In the morning everyone woke up and started to read or snog or talk by 6:00. Everyone except Remus and Tonks.
Remus and Tonks did wake up at 6:00 but getting up didn't suite Tonks. She was right where she wanted to be. "Remus, can you promise me something?"
"Anything." he said immediately.
"Promise me you won't leave me no matter what. Even if you bit me, if you leave I will die. Please just promise."
He looked at her for a moment. "Dora-"
"Promise me, please." she pleaded.
"Dora-"
"Remus. Please." she said tears pulling in her eyes. Did he not want her? Did he plan on leaving her? Doesn't he get that she cant be without him?
He looked pained. "Alright, but I'd rather kill myself before I bite you."
"You have to promise you won't do that if I get bitten." she pleaded.
He closed his eyes. "Alright, I won't." he said after a minute. Tonks started to cry tears of joy. When she was done. Remus collected the tears. He put them in his mouth and hummed with happiness.
She smiled. "See you love me too much, you won't leave, you aren't allowed."
"Yeah, I'm proud to say I do. I won't leave you. No matter what." he promised nodding slightly.
"Even if you did bite me I wouldn't mind. We could run together."
"You don't know what you are saying. It is hard to be like me. It hurts. I have put you through too much pain as it is."
"Truly I wouldn't care. I would be with you." she said.
He sighed. She rolled off of him and he growled. "Stop that! We do have to get dressed. Want to help me?" she giggled out.
Remus' eyebrows disappeared. He stood up and took off Dora's night gown and threw it into the drawer. She laughed. He stopped and just looked at her.
"Don't worry I wouldn't have let you take the rest off anyways." she said as he relaxed. She then ran to her trunk door and went into her bathroom leaving Remus behind to get ready for his shower. He returned to find Dora in only undergarments. Remus, not expecting her to be back, was only in his boxers. He blushed and went to find his clothes. He went to put them on but Tonks came over and stopped him.
"My turn." she said. She made him step into his pants and she pulled them all the way up. She buttoned it and made slow movements with his zipper. Remus got slightly aroused by the action but, thankfully, not enough to show. She then grabbed his shirt. She put his head through and caught his mouth for an unexpected he could kiss back she pulled back. She put his arms through and pulled it down, tucking it in with a great slowness. Finally she grabbed his robes and slipped them over his shoulders and put his arms through. She did all of this so soft it felt like nothing was helping Remus, though he enjoyed every second.
Finally she stood back and said "You are perfect."
Remus blushed, "Not as perfect as you."
Tonks blushed. "Are you going to help me or not?" she said after a minute.
Remus went over to get the clothes she picked out. He unfolded the pants and slid them up Dora's perfectly soft and creamy legs. His hands rubbed up her thighs and it made her shudder. He smiled and buttoned it and slowly did the zipper. He grabbed her shirt and slipped it over her hair followed by her whole face. Then his hands slowly went down with the shirt. She shuddered again. He then put on her robes and then grabbed the hairbrush and brushed through her hair that matched Remus' at the moment. Then he let Dora do his. When they were done with putting on their training robes, Dora grabbed his hand and kissed him quickly and then walked out of his trunk and into the training room. When they got there they tapped the floating 'accept' or 'decline' message from Luna's trunk. Then suddenly like every morning they were in front of the rest of the Marauders. They smiled and took their place. After a minute Harry and Ginny got there at precisely 7:00.
"Alright, Death Eaters have gotten into Hogsmeade." he said as the trunk changed to look like Hogsmeade. "We mustn't let them past the wards. Get into position. They are coming from the south, and bringing dementors, Fenrir, and some spiders. Go!" he said. They all went into teams of two and then separated and went to places that people could get into the boundaries or the school.
Remus and Tonks ran to the shrieking shack, Harry and Ginny got to Honeydukes and Lily and James went to the main part to access the boundaries. Everyone else took places where there were openings. Then the dummies appeared. The ratio was slowly moving from day to day they were at 10 to one now and still taking them out easily. If they all succeeded they would move to 15 to 1 tomorrow. After about a 15 minutes they all repelled and, strangely enough, killed dementors and stunned or placed binds on all the death eaters. Harry took down Fenrir the dummy with a few distraction spells and a well placed stunner.
Remus hugged him, "Well done! If you should ever need to face him do what you did there!" he said.
"It is alright Remus, I learned that from watching Ron and Neville take him down in the Great Hall. That battle was a big turning point for you two." said Harry looking at Hermione and Ron.
"What did they do?" asked Tonks.
"Other than comforting each other as a COUPLE when it was over. They also had their first kiss in the room of requirement. Ron had a good idea about making the house elves leave so they wouldn't get injured. So she ran up and kissed him. It was rather funny. I would have laughed but instead I reminded them that we were in the middle of battle and Ron said it was now or never." said Harry.
The couple in question blushed and Tonks laughed. "Ginny did the same thing for me afterwards as well. Grieving period, again. I swear I spent more time in that state then anything else. But that is why Sirius was upset, I wasn't a junior Marauder, I had already seen too much for that to happen."
"Cheer up mate! You really are a Marauder now! You set us up! Speaking of such, when are we going to start with prank 1 on the Slytherins. We have it mapped out." said Sirius.
Harry grinned "As soon as we can, Dinner?" They all nodded enthusiastically.
At 7:20 everyone excited to the showers. They got cleaned up and dressed in more formal robes. It took them all around 3 minutes with the right charms. They all came into the common room at roughly the same time. They all started their conversations and went to the great hall. They got their at 7:30, again. No one was there other than the teachers, again.
The group ate quickly and Harry was having a conversation and planning the prank, but he was also listening to the teacher's conversation.
"Albus, what year are we to put them in? They know all the seventh year things! They could graduate at 12!"
"4th year things should be fine, for all the subjects the excell in." he replied, looking at Severus. That was the only class they had today. Snape smirked to himself. He knew they would do well.
