It was a dark and
cold night at Number 4 Privet Drive. And Harry Potter was still sitting up
thinking about where his two best friends were and what they were doing. At
the end of last year they had all agreed to postpone the search for the
Horcruxes until Harry turned 17. But that was still one long week away. Until
then he was stuck at the Dursley's for what was turning out to be yet another
absolutely dreadful summer. They had decided to lock him inside his room from
the outside, sliding whatever meager scraps of leftovers were left under his
door, and only letting him out to use the bathroom. Suddenly Harry heard a
pecking at his window. Harry looked over to the window and saw Ron's owl
Pigwidgeon. His mood suddenly got a lot better; he gave the owl a treat and
sent him back on his way. Harry opened the letter.
Hey Harry,
How ya been mate. I haven't seen you in bloody
forever! Hermione has been staying with us for the whole summer. For some
reason they wouldn't let us owl you earlier or anything. Something about
security hazard or something (personally I think it's just paranoia). The
Order's been in and out of here a lot this summer, so I practically had to
sneak this letter out. Hermione and I have been hanging out a lot lately and
I think I might finally be ready to ask her out! Anyway, Ginny's been asking
about you like mad. I can tell that she misses you. Be good to her for me, she's
my sister and your my best mate.
Ron
Harry knew that he should be happy that was finally looking to take that big
step towards asking Hermione out. He had seen how they acted around each
other and knew that something would come out of it eventually. But for some
reason he just couldn’t feel happy for them. Harry remembered that he had had
a small childish crush on Hermione back in their first year after they saved
her from the troll. But when Harry saw how Ron had looked at her during the
Yule Ball in fourth year he knew that they were meant to be together. So
after that he had done his best to get rid of any kind of crush he’d had on
her. But every time he saw Hermione and Ron together without him he still
felt a small pang of jealousy
“Ron,
That’s great. I
think you definitely should ask her out. I can tell that she likes you. Tell
Ginny I miss her.”
About a day after he got the letter from Ron he got his Hogwarts letter. He
opened it up and to his surprise saw that he had been selected Head Boy. He
knew that with McGonagall as Headmistress that Hermione would make Head Girl
as well. But they weren’t planning on going back to Hogwarts, so with a sigh
he tossed the letter and the badge into the garbage. It took Harry a minute
to notice but the owl had also dropped off a letter from Hermione.
Harry!
Oh my god! I'm soooooooooo sorry,
I haven't been able to write. The Order is trying to keep us from sending out
mail for whatever reasons they might have. Although I'm sure in these times
they're probably good reasons, but I just couldn't stand the thought of not
writing you to at least tell you how I'm doing. We got our Hogwarts letters
today and guess what, I made Head Girl! I totally didn't think I would. Ron
got promoted to Quidditch captain. I heard a rumor that you made Head Boy. style='mso-spacerun:yes'> It’s just too bad that we aren’t going back
to Hogwarts. Me and Ron already sent in letters to McGonagall
explaining that we wouldn’t be back and I think that you should do the same.
Anyway, Ron and I have been staying at the Burrow this summer. I can't wait
for you to get here once you turn. Ron and I have been waiting to see you. I
have so much new information to tell you about the Horcruxes. I think I might
even know how R.A.B is! You'd probably be surprised, but the Weasleys
actually have a huge library underground. Even I didn't know about it until
this summer, anyway, I guess I'll have to end the letter here, Ron's calling
me. We've been hanging out a lot, and I'm beginning to think that he really
likes me. I think he might want to ask me out, but I’m just not sure yet if I
like him in that way.
Hermione
Finally the day before his birthday he got an owl from Professor Lupin and
Tonks. It said that they would be picking him up at midnight. Harry couldn't
believe that it was finally getting ready to happen. He was finally going to
be able to leave the Dursley's. Harry immediately started to pack. He was all
packed by 4 and realized with a sigh that he still had 8 hours to go. Finally
after many futile attempts to entertain himself, and what seemed like an
excruciatingly long wait Harry heard the clock toll midnight. And right on
dot, he heard Tonks arrive, he went downstairs and instead of finding her
with Lupin, he found her with one of the last people he would class=GramE>of expected to see.
