-Harry distantly recognized the Death Eater who was talking, "Yes, sir."
The man had been hit with a painful curse weeks ago when he had let it slip to Lucius that it might not be the best thing to serve Voldemort. That perhaps he was not the best to lead them in their -yes he actually said this- righteous cause.
It made Harry wonder if not everyone that served Voldemort had a choice. Lucius had coldly informed him that he was a Slytherin and he had better act like it, respect power, so forth.
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There were many people at the castle now. Every once in a while he would see a strange person in the corridors, or at mealtimes. Some parents did indeed take up Dumbledore's offer, though most just to visit. Fleur showed up one day and greeted Harry warmly. She even said Hi to Ron, who turned red.
The new Minister declared war. Everyone was frightened. Diagon Alley didn't have as many people bustling about. Hogsmead was Quieter. It was felt even at Hogwarts. The Minister sent Aurors to protect the school. About time, Harry thought.
They continued with classes as normal though, and Hermione was getting anxious about the OWLs. Which were coming up in a matter of weeks. He threw himself into his homework for once; Consequently, he was getting better grades, which made Ron slightly jealous.
He was recovering from his depression after the Hogsmead attack. The entire school had seemed to mourn the attack, and thankfully no one blamed Harry this time. Except for himself.
Harry sat down in the common room, finally finished. Waited till everyone was at lunch, then set up. He fixed the portrait so that every time someone opened it, a handful of powder was dumped on them. It was WWW's frog powder -which turned people into frogs for five minutes.
He had also enchanted the floor. He had needed Hermione's help, and surprisingly she had. So they had secretly charmed to floor.
Harry grinned and watched the door. Soon everyone would return from lunch.
He had decided that everyone was to melancholy. He had also been charged by the Wesley twins to do a minimum number of pranks this year, when they had found out who the marauders were, and he had one left.
He saw heard a noise and looked to see a frog floating across the room. He was trying not to laugh but that was a mighty hard thing to accomplish when you are surrounded by floating frogs.
At the last students came back the first started turning back into humans. They were stilling floating. He looked up when he heard his name.
"Well done Harry!
"Nicely done mate."
"Isn't this beautiful?"
"I don't know -we have been done in with one of our own pranks."
"Mortifying."
"Shameful."
"Spectacular."
"Fantastic."
Harry pushed off and joined Ron, who had just turned back into a human. They began bouncing each other around the room.
Soon everyone was having fun and even the indignant students were enjoying themselves.
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One night Harry woke up and immediately sprung up and grabbed someone's arm. Someone who had woken him up. A flash of panic and adrenaline raced through him.
He had decided to get some sleep before the meeting of the Order tonight, and was sleeping in his dorm.
He had his wand pointed at Sirius' chest. "Geez Harry, now I know you love me," came his voice. He was surprised though, and a little alarmed that Harry was so high strung.
Harry relaxed, "am I late for the meeting?"
"No, we should make it on time if we leave now." He transformed and Harry walked beside him, rubbing sleep out of his eyes. On their way to the portrait he greeted a friendly Gryffindor, who exclaimed that Sirius was huge.
They walked towards the headmasters office, but changed direction to another room. Harry wasn't surprised, as they didn't always meet in Dumbledpre's office, or leave from it. "Always wanted to be waken up from my happy dreams by a old loony," Harry grumbled.
"Ah, shut it," came the affectionate reply.
They took a portkey to somewhere Harry didn't recognize. It was a plain room, with a door at one end, a fire place on the other, and filled with differen't kinds of chairs. Often they would change their meeting place.
It looked like it would only be a meeting of inner members -the Order was slowly growing larger, and often allies would join meetings.
"Harry, I hear there was an interesting incident in your common room a few days ago," Dumbledore said grinning.
Moody looked suspicious, but Remus was the one that asked, "what happened?"
"It seems that when everyone got back from lunch they were transformed into frogs. Furthermore someone put a levitation charm in the common room." He looked pointedly at Harry who was failing to look innocent.
Sirius and Arabella started to laugh, and Remus grinned. Harry picked one of the more comfortable chairs as the meeting started.
Snape came running through the fire shortly after the meeting started. "Headmaster!" Snape collapsed to the floor.