"They will succeed in my class. They have an excellent method of learning. Over the summer I was exposed to extra ordinary young people." said Severus smiling at the smartest people to ever exist, that at the moment were 10, 11 and 13. Though their were some 31 year olds and an 18 year old.
"I know this isn't important but when do you think Mr. Lupin will propose? And Mr. Black?" squeak Flitwick.
"Who too?" said Minerva.
"Well Mr. Lupin is obviously in love with his assistant, and Madame Bones is here for a reason. Considering she went from Head of the DMLE and then started to teach while still doing her job." squeaked Flitwick. "I thought it was obvious. Look at them." All the teachers turned to the people in question. Amelia was holding Sirius' hand and laughing at him. Tonks was on Remus' lap. Remus was looking at her and laughing at her changing her face. Sirius was just looking at Amelia now and he leaned in and kissed her cheek and she blushed.
"So when do you think?" said Flitwick.
Everyone smiled. "By the end of the year." said McGonagall looking longingly at Albus. He saw her looking and smiled to himself. He had gotten a ring when Harry told him what Minerva was looking at him like. He just confirmed it and now he could go through with it. Maybe Halloween he thought, That was always depressing. It needs a pick me up.
Harry smiled, Halloween was going to be good. 3 proposals, no troll, hopefully no deaths, and he could spend it with his parents. It was their day. They decided to wait, because they ordered a bunch of daily prophets, mostly for the students. Then a bunch of owl came in with the sets and they smiled, payed the birds, and then opened the packages, there was the news papers. Harry flicked his wand and sent them all out, so there was a copy on every plate, then he gave each of the teachers one. The Headline on the paper was. NEW MINISTER OF MAGIC, DEATH EATERS CAPTURED AT MINISTRY. The teachers all opened theirs at the same time the Marauders did.
Yesterday, young Harry Potter arrived at the Ministry with Albus Dumbledore. Not much is known of where they went but what was heard is there was a secret meeting in the Ministry. But we do know that within the next hour, an emergency Wizengamot meeting was brought into order. Where Amelia Bones, a assistant professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and keeps up her stern reputation and multitasks as she still is seen as the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, started up the meeting with Harry Potter at her side, announcing they had enough evidence to rid Cornelius Fudge from office. Then they voted to temporarily remove his rights as minister, the majority won out and he was temporarily not the minister. They called for a short recess and then it is said that Death Eaters that were surprisingly known members of the wizengamot were arrested and revealed, among them former minister for magic Cornelius Fudge, former Undersecretary of the Minister Dolores Umbridge, and many others. All of whom where given the dementors kiss, later on. (See Azkaban Prison page 5) Then they recalled the session and continued on giving thorough proof of the wrongdoings of the death eaters in the ministry. Then they elected the new minister of magic between Kingsley Shacklebolt, auror, or Arthur Weasley, former head of the misuse of muggle artifacts department. The majority won out and Arthur Septimus Weasley is now the new Minister for Magic. We congratulate Minister Weasley on his amazing achievement. We have yet to hear word from the new minister, or what he plans to do with new found power or even who his undersecretary is.
(See charges and evidence on Cornelius Fudge page 2)
Not much is known why Mr. Harry Potter was out of Hogwarts when he should have been in classes, but all is known is that Amelia Bones, Albus Dumbledore and himself returned to Hogwarts after the meeting. No one has been able to get to Mr. Potter for a word.
Harry smiled around the room. People were slowly trickling in, reading the paper, leaving and coming back with friends. They watched the stunned faces of most of them and then congratulations were given to the Weasleys from most of the students.
After breakfast they all went to the common room.
"I heard, Albus has a special, plan, for Halloween. If I heard correctly, a proposal." he said winking at Sirius and Remus.
Tonks and Amelia sighed quietly. Harry heard them and grinned.
"Awww! To who? To who?" said Lily.
"Well, it will give Gryffindor some time to celebrate." he said.
"McGonagall?" said James.
Harry merely smiled. Everyone gasped.
"Why did it take him so long to realize that they like each other?" said Amelia.
Harry pointed to Ginny. Everyone was confused. Ginny saw where he was pointing and raised her eyebrows.
"Me? Why me? What did I do?" she said.
"Well you didn't really do anything, it was just the look you gave me when I walked out of the great hall with Dumbledore. From what F- some people thought it was looking distressed and longingly, then they saw McGonagall looking that way towards Dumbledore. I told him about it and asked him if he has feelings for her. He said he did, but he didn't say anything about rings. I just heard it from his thoughts this morning." said Harry.
Ginny blushed. "Just wait till I find out who said that!" she said.
Harry had already hidden it in his occlumency shields. The best in the world, literally.
She growled. "I really hate those!" she said.
"I bet it doesn't help I'm wearing the locket either." he winked to her. She scowled and pulled hers out while he did the same. Lily looked at them puzzled, lockets?
She stood up and came over, "What are those?" she whispered.
"Lockets." said Harry as if it was the most clear thing in the world.
"Can I see one?" she said. Harry pulled his off and handed it to his mother.
Harry felt that Ginny tried to access his mind. Still the best shields in the world. She scowled.
Lily looked at the heart shaped locket, she flipped over the plain gold locket and read the writing.
Harry 💙 Ginny
XO
She smiled and opened it, she gasped and got a bit teary eyed. On the left was a picture of Harry and Ginny, all grown up and at their wedding, it looked to be their sealing kiss, the picture moved and she saw them snog passionately and finally when they pulled back they both mouthed at the same time, "I love you" she smiled. They were so much alike. On the right it was another moving picture of a 16 year old Ginny and 17 year old Harry walking into the sunset holding hands. She looked up and ran into her room, locket in hand.
Harry and Ginny stared after her. She came back a second later with a scrapbook. She sat down by Harry opened up the book and turned the pages and then at a certain page she stopped and sat it on her son's lap with the locket on the same page. He looked down and gasped. There on that page was a picture taken at the same place, what looks like the same time of day and what most certainly looked like the same people.
