DICLAIMER: I do not own Harry Potter, J.K Rowling does. I just mess around with her characters and universe.

July 1994
Granger's Residence

Harry walked up to his bedroom after breakfast to go over his summer homework assignments. As he took a seat on his desk he found letters there that had not been there when he went down for his morning jog. He picked up the first one and read it.

Hello Harry.

I thank you for the invitation. The moon have just passed so I'll be fine to join your party. Padfoot sends his regards and have given me a gift for you, it would be for the best for him not to be out in the open.

Your friend

Lupin

Harry quickly put the letter away and took out the next one.

Hey Harry.

Me, Hannah and my aunt Amelia will come to your birthday party. My aunt being who she is will need to bring an auror or two. But I believe you've met the one she is taking. The pink haired one. I refuse to call her by her last name. Please make her give us her first name.

Oh and we're looking forward to getting to know you two the week after.

Your Quasi cousin- or whatever this should be called? Ask Hermione about that.

Susan

Harry chuckled lightly from that. If her writing was anything to go by she seemed fun. He took the last letter and begun to read it.

Hello Harry.

We have set up your End of the Year Exam test's for the 1oth of August. Be at the Gates of Hogwarts by 11 o'clock. I wont have the time to join you for your birthday celebration's as I am handeling the muggleborn in this time periode. I'll take a look in Diagon when I show them around and see if there's anything I think you'd like.

Professor McGonegall

Harry smiled a bit more of that letter. Even though she was busy she thought about getting him a gift. 4 guests and possibly two tag alongs by Amelia's guards. Then there's the Grangers, and Dani. Making a grand total of Eleven.

After putting away the last letter Harry went over his essays. Not really up to Hermione's standards, but a good improvement over what he'd done the previous summers. No spelling mistakes, no mistakes on spells and their effects. Hopefully nothing wrong on his history essay, well, nothing too wrong.

He spent an hour going over the esays before he walked out into the loft and found Hermione and Dani sitting there and relaxed. Each with a book. Though the difficulty of the material was noticable. Dani read an introduction to Charms. While Hermione was reading over a supplementary book for Ancient Runes that she had yet to finish even though she had bought it last summer.

"McGonegall isn't coming. And my test will be on the tenth of August." Harry said as he took a seat on the other sofa.

"Well, I doubted she'd have the time to come around. I knew she spent a good part of her summer meeting the muggleborn's and showing them Diagon." Hermione said quietly.

"What's Diagon?" Dani asked, with a confused expression easily visible on her face.

"It's where we get out things for Hogwarts, where you'll get your wand." Hermione said as she looked at the younger girl.

Dani's face was somewhere between bepuzzelment and understanding for a few moments. "Oh, I remember. Mommy took me there a few times. She sort of looks like you." She said as she looked up at Hermione.

"Really? How so?" Hermione asks slowly.

"Yea, her hair is more wavy though. And she does not look so happy often." Dani said and she got more confused than before. "It's 1994 this year, right?" Dani asked slowly and weakly.

"Yeah." Harry said as confused as she was.

"But the Propher says 2010... Either you are lying or someone's messed with my head." Dani said as her ye lids went up quickly and her eyes widened in horror. "What did Mom say? Guard your mind, it is the last thing anyone can take from you in totality. So make it so. Occulumency is the door, Legimency is it's key. Build the wall untill it is like the Wall of China." Dani said and began to go over her lessons in Occulumency in her head and started going trough the memories she had.

"What was that about?" Harry asked as she looked between the two girls.

"She is remembering things. I think I've come across Occulumency before. But not what it is." Hermione said slowly as she looked at the younger girl. "Why was she sent back with us?" Hermione asked quitely as she took a seat next to Harry.

"I don't know. Maybe, maybe she became friends with us and was viewed as some who could be a good companion this time around, if we befriended her earlier. But she did not have one of those Journal's. Or any memories." Harry said as he regarded the two words again. Occulumency- used to protect ones mind, improve efficiency and ease of remembering. Legimency- used to view anothers mind, secondary usage in memory charms to target a single object and remove all knowledge about it from some ones mind. Could also be combined with normal usage of said memory charm to target a time periode surrounding said objects. Also eases the use of fake memory charms.

"I remember what it is!" Hermione exclaimed.

