The Alexander Chronicles Year 5: The Growing Darkness
Chapter 2: Life at Grimmauld Place
"You mean Sirius used to live here?" Alex asked looking around the hallway with interest.
"Yes at least until I was sixteen."
"What happen then?" Alex asked now looking at his father.
"I ran away. My parents - your grandparents - and their pureblood mania got too much. They were always going on about how purebloods were better than anyone. I hated hearing it, hated hearing them ranting about how muggle-borns was unworthy to study magic. So one day I had enough. I ran away and moved to James´ house. - there was always room for me at the Potter´s." Sirius paused, "I have only been here a few times since, not that I was welcome at my parents after that stunt. I got kicked out."
"It looks like, it have been a while since you were here last - well since anyone were here." Draco commented looking at the dusty floor.
"I think it has been empty for the last ten years. I went to Azkaban, my brother and parents died."
"You had a brother?" Alex asked.
"Yes, he name was Regulus." Sirius said, his eyes looking a bit distant. "He was killed by Voldemort or Voldemort´s orders; I doubt very much he was important enough to be killed by Voldemort himself. He had joined the death eaters and wanted out."
"Was my grandparents death eaters as well?"
"No, but make no mistake they thought Voldemort had the right idea." Sirius said sounding disgusted. "And I am sure they were o so happy when little precious Reggie came home with his mark."
Alex didn´t know what to make of Sirius´s tone. Those people he spoke of was Sirius´s - well his - family. And although they had been death eaters, Alex couldn't help but wonder if how it would have been if he had met them. The fact that Regulus had wanted to defect from the death eaters meant that he couldn't be all-bad.
"It doesn´t matter now anyway. Nymphadora please show the boys to the rooms, and Alexander and Draco, don´t touch anything. We others have to get ready for the meeting."
Draco nodded and began following Nymphadora, but Alex remained.
"What meeting?"
"It is for adults!"
"But-"
"No buts, look I can give you some details later."
Alex nodded and followed, Nymphadora. Who led both boys past a pair of long, moth-eaten curtains, behind which Alex supposed there must be another door, and after skirting a large umbrella stand that looked as though it had been made from a severed troll's leg, they started up the dark staircase, passing a row of shrunken heads mounted on plaques on the wall. A closer look showed Alex that the heads belonged to house-elves. All of them had the same rather snout-like nose.
Alex and Draco stopped for a second to look at the heads. "What kind of family does this kind of thing?" Draco said sounding disgusted.
"Well mine apparently, "Alex said, also disgusted. "Uh Dora? Do you know what this is about?"
"No, not really. Your dad properly knows. I am sorry, but I don´t know that much about this side of the family. Mum rarely talks about them." Nymphadora explained. "Your rooms are up the stairs."
Alex and Draco turned and continued up the stairs, all the way up to a third floor, as they passed the first door. They stopped and entered the room, which consisted of King sized bed, a cabinet closet, and a couple of different sized desks. "Well Draco, this is your room."
"Wait are we not going to share one?" Alex asked having been used to Draco as a roommate.
"Well since this will be your house. Sirius thinks, and I agree with him, that you should have your own room." Both boys nodded. "Okay great Draco why don´t you start to unpack, then I will take Alex to his new room.
Alex´s room was next to Draco´s, but it was a bit lager. "So, do you like it?" Alex looked around, like Draco´s the room had a king sized a cabinet closet, and a desk. There was also a big bookcase. "We left the rest of the design up to you."
"It is great Dora!" Alex said hugging his cousin.
"You welcome kid," Nymphadora said letting go of Alex. "Well I better get downstairs."
Alex nodded and begun to get his stuff ready.
An hour later, Draco, had entered Alex´s room and was at the desk working on what he had left of Hogwarts homework while Alex was sitting against a wall reading a book entitled The Teachings of Occlumency and Legilimency.
A few moments later, Alex closed the book, sighed, and rubbed his eyes. "This is hard, "he said aloud. "How'd you learn this stuff?"