The picture of James and Lily walking into the sunset at Potter Manor, it was dated for 7:00 on May the 3rd 1979. It was the same outfits that Harry and Ginny were wearing, they had found in the Potter vault. They liked them and wore them on special occasions. Much like Lily and James.
"That night we had just got back together after a fight a few months before our wedding, it was the night he proposed. It was our favorite outfits. We thought we should take a picture to remember our get together and perfect date night." she said. She looked over to see Harry and Ginny crying.
"Why are you crying?"she said.
"I can remember when we did this, when we took this picture. We loved those outfits too. Our favorites as well." said Harry.
"When was your's taken?" she said.
"Ours was ar 7:00 on May 3rd 1998. We had gone that day, in the morning to look in my vault. We had picked out our favorite clothes. Then we had gone on a nice date in Hogsmeade like at school, and we took this. It was the day after the battle of Hogwarts and we were celebrating the best we could about getting back together after almost a year apart. That was when I proposed, officially. We didn't announce it to her family until she was done with Hogwarts." said Harry staring at Ginny.
"Wow! 19 years difference! You didn't even know us, or about this picture, yet you did almost exactly what we did." said Lily. Harry nodded. Lily stood up and said "You can look through that if you want." Then she was gone. She went to James and sat down in a corner explaining what she was talking about.
Harry continued to stare at Ginny. She moved slowly and slide her hand over to the book and picked up the locket. She motioned for him to turn and hid did so. Slowly. She draped it around his neck and quickly did the clasp and tapped it with her wand. Then she spun him around. She looked at him. He grabbed her hand as if it was the most natural thing in the world for 10 and 11 year old. He leaned in and caught her lips. After a second or more like 5 minutes to them Ginny pulled back.
"I think your Mum may want her book back by the end of the year. We need to start now then. You seem to get distracted." she purred.
He sighed and opened the book to the first page. After a half an hour of working their way through the book they finished it.
"Do you realize how many of almost the same pictures we had taken?"
'Yes. About ¾ of them and this book is long and filled." she said. He smiled.
Ginny got up and took the book over to Lily. They started to talk and laugh a bit. Harry just stared and Ginny. Finally Lily whispered to Ginny. "I think you should go sit. Harry has been staring at you since you left." Ginny smiled. She turned and found Lily was right. Harry was staring at her. When they made contact it was like a blind man seeing the sun for the first time. She slowly walked to him, exaggerating her slow movements. He just stared. She moved faster until she was sitting on his lap. He smiled at her. She leaned down and kissed him deeply before pulling away.
"We have potions today. Maybe we should study. We have 15 minutes." she said.
He sighed alright. He summoned his potions things. He started to study the advanced text and Ginny studied other advanced things. Finally after their 15 minutes they stood up and packed them into their bags.
All the students left and most of them headed towards the dungeons with an ecstatic Lily.
When they got there they asked Lily what they needed and she told them quietly. They got them out and sat down.
Harry whispered to Ginny. "Remind me to get bags, for us. I mean. We have loads of books and things. Maybe we should do that sooner. Make us look more smart or something."
Ginny smiled. "Maybe we should do that this afternoon. I mean we will have a lot of free time today."
Harry smiled. "Yeah WE should." he emphasized the word we so she knew she should come too.
She grinned at him. After a little bit of silent communication, Severus strode from his office.
"Good, your early. Now, let us begin the test. Now I'd like you to all grab some parchment and a quill. I want this test written nothing out loud." he said. They smiled at him. His lips twitched. "What do you get if you added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?"
They all quickly wrote down without thinking about it 'Draught of the Living Death' Severus smiled.
"What is a bezoar? And where would I find one if I wanted one?"
Again without thinking they wrote down 'A stone from the stomach of a goat that cures most, not all, poison. As an answer to where to find one is in the stomach of a goat, or if you do not have time, their is normally some in Professor Snape's stash of ingredients or Madame Pomfrey's.'
"What is the difference between monkshood and wolfsbane?" said Snape.
They wrote down 'Nothing, they are the same thing that also goes by the name aconite.'
"What is the proper name for Liquid Luck?"
'Felix Felicis.'
"What potion requires you, at a basic level of potion brewing,to remove the cauldron from heat before you add porcupine quill? Without doing that it will cause what you are trying to cure."
'Cure for Boils.'
He said, "That is enough. Check your own papers. The answers in this order are Draught of the Living Death, a stone from the stomach of a goat that cures most, not all, poison, hey are the same thing that also goes by the name aconite, Felix Felicis and the Cure for Boils."
They all beamed. "I assume you got them all correct?"
They nodded enthusiastically. Severus smiled. "Of course. You will be participating today, but you will be going into the advanced classes I am allowed to put you in." Then he walked away. The Marauders smiled.
They all almost as if in a trance they all got out their things for the Cure for Boils.
"How did you know we were going to make today?" asked Snape.
"The dream." whispered Harry. Snape nodded "You also asked me the first 3 questions last time as well. I of course didn't know them then." he said.
Snape smiled. "Let me guess I started to make a fool of you in class for being 'the Chosen one'?"
Harry smiled and nodded.
"You can start making the potion if you are quiet. I still have a class to teach that seems to be running a bit late." he said smirking. "Not even my own house is here, so disrespectful, 5 points to Gryffindor, each."
"Also, 20 points from Slytherin, they are so disrespectful." He tutted fakily. The Gryffindors smirked. The other Gryffindors came in then and sat down. Snape placed his mask back on his face, his mask of a blank expression. Their still wasn't a single Slytherin there. After a minute the bell rang, still no Slytherins. Finally after another two minutes, all the Slytherins came in smirking. They didn't think Severus would yell. They were wrong.