"I do to. Mind protection and offensive." Harry said. Making Hermione look at him in bewilderment.

"It was you that said it. Almost as if you were teaching a class or something." She told him with a hint of awe in her voice.

"Good God, I become a teacher." Harry muttered as he started to go trough the technique's he had learned in the future and started to organize his mind and build his defenses.

They sat like this for nearly and hour and a half in silence. Building their defenses, and organizing their memories.

The rest of the day went by rather quickly with them finalizing their shopping list for the BBQ on the 31st. Hermione's parents were puzzled by the guest list but not worried about it in any way. At least they did not show it to the kids.

31st of July 1994
Granger's Residence

Harry awoke at 9 in the morning and performed his normal half hour jog. Showered and ate a light breakfast. Today the Granger's all had the day off so they could relax untill the Bones' and Hannah with Aurors arrived around noon.

Between 10 and 11 Harry, Hermione and Dani all meditated and organzed their memories and countinued to build their mind's defenses. "My head haven't felt this good in ages." Harry said as he unlocked his feet and stood up. As he walked into his bedroom Hermione caught up with him.

"Harry. Think over that statement a bit. Yiu've had a hocrux in your head whatever that is- should figure that out. And it may be affecting you. As Halfaxe said. Your Aura is supposed to be a dark blue, but it was almost black before you took that necklace and put it on. Then you said the darkness seemed to be concentrated on your scar." Hermione said rather quickly as closed the door behind herself.

"What are you getting at Hermione?" Harry asked as he sat down on the bed.

"I'm saying that your Occulumency helps further that shield. Maybe when you've built up your Occulumency shields properly you'll barely notice the headaches any more." Hermione said in response. "Well, I should let you get dressed for the celebrations." She added before she left the room.

As it was a rather warm day Harry got dressed in beige Cargo shorts and a red t-shirt with only a pair of sandals. Having dressed, Harry walked down and joined Hermione and Dani outside and helped setting the two tables in the backyard.

As the clock closed in on 11:30 a shimmer started to move around the backyard. After a while Harry said "Come out." While he looked around where the shimmer was.

"How did you know?" Lupin asks as he cancel the charm and picks Harry up into a hug.

"I don't know. I saw the distortion in the air." Harry said as he pulled away.

"Well, I suppse it could be possible." Lupin mused to himself as he looked Harry over.
"You seem to have grown over the last two months." He added happily. "About time, now that Potter Charm will work even better." He said laughingly.

"Oh come off it." Harry said quickly as he started to blush. Only to be interrupted by the crack of the Knight's Bus arriving.

"Well, here is your presents." Lupin said as he took out two packages from his robe. "This one is mine." Lupin said as he handed over the smaller of the packages. "And this one is Padfoot's." He added as he handed over the larger of the two. "I'd advice you to keep it away from overbearing eyes." Lupin said with a knowing look.

"Thanks." Harry said as he takes the presents over to where his presents from Hermione and the other Grangers were. As he put them down Hermione comes out with Susan and Hannah- the two of them dressed in Black capri's and yellow blouses. Followed shortly by Amelia, Moody and Tonks.

As Harry looks at Moody his eyes glazes over partially.

FLASHBACK

A tree marked with Alestor Moody, a small patch of overturned ground.

An electric blue eye in a door that spins at a high speed before it stops every few minutes.

Moody stands in a room with the Weasley Twins, Mr Weasley, Ron, Hermione, Hagrid, Tonks, Lupin, and a few spaces that seem to be unoccupied. The twins, Ron and Hermione drink something and shift into him.

A chamber of sorts. A battle is raging between men uniformed with black cloak's and mask in white and silver. They are fighting men and woman dressed in various clothes. But a few seem to wear a blue and red striped cloak. Among them is this man. Moody. He fights both with his walking staff and his wand. Tossing spells around without looking in the direction his hand is in. The fash ends with him seeing Sirius fall trough a large stone doorway upon a hill in the bottom of the chamber.

