When Harry woke it took him a few minutes before he realised where he was and what had happened. He hurried to the bathroom and even though he would love to change his clothes, he didn't have any. He would need to work on getting out to do some shopping.
Harry walked nervously down the stairs. He could hear voices so he followed the sound.
'Good morning.'
'Good morning Harry, you're up early,' Emma smiled.
'I'm usually an early riser, habit.'
'Come sit down son, we can chat while Emma finishes cooking,' Dan said.
'Thanks,' Harry nervously sat down, 'I know all this seems incredible, even Hermione and I know this should have been impossible but we were willing to take the risk. It worked so now we have to make sure we use this opportunity to help.'
'We'll get to that soon. So would you like tea or coffee?'
'Tea please, but if you would like some help, I'm pretty handy in the kitchen, even at this age.'
'I'm fine, thank you Harry.'
'Hermione mentioned those people worked you like a slave, they even hit you.'
'Yes sir, I wasn't a very nice way to grow up. But we worked out that a lot of things in my life was planned to happen the way they did. That's what we need to change. But the Dursley's will be moving soon, I hope it's in the next day or so. Apart from making sure they want to move I made sure they would change their names so they couldn't be found. Even if you don't want to take me in, I can find somewhere to live, I just need to get to Gringotts.'
'Nonsense, you're staying. You might have the mind of a seventeen year old but you're eleven right now. It would make people suspicious if they found out you lived alone.'
'I would like to stay ma'am, Hermione has been my closest friend for seven years. Now I can't imagine life without her, or my future without her. If we can make some plans and change things I would like to marry Hermione, now we just have to wait until our bodies catch up to our minds.'
'Oh Harry,' Hermione ran to him then sat on his lap, hugging him tight, 'We will, we just need to grow up, again.'
Harry smiled, 'Yeah, again, I hated it the first time, but this time we know what's going to happen. You said its two months before our letters.'
'Right, Professor McGonagall brought mine a month before we were due to head to Hogwarts.'
'Then why was Hagrid sent to get me? I mean I like the man but he forgot things and I was left stranded.'
'Remember what we talked about Harry, all those things were planned so you could meet the Weasley's. It gave them the perfect excuse when you went up to ask how to get onto the platform. I really wished we talked about that day years ago.'
'It's changed now Hermione, we make sure we befriend Neville and Ron will only be an acquaintance. If he wants to study with us it might end up more, but I doubt he will, so he will probably hang with Seamus and Dean. It won't be a big loss, not with the way he treated both of us.'
'Ron will never study, but don't let him copy from you, that's the only reason he passed his tests.'
'I know, I felt sorry for him, but I realised if I had to put the effort in then he should. I just have to make sure my work seems like an eleven year old and not seventeen.'
'I think you should sit on the seat Hermione, instead of your boyfriends lap.'
'Sorry dad,' Hermione blushed then moved to the seat beside Harry, 'So plans, trunks, what else?'
'So much, but I had a thought that could help us and your parent's as well. The vanishing cabinets. Right now the other one isn't broken. If we can someway move it to a secluded location then we can get the other one here. It will help us but also stop the ferret from using it.'
'I'm sure they will shrink, but why don't we put the cabinet in the trunk then it will always be close.'
'Yes, but I can't be seen disappearing or Ron will ask questions.'
'Right, okay, there are a lot of places in Hogwarts that no one has been to in centuries. We could just use the room of requirement as no one knows about it right now.'
'If we use the room of hidden things then the cabinet could hide between all the junk. The trouble with that is if someone like Malfoy is inside then we couldn't get in. I think the shrieking shack would be best or one of the passage ways that is blocked. We can enchant the entrance so people like the twins won't be able to open it. The room of requirement would be useful but we can't take the chance of being locked out. Oh blimey,' Harry closed his eyes and rubbed his face.
'Harry, what is it?'
'I just realised where the diadem is, I saw it then moved it.'
'What, where?'
'The room of requirement, with all the junk. When I went to hide the halfblood princes book I took it there. I wanted to be able to find it again, in case it was needed. I put it in a wardrobe then stuck a bust on top with a tiara, the same tiara that belonged to Ravenclaw.'
'Then we can get the diadem and the locket, we can also get the diary before Malfoy slips it to Ginny.'
'No, let him slip it to her then I can distract Ginny while you take it. Remember that day, the shop was really crowded because of that idiot so you should be able to grab it without anyone being suspicious. The perfect time would be when Mr Weasley and Malfoy have that fight.'
'Does that mean you will have to kill it again?'
'Um, well, if we have the diary and I'm the only parselmouth then the basilisk wouldn't end up attacking anyone. The trouble is Voldemort, if he somehow gets into the castle he could call the basilisk.'
'Then we use a rooster, the crow of the rooster kills a basilisk. If we do that then you won't have to fight it and get bitten.'
'Right, we can't count on Fawkes saving me again. Okay, Hagrid has roosters, we just have to work on a way to get it to crow right after I call the basilisk. We should get some books on how to render it then sell it. Being so rare I bet the price of its blood would be worth a fortune. We could also see about having some of its skin made into clothes. Since it's a magical snake I'm sure it's skin is impervious to some spells, like dragons are. What about this year and the stone?'
'We get it, we just have to work on when.'
'He used the mirror for the last enchantment yet it was during the Christmas holidays when he found me sitting in front of it.'
'But he won't find you this time. Actually, I think he planned for you to find the mirror so he could tell you how it worked.'
'Right, so if he doesn't find me do you think he would use something else?'
'Maybe, it would be a risk if we don't know what the last enchantment is.'
'Then I'll make sure to sneak in and find the mirror. It was the third night he found me there.'
'I know it'll be hard Harry but he can't get suspicious so you have to act like you did before. He might have ways to see what happens in that room.'
'It is hard but it also gives me a chance to see my family. I can study them like I did before. Everyone has told me I look like my father, so much so I could be his twin if it wasn't for my eyes. There was one man, I think he was my grandfather, but he had the same knees as me. So you see, it's not like I will go crazy staring into it, I'll use it this time to study my family since no one ever told me about them.'
'Alright, it's only three nights and I'll wait up for you to make sure you're okay.'
'Yeah, you can't be there under the cloak, he can see through that. How though? We realised it's not a normal invisibility cloak but the cloak of invisibility. So how does someone, even Dumbledore see through it?'
'He had it for years Harry, I would say he charmed it some way to detect it. He can't see through it, he knows where it is and when it's being used.'
'Sneaky bastard, oh sorry,' Harry blushed as he glanced at Hermione's parent's.
'Its fine Harry, we know you two are actually seventeen even if you don't look it. So we expect there will a few times when you might forget and say something you shouldn't,' Emma smiled, 'But now eat, then we'll get to this explanation.'
'Harry doesn't swear a lot, but when he gets angry one or two words slip out.'
'I'll watch myself, I will have to anyway, not just because it wouldn't be right to swear in front of you two but it might make people suspicious.'
'We already noticed you two don't talk like eleven year olds. Hermione might be nearly twelve in looks but she is talking like a teenager or young adult, the same as you,' Dan said.
'So we're going to need to be careful when we're around others. That's going to be difficult.'
'We just try to act like the others but we're not going to be talking about all this when others are around.'
'Right, so we should be okay. Let's just eat so we can explain to your parent's.'
'The easiest way is to start from our first year then just work through every year. It could help us come up with more plans at the same time.'
'Well, make sure you have your notebook ready, you take better notes than me, plus your faster.'
'I'll get it right after we eat.'
Dan and Emma couldn't help smiling as they listened to Hermione and Harry. They couldn't understand everything they were talking about, but they could tell how much they truly knew each other.