"Remus 'Mooney' Lupin" Sirus looked at his friend with pride after watching the recent viewing of Harry's life "you actually stood up to Dumbledore!"
"I…guess I did?" Remus shrugged "still can't believe that"
"I'm proud of you Remus" Lilly spoke softly "so proud that I'll let you hex Dumbledore after me and James are done, that old bastard, how dare he do that?!"
"Lilly, did you just swear?" Padfoot asked in amazement
"Padfoot" Remus spoke as if he was addressing a child "she just saw a person we all trusted try to send her son back somewhere where he wanted to die and commit suicide, I think she's allowed to swear"
"I suppose" Padfoot agreed "sorry Lil, but I will say this, your son is a bloody genius"
"I know" James agreed "my little boy played Dumbledore and the entire court the way he wanted, no one took Dumbledore seriously once he entered the court with spiky five four feet pink hair"
"Another prank we should remember" Remus added "I am however worried about what would happen if Granger or Ginny's brother tries something"
"I'm not worried about the prat" James waved his hand "the only reason Harry hasn't dealt with yet is because he cares for Ginny, once the two are alright then he'll put him in his place. As for Granger, she's smart but she ain't no marauder"
"Hear hear" Sirius agreed "I still can't believe the fact that he's only thirteen yet he still has more girls chasing after him than all of us combined, that's including you Lilly, yet he only cares for Ginny. Ignoring my jealousy for a second even I have to admit that's really nice"
"I still can't believe that Granger told her parents she was dating Harry" Lilly growled "I still think she's going to try something but I'm confident Harry will get the better of her"
"Don't worry Lil" James consoled her "if Harry could take a Hippogriff slap to the head and still be able to scare the crap out of the Malfoys then he'd be able to handle whatever she can bring. Now come on, I want to watch more"
"Oh yes" Sirius clapped his hands in agreement as they all continued watching.
Harry was sat in the common room and was filling Ginny and the twins in on what happened at court before it made the news.
"Oh and they brought the Dursley's in" Harry said with a smile "my aunt and cousin looked like they were about to wet themselves but my uncle looked furious, naturally in his anger he admitted to everything and proceeded to call everyone there a 'freak'. Him and my aunt were sentenced to Azkaban whilst my cousin would have parts of his memory erased and be sent to a juvenile rehabilitation establishment, so pretty much where he bet I would have gone."
"So you never have to live with the Dursley's again?" Ginny hugged him along with the twins
"Nope" Harry smiled as wide as possible "even if they somehow get out of Azkaban there is no way that anyone is going to label them as fit to care for a child, and the fact that an anonymous letter detailing what happened was sent to a muggle/wizard news company along with the Daily Prophet means even the muggles know how bad they are." Soon the four broke off and began playing exploding Snap.
"What about your mum?" Harry asked
"I convinced her that me and the twins are 'working' on you" Ginny smiled
"That's my girl" Harry said shortly before the four all went down to lunch, Dumbledore came in and walked to his seat. He smiled at Harry as if the last few days never happened. Harry ignored him and continued eating, that was when he realised his drink felt off. Funnily enough at that moment Cho walked in, Harry noticed that Cho looked quite good.
He liked the way she smiled and dressed, a little too much actually, he shook his head and with a discreet wave of his wand he found something very disturbing and immediately stopped Ginny from drinking, he checked her cup and hers was fine. A quick mind read later and Harry stood up and looked at Cho was looking at him in anticipation
"Hey Cho" He shouted from across the hall whilst raising his glass "nice love potion, it's really good"
"Love potion?!" Ginny stood up and aimed her wand at Cho, fortunately for her Snape and McGonagall came by
"What's going on here?" Snape asked
"Cho's been brewing love potions" Harry handed him the cup, he figured it would be best if he did the talking as Ginny looked too furious to talk "I must say it's not bad, would have worked as well if I was anyone else" Snape sniffed the goblet
"Yes I must agree"
"So that is a love potion?" McGonagall asked before turning on Cho "Miss Chang I am highly disappointed in you, you'll go straight to your dorm and wait there until someone comes to deliver your punishment" Cho, naturally cried, before walking off.
"Mr Potter, I get the feeling that you'll end up in another meeting with the headmaster soon, be prepared" Naturally McGonagall was right, Harry was called to his office where he was waiting along with Snape, Flitwick and Cho.
"Hi everyone" Harry greeted as he sat down, fortunately for Cho Harry had told Ginny not to come in case tempers flared and he still needed to convince Dumbledore that she was on his side. "so we all know why we're here and I'd like to know what the punishment would be? Seeing as the incident made Ginny upset I had got her brothers to stay with her, so what are we going to do make up for the fact that my sole reason to live is upset"
"Harry" Dumbledore spoke first, he was rather interested in Harrys claim about Ginny, he was rather fortunate that he didn't try to break the two up "while we can all agree that Miss Chang deserves punishment for breaking the rules, I believe we shouldn't be too harsh as this is a first time offence and an failed one at that"
"Headmaster I don't think it matters if it failed or not" Harry sighed "the action was committed and the intent was there"
"Come now Harry, we don't even know it was Cho"
"Yes I do" Harry confidently replied "she walks in right as I'm drinking it and the potion has the same smell as her perfume, pretty obvious"
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