The Watchers were deposited just outside of a neat house, which mirrored all the other houses next to it. The only difference was that the lawn and garden was absolutely pristine.

"Hang on…we're at Privet Drive." said Dean aloud. "What's a good memory doing here?"

"I've had some…not a lot…but some." said Harry kindly.

"Yeah, and I'm Chinese Fireball." said Charlie rolling his eyes.

"The garden looks beautiful." said Professor Sprout.

"No doubt Potter did it, I cannot see Petunia getting her hands dirty for anything." sneered Snape.

They saw a younger Harry walk out of the door of Privet Drive and call into the house.

"I'm done with the chores and made your lunch, I'll be back soon." said Harry.

"Wow, they let you do that?" asked Ron in shock. "How did you manage to get away with that?"

"If this is when I think it is, it was a few days since I went to get the Dragon's Eyes. They were still reeling from Hagrid's visit at the hut on the rock." said Harry with a bright smile up to Hagrid.

"Glad I could help." said Hagrid beaming back down to the white haired lad.

The scene shifted and they found themselves in a small pub, there were only a small handful of people in there, sitting at a booth towards the back of the pub, talking amongst themselves. The Watchers noticed that the sign on the door said 'Closed'.

"Hang on, how are these people in here, if the place is closed?" asked Lee.

"They work here. They're prepping the food." said Harry. "Though it doesn't look like it now."

"Then why are we here, do you work here?" asked Hermione.

"Not always, just a few times a month or so." said Harry. "Only during the summer and whenever I can manage to get away from the Dursley's, Which wasn't much time the next two years after this."

"So, you gave up with the whole Mission Impossible thing?" said Dean with a disappointed tone to his voice.

"No, I'm still doing that. Like I said before, if this is the day I think it is, it has something to do with it." said Harry with a smile.

Then the door to the kitchen opened up and Harry came out with a large serving tray, with a silver cover.

"What are you doing here?" asked Sirius.

"I'm trying out a new recipe." said Harry.

"What have you come up for us this time?" asked one of the men in the booth.

"Something I came up with last night, I call it "Sunken Treasure." said Harry with a smile as he lifted the silver cover. Inside was what looked like eight giant clams.

"What are they?" asked Remus.

"What are they?" asked one of the women in the booth. Remus slammed his elbow into Sirius' side, after he sniggered.

"They're cakes!" said Harry. "Lift the top of the clam, and see what's inside." said Harry excitedly.

The people in the booth lifted the top of the clam and saw that it was indeed a sort of soft cake. Inside was a creamy pink custard and a white pearl sitting carefully on top.

"See, it can either be strawberry or cherry custard, and each will have a sugar pearl in the middle." said Harry opening his own.

"That's pretty ingenious." said Leroy, a slight frown on his face.

"Uh, oh." said Rudolph, "Someone might have finally met a challenger…" he smiled wickedly.

"What do you mean?" asked Blaise.

"Leroy is a culinary master. There isn't a person we know that knows more about food than Lee." said Rudolph with a smile. "He gets sort of jealous sometimes, if someone else comes along."

"I do not!" said Leroy angrily.

"You do too, don't deny it." said Sirius with a laugh, he laughed even harder when Leroy crossed his arms and pouted. "Azkaban couldn't take away that memory of you trying to sabotage Lily's pecan pie."

The people in the pub finished off the clams and sat back completely filled with the delicious cakes and custard.

"That was delicious. It's definitely something that has to go on the children's menu." said one of the men that happened to be wearing an apron.

"He's one of the cooks." said Harry with a smile. "He taught me how to make a really awesome shepherd's pie, haven't mastered it completely yet, though."

"Forget that, it's going on the regular one." said one of the waitresses.

"She's one of my cooking fans." said Harry with a slight blush.

"Now, you better tell us all about how that last job went." said one of the waiters excitedly.

"But I've already told you." whined Harry.

"Tell us again, Harry, they're always so exciting!" said one of the waitresses.

So Harry sat down and told them what had happened, and it turned out, he described what had happened in the last scroll.

"Aww, come on! You could have told a different story." said Fred pouting slightly.

Suddenly, a loud banging knock came at the door.

"Who the heck is that?" asked said one of the waiters standing up and walking towards the door.

He came back and was followed closely by a young woman, who was obviously distraught.

"Emily? What's wrong?" said one of the waitresses worriedly.

"I…It's…" said Emily frantically.

