[I]This is the start of seventh year but there are no spoilers here. I've had the ides for this story for a long time so you will find it different from J.K's.

Harry Potter rummaged through his room at number four Privet Drive looking for things to pack to take with him and discarding those he wish to leave behind. He couldn’t believe his luck he had only been here two weeks when the Dursley’s had informed him that they were going away on a two week holiday which meant that by the time they returned he would be gone forever. He could hear his aunt and uncle downstairs taking their bags out to the car and his heart beat excitedly in his chest, just thirty more minutes and they would be leaving and he would never have to see their faces again.

“POTTER” bellowed Uncle Vernon from the foot of the stairs, “get down here I want a word with you.”

Harry groaned inwardly, thirty minutes couldn’t come fast enough. He descended the stairs slowly and followed his uncle into the living room. Vernon Dursley faced his nephew with his arms across his chest and his face red.

“Right while we are gone you are not to touch anything that does not belong to you. There is some food in the fridge and cupboards, when you have finished that you will have to make your own way” he sneered.

“Ha I suppose all you left was a block of cheese and a slice of bread” said Harry disdained.

“Don’t get smart with me boy, you’re lucky we’re letting you stay here at all while we are away.”

“Yeah right” Harry muttered.

“What did you say boy” roared Uncle Vernon.

“Come on Vernon, we’re going to miss our plane if we don’t get going” cut in Petunia.

“Right yes you are Petunia dear”. He turned back to Harry “remember what I said or there will be trouble.”

Harry snorted like you’d be able to find me when I am gone.

Harry was back in his room continuing with his packing when he heard a car in the driveway. Don’t tell me they missed their plane and their not going now he thought miserably. He looked out his bedroom window and watched as a young woman with curly honey coloured hair got out of the car and walked up the path to the front door, a moment later the front door bell rang. Harry stood still in the bedroom unsure of what to do, it couldn’t be any of the Dursley’s friends because they all knew that they had gone on holidays. Nobody he knew could drive a muggle car, maybe it was a saleslady coming to sell something. The doorbell rang again, Harry stayed where he was he thought it best not to answer the door and the person would think nobody was home and go away. He stood by his bedroom door listening to the sounds at the door but he couldn’t hear anything more that was until;

“Psst Harry I need some help here”.

Harry almost jumped out of his skin he turned to see the same young woman trying to climb in through his window.

“This seemed so much easier two years ago when I did it” she panted as she flopped onto the floor.

“Sarina” he said incredously.

“Yes who else did you think it was?” He raised his eyebrows at her. “Oh sorry that’s right I’m disguised, I forgot” she said sheepishly.

“What are you doing here?” he asked.

“Well I got my driver’s licence and I thought we might go for a drive, get you out of this house for a while” she said matter of factly.

“But why are you disguised?”

“Just in case can never be too careful you know” she said. “Well do you want to go for a spin or not?”

“Okay let’s go” he said grinning.

“Excellent, listen you better take some of this polyjuice potion you know just in case.”

She pulled a container out of her bag and placed some hairs into it, the polyjuice potion turned a deep chocolate brown. She handed the container to Harry and he drank the mud like substance in one gulp, in just a few minutes he turned into a young man with sandy blonde hair, blue eyes and a deep tan.

“Nice” said Sarina “but I still prefer my dark haired Harry.”

“Whose hair did you take anyway?”

“Oh some guy who lives not too far from me” she said. “Come on I want to show you how fast this car can go.” She laughed as she saw the look of worry on Harry’s face.

They got into the car and Sarina backed it out of the driveway and proceeded down Privet Drive.

“Where are we going anyway?” asked Harry after they had been driving for ten minutes.

“Just a little place I want to show you” she said absently. “Normally it would take about four hours to get there but I made a few little modifications, so the trip should only take us a little over an hour.”

Harry settled back into the seat and watched the countryside flash passed him. He wondered if he would ever get the chance to do something as simple as getting his driver’s licence and driving a car or would his life be so consumed with fighting Voldermort and his Death Eaters that he would never get the chance. So many things he had taken for granted in his life all the simple little pleasures and joy life had to offer would he ever again get to experience them. He watched Sarina out of the corner of his eye and he sighed he was glad of one thing though that he had met and fallen in love with her. He remembered what he told her at the end of term, he wanted to protect her but if he was really honest with himself he wanted her to come with him.

“We’re here” she announced interrupting his thoughts.

He looked through the windshield “I don’t see anything” he said looking at her with a puzzled expression.

She chuckled softly “not yet you don’t, this Harry is Rainbow Cottage”. As soon as she had uttered those words then a little cottage appeared complete with flowering garden beds and white picket fence. The house itself was a brilliant white with the window ledges and front door painted in a bright blue. Sarina drove the car into the drive and parked it near the front of the house. Harry got out of the car and noticed that the flowers and shrubs were a mix of every possible colour he could think of.

“I guess this is why it is called Rainbow Cottage” he said gesturing with his hand towards the garden.

“You would be right and the exterior of the house is decorated just like the houses you see in Greece.”

“It is beautiful but whose house is it?” he asked looking around as if to find the owner.

“It’s mine” she said simply.

“Yours, but how?”

“Come inside and I shall tell you everything.”

They walked up the path and through the front door, inside the cottage was small but cosy the living room was filled with comfortable looking sofa’s, there was a wooden dining table with four chairs and the kitchen contained an open fireplace in which a wrought iron pot hung, a bench forming a u shape and copper pots and pans hung from the ceiling. A window lay over the sink and looked out into the backyard which was huge and contained a large pond that was filled with water lilies, frogs and fish. There were many more flowers and plants out here as well also containing the colours of the rainbow and in the centre was a beautiful old willow tree with its branches sweeping the grass below. To the right was an arbour covered in wisteria’s and inside were a number of colourful cushions. To the left was chicken coop filled with big fat chickens pecking at the ground.

Sarina stood beside Harry and placed her hand on his shoulder. “It’s peaceful isn’t it, that’s why I chose it.”

He turned and looked at her “that it is Sarina. So are you going to tell me how you came to own this place?”

“Well first I have to say this Harry. I love you more than anything in the world and I will be accompanying you on your journey, I wouldn’t be anywhere else but by your side. You didn’t need to ask me to think about it, I already had. I sold my house the one in which I grew up in and bought this one months ago, when Dumbledore told you about the Horcruxes I knew then that his intentions were for you to track them down and destroy them. I knew that you would need a place where no-one could find you once you turned seventeen and the charm over Privet Drive broke. I had the Fidelius charm placed over this cottage and I am the Secret Keeper, no-one but you and I know of this place’s existence.”

“You did all this for me?” he asked with a lump in his throat.

“For us” she smiled. “Now I know that the Order have arranged to have you escorted from your aunt and uncle’s in ten days time but I have just saved them the trip, you will stay here from now on I will inform the others and let them know. I will apparate to Privet Drive later and get your things and bring them back here.”

“They’re not going to be very happy with this, Sarina” said Harry frowning.

“I know but they will have to get over it. Too many people knew of the plan and I was worried that someone might let something slip, so many things could have gone wrong, this way I was the only one who knew what was going on and by getting you early and unawares I reduced the risk of Voldermort finding out.”

Harry shook his head in amazement at what Sarina had managed to accomplish in a short amount of time.

“So” she said smiling “shall we have something to eat and then take a walk outside.”

“Yeah sounds good” he replied


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