Dedication: For the Red Dragons Order, fellow fanfic writer, because of
whom I started writing my own fan fictions.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything that appears in the Harry Potter books, J. K. Rowling does. The rest belongs to me. This is NOT the real Harry Potter and the Green Flame Torch -duh!- That said, let's move on!
Harry Potter and the Green Flame Torch
Chapter One: Many letters
Every kid in Little Whinging was celebrating the beginning of summer and, especially, the beginning of the summer vacation. Every kid was happy to be away from school and was enjoying the summer. That is, with one exception: a 15 year-old boy who lived at number 4, Privet Drive.
The reason why the boy, called Harry Potter, was quite unhappy with everything and mad with the world was actually divided in many parts. For once, he always hated summer vacations, because he had to live his aunt and uncle who really didn't like him since he was a wizard and totally different from them. He had to live with them because the most evil wizard in the world, Voldemort, killed his parents when he was only one year old.
And that brought him to his second reason why he hated that summer: there was a prophecy that only he, Harry Potter, could kill Voldemort, and that wasn't quite simple since that evil wizard happened to be the most powerful evil wizard alive.
The third reason was that the adult person who he got along best, his godfather, died at the end of his school year, killed by one of Voldemort's followers, who were called Death Eaters.
But luckily he still had a few great friends who would always help him when he was in need: his best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, Ron's twin brothers, Fred and George Weasley, their sister, Ginny Weasley, a boy called Neville Longbottom and a few grownups that liked him. Yeah, life could be worse, but not much worse than it already was. Spending his vacation with the Dursley's was definitely not fun.
As he stood in the park, looking around, millions of questions popped into his mind: was anybody going to save him this year from the Dursley's? Last year he was saved by the Order of the Phoenix, but he thought that nobody would save him now. They were all too busy. And besides, where could they send him?
But this year was better than last year with one difference: he now knew what was going on in the magical world. Ron and Hermione were sending him letters telling him that everything was o.k. and not to worry and were telling him what was going on in the Order. Not too detailed, of course, but enough to make him feel better. But was it actually true? The Dursley's let him watch the news now and nothing fishy was going on.
As he stood there, an small owl came from the sky, hooting happily.
"Hello, Pig", Harry said quietly and caught the small owl in his hand. He took her letter and started reading it.
Dear Harry,
How are you? We're home right now and Tonks says "Hi!".
Did you get the Daily Prophet this morning? They wrote a whole article about the Order. And it was quite interesting, too. But Dumbledore didn't give them too many details, said he doesn't want You-Know-Who to know anything about his plans.
Fred and George are doing o.k. with Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. Here everything is o.k. Except for the Percy part. He hasn't apologized yet, and mum and dad are still waiting for him to.
Something weird is happening, though. Can't say what, in case the letter is getting intercepted.
Miss you,
Ron
But now Harry knew better than last year what was happening. He caught the part about 'can't say what' and started thinking. Well, it had to be about the Order, but it wasn't of maximal importance, because he said 'everything is o.k.'
He got up and went towards Mrs. Figg's house. Since he knew she was a Squib, he went at her place more often. Well, as often you could go in two weeks of vacation, anyway!
He got to the house and knocked at the door. Footsteps could be heard from behind the door and a woman's voice said:
"Coming, Coming"
The door opened and Harry came face to face with an old, batty lady.
"Hello, Harry, come on in!"
"Hello, Mrs. Figg!"
She took him to an old dining room and made him sit down on a chair.
"Well, Harry, it's nice of you to visit!"
"Nice to see you again, Mrs. Figg"
"How have you been?"
"Fine, thank you. And you?"
"Oh, great, I've just fed my dearest cats."
Harry smiled. The old lady had a passion for cats.
"So, do you know what's going on in the Order?" Harry asked politely.
"Of course I do, dear" she answered smiling. "Everything is going well, You- Know-Who had a few plans destroyed before he could even try to use them, otherwise nothing important."
"That's great!" Harry said. Oh, they were hiding something from him again. "Has there been anything weird going on lately?"
"No, not really", she answered, looking curiously at him. "Why, has anyone told you anything?"
