Harry was lead by Ginny back to their room. It was set up like a small Gryffindor common room. With a fireplace, a few chairs and tables but this had loads of books in it. It didn't have a bed just two trunks side by side in one corner. Their Marauder trunks. She walked over to a couch and Harry went with her and sat down and she sat on his lap, facing him. He smiled and spun in his seat so he was sitting in the middle of the couch. She grinned and pushed him down so his back rested on the comfy armrest.
"Do you think that we can do this? I mean keep our loved ones out of this?" she whispered very close to his mouth. Not close enough in Harry's opinion.
"Yes, we have too. I couldn't lose them. Not again. None of them, Remus, Dora, Fred, Collin, Sirius, Mum, Dad, Severus, Dumbledore. None of them, it was too hard the first time, we have them and I would gladly give my life to protect them again, whether I would come back again or not."
He hadn't realise Snape was listening outside the door. He strode away quickly. He heard every word. He had died. And and Harry felt remorse even then. It touched him but saddened him, he had died after all.
Ginny was in tears. Her lover was ready to die for their loved ones. She knew he would do it, but she knew she could live a life of sorts without them. She wouldn't live without him. She couldn't live without him. Harry cupped her cheeks with his hands. "Don't cry I was willing to do it once and I will be willing to do it again. Now this may seem depressing but watch."
He collected his thoughts and pushed them to her through the bond. It showed him walking into the clearing thinking of Ginny.
After he got hit he cut it off and saw her crying "Y-you t-thought of m-me." she said through the tears.
He nodded, "Who else would I think of. I knew it would hurt you but I knew it would be better when we were closer to get rid of him. I knew you would be fine eventually."
"You know that's not true." she said a bit shakily. "I can't live without you. Don't get yourself killed for anyone." she sniffled.
"Ginny…" he said.
"Please. I would promise for you. I need you."
"Alright. But please, stop crying. I don't like it." he said wiping off her face. She smiled slightly. He looked down, "And you got it on my shirt." she giggled. Then when she recovered he picked her up and spun her around. She squealed. "Eeek! Why did you do that?"
"Cause I can." he replied. She smiled and clung to him. He smiled back and then leaned his forehead to hers'. She grinned even more.
"So, how come you can hold me up Mr. Potter? You shouldn't be able to do that yet?"
"I work out." he said grinned.
"Oh good, then I can brag to all the girls at school that my boyfriend works out." she snickered.
"Yeah I guess." he chuckled. She smiled at him and slowly leaned in. He leaned into her and it took less than a second for them to be snogging each other senseless.
After a while of snogging, they heard a knock on the door. Harry let go of Ginny and they situated themselves on the couch so they were facing the door, wands out. They pointed them in between the cushions of the couch, unseen by anyone who wasn't looking. It took them a whole second to set up like this. "Enter." said Harry, even though he knew no one could get into the house who wasn't keyed into the wards, he tightened the grip on his wand. James opened the door and Lily stepped in, quickly followed by his dad. Harry stowed away his wand and Ginny did the same. James chuckled, "Always ready aren't you?"
"You have to be. Unless you want to die. Constant Vigilance." he replied. Everyone else groaned at his statement, he was too much like Mad-Eye. "Plus last time I checked, someone's wand was laying on the couch when Voldemort broke down the door and you didn't grab it." said Harry looking at James. He tried to smile fakely.
James went to sit on the couch to the opposite side of the table from Harry and Ginny. Lily moved to sit beside him. "This isn't good." he grumbled.
"Alright we were wondering, if we could ask you some question." said James.
Harry nodded, "What was your last Christmas gift?" said Lily.
Harry was taken aback before he put suddenly found the floor extremely interesting. Lily gasped and James shut his eyes, controlling himself. Ginny looked to Harry he clearly never gotten one.
"Birthday gift?"
"The ones you guys all gave me on my 11th." he whispered.
"I meant before that." said Lily. Harry just looked down. Lily was close to tears of sadness and anger. James wasn't far behind. Ginny was softly crying already.
"First time a Dursley hugged you or kissed you?" said Lily. Nothing.
"Last time they cooked you something." Lily tried again. Harry snorted quietly. His head was blocked off except for emotions for Ginny she tackled him till he was on his back on the couch. "What aren't you telling us. I can feel you think that one was funny." she growled. Harry looked truly afraid.
"Harry!" she growled. Harry smiled slightly. Then he grimaced.
"I was taught to cook at 5, ever since then I have cooked almost every single meal for them. If I messed up by burning it or something then Vernon would beat me. Then I would be locked in the cupboard for a while."
Ginny was soaking Harry's shirt again. "How long is a while?" James growled.
"Normally 2 days, that was about average." he said. James looked away, tears falling freely now. As was Lily's tears. Ginny squished him down on the couch. He smiled up at her.
"Would you all quit your blubbering? It wasn't that bad. I'm still here aren't I? Plus, it could have been worse. I'm just fine. One didn't want to do it, another didn't know better and the other was a bastard with no life. I'm alright now. Plus just think of it. Petunia taking the bastard's money and car. He is a broke person who is forced to go into the thing he hates, the bus. Plus, we own part of Grunnings, we could easily get him fired." said Harry looking down to Ginny then around to his parents. James smiled slightly.
"You know what to do, always thinking it out." he replied.
Ginny snorted slightly, "Only half of the time." she chuckled.
Harry scowled at her. James chuckled. Lily smiled at her laughing husband.
Ginny leaned up and Harry went up with her. He stood up and hugged his mum and bear hugged his dad. James laughed, "You are as bad as Sirius."
"Where do you think I learned it." said Harry.
"OH NO!" said Lily. "AWW! NO! DON'T BE LIKE HIM! HE IS AN- AN- OF FOR MERLIN'S SAKE! AN IDIOT! Sorry James." she added.
The others in the room burst out laughing. She smiled.