"What is it?" one of the waiters.

"It's my Aunt's necklace! It was stolen!" said Emily.

"Have you called the police? Haven't they been able to figure out who took it?" said Harry quickly.

"Who's he?" said Emily calming down enough to look about and seeing Harry for the first time.

"He's…he's uh…" said one of the waiters.

"So, this Emily person doesn't know who you are?" asked Hermione.

"No, just the people who work here." said Harry. "She's friends with one of the waiters."

"I did call the police, and they did find the person that has it, but the man said that my mother sold it to him, he has a bill of sale and everything! But she would never sell that! Especially for the price he said she got." said Emily finally answering Harry's question

What was it?" asked one of the cooks.

"A thousand pounds!" said Emily.

"That's a heck of a lot, are you sure she didn't sell it?" said one of the waitresses.

"No! That necklace has been passed down in my family for over two hundred years! It's priceless!" said Emily. "A thousand pounds isn't even enough to take care of the solid gold chain! The strange thing is, when Mother checked the bank balance, there was the thousand pounds!"

"So what's the name of the guy who stole your necklace?" said Harry from the back.

Suddenly, a telephone rang from behind the counter. The barkeep went behind the counter and answered the phone.

"Hello? Yeah, he's here. Harry! It's for you?" shouted the barkeep. Harry walked up to the counter and took the phone from the older man. Suddenly, a faint buzzing entered the Watchers' ears.

"What the heck is this?" said Draco, covering his ears.

"It's…a telephone call." said Hermione in awe.

"Hello?" said younger Harry.

"Harry, I've got a job for you." said a familiar voice.

"Hey! That's the Inspector's voice!" said Colin.

"Does it have something to do with a necklace?" said younger Harry quietly with a small smile.

"Okay, how'd you figure that part out?" said the Inspector, his voice sounding amused.

"Miss Emily came in and told the people here at 'The Keep' what had happened." said Harry.

"I see, well…meet me at the pond in the park, I'll clue you in on the details." said the Inspector.

"Sure thing sir, happy to help." said Harry as he hung up the phone. The faint buzzing disappeared. "I've got to go, I hope that you get your necklace back Emily."

Soon, the scene shifted again and they found themselves at a large park, with a calm pond in the center, little ducks waddling about, the ones on the water dipped their bills into the water and coming up with little bits of water grass. There on a bench, staring out onto the water was Inspector Homes.

"Thanks for coming, Bud." said the man standing up and shaking Harry's hand. "Haven't seen you about in a while, I had something all planned for your birthday, and you never showed up." he said with a smile.

"The Dursleys…decided to go for a…road trip." said Harry.

"And they took you with them? That's a shocker." said Inspector Homes.

"Well…" said Harry looking slightly uncomfortable.

"You're not telling me something again." said Inspector Homes with a stern look.

"Well, my parents signed me up for a certain school before they died and the Dursleys didn't want me to go. It's a boarding school and they wouldn't have me to do all the cooking and gardening. So they tried outrunning the…the representative from finding me and telling me that I was to go to their school." said Harry with a smile.

"Don't the Dursley's get to decide where to send you?" asked Inspector Homes, slightly confused.

"It was my parents' wishes that I get sent to that school, and I'm sort of really excited to go." said Harry. "I'll finally be away from the Dursleys, at least for most of the year."

The Inspector looked sideways quickly, his face clouded, but then turned his head back towards the small boy with a forced smile. " Well, as long as your happy…but if you ever want to come back, just give me a call, I'll come and fetch you….where is this school of yours?"

"Scotland, I believe." said Harry sitting down on the bench.

The Inspector blinked, "Well, I'll still come and get you anyway." he said with a smile. "You just let me know if you get homesick."

"I can send you letters in a different sort of way." said Harry with a bright smile. "That way I don't homesick much."

"Well, you were doing moderately well about not telling anyone about us." drawled Snape.

"I don't think he'd believe me if I tried." said Harry.

"How's that?" asked the Inspector.

Younger Harry looked up into the tree and called Hedwig's name. From the higher branches, she came fluttering down.

"This is Hedwig, she's brilliant." said Harry proudly, "This way, I don't have to wait on the postman to come, and she can make the trip in a blink of an eye."

The Inspector stared at Hedwig and then at Harry. "Harry, where did you find her?"

"We sort of found each other. Hedwig, this is Inspector Homes."

She looked up at him and landed lightly on his shoulder, giving his ear an affectionate nip.

