Chapter two
Harry Arrives
Now, to put things simply, Spyro and Cynder knew about the group living in Grimmauld Place being called the Order of the Phoenix, but apparently Dumbledore had made it clear that the two dragons couldn't join yet, and so, whilst meetings were being held in the dining room, they spent time with Ron and Hermione, just like now for instance. They had also gotten on good terms with the rest of the Weasley family after meeting them, and Cynder had made very good friends with Ron's older twin brothers, Fred and George, they got on well with Cynder due to her enjoying playing pranks just like them, and most of the time said pranks were targeted at Sparx. Spyro was always there to watch the pranks unfurl, he hardly had a choice due to him and Cynder being connected due to a cursed chain placed there by Malefor the previous year.
They were wondering if the others were going to be back soon when the bedroom door was opened ever so slowly, and in the doorway stood none other than…
"Harry!" Hermione gasped as she pulled her friend into a hug, "are you alright?" she asked as she exited the hug.
"Yeah, we heard about the Dementor attack" Spyro added from one of the beds,
"Tell us everything," Cynder pressed, she was worried that one small thing that went wrong would have caused a death.
"Let the man breath, guys!" Ron butted in, but Hermione wouldn't stop,
"And this hearing at the ministry, it's just outrageous. I've looked it up, they simply can't expel you. It's completely unfair"
"yeah" Harry responded quietly, "there's a lot of that going round at the moment." He paced around the room for a bit before asking, "what is this place?"
"Its headquarters." Ron stated,
"Of the Order of the Phoenix" Hermione added, "it's a secret society, Dumbledore formed it back when they first fought You-Know-Who"
"You couldn't have put this in a letter I suppose?" harry asked accusingly, "I've gone the whole summer without a scrap of news" and Cynder and Spyro then felt the guilt hit instantly,
"All of us wanted to Harry" Spyro explained, "but Dumbledore made us swear not to write"
"Dumbledore said that?" Harry asked in disbelief, "but why would he keep me in the dark? maybe I could help. After all, I'm one of the three who saw Voldemort return, I'm one of the three who fought him, I'm one of the three who saw Cedric Diggory get killed…" suddenly, Fred and George appeared out of thin air from behind the boy,
"Harry" one of them said, it's hard for anyone to know which Weasley was which with those two.
"Thought we heard your dulcet tones" the other twin added,
"don't bottle it up though mate, let it out"
"Anyway, if you're all done shouting,"
"Do you wanna hear something a little more interesting?"
The group were stationed by the stair banister and the twins were lowering down one of their own devices that Cynder thought was genius. They called it an Extendable Ear, and on the end of the wire-like tube that the twins were lowering down was a realistic ear that allowed anyone on the open end of the wire to hear any conversation the fake ear was near!
"Fred, George," Cynder whispered, "you could seriously make a living out of these"
Sparx knew that he had to get revenge on Cynder for all the pranks she had pulled on him, but due to his size, he normally couldn't do much, but today on the other hand, he saw a very good opportunity. He was flying through the corridors of Grimmauld Place when he came across the Extendable Ear, they were obviously trying to spy on the meeting in the next room, he dimmed his glow as best he could before taking a peek and he saw about three floors up, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny (Ron's younger sister), Fred and George, Spyro, and Cynder. Cynder was actually the one closest to the end of the ear. Sparx sniggered before quietly flying behind the ear, holding onto the back without moving his wings, turning the ear so the recording part was right in front of his head, he then stuck his head into the ear and shouted as loud as he dared,
"AAAAAAGH!"
The noise that suddenly burst out of the extendable ear made everyone jump out of their skins, even Spyro and Cynder! In less than a second a familiar golden glow flew up to the stair banister and Cynder instantly realised what had happened,
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Sparx laughed so hard, "I got you back! I. Got. You. BACK!" Cynder gnashed her teeth, it wasn't natural for her to be pranked by the dragonfly, she silently declared to herself,
"Prank wars are so on!"