The Holidays ended with loads of Quidditch games, present and feasts, laughs, games, tears, and sweat. It was a lot of fun. They trained and were getting really good, they talked about random things and even their futures.
They even took a few trips to Grunnings, after sorting some things out as the rightful owners of the company. Every staff member was brought into the room, except for Vernon. They all greeted the Potters with respect. James turned to the head person in the room who had spoked.
"Is there a reason that you showed up today? Of all days today?"
James, Lily, and Harry nodded.
"We have a question." they said in unison. "If there was a single person in this company you would like to have fired, then we ask you to write it down on the slips of paper my mother is passing around. We want to know who and why and it would be greatly helpful if you could prove any or all accusations you make." said Harry. The adults in the room gaped at him, except for his parents of course. James stood and said, "We will leave you now to fill out your papers, no one but myself and my child and wife will read these, we are all completely mature so do not leave anything out."
The Potters left the room and went to Vernon's office. Harry knocked on his door. Vernon said gruffly, "Come in!"
Harry opened the door and stepped in with his parents and Vernon tuned so red it looked like the worlds biggest tomato.
"What are you! FREAKS! You are supposed to be dead! And you! You made my wife and child leave with my money and car!" he shrieked. Harry grinned.
"Yes dear uncle. But it was not my fault, Aunt Petunia admitted she wanted to leave. Plus, in any world you visit it is known to be impossible to bring back the dead. This shows how powerful me and my friends are. So now I call them and they will come and aid me, if I want them too that is. Mum and Dad and my murderer uncle and werewolf uncle know what you did to me." said Harry. Vernon turned pale and spluttered.
"We will see you later, but remember Werewolves and mass Murderers are going to be the least of your worries when the time is right."
Vernon scoffed as the Potters left the room.
"We don't know what they did to you Harry," said Lily.
"You will eventually." he replied as the walked into the staff room.
Everyone was done and the papers were on a nice pile on the end of the table. James snatched them up and read,
Vernon Dursley,
Sexual assault, rape, violence, theft. More evidence in my office,
Secretary Sarah Johnson.
Vernon Dursley,
Sexual assault, rape, theft, violence, evidence in my office.
Head of company, Kassidy Williams.
Vernon Dursley,
Plans of sexual assault and rape, violence, obnoxious yelling for no reason, theft of company.
Percival Realms, co worker.
Vernon Dursley,
Being a bastard, horrible work, yells violently, fires off good and better employees than himself (misusing his position as Deputy head of company)
Progress reporter, David Castello
Vernon Dursley,
Abuse, sexual assault, rape, violence, proof on my body.
Person secretary of Vernon Dursley, Karly Jennifer.
To say the least, the potters were revaulted.
"I imagine, those on vacation and were just not able to make it today would say the same, two more young ladies and 5 men?" said James in a steady voice. Everyone nodded. James sighed. "Alright, it is now 12:30, I made you miss your lunch, so now go and have a nice meal somewhere and use the company credit card, good day." He said as he stood.
"Excuse me, Karly, please stay. I would like a word with you." Lily said as the girl with the nametag, Karly on it. She nodded.
James and Harry swiped by the offices According paperwork and evidence for the crimes against Vernon, they found horrid pictures and videos, the progress reports and some more disgusting things best left unmentioned. Harry gathered the things and put them in the staff room.
Lily had pulled Karly into another room and said, "We are both girls here, so if you don't mind. Will you show me where exactly is the proof on your body of Vernon's abuse, rap, and sexual abuse?" she said quietly. Karly nodded and showed all over the place, and then revealed, awful stretch marks on private places, and where her skin was rubbed raw. Lily nodded "Thank you, he will be taken care of."
Needless to say, the potters got Vernon fired and even silently put up wards so he couldn't enter the premises ever again. It worked and the Potters all went back to Potter Manor. Harry heard Lily complain about how they were family at one point he could show some respect. Harry smiled and sent out his patronus to Petunia. "Go to Potter Manor if you are close to a Floo Network." it said.
15 minutes later Dudley was thrown out of the fireplace. Then Petunia, Harry chuckled and helped his aunt and cousin up.
"Tuney!" Lily shrieked.
"Lils!" she shrieked back. Petunia had gotten a job and moved into a small apartment in the summer so she couldn't spend a lot of time with her sister. Every moment counted. This was the first time, however, that Dudley came. He was looking bewildered at the bookcase. Not only did it have a lot of books but the titles were crazy. Quidditch through the Ages, Book of Spells?
It seemed he still didn't know what exactly magic was.
After the heartfelt hugs the two sisters were sharing, Lily and James were introduced to a confused and whining Dudley.
"Stop complaining Dudley." said Petunia.
"What is this place?" he whined. So Harry, Ginny, Lily, James and Petunia told him everything they could. Where he was, why he was there, what magic is and how it is used.
After a bit Snape came into the room, heading for the bookcase when he stopped seeing the two new occupants of the room.
"Hey Sev." said Lily. "What were you working on?"
"Adapting the Wolfbane, trying to make it last longer. Any suggestions. I haven't done anything yet just notes." he said glancing between Lily and Petunia.
"No but I'm sure we can find something later. Come sit down. We can chat." said Lily.
"Alright" he said curtly. He sat down and Petunia spoke up.
"Long time no see, Severus." she said grinning.
He nodded, "Yes it has been."
"So have any ladies yet?" she said jokingly. Then something clicked in Harry's brain, she may like him.
Severus actually chuckled, "No, I don't"
"Well you will find someone." she said.
After a while those twos conversation got a bit disturbing so everyone but them left the room.
"Hmm, what to check on them?" asked Ginny smirking widely 5 minutes later. Harry smiled and nodded, they placed loads of charm around him and Ginny and the door. They opened the door and found it didn't matter if they had charms on them or not. Petunia and Severus were standing against the wall, snogging. It was a strange sight and almost enough to throw up over. Harry and Ginny backed out closed the door and removed their charms. The ran down the hall and into other sitting room. They found Lily and James in the same position.
