Harry Potter and the Silver Unicorn

Disclaimer: Funnily enough i don't actually own these charactors, coz if i did i'd be pretty bloody rich and probably chilling out on a private yot by now. However....the silver unicorn and Professor Sirene hidellbank are mine so keep your dirty little paws off!!! (not like you'd want 'em anyway but hey)
If i made money out of this it would be an insult to all decent writers out there. So no, i'm not making any profit from this.
Anyways....enjoy my attempt at book five, dun dun duuuuuuuuuuuuun!

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Chapter One - Reflections and a letter

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It was a warm summer day, much warmer than was usual in this part of the world. Ron Weasley sat on the steps of his house tapping his foot to some imaginary beat. He was bored, well maybe not bored, he wasn't really sure what was wrong. It was hard to be bored in the Weasley house, his 5 brothers, especially the twins Fred and George, meant that there was always something fun or at least amusing happening there. His two oldest brothers where away, one in Romania with his dragons, and the other doing work for the Ministry of Magic at the moment though. The only other brother left in the house was Percy. He was now working for the Ministry of Magic and was rarely home...which wasn't really a problem as when he was home he was incredibly boring and whined far too much. He was great to annoy though. He also had a younger sister called Ginny, but she wasn't that much fun either!
The previous summer he hadn't been bored, especially when Harry and Hermione had come to stay and see the Quidditch World Cup final.
That's what he missed. His two best friends from his school, Hogwarts School of wizardry and witchcraft.

Harry Potter was very famous in the wizard world as he had been the boy that lived when Voldemort, the most evil dark wizard in century, had tried to kill him. He had been the downfall of Voldemort. However, Voldemort was rising again, this had been established in the last year of school during the third and final event of the Triwizard tornament. Harry had been lucky to survive and return to them when Voldemort had transported him to another place where he and Harry had duelled.

Ron shuddered at the thought of Voldemort, he couldn't stand it when anyone said his name, then again, neither could virtually all the magic world except Harry and Professor Dumbledore (the Schools headmaster and the only Wizard that Voldemort feared).

Of course, many wizards and witches where on edge now, although many refused to believe he had risen again. No one, except his followers (the death eaters) wanted to live in fear of him like they had only 14 years before, before his reign of terror had ended.
The horrible thing was, Ron perhaps, was in less danger than his two best friends Harry and Hermione. Voldemort obviously wanted Harry dead; he had tried to do so twice within the last few years. He also wanted to rid the wizard world of all mudbloods (wizards and witches that did not have just pure wizard blood in their families). This meant Hermione, who had two muggle (non magic) parents, would be a target of the death eaters.

They already knew that some of the death eaters had already returned to Voldemort. Lucius Malthoy, Crabbe, Goyle, Avery and Macnair amongst others. Some had fled when the death eater mark on their arm had glowed, as they had renounced Voldemort to such an extent that he would surely kill them.

Many of the death eaters were still in Azkaban, a prison guarded by Dementors. These were awful creatures who drained the joy from the people in the prison and made them feel all the hurt and anguish in their life. A Dementors kiss would suck out the soul of the victim.
At the moment where controlled by the ministry. However, many feared that if Voldemort regained more strength, they would go over to his side, releasing all the prisoners there. Apparently the Giants too, would side with Voldemort. Giants were usually very vicious although he knew two half giants that where not. Hagrid, Gamekeeper and Magical creatures teacher and also one of the trio's closest friends at Hogwarts and Madame Maxime who they had met during the triwizards tornament. These two had been sent on an important mission this summer, which was meant to be secret, but Ron thought he could guess what it was. They where going to try and offer the Giants the hand of friendship to stop the giants siding with Voldemort. This sounded dangerous, but very likely; Ron just hoped they were okay.

It also seemed that Serverus Snape, Potions teacher, was on a dangerous mission too. Ron wasn't sure he wanted him to be okay; Snape was hardly Mr nice, especially not to Harry, Hermione and himself. Ron couldn't understand why Dumbledore trusted Snape, as Snape used to be a death eater. He has swapped sides during Voldemorts reign of terror and become a spy for the 'good side'. Perhaps that's why Dumbledore trusted him Ron mused. Ron certainly didn't trust him but he knew Dumbledore had never been wrong before. Perhaps he was missing something about Snape, something Dumbledore knew. Perhaps Snape was an important piece of the puzzle for the 'good side', or maybe it was a matter of keeping your friends close but your enemies closer. Yet Dumbledore trusts him, trusts him enough to take up his old role as spy again even, it certainly seemed that way.

Nothing had been done so far though that had stopped the strange events that kept occurring, and they were getting much more regular. How anyone could ignore these signs and brush them away to the back of their minds Ron didn't know. To him it was clear; Voldemort was back and had to be stopped before he could return to full power.

Ron shuddered, he wanted to see Harry and Hermione again, it felt safer when they where all together. Actually, he wanted to be back at Hogwarts under the protection of Dumbledore and all the teachers and the people he had sent for at the end of last term. These people included Sirus Black (Harry's godfather), Remus Lupin (a werewolf who was the Defence against the Dark arts teacher in third year and had helped them all greatly that year) and two people they hadn't met called Arabella Figg and Mundungus Fletcher.

Ron saw an owl carrying a letter drop down from above and enter his house through the window, it looked vaguely familiar. He stood up to go inside and see whom the letter was from. Before he'd even got through the door though his mother was already there with the letter.
"Ron, get Fred and George and tell them to start packing for school, you too" said Mrs Weasley hurriedly.
"Mum...what's going on?" asked Ron.
"I'll tell you all when you're all packed and downstairs again" she replied.

Ron ran into the garden to find Fred and George chasing Gnomes.
"Fred, George! Come quick, you've got to pack your school stuff and then meet us all downstairs" he yelled.
They stopped and looked at him blankly.
"Why?" asked one of the twins.
"I don't know, mum wont say until where packed!" replied Ron hurriedly.
George and Ron took of in a run towards the house, Ron quickly followed.

Within twenty minutes all three where packed and downstairs with their stuff.
Mrs Weasley led them into the kitchen where they all sat round the dining table. She cleared her throat, and then began.
"Now boys, we have just had a letter from Hogwarts. They want all pupils back immediately. There will be a train at one o'clock tomorrow afternoon from platform nine and three quarters"
"Why?" asked Fred calmly
"You'll get a full explanation at Hogwarts. However, I'll tell you briefly what's going on. Basically there have been some disappearances. One or two...or six old aura's, which are death eater hunters have..........disappeared...mysteriously. Also, a couple of wizards and witches in the areas where those aura's live have disappeared too. They happen to be......well they're not..... erm..."
"Pure blooded" finished Ron for her, "he's growing stronger isn't he?"
"Yes" a voice came from behind them.
"Dad!" exclaimed Fred, "your back early"
"I'm here because I heard Hogwarts are recalling all students early" he explained.
"We know, we have the letter dear," said Mrs Weasley calmly.
"Good, are you all packed then?" he asked, they all nodded in response.
"Good, go do whatever you want to do then" he continued as he turned away from them and poured himself some water.
"But dad..." started Ron but he was cut of by his father.
"No questions Ron" he said, raising his voice slightly, "Dumbledore will answer your questions, not me"
Ron knew better than to push any further so he went up to is room grabbing the Daily Prophet newspaper of the table as he went. He lay on his bed reading it but found nothing of much importance. Why had Hogwarts students been recalled?

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Please reveiw for me, especially if you can see any spelling mistakes!!!

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