I own nothing. J K Rowling IS Harry Potter. All my 'ideas' are basically ripped from stuff I enjoy; Harry Potter (duh!), Lord Of The Rings, Star Wars, Star Trek, Dragonball saga, The Matrix, The Lion King, 24, and anything else that even remotely looks far to creative for me to just make up! Please don't say I didn't warn you! Yes I'm lazy and can't be bothered writing another 'warning' thingy, so it's the same as my previous story!

Well. Here it is, the long awaited (cough, splutter, choke!) chapter 1 of my sequel; Harry Potter and the Beginning of the End. I hope it lives up to (some of!) your expectations.

This will pick up straight where Dormant stopped. Since both stories are really just one, but broken up, the epilogue for this will include notes to all those who have reviewed my stories. I'm not going to answer each and every question, I will merely just write a comment to you……mainly thanks really.

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Chapter 1 – Reminiscing

The sun was beating down in the mid-afternoon. The warmth was relaxing, and it gave a lazy comfort to those people living in Godric's Hollow. Out in the street, a skinny looking teenager with messy black hair and glasses was currently being shaken by a man with greying hair.

"Harry! Harry can you hear me? Darn it, why couldn't you wait to have fainted until after you wrote on that piece of parchment!"

Harry Potter could just make out the voice of the last living friend of his parents, Remus Lupin. He slowly opened his eyes and let out a soft groan.

Remus sighed "thank Merlin. Finally, welcome back Harry. Don't do that again please."

"Sorry Remus. I just had the strangest dream. I dreamt you told me that house was mine" Harry replied rubbing the back of his head.

"It was no dream Potter. Now, if you'll kindly pick yourself out of the gutter and write the instructions out, we can discuss this further inside" growled Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody, a former Professor of Harry's.

Remus helped Harry up, before going over and trying to rouse Harry's relatives, who had also fainted. Harry looked around to get his bearings. The last thing he remembered was Remus telling him that the house in front of them was Harry's, and whether or not he would allow them to use it. This wouldn't have been such an unusual request but for the fact that the majority of the group assembled were not exactly normal.

All were wizards or witches, except for Harry's relatives. And Harry himself was no ordinary wizard. He had survived a curse meant to kill him, delivered by one of the most evil Dark wizards known, Lord Voldemort. His parents, James and Lily Potter, had been murdered Halloween night nearly sixteen years ago, but amazingly Harry himself had escaped with nothing more than a lightening bolt scar on his forehead.

Harry grabbed the piece of parchment out of Remus' hands and thought about how to write the instructions to enter the house. Remus had wanted Harry to be secret keeper for the new location of the Order of the Phoenix, and underground movement of wizards and witches who were taking the fight to Voldemort.

Harry had found out about the Order two years ago, when they came to pick him up after he and his cousin, Dudley, had been attacked by a pair of Dementors. Harry remembered being incredibly frustrated back then, as no one would tell him much about what was going on. It had been because of this that Harry had lost the closest person he ever had to a father, Sirius Black. Sirius had been wrongly accused of betraying Harry's parents to Voldemort, and had been sent to Azkaban prison without a trial.

It was said that Sirius had also murdered one of his best friends, Peter Pettigrew, along with a crowd of thirteen people with a single curse. Harry found out the truth during his third year when Sirius escaped Azkaban, the only person to have ever done this without being aided. He had been told, by Sirius, that it was Pettigrew who betrayed James and Lily, before changing into his rat animagus form and disappearing for the next twelve years.

Harry didn't initially believe Sirius, and it wasn't until Sirius and Remus, who was one of Harry's Professors, grabbed Harry's best friends' pet rat that things become much clearer. Ron Weasley had been given the rat by his family, but had no idea that the rat was actually Peter. Remus and Sirius forced Peter out of his animagus form and the truth was uncovered.

Unfortunately, Peter escaped later that night as Remus transformed in his werewolf form, and it was left to Sirius to protect Harry and his friends from being ripped apart by their then Defence Professor. Harry's fourth year ended horribly as Peter helped Voldemort to return to power, after Harry had been kidnapped as his blood was required for the ritual. Harry had been performing in the triwizard tournament at the time, and neither he nor Cedric, the other Hogwarts representative, knew that the winner's cup had been transfigured into a portkey.

