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Chapter 1: The Midnights

Nightmare stopped right behind a door. He couldn't believe he was so nervous – after all, this was his organization, his way of telling his parents he, Nightmare, was as capable as his twin brother. His thoughts were interrupted when he heard a commotion at the other side of the door, and dumbly opened the door – his hands were still sweaty because of his sudden nervousness - wanting to help, if the sound were what he thought they were.

Everyone continued screaming, even when he was inside the room, and Nightmare tried calling them to stop, ("Hey!" and "Calling the Midnights!") but he lost patience after a few minutes.

"STOP!" he screamed at the top of his voice, a wave of energy traveling through the room, making everybody freeze. They had felt the power emanating from his body, and some of them were terrified. "Now, would you be so kind to explain to me what's going on?"

Everyone looked at each other, and finally, one spoke.

"We were just... talking about the last mission," Shade explained, stopping just a little before continuing. "They think it would be better if we had just jumped into the water, than calling our brooms." he said, pointing to the other side of the room, where Light was starting to get up.

Nightmare sighed. The Midnight organization had been fighting with each other for a while now – and it was starting to drive him mad.

"Please, stop," he started tiredly, rubbing his eyes with his left hand. "Light, seriously - stop now. We have more important things to talk about, and there's nothing we can do to change the last mission, so please, leave it."

The tired tone of their leader must have caught their attention, because everyone sat, and hushed quickly.

"Hogwarts needs our help," said Nightmare, once he knew he had his complete attention. "And this is the plan..."

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All the Lightnings waited impatiently in the Headquarters, a hidden place in London. It was a comfortable big room, with maps adorning the wall, weapons hanging on another, a bed and a couple sofas pushed to the side, and on the opposite side, a place to train.

One of them finally burst in frustration, the agony of waiting for their leader too much to handle for the impatient strategist and telekinesis.

"Why Nightmare does always have to meet with the other leaders?" he asked.

The others sighed. This topic was commonly brought up as they waited for Nightmare.

The girl flipped her red hair behind her shoulder as she spoke. "You know why, Echo. He is the Supreme Leader, so he has to know how the others are doing."

"But why doesn't he just send an owl, or uses his powers?" Echo asked his sister.

"Because then we could be found, and you know that Nightmare hates about having so much powers."

"But then why do we never get to go?" he asked in frustration, looking up as he paced around the room.

"Echo, just stay quiet for once! We like waiting in silence," Wind said in exasperation, putting an emphasis on the last word.

"Flame, it's just that Night is quite the character, you never know what he is planning," Echo said, looking at his sister. Wind huffed beside him, disliking being ignored by her boyfriend.

Flame agreed with her brother, and replied next. "But he also is the best leader we could ask for. He certainly knows what he is doing."

"Of course I do." said a new voice from the doorway. Everyone instantly turned from their various positions to look at him.

"Finally, Nightmare! Took you long enough! I'm hungry!"

"You're always hungry, Echo," Nightmare said, rolling his eyes.

Echo looked around the room and his ears turned bright red when he only saw the other people in it nod in agreement, a smile on each of their faces.

"Anyway, how did the meeting with the other leaders go?" asked Wind, curiously.

"It was pretty good, actually – ignoring the fact that at first they were screaming at each other. But after silencing them and telling them the plan, they agreed with it. Dumbledore had to ask for help, didn't he?"

Earlier that week Albus Dumbledore had sent a letter in which he stated that he wanted the Lightnings to protect Hogwarts, specifically Charles Potter, the so-called Boy-Who-Lived. Nightmare didn't want to do that, but he cared for the safety of the children at Hogwarts. He always had a soft spot for them, being one, in age only, himself.

When he was younger, he had been neglected and occasionally even abused, in favour of his brother. That stopped when he ran away and met his real family, who were named the Lightnings. He looked at all seven of them. There they were, Flame at his side (as always), Tornado just a little farther than Flame, in the seat by the fire, reading; Echo and Wind at a comfortable two seats cushion, and finally, Rock, Frost and Blade were just coming back from their normal training, back at the training room.