The next one opened with him looking down into a kind of pit, an underground room, and lying on the floor some ten feet below, apparently fast asleep, thin and starved in appearance, was the real Mad-Eye Moody. His wooden leg was gone, the socket that should have held the magical eye looked empty beneath its lid, and chunks of his grizzled hair were missing. Harry stared, thunderstruck, between the sleeping Moody in the trunk and the unconscious Moody lying on the floor of the office. Dumbledore climbed into the trunk, lowered himself, and fell lightly onto the floor beside the sleeping Moody. He bent over him. "Stunned — controlled by the Imperius Curse — very weak," he said. "Of course, they would have needed to keep him alive. Harry, throw down the imposter's cloak — he's freezing. Madam Pomfrey will need to see him, but he seems in no immediate danger." Harry did as he was told; Dumbledore covered Moody in the cloak, tucked it around him, and clambered out of the trunk again. Then he picked up the hip flask that stood upon the desk, unscrewed it, and turned it over.

A thick glutinous liquid splattered onto the office floor. "Polyjuice Potion, Harry," said Dumbledore. "You see the simplicity of it, and the brilliance. For Moody never does drink except from his hip flask, he's well known for it. The imposter needed, of course, to keep the real Moody close by, so that he could continue making the potion. You see his hair . . ." Dumbledore looked down on the Moody in the trunk. "The imposter has been cutting it off all year, see where it is uneven? But I think, in the excitement of tonight, our fake Moody might have forgotten to take it as frequently as he should have done . . . on the hour . . . every hour. . . . We shall see." Dumbledore pulled out the chair at the desk and sat down upon it, his eyes fixed upon the unconscious Moody on the floor. Harry stared at him too. Minutes passed in silence. . . . Then, before Harry's very eyes, the face of the man on the floor began to change. The scars were disappearing, the skin was becoming smooth; the mangled nose became whole and started to shrink. The long mane of grizzled gray hair was withdrawing into the scalp and turning the color of straw. Suddenly, with a loud clunk, the wooden leg fell away as a normal leg regrew in its place; next moment, the magical eyeball had popped out of the man's face as a real eye replaced it; it rolled away across the floor and continued to swivel in every direction. Harry saw a man lying before him, pale-skinned, slightly freckled, with a mop of fair hair. He knew who he was. He had seen him in Dumbledore's Pensieve, had watched him being led away from court by the dementors, trying to convince Mr. Crouch that he was innocent . . . but he was lined around the eyes now and looked much older. . . .

W-O-W

As Harry got too again he was lying on the grass and looked up at said man. "Huh, thought you didn't scare easily Potter. Maybe I'll actually have to work for you to learn." Moody said as he takes a hold of Harry's hand and pulls him up to his feet.

"What do you mean, have to work to make me learn?" Harry asks as he gets the cobwebs out of his head.

"Huh, thought Dumbledore would've told ye already. I'm the new Defense Teacher. And he asked me to give you some private tutoring on the side. Between Quirell and the Stone. To the Basilisk. You've got the making of an Auror already. With a bit of extra tutoring, you'd make a new me. Hopefully without the loss of limbs and eyes. Eh?" Moddy says as he walks around. His fake eye rolling around at breakneck speeds scanning in every direction.

"No. I've not heard from Dumbledore since the end of term. Thank you for thinking that though. Maybe I'll join the Auror's once I'm out of Hogwarts." Harry said as he recieved his gift from the scarred and Maimed auror.

"I'd await using finite on it untill you get to Hogwarts. Would be hard to take it there in it's full size." He said to Harry as he eyed it. It was barely an Inch thick and ten by wife inches on the other sides.

"Thank you." Harry said. Unsure if he meant it or not. Because as far as he could tell it was a board of wood inside.

"Told you it was a bad idea." Amelia says as she gives him her gift.

"umm. I should probably get going." Lupin said from behind them.

"Leaving already Remus. Haven't spoken to ya in a what is it? Ten years. Would have visited in the castle, if it weren't that I'd probably scare the kids worse than Harry here." Moody says with a chuckle as he eyes the werewolf.

"Say, what's happened to Harry here? His Core is way too big for a kid. Seems sort of fractured too. Yet there's nothing that hides him. Unless it is Transfiguration on a whole new level." Mody adds as he turns and looks at Harry with both eyes.

"What do you mean? My core is too big." Harry asks as the Older Granger's comes out.

