A/N: I am soooooo sorry it took me so long to update. I've had a serious case of writer's block, but I've taken some medicine and now I have this chapter up!!!!!!!!! Don't be surprised if I don't update soon! I have another case of writer's block and I have a big history project coming up and I want to get started on it. So please don't get mad at me if I don't update until next month, which I highly doubt will happen. Anyways, in this chapter, you'll find out what the meeting is about, and maybe you'll find out why Ron and Hermione have didn't go to his birthday party, and why everyone is acting weird around him. But this is a maybe. The first part of the chapter is boring, but it has very important information. I'm probably boring you now with this author's note, so here's chapter 5.

Chapter 5

As Harry looked around his office, always amazed of what it contained, Fawkes flew over and sat on Harry's shoulder.

"Hello Fakes," Harry said as he stroked his chest. "How are you?"

Fawkes cooed then started to sing his beautiful song. It made Harry feel more calm than he had been in months. He stood there and closed his eyes, trying to relax.

When Fawkes finished, he flew to Dumbledore. Harry turned around, and to his surprise, he found Sirius standing next to him.

"Sirius!" Harry cried. "I'm so glad to see you!" and Harry gave Sirius a hug.

"So am I. How ya been?" Sirius asked, sounding concerned, but trying not to show it.

"I'm ok." Harry answered.

"Did you talk to Ron and Hermione yet?"

"No, but I'm going to when I get to the common room."

"You better."

Just then, Professor McGonagall, Snape, and Remus Lupin entered the office.

"Professor Lupin?! What are you doing here?" Harry asked, looking shocked.

"You'll find out in just a minute." Lupin replied, smiling, but sounded a bit serious.

"Well, it looks like everyone but Hagrid is here. Now, if everyone found a seat, we could get this meeting started." Dumbledore announced.

'A meeting??? A meeting about what?' Harry thought as he found a seat next to Sirius.

"Remus, let's hear your report first." Dumbledore said, looking at Lupin intently.

"Well, everyone I talked to all agreed. They want to help out as much as they can, no matter how life-threatening this may be." Lupin explained.

At this point, Harry was more confused than he ever was in his life.

"Sirius, I assume everything is working out as planned?"

Harry looked up at his Godfather, wondering if his answer would help him out on figuring out what was going on.

"Yes," he replied. "So far so good. Considering that no attacks have happened yet, everything is running smoothly."

"Good, good. Severus, how about you?"

"It's been difficult, but everything is working out fine."

"Great! This is exactly what I wanted to hear/" Dumbledore announced.

'Why am I here?' Harry thought, but what he didn't realize was that he was thinking out loud.

"What was that Mr. Potter?" Dumbledore asked with a look of confusion showing on his face.

"Uh… well…. Er….." Harry stuttered. "Um…. Well… I was just wondering why I was here. This meeting is so confusing because I know nothing about it except for the fact that it might be about Voldemort."

Dumbledore smiled faintly and said, "Do you remember last year, the night of the third task, Sirius, Professor Snape, you, and I were in the hospital wing? I had asked Sirius to contact Remus Lupin, Arabella Figg, and Mundungus Fletcher. They were all working to keep you safe over the summer holidays. This plan has been going on for ;years incase, by some odd reason, Voldemort would rise again. Practically the whole Ministry of Magic is try8ing their hardest to protect you now." he explained.

"Is that why Mrs. Figg didn't tell me she was a witch before?" Harry asked, beginning to understand somethings.

"Yes, Harry. We did not tell you before because we did not know how strong Voldemort was. Now that he has returned, we felt that it is important who to trust and who is trying to help you." Dumbledore explained.

Harry looked over at Sirius then at Lupin. They both nodded in agreement.

"The rest of the plan that was discussed that night will be explained to you later this year. We are still in the process of setting this all up." Dumbledore continued. "But you Harry, we are all counting on you to make this plan work."

Harry felt his face go red as every set of eyes in the room looked at him.

"Me? Why me?!" Harry said after a minute or two, still shocked at this last remark.

Harry looked at Dumbledore, waiting for an answer when he finally replied, "Well, Sirius told me that you have been having nightmares of Cedric Diggory's death, is that correct?"

Harry nodded. "Yeah, but they died away in the middle of the summer because I had other things on my mind, but I think they are starting to come back." he said painfully.