Flame was thirteen years old. Her power was fire. When she had been younger, her family had neglected her in favour of her older brothers, who were all talented at what they did, whether it was taming dragons, breaking curses, doing the very best in school or causing mischief. That caused her to run away – not that she didn't missed them (specially her older brother Bill, who always helped her) - like her youngest brother, Echo.

Echo´s power was telekinesis. He was fourteen years old and ran away for the same reasons as Flame. In fact, he probably was the most ignored in the house. Flame and Echo´s mum had always want a girl, and when she had Echo (whom, she thought was going to finally be a girl) – well, it was definitely what she didn´t want. Flame was born at last, just one year after Echo, but the family passed a tragedy. Flame had had once a twin sister. And soon after she was born, she died, because of health problems. And thus, the only person who would ever attend to her – her mum – was lost in grief and pain. Echo had been the one to get her out of that house and together, they met Nightmare just a year after they left their home, when they were on the streets, stealing food from a very nasty, mean man.

Wind, a pretty girl with slightly bushy, curly hair; was Echo´s girlfriend, and was the same age than him. Her power was air. She had been abandoned by her parents at an orphanage because being Muggles, they had feared her for her magic. She was found by Nightmare when she was six as she still was in the orphanage. Nightmare had offered her a place in their group after learning her story.

Tornado was also fourteen, and his element was air, just as Wind´s. He despised his parent's ideas about Muggleborns, and loathed the idea of becoming a Death Eater. When his parents found out about this, they started beating him and he left soon after. He had been found by Wind, one rainy day soon after he had ran from his home. He still had trouble accepting what had happened. He had, in the past, everything he had wanted; and, was the last member to be accepted into the group, just a few years ago.

Rock was fourteen, too, and his power was earth. He had been left in the streets by his grandmother who couldn't stand looking at him after his parents were attacked. He met Flame one day when she was on a mission for Nightmare, and he had been taken in, gladly.

Frosty was thirteen, the same age as Flame. Her power was water. She left her house when she was nine, after she saw her mother die, and couldn't find her way home ever since. Either way, she was a seer, so she followed the path she dreamed about and found the Lightnings, whom were really nice to her, and accepted all of her oddities; and she has never feel alone since she found them.

Blade, was fourteen, and was gifted at metalworking. He made all of the Lightnings weapons and armor. He left home when his mother wedded yet again, being sick of having to call more people 'Father', and afraid of his own mum; who was already suspected with the murder of all her husbands, and certainly wouldn´t hesitate in trying to kill him. Frost then found him wandering around and guided him to the group.

"So what did they think?" Rock asked, interrupting Nightmare thoughts.

"Ivy thinks it's risky, Light thinks it's a rather good idea, Shade just muttered quietly, Eagle says he will help, and Moon warned me about a stormy week," said Nightmare, still amused at his beta leaders reactions. Ivy, Light, Shade, Eagle, Moon, and he were all leaders in The Midnights, the magical group they were part of. He was the leader of the group, whose name was famous to witches and wizards anywhere.

"So, will the Lightnings attend Hogwarts?" asked Shock, voicing everyone's thoughts, and hopes. Every one of them, except for Nightmare, had wanted to attend the magical school since very young, and, because certain problems, they hadn´t been able to do so.

Nightmare pretended to think really hard about it for a moment, even thought he was only adding his beta leaders opinions with his own.

Finally, he smiled and answered, "Everything that's risky is okay to me."

Flame and Wind smiled, happy at the results. Blade looked at the floor in interest, rolling his eyes at Echo, who was still groaning for food, as thought he hadn´t heard the last statement. Frosty and Rock clasped each other's hands happily, and even Shock was smiling, a rare event.

Nightmare stood in the middle of the room, words leaving his lips in mutters and a smile present on his face. "I hope it all goes to plan."

To the contrary of what his friends thought about him, he didn´t always know what to do. In fact, in most situations he was lost. But he trusted his feelings, and he really hoped the one he had now was wrong, as it was warning him of something.

