Disclaimer: I don't own anything you recognise from the books, J. K.
Rowling does.
Authors note: This starts in the summer before Harry's 7th year and it's not slash.
-Chapter Five -
Harry and Draco were copying books the days after their first mission. When they were finished, Harry moved the books somewhere not even telling Draco the location. He also took the Invisibility cloaks with him. He seemed to be spending every free minute he had out of the house. Whenever someone asked him of his whereabouts, he just said he had been out to think.
It happened on Christmas Eve.
They had just finished with a wonderful dinner and were sitting in the living room. Harry and Draco were playing chess, Hermione and Ginny were talking to Mrs. Weasley, Neville's grandmother and McGonagall. Snape, Mr. Weasley, Remus, Sirius and Percy were discussing Voldemort's next move. Fred, George and Neville were playing Exploding Snap.
Suddenly Harry and Draco's heads snapped up. They looked at each other, nodded and stood up.
"May I have your attention, please?" Harry asked as Draco went to open the trapdoor to the Headquarters. "We're going to be attacked soon. Everyone meet in the Main-room down in the Headquarters at once." Harry didn't give them time to ask how he knew that they would be attacked. He jumped off the chair he had been standing on and went to the Main-room where he met up with Draco. A minute passed before the others followed.
"Potter, what the Hell are you on about?" Snape demanded with the tone he had used in his classes.
In the next second the whole house shook as thought it was hit by something.
"That." Harry replied calmly, taking out his wand. He summoned the others wands to them and started to walk down a corridor, the others had no choice but to follow.
Harry lit his wand and led the others through a secret passage he hadn't even showed to them. They walked fast and a few minutes later they appeared in the park that was a few blocks away from Number 4, Privet Drive. They turned and looked down at the house from the park. As it was on a hill they could see much of the little town.
The house was completely in flames, the Dark Mark hovering in the air above it. As they watched the house fell together as though it had been build out of cards.
"There goes that Headquarter." Draco said. "Shame. I was beginning to like that house."
The rest was just staring strangely at him or Harry, some with their mouths hanging open. Harry looked at them, shrugged and began to walk away. They followed him, not having anything else to do. Harry led them through the streets until he finally stopped in front of a house. He knocked at the door. It was opened by an old Muggle woman. It took her some time to recognise Harry, but when she did she let him, and the others, in.
"Harry, I'm so sorry for your relatives," she said as they settled in her living room. "This must be your friends from school. It's nice to meet you all even though I've no idea how you got here, and at this time of the night."
"Please Mrs Figg," Harry interrupted her. "Could we stay here for the night? We have been at a club downtown and someone stole my keys to Number 4. and you were the only one I could ask for help." Harry said all this in a desperate sort-of way which he knew she had no heart to turn down.
"Alright, but tomorrow I'm calling the locksmith." She said sternly. "Try not to get your cat mixed with mine, and keep that dog away from them, or else..."
"With my life and thank you Mrs Figg." Harry said.
Mrs Figg nodded and went back to bed, letting them settle in on their own. The others waited for a few minutes before they bombarded Draco and Harry with questions.
"Ok, what was all that about?" Hermione asked.
"How did you know about the attack?" Ron said.
"Who is the old bugger anyway?" Fred and George asked at the same time.
Harry calmly raised one hand and they shut up like they would have done with Dumbledore.
"One thing at the time." He said. "Draco and I got an anonymous tips about the attack and got you all out. That old lady was Mrs Annie Figg, she was my old babysitter. From here we're going by Floo to a pub in London. You'll hear the rest of the story when we get there." They tried to get more information out of him but he wouldn't even open his mouth so they gave up.
"Where are we going to get the Floo powder from?" Draco asked in the end.
"I've got enough with me." Harry walked over to the fireplace, lit a fire with his wand, threw some powder in and turned to the others. "Okay, just say 'The Slayer Bar' and you're there."
Draco looked suspiciously at him then walked into the fire.
"The Slayer Bar!" he said loudly and was gone.
