
Chapter 2
Author's notes: I promised you Dumbledore douchebaggery.
Here it is.
Next chapter: They wake up, Order meeting, Harry gets hold of Ron...... some other stuff, depends what I add.
(And Aimee isn't a total bitch in this chapter, or friends with Ron much longer.)
Harry had drawn the shape with the chalk and was placing the bodies in the middle of the shape, it had to be a lot bigger for the two of them and took up a fair portion of the room, everyone but Snape and Harry in the corner near the steps, Snape watched to make sure Harry had done the first part of his job before he opened their mouths and dropped a vial each of the potion into their mouths, with that he looked at Harry and nodded his head slightly to which Harry took to mean get started.
Harry began chanting and was there for a lot longer than he was with the puppy and almost two hours later two brief flashes of light signified they were finished, immediately Snape went to the two to check for a pulse, nodding to the others with something that could very nearly be described as a smile on his face.
"They're in a coma as suspected." Snape said, keeping his voice neutral, still running diagnostic spells "Loathe as I am to admit it Potter will probably take longer to heal than Lily."
"Why are you loathe to admit it?" Lupin asked, genuinely shocked "You hate James, why would you want him to wake up first?"
"Do you honestly expect me to ever stop holding this over him?" Snape asked, glee on his face.
"No...." Lupin conceded with a sigh.
"You do know that Harry just collapsed from exhaustion don't you?" Septima asked the two older men.
"Right, who did we agree on to help with them until they were out of the coma and their rehabilitation?" Snape asked, cutting across everyone else.
"Smethwyck, he works at St Mungo's." Septima said "You deal with him, get the secrecy oath before you let him in here, Remus, you and Aimee look after Harry, put him on one of the sofa's, he can't be on his on for a while, I'd imagine he's dehydrated, hungry and exhausted."
With that Snape stepped out going to the fireplace to contact the healer while Lupin and Aimee carried Harry upstairs before placing him in one of the sofas in the living room before Lupin started making his way to a cupboard, grabbing a bright yellow potion and coming back to the unconscious Harry and tilting his mouth open before pouring the potion down his throat.
"What's that?" Aimee asked indicating the potion.
"Nutritional potion, otherwise he wouldn't have any strength when he wakes up, we could just give him something stronger but it's probably for the best to let him naturally recover." Lupin replied.
Shortly after that Snape returned from, presumably , St Mungo's with a small man wearing glasses that looked somehow too big for his face, the man by the look of things had been bullied into the oath and coming with by Snape.
"Hippocrates." Lupin said in greeting.
"Remus?" Smethwyck asked looking shocked "What are you doing here?"
"Wouldn't you be more shocked if I wasn't?" Lupin replied before narrowing his eyes "Severus, have you told him yet?"
"Yes, Remus, I decided letting him know about everything in the middle of St Mungo's a brilliant idea." Snape replied sarcastically.
"Ok, ok, you made your point." Remus replied before turning to the healer "You may not believe this but we...." Remus began before a cough from Snape told him he should change that last part "Well they have managed to bring someone back to life.... two people actually."
"Who.... did it.... who did they bring back?" Smethwyck said, medical curiosity taking over before he noticed Harry unconscious on the sofa "Was it him? Wow I can just imagine the headlines, 'Girl who lives brings back poor brother!'" he proclaimed loudly.
Snape interrupted coldly "The 'Girl Who Lived' had nothing to do with this and it was the 'Girl Who Lived's poor brother' that did all the work you simpleton. Yes, I'm sure you must be amazed, her unexceptional brother who has done the impossible and conquered death, the first person to do so ever." he said sneeringly.
"Well.... we should go check on them....." Aimee said uncertainly.
Remus looked about to speak but Snape cut across him "Go on Lupin, you go check on your friends, I'll wait here with him ,since you've not cared thus far it would be unreasonable to assume you would now your friends are back."
Remus looked about to reply until he saw the truth in the accusation, remembering back to the previous Christmas and the distinct lack of presents he'd got, other than a few of his friends and some crappy present from the Dursleys, they had at least got him something.
Nodding mutely he walked out of the room, followed by the healer and Aimee.
