Summary: Not having received any word from his friends and also seeing what the Daily Prophet had written about him, Harry felt both betrayed and depressed. Then his uncle decided that he needed a job. A job that turned out to be at a pizzeria Harry had many good childhood memories of. The young wizard could never have guessed that becoming a night guard would change his future...
Link: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11474098/1/Five-Nights-with-Harry
Word count:176k
Chapters:29
Chapter 1
As he walked across the darkened parking lot, Harry glanced around continuously. Not even a week into the summer after his Fourth Year, he had finally had enough. His friends had cut off all contact from him and there was nothing on the news about Voldemort. Even worse was when he decided to read the rest of the Prophets and discovered what they had said about him.
Needless to say, he had felt betrayed and depressed.
Strangely enough, it was his uncle who had come up with a solution and had told him that if he was just going to laze around, then he should get a job. Of course, the walrus-like man had then thrown a newspaper at him, but that was beside the point. Upon checking the job section, he found that there was an opening for a night watchman at Freddy's Fazbear's Pizzeria. And while the pay was lousy, it would get him out of the house. Not to mention giving him a place where he could work on his summer homework in peace without needing to worry about his relatives stumbling on him.
Harry continued to walk across the parking lot, taking a moment to put on his cap and pull out his keys. Meanwhile, he continued to think about that day. He had been rather excited as the restaurant was the one place he had any good memories of from when he was a child. The young wizard had used to run inside to escape Dudley and his gang as well as the summer heat. Hours would pass while he listened to the songs of the Fazbear band.
The fact that the old manager sometimes gave him free food helped. Though even then it had looked run down due to problems relating to a "Bite of '77" and disappearing children. His younger self had ignored that though as it was a safe place and one where he could have fun. The fact that his aunt was scared of it and despised it helped. Though Harry had thought it odd that while she wanted Dudley nowhere near it, she had no problems with him being there.
The reasons being what he found out later on.
Having closed and locked the door behind him, Harry checked the clock in the security office. "Hmm... Only 11:25... I got some time I suppose..." Doing a check of the pizzeria, Harry gave a wave at the band on stage and called out a greeting toward the Cove as he made his way to the kitchen. 'At least this summer I won't starve. Pay's bad, but at least I get free food and drink.'
As the wizard in training made himself a sandwich, he thought back to his first week. A week of terror and danger as he worked to keep himself alive. Thankfully though, he had become rather used to such things over the years at Hogwarts, so killer animatronics were not too out there. And when they turned out to be possessed by the spirits of murdered children who had been stuffed into them, it became rather normal.
A fact that still caused Harry to pause whenever he thought about that. Well, that and the fact that it was normal due to being a wizard.
But he made it through the first week, though the animatronics had begun acting weirdly toward him after a "Golden Freddy" had appeared in the security office and stayed there for several minutes just staring at him before it vanished. Then a strange puppet one appeared and had tried to kill him, controlling the other four to help. It seems that it had a thing for 'The joys of creation" and saw him as a way to continue on along that path. Turned out that it was responsible in the end for all the disappearances. In fact, he nearly died that night...
Having reached the security office, Harry set down his sandwich and a soda he had grabbed before he sat down. He then noted that it was midnight and stretched before he started to check the cameras. "Hmm... The band hasn't left the stage yet, and Foxy is still in the cove..."
As he checked the hallway and saw a familiar poster of a golden Freddy, he smiled. Yes, he should have died that night except a relative he had never known about saved him and stopped the puppet with his help once and for all. "Heh."
Harry then looked up to see a golden Freddy costume slumped in the room.
It was weird that he had never known that he had another aunt...
The costume slowly rose up.
An aunt who was magical like his mother and who had decided to protect him when possible...
With a groan, the costume faced him.
The aunt who had one summer day disappeared the year before she had been going to go to Hogwarts along with four other children...
There was silence and then two green eyes opened in the costume's face and it gave him a smile as it opened it's arms. "Hello, Harry dear."
The young teen just placed the tablet to the side and got up before he hugged the animatronic. "Hey, Aunt Rose..."
As Harry walked down the hallway chatting with his undead aunt after having eaten his snack, he could just barely hear sounds from the dining room. A moment later he turned at the sounds of running just in time for a reddish blur to nearly run into him if not for Golden Freddy yanking him to the side. Said blur then tripped and went tumbling before it came to rest on it's back to reveal Foxy. "Ow... Tha' be not fair me mateys..."
It was then that a yellow blur passed them before it resolved into an angry Chica who grabbed Foxy and lifted him into the air. "GIVE! ME! BACK! MY! BIB!"
Freddy walked up with what could only be an annoyed expression on his face as Chica continued to shake Foxy. "Give Chica back her bib, Foxy."
The pirate fox just tried to shake his head as it went back and forth from Chica shaking him while he held the bib out of her reach to the side. "NAY! I BE NOT GIVING ME BOOTY BACK!"
What he had not noticed was Harry sneaking up on him before the night watchman grabbed the bib and leaped away. Harry then held it out to the animatronic chicken. "Here you go, Chica."
With a smile, Chica dropped Foxy none too gently on his ass before she took the bib and spoke up in a shy voice. "Would you mind helping me tie it, Harry?"
All the wizard did was shrug. "No, not at all."
After he tied it, Chica turned and pulled him into a hug. "Thank you, Harry." She then shot a glare over her shoulder at Foxy, not seeing Harry struggling to breath. "At least some people know how to treat a lady properly!"
As he blinked and flipped up his eyepatch, Foxy made a show of looking her up and down. "Ye be a lady, lass?"
