Again, my copy of the Order of the Phoenix has been...ahem, borrowed...by someone, so sorry if some details are incorrect, as I can't find them on the internet. If I get some wrong, review and tell me, but I do know some things about the book from memory, and this is an AU.

Shadow Evans looked around her at the mess that was number twelve, Grimmould Place. Glaring at her foe of the moment, a drop of an unknown potion, she attacked it with a scrubbing brush, black hair falling into her face. "Shadow!" Called Lily, Shadow's mother, and Shadow heard the soft footsteps walking up the stairs and towards her. "It's dinnertime," she said softly.

"Yes, mum," said Shadow. Getting up, she groaned as her legs protested from sitting in the same position for hours on end. Shadow was in Grimmould Place: Her father's best friend's house that had not been occupied in years, and now that Voldemort was apparently back, the Headquarters for the Order of the Phoenix. Neville Longbottom would be joining them when his grandmother finally agreed. The head of the School, Minerva McGonagall, lead the group along with Alastor Moody, a paranoid ex-Arour. The Weasley family would be coming tomorrow. Meanwhile, it was simply Shadow, her mother, her father Remus, and the owner of the house, Sirius Black, living there. The four were cleaning up the house slowly: when they'd come just after school, the whole place had been a mess.

Flashback

When Shadow got home, she was ordered to pack up everything that she hadn't for school. Cassie, her cat, and Athena, her owl, along with her things, were taken to London. When she had memorised the words, 'The headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix is in number twelve, Grimmould place.' When they opened the door, a huge amount of dust and grime fell into the already coated hallway. "We're going to have to clean up," Lily said. Sirius, Shadow and Remus nodded.

End Flashback

So here she was, sitting eating a huge stack of toast, because the toaster was the only thing that was working in the house that was to do with cooking, and pondering why on Earth was she not allowed to send letters to Draco, Hermione, Ginny, Colin or Penelope. It wasn't like she'd be sending them little leaflets saying I'M AT GRIMMOULD PLACE, NUMBER TWELVE! She prodded her toast moodily.

The next day, Ginny and her family arrived at Grimmould Place, along with Hermione. The very first question Shadow asked was, "Have you heard from Draco?"

Ginny and Hermione glared at her icily. "He said you were ignoring him," Ginny replied. "All his letters came back unopened."
"Alastor Moody made me stop writing to him," Shadow sighed. "And when I didn't, he put up mail wards."

"Oh," Ginny said. "He said he thought it might be something like that, but we wanted to be sure."

Hermione and Ginny immediately began helping Shadow clear up the house, as it was a huge job. Ron Weasley was slacking off most of the time, but Fred and George were helping out also. Soon, Luna came to join them, along with Penelope, who had joined the Order, and they were all cleaning and chatting like old times.

Shadow had made a new friend at Order HQ, though. Her name was don't-call-me-Nymphadora Tonks. The most amusing thing to Shadow was that Tonks had a huge crush on her father. Remus was single, and definitely interested, but he said that a) she was too young and b) he was too dangerous for poor Tonks. Shadow had tried, many times, to explain Tonks didn't care, but Remus wouldn't listen. While Tonks and Shadow were getting along, Shadow and Ron Weasley were getting along even worse.

The first day, Weasley had been throwing stones at her owl Athena. She'd retaliated by putting spiders in his bed. The second day, he'd thrown Athena out of the window, so she'd turned him pink, even though Athena was an owl. Apparently, Weasley was stupid.

When the kids, and a few Order members, left to go to Diagon Alley, Shadow hurried to find Draco.

"Draco!" She called, and led him behind Flourish and Blotts. After a hearty snogging session, they came back out and headed into the shop. They looked over their lists: the defence books were almost the same, and they wondered exactly why Sirius was giving them those books. As one, they walked over to him.

"I quit," he whispered. "So I could do more for the Order. I heard some Ministry hag, Delores Umbridge, has been sent there by the ministry." Nodding, they walked to the front of the shop and paid for their books: most were simply the same as last year's but a level higher, but the DADA books were Ministry-Approved Standard Spells, Shadow's was Level Four, Draco's Level Five.

Shadow had heard of Umbridge. She had, when Shadow's ministry trouble of a couple of years ago was over, made a werewolf restriction: Werewolves are no longer allowed to reproduce. It was completely unfair, and Shadow knew that soon, she'd make a law that said that the children of werewolves would be killed, along with the mother and father. "Honestly, what was the Headmistress thinking, hiring that...?" Shadow struggled for a word, "toad-faced hag?"

"I have no idea," Sirius said, rolling his blue eyes. Sirius and Remus' disdain for the Hag was visible, in their eyes and their tone.

A few days later, Snape popped by HQ, while Lily was out, so Shadow grabbed the man and threw him into a chair, her green eyes (exactly like her mother's) glaring. "What are your intentions with my mother?"

Snape almost laughed- here he was, being interrogated by his student about his intentions with her mother- but he came to his senses when he saw Shadow's glare. "I love her, and won't hurt her intentionally," he replied. Apparently, this satisfied Shadow and she backed off, but was still scowling at the man.

The rest of the summer passed peacefully, apart from Ron Weasley's insistence that she had bewitched Ginny and Shadow's complete dismay that she couldn't send letters or even get out of the house to talk to Draco.

It was on the train something awful happened. Hermione and Draco had come back from their perfecting duties, and reported that Hannah and Ernie from Hufflepuff had become prefects, with Terry and Su Li from Ravenclaw, and Pansy Parkinson for Slytherin with Draco and Ron Weasley with Hermione for Gryffindor. But that wasn't the bad thing. The bad thing was that Weasley decided to pay a little visit, and mouthed off about Draco's parents, and Shadow's mother.

Shadow lashed out with a quick kick to the jaw that knocked him back, and a blow to the gut. "If you ever call my mother that again, I swear they won't find enough of you to bury." Weasley beat a hasty retreat from the mean looking girls in the compartment- Shadow with her green eyes with the fire of hatred blazing within, Ginny with her wand pointing straight between his eyes, Luna with her wand pointing at his groin and Hermione merely twirling hers between her fingers. Draco and Colin simply looked on with evil smirks: none of them liked the bragging, idiotic Gryffindor.

The train ride was fun, to have hours to chat and sleep and catch up with the others was brilliant. When they got to Hogwarts, however, that changed. From Sirius and Remus' talk about Umbridge, Shadow was expecting a tall, thin, shapeless lady with beady eyes and grey hair that wore only black. Instead, she was presented with what she thought, at first, was a very pink toad with a fly on its head. It was actually Umbridge, a short, fat lady that wore a hideous shade of pink in everything, it seemed. She had a sugary sweet voice, not the croak that one would expect, as she interrupted McGonagall to say this, "Thank you, headmistress, for those kind words of welcome. The Ministry of Magic has always considered the education of young witches and wizards to be of a vital importance. Although each headmaster or headmistress has brought something new to this... historic school, progress for the sake of progress must be discouraged. Let us preserve what must be preserved, perfect what can be perfected and prune practices that ought to be prohibited!"

Shadow, like her friends, had searched through the waffle and found Umbridge was merely saying, "The Ministry has decided to interfere and change Hogwarts, just because they fear we're uprising against them."

She would immediately mail her mother, father and Sirius informing them of this...slightly disturbing development.

So, the first chapter's done! I'm sorry it took so long, it took me a while to really get motivated. Please give me your opinions on what you think is coming next: it really is going to be a HUGE surprise, I think. funky xxxx