Harry cleared his throat and Lily jumped and James glared.
"Don't look at us like that." said Harry, "We were wondering if you wanted blackmail on Sev?"
The adults just looked at him then James said "What kind?"
"Get your camera and we can show you." said a giggling Ginny. She skipped out of the room and James got the camera and followed Harry. Lily came too.
They got to the door of the lounge and Harry put the charms on and then they opened the door and came in. Severus and Petunia were in the same position still snogging. James grinned at took a picture. The flash startled the two snogging people and they turned and blushed profusely. Harry removed the charms and said, "So enjoy yourselves?"
They blushed even more, if possible.
"Oh this is Christmas card material!" said James looking at the camera. "But I think blackmail is better. Now if you are going to snog in my house, do it in your own room."
"Hypocrite." muttered Harry. James glared, "Shut up"
"Its true." said Ginny.
It seemed that Petunia spent every moment she could at the Manor and with Severus. Finally Lily couldn't take it and said "For god's sake Tuney! Just move into the Manor! Bring Dudley we are rich enough to support you and a couple of armies till you die!"
Petunia just looked at her. "So will you move in or not, we have a large library of muggle books & you could figure out how to do potions while you are here. Severus is a Potions master. It doesn't require any magical ability just remember to wear the gloves."
Petunia nodded.
Lily squealed. "Lets go pack your things!" she said.
Lily dragged Petunia to the floo.
About an hour later they came back, Petunia resigned and Lily shrunk her things and were now in a cute bag of Petunia's. She led Petunia and Dudley to the bedrooms and they picked two next to each other. Petunia's was conveniently on the other side of the Potions lab, as Severus door was next to that door. Lily winked at her as she blushed.
"Do worry Tuney. He wouldn't have kissed you. I actually think that was his first kiss." she whispered. Petunia frowned.
"What?" asked Lily.
"I feel so dirty. I was forced to kiss a nice guy who turned into a monster when if I could've opened my eyes and have someone nice." she said.
"Aww please Tuney. You aren't dirty, plus you are just what Sev needs. Someone to make him happy. Plus, I think your right for him. You don't judge people from their pasts, you judge them from who they are at the present moment." said Lily.
"Thanks Lils. It means a lot to me." she said. "Do you know where Sev is?" she asked.
"Probably the Potions Lab." said Lily. They were standing in front of the door to Petunia's new room. They had no way of knowing that Severus was standing with his ear pressed against the door. He backed away to his notes and sat down silently. Then the door opened and he looked up to a nervous Petunia. He stood up and walked to her.
"Hey Sev."
"Hello Tuney." he almost cooed. Gross.
"I just wanted to tell you that I am in the room next door now." she whispered. He nodded. He was going to try to do something he had only done the one time before. He was going to kiss her, he didn't know when he just knew he would. He reached up his hand and place it on her chin. He pulled her head up. "I found a potion." he said.
"What kind?" she asked.
"I actually made it, their was an old witch and wizard in Albania and Russia respectively. They said that they were dying and didn't want their magic anymore because it would be a waist. They gave their magical core's to me, they are in those jars their." he said.
"Alright what about the potion?" she asked.
"Well, it can give muggles, a magical core. Making them a wizard." he whispered. "I was wondering if you and your son would want them?" he asked.
"But what about Hogwarts? The year already started and I am an adult." she said. "I can't learn now."
"There is a way to transfer knowledge, Harry is the best at it. I'm sure he wouldn't mind if you asked him to share his knowledge. And I already asked Dumbledore and he said for Dudley he could be sorted. As long as Harry caught him up." he said.
"Um, alright. What would we have to do?"
"Just take this." he said holding up the jar with the witches core and the potion in it. She drank and glowed then it faded. "This one is Dudley's when he takes it we can go find Harry." he said emphasizing the we.
She nodded grabbed the vile and walked into Dudley's room. He was sitting on his bed watching a moving picture on the wall. "Drink this." she said. He looked at it, raised his eyebrows and said "What is it?"
"Just drink it." she said "I'll explain later." He shrugged and drank it. He glowed too and then it stopped.
"Lets go." she said as she walked back to the Potion's lab door where Severus was waiting.
"Now before we go anywhere, the potion you just drank, it gave you a magical core. It made you into a wizard, you will attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry when it is time to return from Christmas break." he said to Dudley. He nodded.
The strange trio walked into the library and asked Harry to share. He beamed at what Severus had done for them. He shared it and returned to his book.
Petunia and Dudley suddenly knew everything about the wizarding world, it was a bit overwhelming, so they had to go sit somewhere.
Harry sent word to Dumbledore and went to Diagon Alley with the new Witch and Wizard. Harry bought them their things, wands, books, and the rest of the necessities.
They returned home to find Severus explaining what happened. Harry handed the two their new wands since he was asked to carry them.
Everyone was looking at them until James said "Try it out."
They looked at him and Harry said "DEMENTORS!"
"Expecto Patronum." the two newbies said off instinct.
A graceful giraffe jumped out of Petunia's new wand while a pig jumped out of Dudley's wand.
"Good" said Harry as the rest applauded. The new magicals grinned at his praise.
"Dudley." said Harry, "What do you get when you add and infusion of wormwood to powdered root of asphodel." Petunia mouthed the answer at the same time Dudley said "Draught of the Living Death."
Severus and Harry smiled and Remus said, "Petunia, What is a boggart?"
"A creature that hides in a dark places, when seen it takes the form of the thing you fear the most." she said as Dudley mouthed it. Harry grinned again.
Finally it was time to leave again. Everyone was still technically unpacked except for Severus. There were a few joke products and plans laying around but they were gathered up by various Marauders and Dudley.