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? 2 MINUTES LATE! VERY DISRESPECTFUL FOR YOUR OWN HEAD OF HOUSE! I HAVE ALREADY TAKEN 20 POINTS FROM SLYTHERIN! NOW I AM TAKING 100 MORE POINTS! IF THIS EVER HAPPENS AGAIN I WILL BE HARSHER THAN THIS AND I WILL BE GIVING OUT A MONTHS OF DETENTIONS! IF IT HAPPENS AFTER THAT I AM WHIPPING OUT THE HOUSE POINTS YOU MAY GET!" he shrieked. They Slytherins were all cowering.
The Gryffindors were smiling. -120 from Slytherin, +40 points to Gryffindor. This is the best Potions ever. Snape said sternly "SIT BEFORE YOU LOSE ANYMORE POINTS AND DIP INTO THE NEGATIVES." The Slytherins all made their way to a chair The Gryffindors just smiled at the scared Slytherins.
Class continued with Snape helping the Gryffindors, to their obvious surprise. The most he would do the the Slytherins was glare. Lily was forced to help them, she winked to the Marauders as she helped them. The Marauders finished as quick as possible while still making it correctly. They all presented them to Snape.
"Perfect. I hope you will enjoy your advanced classes." he said a bit loud. Pansy snickered, Grabbe glared a bit and Crabbe was snickering as well. After a moment Grabbe snickered as well.
Severus shook his head, "10 points from Slytherin. I also expect everyone to remain here after class. Except Mr. Finnigan, Thomas, and Ms. Brown, Patil. Everyone else stay behind." Great all the Slytherins and Marauders. Now at least the Slytherins were at -10 points, I bet their hour glass looks strange.
After class, everyone who was asked to stay, stayed. Which was all but 4 Gryffindors.
"Now Slytherins. Do you want to win the cup or not?" he said.
They all nodded. "Good, if you are one second late, I will be dealing out punishments."
The Slytherins looked defeated. Severus walked over to the two tables of Marauders.
"I would like to see a parchment here by Monday of all the potions you can do correctly or have done correctly in the past. One paper for the whole group would suffice. Now sit tight I would like to speak with you after I deal with the snickering idiots behind me who just lost another 10 points!" he said not even bothering to see what they were doing, he could hear them. Ron pulled the paper out of the bag.
"Professor, we already have the paper ready." said Ron. Snape let loose a small smile.
"Of course, I thought you might have but I didn't want to raise me hopes. Mr. Zabini 5 more points from Slytherin. At your rate your house will barely get back into the positives by the end of the year! You have already lost them all!" said the now exasperated Severus. -25 points.
"No each of you are going to have to stand up in the Great Hall at Lunch and apologize to your house and the other houses for the wrongs you have done. If you don't I will assign you double the homework and make sure you have a detention every night for the rest of the year. Now leave, there are other things I have to do, talk to more important people, explain to McGonagall why she will be winning the cup and why I will have to be in last place, for the first time in 7 years."
The Slytherins stood up and left.
"Now, I glanced at this paper, you will not use the Polyjuice potion unless absolutely necessary will you?" he said.
They nodded. "Good, I didn't really want to explain why there is two of different people running around the school."
They chuckled "Trust us, you won't see us anyway, and besides there is some people that can sense Magic. We already knew where the entrance to the Slytherin dorms, plus we know what the passwords have been since the start of the school." said Luna.
Professor Snape just nodded, "Some how that wouldn't surprise me. But if say another round of dung bombs went off, you have no clue how to get in correct?"
They nodded, "Harry's occlumency shields help more than just him, we all have them now. Not to mention we can do Runes that protect us from attacks in Legilimency." said Ginny. Harry blushed.
Snape smiled, "Of course, now let us go. We need to go witness and apology from the Slytherins. This is going to be funny." he said. The group laughed.
They strode through the halls, meeting up with the rest of the Marauders. Snape was with them which shocked the adults.
"There will be something happening in the Great Hall that will entertain you." he said.
James smiled, "Oh being a bit of a prankster are you Sev?" he said.
Severus merely smiled, "Not a prank. But it will still be funny."
Sirius smirked. "If you think it is funny. Then this is going to be hilarious."
"Yes I believe so." he said. Then they arrived at the Great Hall. The Marauders sat and Snape went to stand by his house, speaking sternly to all the first years with very quick words. After a moment he barked, "UP ALL OF THE FIRST YEARS! I TOLD YOU WHAT TO DO NOW DO IT!" he said.
The first years stood up.
"PARKINSON! CRABBE! GOYLE! UP!" he said. They got up and every first year went to the Ravenclaw table. They all started in unison "We are sorry for pranking you, insulting you and other things that are considered rude to you." They continued like that to the other tables as well before they got to the Marauder table there they just said "We are sorry." Snape said, who was following them. "And what exactly are you sorry for."
Blaise spoke up "For snickering at your intelligence."
Luna looked at them, "They are not sorry. Plus they did more than laugh at how we are loads smarter and are much more prepared them they for the coming war."
"We are Slytherins! Much better than you!" shrieked Pansy.
"If I may I suggest a first year to first year dual. No Dark Magic at all. Use all the spells you know other than Dark Magic." he announced, standing up while quickly drawing his wand. He looked up to Dumbledore who nodded smiling. He knew the outcome of this he just wanted to see it. Minerva gave a slight nod as well.
"When you are done eating we will make room and start." said Snape smirking.
They nodded and finished their healthy lunch. They were so prepared for this. Especially with the death eater trainings they do every morning.
They stood and nodded to Dumbledore. Harry looked at the chairs and silently and wandlessly mad the table disappear, the whole hall was already watching, since they already abandoned their food. Then he said, "When you are ready Slytherins, we are moving all the tables to watch and be protected. Do you think maybe we could go against other years from Slytherin if we beat the first years?" he said looking at Snape, Dumbledore and McGonagall. They nodded.
Then The first years stood up and strode to the Marauders. Harry moved all the tables nonverbally and wandlessly. Then he said to his parents and 'uncles and aunts' "Would you mind sitting out. It is a student battle after all. You could probably calm down some students if they are afraid or something. Fred George, sorry but he said a first year battle. Sorry about that." They nodded and Harry put up a Merlin shield to protect the other students. They all awed and oohed at the sight of the shield being put up. Then Harry looked to his friends they all got in their formation. The Slytherin first years tried to copy but Harry knew they couldn't defend themselves like that. Harry sent to them.
