of paper, it read;
Headquarters of the Order of the phoenix can be found at Number 12 Grimmauld place, London
As Harry thought about the words a house in front of them suddenly popped up, like it had just appeared. "This is Order headquarters?" Harry frowned at the house.
"It once belong to my parents, what do you except." Sirius took the note from his hand and tore it up, then led them all up to the house. He tapped his wand on a front door, that had no door knob locks clicked and the door suddenly opened.
Jesse laid his hand on Harry's back, "Don't go too far in and don't touch anything." Harry frowned confused as he walked into the house that was dark even though it was light out. It smelled damp and dusty and a sweetish rotten smell; the place had the feeling of a derelict building. He looked over his shoulder and saw the others come in behind him.
"We already packed your stuff and brought it here." Cody whispered to him." Then patted Harry on the back and headed on up the stairs. As a door off to the landing opened and out came Mrs. Weasley rushing out.
"Good you're back." Mrs. Weasly said to Sirius and Cody, then looked at Harry. "Hello, Harry dear, how do you feel?"
"Fine." Harry said.
"Well, I put your stuff in the room with Ron, there's and extra bed in there." Mrs. Weasley said. "It's also a pretty good size room, so you both should be comfortable for the rest of the summer." Harry just nodded and looked up the stairs and thought about how he could do without having to go up them, it looked a bit creepy up there. "You just go up the stairs, past the house elves heads on the wall and it's the first door on the landing. " She turned back to Jesse and Sirius. "He's here the meeting is about to start." She then turned and hurried back through the door she had come out of.
"Did she say past the heads on the walls?" Harry demanded.
"My family was a bit weird." Sirius said. He turned to Rigel. "Do you need..."
"I'll be fine." He snapped. Then took a step up on the stars. Sirius sighed and he and Jesse turned and went toward the door Mrs. Weasley came out of.
"Who's here?" Harry asked, stepping up the step.
"Dumbledore probably." Rigel answered in a lot warmer voice then he had used with his Uncle since they left the hospital, Harry figured he wasn't happy about having to heal the muggle way.
"Do you need any help?" Harry asked. Rigel glared at him, but then his look soften.
"Carry this." he demanded, handing Harry one of his crutches and then put the other one under the opposite arm and used his now free hand to hold on the banister as he walked up the stairs. "You can come to my room with me. Knowing Ginny and Teddy that'll be were they are anyway."
Harry nodded and they past the room Mrs. Wealsey said was his and Ron's and went up another landing. Rigel led him to a door that had a Gryffindor banner hanging on it, it was blocking some sign, Harry could see the sides poking out from under the banner, and when Rigel opened the door, the inside of the room didn't go with the banner Rigel had hung on it, it was nothing but green and silver. Slytherin colors. But before Harry could question Rigel, someone cried his name and an excited red hair was suddenly in his arms.
"Missed you too, Gin." Harry grinned and hugged Ginny with his good arm, before they pulled away and gave each other a peck on the lips.
"Hello, Lightning-bolt." Teddy greeted from his place on the floor, he and Ginny had been sitting there playing a game of wizard chess. "Trouble, how are you guys doing. Come on in." Harry followed Ginny over to the bed and sat down, Rigel made his way to a chair in front of a desk and sat down.
"What's with all the green and silver?" Harry asked.
"Sirius gave me my dad's old room." Rigel explained, he picked up a picture and held it up. Harry saw a Slythrine Quidditch team, and in the middle where the seeker usually stood was a teen that looked just like Rigel.
"Never mine the colors of the room we have lots to tell you." Ginny said. "We couldn't tell you a whole lot through text messages, we were afraid someone might see them on our phone and we would get in trouble."
"Yeah," Teddy said. "You know how we told you we weren't allowed to know what happens in the meetings?"
"Yeah." Harry answered.
"Well, Fred and George have invented Extendable ears." Ginny said.
"What?" Harry asked.
"They're these ear looking things on long flesh color string." Rigel explained,. "You can use them to eavesdrop on people."
"Oh." Harry said.
"Anyway." Ginny said. "Up until mum found out they used them to eavesdrop on order meetings. Then mum found out and she destroyed most of them and started putting charms on the door." Ginny entwined her fingers with the ones on Harry's unbroken arm. "We heard a few things."