The rest followed one after one. Harry was the last to leave. He took out a letter from a pocket, put it on a table where Mrs Figg was sure to see it, looked around one last time, stepped inside the fireplace and was gone. When he arrived at the other end he saw that the others where sitting around the fireplace in chairs, sure to corner him when he came out. Harry smiled and sat down in a chair himself.
"Okay," he said. "Shoot."
"First of all Harry, where are we?" Sirius asked. "I've never been here before."
"We're at the corner of Baker Street and Oxford Street . I saw that this place was being sold so I bought it. We're now in the backroom of the bar." Harry replied calmly.
"May I ask what good a bar will do us Potter?" Snape asked.
"It's going to be our new Headquarters."
"But if we have a bar, we've got to run along with the Red Dragons," Hermione said.
"Now really?! Good logic Granger." Draco sneered.
"How are we going to do that?" Herminoe asked, ignoring Draco.
"We're going to let Voldemort think he's got the upper hand now. In the meantime we'll recruit other students from Hogwarts that we know we can trust. And of course, we're going to look at other places after recruits too." Harry said.
"But Harry, we've lost all the books we found in the tunnels under Privet Drive." Neville protested.
"Nope, Wonder Boy here thought of that too," Draco replied. "He made me help him copy every damn book we had. My back still hurts!"
"Harry, from now on we're just going to call you 'the Gamemaster', okay?" Sirius asked. "It would save us a lot of confusion and trouble."
Everyone looked at Harry, who was sitting there calmly. He reminded them of Dumbledore and still there was something more powerful about him. They could easily see that he was not someone to cross if you didn't want to end up dead or in big trouble.
"Well, I guess we'll have to begin on the bar then." Ron said after a long silence.
"No need," Harry replied. "All we need is a day to open it, but now we're going to bed."
Harry showed them their rooms and offices. Each of the doors had the animal that suited the personality of the person that was going to live there, carved on it.
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Seamus Finnigan was looking out the window of his room. It was late at night and he still couldn't sleep. What had happened to Hogwarts still shocked him, even though it was a few months ago, and then it was the World Trade Center Towers thing. The world was going nuts and he couldn't do a thing about it.
Seamus had gotten the Daily Prophet delivered to him since the summer had started. He deeply wished that he could be a Red Dragon. Fighting evil with magic swords, meet presidents, go on secret mission, go undercover, rescue damsels in distress...whatever that was.
He looked at the full moon and saw something flying towards him. A minute later a Barn owl landed on the window sill. Seamus looked closely at it and saw that it had a letter tied to its leg. He untied it and that owl flew off.
The parchment was light and the crest on the wax that was holding the letter together was a dragon. Seamus looked at the front again.
'Seamus Finnigan Apartment 10 Southington, London'
It was written in red ink. Seamus quickly opened the letter and began to read.
'Dear Mr. Finnigan,
We are sure that you have heard about the Red Dragons Order. Well, this is your chance to join us. However, if you are going to join us there are few matters that must be settled:
1. If you have family or friends that you don't want to lose or involve in this, think really carefully over this offer. 2. If you do not trust orders given by owl post, Muggle post or e- mail without it being signed, do not read further. 3. You must be ready to get called out anytime, anywhere. For this you will go through some special training. 4. Under missions you will get a new name and must, under no conditions tell it to anyone, not even fellow Agents. 5. Again, we remind you, if you have family and friends that you do not want to get involved in something like this, please consider you choice before answering.
If you have made your choice, please cross of the option that suits.
Yes / No'
Seamus thought over the offer for the next hour, then he crossed over 'Yes'. The writing disappeared and something new appeared. It was a red dragon. There was some text under it.
'Put your wand-arm palm down over the dragon. If you are ready to join us it will transfer to your palm.'
Seamus did this. At once he could feel a strong urge to scratch his palm, but didn't do it. The felling was gone a second later. Seamus looked at his palm and found the red dragon there. He looked back at the parchment again.
'Congratulations and welcome to the Order.
At Saturday a new bar will be opening at the corner of Baker Street and Oxford Street, the Slayer Bar. Go there and show your palm to the bartender and he will give you the next directions.'
