AUTHOR NOTE
Okay I was inspired by a comment from OfficerDonNZ. So now I present to you the New Hope of the Wizarding World. I might expand this out at some point in the future but not right now. I have other projects I am working on for the long direction stories.
Synopsis: Harry has been trapped at the Dursleys. His only distractions, thinking, watching Star Wars and thinking. Is he light, is he dark is he grey? Well who knows. But there is no try only do or do not.
Harry had been suffering for the last month at Durzkaban as he was starting to think of the place. He had been allowed to watch some old movies though on a tv and VCR Dudley had tired of because the tv was far too small.
Harry was watching a movie about space wizards fighting with glowing laser swords and he was inspired by this. He began watching it over and over every waking moment. Practicing the actions on the screen. Moving his hands just so and focusing his magic. If he could become that strong, that powerful. If he could become one with his magic he would be able to defeat Voldemort. When his first feeble attempts did not garner him a letter from the underage office he began to practice harder and use more energy.
He was sitting in the park after being thrown out of the house for doing nothing but watching movies and taking up electricity. He had a long broom handle he had found and was practicing the moves with it when Dudley and his gang came up.
Harry ignored them until Piers came up and tried to get in his face. Harry called on his magic and spun the broom handle up and against Pier's head. He blurred among the group smacking them, knocking them down and bruising their tender vittles. Soon the only ones still standing was Dudley and Harry.
He saved Dudley for last as he was frozen in place staring at Harry. "Your not supposed to do that out here?"
"Do what Dudley. All I did was use a broom handle to beat your friends up. Nothing major Dudders." He spun the broom handle out so it was pointed directly between Dudley's eyes.
"What are you going to do to me?"
"I'm going to let you live. Just as long as you remember I can kill you at any point I want. I won't bother with a pig's tail. I'll turn you into a hog and sell you to the butcher's."
Dudley wet himself at the cold and hard way Harry said that looking into his eyes with an unblinking hooded gaze.
It started getting cloudy and chilly at that point. Harry looked around and saw three dark cloaked figures gliding across the landscape. Their trail leaving frost and decay behind them. Harry took off running for Privet drive. Dudley who had closed his eyes took a few seconds more. A few seconds longer that cost him everything as he felt such sudden despair, sadness. He saw his life flashing before him and all of the bullying and pain he had caused. He never saw the scaly, dead looking thing that pulled back its hood and clamped a wide gaping maw over his face. He felt a brief stinging sucking sensation then he felt nothing ever again.
The thing let go and moved on to catch its brethren which was still chasing their target. The wet sickly thud of Dudley's vegetative body slumping to the ground was ignored by the rapidly retreating creature as if it was nothing more than a used candy wrapper.
Harry ran in the front door, through the house and out the back door. He turned right and leaped over the azalea bush between the neighbors. He dodged and jinked and came to a corner where he stuck his wand hand out on the corner.
With a pop hiss of brakes the Knight bus appeared.
"Hullo I'm Stanley Shunpike the conductor for the knight...,
"845 Oak Avenue Crawley. And step on it." Harry said throwing some galleons from his pocket at the conductor.
Looking down he started to count out change, "You don't need to count change just go." Harry said waving his hand at the boy.
"Hey Ernie hit it 845 Crawley and make it fly."
Harry almost fell off his feet as he was thrown to the back of the bus. The last time he had ridden the bus it had beds now there were wicker chairs. Outside the windows there was a swirling green tunnel as the bus moved so rapidly through the world.
A pop hiss of brakes later and Harry skidded down the corridor to the front of the bus. Picking himself up the wizened bespectacled driver looked at him while Stanley called out, "845 Oak Ave Crawley."
"Thank you. Good day." Harry said standing and composing himself.
Walking up to the house that had Hermione's address on the gatepost in bright brass numbers he suddenly had an attack of nerves. He was opening the gate when the front door opened and his brown haired friend came charging out and glomped him in a hug. He barely had time to recognize that she was wearing a button down casual shirt and jean shorts.
"Oh Harry what are you doing here? You didn't do something to your aunt again did you?"
"Nope. I've done absolutely nothing to anyone. I just wanted to talk to you and show you some stuff I learned." he said smoothing his hair back.
"Uh mom and dad aren't here right now. So I'm not supposed to bring boys in."
