Half an hour later all three of them were in the kitchen sitting around the table and drinking tea while Dobby was working madly away at cooking a banquet for three.
Now sitting at the kitchen table, Harry wrapped up the basic explanation as to where he'd been.
"Bloody Hell!" Sirius vehemently muttered before he turned his attention to Luna. "When you said I could 'see' Harry by walking outside at night and looking up at the star, Sirius... you weren't being all Seer-y."
"No," she calmly returned. "I was telling you exactly where he was, as I said I did."
"Sorry, Luna," he apologetically returned.
"It's quite alright," she calmly said. "I already knew you wouldn't accept what I told you. That still did not mean I shouldn't have told you, though."
He gave her a nod and turned back to Harry. "So, Luna was right that the Veil of Death is actually a gate-thing that takes you to other worlds."
"Yes," he nodded. "While Luna called it an Astra Porta, the Goa'uld and Jaffa call it a Chappa'ai and the SGC call it a Stargate."
"With the last term being a near direct translation from the very early Latin 'Astria Porta'," added Luna. After dinner, Luna reached into her clutch-purse and pulled out six large muggle scrapbooks of a size the muggles call somewhat halfway between 'A2' and 'A3' pages; 'B3'. That they came out of that little clutch-purse showed the purse to be wizard-spaced.
She then put them on the table in a stack and slid them over to in front of Harry.
"These are the six scrapbooks I told you about," she said, as Harry opened the cover of the first one. "They're in date order, from top to bottom. And, in case you accidentally mix them up, they're also numbered on the front cover.
"Read through them and I'll be handy to answer any questions you have concerning what's in them; though, I believe you shouldn't have many."
Then she turned to Sirius and said, "I'll be using my room here, if that's alright with you?" "Of course!" Sirius replied. "I'll also have Dobby give Harry's room a once-over and dusting."
"Already done, Master Sirius!" chirped Dobby from where he was working polishing the stove.
"Do you need to head home and pack a bag, Luna?" asked Sirius.
"No, thank you," she smiled. "I have everything I need in my purse."
"What about you, Harry?" he asked.
"I have only what I'm wearing, I'm afraid," he replied. "I also have my invisibility cloak in a mokeskin space-expanded bag under a Notice-me-Not belted around my waist. It contains the Marauder's Map, too."
"I'd wondered what happened to that," smiled Sirius. "I have a change of wizarding clothes for Harry in my purse," said Luna. "I'll have Dobby deliver them later."
Dobby turned, looked at her purse and snapped his fingers. "Theys now be in Master Harry's room, Missy Luna. As be your clothes."
"Thank you, Dobby," she said.
After spending the evening almost speed-reading through the scrapbooks Luna had provided him, stopping only to ask questions of both Luna and Sirius who were quietly talking between themselves and not-so-subtly watching him, it was late when they all finally decided to go to bed.
His biggest surprise was learning that Gellert Grindelwald was, in fact, still alive. And that Sirius had secretly visited the man in the antechamber outside his cell in the prison tower complex known as Nurmengard less than twelve months ago. Thinking about what he had read and learned, Harry hardly even paid attention to the room and how nice it was decorated before he stripped off and was in bed, asleep.
'Dumbledore's now convinced everyone Neville is the Chosen One to face Voldemort,' he thought. 'How bloody stupid is that?
'And what about Ron's behaviour? After I got my mindscape set up and was able to properly review my memories... it wasn't hard to then see that little bastard was deliberately trying to dumb me down because he was too bloody stupid to try and work hard to come up or, maybe, doing it on Dumbledore's orders.
'I'm glad Sirius got Hermione out of here, though. I'm seriously relieved she's alright. It also sounds like she's very happy in Massachusetts. I'm not really surprised she went into magical law, though. She always did have that sort of mind; coupled with her... whatchamacallit.. "outreach" beliefs to help the downtrodden.'
His last thoughts were of how normal his godfather appeared to be, clearly having regained his fitness and mental faculties; and of just how 'hot' Luna now looked. He fell asleep with a smile on his face.
In her room and at the same time, Luna was readying for bed and suddenly stopped to look off into the distance. Then she smiled.
"I am, aren't I?" she murmured, glancing at her reflected image in the mirror.
"You are... what, dear?" asked the mirror.
"Good looking," she replied, running her magical brush through her hair.
The mirror scoffed and said, "You sound like young Bella." Luna grinned. In her mind, though, she'd be getting rid of the mirror. She actually didn't like mirrors that talked back.
The next morning Harry was up and had headed for the kitchen. It still felt weird having a proper kitchen to cook with and not having to rely so much on transfiguring food to eat.
He'd headed there with the intent to cook, but Dobby was already cooking and had a plate of a 'Full-English' before him just as he sat down.
"Thank you, Dobby," he said to the elf.
As he was eating he asked, "How has it been working for Master Sirius?"
"It has been good, Master Harry," replied the elf. "But Dobby is very happy Master Harry is back."
"What happened to Kreacher?" he asked.
Dobby scowled and replied, "Kreacher was a very baaaaad elf. Kreacher did lie to Master Harry about Master Sirius not beings here when Master Harry did floo-call. Kreacher was trying to get Master Harry killed, going to... Deh-part-ment of Mysties. Master Sirius did kills him for... be-tray-all of House Black. Kreacher dids die with... dishonour."
"Ah!" said Harry. "But, you like it here?"
"Master Sirius be good master," replied the elf. "But, Master Harry be bestest master."
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