Seamus smiled. Suddenly the parchment was on fire, not even ashes were left.
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At Saturday he found the bar and was surprised that a long line was waiting to get in. He shrugged and got into the line.
Half an hour later he got inside, spotted the bar and walked over. The bartender was flipping and turning bottles in time with the music. After a while he came over to Seamus.
"Wha'd'ya want?" he asked and Seamus showed him his palm. "Oh, the bathroom? Straight out that corridor. You can't miss it, the door beside it has a griffin carved on it."
Seamus nodded and walked away. He found the door and knocked. It opened on its own. The room inside was completely dark except the ring of light just inside the door. Seamus stepped inside the ring. The door behind him closed and he just stood there, alone in his circle of light.
Seamus was beginning to get really annoyed and was thinking of leaving, when a voice spoke.
"Welcome everyone, to the Red Dragons Order. You are the first recruits in the Red Dragons history, which is, for the moment, very short. And yes, there are more of you in the same room." The light was turned on and Seamus could see about 20 other people besides him standing in the room. "In this room you are going to learn how to block pain, brew the Veritaserum and to duel. This time however, you are going to spend some time getting to know the others in the room. You are going to work as a whole group in the beginning and later go on missions two and two, or one and one. Now get to know someone. That's your first order."
Seamus was about to go to the person that was standing in front of him when several people jumped on him. When he got them all off he found out that it was Dean Thomas, Alicia Spinnet, Katie Bell, Colin and Dennis Creevy, Angelina Johnson and Oliver Wood.
"I had no idea that you guys where recruited too!" Seamus said.
"Neither did we until the lights came on." Wood replied.
Seamus had a good time getting to know the people in his group. That night, when he came home, he knew that he had done the right choice.
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'THE RED DRAGONS LIVE
By Rita Skeeter
After the Dragon Eye episode a year ago we thought that the Red Dragons where gone. We were wrong. The Red Dragons have lately popped up everywhere in the world. The Daily Prophet talked to Harry Potter yesterday.
"Of curse it scared me when the Red Dragons disappeared." He said. "We need them to win the war against You-Know-Who. You know there's a rumour going around that the Red Dragons have something planned for Hogwarts? I think they're going to open the school again. You may want to check it out." After that Mr. Potter had to get back to work.
But you readers can be sure that we will check if Hogwarts is still standing. More news will be in tomorrows paper.'
Harry put the paper down and looked round the room.
"I don't think Skeeter likes you Harry." Sirius said. "She made you look like a wimp."
"I know, but it's only dragging the suspicion of me being the Red Dragons leader away from me."
"I thought you said that Fudge was taking the blame." Draco said.
"They will always suspect me, no matter what. Tomorrow we'll take the Invisibility wards off Hogwarts and let everyone, who wants to, return."
"I sent a letter to Dumbledore." Ron said. "So he'll be there."
"As sure as the teachers will be there, the Death Eaters won't let this chance pass." Remus said.
"Well, it would have been suspicious if at least me, Ron, Draco, Hermione, Ginny, Fred, George, Neville, Severus and Minerva weren't there. I bet that the Ministry is going to turn up with 50 Auror's, minimum. And then you have the Order of the Phoenix and the rest of the Hogwarts students that we have recruited that are not on missions." Harry replied. "Ol' Voldie ain't got a chance."
"It will be good to see Albus again." McGonagall said. "What about the House Elves and the Hogwarts ghosts?"
"They never left." Draco answered this time.
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The next day people began gathering in Hogsmeade at sunrise, Harry and the rest of the Order among them. They met old friends and Professors. Dumbledore among others.
"Harry! How good to see you." Dumbledore said.
"Hullo Professor," Harry replied. "These Red Dragons are amazing, aren't they?"
"They sure are." Dumbledore didn't have time to say anything else as Snape, McGongall, Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Draco, Fred, George and Neville came over.
"Professor!" Hermione squeaked. "This is wonderful! Hogwarts is back!"
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That's it for now. Sorry for not posting this before but I had some trouble with the computer.