"Yeah but I'm not just a boy I'm Harry Potter." He grinned at her.
Slapping him on the chest she laughed, "Oh you prat. C'mon."
Harry looked around to make sure the weather stayed warm and sunny.
=====xxxxx=====
Meanwhile the Dementors came gliding up to the house. Mundungus was half asleep still hungover from last night's effort to pickle himself alive in fire whiskey. He heard the Potter kid run through at full blast. Figuring that he and his cousin were playing some game he settled back against the fence again. It was when he started shivering in the cold that he realized something was wrong. A second later he felt the deepest pain of his life as all of the horrible things he had done began to replay themselves. He had only regressed a few years when the mouth that sucked his soul out of its body struck.
The other two creatures entered the house. The beings within wondering what the Potter kid was doing now. What sort of freakish behavior...Was the last thought the large lump of fat laying on the floor would ever have. The tall thin horse faced body collapsed in the living room looked like it actually might have been resting if it wasn't for the horrible rictus of fear frozen and contorted on its face.
The three creatures gathered in the front yard and communicated in their way. They had been sent to absorb all living beings at #4 Privet drive Little Whinging. 3 muggles and 1 magical. They have completed their task they determined after consultation. Their presence was no longer required so they left. Gliding over the streets ignoring any other targets.
=====xxxxx=====
"Harry welcome to my home. I hope you like it."
Harry looked around. It was a nice place with books sitting on tables, a large bookshelf dwarfing a small television. Several comfortable chairs with reading lamps next to them. A small fireplace and a nice carpet. A dining room and a kitchen beyond he could see as well.
"Nice so where's your room?"
"Upstairs but you're not seeing that."
"Oh leave your dirty knickers sitting around did you?"
"No I am very neat and tidy. What's going on Harry you're acting different."
"Well I've had a lot of time to think. Especially since no one told me anything of what was going on."
"Yes well Professor Dumbledore told us not to. He said it would be too dangerous now that he's back."
"Voldemort?"
"Yes him."
"Hermione don't tell me they got to you too about saying the jerk's name."
"Yes well sorry. I've trained myself not to say it over the last month as they get very upset if you do at." She stopped talking.
"At?"
"I can't tell you Harry."
"Why not?"
"Because its protected by a deeply powerful magic and I cannot tell you. I am physically and magically prevented from telling you."
"Why would they do that to you?"
"Its to help keep us safe. If I cannot tell anyone then I cannot reveal the secret."
"Yeah and the bad guys can just torture to death or keep on torturing and raping you for the fun of it because they get mad that you can't tell them that. Way to go Dumbledore putting you in far more danger."
Hermione opened her mouth to argue but closed it as she worked through the point Harry made.
"Its not for my safety like he said its for theirs."
"Yep. Everything Dumbledore has done has been for HIS safety not mine, not yours. His and his precious world."
"Well I guess its good that you came here and I was home. I had to come and get a few things for there." She looked like she had tried to say something but her mouth moved and nothing came out.
"Don't worry about it."
"So why are you here?"
"I spent the last month thinking and realizing a few things and studying a new form of magic."
"You studied magic?"
"Yeah." He waved his hand and her buttons popped off her blouse as it flew open. "Wandless."
She shrieked and grabbed her shirt shut. Slapping him on the arm with her other hand she shouted, "Harry Potter what do you think you're doing?"
He saw a can of sugar free soda on the counter and held his hand out it floated across the room to him. "Here you might want to calm down and listen."
She had stopped yelling at him and was staring with her eyes wide open. "How did you learn to do that?"
"I used the force."
She shook her head like she hadn't heard him properly. "You what?"
"I used the force. Like in the movies. Its kinda like magic and the way he was presenting it in the movies made sense. So I tried practicing and developed it."
"Really?"
"Yeah pretty much all the stuff they could do in all the movies I can do. And it doesn't set off the trace."
She licked her lips, "Could you teach me?"
"Maybe if you were my girlfriend."
"Ron has been pushing hints that he and I should get together." She said with a frown.
"Ron is a prat that doesn't deserve someone as nice as you. He has never been nice to you unless he wants something. He probably wants you to be some kind of housewife and baby maker. Think about it Hermione. Search your feelings you know it to be true."