"What I mean is that your Core is the size that Albus' Core is believed to have had in the 1940's. And at the time he was in his sixties. That means that you as a 14 year old have the Magical Core of the same size as a Very Powerful wizard past their Fourth Magical Maturity. Almost fully bloomed. The last one is at 75. Quite Looking forward to that one."

"Ofcourse you do Moody, Perhaps you'll regain some semblance of normal sanity." Amelia said as she fixed him with a gaze that said 'Shut it, we'll discuss this when the kids aren't hearing.'

"Ah, Alicia. I did not know you were related." Amelia said as she saw Alicia sitting at a table trying to mind her own business.

Damn it. You had to invite the Director of the DMLE? You ruined a month of messing with them." Alicia told them. The first part directed to Harry and the second part to Amelia.

"Sorry to not keep up with you Healer Dagworth. So, when were you going to tell me you were from a lesser house?" Tonks asked excitedly.

W-O-W

"This explains so much." Harry said as he rejoined Hermione, Susan and Hannah at a table near the pool.

"What does?" Hermione asks.

"Your cousin. She's magical. That explains that taco that tasted sort of like fish. Harry said.

"Now if you two are done." Susan said as she looked between them. "Come on Harry, what's her name?" Susan asked with a hint of laughter.

"I prefer my head attached thank you very much." Harry said with a shudder. "And that's if she is in a good mood and likes me." Harry waved to Dani as she came out.

"But she told you? On her own?" Hannah asked. Apparently both Huffelpuffs were interested in her name.

"We've heard some of the older students talk about her temper around people that even begun to say it. We just want to know, but she's quite mad about ever giving a hint." Susan tells him.

"Well, I think I can say taht it ends with 'Dora' without losing my head." Harry says softly afraid that it'll carry on the slow wind that goes across the backayard.

"Is that so?" The voice of a certain Metamorph asked as she stopped behind him.

"Eh... eh... Yeah? You said you didn't mind anyone calling you that. Didn't you?" Harry asks as the girls around him begins to giggle in amusement.

"I like you Harry, but giving them even a hint needs some reprecussions." A few wand movements later and Harry's chin lenght hair was pulled into two braids. "There, that looks cute on you." She added as she took a seat next to him. That gave the girls new reason to laugh as Harry slowly touched his hair as it flowed back into a braid behind each ear.

"But I'm the birthday boy." Harry said halfheartily.

"Alright." Tonks said as her wand flowed again. This time adding gold stemmed roses into the braids. "There, now it's preety." She added after she had looked it over.

"What did she do?" Harry asked as he looked at the girls who had to try to stiffle their laughs. Especially Hermione.

W-O-W

"So, How is Lyall?" Moody asks as he and Lupin stands near the grill. Mainly for Moody to make sure that the meat isn't poisoned.

"He was good when I saw him on the tenth. He, he has a quiet life." Lupin says as he looks at the kids. "What can you tell me about the young girl." Lupin asks offhandedly.

"What about her? Here Core's normal. Seems to be some light Transfiguration signs on her. Nothing too abnormal for a kid. Though the transfiguration is layered. Don't see that too often, few that don't have a mastery can do it porperly." Moody says as his magical eye scans her over a few times.

"So she is hidden by extensive transfiguration and not charms. Should we be worried?" Lupin aks as he looks at the larger man.

No, she's a genuine child. That or she have the smallest core in existance. Now, what do I need to expect going into this teaching again? I have no idea what they know or don't know. Well, I suppose no teacher really knows." Moody says with a light chuckle.

"Harry's year. The Fourth years. Have a medicore understanding overall. Harry is the only one I can say truly understands the material. We dealt with second year beings and spell. We came around to third year material around Christmas. So you'll have to deal with their respective year groups spells and Beings. Hopefully what Lockhart didn't teach them won't bite any of them during their O.W.L.'s." Lupin informed him.

"Aye. This instability of having teacher for more than a year in that subject makes few people truly learn it. It started a few years after I graduated from Hogwarts I believe. Heard you made a course for the students second year up to go trough. How effective was it?"

"Not too ineffective at least. I mean it is better than them being in a class room showing that they know how to cast the spells. As they need to do more than cast them, they need to use them in the right was in the proper context."

"Right. Well, I should go and have a talk with my dear protogee. Send me a copy of those courses you made and I'll see what I can do about making a new set." Moody says as he gets up and walks over to the kids.

