A/N: I hope the previous chapter was quite reasonable and now Chapter 4 is here! Please leave reviews i appreciate them. I give all credit to the the great JK Rowling for anything Harry Potter related in this chapter. I also credit real landmarks and objects to their respective parties.

Chapter 4

Harry and Ginny searched all over for her Mom and only after a whole bunch of walking and being out of breath did they manage to find her, at first they had assumed that she would be upstairs in her and Mr. Weasley's room sewing sweaters or something else.

"Ah Harry how did it go with Albus" asked his motherly figure who was trying to make a very precise stitch on a red sweater "I do hope he isn't trying to brainwash you with his all his ideas, isn't right for you of course."

"Actually it was something a lot more valuable" said Harry and he tossed the parchment with Sirius' writing at her.

She quickly opened the parchment and read through the contents and suddenly she burst into tears.

"Oh Harry this is such great news!"

Mrs. Weasley hugged Harry for several seconds as she sobbed with joy

"Why all the tears mum, its just a will" Ginny pulled a handkerchief out and tossed it to her mum who readily started using it.

"Well obviously Harry here just got himself into a big fortune, I can't believe that Sirius would be that generous. I would have thought for a wizard of your age that someone higher in authority would have got more."

Harry knew from the beginning of time that the house that Sirius had been apart of had billions of fortunes and estates but perhaps his family did not realize that Sirius would eventually give all of his wealth to Harry and yet it had happened.

Harry was so busy in his thoughts he did not even see the sudden quick flash of light and another parchment suddenly was in his hand.

"Its from Dumbledore" said Harry and he gave a quick look to the occupants of the room.

Opening it up he scanned through it and a grim expression suddenly took hold of his face as he read line by line at what he was seeing, after a few moments he turned to the others in the room.

"It appears that we have to evacuate the Burrow because Dumbledore has intelligence that death eaters are going to stage scouting missions in southern England over the next few weeks. He says we should go to the estate in the Shetlands."

Mrs. Weasley looked pained, it was obvious that she did not want to leave the Burrow so soon but if it helped Harry and the Order she really had no choice.

"I'll start packing right away" she said, "Did Albus mention the possibility that the Burrow can be returned to at some point?"

"He said he isn't certain but just to be safe he wants you to secure the Burrow and put all your valuables and furniture in a safe place" said Harry.

Mrs. Weasley knew just the spell that might trick the death eaters and stop them in their tracks from trying to get in the Burrow but she would secretly deal with that before they left.

"Get your trucks and everything," she said.

"Actually Dumbledore left a few things" said Harry. He pulled out 5 little metal objects that looked like hairbrushes.

"These are portkeys according to what he said. All we do is walk out the front door and tap them 3 times and they will whisk us away."

"But what about your stuff how will that get there?" Mrs. Weasley asked a bit cross.

"I might as well just shrink everything and that's how it will get there." Harry had a reasonable point of view.

"Harry come on lets pack" Ginny said and ran out before Harry could catch her. Harry laughed with glee and ran after her; obviously it was not lost on him that she probably wanted to play a game of muggle tag.

They chased each other for several minutes up and down the stairs but not before casting silencing charms since they did not want to cause a ruckus in the house.

At long last they went into their rooms but then Harry realized that in reality he had never really unpacked, his stuff was still in its trunk and that was simply because he had only arrived just a few hours ago.

Then Hedwig appeared and flapped onto Harry"s shoulder.

"Hedwig!" Harry shouted, "I was beginning to wonder where you were."

She gave a rousing squawk, which made Harry smile and then she looked at him in wonderment.

Harry figured she was waiting for news.

"Girl, we have to get up north. Apparently Voldemort wants to look every which way down here and try to find me. We are headed to Yell you know where that is?"

Hedwig didn't make any motion of knowing where that was.

Harry frowned "Come on girl that's in Scotland or at least a bit north of there. I think you will find plenty of things to hunt there, it's an island but I can't wait to see what Sirius has up there."

Hedwig gave a soft chirp at that but it appeared she wanted proof.

"Well if you want to know where it is then go fly up to Lerwick and wait up there, then I want you to come at like 11 o clock, you and that mind of yours no doubt will be able to figure where I am" said Harry.