Dudley was easily sorted into Hufflepuff, at a special meeting with Dumbledore. All the Marauders were there to celebrate the newest Hufflepuff. He agreed to say that Dudley is a student as a result of a mishap in the books, unless someone knows the truth about him. He was good in classes but he wouldn't really try hard enough to do the best. Harry knew he was cousins with him, but he still didn't want to converse much with him or induct him as a Marauder. He though it would be easier if he could adjust to the new world without the added stress and confusion of the Marauders. The only thing Harry did do was sat down and explained about Voldemort. He knew it would be easier explained verbally than just sharing thoughts. He took it rather well and Harry told him he would leave him alone to make his own friends. He agreed and left.
On the morning of May 2nd, Harry woke up from a dream that made him realize somethings. One, there was a Horcrux in the school right now, and he knew how to get to it. Two, he and Bill could retrieve another Horcrux today from the Gaunt House. Three, he could destroy all the Horcruxes by the end of today. And four, Ginny looks really good in that shade of green. Now Harry, being Harry thought of the last one to put into effect first.
"Ginny, those pajamas are perfect for you. That green goes with your hair perfectly." he said when he saw she was awake. He pulled her close. "So perfect."
She giggled, "They go with your eyes. But from your compliment these are officially my favorite pajamas." Harry smirked, "They are my favorite too." he whispered.
"Hmmmm, we are gonna be late." she said. "It is 6:30 we need to get ready."
He scowled and went to get dressed. They met each other in Harry's library 15 minutes later and they picked up a book on hexes. Harry thought that it had perfect hexes in a dual, stinging, tongue tying, stunning, reducto, cutting, and some even Harry has never seen.. He told Ginny to get her map and she summoned it and told everyone to bring books like that.
At 7:00 they all arrived in Neville's training room. Each started to practice different hexes on the dummies, at 7:10 everyone shared their information. They continued using hexes and then at 7:20 they all left for their showers.
"Do you think we should start training earlier so we can get more done?" said Ron. Everyone nodded.
"Alright I'll make a new schedule. Does 6:20 sound good to start training?" said Harry. Everyone nodded again "Good." he said as he waved his wand and it conjured new schedules which he passed out. They all smiled at them and left to change into more comfortable clothes.
Harry pulled Ginny aside, he whispered, "Come with me to the room of requirement. The diadem is still there. Come with me, Bill and I need to go get the ring too. I want you away from that house. Understand that, If you come with me you will stay behind me unless I tell you otherwise. Please will you do that? For me?"
She nodded, "Of course. So are we going or what." she said tugging his hand.
He nodded and went with her to the room of requirement. He paced thinking "The room of hidden things." Finally the door appeared and he grabbed Ginny and drug her through the door and he ran to the diadem and grabbed it and then banished it to his trunk. Then they went through their day somewhat normally.
Then after dinner, Harry grabbed Ginny's hand and teleported to the Burrow's sidewalk. They walked up the Burrows lines that Ginny made on one of Potter Manor's empty spaces. Ginny knocked on the door. Molly answered.
"Ginny!" she said while hugging her "Harry!" she said as she developed him in a bone crushing hug. "Alright, why are you here? Is something wrong?" she said.
"No, we need to borrow Bill." said Harry.
Molly nodded and said "Alright, come in."
Ginny came in and screamed "Bill!" he came out of the living room.
"Yes. Oh Harry. Is it time then?" he said upon seeing Harry standing there. Harry nodded and Bill said "Lets go. I'll warn you though, I may have to hitch a ride. I don't know where we are going exactly." Harry grinned.
"I wouldn't expect you too." he said.
Harry the Phoenix arrived right outside the property lines of the Gaunt House. Bill jumped up from holding on to the small bird and Ginny arrived in the next split second.
They all took out their wands and started doing different detection spells and soon they had the first 9 of 10 layers down. Bill tried something but it didn't work and Harry cocked his head to the side and used his magic to detect what it was. He suddenly snapped his head up. 'Open' he said in Parseltongue. He watched the ward dissolve. Bill grinned. "Great job Harry." Harry just smiled up at the most protective brother of Ginny.
Harry casting jinxes and spells with every step he took found nothing then he remembered what Dumbledore did when he put the ring on. He knew there was a powerful attraction spell.
He ran to the house and opened the door. He used his wand to rip up a floor board and take all the jinxes off of the ring. When he knew it was safe he picked it up and examined it.
"Harry, why did you run?" puffed Bill.
"Very powerful attraction spell, I knew I had to get rid of it before you came. The jinxes on it would have killed you but it is alright now." he responded.
Bill nodded "Good thinking."
Harry smiled and banished it to his box in his trunk. He changed and let Bill grab on while Ginny teleported again.
Bill waved from the Burrow, after Harry and Ginny waved back they teleported.
Harry and Ginny landed in the common room.
"Everyone met me in the hallway to the real Room of Requirement in 10 minutes." he said as he went through. They nodded and stood up and left to the Hall of Hexes. Harry ran to his trunk and removed all the protection jinxes off of the Horcruxes, he scooped them up and the basilisk fangs. He ran to Dumbledore's office with Ginny and opened the gargoyle and ran up the stairs.
They opened the door.
"Sir, can you bring him with you and report to the Hall of Hexes immediately? It is important." he said.
Dumbledore saw the things in Harry's arms and nodded. After a few minutes they all were watching Ginny pace in front for a place they could be protected from the effects of destroying horcruxes.
They entered and saw that there was a line to stand behind. Harry crossed and laid the Horcruxes in a line and watched the fear in the floating eyes in the Jar on the floor. For one of the only times Harry saw general fear in those Red eyes. He stepped behind the line and used the levitation charm to plunge a fang into each of the Horcruxes. The floating eyes were cringing and Harry turned to it when all the Horcruxes were destroyed.