"No", he lied. Whatever it was, it must have been important, or Mrs. Figg would have told him about it.
"Would you like something to drink?"
"Yes, please", he answered
They talked about little things for some while and then Harry went home. Sirius would have told him what everything was about. Why, why did he have to die? He missed him now more than ever. Maybe it was his fault Sirius died. If he hadn't went to the Department of Mysteries, maybe Sirius would have still been alive.
He slowly walked home and went to his room. He closed the door and let himself fall on the bed. Sirius had been for him something like an older brother. and now he was dead.
There was a knock at the door and Harry stood up and opened the door. There, for his surprise was his cousin, Dudley. Harry's jaw dropped. Dudley had been avoiding him since last year, why was he at the door.
"Hello, Dudley, come in." he said and his massive cousin entered.
"Dad said go down-now." He said shivering.
Harry went out through the door and Dudley followed. They went down the stairs to the living room. There sat his aunt and uncle.
"Sit down, boy", uncle Vernon said.
Harry sat down and looked curiously at his uncle.
"What have you been up to?"
"Nothing", said Harry, more and more amazed. "Why?"
"There were some people today at my company. I had to leave for a few minutes and when I came back I definitely heard them say your name. Here do they know it from?"
"How should I know?"
"They also said something about an Order. What were they talking about, boy?"
Harry looked at him. Well, he might just say it.
"They probably were wiz. of my kind. And they were talking about the Order of the Phoenix, I think."
"And what was your lot doing at my company?"
"Beats me!" said Harry truthfully.
"You mean you don't know what your own are doing?" said uncle Vernon. "I don't buy it, you know"
"There must be millions of wiz. of my kind in the world. How could I know them all?" said Harry getting less and less patient.
"But how many of them know you?" asked uncle Vernon, also loosing his patience.
"More than you think" mumbled Harry. "Now, if you don't mind, I'm going back up to send a letter to those people who you saw at the end of my school-year."
That did the trick: uncle Vernon let him go and Harry went upstairs. Thank God a few members from the Order decided to scare uncle Vernon at the end of his school-year!
He sat down and started writing. He thought of what he would write and his heart gave a painful beat. This letter could have been for Sirius. He tried to get his godfather out of his mind and started writing. After about half an hour, he came up with a good solution.
Dear guys,
How are you all? Is everything all right?
I'm getting bored here. Do you think I could leave this place now?
Uncle Vernon says that a couple of people came to his company today and said something about me and the Order when they thought he was gone. Would you happen to know what's going on?
Yours,
Harry
He went towards his owl, Hedwig, who was sleeping in her cage.
"Hey, Hedwig! Think you could deliver this to Tonks?"
The owl hooted happily, took the letter and flew with it. Harry watched it get smaller and smaller on the sky and took back Ron's letter. He re-read it and noticed the part about the article about the Order. He took his copy of the Daily Prophet and started reading the article.
The Order of the Phoenix
Albus Dumbledore has admitted that when he heard the story of You Know Who's come back to life, he called for a few trustworthy people to help him fight the forces of evil. Although the Ministry of Magic might not have approved that at the certain time, it now approves it totally.
The Headmaster of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has refused to tell us any names from within the Order or where the Headquarters are.
"I am deeply sorry", he said, "but we need to keep this a secret. But we are now in cooperation with the Ministry and we will try to make this the best for the wizard community. Meanwhile, we advice the magical world to be on total alert."
Dumbledore has been put back into his old positions and rejoined the Chairmanship of the International Confederation of Wizards and is Chief Warlock on the Wizengamot again.
Cornelius Fudge, Minister of Magic admits that all these titles have been taken away from him because of the statements of the You Know Who's return. He said that he was afraid that Albus Dumbledore was getting of track and tried to keep him from harming the community of wizards.
"I admit that I was extremely skeptical about the return of He-Who-Must-Not- Be-Named and now I am very sorry for that. I wish the community of wizards will accept my apologies."
The Order of the Phoenix had existed during the last rise of He-Who-Must- Not-Be-Named and now, as Dumbledore says, it is better organized.