I want to thank Pampered Tigeress for reviewing.
Authors note: This starts in the summer before Harry's 7th year and it's not slash.
-Chapter Five -
Harry and Draco were copying books the days after their first mission. When they were finished, Harry moved the books somewhere not even telling Draco the location. He also took the Invisibility cloaks with him. He seemed to be spending every free minute he had out of the house. Whenever someone asked him of his whereabouts, he just said he had been out to think.
It happened on Christmas Eve.
They had just finished with a wonderful dinner and were sitting in the living room. Harry and Draco were playing chess, Hermione and Ginny were talking to Mrs. Weasley, Neville's grandmother and McGonagall. Snape, Mr. Weasley, Remus, Sirius and Percy were discussing Voldemort's next move. Fred, George and Neville were playing Exploding Snap.
Suddenly Harry and Draco's heads snapped up. They looked at each other, nodded and stood up.
"May I have your attention, please?" Harry asked as Draco went to open the trapdoor to the Headquarters. "We're going to be attacked soon. Everyone meet in the Main-room down in the Headquarters at once." Harry didn't give them time to ask how he knew that they would be attacked. He jumped off the chair he had been standing on and went to the Main-room where he met up with Draco. A minute passed before the others followed.
"Potter, what the Hell are you on about?" Snape demanded with the tone he had used in his classes.
In the next second the whole house shook as thought it was hit by something.
"That." Harry replied calmly, taking out his wand. He summoned the others wands to them and started to walk down a corridor, the others had no choice but to follow.
Harry lit his wand and led the others through a secret passage he hadn't even showed to them. They walked fast and a few minutes later they appeared in the park that was a few blocks away from Number 4, Privet Drive. They turned and looked down at the house from the park. As it was on a hill they could see much of the little town.
The house was completely in flames, the Dark Mark hovering in the air above it. As they watched the house fell together as though it had been build out of cards.
"There goes that Headquarter." Draco said. "Shame. I was beginning to like that house."
The rest was just staring strangely at him or Harry, some with their mouths hanging open. Harry looked at them, shrugged and began to walk away. They followed him, not having anything else to do. Harry led them through the streets until he finally stopped in front of a house. He knocked at the door. It was opened by an old Muggle woman. It took her some time to recognise Harry, but when she did she let him, and the others, in.
"Harry, I'm so sorry for your relatives," she said as they settled in her living room. "This must be your friends from school. It's nice to meet you all even though I've no idea how you got here, and at this time of the night."
"Please Mrs Figg," Harry interrupted her. "Could we stay here for the night? We have been at a club downtown and someone stole my keys to Number 4. and you were the only one I could ask for help." Harry said all this in a desperate sort-of way which he knew she had no heart to turn down.
"Alright, but tomorrow I'm calling the locksmith." She said sternly. "Try not to get your cat mixed with mine, and keep that dog away from them, or else..."
"With my life and thank you Mrs Figg." Harry said.
Mrs Figg nodded and went back to bed, letting them settle in on their own. The others waited for a few minutes before they bombarded Draco and Harry with questions.
"Ok, what was all that about?" Hermione asked.
"How did you know about the attack?" Ron said.
"Who is the old bugger anyway?" Fred and George asked at the same time.
Harry calmly raised one hand and they shut up like they would have done with Dumbledore.
"One thing at the time." He said. "Draco and I got an anonymous tips about the attack and got you all out. That old lady was Mrs Annie Figg, she was my old babysitter. From here we're going by Floo to a pub in London. You'll hear the rest of the story when we get there." They tried to get more information out of him but he wouldn't even open his mouth so they gave up.
"Where are we going to get the Floo powder from?" Draco asked in the end.
"I've got enough with me." Harry walked over to the fireplace, lit a fire with his wand, threw some powder in and turned to the others. "Okay, just say 'The Slayer Bar' and you're there."
Draco looked suspiciously at him then walked into the fire.
"The Slayer Bar!" he said loudly and was gone.
