Harry Potter and The Staff Of Power

by Congerking

Harry's Fifth year at Hogwarts. Voldemort is at power again, the mysterious Order Of The Phoenix appears, and there is one legend that should never have been forgotten. R/H and H/G Eventually. Who knows, maybe more???

5. The Rescue

Disclaimer:  I do not own any of this.  This all belongs to J.K. Rowling.  She is a genius and I hope that she doesn't sue me for writing this little fan fic.  Harry Potter belongs to her, the movie company, her book company and any other.  I am just their mere servant and to write this is for fun.  No money is being made from this

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HARRY POTTER AND THE STAFF OF POWER

Chapter 5: The Rescue

Harry woke the next morning with an excruciating headache.  With his scar hurting and the lack of sleep, he was in for a long day.  Then he remembered that today Professor Dumbledore was coming to Number 4 on Privet Drive to take him back to Hogwarts. 

'I hope that he comes in ten minutes, I don't want to spend another minute in this place.' Harry thought to himself.'

Harry got into the shower thinking of what Voldemort said to him in his dream.  Not only were they linked by anger or fear, but my dark magic.  Harry had done dark magic.  He didn't mean to, but he did.  Regardless of the context of the spell, it was dark magic none the less.  The thought about telling Professor Dumbledore feared him. 

Every time he had hidden something from Professor Dumbledore something bad seemed to happen.  He was just best telling him the truth.  It was decided, the first chance they got, Harry would tell Professor Dumbledore everything that had happened these last few days.  With that thought, Harry finished his shower and went down for breakfast.

There was a knock on the door.

"You may come in." replied Dumbledore.

In walked in an old woman whom kept her hair in a tight bun. She walked up to the desk and put her hands on it.

"Headmaster, I was wondering when you were going to pick up Mr. Potter?" asked McGonagall.

"I shall do it after I eat my breakfast.  You can't see me going all the way on an empty stomach now can you?"  he gave her a wink that resembled the one he repeatedly gave Harry.

McGonagall wasn't as shocked as Harry usually was.

"Do you think it is a good idea for him to come to the school?  After all, it was you who said he was safer at his muggle relatives than here."

"Ordinarily, I would agree with you yes.  But after Harry sent me his letter concerning his visions about Voldemort, I do not see a reason why he should say at his relative's house.  Voldemort could get wind of where Harry is and come after him.  At least if Harry reveals where he is when he is here, he will be very well protected.  To kidnap a child from a castle guarded by professors is much harder then to kidnap a child from the house of a muggle family.  By that you much agree?" 

McGonagall was taken aback by Dumbledore's speech.  She quickly nodded her head in agreement and quickly left the room.  

As she left, a tall brown haired man with a giant black dog on a leach walked in.

"Ah Remus, come in.  Take you seat and I shall get some dog food for your pet."

The dog growled back at the old man.

Dumbledore chuckled to himself as he was getting up from his chair.

"Sure headmaster, I am sure that he will love that."  Replied Remus in a sarcastic tone staring right at the giant dog.

Dumbledore looked at the dog and had a grin from ear to ear on his face.

"Do not worry Mr. Black; I will not give you dog food."  Said Dumbledore as he sat back down in his chair.

As his name came up, Sirius Black transformed into human form.

"How are you headmaster?"

"Please, call me Albus, you are not a student anymore. Then again, you should call me headmaster because you will teach here this term.  Hum…that is interesting isn't it?"

Sirius and Remus both had identical expressions on their faces.  They had heard stories that the headmaster was a little crazy and they had experienced it first hand.

Dumbledore stopped talking to himself and turned his attention toward to the two men in front of him.

"Ah Sirius, I have summoned you here to tell you that I am picking up your godson today.  I know it is quite early in the summer, but he will be safer here now then he would be at his relative's home."

"Why is that headmaster?  Why would he be safer here at Hogwarts that at his Aunt and Uncle's house?  Did something happen, please tell me." asked Sirius.

Dumbledore put his hand up to stop Sirius from parading him with questions.

"I asked for you to come here now to tell you something that Harry has told me."  Dumbledore tells a listening Sirius and Remus the entire story that Harry wrote to him.

"WHAT! Voldemort can talk to Harry in his visions.  If he can then he can see his location too.  We have to move and get him out of there.  I am not going to make the same mistake twice.  We have to get him out of there NOW!" exploded Sirius.

"Calm down Sirius.  I am going to pick him up today.  I was going to ask if you two wanted to go down with me and pick him up.  I am sure that he would be more than happy to see you two."

Both Sirius and Remus said "Of course, we would love to."

They looked at each other and couldn't keep the laughter from coming out.  At sight of this, Dumbledore started to laugh as well.  Once the three men calmed down, they were staring at each other.

"Shall we go after breakfast?" proposed Dumbledore.

"Agreed.  Remus and I shall meet you in your office at that time."