“Luna!” Harry said very surprised. She had on a short black skirt, and a very
bright pink top which brought out the look of her long blonde hair. The shirt
showed off her not huge, but certainly impressive cleavage. style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>“Damn, since when did style='mso-spacerun:yes'> the person so many people call Loony
Lovegood get so god damn hot he thought to himself.” “What the hell are
you doing here?”
“I'm working for the Quibbler over the summer silly. My daddy decided to do a
story on your rescue from this dreadful place, as well as your journey from
there.” Luna said as she glanced around his room. “That is if you don't mind
of course”
“Oh uh, of course. I don't really mind. It's not my ideal situation, but I do
know that you will at least report it as it is. So it's OK.” Harry said
trying very hard not to stare at Luna's skirt, which now seemed to have
gotten even shorter.
Luna went up to give
him a hug, “Thank you so much, Harry.” Her tits were pressing against his
chest and he could feel his cock starting to get hard. He prayed that Luna
wouldn’t notice.
“\Where on earth is Remus. It's ten past 12 now, and he was supposed to be
here at 12, why does he always have to be late?” Tonks yelled out at the
ceiling, and almost as if he heard her Harry's former professor suddenly popped
into Harry's kitchen.
“So sorry I'm late everybody had to finalize arrangements, make sure other
people were ready, and all that jazz.”
“Yea, Yea, Yea. It's not like I was really expecting you to be on time
Professor”, Harry said with a grin.
Remus looked around puzzled for a minute or so, almost like he was trying to
come up with some sort of comeback to that, but finally said. “Happy birthday
Harry, your finally 17. Are you ready to get out of this dump?"
“I'm more than ready. But how exactly are we getting out of here? I’m not
allowed to apparate yet.”
“Don't worry, we'll side-along both you and Luna to an undisclosed location,
and fly the rest of the way to the Burrow. And tomorrow I'll take you to the
Ministry for you apparition test.” Lupin said grabbing Harry by the hand.
“OK, Tonks, see you there”, and with a loud pop Tonks and Luna
disappeared.
That last pop must've woken Uncle Vernon because suddenly Harry saw him rush
into the kitchen. He gave Harry and Lupin a quick look over. “Just what in
the bloody hell do you think you’re doing”, he yelled exposing that ever so
familiar vein in his neck to Harry.
“I'm 17 now, and I'm leaving this god-forsaken house with the Professor here.
And you cant stop me.”,
Harry said very firmly.
“We’ve raised you
since you were a child and this is how you thank us, By just leaving all of a
sudden. What kind of payment do we get?”
Remus had had
enough, he lashed out at Vernon,” You people have never once cared for this
child. For thirst ten years of his life you forced him to live in a broom
closet. You feed him leftovers and make him do all of the chores. All
Dumbledore had asked of you was to take him and treat him like one of your
own. You have done none of that. If anything you should owe Harry.
“How dare you accuse us of anything? You’re not going anywhere.”
“Vernon, I’m of age
now. I can leave if I want. If you try to stop me I will use magic on you.”
“You wouldn’t dare
boy,” Vernon charged at Harry like a mad bull
Harry reacted quickly and shot a stunner at his uncle. Once he hit the ground
Harry dropped his wand to the ground.
“Harry, you know you had no choice. It’s not like you hurt the oaf anyway.
He’ll be right as rain in a few hours. With a different memory of events as
well.” Lupin snickered as he thought of various possibilities for his new
memory.
“I know that I should feel sad for him, that I should be missing them, but I
can't. All I can feel is happy, is there something
wrong with me Professor.” Harry asked
“How many times do I need to tell you I'm not your professor anymore. And
you’re an adult now call me Remus. Your family,” Remus shuddered when he said
that,” are nothing but a bunch of pigs. They have treated you like dirt all
these years caring only for themselves, so I can't blame you for being happy
that you'll never have to see them again.”, and with a pop they were gone as
well
When they got to the brooms they found Tonks, Shacklebolt, Luna, and another
Auror that Harry didn't recognize waiting for them. He introduced himself as
Buck. He was a newbie from America. He'd come to experience being an Auror in
England. They quickly took turns taking the polyjuice potions that would
hopefully confuse any possible attackers.
“OK, Luna and Harry you two are gonna be sharing a broom. We're going to have
you two riding in the middle. Tonks and Lupin will fly in the back, and Buck
and I will be in the front. Harry, get your invisibility cloak and class=SpellE>lets get ready to go.” Shacklebolt
said mounting up on his broom.