The rest followed one after one. Harry was the last to leave. He took out a letter from a pocket, put it on a table where Mrs Figg was sure to see it, looked around one last time, stepped inside the fireplace and was gone. When he arrived at the other end he saw that the others where sitting around the fireplace in chairs, sure to corner him when he came out. Harry smiled and sat down in a chair himself.
"Okay," he said. "Shoot."
"First of all Harry, where are we?" Sirius asked. "I've never been here before."
"We're at the corner of Baker Street and Oxford Street . I saw that this place was being sold so I bought it. We're now in the backroom of the bar." Harry replied calmly.
"May I ask what good a bar will do us Potter?" Snape asked.
"It's going to be our new Headquarters."
"But if we have a bar, we've got to run along with the Red Dragons," Hermione said.
"Now really?! Good logic Granger." Draco sneered.
"How are we going to do that?" Herminoe asked, ignoring Draco.
"We're going to let Voldemort think he's got the upper hand now. In the meantime we'll recruit other students from Hogwarts that we know we can trust. And of course, we're going to look at other places after recruits too." Harry said.
"But Harry, we've lost all the books we found in the tunnels under Privet Drive." Neville protested.
"Nope, Wonder Boy here thought of that too," Draco replied. "He made me help him copy every damn book we had. My back still hurts!"
"Harry, from now on we're just going to call you 'the Gamemaster', okay?" Sirius asked. "It would save us a lot of confusion and trouble."
Everyone looked at Harry, who was sitting there calmly. He reminded them of Dumbledore and still there was something more powerful about him. They could easily see that he was not someone to cross if you didn't want to end up dead or in big trouble.
"Well, I guess we'll have to begin on the bar then." Ron said after a long silence.
"No need," Harry replied. "All we need is a day to open it, but now we're going to bed."
Harry showed them their rooms and offices. Each of the doors had the animal that suited the personality of the person that was going to live there, carved on it.
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Seamus Finnigan was looking out the window of his room. It was late at night and he still couldn't sleep. What had happened to Hogwarts still shocked him, even though it was a few months ago, and then it was the World Trade Center Towers thing. The world was going nuts and he couldn't do a thing about it.
Seamus had gotten the Daily Prophet delivered to him since the summer had started. He deeply wished that he could be a Red Dragon. Fighting evil with magic swords, meet presidents, go on secret mission, go undercover, rescue damsels in distress...whatever that was.
He looked at the full moon and saw something flying towards him. A minute later a Barn owl landed on the window sill. Seamus looked closely at it and saw that it had a letter tied to its leg. He untied it and that owl flew off.
The parchment was light and the crest on the wax that was holding the letter together was a dragon. Seamus looked at the front again.
'Seamus Finnigan Apartment 10 Southington, London'
It was written in red ink. Seamus quickly opened the letter and began to read.
'Dear Mr. Finnigan,
We are sure that you have heard about the Red Dragons Order. Well, this is your chance to join us. However, if you are going to join us there are few matters that must be settled:
1. If you have family or friends that you don't want to lose or involve in this, think really carefully over this offer. 2. If you do not trust orders given by owl post, Muggle post or e- mail without it being signed, do not read further. 3. You must be ready to get called out anytime, anywhere. For this you will go through some special training. 4. Under missions you will get a new name and must, under no conditions tell it to anyone, not even fellow Agents. 5. Again, we remind you, if you have family and friends that you do not want to get involved in something like this, please consider you choice before answering.
If you have made your choice, please cross of the option that suits.
Yes / No'
Seamus thought over the offer for the next hour, then he crossed over 'Yes'. The writing disappeared and something new appeared. It was a red dragon. There was some text under it.
'Put your wand-arm palm down over the dragon. If you are ready to join us it will transfer to your palm.'
Seamus did this. At once he could feel a strong urge to scratch his palm, but didn't do it. The felling was gone a second later. Seamus looked at his palm and found the red dragon there. He looked back at the parchment again.
'Congratulations and welcome to the Order.
At Saturday a new bar will be opening at the corner of Baker Street and Oxford Street, the Slayer Bar. Go there and show your palm to the bartender and he will give you the next directions.'