Ginny giggled, "She really does have an intelligent mind doesn't she?"

Harry glanced an eye to his owl.

"Indeed, perhaps she could be tested if I showed her some food and she if she could identify it, she already knows what owl treats look like, can't see why she couldn't identify the food."

They both laughed at that "Come on we have to get these to the front door I suppose" said Harry.

Ginny was in and out of her room in an instant, yes this was a huge reversal from earlier when Harry had come because she thought that Harry and her would have stayed at the Burrow until school started and Ron and Hermione would have joined them after their little holiday, who knows maybe they would be at Harry's estate.

It was not long before the occupants of the house were ready to go although Mrs. Weasley suddenly was panicking because she had left some of her knitting needles and thread in a drawer in her rooms.

When she was finally back downstairs at the front door she gave a rather knowing comment seeing Harry and Ginny were snickering.

"Oh so you think I shouldn't have my sewing supplies do you?"

"Oh mum its just funny seeing you get in a frenzy sometimes" said Ginny "you got all worked up there for a minute."

'I'll have you know that these supplies are very important to me darling daughter" said Mrs. Weasley "I need them if you want sweaters this December."

Her mom had a point but more important than a sweater was Harry, but still she couldn't help but laugh some more.

Harry joined her for a moment once again but then got a little more serious. "Lets do this please, I'm getting tired I actually would like to close my eyes for a few hours before the big day."

'Isn't it great?" Said Ginny "you're going to be 16 and I still have a little ways to go before I will ever be your age."

"Hey now" said Harry "Your birthday is only a few weeks away its not like you won't be my age. We all get one year older it's a known fact."

" That's true," said Ginny.

"Are we quite done here?" Mrs. Weasley was looking irritated "I don't want to darn well stand here all night."

"Yes lets go shall we" said Harry as he started to head towards the door with his stuff.

Mrs. Weasley thought Harry showed a bit of sarcasm at that but she followed Harry's lead since it was his estate after all that they were heading to.

Once outside the door Harry took each of the small portkey's out of his pocket. The minute they got in the hands of the others they started glowing dark blue and gradually started turning red.

"It's a signal," said Harry "No time to waste at all tap them 3 times and we are on our way."

With ease this deed was done and they all vanished in a flash.

That feeling of a tube took over Harry's surroundings again, oh how he wished it wasn't always this way, it was terrible, even maddening that this sensation drove him crazy, why did it always have to happen?

At length the sensation was just a memory and they finally landed on very soft ground, well if this was the Shetlands they sure felt like they were on an island.

In just that instant more thumps and flashes of light occurred all around them and several of their friends appeared, it was Lupin, Mr. Weasley, and Ron and Hermione!

Before they could say anything however, Mrs. Weasley stuck her wand out at them and pointed straight to each one of them.

"Stay where you are!" She shouted.

"Molly what's your problem?" asked Remus looking stunned at this conduct.

"Making sure you are who you say you are now hold still!"

She waved her wand several times in a spell that only Mr. Weasley apparently recognized and he gave a resigned sigh.

Finally after what seemed like ages Mrs. Weasley appeared satisfied.

"I know this sounds absurd but I can never be too careful these days with death eaters about, it's a spell that's designed to detect dark marks whether they are concealed or not. The Weasley clan has known this spell for several generations even down to many of the earliest wizarding wars."

"Give us advance warning next time will you" Remus scratched his hair a bit.

"That brings up another point," said Miss Weasley "how did you get here just like us. We have the order meeting tomorrow evening but I thought you and Arthur would not show up until then."

"Well it so happens that Albus sent us portkey's and we assumed that they are quite similar to yours. He told us that Voldemort's forces were about to do missions all over England; he wanted us to get out of our training and come up here, in fact the letter that we were sent specifically had Arthur and I and of course Hermione and Ron being allowed to come along" Remus grew silent then but quickly conjured a flask of juice to drink.

"Well that's all well and good but how did you show up at the same time?" Mrs. Weasley was giving a very pointed look at them by this point.