Take the shields on the maps off! No advantages other than practice and knowledge. Use your own shields!
They all nodded and stood there, their wands out but they didn't plan on using them to much.
"BEGIN!" said Snape. All the teachers were on the edge of their seats. As were most of the students.
Harry quickly shot stunners at over half of the Slytherins. Each going down. Ginny was giving others some nasty bat bogeys, while snickering. After 10 more seconds they ended their fight. It was a 20 second battle and not one of the Marauders went down or even had to put up a shield. Everyone but the Slytherins clapped enthusiastically. Harry looked up to the Slytherin first years and waved his hand. All the jinxes and hexes vanished and so did the stunners.
Everyone made long oooh noises. The Slytherins glared and stepped out of the shield as the second years came through.
"GO!" said Dumbledore.
Harry sent stunner after stunner. The battle was another 20 second battle. It was rather funny. James was using a stopwatch. Most of the Professors had conjured one to time it too.
Harry waved his hand and the second years got up and left. The third years tried to fire some spells but they were easily identifiable and dodgeable. Another 20 second battle.
The fourth years tried even harder to get out spells all failed. Another 20 seconds. The 5th years were the same. 6th years were no better. The 7th years put up a rather good fight. No spells actually hit any Marauders. Harry took half of them down, Ginny taking down a fourth and one lucky Slytherin shot a stunner at Hermione. Ron hissed and hit him with a hex. Harry heard the two words he hated with all his life. A sickly green spell come from a seventh years wand.
"NO!" he screamed. His shield was deployed immediately. He saw that curse was aimed at Ginny. The shield of course, absorbed the spell. But Harry was starting to shake. Ginny removed his shield and Dumbledore grabbed the seventh year. Snape made sure that every Slytherin was out before they would let Harry go, he was thrashing about. Face turning red and he was being restrained so he didn't go and murder the Slytherin. The Marauders other than Ginny and Harry stepped out and kept their wands pointed at the shield. They were strengthening it. The other Marauders joined soon. Everyone else in the Hall was just frozen. They were all watching Harry who was snarling and growling and shouting.
THAT BITCH IS GOING TO DIE! HOW DARE HE SHOOT THE KILLING CURSE AT GINNY! MY GINNY! HE IS GOING TO PAY! HE WILL DIE! SHE IS MINE! NO ONE CAN KILL HER WITHOUT KILLING ME FIRST! thoughts like this were running through Harry's head as things in the dome started to spin. The dome was really hot as well. It felt like the inside of a volcano.
Cho Chang looked at Harry and instead of doing what she was supposed to be doing, staying in her seat. She stood. Ginny, that bitch Harry is in 'love' with was just standing there with her eyes closed, while Harry is shredding part of the great Hall. She ran through the barrier. She felt the heat. She ran to Harry. His eyes were closed. SHe ran and hugged him. He immediately opened his eyes saw Cho and then just before anyone could even blink. She was being slammed into the farthest wall. Harry was livid . He was truly going to kill anyone else that even thought of doing that. Ginny opened her eyes when she felt someone enter the barrier. Ginny was now ice cold with a dark blue color masking the paleness of her skin. SHe stepped to Harry's red skin. She looked at him and his eyes softened the slightest. She hugged him and tried to cool him.
"I'm alive, I'm not in any danger. I love you. I'm here for you. Harry. I love you. Harry James Potter." she said forcing coldness from her with the last three words. "I love you, more than anything else. I'm yours and I am just fine." she saw he was cooling quicker and wasn't red but she knew she needed to say something funny to finally get him back to normal. "I also, love you no matter what you do. I especially love you when you land that bitch in the hospital wing. Or better, St. Mungos."
That did it Harry laughed and slowly things stopped spinning. The heat was all but gone and only Harry, Ginny and the shield remained, but you could still feel the magical energy racing around the room.
Harry stopped laughing after a minute and looked to Ginny, as his skin was visibly fading.
"I love you." he said.
She grinned "I'm aware. I guess it helps that I love you too."
He smiled, then he leaned down slightly and kissed her cheek. "I will make sure you are properly thanked later." he murmured in her ear. She giggled. Harry smiled. "Alright my Marauder mate, how about a little show?"
"What do you have in mind?"
"A bit of our kind of flying." he said winking.
She giggled again "Sounds good."
She jumped up and her feet wouldn't touch the ground for another few minutes. She was in the air. Harry didn't fly up yet.
"Well what are you waiting for?" she said.
"Nothing. What can't I enjoy the view?" he said.
She laughed and beckoned him up. He did, though his was more flashy. He ran in a circle did a front flip, landed and then jumped up. He flew right up to her.
"Hey."
"Hey." she said. Then she grabbed his hand, removed the shield and flew up to the enchanted ceiling, setting off fireworks as she went. Harry laughed and started to send off his as well.
The Marauders were laughing. Tonks whispered in Remus' ear "Nasty Mood swings, they got."
He laughed even harder.
Harry and Ginny flew for a while setting off fireworks. Finally she set off a dragon and watched it blow firework fire before she made them all disappear. Harry and Ginny landed right next to Dumbledore.
"I didn't know you could fly." he said, watching the rest of the fireworks end.
Harry smiled "Yes, I figured it out in the common room while I was mad."
"Ah. I see you have a slight temper issue." replied Dumbledore.
"Slight? You call destroying half the Great Hall, slight?" said Ginny.
"Yes, he wasn't killing anyone." said Dumbledore.
"I was thinking about it, especially when that… thing against the wall hugged me." said Harry pointing to Cho.
"Yes I believe that was rather foolish. How about we grab just one friend of hers and you two can come with me and the friend to the Hospital Wing." said Dumbledore. Harry smiled.