Seamus smiled. Suddenly the parchment was on fire, not even ashes were left.
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At Saturday he found the bar and was surprised that a long line was waiting to get in. He shrugged and got into the line.
Half an hour later he got inside, spotted the bar and walked over. The bartender was flipping and turning bottles in time with the music. After a while he came over to Seamus.
"Wha'd'ya want?" he asked and Seamus showed him his palm. "Oh, the bathroom? Straight out that corridor. You can't miss it, the door beside it has a griffin carved on it."
Seamus nodded and walked away. He found the door and knocked. It opened on its own. The room inside was completely dark except the ring of light just inside the door. Seamus stepped inside the ring. The door behind him closed and he just stood there, alone in his circle of light.
Seamus was beginning to get really annoyed and was thinking of leaving, when a voice spoke.
"Welcome everyone, to the Red Dragons Order. You are the first recruits in the Red Dragons history, which is, for the moment, very short. And yes, there are more of you in the same room." The light was turned on and Seamus could see about 20 other people besides him standing in the room. "In this room you are going to learn how to block pain, brew the Veritaserum and to duel. This time however, you are going to spend some time getting to know the others in the room. You are going to work as a whole group in the beginning and later go on missions two and two, or one and one. Now get to know someone. That's your first order."
Seamus was about to go to the person that was standing in front of him when several people jumped on him. When he got them all off he found out that it was Dean Thomas, Alicia Spinnet, Katie Bell, Colin and Dennis Creevy, Angelina Johnson and Oliver Wood.
"I had no idea that you guys where recruited too!" Seamus said.
"Neither did we until the lights came on." Wood replied.
Seamus had a good time getting to know the people in his group. That night, when he came home, he knew that he had done the right choice.
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'THE RED DRAGONS LIVE
By Rita Skeeter
After the Dragon Eye episode a year ago we thought that the Red Dragons where gone. We were wrong. The Red Dragons have lately popped up everywhere in the world. The Daily Prophet talked to Harry Potter yesterday.
"Of curse it scared me when the Red Dragons disappeared." He said. "We need them to win the war against You-Know-Who. You know there's a rumour going around that the Red Dragons have something planned for Hogwarts? I think they're going to open the school again. You may want to check it out." After that Mr. Potter had to get back to work.
But you readers can be sure that we will check if Hogwarts is still standing. More news will be in tomorrows paper.'
Harry put the paper down and looked round the room.
"I don't think Skeeter likes you Harry." Sirius said. "She made you look like a wimp."
"I know, but it's only dragging the suspicion of me being the Red Dragons leader away from me."
"I thought you said that Fudge was taking the blame." Draco said.
"They will always suspect me, no matter what. Tomorrow we'll take the Invisibility wards off Hogwarts and let everyone, who wants to, return."
"I sent a letter to Dumbledore." Ron said. "So he'll be there."
"As sure as the teachers will be there, the Death Eaters won't let this chance pass." Remus said.
"Well, it would have been suspicious if at least me, Ron, Draco, Hermione, Ginny, Fred, George, Neville, Severus and Minerva weren't there. I bet that the Ministry is going to turn up with 50 Auror's, minimum. And then you have the Order of the Phoenix and the rest of the Hogwarts students that we have recruited that are not on missions." Harry replied. "Ol' Voldie ain't got a chance."
"It will be good to see Albus again." McGonagall said. "What about the House Elves and the Hogwarts ghosts?"
"They never left." Draco answered this time.
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The next day people began gathering in Hogsmeade at sunrise, Harry and the rest of the Order among them. They met old friends and Professors. Dumbledore among others.
"Harry! How good to see you." Dumbledore said.
"Hullo Professor," Harry replied. "These Red Dragons are amazing, aren't they?"
"They sure are." Dumbledore didn't have time to say anything else as Snape, McGongall, Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Draco, Fred, George and Neville came over.
"Professor!" Hermione squeaked. "This is wonderful! Hogwarts is back!"
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That's it for now. Sorry for not posting this before but I had some trouble with the computer.
I want to thank Pampered Tigeress for reviewing.