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The Order of the Phoenix sat waiting in the dining room at their Headquarters, Number 12 Grimmauld Place. It was silent, a rare occasion, what with argumentative and boisterous members. This silence was caused by waiting for the Lightnings, an important part of the Midnights.

The silent was broken, thought, when one member whispered to another: "Who do you think they will be, Minerva?"

The Midnights were well known in the Wizarding World as powerful witches and wizards, each of them capable of controlling an element. Some said that the leader had all of them. Dumbledore himself feared them a little, as they were powerful and influential. Some believed that even Voldemort feared them. But, as much rumors the wizards and witches had, none knew their identities.

In other words, the Midnights were a powerful group, more so than even that the Order itself, and even more secret.

And just then, and before Minerva McGonagall could answer to Sturgis Podmore, an image of lightning struck the ground of the meeting room with a loud crack.

All of the Order members screamed in fear, some of them even standing. After all, how did lightning just strike if they were in a building? But then they saw the girl that appeared out of the smoke. She looked around fourteen, and her eyes were chocolate colored and her hair bushy and brown.

"The Lightnings had agreed to protect Hogwarts. My fellow members will arrive soon," she said with a clear voice, and a small, graceful bow to the group.

"Who are you?" Lily Potter sneered, clearly not impressed with the girl.

"My name is Wind," she answered calmly, her arms behind her back, and her back straight. "I am part of the group known as the Lightnings – my element is air." To show this, she created a small tornado on her hand.

Everyone seemed really shocked, and a bit skeptical, since she was only a kid! Before they had time to ask her questions about it, another lightning bolt struck. This time, a boy appeared.

"I suppose you did as we agreed, didn´t you, Wind?" he asked. His hair was silver blond, and his cool grey eyes sparked with life and mischief – thought if you looked closely, you could see pain hidden in those young eyes.

"I did," Wind nodded, feigning her pose, as though she was hurt because he thought she wouldn't go by the plan.

"Excellent. Now it´s my turn to introduce myself. My name is Tornado, and my element is air." unlike Wind, he not only let them see his element, but showed off his power, making the same tornado - but bigger – and smirked at the girl at his side, when she glared at him in annoyance.

The Order gaped at him, another kid in the Lightnings? But they jumped as another lightning fell, a girl appearing.

"Hello, Order, Professor Dumbledore," she said, in a dreamy voice, her eyes unfocused, which really creep the Order out. "I'm Frosty and my element is water." A stream of water flowed from her palm effortlessly, hitting Dumbledore on his beard. "I am sorry about that, Professor!"

The Order, completely predictably, was stunned again beyond words. Professor Dumbledore, thought, had taken out his wand, and was trying to dry his soaked beard.

Another Lightning bolt struck, and a boy and a girl appeared after the loud crack.

"Hi! Our names are Flame and Echo," Flame said. Echo nodded as his name was called, and continued talking."Flame´s element is fire, and mine is telekinesis." A blast of fire came from Flame's hand, Flame looking down at it with satisfaction. Echo smiled, and then looked at the table. A moment later the table had moved slightly forward.

Silence rang through the room, although Molly Weasley wondered if they were her lost children; they certainly looked like her and her family. And they had the same Weasley traits: red hair and freckles.

Another lightning bolt fell. This time only a boy appeared from the smoke.

"I'm called Blade. I have a gift with Metal, and I create all of our armory and weapons."

The Order blinked in shock at Blade's statement, more specifically his statement that he created the entire armory.

Finally, another bolt struck the ground, this one the most powerful and fearful. A boy stepped from the smoke it produced, and he easily had the most powerful presence.

He nodded towards the Lightnings, who all nodded back in respect. He was obviously the leader, judging by the respect he seemed to receive effortlessly.

"I am Nightmare. I have all of the elements at my will and call, and I am the Supreme Leader of the Midnights." He showed some powers, fire, light, water and wind. "We have come here to help. And I think it should be better if we come to Hogwarts, as students, that's it."

The leader, Nightmare, took a look at some of the people of the room – Lily and James Potter, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin.