"Well they were glowing blue and all of a sudden they just started glowing red, it's like it was a signal for us to use them immediately. So we did, I can only surmise that if one portkey is set off then the others give a warning that you have to use them. So if Albus wanted us to get here at the same time there must be a purpose" Remus rubbed his hands over his portkey, it was still glowing rather faintly and it looked like it was ready to fall out of his hands.

Meanwhile it was only a moment but soon Harry was being hugged by one of his best friends and the girl who he loved very much even in a fond and calming way the bushy brown hair of Hermione Granger filled his face, Harry coughed and groaned over the sudden hug but he finally had enough willpower to pull her off of him gently.

"Hermione how was your holiday!" Harry beamed at his friend; it looked as if she had received a nice tan and still looked as beautiful as she ever did.

"It was wonderful but it could have been much better if you were with us" said Hermione.

Hey mate. You should have been there all the great waves and surfing that you could want." Ron gave Harry a slap on the back joyfully.

"Well I'm glad to see you guys enjoyed yourselves but I was obviously unable to be anywhere being in the Dursley's for a long while"

"But you're free Harry, you were able to get to the Burrow, now mind telling us what to do next?" Hermione obviously was waiting to see what this place was.

Harry turned his head and saw in front him two large pillars and in between those pillars was a large iron gate with a gold lock in the middle, it was stainless steel and appeared to have no keyhole, why was this, then suddenly he figured that because it was Sirius estate but of course it was now his, there had to be words said to open the gate and before he could even make that attempt a house elf appeared.

"Master Harry" it squeaked "We is happy to see you at the manor, you has arrived at last. These is your friends?" it asked.

"Yes" said Harry "Are you the head elf?"

"Yes I is Master Harry please follow me."

The elf turned around and snapped its fingers, and the manor appeared out of nowhere and boy was it a beauty since it was of the house of black.

It was 3 stories in size and had a dark brown brick exterior, for a manor this large; brick was probably the best material. Blue shutters adorned the windows of which there were quite a few. A large front steel door sat in the middle of what was the first floor and a cobblestone pathway led to it. Harry wondered how many rooms were in this place and how a manor like this could be on an island that was mainly used for fishing.

Still thinking about this Harry beckoned to Ginny and his friends to follow him as the house elf led them to their new retreat. At the door the elf snapped its fingers again and the door opened with a loud groan.

Once across the entrance and inside Harry's mouth dropped open, what a beautiful building this was! The furniture, the walls, the tables, the stairwells, and even the main fireplace just to the right of where Harry was standing were quite immaculate and many areas of the house were made out of marble. Harry and the others spread out and started looking over the many things that comprised the house. The first place Harry wanted to see is where the order could hold their meeting tomorrow evening and as he reached the kitchen he saw that it was extra large and contained a large table with enough seating for approximately 25 persons, now why would Sirius have need of such a large table? Maybe in his mind he new Harry would need such a large table, in fact they must be of similar size in the other estates that Harry now had under his name. This was going to be good.

"Harry this is so awesome mate. I can't believe you get all the glory," said Ron, he was trying touch every little thing in sight and Harry was getting rather annoyed, he didn't want the marble to get dirty with all the people touching it.

"Please everyone, keep your hands off the marble its expensive" Harry wanted it kept in good condition, hands off was the best policy.

"Master Harry we is your loyal servants as Master Black gave us permission to serve under you, do you require anything?" the elf was tapping its little foot and waiting for his master to make a command.

"Would you prepare our rooms for my guests? I think we are almost ready to go to bed," said Harry.

"Yes we is anticipating your arrival already and your rooms are ready to be used. Master warlock said that you was coming tonight, we are ready to lead you to your rooms."

Harry sighed in contentment, this was going to be a great place to finish out his summer and with the Hogwarts return coming it would be a great thing as well.

Turning to his motherly figure Harry smiled "Mrs. Weasley I hope you can make yourself at home. The elves apparently have our rooms ready. I don't know how big they are yet of course but I have to assume that the bigger rooms in the place are suites."

"I'm sure the elves will treat us well and I'm sure that the rooms are suitable. I suggest you get to sleep soon. We want you ready for tomorrow, pretty busy day I must say ahead of you" she gave a warm smile.