"I just motivated myself, when I need to keep secrets about things," Draco said, not looking up. "It was hard at first, but it gets fairly easy down the road. Occlumency also helps you remember stuff better."
Alex nodded. "Well that will be helpful. I don´t know about you, but I could do with a cup of tea." POP! Alex jumped when an old and angry-looking house elf appeared. He had a bulbous, snout-like nose, bloodshot eyes, many folds of skin, and white hair growing out of his bat-like ears; and he was holding a silver tray with a cup of tea.
"Young master Black wishes for tea, so Kreacher will do as young master wishes," the house elf said. Alex and Draco stared wide-eyed at the old house elf. And another second later, two familiar looking house-elves popped next to Kreacher, one of them holding a tray with another cup of tea, the other holding a tray with biscuit.
"I have your tea, young master," Pixey spoke, glancing sideways at Kreacher.
"We have also brought the master some food." Lux added.
"Wait you have three house elves now?" Draco asked.
"Well Pixey have always been there, Lux is from my grandfather, and well I suppose the rest of my family´s house elves are mine now."
"Yes you are correct young master. As for this," Lux said, pointing at Kreacher who sneered at him. "He is Sirius Black's house elf."
"Blood traitor," the house elf Kreacher mumbled in a low voice, but nonetheless Alex heard it. "I am the Black family´s house elf. I live to serve all of the Blacks including the young master."
Alex nodded, "Okay then."
"The master doesn´t need another house elf then Kreacher. Kreacher thinks that the master should clothe them."
"No!" Pixey and Lux shouted in unison. "Clothe him." Lux added.
"Clothe them!"
"Stop!" Alex said in a firm voice. "I am not given any one of you cloths. Kreacher, my house elves can work together. And Pixey and Lux I trust that you can include Kreacher in some of your work." The three house elves reluctantly nodded and didn't say anything else and kept quiet. "Good. Now, Kreacher, you may go."
"As you wish," Kreacher replied, bowing and then popped away. Alex turned to Pixey who had quickly stuck her tongue out at the old disappearing house elf.
"Pixey," Alex said. Pixey froze and turned back to her master and friend. "Thank you for the tea."
"You're welcome," Pixey said and bowed.
"And thanks for the biscuits Lux."
"My pleasure young master."
Once the two house elves had popped away, Draco looked at Alex. "You are so lucky three personal house elves ready to serve you."
"Two personal house elves! Kreacher is my father´s."
"Okay little prince two house elves -you should complain, I mean only given you two house elves. "
Alex smiled a bit, "Well it is pretty good. Beside you must have had a personal house as well?" As soon as he had said those words, Alex regretted them. "Sorry that was a stupid thing to say."
Draco shrugged, "it is okay. Yes, I had one, but I noticed since Kreacher also brought you a cup."
Alex smiled and gave Draco the cup.
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Some hours later, Sirius had showed up telling Alex to follow him to the kitchen. "So do you like your room?"¨
Alex nodded, "It is great." He said in a neutral voice, as it felt weird talking with his father. Alex still were a bit annoyed at him. "You mentioned something about a meeting. What was it about?"
"It was a meeting for the Order of the Phoenix."
"The what?"
"The Order of the Phoenix." Sirius repeated. "It is a secret order Dumbledore founded in the last war against Voldemort and his allies. Given the situation, it needed to be reformed."
"And you are a part of the order?" Sirius nodded. "So what do you do exactly?"
"We keep watch on some known death eaters who didn't go to Azkaban, like Malfoy," Sirius began explaining. "We have a spy in the Order, to keep tabs on the inside."
"Who is the spy?"
"Snape," Sirius hissed. Alex just nodded ignoring the tone in his father´s voice. He had suspected as much.
"But you must do something more."
"We mostly try to gather information and then we prepare until he decides to go public. Dumbledore of course tries to spread to word that Voldemort is back."
"Great and you want me to join?"
Sirius stopped up, "absolutely not!"
"What? Why not? I must be qualified."