"I've never seen an owl behave like this." said the Inspector hesitantly stroking the top of Hedwig's head. "Well, alright then…"

"Now about this necklace…" said Harry.

"Right, well, the person that took it, you know all too well." said Inspector Homes, he watched as Hedwig flew back into the tree she had come down from.

"Not Mr. Buckthorn…" groaned Harry.

"The very same, we found out that the bill of sale was forged and bullied him into admitting that he took it. He's sitting in a jail cell, but there's a problem with getting the necklace back." said Inspector Homes.

"He keeps sending forgeries huh?" said Harry.

"Right on the nose, we sent the one his lawyer said it was to Miss Emily, the real owner and she said it wasn't it. Though a jeweler said the necklace itself was worth about a thousand pounds, she said it wasn't it. I think the necklace in question is still in Buckthorn's house. So? Do you remember how to go about the place." said Inspector Homes.

"Like those gossiping ladies down at the supermarket say, you always remember your first." said Harry with a smirk.

The scene shifted once more and they found themselves back at 'The Keep." The wait staff and the cooks were gathered about once more at one of the booths, trying to console Emily. The girls noticed that Emily was wearing something different, so they knew this was a different day.

"This was the next day." said Harry with a smirk to the boys who hadn't noticed Emily's clothes.

"Aw! Come on! I want to see you do awesome stuff again!" said George pouting.

Suddenly the police Inspector came in, with Harry lagging behind. They watched as Harry dodged behind the counter.

"Miss Emily, I have your necklace, and we took it to the jeweler, this time, he matched it perfectly to the picture you gave us." said Inspector Homes.

"Just to double check." she said with a choked voice, she took the necklace gently and turned it over. "Yes! This IS it! It has my teeth marks on the gold!"

"There's what?" said the Inspector In shock.

"I accidentally gnawed on the gold when I was little, it was the worse paddling I ever got, but here they are!" said Emily. "They weren't on any of the copies."

"What about that guy that took it?" said one of the waiters. "What are you going to do about him?"

"He's already in jail for having stolen objects in his possession." said the Inspector with a smirk.

"Thank you so much!" said Emily happily.

"Don't thank me, we had help." said the Inspector. His eyes flittered over to the counter, where Harry was crouched down, hiding behind it with a satisfied smile on his face.

Suddenly the light enveloped them once again.

They were all deposited back into the Great Hall without much trouble, much like all the times before.

"Are you serious?" said one of the first years. "We have to wait till tomorrow to finish the book?"

"Actually, if you remember last week, I said that we would not be doing any reading on the weekends." said Dumbledore smiling brightly.

"It's Friday, isn't it?" said Ernie sadly.

"That it is. No readings on the weekend, that way we have two days to stretch our legs and perhaps some of the teachers can issue some essay or something along those lines for the students to work on." he gave a sympathetic smile to the students that groaned.

"Can't we just read in the morning?" said one of the second years.

"Well, we could, but then that would cut into your Hogsmede time." said Dumbledore with a bright smile.

"Our...what?" said one of the second years. "We aren't third years."

"Yes, but last night, it was discussed with the staff and some of our guests that we ask some of the adult guests here to be chaperones for Saturday. Sunday is the day, that they can have off and unfortunately the Hogwarts second years and under are required to stay within the grounds." said Dumbledore his eyes twinkling.

"How soon can we send owls, to our parents asking for some money for tomorrow?" asked the second year excitedly.

"Don't worry, we already sent the notices." said McGonagall. "Most of you will receive money in the morning and the rest of you; we have taken some money out of the funds for muggleborns, that money can be reimbursed later."

"Awesome!" shouted the younger students happily.

"Alright!" said Leroy happily. "Harry! Tomorrow when we go, I'm going to tell you all about our travels down in Africa!"

"Um..." said Harry uncomfortably.

"He's got a date, and then early Sunday, I'm going to take him to the eyeglass shop in Diagon Alley." said Lupin with a small smile.

"Oh..." said Leroy sadly.

"I've got no plans for later on Sunday." said Harry quickly.

"Great than we can drag you about the place and be a happy, happy family." said Rudolph with a bright smile.

Harry looked over at Ron and Hermione.

"Save me." he whined piteously.

"You're on your own." said Ron with a straight face.

