Well here we are Chapter 1. We see the first differences from The Order of the Phoenix here. Harry meets Tonks who catches his interest in her own way, and gets escorted to Grimauld Place. Not much else happens this chapter, and next chapter is a time skip since I don't feel like repeating Harry being told about the weapon. I think that's everything so on to the chapter.

Chapter 1: Retrieving Harry.

Harry Potter lay in bed staring up at the ceiling of his room. He sighed as he heard his Uncle yelling from downstairs. He got up and walked downstairs where his Uncle told him "Boy, Dudley, your aunt, and I are going out for the night. We received an award that requires us to leave the house. You are not to mess up the house while we are away. You are not to do more than make yourself something to eat while we are away. Understand me?" Harry nodded boredly and walked upstairs after being dismissed while his uncle, aunt, and cousin piled into their car and drove off.

Harry sighed and curled up on his bed staring at his alarm clock. It said it was only five o' clock, so he knew he had hours before his family would be back, which wasn't the problem. The problem was the stupid hearing he had coming up. He was afraid that someone or something was going to fuck it up. He didn't know why or how, he just knew that was a logical thing to assume with his luck. He sighed and decided he may as well make himself dinner then walked downstairs again.

He walked into the kitchen and cooked himself dinner, not making anything fancy, just a simple thing of fish and chips. He finished cooking and ate dinner thinking about the future. He sighed and thought "I wonder how Ron and the others are doing. I bet they're enjoying one of Mrs. Weasley's delicious meals, and having a right old time." He sighed feeling alone; since he'd sent Hedwig to make the others at least tell him something.

He washed his plate and put it on the counter then walked upstairs again to collapse on his bed. He stretched as he walked and rotated his shoulder in the socket feeling it move properly and wondered silently if he was still suffering from the abuse of carrying Dudley home after the dementor attack. He finished walking upstairs and walked into his room the collapsed onto his bed and fell into a light sleep.

While Harry was sleeping at his aunt and uncle's Tonks, Remus, Kinglsey, Mad eye, and others were making their way to private drive. They slowly landed in front of the property and walked to the front door then unlocked it with a charm and walked in. They walked into the kitchen, where Tonks being Tonks, picked up Harry's plate and ended up dropping it on the floor causing it to shatter. Harry jerked awake and slipped out of bed then pulled out his wand and started for his door.

He slowly walked to the stairs as he heard "Damn it Tonks." He slipped to the stairwell and asked guardedly "Who's there?" his wand pointed downstairs, a part of him curious as to who Tonks was. He heard shuffling downstairs and people talking amongst themselves.

Finally someone got fed up with the darkness and said "Well no point in standing in the darkness. Lumos." Her wand tip lit up and Harry stared at all the people filling his Aunt's kitchen. He made out Remus Lupin and Mad-eye Moody who were both looking up at him warily. He raised an eyebrow and the person who said Lumos said "Wotcher Harry."

He shook his head and said "Professor Lupin? Professor Moody? What are you doing here?" They didn't answer right away both wondering if this was the real Harry. They glanced at each other then at the others before looking back at Harry coming to a decision that they believed would work.

Lupin said "Harry, why did I stop you from facing the boggart in your third year?"

Harry blinked surprised and replied "You thought I'd see you-know-who." Remus nodded and passed on that it was the real Harry then motioned for him to come downstairs. Harry slowly walked downstairs. He sat at the bottom of the steps watching the witches and wizards that entered his "family's" home. He snorted at the thought and stretched then glanced at Remus and asked "Why are all of you here Moony?"

Remus smiled and started to explain when Tonks coughed and said "We're here to take you to headquarters Harry." Harry raised an eyebrow and she said "I can't tell you any more than that, sorry. Wish I could. We'll explain when we get there, but for now we should probably go pack your things. It's getting nigh on the time we'll have to leave. The muggles won't be back for quite a while but it's still about time we get ready to head out." Mad eye nodded in agreement and motioned for Harry to go pack, which he started up the stairs to do. Tonks followed him humming softly.

Harry stared at Tonks as they walked noticing her hair was purple. That was the only thing that really stood out to him about her. He hadn't studied her face or posture, though so he wasn't too surprised when she turned to him and ask "There a reason you're staring Harry?" He slowly shook his head and stretched then the two walked into his room and Tonks proclaimed "Ah this at least looks lived in. Bloody muggles are clean freaks I tell you."

Harry started to pack his trunk but stopped when Tonks held up a hand and said "Let me do that." She waved her wand and everything scattered around the room flew into the trunk in a disorganized heap. She smiled and said "Well that's better than taking all day. Name's Tonks by the way, since Mad-eye didn't do introductions while we were downstairs. I don't know how my mom does it, but she gets everything in there nice and neat. I think it has to do with the flick of the wrist, because she even makes socks fold themselves." She waved her wand and a sock flipped lazily before falling into the trunk.

Harry blinked and said "Must be great to be able to use magic for everything." Tonks nodded and he closed his trunk then she levitated it with a spell before cleaning his owl cage. He picked it up and they walked back downstairs. Harry looked at everyone and said "I'm ready to go, thanks to Tonks." Mad-eye nodded and Remus motioned for everyone to head out the door. They did so quietly and formed up around Harry.

Mad-eye glanced at Harry and said "Follow Tonks, Potter. If anything should happen to any of us continue on, if all of us somehow get taken out head east and you'll meet up with another group of guards." Harry blinked and stared at mad-eye incredulously.

Tonks sighed and said "Cheerful thoughts Mad-eye. Cheerful thoughts, I doubt anyone will try to take us out." They saw sparks and said "I guess it's time to mount up." Everyone mounted their brooms then green sparks went off in the distance and they took off.

They flew for a while, Tonks eventually deciding to see how much attention Harry was paying by flying around a clock tower. Harry nearly flew into it before righting himself and glaring at Tonks who just laughed. They continued for a while Tonks and Mad-eye getting into an argument with Tonks about going through a cloud. Harry sighed when they finally landed then blinked as Mad-eye handed him a paper which he read. When he had it memorized Mad-eye took and burned the paper then they all walked into the house that appeared.

When they got inside, Tonks tripped over the troll leg umbrella stand that had become the bane of her existence at Grimauld Place, causing Sirius's mother's picture to come alive. Tonks apologized profusely over and over until Sirius shut up the picture then the order members went into the meeting other than Tonks and Sirius who quickly escorted Harry upstairs to the protest of Molly Weasley. After they were sure Harry was settled the two headed back down to the meeting.

Well there you go, there's chapter 1. Again differs from Order of the Phoenix though not hugely. Next chapter we skip ahead a while and possibly skip around during. The story hopefully continues to find the interest of those who read it, so let's get on with any questions or anything.