"No, you are too young for that Alexander. I mean you are only fifteen years old. You haven't even taken your OWL exam, let alone you NEWTS." Alex was about to say that it was unfair, but Sirius interrupted. "And it is not something that I want to discuss. You can either accept it or I can just stop telling you anything."
Alex growled in annoyance. How was he too young? He had properly faced more than the members of the order had. Nonetheless, Alex nodded.
"Good, I will keep you in the loop, but don´t put anything in your letters."
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The days at Grimmauld Place was boring, Alex and Draco were the only kids in the house and while they got along nicely there were only so many things you could do when you were cocked up in a house. The only good part was that Alex could study in the Black library; meaning he could continue his occlumency and animagus training, and learn about his family´s history.
However books where one thing when it came to family history, talking with relatives was another. Alex had tried talking with Sirius, but he wasn´t that willing. Luckily, he could ask others, although Sirius wouldn't be happy about it. So one night Alex waited until everyone had either fallen asleep or gone on their mission. The full moon dimly lighted the hallway, Alex moved quietly down the stairs to the second floor.
"Mr Black?" Alex asked quietly as he reached the sleeping portrait of Phineas Nigellus Black. "Sir! Sir!"
The portrait of Phineas Nigellus Black mumbled something Alex couldn't hear, so he tried tapping on the picture frame. "Hey wake up."
"What do you want?" Phineas mumbled in a tired voice as he opened his eyes.
"Ask you about something."
"I should start sleeping in my other portrait. I won´t be woken up there in the middle of the night."
"No wait." Alex said quickly. "Look I am sorry about the time, but I can´t risk Sirius seeing us talk."
Phineas looked at Alex. "You are Sirius´s son are you not?"
Alex nodded, "I was wondering if you could tell me something about our family´s history?"
"Why come to me? Surely your father can tell you."
"Well uh Sirius won't talk about it and well uh my grandmother is well uh werid."
" I understand. I am surprised you want to know about our history. It was mostly young Regulus that wanted to know about it."
"Yeah well I do as well." Alex said sitting on the floor looking at the painting expectantly. "So please."
Phineas was great at telling about the Black family history, and he could give good details about family members that had lived after him. Phineas continued to tell about the family and Alex listened closely. He listen so closely that he lost track of time, and therefore he didn´t noticed.
"Just what are you doing here?" Alex jumped at his father´s yell. "Do you know what time it is?"
"I just wanted to know the family." Alex defended as Sirius pulled him to his feet. "Why is that a problem?"
"I have told you about my family and their pure-blood mania - what else would you know? Do you want know how they were terrible people?"
"because it is where I comes from, and I want to know about my family history."
"No, it is not your family anymore then it is mine, or did you forget that I was kicked out when I was sixteen? Sixteen!"
"That doesn´t I mean I shouldn't talk with them." Alex argued back.
Sirius growled, "It is not necessary."
"It is," Phineas interrupted. "I will not stand by knowing that a Black doesn´t know his ancestry."
"Shut up," Sirius hissed. "This is between me and my son."
"It is also the only remaining heir to the Black family!" Phineas retorted. "It is not up to you Sirius; it is for the good of the family name."
"I don´t care." Sirius said grabbing Alex´s arm and tried dragging Alex with him. Alex however twisted his arm from Sirius grasp.
"Well I do, and I want to know."
Sirius gave Alex an angry look as he was getting tired of his son´s constant rebellious attitude. "Just come on."
"No! I want to know about our history and you won´t tell won't you?" Alex said crossing his arm and gave his father a look that really got on his nerves.
"Okay, fine!" Sirius hissed. "Fine! Then talk with him, I just don´t want to be a part of it. Do you understand? I don´t want to hear a single word. And I still want you to go to bed right now!"
Alex didn´t respond, he just said goodbye to Phineas and stormed to his room.
….
Alex and Sirius did their best to avoid each other after the night that Sirius had seen Alex talking with Phineas´ painting. Each time he would see Alex sitting in front of the painting, Sirius would turn away demonstrably.