"Welcome Tom, welcome to living as a mortal again." Harry said. He watched the small mouth in the jar open but thanks to Harry's silencing charm, no one heard a thing. Harry grinned at the jar. "Don't worry, you won't be mortal for more than 4 years anyways."
Harry stood up and went over to Sirius "Just destroyed 5/6 of the still alive pieces of Voldemort. Think this requires a nice match of Big House Quidditch, how about you?"
Padfoot and Prongs nodded enthusiastically. "Thought so." said Harry.
Harry beat Ravenclaw this time easily setting another record with 945-0. Gryffindor stomped out Ravenclaw like something on the bottom of their shoes. Harry laughed when he won against Cho. Ginny glared at her but laughed when she saw Harry glaring at her. When they won Ginny made sure she beat everyone down to Harry. She even beat the team down. She gave him a big kiss.
"We should play Quidditch more often if this is how I'm congratulated." said Harry.
Ginny giggled, "I do this for no apparent reason. Just be good and you'll be rewarded."
Harry smirked, "Wonderful!" he said before he was engulfed in hugs.
Cho was too busy scowling at Ginny to notice her team captain yelling at her. Finally Roger stepped in front of her. "You haven't caught the snitch this year! If you don't pay attention you are off the team!" he said.
She ignored him. She stepped around him to continue glaring at Ginny.
"Alright you are off the team! Ravenclaws lets go! I don't know how she got in Ravenclaw. She is apparently not smart enough to see Potter is loads happier without her, and from the great hall scene he clearly doesn't like her anyways. Cho! I think Cedric is looking for you!" he said as they walked away.
Cedric came over and stood by here telling her she played wonderfully and was giving her compliments, she was ignoring him.
Harry and Ginny heard what Roger said, actually all of Gryffindor heard what Roger said. Occasionally they would look at Cho, she would just glare. That made them laugh harder than they already were. Finally George looked to Cho who was slowly moving forward, "Hey the Professors are gone."
"You mind," said Fred.
"If we could,"
"All just."
"Slap her?" finished George.
"Wouldn't mind at all, I think we all should. Ginny looks like she wants to go last. Hers will hurt." said Harry. Ginny just smiled slightly.
Every Gryffindor marched forward.
"Sorry Diggory, this needs done." said George. Fred stepped up and slapped her. Every Gryffindor slapped her, she seemed not to notice, she was watching Harry. Finally Ginny came up and slapped her hard enough to shove her to the ground. Harry smirked. Harry did something quickly. He didn't know where he got the idea of why he got it but he did.
Arthur Pendragon said to command her to stay away.
Ginny thought it was a bit strange but she did it anyway. "Stay away from Harry." she said. Then she went to Harry's side. Cho looked like she was just put under the Imperius curse. After a moment she stood up and stood by Cedric. They walked away together. Cedric winked to Harry.
After the celebration was over for just winning the Quidditch Cup. Harry was in his room in his trunk that Ginny just walked into when a man appeared.
"Hello, I heard you got my message earlier." he said.
Harry and Ginny both took out their wands as soon as he appeared. "Don't worry. My message came in handy, that girl in blue will stay away. I am Arthur Pendragon."
Harry blinked. "Oh my Merlin! You are King Arthur!" he said as he bowed slightly but still not lowering his wand or breaking eye contact.
"Harry, I know all the things to know about you that there is. More than even Ginny does. I have seen and felt everything you have. I have seen the full content of your dream. I am here to help you. To make sure your plans for fourth year play out. To make sure you don't destroy Hogwarts because someone threatened your mate. I am here to help you control your commanding magic."
"Commanding Magic?" said Ginny.
"Yes, you can command things to do something. Like with the blue girl, you told her to stay away and she will. You can do that with really anything. All of your friends can, you just have to share your knowledge I am about to share with you. After I share, I will answer any questions you may have."
Then Harry and Ginny's heads filled with new knowledge. Harry looked to his muggle lamp on the nightstand that is powered by magic. "Off" he said. Then the lamp clicked off.
Ginny stared at it before she snapped her head up. "Wait, Mr. Pendragon, if someone is hit with the killing curse, can we tell them to live?" she said.
"It is Arthur, not Mr. Pendragon. But to answer your question, yes you can. If someone is hurt you can tell them to heal and they will."
Harry smiled, "So if I screw up and some gets killed, I can bring them back?"
Arthur nodded, "Yes, but remember something, this is powerful and I wish this to be a secret, don't use it in front of loads of people. But really, you can. But it may be easier for you to keep it a secret. Now is that it?"
"Can we command someone to be a good person? Like tell a death eater to stop serving Voldemort?" said Ginny.
"Yes, but for the Giants and acromantulas and others you will need on your side, try to convince them before you use your gift. Now I must be off. Just call if you need me." he said before he was gone.
Harry and Ginny grinned before they climbed into bed.
The big house easily mastered the commanding magic. They liked it a lot. Especially with pranks and dualling. It helped with pranking the Slytherins and dualling the death eaters during training. They wrote home and then to Narcissa. She told them she was fine and the house was clean and ready to be bought. She was living in a spare room in Potter Manor and agreed to let the men build her a nice house on the large grounds of Potter Manor.
Gryffindor swept the Great Hall in points each day they would add at least 30 more points. By now Snape had threatened the Slytherins to whip away the points to all ages. Harry could tell they were planning on revenge on Harry and his friends. Harry had potions on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, right before dinner. It was a great improvement from just the one day a week thing, but it was still with the Slytherins.
One Thursday during their 4th year Potions the bell rang and there wasn't a single Slytherin in sight.
"Professor Snape, I am sure if you cast a listening charm right outside your door you would be able to hear that tomorrow is planned to be a living hell for the big house courtesy of the Slytherins. Of all ages I might add." growled Harry.
