Chapter twenty three

A week later Harry arrived at Hogwarts, he had come straight from work so he was still in his auror robes. Filch was waiting at the gate.

'Mr. Filch.'

'Auror Potter, Madam Pomfrey is waiting in the hospital for you.'

'Thanks, you don't need to escort me, I think I remember the way,' Harry grinned leaving the grumpy old caretaker to huff.

Harry stepped into the hospital to see Poppy Pomfrey and Minerva McGonagall, 'Why did I know you would be here Professor?'

'I am curious to see if something shows up in your blood.'

'Let's hope so it can be tested, will you want blood while I'm a dragon as well Madam Pomfrey?'

'I believe it would be wise to check that against your human blood.'

Harry pointed his wand at his finger and allowed his blood to flow into the vial, 'Um, I need to undress or my clothes gets ruined, I've lost so many changing into my dragon.'

Poppy flicked her wands and curtains appeared around the Harry Potter bed making Harry laugh. He nodded then stepped behind the curtains. He removed his clothes then began the change, he quickly moved around the curtains as his body changed from a human to a dragon.

'Oh my, I am glad that you know who we are while you are in that form.'

Harry let out a loud roar before he bit his tail, his blood dripped into a bowl then he allowed Poppy to heal it before he began to transform back. By the time he became human he was once again behind the curtain. He changed then joined the two women.

'This might take some time Harry plus I will need to speak with an unspeakable to find out if they might be able to help with these tests.'

'I knew it might take a while, so I was expecting it. We all just thought if something could be found then it might help people in the future and no one will have to go through what the Weasley's are now. Thanks Madam Pomfrey.'

'Anytime.'

'Let's go to my office, you can see that memory.'

Harry followed his old professor through the castle, sometimes smiling at students that he remembered, he smiled at his old teachers and even though it had not been long since he left, he felt a lot older than the students who now attended Hogwarts.

'I had it ready for you,' Minerva pointed to the pensieve, 'I should warn you though, it's not just James or Prongs, but Padfoot was there as well.'

'I'm glad you told me,' Harry blew out a huge breath then entered the memory. He watched from one of the windows in the castle as a large stag run across the law, a huge black dog following. Harry knew the rat was there somewhere but being so high up it was impossible to see.

Harry emerged a few minutes later, 'Charlie looks exactly like my dad's animagus which is the same as my patronus.'

'Then I believe since your patronus was for your father it's the reason why Charlie is the same, like you are with the Hungarian horntail, a dragon Charlie worked with and you faced. Your personalities and your Morphixen sides linked you could say. It's unusual but not unheard of.'

'Yeah, it was nice to see Padfoot running with Prongs, I heard Sirius talk about it so often that I wished I could have asked him to see some memories. Did my mother learn to change?'

'No, she could cast a patronus, a doe.'

'Is that why Snape's patronus was a doe, to match my mother's?'

'Yes, even though he knew she would only be his friend, it was his way of keeping her memory alive. I will tell you this since you do know how Severus and your father felt about each other, when Severus found out your father could become a stag, he was furious.'

'I bet he was, but it's not like you can choose what animal your patronus will become. I like to think it was meant to be, a stag is the mate to a doe,' Harry shrugged, Minerva nodded they both knew James and Lily were well matched, once James stopped hexing everyone, especially Severus Snape.

The plans for the wedding were coming along faster than everyone thought. Even on Christmas day the wedding plans still were spoken about, to make sure they hadn't missed anything. So even though they still had an enjoyable day with family everyone would eventually say something about the wedding.

Harry, Charlie, Bill and Ron had gone shopping to buy their suits, and since Harry wanted both Hermione and Ron, Charlie decided he would have Bill and Fleur. So Fleur, Hermione and Molly went shopping to buy their gowns. Arthur, George and Percy went separately so they could continue sorting out the garden, to make sure there were no gnomes and no wellington boots.

On the day of Harry and Charlie's wedding, everyone at the Burrow woke early. The Weasley family and Hermione were so shocked at who they were seeing, they just stood in the kitchen staring.

'We only have until midnight tonight and we can only appear here, at the Burrow. Maybe you could get Harry and Charlie here earlier.'

'Oh yes, I'll go get them now, but what am I supposed to say to convince them this is real?' Hermione asked.

'Just tell Harry to trust you, don't tell either of them why.'

'Go Hermione, we only have until midnight,' Arthur said urgently.

Hermione nodded then ran from the house, she never stopped until she got outside the wards then apparated to Godric's Hollow. She hurried into the house, she could not hear or see Harry or Charlie so she raced upstairs. She stopped before their bedroom, the door was opened, she did not want to see those two men naked. She knocked loudly on the wall hoping they would wake then she hoped they believed her enough to go to the Burrow.

'Harry, Charlie, wake up,' she yelled.

'Hermione,' Harry murmured.

'Yes, cover yourselves, I need to talk to both of you, it's urgent, but not dangerous.'

'Um, okay, hang on,' Harry rubbed his hands over his face, pulled the sheet up, 'Charlie,' Harry shook his shoulder.

'What is it?'

'I'm not sure, Hermione needs to talk to us, she said it's urgent but not dangerous,' Harry made sure they were covered properly, 'Okay Hermione, you can come in.'

Hermione hurried into the bedroom, 'Even though you two planned to stay here until later today, you need to change those plans and get to the Burrow now and plan to stay there all day, until midnight at least.'

'What is going on Hermione?'

'You won't believe me if I tell you, but I was told to just tell you to trust me, please, you have to come now. You need to bring your suits with you as well.'

'You said it's not dangerous, so why can't you tell us what is going on?' Harry asked.

'Because you will end up shocked and we're wasting time, please, just trust me, get dressed, now, I'll wait downstairs,' Hermione stared at Harry, 'It's good Harry, just shocking, you and Charlie will like it, trust me.'

'We do trust you,' Harry looked at Charlie who nodded, 'Okay, we'll get dressed,' Harry waited until Hermione left the room before he got up, 'I have no idea what is going on but she said it's good.'

'Yeah, let's do what we have to and get there.'

Harry hurried into the bathroom, Charlie slowly stretched while waited for Harry to finish. Once both men had done what they needed they put their bathroom products in a bag, they dressed, grabbed their suits, shoes and anything else they might need then headed downstairs. They saw Hermione pacing from once side of the living room to the other, she was muttering to herself but they had no idea what she was saying. They could tell there was no danger, they just had no idea what was going on.

'We're ready even if I wish I was still asleep,' Charlie grumbled.

'In a few minutes you'll be glad I woke you. Let's go,' Hermione hurried out the back with the two men walking behind her, 'I'll see you there,' she turned on the spot and was gone.

'Let's go see what this is about babe,' Harry turned on the spot just as Charlie did, both men disappearing from Godric's Hollow, they arrived just outside the apparition point at the Burrow ready to find out why they had to be at the Burrow so early on the day they planned to get married.