Alex was sitting in the kitchen eating his breakfast while reading up on his Animagus book as Sirius entered. "Good I was just about to look for you at Phineas´ painting."
"No, I am taking the day off." Alex said closing the book and looked at his father.
"Good, because some of those friends I mentioned earlier is coming, and I was hoping you show them around."
"Sure, "Alex smiled, happy that some more kids would show up. "Who is it?"
However before Sirius could answer Alex heard the front door open and then close a few seconds later.
With a smile on his face, Alex got to his feet and raced towards the front hall where he saw Remus, a tall bald, dark skinned man, and one of his best friends, Hermione Granger. "Hermione," Alex called, smiling even more.
Hermione's eyes shot towards Alex and her face lit up as she then quickly ran to Alex and hugged him tight.
"Mione - can't breathe," Alex tried to get out as he was being squeezed.
"Oh sorry." Hermione said letting go of Alex. She looked at him for a moment, before se begun asking her questions. "So, how are you? Are you okay? How was your summer? No trouble I hope?"
"Hermione, everything's fine," Alex, answered smiling at her concern. "I'm fine and my summer was fine. I have been make myself busy" Hermione nodded as the adults walked over to the teens.
"Good morning, Alex," Remus greeted.
"Morning Mooney." Alex said before facing the tall man.
"You must be Alexander Black." He greeted as he offered his hand. "I am auror Kingsley Shacklebot."
Alex gave a polite smile and shocked the man´s hand.
"Nymphadora and Mad-Eye is picking up the Weasley family, they will be here after dinner." Remus explained, making Alex´s smile drop a bit, that meant Ron would be there soon, but he could talk with the Weasley twins and Ginny.
"Okay. So Hermione should I take you to your room and maybe give you a tour of the house?"
Hermione nodded and Alex grabbed onto one side handle of Hermione's trunk, while Hermione grabbed the other side and Crookshanks's cage. Alex then led Hermione up to the first floor to one of the rooms, which looked pretty much identical to Draco's room. The two teenagers set down Hermione´s trunk and her cat's cage and let Crookshanks out of it.
"So how long have you lived here?" Hermione asked as she sat on her bed.
"A week's time."
"Oh sounds good, have it been nice to live with your father?"
Alex shrugged. "Not really."
"What? Why not?"
"Let us just say that I liked it better when I lived with Nymphadora."
Hermione gave a sympatric smile. "Well given the date, you must have been here a few days after your birthday." Alex nodded; Sirius had come a few days after. "So at least you could celebrate it with him."
"No, not really. But it is not important."
"Oh Alex I am sorry about mentioning it." Hermione said before giving Alex a quick hug.
"Thanks, but as I said; it no big deal. I had a nice day, and got some good presents. Thanks again by the way. So should I give you a tour?" Alex rambled, not really wanting to talk about Sirius´ absence.
Hermione nodded, and Alex began showing her around. Alex was glad that he his family history as it made him better at explain stuff about the house, For example he now knew that the house elves heard was the family old elves that had gotten too old to carry tea trays, not that he told Hermione that story.
"Uh Alexander I am really sorry about saying this but uh your father´s family doesn´t sound that nice." Hermione said walking close to Alex.
"Yeah, well most of them aren´t like my grandmother, but take Phineas, he is decent when you get to know him."
"I take you word for it." Hermione said stopping up at her room. "Thanks for the tour Alex."
Alex smiled again as he watched Hermione re-enter her room.
…
About an hour later, Alex was sitting in the dining room reading his Animagus book again while drinking some tea. Draco was also there reading his a potions book.
"Hey there what are you doing?" Hermione asked surprising Alex and Draco,
"Studying and drinking tea." Draco answered while giving a nervous smile.
"Sounds nice," Hermione, said sitting next to Alex. "Can I have a cup as well?"
"Yeah Sure - Pixey." Alex called and Pixey popped in front of him.