"Could I talk for a little while to four Order members?" he asked politely, and then nodded to the four people he had been looking at.

Lily and James Potter, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, stood from the seats they were in, and walked towards the Lightnings, eyes shining in curiosity.

"Mufliatto," whispered Flame, wand in hand, pointing it towards the rest of the Order of the Phoenix.

Nightmare sighed, and looked at the four people of the Order, cautiously, but confused. He had never understood their actions towards him, and at the moment it wasn´t the time to have answers. "I just wanted to explain, I am Harry, your son." he looked only at the Potters when he said it, and the four stood shocked before a loud "What!" was heard.

The non-Potters were the first to get over the shock.

"Harry, is it really you?" asked Sirius, taking one step towards his godson, eyeing him in wonder and hope.

"Yes, thought I go now by Nightmare," he corrected them.

"Harry – I mean, Nightmare, about our poor treatment to you..." started Remus, after a minute of standing shocked, Sirius looking regretful once he got his answer. It was Harry! It was really Harry. And he couldn´t be nothing but remorseful of his actions towards him. Maybe if he hadn´t agreed to James and Lily, maybe Harry wouldn´t have run off. Maybe he would still be with his family, happy – No, Sirius thought strongly. Harry would never be happy with his parents. Not the way they used to treat him...

"I understand. Really, I do. I just can't forgive you so easily, it will take time. But I will, I promise." he said, with total honesty, but sneaking a few glances at his family – his parents – and saw that both of them still looked shocked.

James finally found his voice.

"Son, I know that what we did too you were bad, and wrong and even cruel, but will you pardon us, please?"

Nightmare shook his head furiously, unable to believe what he was hearing. They really expected him to forgive their actions that easily? After years of neglect and abuse? As if!

"Father, you can't just come to me and say "Sorry Harry, I apologize for how I acted!"" he said sarcastically, and Flame placed a calming hand on his arm, and he took a deep breath, and continued more quietly and calmly. "You didn´t want me when I was a "burden" to you, and you change your mind when you suddenly discover I am powerful!"

"I can't?" James looked half-sheepish. Every one turned to glare at him – that's everyone but his wife.

Nightmare blinked. Really? Was his Father deaf or something?

"I told you! You have only cared ever about Charles, and not that I blame him – of course not, but you are so deep in this boy-who-lived nonsense! What If I were that boy, the one to stop Voldemort? Uh? How would you treat Charles?" he asked and they shifted guiltily. "Exactly. Is this worth it?"

Nightmare stopped to take a breath and calm down, thought it didn´t work very well. "And I hope you learn from your big mistake," Nightmare finished in a low angry voice that frightened his family even more than if he had shouted and looked away from them, walking towards the confused Order members, as he eliminated the Mufliatto.

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Flame hesitated for a brief moment if she was supposed to follow her boyfriend or not. She wanted more than all, to scream too at his 'parents' – she, more than anyone, knew what he felt about them… she was the only one Nightmare showed his pain to, but at some shakes of heads from her friends – her family – she directed a glare towards Lily and James Potter, and followed Nightmare´s path, walking slowly to where he was.

"People, I think we´ve had a lot of fun. I would stay here to enjoy it, but we have to go." he spoke with authority, the angry teen he had been only minutes ago completely vanished.

His fellow Lightnings looked disappointed, but nodded anyway.

"Well, dear Order and parents we hope to see you in September! See you!" he said cheerfully, his friends looking at him, waiting to be transported.

They left with another lightning bolt, though this time only one, leaving a confused Order of the Phoenix, and one stunned quartet.

Author Note:

Hey guys! Here is the new and better first chapter! YAY!

Anyway. Here is the plan:

I will be working all days this week, to try to finish this story. I am nearly there!

I will try to post at least one chapter everyday, IF, it was a chapter like this, in which I only Edited some things.

WHEN I get to post the chapters that are totally new for you, I will post two or three a week. I wasn´t joking, when I said, I would try to finish by next week.

Anyway, enjoy the changes!

Lily