Cedric had been murdered, and Harry had been lucky to escape with his life. However, it was during Harry's fifth year that things began to get even worse. Voldemort found out about the connection he shared with Harry through his scar, and had used this to lure Harry to the Department of Mysteries to retrieve a prophecy about the two of them. That night Harry had lost Sirius, and had been told about the reason to why Voldemort wanted Harry dead.

A prophecy had been foretold shortly before Harry had been born, and had mentioned how Harry was the only person capable of beating Voldemort for good. Harry had spent the first few days of his summer break coming to terms with everything that had happened when things got more confusing. Pettigrew himself had shown up impersonating Harry's Uncle, Vernon, but Harry had found out and stunned him.

A few days after this event, Harry had been taken to Grimmauld Place, where a mysterious wizard named Trent Fuller showed up. Trent and Remus took Harry to the Room of Spirit and Time for training, where Harry dramatically increased his power and also found out a lot about Trent. How he had come into being when Tom Riddle turned dark and became Voldemort. It was Trent who came to Harry's rescue the night his parent's died, and dragged him out of the destroyed house before it collapsed.

Peter was taken to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which Harry had found out accidentally from Remus. Harry visited Peter on a couple of occasions and slowly came to know the man his father had become friends with. Peter had been forced to give up Harry's parents' location, and Harry had promised Peter to help him escape in return for his assistance in locating Voldemort.

Harry taught himself how to recognise other people's magical signature, and at the end of the year, both he and Peter went after Voldemort. He wasn't prepared when Remus, Trent and Albus Dumbledore, the Headmaster of Hogwarts, turned up shortly afterwards. Voldemort overpowered Trent, before killing both Peter and Dumbledore. This triggered Harry into transforming, and after immobilising Voldemort, Harry then warned him that the next time they meet would be the last, before leaving with Remus and the others back to Hogwarts. Harry was brought out of his thoughts by Remus

"Harry. Are you going to use that parchment, or are you just going to stare at it all day?"

Harry apologised and turned his attention to the blank piece of parchment. He wrote the first thing that came into his mind

The new location of the Order of the Phoenix is at MM

He gave the parchment back to Remus who read it before handing it to the rest of the group. Once they had read the note, Remus burnt it and looked over to the block of land that was overgrown with trees. Unless you knew where to look, it would be easy to assume that the block of land was vacant.

"Well, now what are we supposed to do, boy?" Uncle Vernon asked, glaring at Harry who politely smiled in return.

"Now you have to think about what you just read. You'll see the house see enough Uncle Vernon."

His Uncle narrowed his eyes and was about to say something, when Dudley gasped

"He's right Dad! I can see the house now. How did that happen?"

"I already told you Dudley. It's called magic" Harry grinned as he saw his cousin's eyes widen.

Before long, the group had made their way into the hall of the place called Marauder's Mansion. If Harry was shocked the first time he entered the mansion, it was nothing to the looks his Aunt, Uncle and Cousin gave when they stepped inside. Aunt Petunia nearly fainted again, Uncle Vernon looked like he was about the burst a vein in his neck with the amount of magic that had been used to create the house, but Dudley's reaction was most surprising.

"Can you do all this stuff too?" He had asked Harry quite excitedly.

"Most of it, although I had a darn good teacher" Harry replied, grinning at Remus, who smiled back.

"Thank you Harry. But I haven't taught you how to do any of..."

"I meant Professor Flitwick, Remus." Harry said, ignoring the glare Remus then sent him.

Harry then headed upstairs to where the bedrooms were to unpack his trunks and other things. Remus also showed the Dursley's where they'd be staying for the next couple of months, before giving everyone, including Harry, the grand tour of Marauder's Mansion.

Harry had only seen the living room where they entered, so was looking forward to seeing exactly what Remus had done to the house. Remus led them through to the kitchen and dining area, which was twice the size of that at Grimmauld Place. The benchtops continued with the theme of being crafted from deep mahogany, as were the tables and chairs.