"CEDRIC DIGGORY!" called Harry. The whole Hufflepuff table froze, Cedric's eye were wide, what did he do?
Cedric slowly rose and came over at bit shakily.
"Y-yes?" he said.
"I request you follow us to the Hospital Wing." said Harry.
He nodded and said, "Would you like me to help levitate her?" he asked pointing to Cho.
"N-" started Dumbledore, but he was cut off by Harry "Yes. I may drop her. I'm not particularly fond of Ms. Chang, neither is Ginny."
Cedric nodded, "Why me?" he asked after a moment.
"We figured you were... best suited to, comfort her." said Ginny.
Cedric nodded. Dumbledore stepped over to Cho and took out his wand and levitated the girl with Cedric's help.
Ginny grabbed Harry's arm and Harry looked down to her. He grabbed one of her hands.
"Don't worry. I don't like her. Really if Cedric wasn't around I am betting I would have tried to kill her right now." Ginny smiled slightly.
"I know, I love you." she said.
"I love you too." He replied immediately.
Cedric was silently listening to this conversation. Why did he say if I weren't still around he would have tried to kill her? he thought.
"An easy answer to your question, Cedric. Is that I figured out people have a certain glow about them. I can see different colors in everyone. When someone is meant for another, they have the same colors. You are one of those people. Yours happens to be a green not unlike that of a killing curse, Cho's matches. Like if I were to look at Voldemort, his would be black. There isn't another person whose color is black as well, because he will never know love. He doesn't understand love and he never realized how important it is. He is incapable of loving, anyways." said Harry as they walked out of the doors.
Cedric just stared. "I didn't say anything. How did you know I thought that?" he said.
Harry tapped his forehead, "I can read minds. I normally don't use it on purpose. But I can't really shut it off. I wasn't really distracted when you thought that so I heard it."
"Oh. Can you do that to Dumbledore? He is said to have the most powerful Occlumency shields in the world. Stronger than You-know-whos!"
"Yes." said Harry as Dumbledore chuckled.
"Trust me Mr. Diggory. I know of two others who can break past my shields easily." said Dumbledore.
"But, you are supposed to be the best with Occlumency and Legilimency!" said Cedric.
"I used to be until I met these two certain individuals. They easily outrank me though."
"Who are they, Headmaster? Are they dark wizards?" asked Cedric.
"Oh no. They are very light. You happen to be walking with them now." said Dumbledore.
Cedric turned to Harry and Ginny, gaping.
"But they are only 11!" said Cedric.
"Actually I'm 10. I got here as special circumstances with Dumbledore." said Ginny.
Cedric was almost drooling now. "Don't look that shocked, I'm not the only 10 year old in the school, Luna and Astoria are also here, well Astoria is 9." she said.
"They are really good that is why they are here. Speaking of good, are you going to be in all advanced classes as of today?" asked Dumbledore.
"Yes, we just need our new schedules. You never know we may see you in class, Cedric." said Ginny.
"Dumbledore, why are you putting first years in advanced classes?" he asked.
"If you were watching in the Great Hall, they took down all but one 7th year Slytherins in 24 seconds, according to your dad, Harry. You would've been able to take him down in the next 5 seconds, until he shot that killing curse. Nice shield by the way. Very strong and powerful." said Dumbledore.
"Thank you, Professor." he replied.
"Wait, that is impossible! You can't make a shield to stop an Unforgivable! They are unstoppable!" said Cedric. He was extremely confused right now.
"Apparently not, Mr. Diggory. I believe Harry and his friends have rather special friends, to help them with their abilities." said Dumbledore.
"Is that why you are so smart then, your friends."
"Now our 'secret' is we happen to have excellent teachers, we are fast learners and we are rather close with Professor Lupin and Tonks." said Harry smirking.
"Wow." said Cedric, "I really didn't think they would be that good. Then I got to class." he said. Harry laughed. Then they arrived at the Hospital Wing. They levitated Cho into a bed and let Madame Pomfrey care for her.
Harry was talking to Dumbledore, Ginny could tell Harry wanted to say more but couldn't with Cedric there. She smiled and said to Cedric, "How about you come over here with me, I may be able to answer some questions you have." He nodded.
Ginny felt a pair of eyes on her as she walked over to a chair with Cedric in front of her. She smiled to herself.
Harry! I'm across the room. I'm not mad, I won't shut you out and you can see me if I need help.
I know, it just isn't the same. I don't feel your warmth from over here.
Ginny smiled. I know.
Then Harry talked to Dumbledore.
"Do you have any questions?" she said.
"A fair few." he said with a puzzled expression on his face.
"Ask away, just don't expect me to be able or allowed to answer them all." she said.
He nodded, "About in the Great Hall. What happened when you fought the 7th years?"
Ginny laughed quietly, "Well if you were watching, we sent out rapid fire stunners. Then when we were rounding on the last two, I went to send a stunner which bounced off the one Hermione was trying to send thus making us both miss, we aren't all used to having significantly less than a 10 to 1 ratio when dualing, so our spells would colid in midair because we are all shooting at the same person. Harry took down the other one and then the last one was out of options. He shot the killing curse. Harry heard the words first seeing as the light hadn't even left the wand yet. He screamed no when he saw where it was pointed and put up the shield we learned from our friend. Everyone knew that since I was involved he was going to be exploding with rage. Everyone was instructed, out of habit, to strengthened the wards so no one would feel what was going on. It worked of course." she concluded.
"But, why does he care if you are involved? No offence or anything but why wouldn't he have been like that, or at least maybe not that bad, for the others?"
"That is probably the easiest question you could have asked. This can be a short answer. Love. He loves me. As much as he loves the others, he loves me the most." she answered grinning.
"But you are only 10." said Cedric his eyebrows all but gone.
"You are 14, age is nothing but a number. Your knowledge shows how old you really are." she answered wisely.