We can only hope for the best.
Miranda Hovel
Harry smiled. Well, at least Fudge apologized!
The next day, in the morning, Harry was woken up, as usual, by the owl who delivered the Daily Prophet. He remembered that he had a nightmare again, about Sirius's death and what happened later and, to tell the truth, he was quite shaken. He paid the owl and took the paper, going quickly through it. There was nothing interesting, though. A few minutes later, another owl came through the window, a snow white owl. Hedwig.
"'lo Hedwig" Harry said taking the letter.
Dear Harry,
I think you could leave that place now. Is it still unnaturally clean?
So, you say your uncle heard two wizards? Well, there's nothing to worry about, they were Remus and Arthur! They wanted to check on your dearest uncle. So, he didn't recognize them? Remind me to congratulate them!!! ;-)
The others say "hi!"
Write back soon,
Tonks
Harry grinned and went down for breakfast, temporarily forgetting about his nightmare.
"What on Earth were you doing last night, boy?" uncle Vernon asked letting his paper down.
"What do you mean?" asked Harry.
"You screamed in your sleep, woke up the whole house."
"I had a nightmare." Harry said his heart aching badly.
"You yelled 'Sirius! Let go! Let go! no!'" said aunt Petunia. "I thought somebody was attacking you! But then you didn't say any more."
"If you yell like that ever again", said Vernon menacingly, "I'll lock you up in your room!"
"Fine!" said Harry quite angry. "See if I care!"
He didn't feel to well. He started screaming in his sleep.
After breakfast, he sent a letter to Ron telling him about Remus's and Arthur's visit and about the fact that he got really bored of staying with the Dursley's -duh!- and wanted to know more things about the Order.
The next day, the owl from Ron was quite short, but Harry jumped high to the ceiling reading it.
Why don't you stay with us for the rest of the holiday, Harry?
Ron
He quickly wrote a 'yes!!!' on a piece of parchment and gave it to Pig who was flying like mad through his room, under Hedwig's disapproving eyes.
Harry took out another piece of parchment and wrote a letter to the Order.
Dear guys,
Ron asked me if I'd like to stay at his place and I accepted. I hope I'll be out of here soon!
I miss you all, of course! The Dursley's are o.k. Well. As o.k. as they can be. But they're not as bad as they used to be. Oh, I hope you don't mind, but I threatened them with you a couple of times. They were quite scared!!!
Write back soon!
Harry
"Hedwig!" he called his owl, making her jump up in the air a little, hooting. "Could you send this to anybody in the Order? Except for Snape, of course!" he added thinking of Snape's reaction when he got a letter with "I miss you. Harry" and especially about the "I threatened them with you".
Harry laughed imagining an outraged Potion Master getting that letter.
The next morning, he got two letters: one from Ron saying that they'd pick him up in two days and one from Remus, saying that they were glad he was well and happy they could help with the Dursley's. Life was good! Or, it would have been so if Sirius was still alive and Voldemort hadn't risen again.
When he told the news to the Dursley's -Ron's, of course-, they almost went mad and calmed down only much later, when Harry assured them that this time Dudley won't get no pig's tail or huge tongue and that the house will be intact. Or, at least, that was his hope.
Finally, the big day had come!!! The Weasley's were picking him up today. Hopefully through Muggle ways, or the Dursley's would have gone ballistic.
O.K., guys, thanks for reading, I'll be updating soon, I hope. Amala will also be in the book and you'll get to know how she finds out about Sirius and many things about the order.
I'd like to thank everybody who read and reviewed 'Behind the Veil'. Yes, that story will be mentioned in the book, but not everything will be said.
Some of the reviewers said that Amala is a bit Mary-Sueish. Problem is, I've got no clue who Mary-Sue is. Out of what I got, she's a new helpless girl at school who everybody likes and gets to be the star of the whole thing. Am I right? Oh, well, Amala is not like that. Yes, she's a new girl and yes, she's nice, but not everybody likes her. I know I said everybody does like her, but I meant Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, these guys. Not the whole school!!!
Please review!!!