Dumbledore rushed over to him. With an anxious face Dumbledore conjured a stretcher and said, "Meeting adjourned for now -I need to see to Severus." Most stood up and dispersed, though a few clustered to speculate.
Harry stared at where the two had dissapeared by a portkey -differn't from the one he and Sirius had used. He found himself actually worried about Snape. He had obviously been found out; He was lucky he managed to escape.
Harry shook his head and touched the portkey, wondering what the next day would bring. His good mood had been obliterated.
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The next day McGonagall's voice came booming through the castle. "All students report to your dormitories NOW. Voldemort is attacking. These students report to the Great Hall -" She listed a handful of students, mostly 7th years and 6th years. Ron Harry and Hermione were the only 5th years. "-and come QUICKLY."
"Oh, my god, oh my god-" Their was a first year Ravenclaw not far down the hallway carrying on, looking like she was about to hyperventalate.
Ron who was looking horrified, said "Hermione is in the library."
Harry, who was already walking, replied- "She'll meet us there!" Ron followed.
As the approched the girl Harry paused, noting that she wasn't moving. "Five points to Ravenclaw if you run to your common room." She didn't acknowledge him, just took off.
The arrived gasping at the great hall, and saw that most of the students called were there. Hermione crossed the room to them, but before she could say anything McGonagall said loudly, "Everyone, if you want to fight with the teachers come here, if not leave now. No one did.
"This portkey will take you to the roof -you can cast spells from there. Quickly now."
They found themselves on the roof, overlooking the scene below. Teachers were arrayed along the wall, along with Aurors that Ron's father had sent. A few people they hadn't seen before, as well as some who he had seen around the castle. Harry saw Sirius by Remus, though he had changed his appearance somewhat.
Farther, by the forbidden forest, were the enemies. A few creatures he had never seen before, a handful of Vampires, Dementors, and, of course, Deatheaters. He was glad to see that there were no Giants. He didn't see Voldemort (thank god).
They began walking forward, Dementors in the lead. It was going to be hard to aim from up here, but they had to try.
"Expecto Patronum." He decided to start with this, as only so many people could do a good Patronus. The rest of the students followed his example, and began firing away.
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Moments or hours later, something large crashed through the forest. A dragon. A few students screamed as it let out a jet of fire. The thing was huge.
Harry looked to where the teachers were fighting and back to the dragon, which had just taken to the air. Someone needed to keep it off of them. "Accio Firebolt!"
Hermione realized what he was doing. "Harry..." she said in alarm.
He gave he a weak grin. "I did it before."
"What?" asked Ron.
"He's going to battle the dragon!"
Ron looked sick "Harry... good luck."
"Ron!" Hermione was not happy.
Harry took off as soon as his Firebolt arrived.
Okay, get its attention. He shot a meaningless spell at it, which didn't damage it at all. It did get it's attention, however. Now he just had to get it away. Soon he was twisting around the castle's towers.
The dragon did follow; Clumsy compared to Harry, but big and fast. After an eternity, Harry caught the tail end of a fireball, and fell as he felt the burns. He kept hold of him broom though, which his experience with bludgers hitting him in the air had taught him to do. As the ground come towards him, he got an idea. He flew up, then went straight down. The Wronski Feet prevailed.
The dragon him the ground with an even harder thump then you would imagine. He had no doubt that most of the castle heard it, and the following bellow of pain.
He circled, looking the dragon. It had managed to hurt it's wing, leaving in stuck on the ground, flailing around a bit. He grinned at the very pissed off dragon shooting fireballs at him from the Quidditch pitch.
Now what was that spell Krum used last year? Harry used the Conjunctivitus curse.
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He flew down to where the teachers fought and joined them. Most of the dementors were already gone. "Harry, go back!" His godfather shouted at him. "No!" And that was all the time they had to argue about it. Their many foes kept coming. "Expello!" "Perterreo," someone near him said. Sometime during the battle a sword appeared in his hand as it had in Hogsmead.
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At some point several small creatures cornered his professor Kartis. They were ugly and vicious and she was having a hard time keeping them off. Harry got an idea "Serpensortia." He conjured five poisonous snakes and hissed at them. "Go bite those things attacking the professor." "professor?" "That woman there." Harry hissed pointing. Then he felt an agony he recognized. He fell over screaming, hit once again by the Cruciatus. Sirius was beside him and helped him get up while McGonagall cursed the deatheater. "Debilitas," he croaked out.