They had been flying for a while and were now over what Harry believed to be
a river and were approaching dry land once again. He looked out of the corner
of his eye just in time to dodge a red beam that had been heading directly
towards him.
“Death Eaters!”
Shacklebolt yelled, “Take defensive measures.”
They all grouped
together around Harry and started firing spells at the group of Death Eaters
that had come out of nowhere. Harry watched in horror as he saw Hedwig get
hit with that all too familiar beam of green light. Harry focused on the
fight ahead as he watched her cage fall to the ground.
Buck hit a Death
Eater with a rather nasty Disarming spell which caused him to fall from his
broom. One of the others saw him “You bastard, You killed Goyle.” He fired a
curse at him which cut deeply into his arm almost severing it. Harry
immediately recognized the curse and the caster seeing as there was only one
Death Eater he knew cruel enough to use it. Severus Snape style='mso-special-character:line-break'>
Harry quickly set
off to follow after Snape, ”Luna, stay behind class=SpellE>Im going after Snape.”
“Harry, don’t!”,
Luna yelled, but it was no use Harry had already sped off on his broom and
none of them out be able to catch his Firebolt
Snape fired curse after curse at Harry as he was chasing him, but years of
Quidditch training had been good to Harry and somehow managed to catch up to
him.
Once Harry was close
to Snape he cast a wandless Incendio spell which managed to clip the back of class=SpellE>Snape’s broom. Knowing he’d been hit he quickly started to
descend. Harry didn’t waste any time and shot a Body Bind hex at Snape. He
managed to dodge the first, but what he didn’t know was that Harry had cast a
second wandless one. This one hit him square in the chest and he started to
fall. Harry sped up to catch him and brought him over to a nearby patch of
land.
“That was very sneaky Potter.”, Snape said weakly “since
when are you so talented with wandless magic.
“You might be a sick fuck who torments students for shits and giggles, but I
will not stoop to your level. I'm saving you for the Kiss, so don't even
think you're going to bait me into doing something I should but probably
wouldn't regret.” Harry started to walk away from Snape. Then as he was
walking away he heard someone yell out,”Harry look
out!”. He turned around quickly and fired another
Disarming spell at Snape. His wand flew out of his hand before he had the
chance to finish his curse.
“Luna, what are you
doing here. It’s not safe.”
“We all know someone
has to be here to help you. You can’t do it all by yourself.” She quickly
walked over and picked up Snapes wand. She snapped
it over her leg and threw the pieces at Snape.
“Bitch, the Dark
Lord will kill you all. He’ll take extra pleasure in killing all you
blood-traitors and the Mudbloods. I say let him
kill Granger first.”
Something snapped in Luna. “Nobody calls me a bitch, and nobody I repeat
nobody threatens me or my friends. She kicked him square in the chest.
“Luna, what are you
doing?” Harry had never seen this side of Luna before,
she was like some kind of uncontrollable maniac. She just kept kicking Snape
while he was lying helpless on the ground. Harry knew that he had to stop her
Then Harry heard her yell out a spell he had never heard before. Harry wasn't
exactly sure what she said but it sounded like “Infurnus”
and suddenly this huge pillar of fire came from the sky and completely
engulfed Snape. If Harry had thought that his screams were bad when she was
kicking them these topped it. He had never heard Snape cry let alone beg for
his life. Then all of a sudden Harry snapped back into reality and realized
that if he didn't stop Luna soon that she would kill him if she hadn't
already. He hated everything about the man but he was still a human being and
couldn’t bear to see him go like this. “Luna! Luna! You have to stop this! If
you don't you are going to kill him, I know that's what he deserves, but we
won't be the ones to do it.” so he did the only thing he could think class=GramE>of ; he ran at her as fast as he could and tackled her.
Luna seemed to break
out of her trance when she heard Harry's voice, “ Harry,
what's going on.”, She sounded scared. She let out a scream when she saw
Snape. “Di – Did I do that.”, she asked. Harry
slowly nodded his head.
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> The fire quickly disappeared. Snape was
covered in burns head to toe and crying for his life. “Just kill me now
Potter.”