"Rigel snorted. "Nothing useful though, we just know they are trying to get others to join the order and get people to believe Voldemort is back."
"They're also guarding something." Teddy said. Harry opened his mouth, but Ginny spoke up.
"Before you say anything, we don't think they were talking about you." She said and Rigel shook his head.
"No, whatever it is, we thing it's in the ministry." Rigel said. "Dumbledore has got in a lot of trouble trying to spread the word about Voldemort. So, whatever they're guarding, they're doing it without Fudge knowing."
"But what could be in the ministry they would need to guard." Harry asked.
"Who knows." Teddy said. "My mum always said she didn't trust what the unspeakables get up to. Maybe the made a weapon or something."
"Fudge still doesn't believe Voldemort is back?" Harry asked. Ginny shook her head.
"Haven't you been getting the Daily Prophet?" She asked.
"No," Harry said, frowning. "Jesse hasn't let us use or receive any owls. The muggles might notice." Harry scowled.
"Good thing then." Rigel said. "Are you would be in a worse mood than you are now."
"Why?"
"They haven't been nice to you." Teddy said. Since Ginny seemed to have forgotten the game they were playing. Teddy was now making the chess pieces chase each other around the board.
"Hang on, I thought since we sued, they couldn't write about me anymore."
"It's nothing big." Ginny said. "So, they can get by with it, but it's just little remarks now and then."
"Just often enough to make the wizard world believe you're crazy." Rigel said. "So, they wouldn't believe you." Harry frowned.
"Sucks we know." Teddy said. "But that's all we found out before Mrs. Weasley took care of the ears." They fell silent. Broken when Teddy cried because a knight bit his finger.
"Who was the guard that left me the other night?" Harry asked.
"That was Mundungus Fletcher." Rigel rolled his eyes. "Useless thief. I don't even know why he's in the order. He left you to go see something about cauldrons that fell off the back of a broom."
"Useless git." Ginny mumbles. They fell silent again. "Mum went to take my clean clothes in the room I'm staying in one day and caught him going through my things. Mum thinks he was looking for my earrings. But as we know I never take them off." Harry frowned, not at all liking the idea that some guy in Ginny's room going through her stuff
"Guess who showed up to see me last night." Harry said. "Showed up right out of the blue, right in my hospital room."
"Who?" Teddy asked.
"My sister." Harry said.
"What sister?" Ginny frowned at him. Harry had forgotten she probably wouldn't have known of Sophie, she left before Harry became friends with Ginny, some of the older Weaseley's like Bill probably did.
"Sophia?" Rigel asked. "Damn, I forgot about her."
"Most the wizard world has." Harry said. He looked at Ginny. "Sorry, I never told you about her, but I have an older sister Sophia, we called her Sophie, she left after mum and dad was killed, she's two years younger than Jesse and five years older than Cody. She use to pick on him and always fought with mum and dad. Jesse and her never got along. She ran off with her boyfriend right after their funeral."
"How come she showed up now?" Teddy said. Harry shrugged and explained what happen when Sophie had visited him, even showed them the pendant she gave him, Ginny said when they got back to Hogwarts she would look it up. See if it meant anything. After a while they dropped Sophie and started talking about any old thing. Then Mrs. Weasley showed up and told them to come down and eat dinner. After that Sirius and Mrs. Weasley go in a huge fight about not telling Harry stuff, in the end Sirius won, but told Harry basically everything his friends just told him. When he got to Voldemort being after something, Jesse stepped in this time and put an end to the conversion and they were all sent up to bed.
A.N. Sorry I didn't put the argument between Sirius and Mrs. Weasley I didn't feel like writing all that . The next chapter shouldn't take as long to get up. Hope this one was good.
Sophie kind of just popped into my head when I was trying to write this chapter , that's why she was never mentioned in the first story, but I thought she would be good for the story, a sister who disappeared and suddenly pops back up, but for now Harry will be the only one she sees, and yes she is keeping a little secret other than being married to someone, and if you pay attention to the little clues when she's shown you might figure it out, but if not it'll be reviled at the end of this story, after the whole ministry thing, and speaking of that. I need a little help with something. I can't decide who will die at the ministry, I don't want it to be Sirius like in the book, and can't decide who it should be; Jesse, Remus, Moody, or someone else.