"Well, ladies. I'd like a word with Mr. Potter. In private." Moody says as he grabs a hold of Harry's shoulder and nearly drags him into the house and into the bathroom. There he quickly cast a series of privacy charms.

"There, now we can have a conversation. As I said before. Dumbledore thought you'd benefit from a bit of side study with me. Primerily Defensive spells, but also some of the basics of Auror Training. And you'll need a bite as well so I'll teach you some of the Auror's offensive spells and a few extra's that are outside the handbook ofcourse.

After that I'll go trough Spell Chains, Dnagerous to use if not in a team. But can be highly efficient if used properly. And finally teach you some alternative spells that do the same as what you should have learned by now. Any questions?" Moody spoke as he sat on the toilet and twirled his wooden leg in his hands.

"Eh. No, I don't think so." Harry said as he looked half shocked of the Information overload.

"Well, then onto the Q and A. My question from you is: Which loss scarred me the most and when did I learn of it? Answer: My father when I was six. YOur turn. It can be a loss,it can be a funny burst of Accidental magic or it can be something else." Moody spoke.

"What is this for?" Harry asked as he tried to think what his question should be.

"For Identification of course. Now Q and A, quickly. I honestly am in need of using the toilet soon." Moody said.

"Question: Funny incident of Accidental Magic. Answer: Turning my teacher's wig blue." Harry said as he walked out the door.

"Good. I'll see ye outside in a few. Moody said as he reattached his leg.

W-O-W

"Remus." Amelia said as she walked up to the man after Moody had walked off.

"Madam Bones." He replied as he averted his gaze from her.

"When did you become so formal. James used to call you their Moral center, but I thought it would have softened by now." She said as she looked at the food that was placed on a table near the grill.

"When I was allowed out into the Public. And yes, James and Sirius called me their moral center." Lupin said as he turned to look at her for the first time since the summer of 1981.

"He was the one who turned on us Remus. Barely three months and he turned on us."

"He turned on no one. He did his work as a decoy perfectly. Too perfectly." Lupin said.

"Why didn't you say something. Anything?" Amelia asked shockedly as she gazed into his eyes for any sign of lies.

"Me. A werewolf? I may have been an Auror during the war. But we both knew that I'd be thrown out as soon as they deemed my leave of absence had gone on for long enough. Sirius and I had an agreement though. If things went pear shaped I'd come back when Harry turned six and would enter Muggle School and we'd rebuild our friendship at that point.

I returned and neither Harry nor Sirius were to be found. After a Week I found out that Sirius was still in Azkaban in it's level 7 ward. And what do I hear from the Auror's there? I was the first one to visit him since January of 1982. When you threw the ring at him. Really gives one reason to be formal. Does it not?" Remus says as his eyes wander again.

"But what do you mean by decoy?" Amelia asks as she walks around so that she stands in front of him.

"Exactly what it means. If you only knew us by renown. Who would you believe would have been the secret keeper? The brother in all but blood, the dark creature or the tag along?" Lupin asks with a hint of anger.

"They never viewed you as a creature, let alone a dark one." Amelia said firmly.

"That may be. But that does not mean the rest of the world doesn't." Lupin said with unconcealed pain.

W-O-W

"Soooo. How is it like to have the boy wonder over?" Tonks asked with a grin.

"Boy wonder?" Hermione asks "You mean Harry? It's good, fun." Hermione replies.

"I bet it is." Tonks replies with a larger grin.

"Stop that already. God, there's an eleven year old here, remember?" Susan said with a hint of authority in her voice.

"Yeah, yeah. I've had a bit of fun, so I can keep it in for a while." Tonks said as she looked around the yard.

"But really? What is Harry doing here? I thought he went to the Weasley's when he could during the summer." Hannah asked.

"Yeah, usually. But he learned about his parents from Professor Lupin and decided to change electives. And I decided to help him. So next year he'll join you, Susan and me in Runes and Arithmacy." Hermione replied.

"So sure of your tutoring?" Hannah asked with a giggle.

"Yeah, he managed a passing grade on the actual end of year exams so the one he'll get in August should be easy now." Hermione said with a smile.

"So the best electives are Runes and Arithmacy?" Dani asked as she looked between them.