P.S. Did Mary-Sue have a crush on Snape, who is a huge jerk, as usual? ;-)
Disclaimer: I don't own anything that appears in the Harry Potter books, J. K. Rowling does. The rest belongs to me. This is NOT the real Harry Potter and the Green Flame Torch -duh!- That said, let's move on!
Harry Potter and the Green Flame Torch
Chapter One: Many letters
Every kid in Little Whinging was celebrating the beginning of summer and, especially, the beginning of the summer vacation. Every kid was happy to be away from school and was enjoying the summer. That is, with one exception: a 15 year-old boy who lived at number 4, Privet Drive.
The reason why the boy, called Harry Potter, was quite unhappy with everything and mad with the world was actually divided in many parts. For once, he always hated summer vacations, because he had to live his aunt and uncle who really didn't like him since he was a wizard and totally different from them. He had to live with them because the most evil wizard in the world, Voldemort, killed his parents when he was only one year old.
And that brought him to his second reason why he hated that summer: there was a prophecy that only he, Harry Potter, could kill Voldemort, and that wasn't quite simple since that evil wizard happened to be the most powerful evil wizard alive.
The third reason was that the adult person who he got along best, his godfather, died at the end of his school year, killed by one of Voldemort's followers, who were called Death Eaters.
But luckily he still had a few great friends who would always help him when he was in need: his best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, Ron's twin brothers, Fred and George Weasley, their sister, Ginny Weasley, a boy called Neville Longbottom and a few grownups that liked him. Yeah, life could be worse, but not much worse than it already was. Spending his vacation with the Dursley's was definitely not fun.
As he stood in the park, looking around, millions of questions popped into his mind: was anybody going to save him this year from the Dursley's? Last year he was saved by the Order of the Phoenix, but he thought that nobody would save him now. They were all too busy. And besides, where could they send him?
But this year was better than last year with one difference: he now knew what was going on in the magical world. Ron and Hermione were sending him letters telling him that everything was o.k. and not to worry and were telling him what was going on in the Order. Not too detailed, of course, but enough to make him feel better. But was it actually true? The Dursley's let him watch the news now and nothing fishy was going on.
As he stood there, an small owl came from the sky, hooting happily.
"Hello, Pig", Harry said quietly and caught the small owl in his hand. He took her letter and started reading it.
Dear Harry,
How are you? We're home right now and Tonks says "Hi!".
Did you get the Daily Prophet this morning? They wrote a whole article about the Order. And it was quite interesting, too. But Dumbledore didn't give them too many details, said he doesn't want You-Know-Who to know anything about his plans.
Fred and George are doing o.k. with Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. Here everything is o.k. Except for the Percy part. He hasn't apologized yet, and mum and dad are still waiting for him to.
Something weird is happening, though. Can't say what, in case the letter is getting intercepted.
Miss you,
Ron
But now Harry knew better than last year what was happening. He caught the part about 'can't say what' and started thinking. Well, it had to be about the Order, but it wasn't of maximal importance, because he said 'everything is o.k.'
He got up and went towards Mrs. Figg's house. Since he knew she was a Squib, he went at her place more often. Well, as often you could go in two weeks of vacation, anyway!
He got to the house and knocked at the door. Footsteps could be heard from behind the door and a woman's voice said:
"Coming, Coming"
The door opened and Harry came face to face with an old, batty lady.
"Hello, Harry, come on in!"
"Hello, Mrs. Figg!"
She took him to an old dining room and made him sit down on a chair.
"Well, Harry, it's nice of you to visit!"
"Nice to see you again, Mrs. Figg"
"How have you been?"
"Fine, thank you. And you?"
"Oh, great, I've just fed my dearest cats."
Harry smiled. The old lady had a passion for cats.
"So, do you know what's going on in the Order?" Harry asked politely.
"Of course I do, dear" she answered smiling. "Everything is going well, You- Know-Who had a few plans destroyed before he could even try to use them, otherwise nothing important."
"That's great!" Harry said. Oh, they were hiding something from him again. "Has there been anything weird going on lately?"
"No, not really", she answered, looking curiously at him. "Why, has anyone told you anything?"
