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"Lumos Maxima" Harry says as he whispers the spell and points his wand in front of him. Not long after, a bright light shines in his dark room.
Harry smiles at the photo album in front of him. On the left were pictures of his parents; pictures Hagrid had given him. While on the right were pictures of him, Ron and Hermione; pictures from their first and second year.
Harry's smile quickly dims when he hears the toilet flushing. He quickly hides the photo album and his wand before going under the covers and pretending to be asleep.
Just in time too since a second later Vernon opens the door, glaring. Vernon's glare turns into a look of confusion when he sees nothing abnormal.
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Harry doesn't bother to hide his disgust when he sees Aunt Marge share her drink with her animal.
"I can't believe I'm distantly related to
that.
"
Aunt Marge, seeing his look, glares at him before turning to her brother. "And where is it that you send him?"
"St. Brutus's. An institution for hopeless people." Vernon says with a chuckle.
Harry rolls his eyes. "How long did it take you to come up with that?"
Sees the eye roll, Vernon to give Harry a dark glare.
Aunt Marge let's out a hum, "I see. Do they use the cane at St. Brutus's, boy?" She says to Harry.
Harry let's out a sarcastic snort. "Yes, I've been beaten plenty of times."
Aunt Marge smiles, something that doesn't look right on her hideous face. "Excellent. I won't have any nonsense
about not hitting people who deserve it."
Harry glares at the woman, something she doesn't notice. "If anyone deserves to be hit, it's you."
Marge continues prattling on, "You can't blame yourself for how this boy turned out, Vernon. In the end, it comes down to blood. Bad
blood will always win. Petunia, What did the boy's father do?"
Petunia gives Harry an irritated glance, as if Marge asking about his family is his fault. "His father didn't do anything. He was unemployed."
Harry's nostrils flare but he says nothing.
In fact, he started to ignore her until he heard, "In the end it
comes down to the mother. You see
it all the time with dogs. If
there's something wrong with the
bitch, there'll be something wrong
with the pup..."
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Harry smirks as he sees the horrendous plump woman float away. He almost let's out a laugh when he sees Vernon try and hold onto her.
Seeing that his uncle was going to be busy, he quickly got all his stuff and left.
"Maybe I could go to Ron or Hermione's?" He thinks as he ignores Vernon's yelling and walks on the sidewalk.
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Harry mutters curses as he gets off the wretched bus.
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Harry looks at Ron and Hermione in amusement as they both argue about their pets. "What's going on here?" He asks causing the two to turn to him.
He watches as the anger in their eyes immediately dissipates. "Harry!" They both beam at him, smiles wide as they excitedly say his name before running to him.
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Harry, Ron, and Hermione exchanged confused looks as they looked at the man in front of them.
"Any idea who this is?" Ron whispered.
"Or more importantly, why he's here?" Harry said as he looked at the man suspiciously.
"His name is Lupin and I suspect he's going to be our new DADA teacher." Hermione said after observing the man.
Ron looks at Hermione, "You know everything." He says and then turns to Harry, "How is it that she knows everything?"
Harry chuckles before pointing to the case next to the man.
Ron let's out an 'ah' of understanding.
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Harry wakes up, feeling dazed and a little sick.
Once he's more aware, he realizes that his head is on Hermione's lap and Ron is holding his hand. Both of them looking concerned for him.
"Harry? Are you alright now?" Harry focuses on Hermione's troubled face before smiling slightly. "I'm fine."
"Are you sure mate?" Harry turns to Ron and chuckles slightly, "Yeah I'm sure."
Lupin looks at the three of them and smiles before coughing to get their attention.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione all look at Lupin in sheepish surprise, they clearly had forgotten that he was there.
Lupin breaks a piece chocolate and holds it out. "Here, it'll help."
Harry takes the chocolate and nibbles it, not really up for eating anything at the moment. His mind to focused on what he had just been through. "What was that? That thing."
"It was a Dementor. One of the guards from Azkaban." Lupin answers. Seeing Harry frown, Lupin gives him what he hopes to be a comforting smile. "It's gone now. Everything is okay."
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Professor Trelawney smiles at the students in front of her as she talks. "Hello, I am Professor Trelawney. Together, we shall cast ourselves into the future. But know this. One
either has the Gift or they do not. It
can't be divined from the pages
of a book. Books only cloud one's
Inner Eye."
Hermione rolls her eyes and snorts, "What rubbish."
Ron quickly turns to Hermione and looks at her in confusion, "Where'd you come from?"
Hermione pretends to look at Ron in confusion, "I've been here all along, Ron."
"But—" Ron gets caught off by Professor Trelawney, who had quickly turned to Neville. "You, boy! Is your grandmother well?
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Ron looked at the teacup in front of him and then looked back up at Harry and Hermione. " I have no idea what I'm supposed to be seeing other than a bunch of leaves." Harry and Hermione chuckle.
"Make something up, she's coming this way." Harry said to Ron and watched amused as Ron glared at the teacup in front of him.
"Uh—well... He's got this wonky sort of cross, that means trials and
suffering. But this lot here
could be a sun, that's great
happiness. So... Harry's going to
suffer but he's going to be very happy about it."
Professor Trelawney looks at Ron and then the cup before taking the cup from him. She peers inside and gasps loudly, clearly making sure the entire class could hear her.
Parvati looks at her Professor curiously, "What is it, Professor? What's wrong?"
Trelawney gives Harry a look of pity and fear, "You have the Grim."
Seamus looks at Professor Trelawney confused. "The Grin? What's the Grin?"
Seeing that Professor Trelawney was no longer looking in their direction, Hermione gave Harry and Ron a look before rolling her eyes. Harry and Ron snorted before nodding in agreement.
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"It's killed me! It's killed
me!" As Draco yells and whines, Ron and Hermione are facing away from each other, both determined to avoid eye contact so they don't laugh.
Harry, who was in front of Buckbeak, looked at him and smiled. "Good boy." He said as he gave the hippogriff a pat on the head.
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When Harry stepped in front of the Boggart, he was expecting it to turn into a Dementor. But to his surprise it splits, one turns into Ron and the other into Hermione.
He looks at the copy of his best friends in confusion, before glancing at the real ones, who look just as confused as him.
His confusion turns to horror when he sees blood start dripping on their bodies and onto the floor.
The amount of blood increases and their faces slowly turn pale.
The Boggart Hermione looks Harry in the eyes, "This is all your fault." Boggart Ron gives a smile but unlike the actual Ron, this smile wasn't comforting. "Why did you let this happen?"
Both Boggart versions of his friends then say in unison, "We should have never been your friend."
Professor Lupin quickly intervens.
Harry stares wide eyed as Professor Lupin gets rid of his Boggart. He doesn't even notice Ron and Hermione hugging him.
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Harry let's out a weak chuckle as he wakes up in the hospital wing and notices Ron and Hermione cuddled into his sides.
"This is becoming a routine."
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Hermione looks around and her eyes widen, "We're in the Shrieking Shack, aren't we?"
When she doesn't get a response from Harry, she turns to him and then notices what he's looking at. Dog prints.
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Hermione looks at Harry, "Now we just have to save Sirius."
Harry looks at Hermione in confusion, "How are we going to do that?"
Hermione sighs, "No idea."
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Harry watches Sirius leave and tries not to get to upset about it. "There goes the one person who could have been my family."
Hermione, seeing this, takes his hand.
Harry looks at their intertwined hands and shakes his head for being so stupid. "Hermione and Ron are my family."
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Harry and Hermione spend the rest of their afternoon with Ron, laughing and joking.
Smiles on all their faces.