The man had been hit with a painful curse weeks ago when he had let it slip to Lucius that it might not be the best thing to serve Voldemort. That perhaps he was not the best to lead them in their -yes he actually said this- righteous cause.
It made Harry wonder if not everyone that served Voldemort had a choice. Lucius had coldly informed him that he was a Slytherin and he had better act like it, respect power, so forth.
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There were many people at the castle now. Every once in a while he would see a strange person in the corridors, or at mealtimes. Some parents did indeed take up Dumbledore's offer, though most just to visit. Fleur showed up one day and greeted Harry warmly. She even said Hi to Ron, who turned red.
The new Minister declared war. Everyone was frightened. Diagon Alley didn't have as many people bustling about. Hogsmead was Quieter. It was felt even at Hogwarts. The Minister sent Aurors to protect the school. About time, Harry thought.
They continued with classes as normal though, and Hermione was getting anxious about the OWLs. Which were coming up in a matter of weeks. He threw himself into his homework for once; Consequently, he was getting better grades, which made Ron slightly jealous.
He was recovering from his depression after the Hogsmead attack. The entire school had seemed to mourn the attack, and thankfully no one blamed Harry this time. Except for himself.
Harry sat down in the common room, finally finished. Waited till everyone was at lunch, then set up. He fixed the portrait so that every time someone opened it, a handful of powder was dumped on them. It was WWW's frog powder -which turned people into frogs for five minutes.
He had also enchanted the floor. He had needed Hermione's help, and surprisingly she had. So they had secretly charmed to floor.
Harry grinned and watched the door. Soon everyone would return from lunch.
He had decided that everyone was to melancholy. He had also been charged by the Wesley twins to do a minimum number of pranks this year, when they had found out who the marauders were, and he had one left.
He saw heard a noise and looked to see a frog floating across the room. He was trying not to laugh but that was a mighty hard thing to accomplish when you are surrounded by floating frogs.
At the last students came back the first started turning back into humans. They were stilling floating. He looked up when he heard his name.
"Well done Harry!
"Nicely done mate."
"Isn't this beautiful?"
"I don't know -we have been done in with one of our own pranks."
"Mortifying."
"Shameful."
"Spectacular."
"Fantastic."
Harry pushed off and joined Ron, who had just turned back into a human. They began bouncing each other around the room.
Soon everyone was having fun and even the indignant students were enjoying themselves.
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One night Harry woke up and immediately sprung up and grabbed someone's arm. Someone who had woken him up. A flash of panic and adrenaline raced through him.
He had decided to get some sleep before the meeting of the Order tonight, and was sleeping in his dorm.
He had his wand pointed at Sirius' chest. "Geez Harry, now I know you love me," came his voice. He was surprised though, and a little alarmed that Harry was so high strung.
Harry relaxed, "am I late for the meeting?"
"No, we should make it on time if we leave now." He transformed and Harry walked beside him, rubbing sleep out of his eyes. On their way to the portrait he greeted a friendly Gryffindor, who exclaimed that Sirius was huge.
They walked towards the headmasters office, but changed direction to another room. Harry wasn't surprised, as they didn't always meet in Dumbledpre's office, or leave from it. "Always wanted to be waken up from my happy dreams by a old loony," Harry grumbled.
"Ah, shut it," came the affectionate reply.
They took a portkey to somewhere Harry didn't recognize. It was a plain room, with a door at one end, a fire place on the other, and filled with differen't kinds of chairs. Often they would change their meeting place.
It looked like it would only be a meeting of inner members -the Order was slowly growing larger, and often allies would join meetings.
"Harry, I hear there was an interesting incident in your common room a few days ago," Dumbledore said grinning.
Moody looked suspicious, but Remus was the one that asked, "what happened?"
"It seems that when everyone got back from lunch they were transformed into frogs. Furthermore someone put a levitation charm in the common room." He looked pointedly at Harry who was failing to look innocent.
Sirius and Arabella started to laugh, and Remus grinned. Harry picked one of the more comfortable chairs as the meeting started.
Snape came running through the fire shortly after the meeting started. "Headmaster!" Snape collapsed to the floor.
Dumbledore rushed over to him. With an anxious face Dumbledore conjured a stretcher and said, "Meeting adjourned for now -I need to see to Severus." Most stood up and dispersed, though a few clustered to speculate.
