The Mark of the Phoenix
by Scar


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Chapter 1: Dreams

Hell. Pure Hell. That is what Harry faced every night when he finally went to sleep. Nightmares about the end of the now legendary Third Task of the Tri-Wizard Tournament. He was currently in one of those horrific dreams.. witnessing the death of Hogwart's Co-Champion Cedric Diggory. However.. in the part of the dream where Wormtail cast the deadly Avera Kadava spell, a familiar female voice shouted "STOP" and the entire dream froze. A figure started to emerge from the shadows that Harry recognized...
"Hermione.." whispered the dream Harry just before he woke up.

Harry awoke with a weight upon his chest. He grabbed his glasses off the table and noticed that the weight was a phoenix. The phoenix was Fawkes, his headmaster's p.. well you couldnt really call him a pet.. more of a companion..

"Hallo, Fawkes.. what brings you here tonight?"

"Welcome to the Order" Harry heard in his head

Fawkes touched Harry's forehead with his beak and a symbol of a phoenix rising light up on Harry's forehead .. completely blinding Harry and obscuring his lightning bolt shaped scar that predominatly rested on his forehead. When Harry regained his vision, Fawkes was gone. In his place was a book titled "So You Were Just Inducted into the Order of the Phoenix, Now What?"
Harry shrugged his shoulders.. put the book in his hiding place under the floorboard.. and had his first peaceful sleep since he got out of school a month before.


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That same evening, Hermione Granger was also dreading going to sleep. She was having nightmares also.. an unseen witness to what Harry suffered in his dreams. Not one night had passed since she got home from Hogwarts had she not had a nightmare. She thought that her imagination was hypothosizing what happened in that day of the Third Task. She truly worried about Harry.. and her crush on him was not helping matters in the slightest. Everyone thought that her crush was Ron Weasley.. the third member of the Great Trio.. (as they were referred to either in praise or mockery.. depending on the person using the moniker) but everyone was wrong. Hermione thought more of Ron as the brother she never had.. and it was more of a case of siblings fighting all the time. She knew Ron had a crush on her at the Yule Ball.. but they owled each other this summer and straightened everything out. The other person people thought she was crushing on was Viktor Krum.. Seeker for the Bulgarian Quiddich Team.. She was flattered that an older male was interested in her.. and actually did take Victor up on his offer to visit him in BUlgaria, only to find out that Viktor was in an arranged marriage.. and Hermione was only going to be his mistress... She set Viktor straight and came straight home.. all the while the nightmares plagued her. But Harry was the one she truly wanted to be with.. and it took alot of her Griffindor courage to just kiss him on the cheek before parting his company at King's Cross. She pondered that kiss for a moment and fell asleep with a smile on her face. A smile that quickly faded into a frown when the dream materialized. It started out the same.. the events of the Third Task that she witnessed.. then the change of scene to the graveyard.. this time.. she had enough.. just after Voldemort told Wormtail to "Kill the Spare", Hermione snapped and yelled

"STOP!"

The dream froze except for Hermione and Harry.. She stepped out of the shadows and just barely heard Harry whisper

"Hermione.."

Hermione woke up dazed.. but there was an unknown object on her stomach. She opened her eyes and was soon staring eye to eye with a beautiful Black and Gold phoenix.. The staredown continued for minutes when then the phoenix touched Hermione's forehead with it's beak. Hermione heard in her head

"Welcome to the Order"

She felt a burning on her forehead as a bright shining light blinded her for a second. When she regained her sight.. she went into the kitchen to get some water.. and saw through a reflection off the patio window.. a glowing symbol of a rising phoenix on her forehead. She thought she was imagining it and went back to bed... not noticing the book that was now lying on her nightstand..


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Two men were seated in a darkened room staring into 2 glowing orbs. They were watching the two teenagers with interest.. and were grinning when the two were inducted into the Order.

"Well Moony, it looks like its time to explain to Harry what the Mauraders were really up to.. not just the prankster stuff"

The man who looked years older than he really was sighed and replied..

"Yes Padfoot.. I know.. I was just hoping that it wouldn't have been this soon.. We need to meet with both Harry and Hermoine seperately.. tommorrow.. they can't let each other or anyone else know about the Order.. until James and Lily appear to them in their dream.. "

Sirius Black looked at Moony with a sad look in his eyes...

"I know.. We knew Harry would be the one to replace James.. but I had my money on that Weasley girl to be the one to replace Lily.. the red hair and all.. I had no idea that it would be Hermione.. We should probally get some sleep.. tommorrow is going to be a long day.



End Chapter 1