Cedric smiled, that was a well worded response. "Plus, if say it had been Hermione, Ron would have done the same. It wouldn't have been neer powerful as Harry but still pretty powerful. Neville would have done it for Luna, and Draco for Astoria. That is kinda of how we work. We don't really fight much, we work together and are all in love. There isn't any jealousy, if anything it is all pride. If it were Death Eaters in the Great Hall this morning, we all could have had 10 people fighting us each at a time and walked out of there without much damage. By tomorrow it will be fifteen, Monday will be 20 and so on."
"But how, you guys are so, um small. How on earth can you do that?" he asked.
"Knowledge, plus with proper training, you can achieve anything at any age. Like if you asked us first years, Fred and George Weasley to apperate, we would be able to do it anywhere , except Hogwarts, anytime and however many times you want. We would be able to go anywhere from Hogsmeade."
"Did Professor Lupin train you too?" asked Cedric.
"Now actually, he trains with us. We normally know more than what he does but we are all fast learners. He learns fast too. Harry is normally in charge. He has a rather large destiny in front of him and as his friends and family, we are targets. We are just being prepared is all." she replied.
"Alright." he said.
Ginny then said "See you later, remember the first thing Cho sees when she wakes up better be you. If not then you will have to deal with me and you don't want that."
Cedric's eyes widened considerably.
"You also won't want Harry there either." she added as she rose. Cedric's eyes almost popped out of his head he just whimpered slightly and nodded.
Ginny walked back over to Harry.
"Are we ready to go then?" she asked as his eyes suddenly grew happier.
"Yes if you are." he said.
She nodded and gracefully skipped out of the Hospital Wing. Harry was so busy watching that he didn't notice he was now moving towards the door. He looked down after a moment then sighed.
Dumbledore was waking where he should have been, on the ground. He had been flying to the door.
"Alright Harry?" he asked.
Harry nodded "Just distracted." Dumbledore smiled. And Harry landed while rolling his eyes, "I'm not sure when I'm going to get that down." he said. Dumbledore chuckled.
Harry walked out of the wing and didn't see Ginny. He went to the passage hoping that is where she went. He walked in, shut the door and turned to walk to the common room when he was tackled.
"About time." said Ginny who was now on top of Harry.
"Sorry, started to fly through the Hospital wing. I was a bit distracted watching a really cute redhead walk out of the doors."
"I'm telling Ron you think hes cute." she said.
Harry scowled, "Fine, how about I rephrase that sentence by saying I was distracted watching my wife walk out of the Hospital Wing's doors."
She grinned, "What do couples such as ourselves do then, all alone. It is quiet, no one will be looking for us yet. No interruptions at all, what should we do?"
"Study." said Harry smirking.
"Study what?"
"We could try Arithmancy." he said smirking really big now.
"Hmm, not what I was thinking." she said.
"What did you want to study then?" said Harry raising his eyebrows in mock confusion.
"My husband's lips." she said.
"Sounds like you need a study buddy. I'm sure I could help." he volunteered.
"I'm sure you will. Now, I want to start now so we can cram in as much studying as we can."
He grinned. Soon they were snogging passionately.
Neville was sitting in the common room with a book on Herbology. Luna was in here trunk with the animals. He put down his book and was thinking hard. He was wondering what he should do about Luna. He loved her, he wanted to be close to what Harry and Ginny did. They were really affectionate. He stood up and went into his trunk, then he shared his trunk with Luna and waited.
Luna saw a request floating around her to join his trunk. She accepted and then she was in his trunk.
"Hey Nev." she said as she came over and sat down.
"Hey Luna." he said. He pulled her onto his lap and cradled her. Luna gave out a very strange thing for Luna. She giggled.
"I was wondering. Do you want to be more, uh, affectionate with me? I mean it is fine if you don't but I was hoping we could. I want to show you how much I love you." he said.
"That would be wonderful Nev." she said smiling. He grinned then leaned down and gave her a small peck on the lips, Luna following his advice to be more affectionate kissed him back. The peck soon turned into a full blown snog.
Finally when Harry and Ginny got up from their snogging session, Harry realized it was 2:00.
"We should probably go to Diagon Alley now." he said.
She nodded. they went back to the common room, "Dad, do you mind if Ginny and I go to Diagon Alley?" said Harry.
"For what? We don't need anymore trunks." he said looking up.
"I was going to get bags, for our school things. I was going to put a whole bunch of charms and things on them." said Harry.
"Oh alright, are the adults getting them also?" asked James.
"Yes, it is easier that way, then we could use them for all sorts of things. Like if we travel we could put our trunks into them." said Harry.
James nodded, smiling "See you later then."
Harry waved and then said. "Bye dad. Love you." and then they were gone. He sat staring at where they had been, Did he just say that? He never tells me that! And rarely speaks to me in general, let alone calls me dad!
At Diagon Alley, it wasn't very crowded. But why would it be, school was in session. Harry led Ginny into Wiseacre's. As usual it was empty.
"Mr. Potter, was there a problem with the trunks?" Wiseacre said upon seeing their arrival.
"No sir, I just came to get some bags. Black, dragon hide." he said.
"How many?"
"18, do you still have the papers with the initials on it?"
"Yes, I have both of them, they have a total of 16 sets of initials, Is that right?" Wiseacre asked.
"Yes sir, could you put that on the back of the bags, bottom right hand corner?"
"Yes Mr. Potter."
"Thank you, when will they be done?"
"A half an hour, and since it is normally 8, that would be 4 each. 72 galleons." said Wiseacre.
Harry pulled out that much money from his wallet that is like his parents and Ginny's link directly to the vault. He handed it to Wiseacre and then walked out.
"Where are we going?"
"Somewhere, close your eyes." he whispered in her ear. She did as she was told. Harry led her right in front of Quality Quidditch Supplies.
"Open." he said. She did and gasped, that was practically a first date for them this time around.
"Come on, are you going to gap at it all day or go inside?" he asked chuckling.
She grabbed his hand and drug him forward.