"Just as I had thought…." Dumbledore replied. "The past two years, I have noticed that you have had dreams of Voldemort rising and planning to become stronger. So far, your dreams have come true. We have all discussed this and we all feel that these dreams might be the only way we can defeat Voldemort."

"But I haven't had any dreams of Voldemort planning with Wormtail, just a reenactment of Cedric's death." Harry replied, feeling confused again.

"It may take some time. V-V-Voldemort is still trying to regain power." Snape added in. Harry looked at him and was surprised that he had said Voldemort's name. Harry could've sworn that Snape had a very faint grin, but changed his expression just as Snape noticed Harry was looking at him.

"He's right, Harry," Dumbledore added. "You could get a dream of them planning any day now, but I think that there might be something important in the dream of Cedric's death. Maybe some background information that Voldemorth or Wormtail might have slipped."

There was silence.

"It's ok, Harry," McGonagall said breaking the awkward silence. "We're here for you when ever you need us."

Harry sat there for a moment or two, trying to relieve the fact that he has yet, another huge responsibility.

"Do you have any more questions?" Dumbledore asked.

"Uh… not-not that I can think of right now." Harry replied, still with a dazed look on his face.

"Ok then. Harry, if you would like, I'll let you stay here with Sirius to get reacquainted. The rest of us have other matters to take care of right now." Dumbledore said with a faint, but noticeable grin.

"The password to the Gryffindor Common Room is Cornsh Pixies." McGonagall informed him as Harry winced, remembering what had happened in Harry's second year in his Defense Against the Dark Arts class with Professor Gilderoy Lockhart.

Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape, and Lupin all stood up, said their farewells to Harry and Sirius, and left them to be alone.

"So, Harry, it looks like the Dursleys have been feeing you properly," Sirius said with a wide gri. Sirius couldn't help but feel proud of his godson. Harry was now a good three inches taller and his arms seemed to have more muscle since he last saw him.

"Well,"Harry replied. "Sort of"
"'Sort of' what do you mean 'sort of?'" Sirius asked.

"Well, the diet that Aunt Petunia was giving us has been working for all of us except for Dudley, but I stayed at Mrs. Figg's house most of the mummer. While I was staying with her, she took me to that new Quidditch Field, and I've been practicing the Wronski Defensive Feint a lot. Also considering the fact that I didn't get any cakes for my birthday this year, I haven't had any sweets all summer 'til I got on the Hogwarts Express." Harry explained.

"You mean Ron and Hermione didn't send you cakes?" Sirius said, shocked.

"No, they didn't." Harry said painfully.

They sat in silence for a few moments until Sirius spoke up. "You know you really should talk to them. Ron and Hermione have been your best friends since your first year here at Hogwarts. I don't want to see you hurt by your two best friens."

Harry looked at Sirius, who was smiling.

"I know, I know," Harry replied. "But why are you smiling?" he added.

Sirius quickly changed his expression and said, "Nothing, nothing."

Harry looked at Sirius suspiciously and decided to change the subject.

"Sirius, do you know who the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is?" Harry asked.

"Yes," Sirius replied.

"Who is it??!!" Harry asked moving to the edge of his seat.

"I'm sorry, I can't tell you. You'll have to find out on Monday!" Sirius told him.

"Come on Sirius! You can tell me, can't you?!"Harry asked with a puppy dog face forming on his face.

Sirius flinched as he saw his face but said, "No," obviously wanting to change the subject. "Hey, did you hear what they did with the Quidditch World Cup this year?"

"No, I didn't! What happened?!" Harry said, wanting to know the most recent news of his favorite sport.

"They did not have one this year." Sirius told him.

"What?! Why?!" Harry roared, saying this a little bit louder than he meant. "Sorry," he apologized. "Why didn't they have one this year?"

"After what happened last year, they were afraid that something like that would happen again, especially since Voldemort is back." Sirius explained.

Harry hadn't felt so mad since he found Ron and Hermione at Diagon Alley. Quidditch was his favorite sport, and again, Voldemort has made people scared to do things like playing outside, or just playing a fun game of Quidditch.

"Does that mean we won't have any Quidditch matches this year?" Harry asked, hoping the answer would please him.

"No," Sirius replied as Harry sighed. "Dumbledore wants to keep things as normal as possible this year."

