Harry Potter and the Return of the Dark Lord
The next few days Harry spent flying around his new house by himself. This was good for two reasons; one he was beginning to master his animigi form; and two he was learning his way around his castle. He would have really liked for Sirius to be there while he explored his talent but he was away on some business for Dumbledore and would not be back until the end of the week. But he did promise Harry that he would teach him all the secret passages of Potter Palace when he got back. He even said that if he had time maybe the two of them and Moony could make a map like they have of Hogworts! But for now Harry was ordered to stay inside the castle. It was supposed to look like no one was there still so he could not even explore the grounds. When Sirius got back he would be able to explore the grounds but only with Sirius, only at night, and only in his animigi form. So Harry was left alone with only his wizards radio (which he had borrowed from Remus), Hedwig (who enjoyed flying around with her master), the house elves (who wouldn't dare strike up a conversation with their master and only spoke few words when they were addressed), and the Daily Prophet he had subscribed to. Just then a house elf appeared out of thin air (a talent of theirs) and told Harry that someone was at the gates and wished to speak to Harry. Even though the only people that new Harry was there were Dumbledore, Moody, Mrs. Figg, Sirius, and Remus, Harry was instructed to take no chances. He grabbed his invisibility cloak, his wand, and his Firebolt, all of which Dumbledore had instructed him to use if he went out to answer the door incase it was a Death Eater or some other dark wizard. As he flew out he saw a very poor looking Sirius, but Harry fought the urge to rip off his cloak and land at the gates. Harry was waiting to see the special signal they had talked about. Just as Sirius's hand went up and he wiped his face with his hand, Harry landed inches in front of him ripped off just the hood of his cloak and quickly invited Sirius in. Sirius didn't even exchange pleasantries, which is very odd for him, so Harry shot off on his Firebolt right behind him. Neither of them spoke until they were inside the castle. Then all Sirius was able to croak out before he fell to the ground was something that sounded remotely like, "Dumbledore." At that one word Harry was off. He darted to the appiration wards and did all the commands as if they were second nature. Next thing he new he was standing in front of a very surprised looking headmaster.
"Sir, Sirius turned up at my door and all he was able to do was mumble your name. He looks like he needs help. He's fainted right inside the Entrance Doors." At this Dumbledore sprang into action and again the look in his eyes and the tone of his voice showed Harry why he was in charge of the Order. He drew his wand out of his robes and pointed it at his desk. A pile of parchment, ink, and a quill appeared there. He spoke quickly and clearly,
"Madam Pomfrey is staying in the Hospital Wing. Tell her you do not have time to explain but that I am bringing Sirius Black to her to treat. Tell her that she must treat him the second I bring him in and ask no questions while doing so. Let her know I shall inform her of anything she would like to know on the subject after everything is taken care of. Then come back up here as quickly as possible. Write a quick one line letter to everyone in the Order telling them to come here as quickly as possible. Write a tiny 'OoP' in the bottom left hand corner of each letter, seal them with a Hogworts seal; that's right there on my desk," he quickly waved his hand to the corner, "and give them all to Fawkes. Tell him it is Order business and he must deliver them as fast as he can. If I have not returned to give you further instructions by then, go and wait in the Order room. The password to this office is 'T.R.W.F.' and just place your hand on the wall right behind where I sit to get into the Order room. Close the door once you get in. Transform into your animigi form until someone from the Order gets there. Then transform back, tell them about you being an animigi if they do not already know and explain to them everything you know about this situation." With that he placed his wand on the loin and said "Potter Palace" and vanished without another word. Not wasting any time Harry shot off towards the Hospital Wing. Madam Pomfrey seemed flabbergasted enough at seeing a student at Hogworts during the summer, not to mention the story that student was telling. But before she could ask any questions Harry darted off to follow the rest of Dumbledore's instructions. After that Harry went into the Order room and waited. This was the worst part. Not being able to do anything and not knowing what was going on. But he changed into an eagle and perched himself on the back of his chair waiting for another Order member to show up. Luckily Lupin was the first one in the Order room so Harry didn't have to explain the animigi thing. Harry quickly transformed back to his human form and Lupin looked startled.
"What happened? What was that letter all about? Where's Dumbledore?" Remus yelled out all at once.
"Sirius showed up at my house and told me to get Dumbledore then fainted. I came here and told him and he told me to write letters to all of the order people. He should be here in a little bit." Soon after that all the Order members began to file into the room and Harry was impressed by their promptness. He relayed the story to all of them until all 17 Order members were in the room waiting for Dumbledore (and hopefully Sirius). A half an hour later Dumbledore walked into the room alone, and the whole room silenced. All eyes were on Dumbledore and all ears were perked.
"The dementors have joined ranks with Voldermort." This statement put a look of fear on every face in the room. "Sirius saw them attacking a muggle village. He said there was not enough time to contact all of us so he tried to take them all on himself. He managed to fight them away for a short period of time until Hit wizards showed up. Luckily one of the first to the scene was a good friend of mine and new of Sirius's innocence. He helped Sirius get out of the area of the dementors, but they still drained him of most of his energy. No need to worry in a day or two he will be up and walking, and in about a week he will have his full amount of energy back."
"How bad was the attack?" Moody barked from where he was standing in the corner of the room.
"It was a big neighborhood. And there were almost a thousand dementors." Dumbledore started but was interrupted.
"Yes but everyone has had their memory modified and all that right?" McGonagall asked. Dumbledore shook his head and the face of fear got worse on everyone.
"They do not need their memories modified. 1005 people suffered the dementors kiss. 3 elderly people died of an apparent heart attack. No one that was in the area is still alive." Dumbledore answered. "Our time of preparation is over. It is now time to act. Our spies need to double their reports. Someone needs to find a way to get into the Death Eaters inner circle. Arabella, Moody, Mundungus, how is that coming along?"
"I have been able to get into the ranks. But only his inner circle knows what animals and how many death eaters are with them. He never even told us about the dementor attacks. And when he does tell about the attacks, I have heard its only minutes before you actually have to go. I've been going in disguise of course, but what am I supposed to do if we all have a battle?" Arabella asked.
"You created that personality, all you have to do is kill it before Voldermort does. Now however I must go see Sirius. It is imperative that we have those rings now more than every. If we had had them that attack may not have been so bad. I thank you all for coming now you can go back to your families. Oh and please, I won't tell you not to tell your families because I know it would do no good, but I ask to you to see to it that the details of the attack are not told to anyone outside of your houses. Only that there was a bad attack ordered by Voldermort on a Muggle community. I'm sure it will be on the news and in the papers in no time." At those last words of Dumbledore everyone left. Harry was sitting listening to the radio when he heard a voice on the box that haunts his dreams. Voldermort had made it on the radio. He was about to address the whole wizardry community.
"Now that I have everyone in the wizardry worlds attention, I have some messages to send. First to the Order of the Phoenix…"
A/N: I know my first cliff hanger. Well I was going to write more but ff.net is closing down for a couple days and I wanted to get this up first. So again please forgive the shortness (I can't be blamed this time, I'm not shutting the site down) and for the fact that there are no thank you's. I do appreciate the reviews and thank everyone in my e-mails to them. So if you are mad at me for the shortness of the chapters, next chapter will make up for it. I don't know the size it will be, but it will surely be a good one. Voldermorts messages will give you chills. REWVIEW!!