Harry woke up the next, head throbbing, springs from the sofa digging into his back and the most annoying noise in his head.
Molly Weasley was yelling at him, he wasn't fully awake but what he did hear didn't do his mood much good, the terms "Useless brother of an amazing witch." "Never does anything for anyone else." "Not bothered enough to know where his sister was."
Finally sitting up he looked at her coldly and said evenly "I'm actually fairly certain where she is." standing up "And I'm going to check if that is where she is." he said before stepping around her somewhat stiffly.
Walking down the stairs that lead to the basement he knocked on the heavy door and heard a voice he recognized as Lupin's say alertly "Who is it?"
"Harry." He replied, his voice cold.
Lupin opened the door ushering Harry through then closing it when he saw Ron coming who had obviously following Harry, obviously unable to bear not being in the know and not being involved.
"How are they?" Harry asked indicating the two unconscious figures.
"They'll be fine, they should at best wake up within a month according to the healer." Aimee said from between the beds that Lupin had conjured for Lily and James.
"Good." Harry said, still sounding somewhat coldly "You might want to go see the Weasleys, Ron's mother was just pointing out how stupid I am and how I was just the 'useless brother of an amazing witch.' after all, they haven't seen you since yesterday, they're obviously worried."
With that he walked back out to be confronted by the most annoying of the Weasley spawn.
"Where's Aimee?!" Ron Weasley asked from a few steps up in his best attempt at sounding threatening, drawing his wand as he did.
"She's busy." Harry said with an innocent look on his face.
"What is she doing?" Ron asked pointing his wand at Harry.
"I'm afraid I can't tell you." Harry said before adding "It's not your business."
"She'll tell me!" Ron said, overconfidently knocking on the large metal door.
"Who is it?" Came Remus voice again.
"Ron, where's Aimee?" Ron said urgently.
"She's busy." Lupin replied.
"I need to talk to her though, to see she's ok." Ron said looking stressed.
Lupin let out an annoyed sigh and said through the door "She is fine, she'll be up in half an hour."
Ron smiled and turned around walking up the stairs finding Harry at the top, putting on his most friendly face he said as politely as possible "Do you know what they're doing down there?"
"Yes thanks." Harry replied pleasantly "But it's none of your business."
Ron then went to point his wand at Harry's heart before he realized it was just a twig.
"What happened to my wand?" Ron asked, the first piece of fear entering his voice and mind as he realized Harry had brushed past him on his way up the stairs and must have swapped them.
Harry waved Ron's wand at the book on the table in the living room and it flew towards Ron hitting him in the face as he turned to see what Harry had summoned, knocking him unconscious, Harry then placed the wand at Ron's side.
He didn't particularly want Weasley hurt too badly but this made him look like a moron incapable of mastering a simple summoning charm without knocking himself out.
With a grin he decided to take the papers explaining the ritual and potion needed to Gringotts to make sure it was safe, as Aimee came up from the basement he turned to her and explained where he was going and asked if she wanted anything, she looked like she wanted to say something but shook her head before she saw Ron on the floor and set to trying to help her friend.
Harry disappeared out of the door going straight to Diagon Alley and to the Goblins bank, entering he saw it surprisingly busy for the morning, approaching the only available teller he said quickly "Could I have something delivered to a vault please?"
The goblin nodded before saying in an arrogant voice "Vault?"
"The Black family vault." Harry replied, reasoning it to be the safer and more secure vault.
"Yes, sir." The goblin said, slightly more politely.
So he was sir now was he? Harry thought to himself before continuing "Thank you, do you have an envelope or something I can keep it in?"
The goblin handed over a large black envelope to put the papers in, Harry did so before he had a thought "No one could get into my vault could they?"
The goblin looked offended for a second before he said in a forcibly polite voice "No, sir, unless it was a member of the black family."
"Ah thank you, I didn't mean to offend you but well, some things in there could be dangerous." Harry said, keeping the thought that this pile of papers was probably the most dangerous to himself.
After he had taken it to his vault he returned home to see 4 members of the Weasley family staring at his sister, Remus Lupin and oddly Septima, every one of them had wands drawn and pointed at one of the others with Dumbledore in the middle trying to get some sort of order.