Snape waved his wand and suddenly the whole room heard. "So, we blow up the lady Weasels cauldron, nasty poison. Make Potter's potion blow up and burn his eyes out, get the mudblood Granger's textbook to blow up in her face with some fire," Lily and Ron growled at the name. Hermione slunk in her chair and Harry was fuming along with the other Marauders. "Big weasels quill will spray acid ink in his face. Longbottom's face will spread out in those boils that eat your skin. Loony will be hit with a Reductor in the forehead, right? Then that Greenleaf that ex-Slytherin traitor is attracted too, we should just plain out kill her when she walks out of the door. Then for that Slytherin traitor we are still getting the seventh years to use Fiendfyre right?" said one Slytherin.
"Yes" they all said. "But how about that Mudblood professor in there? What should we do to her?" said one.
Snape growled his growl was as bad as Harry's.
"I think we should get her later tonight. Get that one sixth year to do it, Flint. Marcus Flint, he said he would be glad to do the dirty work when the whole common room planned this out. Kill her and then that blood traitor of a husband she has." said another. Snape strode to the door and wrenched it open to find every Slytherin 4th year. He drug them all into the room and then sent a Patronus to Dumbledore requesting they do something about the Slytherins at dinner.
"Now, let us begin." he said growling at the Slytherins, "I will not be whipping the house points at this time." he said emphasizing the last three to the Big House. They smiled.
At Dinner that fine day of May the 21, the Slytherins were in for a good telling off. Harry shared what they heard with the rest of the Marauders who were scowling and snarling at the Slytherins. James especially, they threatened not only him but Lily, Harry and Ginny. That was his wife! His child! He died to protect them once and now that Harry would be willing to do that for Ginny so was he. He never hated the Slytherins more in his life. Lily and Sirius had to hold him in his seat at dinner.
Dumbledore nodded to Snape and they both stood up. The Hall went silent. Snape went over to the Slytherin table.
"I was recently informed of your plans for tomorrow. I must say I am disgusted and extremely displeased in all of you! Your House points are whipped out and each of you will serve detention in all of your free time! If I hear one more thing that isn't civilized I am releasing James Potter on all of you! Trust me when I say he was a nasty bugger when he felt like even been slightly insulted in school. Now you have insulted and threatened his friends and above all his family." spat Severus. James was struggling harder to get up now. All the Marauders except Sirius, Lily and James stood and went to help keep James down.
"Harry, use the thing." whispered Ginny
"I can't not with this many people watching." replied Harry.
All the Marauders were keeping him down.
"HOW DARE YOU USE THAT CURSED WORD MUDBLOOD ON YOU CLASSMATES! HOW DARE YOU USE IT ON YOUR PROFESSORS! YOU THREATENED TO KILL THEM! YOU WERE GOING TO GO THROUGH WITH IT! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU WAS IN ON IT! ALL OF YOU FAILED TO COME FORWARD! YOU WERE PLANNING TO MURDER AN ENTIRE HOUSE!" screamed Snape.
All the Marauders were struggling to keep James down now.
"They all deserve it." grumbled Pansy very loud.
Harry gave up trying to keep his dad down and both him and James sprang up and ran to the Slytherins now running to the door.
"HUFFLEPUFFS! RAVENCLAWS! GRYFFINDORS! OUT! NOW!" said Dumbledore. They all scrambled through the door as the rest of the Big House went after the James and Harry. The red headed ladies beat them all. They tried holding them back but it just didn't work. Everyone knew the Potter temper was deadly. More so than the temper of a red head. They didn't stop till every Slytherin was unconscious. They were to mad they didn't even use their wands. They were still angry. Dumbledore checked over all the Slytherins. None of them were dead, none of them even had any broken bones. Just some cuts, bruises and they were all unconscious. Ginny ran to Harry and spoke soothing words to him. Lily went to James who was leaned against the wall, punching it. Finally he laid his fists against the wall with his elbows locked. Lily ducked under his arm and said, "James. I love you." Then she leaned in and kissed him. He kissed back harshly. After feeling how harsh he was being Lily pulled back. "Hey now. Easy, I am your delicate Lily flower. You wouldn't want to break her would you?" she said lightly.
He shook his head. "I didn't think so. Now if you be a good boy and calm down and kiss me right you will be rewarded later." she said seductively. He gulped nodded and kissed her passionately but not hard. After a few minutes she pulled back. "Now apologize and be good or you will not be rewarded." she said sternly. He whined and she glared at him. He turned around grabbing her hand and dragging her with him. But before he went far he turned to her to make sure she was the first he spoke to. "I love you." Lily smiled "I know, I love you too."
James apologized to dumbledore and he replied with "I do believe it could have been loads worse. They won't have any lasting things, maybe a scar or two. None of them are dead and none have broken bones or torn insides. They are just bruised, cut and unconscious. I saw how hard it must have been to control yourself like that."
James nodded. Harry came up with Ginny rubbing his arm. He apologized as well and offered to pay for anything that the Slytherins may need to heal themselves. Dumbledore just smiled "Very Generous. You do take after your parents. But I don't think so. I do believe we will be fining the families of all the Slytherins because of the trouble and stress they put you under. 50 Galleons per Big house member from each Slytherin should suffice."
The Potters were gaping. "So wait. Everyone in the Big House will be getting 50 galleons from every Slytherin?"
"Yes. But if we find anything in their common room or dorms to cause what they said they had planned, that will double to 100 Galleons per person." said Dumbledore. The Potters were almost drooling. "I have already sent some Professors to the common room. They should be back shortly. Maybe you should tell your friends at least that they are going to get 50 galleons from each of the Slytherins. The 100 is questionable at the moment." he said.
They nodded and as if in a trance walked over to their friends. Everyone was staring at their shocked faces. Harry recovered first.
"Remus, according to Dumbledore, you along with the rest of us won't have to worry about a shortage of money for a while." he said.