"I agree," said Harry "Thanks for your concern." He gestured to the elf as it had returned with the invitation to take them to their rooms. A few more elves appeared and Harry noticed they all had special uniforms on, could this be an emblem of their loyalty to him? Harry wanted them to have proper wages of that he was certain. So he would most likely bring up the subject at some point.

"Harry I implore you to make sure the house is well defended against death eaters, it is under your command of course but do you realize in that letter that was sent to us that Albus specifically said only you can delegate to us the chance to provide safety measures?" Mr. Weasley was trying to impress upon Harry that since he owned all of these estates that yes safety measures were paramount.

"I believe I will take that into account" said Harry "but I believe the headmaster has ideas on how that can be done."

"Has the headmaster talked to you as of late Harry?" Mr. Weasley asked.

"Lets just say that you will find out what we discussed at the order meeting tomorrow," said Harry.

"All right Harry I trust your judgment but whatever information that you can provide will be of great benefit. Albus mentioned that you had something you wanted to tell us. I won't ask just yet of course but I hope at the meeting you will give us some insight."

"That's the plan Mr. Weasley but as I have said I'm not discussing it till then" Harry shut his mouth firmly with finality.

Knowing that he would probably not get another word out of Harry he said his farewells for the night and he and Mrs. Weasley headed for bed but not before Mrs. Weasley gave Harry a word of advice.

"Don't stay up to late Harry you best get ready for tomorrow" She headed up with the other adults to their rooms.

That reminded Harry he had to get his speech ready for acceptance to the order that would have to be done now.

Beckoning his friends to follow him they all followed yet another elf into what he assumed was his room and saw that it had two beds; well it was going to be him and Ron together in the same room at least until Hogwarts.

"Hey guys I have something I have to write up for the order meeting tomorrow night you can go to your rooms for a bit and check them out if you want."

"That's fine Harry," said Hermione "I'm going to bed anyway, I'm sure we have lots to talk about in the morning. Come on Ginny lets do this."

Ginny however was staying put, she stood there with a defiant and yet brave look on her face and she looked at Harry with resolve to stay there by his side.

"Fine" Hermione said "but please come to the room when you're done.

Ginny nodded briskly and she pulled Ron's arm along with her and they went to her room.

"I sincerely hope they are up to no funny business," said Ginny.

"Haha, I highly doubt that they will do anything just yet. Honestly I'm not sure how into Ron that Hermione is, perhaps it's a good idea they went without me, they probably need to have a talk."

Harry chuckled a bit at that, if he had to think of a guess the discussion going on in the other room was probably about how Ron and Hermione might be compatible but them Harry thought it might be best for Ron to take it slow with Hermione. Harry knew that Ron really cared about Hermione but he didn't want her heart to be broken.

"Now tell me something mister, you seem to be hiding something from the rest of us, care telling me what it might be?" Ginny looked around for a place to sit and found that a desk with chair was handy; she sat down and waited for the explanation.

"Ginny today me and Dumbledore talked about something related to the order meeting last night. He told me not to tell anyone and I intend to keep my word, but there is something else you need to know and I figure that now is the best time to tell you."

Ginny looked scared and concerned at the same time what could Harry possibly have to say.

"Ginny" Harry began "you do know that Voldemort constantly finds a way to cause mischief at the school every year don't you?"

"Of course I do. I suppose you have to bring up how you saved me again in my first year?" She asked.

"No, not directly anyway but did you notice that a lot of these encounters with him happened near the end of the every school year?"

'Yes of course but what is the point?" She once again looked at him with concern.

"The point is that Voldemort is after me practically every year, it relates to a prophecy that Dumbledore told me about not so long ago. I'm going to tell you now so you can really see what I have to do, prepare yourself and perhaps you can see what I face" said Harry "Dumbledore told me this just a month ago after Sirius was lost" Harry sniffed a bit.

Harry then told Ginny the entire prophecy and waited to see what her reaction would be, it would probably be as he expected, tears and heartbreak.

Ginny got to the point in the entire prophecy that really had her upset and she paraphrased the part "So neither can live while the other is still alive as in you have to take him down or he takes you down?"

Harry pulled Ginny over to him and looked in her eyes deeply.