Harry had turned in early so he and Ginny could get up and head off to Hogsmede. While Harry slept soundly, Leroy, Rudolph, Remus, Dr. Clark, Sirius and Dumbledore sat in the sitting room of Harry, Sirius, Remus and Dr. Clark's suite.

"I can't believe how grown up Harry is." said Leroy sadly. "It seems like only yesterday that I was feeding him mashed peas."

"Yeah, and now he can out-cook almost anyone." said Sirius with a smile.

"He grew up way too fast. He should have had a happy childhood." said Dr. Clark bitterly.

"Damn them Dursley's." said Sirius angrily.

"I should have seen it, I should have known it." said Dumbledore, tears falling down into his beard.

"Unless you yourself struck him, I don't have any grudge against you." said Rudolph waving his hand dismissively to Dumbledore. "What's happened happened. We're as much to blame as you are, we should have stayed in the country when Voldemort was out and about before. If we had stayed, we would have gotten custody of Little Monster."

"But the blood wards..." said Dumbledore bitterly.

"Would have worked with us. James laid down his life for Harry too. He had a chance to run, and he didn't. But like I said, we should have stayed back and made sure they were safe." said Leroy.

"I didn't think of James' sacrifice..." said Dumbledore faintly.

"Can we talk about something else?" said Sirius slamming his wine glass down on the table.

Remus looked at Sirius, "How many glasses have you had?"

"Only two." he said honestly. "But, if we talk about...I'm going to have another."

"Well, what do you want to talk about?" asked Leroy.

"Well, we aren't done finishing the designs on Harry's wing." said Sirius whipping out a stack of designing books.

"Oh! Let me at them! Have you designed the kitchen yet?" said Leroy quickly taking the papers and the books.

"Well sort of, here's what we thought." said Remus handing Leroy the drawings. Leroy flipped through the drawings and the small pictures of different appliances.

"How did we do?" asked Sirius with a smile.

Leroy chewed his tongue slightly. "How about I take over this one room?"

"What's wrong with the way it is now?" asked Remus wonderingly.

"Well, you've got two different types of wood for the cabinets, and different stone for each of the countertops, and the metal doesn't match." said Leroy with a sympathetic smile.

"Oh, oops." said Sirius sheepishly.

"Did Harry decide what sort of stove he wanted? Does he want electric or gas?"

"This is a surprise." said Dr. Clark. "What's the best thing to cook with?"

"Well, it all depends on your cooking style. Gas gives you more control, but electric is a bit faster." said Leroy thoughtfully.

"So go with gas?" said Sirius.

"Yeah." said Leroy.

"What other rooms do you have for him?" asked Rudolph.

"Well, we have a music room, kitchen, huge bedroom, library, his own living room, bathroom...I don't think we came up with any other room for him." said Sirius ticking off the rooms they had already discussed and planned.

"How about a training room?" said a voice from behind them. They turned around quickly and saw Lionus and Moody.

"Hello Lionus, Alastor, a good idea to have that. Especially if Harry wishes to continue his security testing." said Dumbledore with a smile.

"Well, unless that old hag has destroyed it with kittens and pink fluff, there is a large gym in the north part of the house." said Sirius.

"She'd most likely would have trashed it." said Remus with a grim look.

"Yay, oh well, it won't take much to get all that stuff back." said Sirius shrugging.

"So what brings you guys here?" asked Leroy looking back at the two champions of justice.

"Oh, right, I've got Wildfire and Viper willing to escort the children around Hogsmede from Slytherin and Gryffindor." said Lionus with a smile. "They should be able to handle them with no problem."

"Tonks and Kingsley are going to show the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs about." said Moody. "Tonks volunteered for the job pretty quickly, Kingsley took a bit of time."

"I would have thought he was going to jump at the occasion, he actually likes being a mentor to younger ones." said Remus with a furrowed brow.

"Teaching Auror skills is one thing, but minding a bunch of little kids doing some frivolous sweet shopping?"

"Oh, right." said Remus with a smile. "Poor guy."

"Glad you think that, because Tonks volunteered you to help with the Hufflepuffs." said Moody with a smirk.

"Wait, what?" stuttered Remus.

"That's a large bunch, and as...accident prone as she is...best have someone else there to keep an eye on her as well." said Moody.

"Oh...uh...Sirius and I..." said Remus quickly.

"Don't drag me into this." said Sirius throwing up his hands. "Besides, it's been a long time since you've had a date."

"Not much of a date when you're chaperoning students about town." said Remus through gritted teeth.