"No", he lied. Whatever it was, it must have been important, or Mrs. Figg would have told him about it.
"Would you like something to drink?"
"Yes, please", he answered
They talked about little things for some while and then Harry went home. Sirius would have told him what everything was about. Why, why did he have to die? He missed him now more than ever. Maybe it was his fault Sirius died. If he hadn't went to the Department of Mysteries, maybe Sirius would have still been alive.
He slowly walked home and went to his room. He closed the door and let himself fall on the bed. Sirius had been for him something like an older brother. and now he was dead.
There was a knock at the door and Harry stood up and opened the door. There, for his surprise was his cousin, Dudley. Harry's jaw dropped. Dudley had been avoiding him since last year, why was he at the door.
"Hello, Dudley, come in." he said and his massive cousin entered.
"Dad said go down-now." He said shivering.
Harry went out through the door and Dudley followed. They went down the stairs to the living room. There sat his aunt and uncle.
"Sit down, boy", uncle Vernon said.
Harry sat down and looked curiously at his uncle.
"What have you been up to?"
"Nothing", said Harry, more and more amazed. "Why?"
"There were some people today at my company. I had to leave for a few minutes and when I came back I definitely heard them say your name. Here do they know it from?"
"How should I know?"
"They also said something about an Order. What were they talking about, boy?"
Harry looked at him. Well, he might just say it.
"They probably were wiz. of my kind. And they were talking about the Order of the Phoenix, I think."
"And what was your lot doing at my company?"
"Beats me!" said Harry truthfully.
"You mean you don't know what your own are doing?" said uncle Vernon. "I don't buy it, you know"
"There must be millions of wiz. of my kind in the world. How could I know them all?" said Harry getting less and less patient.
"But how many of them know you?" asked uncle Vernon, also loosing his patience.
"More than you think" mumbled Harry. "Now, if you don't mind, I'm going back up to send a letter to those people who you saw at the end of my school-year."
That did the trick: uncle Vernon let him go and Harry went upstairs. Thank God a few members from the Order decided to scare uncle Vernon at the end of his school-year!
He sat down and started writing. He thought of what he would write and his heart gave a painful beat. This letter could have been for Sirius. He tried to get his godfather out of his mind and started writing. After about half an hour, he came up with a good solution.
Dear guys,
How are you all? Is everything all right?
I'm getting bored here. Do you think I could leave this place now?
Uncle Vernon says that a couple of people came to his company today and said something about me and the Order when they thought he was gone. Would you happen to know what's going on?
Yours,
Harry
He went towards his owl, Hedwig, who was sleeping in her cage.
"Hey, Hedwig! Think you could deliver this to Tonks?"
The owl hooted happily, took the letter and flew with it. Harry watched it get smaller and smaller on the sky and took back Ron's letter. He re-read it and noticed the part about the article about the Order. He took his copy of the Daily Prophet and started reading the article.
The Order of the Phoenix
Albus Dumbledore has admitted that when he heard the story of You Know Who's come back to life, he called for a few trustworthy people to help him fight the forces of evil. Although the Ministry of Magic might not have approved that at the certain time, it now approves it totally.
The Headmaster of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has refused to tell us any names from within the Order or where the Headquarters are.
"I am deeply sorry", he said, "but we need to keep this a secret. But we are now in cooperation with the Ministry and we will try to make this the best for the wizard community. Meanwhile, we advice the magical world to be on total alert."
Dumbledore has been put back into his old positions and rejoined the Chairmanship of the International Confederation of Wizards and is Chief Warlock on the Wizengamot again.
Cornelius Fudge, Minister of Magic admits that all these titles have been taken away from him because of the statements of the You Know Who's return. He said that he was afraid that Albus Dumbledore was getting of track and tried to keep him from harming the community of wizards.
"I admit that I was extremely skeptical about the return of He-Who-Must-Not- Be-Named and now I am very sorry for that. I wish the community of wizards will accept my apologies."
The Order of the Phoenix had existed during the last rise of He-Who-Must- Not-Be-Named and now, as Dumbledore says, it is better organized.
We can only hope for the best.
