Harry Potter and What Happened After - Sahits

True, he had fought his way into Snape's mind in 5th year, but he hadn't been able to look for
memories. And, as he quickly found out, it was much harder to open a line of connection between
minds, than it was to follow an already open one. It took nearly 2 weeks before Harry could even get
into one of the student's minds, and it took the next two weeks for Harry to sort out the random flashes
of memory and follow one thought or memory to its conclusion.
Over all, he was making terrific progress in both Legilimency and Occlumency. By the time Christmas
vacation rolled around him, Ginny, Ron and even Hermione were all ready to go back to the Burrow
and rest. They were all exhausted, but extremely proud of the progress they were making.
It was a week before break started and Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione were sitting in front of a
raging fire in their common room. Ron and Hermione were working on homework while Harry and
Ginny played a game of wizard's chess.
Suddenly Hermione looked up from the potions book she was doing her research in. "What are we
doing for Christmas?" she asked of no one in particular.
"I don't know, I guess we're going to go to the Burrow," said Ron, also looking up from his book, A
Tome of Transfiguration.
"No, I don't want to make your mum cook for Christmas with all the wedding preparations that she has
to make," she said.
"She wont mind," said Ron, "in fact I think she may be a bit insulted if we don't have Christmas there."
"I know, but that doesn't stop me from feeling bad about her having to do all that work," Hermione said
as closed her book and put it back in her bag.
"Well were else would we have Christmas?" asked Ron. It was easy to see he was confused, they all
were, even Hermione didn't have anyplace in mind.
"We could have it at Grimmauld Place," said Harry jokingly.
Hermione was suddenly very very still, the only discernable movement was a smile slowly spreading
across her lips. Finally, after nearly a full minuet of silence and stillness she said, "Harry that's a great
idea,"
"What about the death eaters?" asked Ron, his face suddenly paling. "They know where it is, how do
we know it won't be booby trapped or that they won't attack?"
"We'll have to be carful about booby traps, and there are spells to get rid of them." Said Harry, now
fully on board with the idea, and ready to help in any way possible. "As for being attacked, well Ron, if
you won't feel safe in a house with close to 15 fully trained wizards than you will never feel safe."
"Good point," muttered Ron, still looking a bit pale.
"Don't worry little bro," said Ginny cheerfully as she placed her queen in a checkmate position to
Harry's king. "Checkmate by the way Harry. Like I said Ron, don't worry, I'll protect you."
"Gee, thanks," said Ron sarcastically as Harry stared at the chess board scratching his head, wondering
how it was that he always lost at wizarding chess.
Five minuets later Harry finished writing the letter to the Weasleys.
Weasleys,
Hope all is well. Tell George and Angelina that we can't wait to see them. Ginny, Ron, Hermione and I
were hoping that you would grant us the honor of having Christmas at Grimmuald Place this year. We
know that the Burrow will be very hectic with the wedding and we wanted to take the extra strain off of