“No, Snape. I refuse
to stoop down to your level. I won’t kill you but I certainly won’t save you
either.” Harry pointed his want at the former professor and stunned him.
“Luna, are you O.K?
What the fuck happened.”
“I don't remember any of it.”, she said. It sounded almost like she was
getting ready to cry. “We have to get him help.”
“No” Harry said “he is a vicious murderer and we don't owe him anything. But
I’ll side-along him to St Mungo’s if that’ll make
you happy.”
Luna slowly nodded
her head.
After they apparated to St Mungo’s and given Snape over to the Aurors after
being assured that his unlicensed apparition would be ok. Harry stepped
outside and got on his broom then motioned for Luna to get on behind him.
They took off and headed the rest of the way to the Burrow. Once they were in
the air Luna threw her arms around his waist and just cried into his
shoulder.
“What did I do to
him Harry? How could I have done something like that?”
“I don’t know Lu,
but we’ll figure it out.”
“I like that.”
“What?”
“Lu, it’s better
than being called Loony Lovegood.”
“I never thought you
were loony Lu”
“Thank you.”
She had calmed down a bit once they got to the Burrow that was good
considering they were both nearly suffocated with hugs when they got there.
Everyone was asking what had happened and if they were OK. And of course
Molly commented on how thin he was looking and tried to make him eat. “Where
are Hermione and Ron, I need to see them.”
“They’re in Ron’s
room. They’ve been worried sick about you since we heard what happened.”
Harry went up to Ron’s
room and knocked on the door. The door burst open and Hermione embraced him
in a monster hug,” I’m so glad you are alright. I was so worried about you
two.”
“I need to talk to
you two.”
After Harry was done
explaining what had happened both Ron and Hermione just looked awestruck. All
Ron managed to say was, “Bloody Hell.”
“Is that all you can
say Ron?” Hermione said, “Whatever happened it sounds like some kind of Dark
Magic, we have to figure out what she did.”
“I agree, it seemed
almost like she went into some kind of trance, she just kept kicking him then
finally cast this curse. After I managed to stop her she had no recollection
of what had happened.”
“I’m worried Harry.”
“I know; so am I”
Harry stood up, “I should really go check on Luna, she’s been stuck in there
with Ginny and Mrs. Weasley for a while. I don’t want them to care her to
death.”
Ok, Harry. We’ll see
you tomorrow.”
Harry found her with
her head on Mrs. Weasleys lap, already sound asleep. “How long has she been
asleep Mrs. Weasley?”
“She passed out
almost immediately. She must’ve been so exhausted from your ordeal today.”
“I’d like to make
sure that she gets to sleep in a bed so I’ll let her take my bed.”
“Where will you
sleep?”
“I’ll sleep on the
floor if I have to.”
“Nonsense, I’ll
conjure up another bed for you to use out here.”
“Thank you.”
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> “Luna, wake up”, Harry said very gently. She
opened her eyes slowly
“I'm sorry, I'm just so tired” she said sleepily.
“Don’t worry about
it Lu, I’m going to take you to my room and you can sleep on my bed.”
“Thank you Harry.”
He laid her on the bed and tucked her under the covers, “Good night Luna”, he
said and started to leave the room
“Harry wait!”
“Yes Luna?”
“I don’t like sleeping with my clothes on. But I’m so tired I can barely
move, could you help me undress please”
This took Harry by surprise. He had never seen a women without clothes on and
he wasn't sure if it was appropriate for him to be doing this “Shouldn’t you
ask Hermione or Ginny?”
“Please Harry.”
Gathering his courage he said “OK fine” he walked over to her and pulled down
the covers. He took her shirt and lifted it up and over her head. She had on
a lacy black bra with some kind of soft purple fabric underneath it. He then
grabbed the fabric of her skirt and pulled them down to reveal a matching
pair of lacy black knickers. As Luna was crawling back under the covers her
hand brushed up against the growing bulge in Harry’s pants.
“Goodnight Harry”, Luna said
Trying as hard as he could to remain calm he managed out a “Good night Luna”
but she was already fast asleep. That whole sequence kept playing itself back
in his head. “I'm going to need a very
long and very cold shower he thought to himself.”
After Harry left the
room Luna opened her eyes. “If Harry’s as big as I think he is I’m going to
have fun tomorrow.” She thought to herself then let sleep take over her mind.
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