"No. The best electives are Care and Divination. It's bad enough that my cousin is getting serious about his electives. We don't need any other." Tonks said quickly.

"She's not yours to corrupt. It was bad enough with Ron. Why don't you want Harry to study by the way." Hermione asks.

"Her mom liked to study. That filled the quota on his side. My dad liked to study. That filled the quota on my side."

"My dad also liked to study. As did Sirius." Harry said as he rejoined them with a plate of food. "And the food is done, so you should get a plate so we can continue." Harry added unsure as the others looked at him as if he were a monster for having food. Well Tonks is refusing to fix my hair so that's that.

After they returned to the table with their food and Alicia the conversation countinued again. "Harry, what do you mean that your dad and Black studied? They were pranksters. Not too good at school." Tonks said.

"They may have been pranksters. But each of them were considered exceptional in a field. My mom was good at potions and Charms. My dad in transfigurations. Sirius in runes. Professor Lupin in arithmacy. Though my mom were above average in all of her classes. While the other's were average in their less favorite classes." Harry explained to the others.

"I were average in all of my classes? I think I was not that far behind your mother in grades. We were mostly O's." Lupin said as he took a seat at the end of the table.

"All of you?" Hermione asked curiusly.

"No. God's no. I and Lily were the O's of the group. James and Sirius were as you said average except in their favorite classes which also included Defense and Charms."

"OK. Hold on. You keep calling him by his first name. He betrayed your parents Harry. How can you know that and still talk about him as if he didn't do anything?" Tonks asked curiously but also angrily.

"He did not betray the Potters Dora. Pettigrew did." Lupin said simply. Catching himself before he said her first name. She's bound to have the bite to follow trough on her threats by now.

"Pettigrew? No, Black was the secret keeper." Tonks said a bit unsure.

Susan and Hannah simply exchanged glances. If the rumors of early June was right? What about the other rumors from the last two years. Meanwhile Alicia and Dani simply looked between all of them wondering what they were talking about.

"Sirius proposed an idea. A grand prank on Voldemort. Who would he think would become the Secret Keeper of James Potter? The pureblood best friend since they boarded the train, the Half-blood or the tag along? So Pettigrew it was. Three months later and he had figured it out. Or probably Peter ran to him." Lupin said simply and sadly.

"But, Mom said Peter was the weakest of you... why would you give that post to him if he was the weakest of you?" Tonks asked.

"Because Sirius had been caught once before. They tortured him for the information of the wards around one of the Bones' minor Manor's. He held out for three days. And he broke. Just that an hour later an Auror squad arrived there and released him. Two days in St. Mungo's and he got the news. They targeted the Bones Heir and his wife. His parents were also killed while his younger sister and brother escapes with his daughter." Lupin said with a voice that got heavier as he detailed the information of the Bones'. And more so when he realized that said daughter was sitting at the table. His face was downcast and sad upon realizing that he had probably revealed something to her that she had yet to learn from her aunt.

Harry seeing the guilty look on Lupin's face tried to shift the conversation a bit. "But you said that my Dad was a Transfiguration prodigy while Mom was prodigius at Charms and Potions."

"Yes. That were the fields they favored. But they were still exceptional at other's as well. You seem to be a prodigy at Defense. And if your Patronus is any indication, Charms as well. You have it in you to become quite powerful. And with Mad-Eye tutoring you extra in Defense, I doubt you'll ever be weak." Lupin said with a thankful smile to Harry.

"Moody will be tutoring you? Damn, if he weren't my tutor during my academy years I'd be jealous." Tonks said as she looked at the other's a bit sheepishly.

"Moody is going to teach you?" Susan asked with a hint of a tremble in her voice as she is still getting to grips with knowing any details of her parents murder.

"Yeah, he will be our new Defense teacher and he is supposed to give me extra lessons. He said that Dumbledore set it up." Harry told them.

"What's this about Black?" Alicia asked as she looked between Tonks, Susan, Harry and Hermione.

"He was a friend of my Dad when they were in School. Cousin's of some sort if I read my Family tree right. And well, not as guilty as history would have us believe." Harry said in response.

"The real traitor was Peter Petigrew." Lupin said warily.

"But he died. Black killed him five days later." Dora answered heatedly.