"Yes?" she said.
"Could you make a cup of tea for Hermione as well?" Alex asked.
"Yes young master."
"Yeah, I keep forgetting that you have a house elf."
"He has three personal elves!" Draco added.
"Three?"
"Yes and no." Alex said eying Draco -why did he had to bring it up. "Pixey is my personal elf. She have been there since I can remember. Then there is Lux, who used to be my grandfather´s, and then there is my father elf."
"No he is the Black´s family elf and he listens to your orders." Draco said again.
"It not like th-"Alex begun but stopped as Pixey popped up and gave Hermione her tea. "Thanks Pixey:" The elf smiled, bowed and popped away. "Kreacher stills belongs to Sirius´"
"Kreacher is the other house elf I presume?" Hermione asked. Alex nodded.
"Filthy Mudblood in the house of pureblood!" growled a scratchy voice. Hermione gasped, and Draco and Alex turned to see Kreacher on the counter glaring at Hermione.
"Kreacher!" Alex growled. "Don't ever say that ever again!" Kreacher didn't say anything but popped away. Alex turned to Hermione who looked appalled. "Yeah, that's Kreacher. He has my grandmother´s charm."
Hermione just nodded, "What are you reading by the way?" She asked looking at the book Alex laid on the table. "Animagi?"
"Yeah," Alex said as he grabbed the book.
"Alex," Hermione said simply. "Why are you reading this?"
"Er, for entertainment?" Alex lied.
"I dunno, Alex, but to me, it seems like you're trying to follow in your father's footsteps," Hermione said.
Alex rolled his eyes. "So what."
"It's just curious, is all," Hermione said, crossing her arms. "What else have you been reading for…entertainment?"
"Not much," Alex answered. "Just this," he added, holding up his Animagus book, before giving Draco a look that told him to shut up, having decided not to tell her about Occlumency or Legilimency.
"So have you tried transforming yet?" Hermione asked. Alex shook his head.
Hermione nodded. "Okay, so could you teach me?" she asked.
"Hermione, I just barely started this," Alex said.
"Then you can just tell me what you know, like after we have finished our tea."
Thirty minutes later, Alex was in Hermione´s room telling her what he knew about Animagus transformation.
"This first transformation is going to take a lot of focus and magic," Alex said. "And it is very painful." Hermione nodded. "Why do you want to know this stuff?" He asked.
"I like to learn," Hermione replied. "You should know that."
"Right," Alex sighed, opening his book. "But there is something I would like to know."
"What?"
"About what animal you'd become," Alex said, and began to laugh.
"What's funny?" Hermione asked.
"I just had a funny thought," Alex looking at Hermione. "That if you'd become an Animagus, you could be a bug just like Rita Skeeter."
"No I wouldn't," Hermione huffed. "I'd probably be something better like a bird of some kind or a smart and clever animal. Do you know what you're going to be?"
"Properly an eagle," Alex answered. "You know my Patronus. The two have often the same animal."
"Could you teach me that too? You know the Patronus Charm" Hermione asked. Alex looked at Hermione. "I'd like to know how to ward off Dementors – "
But before Alex could reply, the door opened and in walked Ron Weasley, the same but taller.
"Hello," Ron greeted from the doorway.
"Hey Ron," Hermione greeted, smiling. Alex gave Ron a nod and stood to his feet.
"I got to go finish my homework," Alex lied.
Hermione stood up. "But what about – "
"Later," Alex said quickly, moving past Ron and towards his room hearing Ron say 'What was that about?'
As he got to his room, Alex was surprised to find Blaise outside talking to Draco. "Blaise."
"Hey Alex," Blaise greeted giving Alex a highfive. "Draco tells me you were rooming it up with Granger. Best hope Daphne doesn't figure out."
Alex snorted. "Nothing was happening," He said. "We were just talking."
"Sure, that's how it all starts," Blaise spoke, but before he could continue, Alex punched him lightly in the arm. "Alright, alright, I'll stop."
