- AN - there is a reason for putting Remus then Sirius; Remus is a werewolf, Sirius is a dog. Who do you think is the submissive? It certainly isn't Remus. So it is from now on Remus and Sirius. ANYWAY, sorry it took me sooo long to get this chapter out. I have actually had it for a while and just needed to do some last minute checks and add some crap. My friends have been bugging me repeatedly and finally got to me. Soo here is the finished product. Hope you enjoyed some of it. I know I'm really not reliable with updates, but I should have another chapter out soon, if time permits me. PLEASE REVIEW!!!! Even if you just say "this is interesting" I would love to hear from you. I have to thank all those who have reviewed me. Every time you reviewed I looked over what I had written and wrote a little more, so you actually got it out sooner than I probably would have if you hadn't. Well talk to you next update.

Chapter 18 – Remus and Sirius

Harry slowly came back into consciousness. He didn't want to get out of bed, but knew that his Aunt would be banging on the door any minute. He snuggled up more into the bed covers waiting… and waiting… and waiting. He cracked one eye open a slit. The scarlet hangings around the bed were the images that meet his brain. He closed his eye again. Then the image actually made sense and he sat up in bed. Everything from the day before slowly shifted into his mind. Finally he remembered what the girls and he were going to do today. He practically jumped out of bed. Then looked up at the ceiling wondering how he had ended up on the floor before he realized the sheets were tangled tightly around his legs. The door was open before he could get up and suddenly there were two concerned looking faces looking down at him.

"You have a nice trip?" Diana asked beginning to smile as she and Anna grabbed Harry's hands and tugged him to his feet after pulling the sheets from around his legs.

"Oh sod off," Harry grumbled as he sorted himself out. "Now if you don't mind," he gestured to himself, "I need to get dressed." The girls grinned suspiciously but promptly left the room to give him privacy. But he noticed that they didn't go too far, because he could still hear them chatting gleefully on the other side of the door. Not wanting to take too long he quickly opened his trunk grabbed some of Dudley's old clothes, then sprinted to the bathroom. After turning on the shower to scalding, he began to strip of his pajamas. "Ahh bloody hell!" he commented loudly, after attempting to pull his PJ-shirt off and finding out (the hard way) that his shoulder blades and muscles were not exceedingly happy with him.

A concerned voice of Diana drifted into the bathroom, "Harry, are you ok?"

'I guess they heard that.'

"Yeah, I'm ok. Just sore muscles," he commented loudly. "The shower should help," he pointed at the shower then realized that they couldn't see it. 'Why am I so disoriented?' Harry thought to himself as he let the scalding water beat furiously on his back and shoulders.

'Bad dreams can do that to a person,' drifted quietly across his mind. Harry started so badly he would have fallen over if he hadn't been leaning against the wall at the time. 'Calm down, I didn't mean to startle you,' Diana's calm voice continued to be projected through his brain.

'Sorry, just that I am not used to sharing my thoughts with people,' Harry said matter-of-factly, 'Was I thinking that loudly?'

'No, but Anna could feel your confusion. She told me to talk to you, but considering the other girls I decided this was the most private we could get. I blocked off the link with the others so they can not hear us.' Diana's voice was so serious he thought absentmindedly, while massaging his shoulders.

'So, anything on your mind?' Diana asked, he could almost see her sitting on his bed picking at her finger nails.

'Well yeah, I'm not as scatter brained as Professor Snape thinks I am, I do actually have a few neurons firing every now and then.' Diana laughed at that one; he liked her laugh, a real guttural one and not fake in the least.

'Don't get me started on Professor Severus Snape,' Diana said in a serious tone, but he knew that she was smiling whole heartedly. 'Now back to my question.'

'Well, I don't remember having any bad dreams last night,' Harry thought, Diana could practically see Harry standing in the shower tapping his chin in thought.

'Do I smell smoke, don't over work those cogs up there,' Diana said grinning gleefully to herself. 'Don't you remember the circle we performed last night?'

'I thought I'd dreamt about that,' Harry stated blankly.

'After your dreamt of the Dementors, we got you to it all write down and I took it to Dumbledore grumbles, can't believe I went through all that last night, anyway we did a circle to calm you and help bond our powers further. Is it coming back?'

'Yeah, I remembered it, but I thought it was a dream; odd. Could you remind me, what did I write down exactly? I'm having a hard time remembering it.' Diana told Harry what had happened in the dream and what they had done afterwards to help him relocate his excess energy.

'That is also probably why you hurt this morning, because you did some new stuff and had a redo of your vision. If your shoulders still hurt, I'll try and get the kinks out when you get out and are ready to go.'