She looked at him with a raised eyebrow at the cheese of that line but thought about things. Ron had always been a bully. A casual bigot making snide remarks about muggles, even though she was a muggle born. The way he treated girls was very old fashioned chauvinistic. Plus he was a mamma's boy and prat. Harry on the other hand had always treated her nicely, respected her and while he did beg her to help with his homework he didn't expected her to do it for him like Ron did.
"So you'll teach me this. All this that you learned how to do in a month. The only price is if I'm your girlfriend?"
"Yes my young apprentice." He whispered maniacally at her then grinned.
She shrugged her shirt off exposing a creamy bra and knelt before him. "What is thy bidding my master."
=====xxxxx=====
Dumbledore was holding a meeting at Grimmould when he felt the wards at Privet drive collapse. He called out for the members there to come with him and be ready for trouble. They used the Floo to go to Figg's residence and found many muggle vehicles with red and blue lights flashing on their roofs.
Snape raised an eyebrow, "Sir those are police, fire and rescue units. Theya re the muggle equivalents of auror's."
"This is bad. We should retrieve Miss Granger. Alastair remain here and determine what happened."
=====xxxxx=====
Harry and Hermione had retired to her room. A quiet peach walled neat and tidy room as she described it. A few feminine touches softened the décor of bookshelves, dressers, nightstand and a comfortable bed.
A very comfortable bed that Harry and Hermione were testing the compression rebounding effect of the springs upon. So they did not hear the front door bell.
Sirius, Minerva and Severus unlocked the door and entered. They heard noises from upstairs. Hermione's voice crying out in supplication to a supreme deific being. Sirius and Minerva looked at each other while Snape rolled his eyes. None of them virginal they reluctantly snuck up the stairs.
The closer the got to the room the deeper the clothes were starting with a cream color bra followed by a white masculine T-shirt. Sirius began to grin and had to be glared at to stop from laughing out loud especially when the came to a pair of white boxers and pink knickers tossed haphazardly.
Standing outside the bedroom they performed an ancient mystical rite of rock, paper, scissors to determine who would peek into the room. Severus lost and he glared before he girded himself.
Pushing open the door he saw a side of Harry potter that he would remember for the rest of his life. Unfortunately it would be in his nightmares. Underneath him was a very healthy and obviously happy Miss Granger. The two of them showed the athletic ability as she performed some sort of maneuver and she was suddenly astride Potter.
Snape withdrew before he was spotted, not that the energy in the eyes of the Granger girl was focused on anything but Potter. Snape was not certain but Voldemort might not have distracted them they were that focused. He would be using his occlumancy to remove this mental image at the soonest opportunity.
Minerva looked at him questioningly. He sighed and using his hands shooed them back the way they came. Sirius tried to peek but Minerva grabbed him by the arm and dragged him backwards.
Once back downstairs the three gathered in the living room. Severus shivered, "They are both quite alive and quite healthy."
"Yeah Hermione sounds like she's got quite the lungs on her."
"She does appear to be rather athletic."
"Alright you two perverts. I take it they are engaging in sexual relations."
"Well they are not studying charms." Severus snarked.
"I will have to tell Albus that Harry is safe. Do you have any idea when they will be completed?"
"Well if Harry's anything like James and Hermione anything like Lily it could be this time tomorrow." Sirius said honestly.
Minerva raised her eyebrow in disbelief.
"No joke. Remus and I timed them once. 15 hours 16 minutes and that was counting a few minor naps and re-hydration breaks. I swear the man was a beast. And James told me Lils had no pleasure threshold at all. A mere mortal would have died."
Severus looked at Sirius in concern but shaking his head silently cursed his youthful stupidity.
Minerva pursed her lips in consternation but pulled a mirror Sirius had provided the Order and contacted Albus.
"Yes Minerva. Is miss Granger well?"
"I would say she is quite well."
"Oh have you spoken to her?"
"No she was otherwise engaged."
"With what. You should have interrupted her, We still do not know what happened to Harry. He was not at the Dursleys thankfully."
"Oh he is with Miss Granger."
"Well that is good news. Confusing but good. I suppose you can bring them in now."
"When they are done."
"Well what are they doing that is so important that you cannot disturb them."
"They are studying Albus. You know how I feel about interrupting students studying."
Exhaling through his nostrils in frustration Dumbledore was becoming frustrated, "Well what are they studying that requires such attentiveness."
"Anatomy Albus. They are studying anatomy."