"Good!" Harry said with relief. Harry looked down at his new watch and said, "I better be heading back to the common room now."

Sirius smiled the same smile he had earlier and said, "I'll come with you. I'm sure Dumbledore wouldn't mind if I stayed with you tonight. I don't have to leave until tomorrow morning, and I need a place to sleep, and the hospital wing always freaks me out."

Harry gave him another suspicious look. There was something about that smile that bothered him, but he didn't say anything about it. He just said, "Yeah, ok. That's fine."

Sirius turned into the huge black dog and he and Harry walked out of Dumbledore's fabulous office.

As Harry and Sirius were walking toward Gryffindor tower, Harry was concentrating on how he should start his conversation with Ron ad Hermione, he forgot to step over the Vanishing Step.

As Harry tried to get his foot unstuck, Sirius grabbed a hold on to Harry's pants. After a few long minutes of grunting and pulling, they had finally gotten Harry's foot out, and Sirius had a piece of Harry's pants in his mouth.

"Thanks, Snuffles," Harry told him as he took the ripped part of his jeans from him.

"Well, well, well," said a familiar voice. "Who do we have here?"

"Peeves!" Harry and Sirius growled.

"Why, it's Potty Wotty!" Peeves sneered as he circled Harry and Sirius. "Oh! And is this your new body guard? What ever happened to the other two? Did they-"

"Peeves?!" bellowed another familiar voice. "Peeves! You little Poltergiest! What the heck did you do in the kitchens!"

"Uh-oh! It's the Bloody Baron!" Peeves whispered nervously, and left.

"Thank goodness!" Harry sighed. "I was afraid that I would have to go to the common room drenched." Sirius barked in agreement and they started back to the common room again.

"Cornish Pixies." Harry told the Fat Lady and she reluctantly let Sirius into the noisy common room.

After everyone had realized who had just entered the room, everyone fell silent.

Harry walked in, followed by Sirius, and suspiciously looked at everyone, wondering why everyone was quiet and staring at him. He saw Ron and Hermione looking at him cautiously with Fred, George, and Ginny. Harry just glared at Ron and Hermione and just said, "Come on, Snuffles," and headed toward the Boys Dormitory, Sirius, reluctantly following him.

Harry found the door that said, "Fifth Year," and walked in. He found his things and sat on his bed.

Sirius walked around, searching, then turned back into human form.

"What's the matter with you?" Sirius whispered, startling Harry. "Why didn't you go and talk to Ron and Hermione? You really need to know what's going on!"

"Sirius! Don't scare me like that!" Harry panted. "Besides, did you see the way everyone was looking at me in there?! I want to wait until Ron, Hermione, and I can get a little privacy. Now change back into that dog form before someone like Neville comes in!" Harry snapped.

Sirius gave Harry a look of concern, but obeyed his Godson.

Harry then pulled out his 1001 Different Plays for Quidditch book out and studied some more plays when Hermione. came in.

"Harry…." said Hermione.

Harry got up and started to walk out of the room when Sirius growled. Harry reluctantly turned around and faced Hermione.

"Thanks Snuffles," Hermione told Sirius, and he started to wag his tail. "Harry, we really need to talk."

"Ok, we can talk, first tell me why you and Ron told me that you would be gone for the week of my birthday party, and the day after my birthday, I find you and Ron eating ice cream in Diagon Alley." accused Harry.

"Uh… Well… I …. Uh…" Hermione stuttered.

"Can't explain why, can't you?" Harry said angrily.

"It's not like that, Harry!" Hermione argued. "Please listen to me!"

Harry looked at Hermione and could tell she was serious.

"I don't want this stupid little thing to ruin our relationship Harry. You and Ron are my best friends, and it just wouldn't be the same without you." Hermione said.

Seeing that Hermione was more serious than he thought, he decided to calm down and let her explain.

"Harry, I think it would be better if Ron and I talked to you together so that you could get the whole story. Come on." Hermione replied, as she grabbed Harry's hand and led him out of the Boys Dormitory, and into a dark common room.

"Hermione, what's going-"

A/N: Heee heee heee!!!!!! Cliffhanger! I love cliff hangers! Please read and review. Oh, and don't forget, it might be a really long time until I post again. I mean a really long time. I hope you liked the chapter!!!