"Good, but what are you doing here?" Alex asked as he invited his friends to his room.
"My mum decided that I should stay here. I will be sharing a room with Draco:" Blaise said looking around, "which is kind of unfair since yours is bigger."
Over following days, a good part of the time was spent trying to clean the Black House. Mrs. Weasley suggested, Ms. Zabini agreed, and Sirius didn't mind. It was only the teens and Mrs. Weasley that were cleaning, as the other adults were having order meetings. Alex leaned that he was the only one that knew what the meets was about, but the others had guessed the most.
One of the first things Alex had done, when his friends had arrived was telling them about the fact that he was one of Voldemort's highest targets, second to Harry. He had yet to tell Daphne and his other friends, wanting to tell them all in person.
As for Alex and Sirius´s relationship, it continued to be a bit strained. They would often ague over different things, which ended with either Alex or Sirius storming away.
A little month later, Alex and the other teens were sitting in the sitting room when things finally turned around. Nymphadora and another wizard quickly appeared in the house and ran through looking for Sirius and the others. Alex saw the two pass by the doorway. He also saw Ms. Zabini, Mrs. Weasley, and Mr. Weasley pass by the same doorway, all hurrying. Alex closed his book up, stood up, and began to follow the adults.
"Where are you going?" Blaise asked.
"Something's going on," Alex whispered, but loud enough for everyone to hear. Everyone shared a glance, and then too stood up. Blaise, Hermione, Ron, Draco, the Weasley Twins, and Ginny, all followed Alex into the hallway and towards the kitchen. Alex waved his friends back as he moved closer to the opened kitchen door. He peeked inside to see the adults huddled and talking. Sirius was already there, along with Remus and Shacklebot.
"We have a problem," Nymphadora spoke up.
"What is it?" Shacklebot asked, looking at her and the unknown wizard she came with.
"It's Harry," She replied.
"What about him?" Sirius said, straightening up.
"He performed magic in front of a muggle," Nymphadora answered. Ms. Zabini and Mrs. Weasley gasped.
"What kind?" Sirius quickly asked.
"The Patronus Charm," Dora said, looking concerned.
"He did? Why would he need to cast that?" Sirius said, turning to Shacklebot. Alex hadn´t missed the first impressed then worried tone in Sirius´s voice, and he could feel the old knot of jealousy in his stomach.
"Surely he's not trying to show off," the unknown wizard with Dora spoke.
"No, I know Harry. He wouldn't cast magic unless he had a reason to," Sirius said, crossing his arms. Alex rolled his eyes and shook his head. Leave it to Sirius, to think Harry never could mess up.
"Well, the only reason to cast the Patronus Charm would be to ward off Dementors or a Lethifold, properly a Dementor." Shacklebot stated. "But one of those, in Little Whinging? This cannot be a coincidence."
"You think you-know-who sent them?" Mrs. Weasley asked.
Shacklebot nodded. "I do," he said, and then turned to Nymphadora. "Who was on watch for Harry today?"
"Mundungus Fletcher," Nymphadora answered. "But Mrs. Figg is always watching him."
"Ah yes," Shacklebot said. "If she saw anything, she'd contact Dumbledore immediately. Anything else, Tonks?"
"Yes, there's already a Hearing in order," Dora answered.
"What! But the law clearly says-"
"Hallo dear children" a voice sounded from behind the group of teens. "What are we listening on?" Every head turned around to see Dumbledore standing at the end of the line of teens. Soon enough, Mrs. Weasley then appeared in the kitchen doorway.
"Oh, thank goodness you're here Dumbledore," she said, then noticed the unmoving teens. "Children, why don't you go upstairs, dinner will be ready in an hour or so."
The teens nodded. "Yes, Mrs. Weasley." "Yes, mum." the teens said in unison and then moved passed Dumbledore, daring not to look at him, and made their way upstairs to their rooms.
Alex, Draco, and Blaise all went to Alex´s room, the room, who was the only one that wasn´t sharing one. When Harry would arrive, he would be staying with Ron, Ginny was staying with Hermione, and the Twins had their own room.
