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Summary: It is Harry's sixth year. There is a new Head Auror from Australia who is brought in by Albus Dumbledore to help with the order and to teach DADA in the new school year. Who is this new girl? And what links does she have to the Dark Lord that she had defeated back in Australia.

Harry Potter and the Silver Phoenix

Chapter 1: G'day from Australia and First Impressions

Silber Flügel walked out of the visitor entrance lift and into the vast Atrium of the Ministry of Magic. She was quite a spectacle having black hair streaked with silver and startling silver eyes. She also was dressed in muggle attire: black pants and a silver blouse, over which she wore a long black travelling cloak. In one hand, she had a large carpet bag and in the other she held a piece of parchment. She looked down at the piece of parchment.

When you arrive at the Ministry of Magic, please come up to my office so we can organise your stay here.

Cornelius Fudge

'Great,' she thought, 'Now, where on earth could his office be?' Sighing aloud, she looked around. Everywhere she looked there were Witches and Wizards bustling around in a hurry to get to wherever they were going. In one section of the Atrium there were even more Witches and Wizards popping in by Apparition. In another, there were rows of fireplaces where even more people were appearing. In the centre of the Atrium was a fountain. In the fountain were a Wizard, a Witch, a Goblin, a House-elf and a Centaur.

Everyone seemed to be heading to the far end. 'Oh well,' she thought to herself, 'it seems that where I have to go is where everybody else is heading.'

At the far end, she discovered there were lifts against the wall. Silber stopped when she saw a security guard, 'Perfect.' she thought, 'Just the place I need to ask questions.'

She walks over. "Hi, I am starting my new job today and I am wondering where the office of the Minister for Magic is?" Silber asked.

"Welcome to the Ministry. The Minister's office is on the first floor," replied the Guard, "Head to the lifts and go up."

"Thankyou," Silber said, heading towards the lifts.

When Silber arrived, she went into the nearest lift that was heading up. Squashed in the lift with so many others, she scowled. She hated crowds, the pushing and shoving. She liked her own personal space. Each floor passed by. An announcer told what departments were on each floor.

"At least people are getting off at each floor" she muttered. She noted that the second floor announced that it was where the Auror offices were.

Finally she got out on the first floor. Silber looked around with a disapproving frown. The room was covered in lush furnishings. Portraits of former Ministers lined the walls. In front of her was a desk with a receptionist who was sitting, making notes with a quill. Silber walked over to the desk.

"Hi," she said warmly, "I am Silber Flügel, the new Head Auror from Australia. I am to report to the Minister of Magic."

"Welcome, my name is Annemarie Perks," Annemarie smiled warmly. "The Minister is expecting you. Come this way."

"Ah, you must be Miss Flügel," Fudge said grinning at her. "Let me introduce Rufus Scrimgeour. He was the old Head Auror before you came along."

"Thankyou, Minister," Sibler responded, with her first smile of the day, "Please call me Sibler."

"Then call me Cornelius. Do you have somewhere to stay?" Fudge asked, "We can organise something if you need it."

"Professor Dumbledore, says that he has someplace for me to stay. Thanks anyway." Sibler smiled in response.

"Then let's take you down to your office."

With that, Sibler picked up her carpet bag and left the office with the others.

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Arriving at the Auror offices, Silber was greeted by the other Aurors who had a banner welcoming her. She was introduced to all the Aurors as well as a few others from offices on the same floor. This included an Arthur Weasley, who whispered to her that he would talk about her accommodation later, when she was free. With that, she was shown around and told where everything was.

Then Silber was shown her office. It was a spacious room, with a large desk, a comfortable chair behind the desk and two chairs in front. In one corner there was a filing cabinet and against the wall was a large map of England and Scotland. The others left her to get settled in.

Placing her bag on the desk, Silber started unpacking the things she would need in her office: quills, parchment, schedule and a picture of her friends. 'Not very homely,' she sighed, 'but it will do.'