"Make do with what you have." said Dr. Clark with a mischievous smile. "Dumbledore and I are going to get all the stuff for the house, could the both of you come with us?" said Dr. Clark to Leroy and Rudolph.

"Sure, but...aren't you MIA?" said Rudolph.

"We fixed that right up." said Lionus with a smirk. "We made it so that he was found by neutral powers and he's in the hospital undergoing treatment, only the military have authorization to know it."

The next morning Harry made his way down to the kitchens, very, very early in the morning, he left the castle while the dawn had just began to stain the dark sky, came back and prepared a picnic basket full of different foods. He had the whole day planned out, and he hoped that it would at least go close to plan.

He was going to meet Ginny up in the Great Hall and they were going to have a quiet breakfast alone, then go to wandering about for a while, stop in at the Three Broomsticks for a pint or two of butterbeer, hit Honeydukes for a shopping spree of chocolate and sweets, and then go for their picnic. After that, the rest of the day would be up to Ginny.

As he placed the last piece of fried chicken in the basket the door to the kitchen and in walked in Bill and Charlie.

"Hey, how's it going?" said Harry happily, as he gently placed a small towel on top of the basket.

"We want to talk to you, before you leave for Hogsmede." said Bill his voice stern.

"Alright, sit down or stand up chat." said Harry with cautious smile.

"Either way." said Charlie.

Harry placed the basket down and sat on one of the stools. Bill and Charlie sat across from him and stared fixedly at him.

"We want to give you fair warning." said Bill.

"You hurt our sister or try anything funny with her, as young as she is," said Charlie.

"We'll kill you." said the both of them together.

Harry stared at them in shock. But did his absolutely best to reassure the two men that he viewed as older brothers.

"I promise, nothing will happen, and I won't hurt her. If I do, kill me all you want." said Harry honestly.

"We'll hold you to that." said Charlie, and with that, they left.

Harry released a sigh of relief. "Thank bloody god I have some morals. Or I'd be a dead man. And without magic, I'd be screwed twenty times over." He finished off preparing the basket and then headed up to the Great Hall.

After Harry and Ginny had a quick breakfast, quicker than Harry even expected, due to the glares that he received from Percy and a few small glares from Ron. Ron's glares were stopped soon afterward, after a smack from Hermione. Harry hadn't noticed that Ginny received a few glares of her own, from Romilda and a few other girls.

Harry and Ginny walked down to the small village nestled safely beneath the grandeur of the castle. They walked arm and arm and chatted candidly with each other.

"C'mon, tell me what's in the basket!" whined Ginny playfully. "What are we having for lunch?"

"Not telling." said Harry with a bright smile.

They wandered about aimlessly, pointing at the things in the shop windows. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed two separate shadows that followed him, He saw Sirius's foot behind a tree and saw the glinting of Bill's earring.

"Something up?" asked Ginny.

"Nope, everything's fine." said Harry smiling genuinely down at Ginny. "What do you want to do? It'll be another half-hour till Three Broomsticks opens up. I'd kill for a butterbeer right now."

"Mmm, me too." said Ginny closing her eyes dreamily. "Let's see, mind if we head to the Gladrags? I've got a potion stain on my robes."

"House-elves couldn't get it?" said Harry in shock.

"This sort of potion burnt a hole right through the sleeve of my robes." said Ginny.

"Hiccup solution?" said Harry.

"Hiccup solution." said Ginny.

They entered Gladrags, and Harry stopped Ginny from walking over to the second hand robe section.

"Nuh uh." he said with a smile. "Call it really belated Valentine gift." he led her over to the more stylish robes.

"They don't meet the Hogwarts' dress code, Harry." said Ginny with a shy smile.

"We can wear whatever we want on the weekends, whether we read this damned books on my life or not." said Harry with a smile. "Pick out whatever you want."

Harry and Ginny took about a half hour in that shop and when they left, they left with two bags each of clothes, they both held onto the basket as they made their way to the Three Broomsticks.

"Where going to pick up a few bottles of butterbeer for our lunch and then stop at Honeydukes." said Harry with a smile. They walked towards the door but a wizard beside the entrance to the Three Broomsticks, held out his hand to stop them.

"Sorry kids, no children allowed in there today." said the man holding out his hand and stopping them a sneer on his face.

"Then why is there a Hogwarts crest on the door?" said Harry.

"What?" said the man, his sneer faltering slightly.