"Looks like Harry got himself into trouble again," Blaise said, sitting on Alex´s bed while Alex sat on the floor and Draco sat at one of the desks. "But why though. Do you really think there were dementors in his neighbourhood?"
"With you-know-who back," Draco started. "It's possible. My dad told me that back during the first war with The Dark Lord, he had the dementors on his side. It was only a matter of time before he recruited them again."
"But what if it wasn't Voldemort?" Alex spoke, ignoring his friends flinches.
"What do you mean?" Blaise asked curiously.
"Well, thanks to the Ministry nobody believes that Voldemort is back, and he uses that to lay low and build his powerbase." Alex began, "So why would he risk all that, just to get to Harry?"
"Obviously to expose Harry as a wizard to get his wand broken, to keep him out of school," Draco suggested. "Or maybe he had hoped that Potter would have lost his soul."
Blaise nodded. "I agree," he said. "I mean, it is only logical that you-know-who would order an attack on Harry. I mean, who else would do it?"
"Maybe it was the ministry?" Alex answered. "I mean I wouldn't put it pass them."
"Okay, but who in the ministry would want Harry out of Hogwarts?" Blaise asked.
Alex looked at Blaise and shrugged. "I don't know," he said.
Four days later about ten in the evening Alex was alone, reading another Animagus book he had found in his father's room one day when he was cleaning. He was in the middle of reading more about the transformation process when he heard some thumping. His eyes shot up and he looked around. He waited but didn't hear anything else. He went back to reading when he heard a muffled shriek that sounded like 'Harry!' Alex then knew at that moment that Harry had arrived, but he didn't care to see him at the moment so he kept on reading. A few minutes later, he began hearing shouts of Harry's voice, sounding very angry and annoyed. Sighing, Alex shut his book and pinched the bridge of his nose, thinking he should go see what was going on.
Alex exited his room and began making his way down to the second floor towards Ron's room where he heard voices.
"I SUPPOSE YOU'VE BEEN HAVING A REAL LAUGH, HAVEN'T YOU, ALL HOLED UP HERE TOGETHER -" Harry screamed.
"No, honest -" Alex heard Ron tried to say.
"Harry we're really sorry!" Alex heard Hermione say desperately. "You're absolutely right, Harry - I'd be furious if it was me!"
Alex knocked on the door and opened it. He saw the golden trio; Hermione was crying, Ron was looking solemn, and Harry was looking downright angry, full of rage. Hedwig hooted glumly from the top of the wardrobe, and all eyes turned to Alex.
"YOU-"
"Good Afternoon Harry." Alex said keeping his voice polite while eyeing the green-eyed boy, who eyed him back. "Look I know that you just got here, but some of us are trying to concentrate or sleep. So use your indoor voice okay."
"Yeah I have just got here." Harry hissed. "I bet you wished I had stayed at the Dursleys?"
Alex just shocked his head, at Harry´s comment. "Whatever. Are you guys alright?" he asked looking at Hermione.
"Everything's fine," Ron quickly answered. Alex glanced at Ron then back at Hermione.
"Hermione, are you alright?" Alex asked again. Hermione nodded, wiping away her tears. "Okay, good." He said, and then left the room where he heard Harry ask what this place was.
Alex re-entered his room, laid in his bed, and continued to read, not caring what the Golden Trio was getting into at the moment. He then heard a crack, knowing that the Weasley Twins had Apparated somewhere within the house; probably to say hello to Harry.
It was minutes later before Alex heard new screaming. However, this time it was dead grandmother who´s painting was hanging in the hallway. Most of the time she was silent, but of someone had laud noises near her she would wake up and start screaming. From the noises, Alex could hear that Sirius tried to get his mother to shut up and shortly after it worked. Alex laid his book on the table; since his grandmother had been awoken, it properly meant that the order meeting was over. It was pretty good since it meant they could eat dinner now.
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Chapter end.
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