Harry nodded, but realized, again, that she couldn't see it, 'Yeah that would be great. I don't think even a scalding shower will help this kind of pain.' With that Harry shut off the shower, grabbed his towel and continued to get ready. When he was partially clothed, he looked up in his reflection only to jump a foot in the air, yelp, and fall over backwards. Diana had rushed in and helped him up for a second time that day.

"Everything ok Harry?" She asked having an appreciative look at his slightly more muscular frame. She had to look up a little to look into Harry's eyes.

"Lets see, you're about half a foot taller, you've filled out a bit, and there is something different about your face and hair but I can't put my finger on it." Diana pointed out after checking him out a little longer. Harry had kept quiet still in a slight state of shock from realizing his body had changed over night without him realizing in.

"Oh your body didn't change much over night; actually I think most of it happened in the last twenty minutes that you have been in the shower. Now then look in the mirror and tell me what has changed," Diana said in her serious yet funny tone.

Harry looked at her for a moment then went and looked in the mirror again. His face was a little longer and more adult looking. His hair was longer also and a lot less unruly. He was a good six inches taller than he had been the day before, which he though may explain the pain in his back and shoulders. What really caught his attention though was the fact that his eyes popped out of his face like two large emeralds. "Where are my glasses?" He asked finally.

"I thought you'd never ask," Anna said from the doorway. She had a smirk on her face and she was twirling his glasses between her fingers. "Didn't notice you could actually see did you?"

Harry nodded numbly, then looked around the bathroom and noticed he could see so much better, the details were amazing. 'How the hell did I survive with that terrible prescription! No wonder everyone thought I was running around bumping into walls, I was practically blind!' The two girls giggled, Harry shrugged it off as just something girls did. He didn't realize that they had caught his rant.

"Ok mister go lay down on the bed and I'll try and make your back feel more human," Diana told him.

"Yes Ma'am," he said with a little salute and walked off towards the bed. He didn't catch Anna's raised eyebrow or Diana's returning look of embarrassment.

Ten minutes later, Maria and Izzy walked in to find Harry half naked laying face down on the bed with Diana sitting on his bum – isn't bum a funny word grin -, legs straddling his waist, massaging his entire back and shoulders. Anna was sitting on the bed next to the two giggling, while holding Harry's right hand and occasionally ruffling his hair. Diana had a look of concentration on her face, Anna looked a little worried but seemed to be enjoying herself overall, and Harry had his face scrunched up in suppressed pain. Maria and Izzy looked at each other before walking over and sitting next to Harry. Izzy transformed pretty quickly and laid down the contour of his body; Maria sat on the other side of Anna and took his other hand. Both tried to stay out of Diana's way as they knew what she was doing.

Another ten minutes went by before Sirius, the dog, bounded into the room followed closely by Remus. The two had frozen by the door before all hell broke loose when Harry screamed; Diana seemed to know what to do but stopped massaging the area, instead placed both her hands over the place, closed her eyes and relaxed.

Remus and Sirius, in human form, were by the bed and had almost pulled Diana off Harry had the two girls and cat not all glared at them. The combined glare had frozen them, again, in place; the wands they had drawn were still out but pointed at the ground. They shared a look and waited to see what would happen. Both watched as Diana's hands seemed to glow with a fiery light over a spot in the middle of Harry's back on the vertebra. The light seemed to coalesce into a ball in her hands and then started to move down into Harry's back. As the ball left her hands it turned to the purest white, and when it hit Harry's back he whimpered. The two girls and cat were comforting him with touch to make him feel better. Harry audibly sighed when the ball was all the way into his back. The girls released his hands, the cat transformed back into Izzy sitting next to Anna on Harry's right. Diana had half collapsed while still sitting on Harry's bum. She was breathing rather hard and was shaking slightly. When Harry tried to get up she fell on top of him.

"humph!" was all Harry could let out when Diana fell on him. He hadn't realized she was still on top of him.

"Sorry," she said, her voice sounding a bit tired, "Can someone help me, I've fallen and I can't get up," a little humor had moved to her voice, so Harry knew she wasn't completely gone on him. Her weight was quickly lifted off of his naked back making it possible for him to push himself up into a sitting position. His back cracked five times as he sat up and five more when he stretched it. He quickly looked around to see the girls huddled together by Ron's bed, Remus putting Diana on Ron's bed, and Sirius looking like a lost puppy next to his bed.

"Is she ok?" Harry and Remus asked at the same time. They shared a quick glance, as Anna lay next to Diana with her forehead rested against the others. She closed her eyes, looked at Diana for a moment then said mostly to Harry, "She'll be ok, but can you come over here and lay down behind her? It will help if we are all touching her." The other girls had already moved: Izzy, again in her cat form, was in the space between Anna and Diana's legs, while Maria was on the end of the bed, draped gracefully over Diana's legs. Harry stood up and started towards the bed. Sirius' eyes bulged as he realized Harry was two inches short of being his height.

