I'm probably not going to be able to update this story as often as I'd like because I have 5 other fan fictions going right now. But I hope you like this any way. This is a LOTR meets HP sixth year FF. OK enough intro...onto the story!!!!

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It was December at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the weather was freezing but the pure white snow made the grounds glitter like a fairy tale. All the students were happy and joyous even with the threat of the You-Know-Who. All.... except three. For Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger nothing at Hogwarts made them happy; they wouldn't even smile. They had had the worst summer any of them could ever remember experiencing.

It started with having to go back to Grimauld Place. That was the safest place for Order Headquarters even if it was the one place all the members of the Order of the Phoenix wanted to stay as far away from as possible. No one smiled or looked happy the entire summer and those who had other places they could be spent as much time out of that dreadful dreary house as possible.

Upon arriving back at the Order after the events in The Department of Mysteries Remus Lupin proceeded to lock himself in his room and barely ever came out and rarely ate all summer. When Harry Potter had arrived he proceeded to do much the same thing but at least he came out for meals and occasionally for a bit of air. Every night of the entire summer sixteen year old Harry would cry himself to sleep. And he wasn't ashamed. He didn't care what any one thought any more, he didn't care if they thought he was sane or not, he didn't care if they thought he was a wimp for crying, he didn't care because NOBODY ELSE CARED ABOUT HIM! NO BODY CARED THAT HE HAD LOST EVERYONE WHO WAS EVER SPECIAL TO HIM! NO BODY CARED THAT SIRIUS BLACK THE GREATEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED WAS DEAD! DEAD! FALLEN THROUGH SOME STUPID, LAME, POINTLESS, HORRIBLE, VEIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And then they had to go back to Hogwarts. Everyone had heard of the events in The Department of Mysteries. And at first every one had asked questions but after many being snapped furiously at by Hermione and a few even cursed or hexed they gave up and instead gave them funny looks of mingled pity, confusion, fear, anxiety, and numerable other things. Everyone wondered of course why the three normally happy friends never even smiled. They didn't even look remotely happy when they found out their O.W.L. grades. (all of which they had passed with good marks, even potions). Each day seemed the same to the Trio and the year seemed to be dragging by until one morning after a huge snowstorm, a strange discovery was made.

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hehehe I love cliff hangers!! I hope you like it!!!!!!!

Reformatted: 9/17/04