They went in and Harry immediately grabbed a package. It was a team set of new dragon hide gloves. He grabbed 4 packages, then said "Pick some things you want." She grinned and went towards the robes for quidditch. Harry paid for the gloves, then he shrunk them down and put them in his pocket. He then went to Ginny.
"If you are looking for the Harpies robes they are in the next aisle." he said.
"Thanks." she said and skipped to the next aisle and pulled out a pair of robes, "Can I get them?" she asked quietly.
"Of course." he answered automatically. Ginny went to the front and paid for them.
Then they walked out of the store.
"We still have 15 minutes, where do you want to go?" he asked.
"Can we go to Gambol and Japes?" she said.
"Alright, lets go."
They came out 10 minutes later with loads of joke products and fireworks for the twins to mess with and experiment on.
They went back to Wiseacre's and waited the remaining minutes.
"Here you go, Tell your parents I said Hello Mr. Potter." Harry nodded.
"Of course, sir." He said as he waved his wand, shrinking the bags.
"You must be extremely powerful Mr. Potter. Non-verbal magic, is extremely advanced for a first year." he said, "And sometimes for 7th years."
"I can do wandless magic and loads of other things as well. Most of my friends can." said Harry.
"Wow, aren't most of your friends also first years?" asked Wiseacre extremely shocked.
"Yes other than me, there is a total of 9 others, 7 first years and two third years, that can do what I can."
Wiseacre smiled. "There is one other that can do one thing that the rest can't with me. I can fly." said Harry really shocking Wiseacre. Harry jumped up and floated there and coasted over to Wiseacre followed closely by Ginny.
Wiseacre clapped, "That was amazing!" he said.
"Thank you, now we must be going. My friends and family would send out an army of people to find us."
Wiseacre laughed, "Alright Mr. Potter, young lady, good day."
They nodded and walked out of the store, walked behind a building and teleported.
They teleported to the common room.
"Hey dad, got them. I'll be in the library charming them. If you want to help come up." said Harry.
James nodded, stood and followed them up. Harry took the shrunken bags out of his pocket and enlarged them.
"Dad, do rather large undetectable charms, Ginny feather light charms, I'll add the extra pockets." said Harry.
After another minute they finished.
"Dad put some unbreakable charms on them, Ginny the warding charms, and I'll put the runes on the inside corner.
After a couple of minutes they finished with a whole bunch of different charms and things to make the bags perfect.
"I think we are done, I use the map to call them to the common room with their school bags and other things." said James.
Harry nodded gathered the bags and walked downstairs. He still hadn't had the 'big' conversation with his father yet.
When everyone was in the common room Harry passed out the bags.
"These bags can be used for really anything. They have rather long undetectable extension charms, feather light charms and loads of hexes and things. They have loads of pockets and each have your correct initials that only we can see in the back corner. I thought that the school bags were a bit of a hassle so you can put your books in one pocket, quills and ink in another, parchment in one, essays in the other. You can label your own pockets, you can even shrink your trunk and put it in one. The top pocket you can put your maps in, you can do what you want with them, you can literally pack up all the things you own and put them in the bags. Only we can summon them, only we can open them. It will turn red if someone is trying to open it, summon it, or hex it. It writes who is doing it and what they are trying to do to it on the top." he finished.
Everyone nodded and sat down and started to convert their bags. After 20 minutes every successfully had their bags in the right order with their school things, and maps and trunks in them.
At 5:00 Fred said,"Hey, anyone want to play some Quidditch?" Everyone had a free period right now, meaning everyone in the school.
Most nodded and George said, "Alright, I'll go the Gryffindor team, Gryffindors against Marauders." they all nodded and went to their trunks grabbed their brooms and ran to the pitch.
Fred and George ran into the common room of Gryffindors.
"Having a quidditch match against the big house! Gryffindor versus Big House! Come on! Anyone who wants to watch come on!"
Every Gryffindor was now running to the Pitch, soon almost the whole school knew and were coming out to watch. Even the Professors were out watching.
The teams met down in the middle.
Harry told Gryffindor that they would have to use Draco in their game, he was captain of the Big House. They agreed.
Fred George and Draco went with the Gryffindors while the Big house got ready. Harry was their seeker, Ginny, Astoria, and Hermione were the chasers, Ron was the keeper and Neville and Luna were the beaters. Everyone knew they were as good as the Gryffindors. Even Neville and Luna were good beaters, as good as Fred and George. Even Hermione was a great Chaser. Madame Hooch came down and started the game for them. After an hour of the best Quidditch Game Hogwarts has ever seen, the score was 520-510 with Gryffindor winning. After another minute they tied up and Harry and Draco were racing after the snitch. Harry made himself as small as possible on his broom and he pushed ahead, Draco barely missed the snitch but Harry caught the wing. The worst part is Draco at the same time caught the other wing. They had just tied the game with 680 points each. They held it up together and everyone cheered. THe two teams landed "Who won?! Who won!?" they were shouting. Harry said, "We both caught the wings at the same time, it was a tied game."
Harry and Oliver shook hands and laughed about what was going on, they were evenly matched. James and Sirius were the first fans down to the pitch. Harry was picked up by James and Draco was picked up by Sirius.
The Slytherins were the only one's who weren't cheering, the were the only ones that realised they would have to verse them adventually. Scores in the 300 is the best but when both teams scores were in the 600 no one had a chance in a Gryffindor match, you could practically give them both of the cups now.
The partying in the Gryffindor common room didn't end until 5:45 when everyone started to head to dinner. At dinner the Slytherins were scowling as usual and the Gryffindors were red faced, and Hufflepuffs were smiling the Ravenclaws were a mixture of smiling and not caring.
Dumbledore stood, "Congratulations Big house and Gryffindor, that was the best and most interesting Quidditch Match Hogwarts has ever seen. But I wish each and everyone of the 4 teams good luck with the Quidditch playing this year." Then he sat back down.
The Great Hall went back to normal, full of chatter. At seven The Big House rose as one and left. Everyone watched, the whole house moved as if one person. It was quite comical.