�Harry,� Ron pushed his way out of the masses to great them, �Mum was starting to think you weren�t coming.�
�No, we were just late, the bus had to divert to Wales.�
�Ok, well lets� go find mum before she sends out a search party, oh & I should warn you, she might try to set you up with my cousin, the muggle one I told you about in 1st year, he came this year, said he wanted to meet the family before he died, I think he has what you have but I�m not sure. Anyway he�s gay too, I think mum�s hoping to marry you into the family in anyway possible. I think he�s a sleaze through he�s been hitting on Charlie since he got here.�
�Harry, Lizzy glad you could make it, and you must be Mrs Kane and Alex, Harry�s told us so much about you.�
�Its nice to meet you Mrs Weasley, please call me, Diane.�
�Well then you must call me Molly, I have been trying to convince Harry to stop call me Mrs Weasley,� she gave him a pointed look.
�Yeah, um��
Ron appeared in the doorway cutting off his reply, �Mum, there�s a Auror out the front asking for Harry.�
Mrs Weasley scowled and stalked off towards the front door. Just about everyone in the room felt sorry for the Auror. Mrs K sent Lizzy and Alex off to play with the small herd of Weasley children that were there, before they both followed Mrs Weasley.
��care what your orders are you are not coming in my house, Harry has done nothing wrong�� Mrs Weasley continued to berate the 6�4� Auror who was trying not to back-pedal away from the redhead who was more then a head shorter even though she was standing on the doorstep. ��more then a third of the people here work for a ministry somewhere in the world, at least five are Aurors and if Harry wanted to destroy us one more Auror isn�t going to help��
�Mrs We�Molly, please let me handle this,� Harry said putting a hand on her shoulder and gently steering her away from the man.
She gave him a small smile, �always the peacemaker,� she scowled at the Auror again but moved away from them, although not out of sight, where Lizzy was semi-hiding.
�I�m Harry Potter,� he said simply.
�My name is Robert Freedmen. I am here to accompany you today and any other time you wish to go into the wizarding world.�
�So you�re his babysitter.� Ron stated.
Freedmen opened his mouth to reply but Mrs K spoke before him, �Harry is an adult and is fully capable of looking after himself no matter what your ministry may think.�
Again Freedman went to speak.
�The ministry knows he can look after himself,� Ron said, �That�s why they want him watched, they�re worried that he�s going to knock them off their high-horses.�
Freedmen started to talk again but�
�Please you two I can handle this, go and have fun I�ll be there in a minute.�
Mrs K and Ron grumble but wandered away to join Mrs Weasley and Lizzy who were still nearby watching.
Harry walked out of the house and closed the door behind him motion for Freedmen to follow.
�Look I know that I agreed to an escort and you are just following orders, not to mention you would probably prefer to be somewhere else, but Mrs Weasley is unlikely to let you in the house no matter what I say.�
Freedmen nodded his understanding, �Yes she is a rather�overwhelming woman. I can stay in the back garden if you came out every now and then so I can see you and promise not to leave without telling me.�
�I can do that, come on the gardens this way.�
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After a quick but heated discussion Harry managed to convince Mrs Weasley to let Freedmen stay in the garden as long as he didn�t enter the house, she even agreed to feed him when one of her cousins identified him as a friend of hers.
Once that was sorted, Hermione and Ginny dragged him around the house and garden introducing him to all of their relatives, including Mr and Mrs Granger who he had not met before despite being Hermione�s friend for almost 7 years at Hogwarts. By the time lunch came around he had been introduced to almost half of the family.
Lunch was a chaotic affair; three long tables were set up in the garden, one with all the children and the other two with the other generations. Harry sat with Ron and Hermione, he spent most of the meal alternating between listening to Ron�s animated conversation with his cousin who was a reserve on one of the professional Quidditch teams, about the latest results in the sport, and Hermione�s quieter but just as animated conversation with her sister-in-law, Claire about a new healing charm that had been recently discovered that could be used on newborns without any ill effects.
He couldn�t help smile at the two, they were so different yet their relationship worked so well, he was glad that they had finally accepted each others differences and gotten together.
At some point in the afternoon, he wasn�t completely sure when, but one of the mother in the family had asked him to hold her baby while she help Molly set the table and he had not been relieved of the child, although the women came back every now and then to check on the little girl. Ron had teased him, saying that if he wasn�t careful he would end up babysitting for the entire family. Ginny had smacked in the back of the head, �well if you�re volunteering Ron.� They hadn�t seen him again until lunch. Harry now sat feeding the little girl, Sarah, with a bottle that had been placed in front of him by one of the women; it was nice to have a small child to look after again, even for just a short time. When the Sarah had finished her bottle he burped her and she fell asleep in his arms, allowing him to eat something himself, although he didn�t eat much, earning himself pointed looks from Lizzy, Mrs K and Molly, while Hermione, Claire and Ginny kept prodding him to eat more.
He brushed them off saying he wasn�t hungry and excused himself to put Sarah to bed. Upon his return he informed the mother that Sarah was sleeping before returning to his seat. Halfway to his seat he spotted someone he knew but never wanted to see again as long as he live, and hadn�t expected to see again, especially not in the wizarding world.
He froze for a minute staring at the man, not wanting to believe that he was there. In the time it took him to start moving again, the man spotted him. After a moment of his own shock he looked Harry up and down then smirked at him.
Harry�s breathing quickened and he shuddered. He hurried back into the house then snuck around the front and ran off towards the field the Weasley�s used as a Quidditch pitch.