Asylum

A special thanks to my beta, Saeadame.

Asylum

Chapter 7

Sirius watched the boys head upstairs before turning back to the Headmaster. "I thought you told the psychologist that he would be living with me at Hogwarts. Remember, he said that it wouldn't do Harry any good to keep bouncing him from one person to the next. Why did you change your mind?" Sirius said desperately.

Dumbledore smiled grimly. "I know what I said, but you have to understand is that I am trying to do what is best for Harry. I think if we want to have a good excuse for Harry to be at Hogwarts starting in his seventh year, then an apprentice would do. We can't just tell the students that he is Harry Potter and throw him at them. They would eat him alive and expect him to do something great. They would all think that he has been training somewhere in secret and that he has to be both strong and knowledgeable, when in reality he doesn't know any magic. If we tell the students a false name and that he is an apprentice, Harry won't be as overwhelmed. If he stays near Severus the students won't bother to question him fearing his wrath."

Sirius just stared at him. "Huh, didn't think of that."

Snape rolled his eyes to the heavens. "I'm working with morons."

"Bite me, Snape!"

"You would like that wouldn't you, mutt?"

"Please, like I want any part of my body touching your greasy, bat-like exterior, least of all your mouth. You probably carry rabies or some other horrible disease."

"Ha, you, the mutt, accuse ME of having rabies. That's new. If I'm the one who has rabies, then I must wonder what sort of disease you carry, mutt."

Dumbledore just sighed. It wasn't worth trying to get them to stop, not when they were just going to break into another fight in five minutes. It's just too big of a waste of energy for someone his age. "Meeting adjourned."

Everyone who did not have a room in the house left, leaving only Sirius, Remus, the Weasleys, Hermione, and the old Headmaster, who was only staying for dinner before heading back to the school.

At this point Ron came down the stairs a confused look on his face. "Mom, Harry's not right in the head is he?"

Everyone froze. He was only up in the room for 15 minutes or so.

Molly cleared her throat. "What makes you say that, Ron dear?"

"Well, just some of the things he said. Something about using his glasses as a weapon. And putting glass in his eye."

Everyone but Hermione looked at him in horror. "He's not putting glass in his eye. At least not the kind you're thinking of. Oh, how do I explain it?" Hermione said. "Well, some of the first contacts ever made were glass, but those irritated the eye to much after insertion. Now they are made of some type of breathable plastic like material."

Sirius cocked his head to the side. "He puts something in he eye that breathes?"

Remus whacked him on the head. "No, idiot. Harry puts something in his eye to help him see, like glasses. She uses the term 'to breath,' as another way of saying that the product allows air into the eye. Am I right?"

Hermione beamed and nodded.

Sirius still looked confused.

"Oh, dear Merlin Sirius, just forget it. If you don't get it now you never will." Remus said exasperated.

Molly sighed and turned back to her youngest child, well, youngest now that her sweet Ginny is gone. "Ron, I wouldn't worry about it. He seems of mostly sound mind. Just be careful what you say to him. Try not to anger him. I don't think it would be safe to do that."

Ron waited for her to explain why, but she just turned around and started rustling with the dishes. "Is that it?" He asked, knowing there had to be a reason she said 'of mostly sound mind'.

"Ron, don't pry. It is none of your business. If Harry wants to tell you then he will." Molly berated him.

Ron walked away to the living room muttering all the way. "No one ever wants to tell me anything around this house. It's like I don't even exist."


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A/N: If you can’t tell this chapter is just a filler, and I really didn’t want to drag it on with too much nonsense, though at the end it does describe a bit of Ron’s character. You see, Ron has never really stuck out in his family. He never had his ‘adventures’ with Harry, therefore he doesn’t see himself in a good light. Bill was the first born, making him special, Charlie the great quidditch player, Percy the smart one, Fred and George-well nobody could miss them in a crowd. And lastly Ginny was the only girl, and the only one of Molly’s kid to die, so to the family she was some type of saint. Ron tends to fade into the background of his family, having only average grades, he never made it onto quidditch (not in my story anyway) and he has no outstanding personality traits--yet. This is where Harry will come in and help him out.

I see one more chapter, two at most, at Grimmauld place, and then it’s off to Hogwarts.

And I would like to apologize, apparently I did have Ginny mentioned as alive in chapter 4! I must of skipped over that part while I was rereading it, but I went and changed that. Sorry for the confusion, but Ginny IS dead.

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