Harry shook his head.
"Just help me get my shirt off, I can fix it myself" he instructed.
Sirius and James shared a look but Remus stepped forward and helped him remove his shirt while the rest of the house looked on in morbid curiosity.
"Can you place the tip of my in the centre of it?" he asked Remus, who immediately guided his hand to where it needed to be.
He then thought of the skin knitting charm that Filmore had taught him, one he had invented himself and the wound sealed immediately, only leaving behind a red mark to indicate where the wound had been.
"Here, let me clean it for you" the werewolf offered as he began siphoning off the congealed blood. "Harry, where did you get all these scars?" he inquired with a raised eyebrows.
"Just here and there" Harry answered dismissively as he pulled his bloodied shirt back on.
Remus shared a look with the others but did not ask further.
"What spell did you use that made that much noise?" Sirius questioned.
"It's a modified concussion spell and depending on how powerful you make it, will leave people out cold for a while, I imagine they'll be out until lunch time tomorrow" he mused. "Are you ok Harry?" Lily cut in, clearly concerned about the boy.
"I've had worse" Harry shrugged. "Now if you will excuse me I'm going to shower and wash the smell of blood off me" he added before heading up to the dormitory.
"Where did all of those scars come from?" Remus questioned James.
"I don't know" the other boy sighed. "I don't know much about Harry's education and I was told not to ask" he explained.
"What kind of education leaves you looking like that?" Sirius wondered aloud.
"Merlin knows" James whispered sadly.
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The few weeks after the attack had passed quickly for Harry as he once again immersed himself into his training, now with a new purpose about him. He had vowed that he would not allow himself to be caught off guard and leave himself vulnerable for an attack like that again and his mood had reverted back to had it had been the night Sirius had been killed.
Outwardly he was completely impassive and unshakeable, but on the inside he was seething and continuously had to swallow back the anger.
As he had suspected, the Slytherin's that had attempted to harm him had only been given two weeks detention each, something that did nothing to quell the fury he was a feeling and he had happily joined James and Remus to continue the Defense work, now completely ignoring that Bellatrix even existed, not even sparing her the briefest of glances in lessons.
When he wasn't training, which was now a rarity, he spent time with the Marauder's as he had but also more time with Lily, helping her with her project and just getting to know the girl, something he was greatly enjoying. Today was the first match of the Quidditch season and Gryffindor were up against Slytherin, who would certainly be after his blood after he had cursed them and left them in a rather pitiful state for several days after. It turns out that he had put much more power into his spell than he had intended to and the foursome had been unconscious for almost two days and had spent a week recovering in the hospital wing.
He sighed as Frank gave the team the signal that it was now time to head out.
He put all of the other thoughts that had been plaguing him out of his mind and used his occlumency skills to their full potential to focus on catching the snitch, something that Frank had instructed he got at the earliest possible time, if Gryffindor were ahead of course.
With a final check that he had everything he exited the changing rooms and took to the air as he entered the stadium. (BREAK)
Lily watched in a mixture of awe and horror as Harry avoided everything that the Slytherin team was throwing at him; bludgeors, attempts to simply throw him from his broom and down right cheating with their obvious attempts to cause him harm.
He however seemed to take it all in his stride and was completely unfazed by what the other team was trying to accomplish.
She had already chewed most of her nails down as far as she could from her worry and once again screamed and covered her eyes as he dived from several dozen feet to avoid another attack from the LeStrange brothers who were completely focused on him, not at all bothered that they were losing by 200 points.
"It seems that Lils has got herself a crush on the new Potter" Marlene teased. Lily simply scowled at the girl before she sighed and shook her head.
"It's really not like that" she said, sounding more than a little disappointed.
"Oh come off it" Malene exclaimed. "He's gorgeous, he's smart and just look at him fly, the boy's got everything" she added.
"I know" Lily returned heatedly. "And everything tells me that I should like him like that but I just don't" she elaborated, with a shake of her head.
"How can you not like him?" Alice broke in disbelievingly. "You spend so much time together too, has he not even tried to flirt with you?".
"Not even once" Lily shrugged. "But I haven't with him either". "I feel like I should like him but every time I try to think of him that way something just tells me that it's wrong" she explained. "I don't understand it because he is everything that I want in someone but it just can't be him, I mean I care about him more than I ever have anyone else but just not like that" she finished sadly.
"Well how is it then?" Marlene asked with a frown.
"I feel like I'm his sister or something" Lily answered uncertainly.
"So you wouldn't mind if someone else dated him" Alice asked.
"I wouldn't let either of you near him, I know what you're like" Lily replied knowingly, scowling at the pair.
"Ok, well what about if it was a nice young innocent witch, like Hestia, she's beautiful and never had a boyfriend?" Alice asked.
"I don't know, I feel like I just need to protect him" Lily whispered. "But it's obvious that he doesn't need it" she added, clearly frustrated by her own thoughts.
"I don't get that at all" Marlene declared.
"Neither do I" Lily admitted sadly.
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