"It is indeed so" said Harry "I have to get him. I am the chosen one because he marked me with this scar as his equal, he believes that I was the one that is currently stopping his chance at world domination, of course the vision I had is a breaking point, he is fast gathering his followers and recruiting new ones and its only a matter of time before something worse breaks out."

Ginny started sobbing but hardly made even a sound, Harry, trying to be brave started stroking her hair and whispering to her "What this means Ginny is that I have to face him alone when the time comes but need all of you in my life. If you want to help me defeat him then come with me but it will be at your own risk and peril but regardless I need you Ron and Hermione and even the others on our side to join in the plans, when the time comes to really put our plans into action we can make this work and hopefully we can be free of this war."

Ginny looked so helpless standing there with her head on Harry's shoulder, this made him feel so warm and loved, and there was that word again love… Harry continued to wonder if his feelings for Ginny were true, it seemed that time and again as he thought about this he still realized that Ginny needed to figure out whether Dean was in her future or not, he promised himself he would not do anything over dramatic with her until she talked to Dean and sorted things out with him, it was after all better to be on the safe side of things.

After Ginny had composed herself to a certain point, Harry took out his handkerchief and handed it to her, she blew her nose loudly and smiled at him.

"Thank you for telling me Harry. I will keep it to myself unless you plan on telling the others."

"It's no problem," said Harry "it was Dumbledore who suggested I tell my closest friends. Essentially this means Ron, Hermione and of course you will all know what I have to do and what the prophecy entails, it's a big job for a wizard like me, but I really need the support of the order and all of you.

Harry gestured for Ginny to hold up the Handkerchief and he waved his wand and the fabric was as good as new.

"You 're welcome to keep that if you like" Harry said with a big smile on his face.

A tear slid down Ginny's face, Harry took that as a sign of happiness and support, it did not appear to be sadness this time around.

She giggled at him and put the cloth in her pocket.

"Well I'd best get to sleep. If you head out the door just find one of the elves and they will take you to your room. I'm sure that Hermione will have many things to you and I expect I will get her story of what she and Ron were up to" said Harry.

Ginny nodded and with one last smile she headed out the door.

Harry did not know exactly when Ron would return to the room but he decided to call it a night anyway. So off he went to sleep and later on he didn't even notice the sound of Ron opening the door and heading to his own bed on the other side of the Room.

Overnight Harry had another dream with Voldemort in it, he was so deep in sleep that he didn't even feel that famous scar burn, he didn't even cry out.

Sitting in a dark room two voices could be heard. One snakelike and the other all businesslike, the voices were terrible to overhear as plans were made and thoughts were voiced.

"Lucius, how are the missions going?" Voldemort sat on his chair sipping a drink. The same drink he had almost everyday.

"My Lord our initial searches go well. You have stated southern England is the best chance for us to find more recruits and continue to find supporters of our enemy Dumbledore, however as we have searched we can't seem to find very many supporters, its like they have all vanished."

Voldemort's eyes flared "I suspect that Dumbledore has decided to herd all of his supporters to some place safe, well then if that's what he wants to do perhaps they are so worthless and stupid as I thought. We must find them and teach them what it means to keep Potter with them."

"My Lord, I believe if we put forth our plan early we might be able to catch them off guard" Malfoy sneered with amusement.

"A good strategy I'm sure but we don't want to hurry and rush to judgment. We must carefully tread our steps as we move forward. Rushing to battle without good manpower training is not advisable. I expect that you and Severus will train our recruits carefully in the art of our cause" the snake took another sip of his drink before him.

"We will do as you command my Lord you still expect to put the plan in action soon or give an exact date?" asked Lucius.

"Indeed Lucius you will know as soon as I have found a date that will suffice for this, now go and train." Voldemort waved him away.

Harry woke up gasping and his scar was burning slightly, yet another vision, it couldn't be possible that his scar had such an open connection this often to Voldemort but then again perhaps he could use this to his advantage. There really was no need to mention this until the meeting the next day, so hoping that he would be able to sleep well this time he made sure Ron was still asleep and then he remembered the speech he had to give. He put it right into his memory that he would complete the speech the moment he woke up the next morning, then he nodded off to sleep.