Silber sat down at her desk, picked up the files left there desk and started flicking through them. In one pile, was lists of known Death Eaters, as well as their residences. In another, labelled "classified," was a list of possible Death Eaters. One of the reasons they hired her was to work out who were and who were not real Death Eaters.

Sibler flicked through the last file. 'What I need is more information on these people,' she thought. She remembered that there were a number filing cabinets full of information on people who had done crimes.

A mischievous smiled crossed her face. She opened the door with her wand, then with another wave of her wand, Silber did a bit of fancy transfiguration.

In the file room Kingsley Shacklebolt was searching through a filing cabinet. When suddenly, the cabinet next to him, got up and started walking out of the door! He could see at the bottom of the cabinet were four crab-like legs. Kingsley let curiosity to get the better of him and he followed it out. Tracking it until the cabinet stopped, he was a bit surprised to see that it came to the new Head Auror's office.

"Are you alright, Miss Flügel?" Kingsley asked.

"I'm fine, thankyou," Sibler said nodding, "I just needed to look through some files in this cabinet. So, to save time, I transfigured it so that it would come here its own. Oh, call me Sibler, Mr Shacklebolt."

"Well, that's a different way of doing it," Kingsley replied, then, with a smile he said, "Oh and you can call me Kingsley." With that he left.

Turning back to the filing cabinet Sibler started taking out the files she needed.

Sibler was still at it A few hours later, when Kingsley Shacklebolt came in again.

"Kingsley, when was the last time these files were sorted?" She asked looking up.

"Don't know," Kingsley replied shrugging, "its been awhile. Anyway, are you coming for lunch?"

"Is it lunchtime already?" Sibler asks looking down at her watch, "it is so. Well, I might as well."

"Come on, I will show you the lunchroom." With that he showed her out the room and down the hall. Instead of going to the lifts, they turned right into another hallway.

They stopped in front of a door labelled cafeteria. Kingsley opened the door for Sibler and, with a nod of thanks, she entered.

"Welcome!" Inside everyone on the office floor (and Silber felt sure there were some more people then that), welcomed her. On a banner flashed the words 'WELCOME TO ENGLAND SILBER Flügel.' Someone grabbed her by the arm and dragged her in. She was in too much shock to react. People were all crowding around slapping her on the back. Silber flinched, she didn't like being touched. But she was too caught up in the moment to say anything.

There was a large buffet-style lunch set up. And on a table, in the middle of the room, was a large cake in the shape of the Auror symbol. Silber started to relax as she got to know everyone. Everyone who was there went up to her and introduced themselves – people who were Aurors themselves to Head of departments

The luncheon seemed very long Silber's head was spinning, so she headed back to her office, and sat down. Putting her head in hands, she sighed. She had never been a very social person. Having a very isolated childhood she was never able to socialize with people.

After a short while, there was a knock on the door. Sitting up, she waved her wand at the door and it opened. In came Arthur Weasley, the one who said that he would be taking her to where she was to stay.

Getting up Silber smiled. "Is it time to go already?"

"Not quite, but Albus Dumbledore was hoping to talk to you before everyone arrives."

"Okay, let's go I'm tired anyway." Silber grabbed her bag from the corner where she had put it.

When they got into the lift Mr. Weasley spoke up: "So I heard what you did to the filing cabinet today. Interesting bit of Transfiguration! I have never been good at it myself."

"Kingsley had to tell everyone, didn't he?" Silber sighed, "Why does everybody has to know when I do a bit of difficult magic?" She shook her head, "you don't have to answer that."

"Don't worry about it," he smile warmly, "it's just the way things go around here on the second floor. You'll get use to it."

They arrived at the Atrium. It wasn't as busy as it was this morning. They walked over to the Apparition point.

"I know you can Apparate, but it will be easier if you just apparated with me," explained Mr. Weasley.

With that she grabbed his arm and with a pop they disappeared.

AN: Hope you enjoyed it. Don't forget to R and R.

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