"Yeah each others old man." Sirius barked out and then began laughing uncontrollably as Molly Weasley began squawking in the background in abject disgust at the temerity of them. How it was horrible and they should stop them. Albus had to turn the mirror to the wall and calm her down. Ron had come in and heard his mother screeching about that scarlet woman Hermione. When he figured out that Harry and Hermione had joined their forces he began becoming upset which led to Ginny joining the fracas. Sirius pulled the mirror over so he could watch.
Harry walked into the living room from the stairs wearing his boxers. He stopped when he saw the two professors and his godfather. "Oh hey."
Sirius looked over, "Hey pup. How's it going?"
"Uh really good."
"You and Hermione have a good study session." He said wiggling his eyebrows.
"Yeah she wanted something to drink so uh I'll talk in a few."
=====xxxxx====
Several minutes later Harry and Hermione were dressed and standing in the kitchen of #12 Grimmould place. Harry had been given the secret at the last minute once it was discovered he had not been told by anyone yet.
The Molly, Ron and Ginny were all three glaring at the two of them holding hands casually. Hermione with a large happy grin on her face and giving a soft sigh every so often. Arthur and the twins though were trying not to laugh.
Albus looked at Harry, "I'm sorry to say but it appears your family was killed by Dementors."
Harry shrugged, "The Dursleys weren't my family. They were my prison guards. Hermione is really my only living family."
"She's not your family Harry," Molly started standing in his face.
Harry waved his hand dismissively in front of her, "Hermione is my family."
Molly sighed "Hermione is your family."
"You're happy for us." He waved his hand back again.
"Oh I'm so happy for the both of you." She said hugging Harry and then Hermione.
Albus tried to detect what spell Harry had cast. It had looked like an Imperious by the way Molly was acting but he wasn't holding his wand. He also hadn't said anything and there wasn't really a flash of magic.
"Hey what am I chopped liver?" Sirius interjected.
"I don't know what little interactions with you have been less than thrilling dude. You were a barely coherent psychotic with Pettigrew. Since then I've had a few postcards and empty letters with barely platitudes. Why not just put a five pound note in a birthday card and send it to me."
When no one reacted he sighed and looked at Hermione who shrugged.
"Fine moving onward. Remus you've been a piss poor family member too. Best friend to my parents and the first I see you is on the train to Hogwarts in my third year. You never talked to me about mom and dad much. Told me what was going on. SO yeah you're not family either."
"And NO offense Arthur but I like you, The twins are okay but the rest of your family annoys the crap out of me."
Ron jumped up, "Hey I'm your best mate eh?"
"My best mate. Really? You've been jealous, selfish, arrogant. Insulting to my girlfriend and lover. You have made fun of her and her parents. You've been a casual bigot. And Ginny I like you as a SISTER. Either accept that or go away. You'll never be my lover."
Ginny's mouth hung open. She started to say something then ran off crying. Harry didn't look twice at her.
Albus looked at Harry with some concern. Snape was hiding a grin as it looked like Potter had his mother's temper. Minerva was staring at Harry in shock as he tore into every person in the room.
"And as for you headmaster. I am sorry but you have lied and manipulated and told me only what you wanted to tell me. You claim you've told me the truth, but its only been the truth from a certain point of view. Yours. Obviously I am important to Voldemort." When everyone shuddered except himself, Snape, Dumbledore and Hermione he shouted, "HIS NAME IS VOLDEMORT! GET OVER IT YOU PEOPLE!"
Arthur pale and shaken, "Harry you don't understand."
"I understand you people are supposed to be full grown wizards. Capable of powerful magic and you act like a bunch of window washers from Stilton. I can understand Ron he's been cowed into it and never had any positive strong role models in his life. He's got the potential to be something if he would get his lazy butt in gear. The rest of you what's your excuse."
"Harry enough of this. What has come into you?" Minerva exclaimed.
"I had a lot of time to think while you people where all evasive and lying to my face. When I was locked in my room eating tinned cat food because Petunia bought it on sale. When Vernon was yelling at me. I had a lot of time to think about everything and Like I was saying its obvious Voldemort thanks I'm important. That he'll go to any length to find me and I want to know why. I want full immediate and total disclosure in front of everyone in this room and I will not accept anything less."
Albus Dumbledore was as shocked as if Harry had slapped him with a Haddock.