So it was to no one's surprise that he had to dodge a swipe from an angry Chica before he ran off with a chortle. Meanwhile, Freddy facepalmed. "A bunch of freaking children..."
While she snickered, Rose/Golden Freddy patted him on the shoulder. "There, there." With a smile, she looked over to where a concerned Chica was apologizing to a breathless Harry for nearly suffocating him. "Don't mind them, Freddy. They're still getting used to be free of the Marionette's control after all. And we were kids at one time after all..."
Freddy just rolled his eyes. "I know that, Goldy. But still... even with that, we're all old enough to be better."
She just snickered again. "You were always rather uptight, weren't you?" The golden bear suit ignored his scowl before she turned back to the scene before her as Bonnie walked up. "Besides, Harry doesn't mind in the least..."
Having spotted her thoughtful tone, Freddy turned to her. "Any idea what plan Harry has to rescue the pizzeria? He said he had some ideas to stop us from closing..."
All he got was a shake of the head. "No, he hasn't told me a thing." If anyone else was there except for Harry and the others, they would have been shocked at the sight of an animatronic pouting. "He's too much like his mother in that way..."
As the two Freddy's softly talked, Chica continued to apologize. "I am so sorry, Harry, I forgot how strong I am..."
With a wave of his hand, Harry smiled up at her. "No real harm done, Chica. Just be a bit more gentle next time, okay?"
The chicken animatronic just nodded. "I will, I will!" She then got a serious look on her face as she walked off. "I'll even bake you a pizza for you to make up for it."
Bonnie and Harry shared a look and a snicker before the rabbit tapped his chin. "Er, Harry?" At the nod he got, he continued. "Did you get my extra strings for my guitar? That broken one is really throwing me off and I know that management won't replace it..."
For a moment, Harry blinked before he grinned and pulled out a bag of guitar strings. "Yeah, I did. How about while Chica is making that pizza, we go and fix your guitar? Sound good?" With a nod from Bonnie, the two walked off as Freddy and Golden Freddy followed still immersed in their conversation.
Harry had just bitten into a slice of Chica's famous pizzas when said animatronic took a seat next to him. "Um, Harry?"
Hurriedly swallowing, Harry turned to her with a raised eyebrow as beside them, Freddy sat down with one of the newspapers Harry brought for him. "Yes, Chica? What is it?"
For a few moments she thought over what she had been going to ask before she did so. "Um... I noticed the other day that you took two of the hallway posters with you... Can I ask why?"
With a hum, Harry took another bite of pizza...
Tossing and turning, Ron finally sat up in bed with a groan. "Bloody hell..." Part of the reason, of course, was a small amount of guilt. The guilt came from the fact that despite Harry sending letters, they had not replied to a single one. Though Hermione was the one who felt far more guilty over that fact. But they had been ordered to not contact him.
That thought caused him to glance toward the desk where the latest letter to him sat. Harry had demanded an explanation why they would not talk to him, as well as asking if he had done something to cause them not to. He had even asked if they no longer wanted to be friends.
Even though the tone of the letter seeped with feelings of frustration and betrayal, neither of the two replied. That had gotten them a glare from Hedwig, but they just shooed her off. After all, Dumbledore had told them not to.
Of course, then there was the two posters. For some reason that Ron still could not understand, Hermione had freaked out when she found out that Harry was working at some pizzeria. Something about a person getting their frontal lobe bitten off by a animetronik, whatever that was. From what she explained, it sounded like an animated armor or something of that sort. Then there was a bit about missing kids. Sounded a bit freaky, but Ron really could not fault his friend for wanting some cash, even if it was muggle stuff. Heck, he wondered if he could get free food.
Having took a deep breath, Ron frowned as he could have sworn that he could actually smell pizza. He shrugged it off though as he spotted the poster on the floor. Ron got out of bed and picked it up and blinked. "What the bloody Hell?" The poster had shown a strange looking brown bear when he had gotten it. But now it showed a really creepy golden one with empty eyes. "Weird..."
He had just set it down and turned when he stopped. There, by the door slumped, was what looked like the bear on the poster. "Wait, where did that come from?" Not really taking an eye from it, Ron glanced around the room as if expecting the twins to be seen.
And then the costume leaped up and screamed in his face, with the red head soon joining. When the rest of the house rushed in, they found him up against the wall looking around, claiming that there was a costume that screamed at him. Something that they just figured was a nightmare or a boggart...
That was until the next night when Hermione also screamed and stated that she had seen it as well. A fact that caused some to want to check out Harry's place of work...
After he swallowed, Harry shrugged some. "Aunt Rose suggested that I show my friends where I'm working right now, so I sent them the poster."
Chica just shrugged before she grabbed a piece of pizza and bit into it. Somehow, despite being a robot, she could still taste it. Besides, the old pizza stains on them were gone after Harry used some kind of spray potion to get rid of them. Next to them, Freddy was trying to stop Foxy from grabbing his paper. "Foxy, bugger off!"
The pirate was having none of it though as he kept trying to grab it. "Arrrgh, I jus' be wantin' ter get the funnies! Yeh not one to appreciate them."
What none of them noticed was Bonnie sneak up behind Freddy and grab some pages. "Yoink! Thanks for the entertainment section, Freddy!"
With a snarl, Freddy whipped around. "Damnit Bonnie!"
Which gave Foxy the chance to grab the funnies and lead to both the rabbit and fox getting chased by an annoyed bear...
Link: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11474098/1/Five-Nights-with-Harry