"The crest, that means that kids are allowed in there. That's the way it has been since this place was built and kids have been allowed in." said Ginny.

"Maybe they've forgotten to take the sign down?" said the man trying to make a comeback.

"It's a magical crest, it comes down when Madam Rosemerta wants it down." said Harry.

"LOOK!" said the man angrily, "no kids allowed!" suddenly he brought a wand up to the air and was about the swing it back down. However, he was stopped by Ginny's disarming spell and Harry's swift round-house kick to his legs.

Suddenly, Madam Rosemerta came stomping out of the pub. "What's going on?" said Madam Rosemerta, and then she looked down and saw who it was on the ground.

"You again? I've told you I don't want you in my pub! What are you doing here?" said Madam Rosemerta irritably.

"He said that Hogwarts students weren't allowed here. Yet, there is the crest." said Harry pointing to the crest on the door.

"Of course he would stop the students from coming in here. I do most of my best business on these days." said Madam Rosemerta crossly. "Get out of here! Jack, Robert!" said Madam Rosemerta calling into the pub. Two large and beefy wizards came out of the pub and looked down at the man lying on the ground.

"Yeh need something Rosie?" asked one of them.

"Get him out of here, I don't care where you take him." said Madam Rosemerta.

"Here's his wand." said Ginny handing it to the man.

"C'mon in kids, your drinks are on me." said Madam Rosemerta appreciatively.

Harry and Ginny sat in one of the booths towards the back of the pub and smiled at each other.

"Well, adds a bit of excitement to today doesn't it?" said Harry with a smile.

"With you, as magically drained as you are, I don't think excitement is a good idea. That's what I thought anyway. That was a really awesome looking kick." said Ginny.

"I thought that your Expelliarmus spell was excellent." said Harry with a beaming smile.

"Learned from the best." said Ginny with a smile.

"So did I." said Harry, giving credit where credit was due.

"Here's your butterbeer kids. Anything else I can get you?" said Madam Rosemerta.

"Can we get a few bottles for later, we're having a fall picnic after this." said Harry reaching into pocket.

"Like I said kid, on the house, you'll have six bottles when you leave here." said Madam Rosemerta giving him a wink.

"What was that guy's problem, anyway?" asked Ginny sipping her butterbeer.

"Old boyfriend, he thinks that women shouldn't be running a business. Thinks we should be in the home, cooking cleaning and serving men." said Madam Rosemerta.

"Smack him." said Harry and Ginny together.

"Oh, I have. And now Jack and Robert smack him about when he comes around." said Madam Rosemerta with a satisfied smile.

After they enjoyed their pint of butterbeer each, they expressed their thanks to Madam Rosemerta who slipped the six bottles in their picnic basket and headed out. They couldn't see hide nor hair of the man that had impeded their and the several other students, who were now in the pub, from going inside.

"Can we go to Honeydukes?" said Ginny.

"Anything you want." said Harry with a smile.

They stopped in at Honeydukes at examined all the candies.

"Since you got my outfit, I'm getting you candy." said Ginny.

Harry opened his mouth to decline, but her hand flew up to his lips.

"No arguing, my treat." said Ginny with sly smile. "By not paying for my own robes, I've got a bit of spending money."

"Saved your allowance?" said Harry, hoping that this sweet shop spending spree wouldn't break her.

"And borrowed a bit from Charlie and Bill." said Ginny looking at the different colored toffees in the case. "So pick out something, and I'll buy it."

He went and grabbed several sugar spun quills and three bars of his favorite flavor of Honeydukes' chocolate.

After she paid for all their sweets, Harry looked at the woman behind the counter and said "On another order, I'd like a pound of everything in here, have it sent up to the Hogwarts kitchen please."

The woman stared at him, with a doubtful look on her face, till he whipped out from his knapsack a jet black bag, and deposited ninety galleons on the counter.

"Does that cover it?" said Harry with a smile. The shopkeeper nodded quickly. After much figuring and counting she reached into her till and pulled out several Sickles and Knuts and pushed back a few galleons.

"A p-p-pound of each?" said the woman stuttering.

"That's right, and just send it up to the castle's kitchens, with the letters...never mind, just put "Shadow" on them." said Harry.

"All right." said the woman as she gathered up all the candy she could reach.

"Save it for when you have no one else in here, wait on them first, then you can work on my order, I don't need it today, but I'd like it bytomorrow evening." said Harry.

"Yes sir!." said the woman nervously.