Remus raised his eyebrows, "Um, why?" he said. With everyone else nodding in agreement.
"Professor Dumbledore said that each member of the big house would receive 50 Galleons from every single Slytherin." said Harry slowly. Everyone gaped at him.
"That's 800 galleons from every family!" he said.
"You didn't let me finish." said Harry, "He also said if they found the things they would need to go through with the things they said, the amount would double so every Slytherin would give us 100 galleons each."
"1600 galleons." stuttered Tonks. Everyone was in a state of shock. Dumbledore was watching the group in their state of shock. It was rather funny. He saw Harry recover again. Then he watched as Harry waved his hand around the group and said, "Calm down."
They all seemed to do just that. "Now, take a deep breath and understand our situation." he said. They all took a deep breath and shut their eyes only to open them after a minute. Ginny walked over to Harry and grabbed his hand. "Now," she said, "wait patiently and occupy yourselves. Do not be upset or surprised by our new situation." she said. They nodded and went their separate ways to sit and talk. Dumbledore just stood and watch. Two children just commanded every to do something and as if in a trance they did. He walked over to them.
"How did you do that?" he said.
Harry smiled. "Arthur." he called. After a second someone materialized beside them. "Hello Albus. I am Arthur. Arthur Pendragon."
Dumbledore stepped back drawing his wand. "You are dead." he said.
"Well yes, but for being a special case I am a ghost of some sort that gets set over to watch someone. Or in my case some people. My ward happens to be the occupants of the Big House." he said.
"Very well, can you explain what these two just did?" he said. Arthur nodded and proceeded to tell him about commanding magic and how anyone of the Big House that recovered first would have used it because they all can. He demonstrated by conjuring a cake. "Because they are my ward, they have my abilities, they haven't been taught some of them yet. But they will by the time they come back to Hogwarts in the fall."
After Arthur left the Professors all came in with disgusted looks on their faces. Each of them had papers and objects in their hands.
"Albus! Every Slytherin had directions for what to do and something deadly to do to the Big House students. Each had the devices to do it and each had a person to go after." said McGonagall.
"Alright Minerva, I will call all the parents here in a few minutes. Could you start working on getting up all the Slytherins?" she nodded.
Dumbledore smiled sweetly and kissed her cheek effectively making her blush. Draco and Harry snickered. "Potter! Black! I heard that! Oh how that never gets old. Potter and Black inseparable." she said, eyeing the now snickering James and Sirius.
Remus leaned over to Tonks ear "There will be a little Lupin running around by 1998." he said. She grinned. "Maybe more after that." she said back. Remus grinned, "Making plans to seduce me more than once are we?"
"There is a rather large chance of that." she said innocently. Remus smiled, "How did I ever put up with you last time?"
"The same way you will put up with me this time." she said. "You would kiss me and forget why you were confused or mad. Like this." she said as she kissed him. After a while he pulled back "Your right you know."
"I always am." she replied cheekily. "Now come on, people are coming." she said pulling him up and whipping his butt off.
"Hey! I could have done that myself!" he said as she whipped off her own.
"Yes, but it is much more fun when I do it." she said as she walked away. He shook his head and followed.
Dumbledore gathered all the Slytherin parents. "I am sorry to inform you but, your children were threatening an entire house and 6 members of my staff with actions that would ensure life threatening situations. These after been reviewed had a 97% of death even with the factor of having the best healers in the world attending to them. To say I am disappointed is an understatement. Therefore each of you will be paying a fee of 1,600 galleons and you will take your children home to be punished." he said.
The parents grumbled. They all paid and Harry silently did diagnostic spells on the money. Surprisingly they all checked out. By that time the head table was piled in Galleons. When the parents left Dumbledore waved his wand and they all arranged themselves into 16 large piles. Harry waved his wand in a circle and did a spell he learned from the goblins in the dream. It all added up to 121,600 galleons, which means each pile had 7,600 Galleons. Harry grinned he had done the math earlier. It was right. Since each of the 76 Slytherins had to pay 7,600 galleons, or at least their parents did. Then the correct total is 121,600 galleons, which was in the pile. Then there is 16 Great House members so you take the 121,600 by 16 and get the large piles of 7,600 galleons for the Marauders to keep.
"It is all here. All 121,600 of it." said Harry.
"If our math is correct we all walk out of here with 7,600 more Galleons then we came in with." said Ginny.
They nodded and Remus walked to Dumbledore "Do you mind if we visit Gringotts? Wouldn't want this falling into the wrong hands." he said.
"No no, I insist go." he said.
Remus put all of his money in his little and helped Tonks with her little bag. Everyone walked out and into their passage. They changed or teleported and ended up in an alley right beside the worn down muggle side of the leaky cauldron. They all walked in and went straight to the wall, making sure to make eye contact with no one. They quickly walked to Gringotts and waited while the adults went down to their vaults. The bonded couples agreed to put theirs into the Merlin vaults. The twins were happy, especially when the goblin told them they couldn't put their money in a vault of their own but they could store it in their parents vault where even Molly couldn't be able to touch it.
This was the first time Remus has been in his vault since the summer trip with the Potter there. He hadn't found out, yet.
Up came and exasperated Remus and a confused Tonks. When James came back up with Lily. Lily went over and talked to fred and George about pranks of all things.
Remus went to James angrily, "You put that money in my vault! Didn't you?" he said. James said "Calm down Moony you just went down there you put it in."
"Not that money! There was an extra 3 thousand Galleons in my vault when I got there!" he said.
"Well it wasn't me." said James honestly. Tonks laughed.
"What?" said Lupin turning to face Tonks.
"I know who did it." she laughed out.
"Who?"
Tonks stopped laughing a bit, "Can you really believe that Lily would go up to the Weasley twins to talk about Pranks for no reason?" she said.
