***Disclaimer*** I do not own most of these characters. That honor goes to J.K. Rowling I have created some for the sake of the plot and adding an American to the Harry Potter universe. If the format looks a little different, it's because I've decided to save this as a Web Page (.html, .htm file) instead of a .doc file. I remind you that this is my first fan fic (or fifth if you go by number of chapters), and I don't normally proofread the chapters besides a simple spell check and we all know that the grammar checkers are useless so I don't bother with that. It's kind of hard not to with those squiggly lines in Word. Please tell me what character I'm dreadfully missing. I don't know his name and I really need it. Remember to Read and Review. I know part of my Disclaimer in Chapter Two doesn't make as much sense as I thought it did, but who reads them anyways? That was a rhetorical question. Also, I'm too lazy to change it.
Times are getting darker
Chapter Five: The Tasks
Patrick McHenry flew to Remus Lupin's in his owl form, carrying the letter that Professor Albus Dumbledore had given him. He saw that there was a hippogriff flying ahead of him towards Lupin's. (He had asked an owl where Lupin's house was.) What he did not know was that it was Buckbeak trying to find Sirius Black because hippogriffs were very noble creatures and they knew that they needed to help as much as they could.
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Buckbeak landed and proceeded to find a place where he would be safe from prying Muggle-eyes; hippogriffs were also very intelligent. Patrick flew to a window and tapped on it, and Lupin opened the window letting him in, and took the letter. Along with Sirius Black, they read the letter:
Dear Sirius and Remus,
I have been contacted by Professor McHenry who notified me of your warning to him. At this point in time, I would like to inform you of a task that I would like both of you to do: Post guard at Hogwart's this year, but try to keep your movements hidden from most students. I know for a fact that there are at least three students who are children of Deatheaters. When you come to Hogwart's, I would like to inform you about the Order of the Phoenix Prophecies. They seem to be very important at this particular junction of time. I would also like you to inform … that I want to talk to him about what his tasks will be.
Albus Dumbledore
"Well, Sirius, I think we better let Professor Dumbledore that we will do what we ask. But what are these Order of the Phoenix Prophecies?" said Lupin.
"I'm not quite sure," replied Black, as he was grabbing a piece of parchment and a quill. He then started writing a letter to Dumbledore, explaining to him that they would do their tasks but they were confounded about what the Order of the Phoenix Prophecies were. "Probably prophecies." After Black finished writing the letter, he asked, "Now where's that owl?" However, McHenry had transfigured back into his human self.
"You won't find the owl, Sirius. I was him," said McHenry
"Ah, hello Patrick. How are you?" asked Lupin.
"I'm fine. You and Sirius?"
"Fine except for being confused."
"What are you confused about?"
"The Order of the Phoenix Prophecies," said Black.
"Ah, those. I translated some of them, and many other people translated the other portions, but yet some still haven't been translated. We've tried every single known language, but yet the remaining ones don't fit anywhere."
"But what are they?" asked Black.
"I'm sure Albus will tell you. You'll be surprised by how much they reveal."
"Oh," said Lupin and Black at the same time.
"Well, I probably should head back to the States. I do have several schools to run. I should be back around Christmas, at the latest." Patrick McHenry transfigured himself into an owl, and left, flying towards the United States. Now, not only did he have to run more than 50 schools, but he needed to try to protect his students even more than he had since the first rise of Voldemort, and part of that was getting the U.S. Government of Magic to try to find and prosecute the American Deatheaters.
Lupin wrote the letter to … (A/N: Come on people, tell me who I'm missing! One of you has to know! I know the name was in the last book, but I'm too lazy to look!), telling him that Dumbledore wanted to tell him what his tasks would be.
(A/N: Sorry that this was so short, but I ran out of things to write in this chapter, but at least I got it up J. I wondered if the smiley actually worked by Word automatically changes a : and ) typed right next to it to a smiley face.)