Remus then showed them the library, which reminded Harry of the one in the Spirit Room, but of course held books of many different topics. He then proceeded to lead through a corridor which curled around the back of the house and fed back into the other side of the living room. There was one study located along the corridor, and a meeting room, which Harry knew was for the Order meetings. Further along the corridor, there were three empty rooms, which Remus told them he hadn't yet figured out what to do with them.

Harry then went upstairs to unpack his things and was nearly done when someone knocked on his door.

"Come" he said, continuing to unpack.

"Harry?" he froze in disbelief and slowly turned around.

"A…Aunt Petunia?! Is something wrong?"

She shook her head, but then said "well yes actually. Why are we here? The only explanation we got was that it was for our own safety."

"Do you remember when I turned up at Privet Drive with that short blond-haired guy last year?" Petunia nodded, so Harry continued.

"Well, he was a teacher of mine. He also happened to be Voldemort's brother. Voldemort possessed him a few weeks ago, and now knows everything he did, including where Privet Drive is. You're here because I didn't want to see you get hurt."

Petunia looked shocked and Harry sighed. "Look. Even after everything you have done to make my life…not brilliant," he looked up and saw his Aunt give him a wry smile "you are the only family I have left."

"Th…thank you Harry. I…I don't know what to say. Is what that man said before true? Is this…mansion really yours?"

Harry nodded, "yeah, this is the same place where my parents' lived. That man, Remus, built it himself. He was one of my Dad's best mates, but he's the only one left now."

Petunia looked confused, "what do you mean?"

"There were four of them, five including my Mum. Peter died a few weeks ago, and Sirius went a year before that."

Harry sighed then leant back against the wall. "Both were my fault. They shouldn't have died like they did…"

"That's rubbish Harry." Harry nearly fell onto the floor in shock as Remus came into his room.

"Don't do that Remus! I nearly had a heart attack!"

"Sorry Harry, but don't beat yourself up over their deaths. Blame Voldemort if you have to blame anyone."

"You…you're that…" Petunia looked over at Harry and saw his eyes flash with anger. "…that friend of James. I recognise your name. Lily often spoke about you."

Remus raised an eyebrow "really. I hope she didn't say anything bad about me."

Petunia widened her eyes in shock and shook her head before turning to Harry. "I'd best be off Harry. Thank you again, even after how we treated you for all those years."

She then hurried out of the room leaving Harry and Remus alone.

"What was all that about?" Harry asked.

Remus' face flushed slightly in response, "well….ah. You see, Petunia sort of…well…"

Harry's mouth fell open in realisation. "She…she fancied you, didn't she!"

Remus nodded in reply, and Harry just shook his head. "When did you meet her?"

"End of my sixth year. Lily took James and the rest of us around muggle London. Lily's parents made her take Petunia along, saying that since Lily had been at Hogwarts, they hardly spent any time together anymore."

"But my Aunt hates anything to do with magic…" Harry began

"Because she was jealous of Lily. They were both quite close before Lily started at Hogwarts." Remus interrupted.

"She was always much more interested in me than the other way around. It never would have worked between us Harry. Everything turned out for the best…"

"No it didn't. I could've had you for an Uncle. That would've been loads better!"

Remus gave him a smile. "Don't think I haven't thought about it before Harry. Believe me, I really wanted to take you in, but Dumbledore insisted for them to have you instead. But this isn't what I wanted to talk to you about. I came up here to tell you that the Weasley's will be here tomorrow, and the funeral for Dumbledore will be held at Hogwarts this weekend. We've managed to narrow the list down to only those from his family, and the Order. Of course, you and your friends are welcome to attend."

Remus turned to leave, but Harry stopped him "what about Peter? When's his funeral?"

Remus sighed and faced Harry. "I'm not sure if he'll get one. No one would turn up aside from you and me…"

"Which is exactly why he should have one! I didn't want Sirius to have a funeral but you said it would insult his memory if we didn't. Peter deserves to be buried alongside his friends, Remus" Harry cut in, and Remus nodded.

"You're right, Harry. I'll see what I can do."

Remus then strode out the door leaving Harry alone with his thoughts.