As Ginny and Harry left, Ginny sent Harry a questioning look.

"What's with all the candy?" she asked. "And why not write your name...oh...wait, you didn't want her to get even more flustered right?"

"Right. Well, I like making things with candy, thought I'd come up with some interesting stuff for snacks during the readings." said Harry.

"Can I help?" asked Ginny.

"Anytime." Harry smiled then looked up at the sky. "It's about eleven fifteen; do you want to have lunch?"

"Sure! Where at?" asked Ginny.

"Somewhere I found a few years back."

Harry gently pulled the long willow strands out from Ginny's path and when she saw it, she gasped loudly.

There was a large red and gold blanket laying on the ground, with a two cushions for sitting side by side, a single rose in a crystal vase. A stream, leading away from the vastness of the Black lake traveled past their spot and gurgled softly. The sun was scattered by the willow branches and added a sort of dazzle effect on the water and the blanket.

"What do you think?" asked Harry with a smile.

"I didn't think that boys could be this romantic." she said, her eyes bright.

"We can, it's just...Ron's got a romantic side." said Harry.

"I can't see it, but maybe it's cause I'm his sister." said Ginny.

"Shall we?" said Harry with a bright smile.

Ginny and Harry enjoyed their lunch, which included a large helping of the spaghetti that Harry had made for her, fried chicken, chocolate raspberry torte, salad, and the butterbeer that he and Ginny had earned from helping Madam Rosemerta.

Ginny and Harry laid side by side to each other and watched the clouds go rolling gently by.

"It's getting colder out, we arent' going to see many days like this." said Ginny.

"With Voldemort around, we may not even have much of a future." said Harry absently.

Ginny turned on her side and faced him. "The books may have a clue to what we have to do to survive." she said quickly.

"We can only hope." said Harry looking over to Ginny. "If I have a chance at a future..." he looked unblinking at her, and took her hand gently into his own.

They laid, minutes passing them by unknowingly, they were lost in their own serene little world. Until they heard the snapping of a twig. Quickly they both stood up and looked around.

"Harry..." whispered Ginny. "Get behind me." she flung her arm out to protect him in his still weakened state. "WHOEVER YOU ARE YOU'D BETTER COME OUT BEFORE I COME IN AFTER YOU!"

"Easy Shortstuff!" came a voice behind one of the trees.

"You'd best come out too, Sirius." called Harry.

"Dammit." muttered a voice a little ways to left.

"You knew they were here?" said Ginny.

"I thought they'd give us privacy and keep quiet, apparently I overestimated their tact." said Harry.

"We just wanted to make sure you kids were alright." said Sirius.

"But you didn't step in at the Three Broomsticks." said Harry smugly.

"Why? What happened there?" said Bill quickly.

"We must of ditched them on accident." said Ginny with a smirk.

"What...happened?" pressed Sirius.

"Nothing you need to worry about." said Harry.

"Fine whatever, but it's time to head back." said Bill.

Harry looked up at the sky. "It's only two-twenty."

"But it's going to take forever to get back." said Bill, trying to convince them that the date was over.

Ginny groaned and glared at her over-protective older brother.

"C'mere and look to the east." said Harry with a smirk. Bill and Sirius walked over to them and looked to the left. And there they saw the castle, only a thirty minute walk from where they were.

"Oh..." said Bill sheepishly.

"Can you leave now?" said Ginny impatiently.

"I just want to make sure Harry's alright." said Sirius.

"I can protect him just fine." said Ginny getting more and more impatient.

"You'd best leave. We'll see you guys later." said Harry, his tone of voice meant the sincerity of his words and the hint of the severity of punishment if they had bothered them again for the rest of the day.

Sirius and Bill looked at each other quickly and strolled off, hurtfully.

Ginny groaned again. "Ugh! Sometimes, he's the coolest guy in the world, but sometimes, he's worse than Ron."

"But you still love him." said Harry, laying back down on the blanket and cushion.

"Of course I do, I love all my brothers." said Ginny.

"Even Percy?" said Harry with a playful smile.

"That's up for debate still." said Ginny with a slight scowl. Instead of lying on her cushion, she rested her head on Harry's chest. "Thank Merlin that this book is over." she said yawning slightly.

"Tell me about it." said Harry yawning as well. He knew that neither he nor Ginny were in any danger if either of them had fallen asleep. In the parting of the willow branches, they could faintly see a lone and silent sentry.

Lionus.