Shadow Phoenix

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And as promised: The next chapter.





This is betaed by Raina!





C4: Family Issues



It was early the next morning. Harry still sat on his throne in deep meditation, his glasses and wand on the little table beside him. He didn't wake when the door opened and Ron stormed in. However he did wake when Ron's fist hit him full force on the cheek, causing him to fall off his seat and onto the floor.





“How could you, you disgusting pervert, laying your hands on my little sister?!” Ron accused him, while Harry slowly stood up.



“Well... she asked me to,” Harry answered, not even trying to stop or evade his best friends’ next punch.





“I won’t permit it! She is MY little sister and you'll keep your dirty hands of her!”







When Harry had picked himself up again he replied: “You're my best friend, but I still won’t refuse a beautiful girl's request to touch her. Even if, she indeed is your little sister.”



Further angered Ron drew his wand at Harry, and shouted: “STUPEFY!” the very moment Hermione and Ginny entered the room, shocked still by Ron’s actions. The spell hit Harry directly into the chest, sending him flying and causing him to crash against a wall.



“Ronald Weasley! How could you!” Ginny screamed.





“He could, because it is his right to,” came from the most unlikely direction.





Harry was already picking himself back up, not as affected by the curse as he should have been, but still having to use the wall to support him.



“What?” Ron asked baffled.





“I already said it, didn't I? I won’t refuse a beautiful girl's request of touching her, even if she IS your little sister. But I won’t resist, if you want to beat me up for it either. You are her brother, aren't you? Besides, it's worth it.” Harry answered.



“But I won’t allow you to hurt him any more!” Ginny shouted, stepping between the two of them.





“We'll continue our 'conversation' another time!” Ron threatened and left the room.





“Well I don't know what that was, if not a powerful spell. Didn't think he would be that strong.” Harry mentioned, slowly making his way to his throne again, a little bent over due to the residual pain. Both girls moved immediately to help him.





“But you didn't even loose consciousness!” Ginny claimed. “The spell couldn't have been that strong could it?”



“For Harry to loose consciousness you would need the power of at least five shockers.” Hermione explained.





“His was as strong as three, I think. He's become quite a powerful wizard.” Harry said admiringly.



“You know, you're supposed to be angry at him for attacking you like this.. Not being in awe of his strength.” Ginny said.





“I can't. I would have done the same, if I was in his place.” he replied.





“Boys! Someone help me understand them!” Ginny said annoyed.



“So you didn't just touch her to undo the charm, did you?” Hermione asked.





“Ask Ginny for that kind of information. I won’t answer.” He advised. The younger girl blushed under the hard, questioning glance of the older one.





“I sort of asked him to...” she finally confessed.





“I know you did. Otherwise Harry would have never taken advantage of the situation.” Hermione stated.



“He didn't take advantage!” Ginny defended him. “All he did was to please me with his hands after I asked him to. He didn't even get anything in return.”





“Are the two of you together, now?” Ginny just looked questioningly at Harry, who slightly shook his head.





“No. I just pleased her, when she asked me to. That doesn't mean we're together,” he said.





“But you said you would do it again, if I wanted you to,” Ginny mentioned.



“I did,” Harry confirmed. “I also said some more things back then, didn't I?” The girl blushed again.





“I wasn’t joking around,” he told her. “And if Hermione would ask me to, I'd do the same to her.” Now the older girl blushed too.



“The only difference between the two of you, is if Ron came to punish me for touching her, I wouldn't let him.” Hermione suddenly took the younger girls arm and pulled her out.





“Hey! What are you doing? I....” Ginny's complaints ceased, when the door was closed behind them.



Harry rested another half an hour, before he got ready and went to the kitchen for breakfast.





“Harry! You've a bruised cheek! What happened?” Molly instantly asked, hurrying over to him.



He stopped her from touching the cheek Ron had hit.





“I just had sort of an argument earlier today. It's nothing, really.”



“I thought everyone here would be old enough to argue with words instead of fists!” she claimed, glancing warily at everyone there.







They all tried to look as innocent as possible. Which in the case of Fred and George looked really funny.



“Mrs. Weasley, it's ok. I have to confess, I deserved the punch anyway.”





“What did you do to deserve it?” she interrogated him.



Harry just gave a shrug and asked: "What's for breakfast?"





All Weasleys on the table started to cough. Molly Weasley only frowned and kept staring at him, as he sat down and started putting food onto his plate. He ignored Mrs. Weasley's stare, as well as the repetitive glances of everyone else, especially Hermione and Ginny's. Ron was the one who glanced the least. Something his brothers and father didn't fail to notice.



After the meal, when Harry accompanied his godfather to help him 'clean' the rooms, Ron found himself cornered and questioned by all of them. When, after ten minutes still refused to tell them anything, they began to discus how to make him. Ron paled at some of Fred and George's more nasty suggestions.



He thanked whatever greater power that took pity on him, as Hermione and Ginny 'accidentally' discovered them.



"Stop it, all of you!" Ginny ordered.





"What would you do if we don't? Hex us?" Fred joked. Ginny just draw her wand and hexed him.







Cursing his own stupidity – he knew better than to further anger his sister – Fred lay on the ground, holding his itching and hurting knee.





“Did you really think Harry wouldn't undo our tracing charms?” she asked them.



With another flick of her wand, she freed her brother from her hex.





“Now, why don't you let Ron come with us?” Hermione asked, playing meaningfully with her wand. If the men of the Weasley family knew one thing, then it was when not to argue with women. This was one of these moments, so Mr. Weasley, Bill, Fred and George suddenly remembered they had something to do elsewhere. Ginny started to giggle as soon as they were gone.





“God, ever since I learned that hex, I’ve wanted to do that every time they’ve pulled a prank on me” she stated.



“Thanks for helping me out,” Ron said. “Fred and George were talking about different nasty ways to make me talk.”





“Well, if you would tell them, I would have a problem as well...” Ginny reminded him. Hermione draw her wand again and burned two Extendible Ears that Fred and George were using to eavesdrop on them.



“We better go help Sirius and Harry,” she said.





“But...” Ron started to disagree.





“We will. They might come back, when we've gone...” Ginny told him. “And believe me; telling them would be something you would really regret.” Ron too, knew when not to argue with women and accompanied them to find Harry and Sirius. The three however didn't dare to enter the room they were currently 'cleaning'.







Inside at least a whole nest of Doxies furiously attacked the two cleaners. These poisonous creatures were nothing the three wanted to take on. Not, if there were that many of them. Harry and Sirius however were having fun. They stood back to back, while Sirius used spells to immobilise groups of them and Harry once again used a shocker.



He cast the spells nonverbally and with some awesome speed. It looked almost as if he would cast a bunch of shockers every moment while just throwing them in the direction of a group of creatures. They could see that he wasn't, because each and every one of his spells hit a target. When they had shocked or immobilised every Doxy, Harry began collecting them, while Sirius frowned at the new holes in his leather coat.





“Thankfully, their teeth aren't long enough to get completely through...” he mentioned. “Did they get you, Harry?”



“No.” his godson answered. “Did you three enjoy the show?”



“You looked like you were having fun; we didn't want to spoil it,” Ron answered.



“Good answer – and decision. Now help us collect them!” Sirius ordered, giving each of them a bag.



Fred and George came in, shortly before they were done collecting them.





“Doxies?!” Fred observed.





“Can we have some of them?” George asked.





“We need their poison for some of our products..” Fred explained.



Everyone handed them their bags.





“Collect what's left of them,” Sirius ordered. “And make sure they don't escape on you once the spells looses effect.”







They left the twins to complete their work and went somewhere else for Sirius to teach the younger ones new spells.