Miranda Hovel
Harry smiled. Well, at least Fudge apologized!
The next day, in the morning, Harry was woken up, as usual, by the owl who delivered the Daily Prophet. He remembered that he had a nightmare again, about Sirius's death and what happened later and, to tell the truth, he was quite shaken. He paid the owl and took the paper, going quickly through it. There was nothing interesting, though. A few minutes later, another owl came through the window, a snow white owl. Hedwig.
"'lo Hedwig" Harry said taking the letter.
Dear Harry,
I think you could leave that place now. Is it still unnaturally clean?
So, you say your uncle heard two wizards? Well, there's nothing to worry about, they were Remus and Arthur! They wanted to check on your dearest uncle. So, he didn't recognize them? Remind me to congratulate them!!! ;-)
The others say "hi!"
Write back soon,
Tonks
Harry grinned and went down for breakfast, temporarily forgetting about his nightmare.
"What on Earth were you doing last night, boy?" uncle Vernon asked letting his paper down.
"What do you mean?" asked Harry.
"You screamed in your sleep, woke up the whole house."
"I had a nightmare." Harry said his heart aching badly.
"You yelled 'Sirius! Let go! Let go! no!'" said aunt Petunia. "I thought somebody was attacking you! But then you didn't say any more."
"If you yell like that ever again", said Vernon menacingly, "I'll lock you up in your room!"
"Fine!" said Harry quite angry. "See if I care!"
He didn't feel to well. He started screaming in his sleep.
After breakfast, he sent a letter to Ron telling him about Remus's and Arthur's visit and about the fact that he got really bored of staying with the Dursley's -duh!- and wanted to know more things about the Order.
The next day, the owl from Ron was quite short, but Harry jumped high to the ceiling reading it.
Why don't you stay with us for the rest of the holiday, Harry?
Ron
He quickly wrote a 'yes!!!' on a piece of parchment and gave it to Pig who was flying like mad through his room, under Hedwig's disapproving eyes.
Harry took out another piece of parchment and wrote a letter to the Order.
Dear guys,
Ron asked me if I'd like to stay at his place and I accepted. I hope I'll be out of here soon!
I miss you all, of course! The Dursley's are o.k. Well. As o.k. as they can be. But they're not as bad as they used to be. Oh, I hope you don't mind, but I threatened them with you a couple of times. They were quite scared!!!
Write back soon!
Harry
"Hedwig!" he called his owl, making her jump up in the air a little, hooting. "Could you send this to anybody in the Order? Except for Snape, of course!" he added thinking of Snape's reaction when he got a letter with "I miss you. Harry" and especially about the "I threatened them with you".
Harry laughed imagining an outraged Potion Master getting that letter.
The next morning, he got two letters: one from Ron saying that they'd pick him up in two days and one from Remus, saying that they were glad he was well and happy they could help with the Dursley's. Life was good! Or, it would have been so if Sirius was still alive and Voldemort hadn't risen again.
When he told the news to the Dursley's -Ron's, of course-, they almost went mad and calmed down only much later, when Harry assured them that this time Dudley won't get no pig's tail or huge tongue and that the house will be intact. Or, at least, that was his hope.
Finally, the big day had come!!! The Weasley's were picking him up today. Hopefully through Muggle ways, or the Dursley's would have gone ballistic.
O.K., guys, thanks for reading, I'll be updating soon, I hope. Amala will also be in the book and you'll get to know how she finds out about Sirius and many things about the order.
I'd like to thank everybody who read and reviewed 'Behind the Veil'. Yes, that story will be mentioned in the book, but not everything will be said.
Some of the reviewers said that Amala is a bit Mary-Sueish. Problem is, I've got no clue who Mary-Sue is. Out of what I got, she's a new helpless girl at school who everybody likes and gets to be the star of the whole thing. Am I right? Oh, well, Amala is not like that. Yes, she's a new girl and yes, she's nice, but not everybody likes her. I know I said everybody does like her, but I meant Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, these guys. Not the whole school!!!
Please review!!!
P.S. Did Mary-Sue have a crush on Snape, who is a huge jerk, as usual? ;-)