James raised his eyebrows then chuckled, "And Padfoot thought she wouldn't make a good Marauder. Sneaky that one." he said as he walked to her. He picked her up and she squealed. ames put her back down in front of Lupin.
"You put money in my vault." he stated.
She smiled, "Yes I did, I figured you would stop complaining so much about being poor against Dora all the time."
Remus huffed. "Thank you. But really I'm fine now. Take it back." he said after a moment.
"No givesies backsies." she said.
Remus pouted, "And you are supposed to be the Mature one." said James. Tonks kissed Remus' cheek and he quits pouting and grins a wolfish grin.
"Moony! That wasn't very mature!" said James winking at Tonks. Remus growled protectively.
"Hey! I am a married man! She's engaged!" said James then he dropped his voice, "To a rather feisty werewolf, I might add."
Tonks chuckled and kissed Remus' cheek again. He slowly stood up from his crouched position.
"Jeez, Moony." said James shaking his head and walked to his wife.
In each of the vaults that at one point belonged to Merlin, each bonded couple found a full house of stuff. Furniture everywhere, couches, chairs, even beds. The most astonishing however were the potions that had preservation charms on them and the preservated books. Potions and directions to make them, books on everything. In some books there was unheard of hexes. While not being dark magic they could do loads of damage and weren't affected by shields. Harry read how they were affected and determined that their shields could stop them and the maps' shields by extent. He was thrilled. Everyone went into a state of shock when they found a certain potion. No one could wait any longer. They duplicated the instructions and Harry duplicated the one potion and they all went back up to the top floor of Gringotts. To an outsider they would see 8 unsupervised children bubbling with excitement with books and parchment and one with a bottle in hand. They ran over to Remus.
"This is going to be great come on we have to go!" all 8 said in unison. They all walked, or rather the eight ran while dragging everyone else out to where they arrived in muggle London. They all transformed or teleported away.
Each ended up in the common room and Harry and Ginny were torn between bolting towards the door and running to the Potions lab or staying with Remus. So they did both.
"Everyone go as quickly as you can! We need to talk to Professor Snape." said Hermione excitedly.
They were all puzzled at the 8 jumping children.
In the Potions lab Snape looked up. He never had visitors, especially those who knocked. He got out his wand and pointed it at the door, "Enter" he said.
The door opened and in walked 8 jumping children followed by 6 adults and 2 people who were staring at the children. He lowered his wand and said "What can I help you with?"
Harry walked up with a pile of parchment. "We were in our vaults from Merlin today, we found potions instructions and completed potions, we were wondering if this one would work?" He said as he picked up the top piece of parchment and handed Snape the bottle. Snape saw the description gasped looked to Lupin and back and said quietly in Harry's ear, "Did you tell him?"
"No, we wanted to know if it would work first. Didn't want to raise his hopes in case it didn't work." he whispered back.
"Good idea." said Severus smiling approvingly. Then he continued reading while saying loudly and chuckling a bit "James Potter, If Harry wasn't your spitting image I would say he isn't yours."
James scowled playfully. "I'd love to know who raised him. He is nice. Was it you Remus?" said Snape as he continued to read.
"No actually I didn't." said Remus. Snape looked up then "Who was it then?"
No one answered, "Aunt Petunia." said Harry after a moment. Severus gasped, "S-so, how was it?" he said as calmly as he could, even though he already knew the answer. Harry sent all the images through his Occlumency barriers. He saw all the things he went through as a child. Him in a cupboard for the third day. Him being beaten then he was back to himself. He glanced around the room and then looked down. "This will work." he said passing the paper back. Harry beamed.
"And if you wouldn't mind, I am going to start treating him like a Potter." said Snape looking at Lily and James. Lily chuckled, she knew what he meant. James raised his eyebrows.
"I am going to start spoiling him James." Snape clarified. James stuck out his tongue.
"So you are sure this will work? I mean every part of the description? Minimal pain, no toll on the body at all, changing at will?" Harry asked.
"Yes, want me to go look for the Wolfsbane so we can test it?" he whispered, Harry shook his head.
"Can someone tell us what the bloody hell is going on?" said Sirius, earning a slap on the arm from his fiancee. "Sorry" he whispered in her ear.
Harry grinned and went to Remus, grabbed his arm and dragged him up to the potion. "Drink this." he said as Snape came back out with the Wolfsbane Potion. Remus raised his eyebrows at him. "The full moon was on the 16th today is the 21st. I don't need that."
"We wanted to test something. Drink." said Snape. Remus drank the Wolfsbane and the other Potion.
Everyone watched as Remus grew 3 inches and the grey in his hair disappeared. A bunch of larger scars faded away and there stood what looked to be a non-lycanthrope man. Remus blinked "What did you do to me?" he said.
Harry picked the paper off Snape's desk and handed it to Remus. Remus read over it and gasped. "When you gave me the Wolfsbane and said you wanted to test something, I imagine you meant for me to, you know, transform?" Harry nodded. "According to the paper it won't hurt." added Snape. By now the paper was being passed to the other 7. Remus said "Alright. Step back."
Everyone obeyed and Remus closed his eyes and i the next second Moony was trotting around the room. Then he stood back up and Remus was there. "That was amazing, it didn't even hurt!" he said. Harry grinned and signalled Snape for a highfive. He scowled but gave him one anyways much to the pleasure of the original Marauders. Harry laid the other pieces of parchment on Snape's desk. He duplicated them and left one for him and shrunk the others and put them in his pocket.
"Thanks Sev." he said as he walked to Ginny and grabbed her hand.
"Watch out Potter, that is a red head. They have tempers." he said eyeing Lily then glancing back at Ginny. Harry chuckled, "Trust me I am well aware."
"Good. Good luck." he said then he put his stoney mask back on "Get out! I am busy!" he said as he smiled and went to read the new recipes on his desk. Everyone laughed and excited.