Book 5: Harry Potter reader insert

Chapter 28: Back to School

Harry, Ron, (Y/n), Hermione and Ginny were spending sometime together in one of the bedrooms of Grimmauld.

Harry and Ron were playing chess, while Ginny and (Y/n) watched, and Hermione was attempting to stop Crookshanks from attacking the chess pieces.

"Professor Snape is here to see you Harry" Mrs Weasley said sounding upset.

"What's that Mrs Weasley?" Harry asked not taking his focus away from the chess game.

"In the kitchen dear" Mrs Weasley said to him before leaving the room.

"Is Mrs Weasley alright?" (Y/n) asked Ginny.

"Percy sent his gift back. Unopened." She told him.

"Wow what a git"

They sat around for a bit talking while they waited for Harry to return.

"Dumbledore wants you to stop having those dreams then" Hermione said after Harry had gotten back and told them what happened.

"Well you won't be sorry to stop having them anymore, will you?"

"But extra lessons with Snape?! I'd rather have the dreams" Ron said.

"Oh come off it Snape's not the worst, he could be having lessons with Umbridge" (Y/n) pointed out.

A few days later (Y/n) decided to explore around Grimmauld place for a bit. After looking through a few rooms he found Sirius standing in a large empty room.

"Hey Sirius what's this?" (Y/n) asked looking at a large tapestry that took up the whole wall.

"This is the Black family tree" he explained, looking at it with distaste. "My mother loved this thing" he went on walking up to it and gently running his fingers over it.

(Y/n) could clearly tell that Sirius did not like this tapestry one bit.

"There's me" He said pointing to a burnt spot on the tapestry that had his name underneath it.

"Why's it all burnt like that?" (Y/n) asked him confused.

"My mother believed I was a traitor, so she blasted me off of it, just like all those family members she deemed to be traitors."

(Y/n) spent sometime looking over the tapestry, before he found a familiar name on the wall.

"Hey Sirius!" (Y/n) called him over. "Is... is that my dad?" He asked pointing to another burnt spot.

"Yeah well most pure-blood families are related somehow. Huh must've been one of the last spots she burnt off I don't remember that being there" Sirius said lost in thought.

(Y/n) found that his uncle's names were also there, David and Andrew (L/n) neither of whose faces were blasted off like his dad's.

The next day it was time for them to return to Hogwarts. Instead of going by train they would be arriving on the knight bus.

"I've always wanted to go on this thing" Ron said happily getting onto the bus.

"Just wait" (Y/n) muttered under his breath.

Ron seemed to enjoy it for a bit. That is until the first time the bus stopped and he went flying out of his seat.

And the second time when he face planted into the ground.

And the third time when he flew out of his chair and into the lap of an ancient looking witch next to him... and every time after that the bus stopped.

Finally they arrived at Hogsmeade, and Ron was the first to run off the bus, muttering "never again" under his breath.

Lupin and Tonks helped them unload their trunks.

"Look after yourselves" Lupin told them.

After that they were back to Umbridge's tyrannical reign over the school.

"How'd it go?" Hermione asked Harry after he came back from his first 'remedial potions' class. Which is what Snape was calling their occlumency lessons.

"Yeah it was.... fine" he said looking tired and worn out. "Listen to this though" and he explained to them what he had seen.

"So... so you're saying that the weapon, the thing You Know Who's after, is in the ministry?"

"It's got to be in the Department of Mysteries. I saw the door when your dad took me to my hearing, and it was definitely the same one he was guarding" Harry said.

"Of course" Hermione said under her breath. "Of course Sturgis Podmore, was arrested in the Ministry of Magic trying to get through a door! It must have been that one!"

"Well Why was he trying to get through the door? Isn't he on our side?" Ron asked.

"Well yeah that's a bit odd" Hermione Said thoughtfully.

"Maybe he was under the imperious curse" suggested (Y/n).

"What's in the Department of Mysteries anyway?" Harry asked.

"Duh it's a Mystery idiot" (Y/n) said sarcastically. Harry threw a pillow at him.

"Dad hasn't said much about it." Ron said thinking. "I think the people that work there are called unspeakables, no one really knows what they do there"

The only thing really keeping them happy were the DA meetings. This time they were practicing dueling.

First Ron dueled, if you could even call it that, Hermione. It was over in seconds. Hermione won Obviously.

After that (Y/n) challenge that little git Zacharias Smith to a duel.

"Alright on three" Harry said "one, two" But Zacharias had already pulled out his wand and cast a spell at (Y/n).

(Y/n) barely able to deflect it, before casting depulso and sending Smith flying across the room.

Smith staggered to his feet, and (Y/n) stunned him before he could regain his footing.

(Y/n) walked past him and kicked him in the side. "Slimy git" he muttered.

Other than that the meeting was quite an enjoyable one.