"No, he didn't. Pettigrew is still out there, in his animagus form. Hiding or running, possibly trying to help Voldemort return." Harry said as he thought about the dream he had a week ago.

Apparently Remus thought the same as he nodded slowly and said "It's a possibility. I thought as you once Tonks. That Sirius was the evil one. But recent events have changed my mind."

"I understand where Andi comes from though. She was relieved to have one family member who supported her. But then it appeared as though he was playing us. It would hurt her atleast as much as it did me." Remus said as he countinued the story. And based off of Tonks' look he needed to explain more.

"Your mother and father was there with the Potters and my Father when we finished 5th year. You were just a toddler hugging onto your mother's side on the platform. I think Lily was shocked when James greeted you before his family. I believe that was when she started viewing him as something more than a 'toerag' as I think she so frankly called him."

"Why would she do that?" Harry asked as he looked at Remus.

"Your father was a good man Harry. But his hatred of the Dark Arts and the Dark Families ran deep. He was a borderline bully in his younger years. But when the War took a sharp turn he became more serious about his school work. Not that he needed it, but he started to behave because of that. If you were to ask McGonegall or anyone else then they did not start dating until 7th year. They were the Head Boy and Girl. And it took them that long to figure out their feelings for each other properly. And that will be a topic for another day." Remus finished with a grin. It was nice to talk about them, even if it brought up his feelings of loss again.

"Well, if there's nothing else I should go and tell Madam Bones." Lupin said as he rose to his feet.

W-O-W

The next three hours had a more subdued mood to it. Susan was looking at her Aunt every five minutes, trying to figure out how to broach the subject. While the others were awkwardly trying to ignore it. Conversation continued on this and that, but for the most part it was about more or less nothing. Talking just to talk, for some that was OK. For others, it was boring.

"Harry." Remus said as he came back to the table the kids had taken for their own. "Could I have a word with you in private before I leave?" He asks as he looks over the table and get sad again when he sees Hannah and Susan. They were both sweet children, but both of them also reminded him of their parents in their own ways.

Harry nodded and got up and followed him inside the house.

"I just wanted to tell you about something that I forgot to tell you at the end of term. Tell the map, 'The Express awaits', when you enter the station. It should allow you to read a second map of the express. It is a lot less accurate there, but it should give you something interesting instead." Remus said as he gave Harry a wistful look before he cleared his head and started for the door.

"Use it better this year Harry, that map in the wrong hands is a bad thing. They would be capable of entering Hogwarts, circumventing it's wards even at if it has it's War Wards at highest power." Remus said as his parting words before he left.

He was not angry about coming, he was angry about letting slip why that girl's parents were dead and she was in the care of her Aunt's and Uncle.

But it was too late to take back what he said. When he said it was too late. He could only hope that it did not ruin the small chances his friend had of getting his freedom back. The week he had spent with him at Black Isle had made him see that he would probably not see the grand joker ever again, but he would hopefully regain some semblance of himself if he could just walk around people again. Even if it was in the Mundane world.

And with a pop he was gone from the street and back to the cabin he had in England. Some would probably think it was in shambles as most of his clothes are. But he does keep it rather tidy and organize. His study holds all of his books. And the stones that make up it's walls are layered with a few impervious charms and runic spell entrapment array's, that help keep charms such as the Impervious one there for longer than a month. This array he had made with Lily as their NEWT project, and it could keep out anything save a backfired killing curse. Possibly Fiendyfire as they had not tried it. The same array were used on the walls around the enclosure he had made to keep himself from terrorizing the nearby village.

AUTHOR'S NOTES:

Hello all, long time without a new post. Sorry about that, but this chapter was akward to write. Not really, but in the sense of trying to not outright copy any other Harry gets a birthday party out there. I think I managed that, which actully made it a bit akward to write it. How do you follow up that without derailing the whole birthday party? Which may have been the right thing to do. I am not sure.

But anyways. Next chapter I'll take a detour into the Bones' househould for a bit. And then the chapter after. Alicia wants answer's, Harry gets his Inheritance, and Goblins grins like fools.

Anyways, the story will be taken onto a more plannet hitaus now. I'll hopefully get around ten chapter's ready for Christams/ New Years. And take my uploading schedule onto a bi weekly schedule. Untill then.