"Harry I cannot do that."
"Why? Am I too young still? I've killed a man. I've fought in a life and death tournament. I almost died saving Ginny and the school from a giant Basilisk as well as Voldemort's ghost, which by the way I looked up life debts while I was in my cell. She owes me one big time. So does Hermione from the bathroom."
"Hey that means she owes me too."
"NOPE Ron you are the reason she was there so YOU owe her an apology but she owes YOU NOTHING!" Harry growled.
"Harry please. Lets calm down and relax."
"No sir. I will have full disclosure or Hermione and I will walk out that door and either go to Beauxbatons or go find Voldemort and ask him for disclosure. But I'm done being your little pet you pull out when you need me and then put me back in the box when you're done. I'm not a dolly wally. I am a Wizard like my father before me. Hermione is with me in this fully."
She nodded and placed her arm around his waist. "Where he goes I go.
Severus raised his eyebrow at Harry then cleared his throat. "Sir. My home is secured, the Dark Lord would never think to look for them there and I could give him as much information as I have until you can come up with some convincing lie, er, interpretation of the facts that will satisfy them and yourself."
Albus felt control slipping out of his fingers. Harry was positively shaking with rage. His magic was causing an oppressive suffocating sensation as Albus fought to breathe. Severus had all but accused him of lying to Harry in front of him.
"What you're not really considering going with the wanker are you. Hermione you want to stay here with us don't you?" Ron tried to grin seductively causing Hermione to look at him in disgust.
"Don't give me that come hither look. I'd rather kiss a Wookie."
"A what? We haven't learned about them yet." Ron said.
Albus sighed, "This bickering is pointless. Severus take Potter and his paramour and get them out of here. We need to consider the situation. And Harry I will think about this. Please allow me time."
"Don't take too long or I shall be forced to alter the deal." Harry spun on his heals and left the room followed by Hermione.
"Severus, try to talk some sense into him."
"He is too much like his parents Albus. I would suggest you consider your position very carefully."
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A month later Harry and Hermione were delivered to King's crossing by Snape. The last month had been a very interesting one as they learned quite a lot. He was wearing a black tunic with trousers and high black leather boots with a black cape. Hermione was dressed in similar clothes except she had a skirt over her trousers. They walked with a self assured confidence that parted the waves of people. The prefect badges they had pinned to their chest the only shiny materials on their bodies.
Ron and Ginny had not forgiven them for the things that had been said that day so did not greet them. Everyone else was too caught up in their own worlds to deal with them.
Harry and Hermione took a compartment on their own. Snuggled in and sat talking until the door opened and Draco leaned against it with his own prefect badge pinned to his robes.
"Well don't you two look cute. All cuddled back here in black. If you're not careful people might think you've joined the right team."
The two of them looked at Draco then Hermione giggled. "Was that supposed to be an insult?"
"What?"
Harry started to say something but Hermione put her hand on his arm, "Allow me to deal with this my master."
"As you wish my apprentice."
Draco was looking at the two of them strangely. Master and apprentice. What kind of game was Potter and the mudblood playing at now. Crabbe and Goyle stepped back as they didn't like the way Hermione was sneering at their boss. While Potter might start throwing punches she would throw hexes. Draco started to open his mouth but Hermione raised her hand with her thumb and fingers spaced apart. Like she was holding a tumbler. She then moved them fractionally closer together.
"Snurck, gahk hurk." Was what Draco choked out as he felt his windpipe constricting. He couldn't breathe. His hands went to his throat to claw but there was nothing there as Hermione stood there with her hand raised at him smiling gently at him.
"If you're going to insult someone Draco it should be something much more inventive. Like you're nothing but a boring, weak, little, childish, twatwaffle."
Draco was leaning against the door frame not to swagger but to remain standing as the world began to narrow.
Harry sighed, "Enough, release him."
"As you wish."
She released her hand and Draco started gasping great huge breaths. He looked at Potter who was gazing at him with a curious disinterest. Almost like a cat looking at a mouse. He decided that he would have to watch himself around these two. HE staggered back up the corridor shaking his minions hands off him.
"Well done. You've grown stronger."
"Thank you my lord."
"So are you ready for Hogwarts Darth Librus?"
Hermione laughed gleefully, "Yes my Lord, but is Hogwarts ready for us?"