Harry stared at where the two had dissapeared by a portkey -differn't from the one he and Sirius had used. He found himself actually worried about Snape. He had obviously been found out; He was lucky he managed to escape.
Harry shook his head and touched the portkey, wondering what the next day would bring. His good mood had been obliterated.
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The next day McGonagall's voice came booming through the castle. "All students report to your dormitories NOW. Voldemort is attacking. These students report to the Great Hall -" She listed a handful of students, mostly 7th years and 6th years. Ron Harry and Hermione were the only 5th years. "-and come QUICKLY."
"Oh, my god, oh my god-" Their was a first year Ravenclaw not far down the hallway carrying on, looking like she was about to hyperventalate.
Ron who was looking horrified, said "Hermione is in the library."
Harry, who was already walking, replied- "She'll meet us there!" Ron followed.
As the approched the girl Harry paused, noting that she wasn't moving. "Five points to Ravenclaw if you run to your common room." She didn't acknowledge him, just took off.
The arrived gasping at the great hall, and saw that most of the students called were there. Hermione crossed the room to them, but before she could say anything McGonagall said loudly, "Everyone, if you want to fight with the teachers come here, if not leave now. No one did.
"This portkey will take you to the roof -you can cast spells from there. Quickly now."
They found themselves on the roof, overlooking the scene below. Teachers were arrayed along the wall, along with Aurors that Ron's father had sent. A few people they hadn't seen before, as well as some who he had seen around the castle. Harry saw Sirius by Remus, though he had changed his appearance somewhat.
Farther, by the forbidden forest, were the enemies. A few creatures he had never seen before, a handful of Vampires, Dementors, and, of course, Deatheaters. He was glad to see that there were no Giants. He didn't see Voldemort (thank god).
They began walking forward, Dementors in the lead. It was going to be hard to aim from up here, but they had to try.
"Expecto Patronum." He decided to start with this, as only so many people could do a good Patronus. The rest of the students followed his example, and began firing away.
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Moments or hours later, something large crashed through the forest. A dragon. A few students screamed as it let out a jet of fire. The thing was huge.
Harry looked to where the teachers were fighting and back to the dragon, which had just taken to the air. Someone needed to keep it off of them. "Accio Firebolt!"
Hermione realized what he was doing. "Harry..." she said in alarm.
He gave he a weak grin. "I did it before."
"What?" asked Ron.
"He's going to battle the dragon!"
Ron looked sick "Harry... good luck."
"Ron!" Hermione was not happy.
Harry took off as soon as his Firebolt arrived.
Okay, get its attention. He shot a meaningless spell at it, which didn't damage it at all. It did get it's attention, however. Now he just had to get it away. Soon he was twisting around the castle's towers.
The dragon did follow; Clumsy compared to Harry, but big and fast. After an eternity, Harry caught the tail end of a fireball, and fell as he felt the burns. He kept hold of him broom though, which his experience with bludgers hitting him in the air had taught him to do. As the ground come towards him, he got an idea. He flew up, then went straight down. The Wronski Feet prevailed.
The dragon him the ground with an even harder thump then you would imagine. He had no doubt that most of the castle heard it, and the following bellow of pain.
He circled, looking the dragon. It had managed to hurt it's wing, leaving in stuck on the ground, flailing around a bit. He grinned at the very pissed off dragon shooting fireballs at him from the Quidditch pitch.
Now what was that spell Krum used last year? Harry used the Conjunctivitus curse.
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He flew down to where the teachers fought and joined them. Most of the dementors were already gone. "Harry, go back!" His godfather shouted at him. "No!" And that was all the time they had to argue about it. Their many foes kept coming. "Expello!" "Perterreo," someone near him said. Sometime during the battle a sword appeared in his hand as it had in Hogsmead.
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At some point several small creatures cornered his professor Kartis. They were ugly and vicious and she was having a hard time keeping them off. Harry got an idea "Serpensortia." He conjured five poisonous snakes and hissed at them. "Go bite those things attacking the professor." "professor?" "That woman there." Harry hissed pointing. Then he felt an agony he recognized. He fell over screaming, hit once again by the Cruciatus. Sirius was beside him and helped him get up while McGonagall cursed the deatheater. "Debilitas," he croaked out.