Finally the sound of the door closing behind him brought their attention to his presence, confused he asked
"What the hell is going on here?"
Immediately several voices started at once.
"Your sister is mad."
"I was trying to find that out."
"A simple misunderstanding."
The last one however made him furious.
"He tried to molest me."
Immediately he rounded on his sister and saw her tear streaked eyes and then turned to Dumbledore and said furiously.
"That's a simple misunderstanding?"
"Obviously one or both got the wrong idea, your sister obviously doesn't understand that's what boyfriend and girlfriend do." Dumbledore said, somehow managing to keep the grandfatherly smile on his face as he did.
"I'm not going out with him!" Aimee said sounding faintly disgusted by the implication "I don't want to go out with anyone right now, there are more important things to do now." she said realizing she may have given too much away right then.
"Please tell me what could be more important than young love Aimee?" Dumbledore asked, grandfatherly look and voice in full swing right then.
Harry knew his sister was rather trusting in Dumbledore and sometimes too much so decided to interfere.
"Perhaps you didn't notice but there's a war going on and people dying." He said coldly.
"Yes, I'm rather aware of the fact." Dumbledore replied harsher than usual "But have you not ever thought that maybe they make a nice couple?" He asked, his voice back to it's usual warmth.
"No.... they make a horrible couple, only one of them has any brains." Harry replied "Anyway, is there any reason we are all around here? No doubt Aimee wants to be away from that wanna be rapist." he said indicating Ron who flushed red in anger.
Dumbledore ignored this and said "Actually yes there is, I was wondering if tonight we could host an Order of the Phoenix meeting here, this one will affect you two so we were hoping you will join us."
Harry who had a rough idea what it was about agreed and then disappeared upstairs taking his sister with him who burst into tears again when the reached the top of the stairs, Harry uncomfortably started comforting her, somewhat uncomfortably, he was still annoyed that she thought him a user of Dark Arts and told him off unjustly in the same day.
She was still crying into his shoulder half an hour later when Lupin and Septima found them.
"Is she ok?" Lupin asked as he sat down next to them on the stairs.
"I think she will be, she's just more shocked than anything else." Harry replied.
"Well, they told us to go away a minute ago an-.... and I just had an idea." Lupin said hit with a stroke of genius "Is there still an old mirror in your room Harry?"
"That stupid silver one?" Harry asked confused.
"Yep, that's the one, is it still there?" Lupin asked excited.
"Yeah, I thought you guys couldn't get it out last year?" Harry said baffled.
"Good, quick, everyone into Harry's room I'll explain then."
Lupin ushered them all into the master bedroom, went to the mirror and said very clearly "Kitchen" immediately the image of the kitchen, with Molly Weasley, Ginny, Ron and Professor Dumbledore all sat at the table, as the image became clearer voices started being heard too.
"What are we going to do about Aimee?" Ron asked Dumbledore.
"Nothing yet, she still trusts me and that means if I tell her to still trust you she will." Dumbledore replied "And we just have to find some way of pushing her brother away from her, I would suggest that Ms Weasley and Ms Granger befriend him, perhaps more and then help keep him away from her while the others do the same, it is regretful it was more important to keep his sister loyal to me in the beginning, if I had been able to get them both then, it would have been far easier but it seems keeping them divided will be easier."
Harry and Aimee looked stunned for a moment before Remus looked at them both and told them not to worry.
After that Remus asked them what they planned to do, explaining that they needed to stay together and not trust anyone who tries turning them away from each other, and that included Dumbledore.
"What about Mum and Dad?" Harry asked.
"We'll tell everyone about them when they're conscious and have some strength, no doubt everyone will want to see them." Lupin said "I think you should get rid of the Weasleys if they try to push themselves on either of you Harry, it is your house after all."
Harry only nodded at this.
Shortly after they heard from downstairs "Aimee, Harry, Remus, Septima, the meeting is starting in 15 minutes." came Mrs Weasley's voice.
Who do you guys think should be the pairings?
I'm unsure right now since one or two people said Aimee.
I might do Sinastra/Harry/Aimee
Think that might work?