Remus face was blank but asked the question on two of the occupant's minds, "Harry what's going on?"

Harry lay down behind Diana, who was still huddled up against Anna with her eyes closed. The five seemed to sigh in unison once Harry was touching Diana.

"Um… not to disturb you, but what exactly are you doing? What happened to Harry? What is going on?" Remus asked a few moments after Harry lay down.

"Diana was massaging my back, because I grew about two inches last night and my muscles were stretched. It hurt badly, but Diana did something to my back and now I feel great," Harry said snuggling up closer to Diana's back and putting his arm around her waist.

Sirius raised his eyebrow at the motion and looked at Remus. He didn't know what to say. Remus seemed to know what to ask but Maria answered first.

"Diana was healing Harry's back," Maria answered the question Remus was about to ask.

"Why did it hurt Harry so much?" Sirius asked after a few moments thought.

"Normally it doesn't hurt to push energy into another's body to heal, but it can be painful with some conditions. First, Harry had all of this happen to him suddenly; he grew a few inches in a few hours, something that takes years to achieve normally. Secondly, the thing Diana was trying to heal was painful because it was stretched; she had to first see how stretched it was then slowly release it until it was leveled again. Finally, the point in which she had to administer the power was on a sensitive point on your body. Most people don't realize how sensitive their back is until they are older and are beginning to feel the affects of old age, but when power is applied to the back it tends to be painful," Anna answered still facing Diana and holding her hands.

"So, why are you all piled up together? And why is Harry joining your group?" Sirius asked. Remus started towards the bed already knowing the answer and wanting to help his 'child figure.' Sirius stared at him, while waiting for his answers, as he climbed onto the top end of the bed and placed his hand on Diana's shoulder then began gently petting her hair. "Remus what are you doing?"

"We are all helping re-level Diana's power. Healing takes a heap of power. Normally it doesn't take this much out of her but for some reason Harry was harder to heal," Maria answered after a little thought.

"Mostly it's because Harry has a lot of power already, I had to break through some of his shields to get the power to him. I figured out that that didn't work to well, probably will have to practice giving energy to him for a while before it becomes easy like it is with you three," she said. "Now, as much as I love just laying around all day, my power level has been normal for the past five minutes; and I'm really excited about getting my wand and checking out Flourish and Blotts. Come on get off, get off; I don't want to be a Diana sandwich anymore," Diana told the group of sprawling teenagers and adult.

Maria got up first. Followed somewhat quickly was Isa, she transformed and sat on the end of the bed waiting. Anna disentangled herself from Diana, but did not get up. Remus stopped his comforting touch and removed himself from the bed to stand next to a slightly perplexed Sirius. He whispered quietly into Sirius' ear and the look disappeared into an understanding. Harry finally let go of Diana after Anna had sat up. Diana experimentally sat up, 'So far so good,' she thought to herself when she was vertical. Harry and Anna sat on either side of her as she moved to the edge of the bed.

"Are you sure you should be getting up right away?" Isa asked worriedly as she watched standing in front of the three; Maria was next to her leaning against the other bed's bed post.

"The only way to find out is to try it," Diana said aloud. Isa stepped forward arm extended to give her a hand up. Diana took the offered hand and pulled herself up. The other two stood up with her making sure she was not going to fall. When she didn't she let go of Isa's hand and everyone began to leave. She was a little wobbly for about twenty feet before she balanced out again and everything seemed ok.

"So, who's ready for Diagon Alley?" Remus asked sounding a little excited while rubbing his hands together. The four girls raised their hands, Harry just smiled, and Sirius laughed lightly at his friends antics. But he quickly sobered when he remembered something. "Oh I nearly forget, Remus, Albus wanted to speak with the group again before they left." Diana wobbled again at this but quickly caught herself. After some grumbling they headed to Dumbledore's office after Harry had grabbed a shirt, his extra money, and his wand.

AN - Here's a little peek of what is coming up.

Chapter 19 - Yet another talk and Diagon Alley

Diana and the Triplets were glaring at a level two Snape glare at Dumbledore, Snape, who was also in the room, was glaring at Dumbledore also. McGonagall was looking confused between Dumbledore and Snape. Dumbledore being his usual self was steepling his fingers and looking around the room randomly.

- just so you know I will explain the level two Snape glare, it's from another fic that I had to borrow, so it doesn't belong to me! I'll tell you at the top of the next chapter who it is written by when I update. Thanks again for all your support and don't forget to REVIEW!!!!