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CH. 1

It was two in the morning when Harry awoke with a start to the sound of breaking glass. Trying to ignore the prickling in his forehead, he hopped out of bed and immediately found the source of the noise. Hedwig lay in a heap on the ground her wings oddly bent. Flecks of red were spreading rapidly through her snowy white feathers.

"Hedwig!" he bent down, picked her up from the ground and placed her carefully on his bed. He noticed the blood on his fingertips as Hedwig hooted mournfully in front of him.

"What happened?" Harry gasped to his friend. He noticed the scratches on her legs, and a couple of broken talons. "You were intercepted weren't you?"

Immediately, panicked thoughts were running through his mind. What had he written in that last letter. He wouldn't be stupid enough to mention the Order...would he?

"Damnit!" Harry said sinking his head to his hands. "I don't know how to help you Hedwig. The Dursleys don't know anything about animals, and I'm not allowed to do magic! Too bad I couldn't just fly to Hagrid." Suddenly Harry figured it out. He had a broom, and he had the invisibility cloak. There was a muggle animal hospital only a few towns over. He could be there in ten minutes.

In an instant, Harry had fetched his Firebolt, and his invisibility cloak. He dashed to his trunk and pulled out a warm squishy sweatshirt which he hastily stuffed into Hedwig's cage (It would be much more comfortable for her than the dropping-strewn cold metal).

"C'mon girl," he said moving her to her cage. "We'll get you some help."

Harry transported everything outside, being careful to not wake the Dursleys. He hooked the handle of Hedwig's cage over his Firebolt and covered them both with the invisibility cloak. The tail of his broom was sticking out, but he figured if he had flown and not been seen with the entire advanced guard last year, then no one would notice just the tail.

"Hold on!" He kicked hard off the ground, and if it had not been such grave circumstances, he would have screamed with the joy of being back in the air.

Within minutes they had arrived in front of a large white building. Out front was a sign that read "Surrey Emergency Care Animal Clinic". Harry stowed his Firebolt and the invisibility cloak in a nearby bush. He dashed to the door with Hedwig who was bleeding freely on his new, well new hand-me-down, sweatshirt.

"Don't worry Hedwig."

There was only two other people in the room: A middle-aged man holding a very agitated snake, and a young receptionist who was standing behind a large circular desk.

"Can I help you?" She looked from Harry to the bleeding owl, and back to Harry.

"It's my owl, I think she's been attacked! Can you help her?"

"I'll go fetch doctor Berkley." The confused receptionist ran off to the nearest office, and came back moments later with a portly man wearing blue scrubs and a white lab coat.

"Take her in here." The man said. The receptionist walked back to her desk, and the man led Harry into an exam room off to the left.

"Can you help her?" Harry repeated.

"Yes she'll be alright. What happened?"

"I don't know. I woke up when she came crashing through my bedroom window." Of course he knew what happened...she was intercepted. But he doubted the vet would beleive him if he said someone tried to keep her from delivering a letter.

"She'll just need stitches from where the glass cut, and we'll wrap her left wing." The doctor explained while carefully removing the shards of glass from Hedwig's side. "What's her name?"

"Hedwig."

"Don't worry Hedwig, you'll be alright. You can go take a seat in the waiting room while I finish her up if you want." He said to Harry.

"Okay." Harry went back and took a seat across from the man with the snake. He realized however that there was even more people in another examining room. A girl was walking out with her arms wrapped around a large ginger cat.

"Hermione!?" Harry gasped.

"Harry!?" She replied. "What are you doing here? Is it Hedwig? Is she okay?"

"Yeah, it's Hedwig." He lowered his voice to a whisper, "I think she was intercepted. And I can't remember what I wrote."

"You wouldn't say anything about the Order though, so it's okay."

"I don't know...I can't remember." He looked around and saw Hermione's mum standing at the counter with the receptionist. "What's wrong with Crookshanks?"

"I woke up and he way lying on my bed whimpering. When I looked at him I noticed cuts all over his side. He must've just gotten in a row with another cat."

"Hermione, I was sending a letter to you. Maybe whoever intercepted the letter caught Hedwig at your house and attacked Crookshanks too." Then suddenly Harry remembered what he had written. His stomach dropped.

"Harry what's wrong?" Hermione asked, concerned.

"I remember what I wrote. Shit, Hermione, I mentioned Grimmauld Place."

"That doesn't mean anything though." Harry knew she was trying to hide her worry.

"I wrote about Lupin and Dumbledore being there too."

"Oh Harry, we need to-"

CRACK!

They both whipped around. They new that sound, someone had apparated.

"Avada Kedavra!" The words were repeated three times, and were followed by four loud thunks to the ground. "What a pleasant surprise. I knew I'd find you here Potter, but look, you brought your mudblood friend along with you."

Harry grabbed Hermione and pulled her close to him. Crookshanks sped off. He felt Hermione's tears running down his arm. They both had their wands out, pointed at the owner of the voice.

"Put your wands down you stupid kids. You are no match for Lord Voldemort."

A/N: This is my first fanfic, hope you like it so far! I'll try to update as soon as I can. Please Review!