"I shall see you back after breakfast." Said Dumbledore as the two men left the office.

"That man thinks with his stomach too much."

Sirius laughed and then looked at his friend very seriously.

"What do you think Harry had been seeing in his visions Moony?  I hope nothing bad, that poor boy has gone threw enough to last him ten lifetimes."

"I have no idea Padfoot.  But if Dumbledore wants him to come to Hogwarts for the rest of the summer, it can not have been good.  We will just have to wait to see him and get it out of him.  I can be very persuasive.  After all, nobody says no to a werewolf."

As he said this, Remus flexed his muscles making a very amused Sirius punch him and push him into a door.

"Hey Padfoot, what did you do that for?"

"Just proving your theory wrong."

The two friends walked down the halls eager to pick up Harry at Noon.

Harry got out of the shower and dried off to put his clothes on when he was startled.

"AHHHHH!" yelled Harry.

He looked down to see James standing right in front of the door of the bathroom.

"Don't do that."

"Do what?"

"Startle me like that.  Besides you should not be out here in the hall.  My Aunt and Uncle do not know that I have you.  If they saw you they would freak out."

A yell was echoing from the kitchen.

"What is bloody hell are you hissing at boy?" demanded Uncle Vernon.

"Nothing, I slipped on the floor, I will be done in a minute."  Shouted Harry.

"Come on James, you have to stay in my room until we leave today.  Do you think you can do that?"

"Yes."

"Okay, then I will pick you up when we leave.  Other than that, please do not leave the room."

The basilisk did nodded and slithered back into Harry's room.  Harry jumped down the stairs three at a time to arrive at the kitchen table.  What awaited him was a normal morning.  Uncle Vernon sitting reading his paper and waiting to get served breakfast.  The strange thing was that Aunt Petunia was cooking breakfast.  Uncle Vernon must have a big meeting or something at work.  That is pretty much the only time that Aunt Petunia cooks breakfast for everyone. 

When Aunt Petunia was finished cooking she brought over two plates with two eggs and bacon and toast to Dudley and Uncle Vernon.  The plate she gave Harry had only one piece of bacon and a piece of unbuttered toast. 

"What.  You gave those two ten times as much food.  Honestly, I may not be officially a part of this family, but I do have to eat."

"You are right, you are not a part of this family.  This family is freak free.  You will never be apart of this family.  You should be grateful for what you get.  We should have left you on our doorstep when you were brought to us.  Those freaks of parents you had would probably treat you like we do.  You are not worth treating any better."

Harry felt all those hatred feelings flow threw his blood.  He was about to jump up at Uncle Vernon when he kept saying a reassuring thought over and over in his head.

'just one more day, just one more day, just one more day'

To Harry's surprise, this actually worked.  He felt himself cool down and calm down.  He had done it.  This was one of the first times since Voldemort had returned that he was able to control himself.  So Voldemort really wasn't as strong as Harry thought.  That thought at least reassured him.

"What are you doing boy, talking to yourself again."  Uncle Vernon looked as if he was about to take off his belt when the doorbell rang. 

"I'll get it." Said Aunt Petunia as she walked towards the door.

Harry could hear some talking, but it was too faint and he couldn't hear what was being said.  He tried to lean in closer but stopped when Uncle Vernon gave him a nasty look.  Harry then returned to his bacon and toast. 

Aunt Petunia came back and sat down at the table.

"Well who was it Petunia?"  asked Uncle Vernon.

"I do not know.  Just some old man asking if anyone had seen his dog Snuffles."  Replied Aunt Petunia. 

Harry's head picked up as he said to himself 'Dumbledore'.  He got up from the table and was going to avoid Uncle Vernon grab him, but he didn't even try.  He was probably just shocked that Harry would jet out of his seat so fast.  Harry made his way to the door almost tripping on the rug and swung the door open. 

"Professor—"  was all he got out when he saw who was at the door.  It was an old man, but not Professor Dumbledore.  He was an old man with a short beard wearing a bright orange jump suit and wearing a red baseball cap.  Harry laughed in his head as to how funny the man looked. 

Harry turned around to see Uncle Vernon looking at him in surprise.  He turned his attention back to his plate and Harry turned back to the door.  When Harry turned around, his heart almost jumped out of his chest.

There in the doorway stood Professor Dumbledore.  Harry quickly put his jaw back in place where it had dropped and just stared.

"I'm sorry sir; you just scared me a little."

"Quite understandable.  Do you think that we could take a walk outside? "

"Okay.  Give me a second."  Dumbledore nodded and Harry started yelling toward the kitchen.

"I'm not hungry.  I'm going to start pulling the weeds in the front garden."

There was no response.  This told Harry that there were no complaints.  He walked threw the door with Professor Dumbledore.  As he walked out the door he got sight of one man with a giant black dog.

"Sirius, Remus!" was all that Harry could get out before running toward them and giving them a big hug. 

"How are you, what are you doing here.  I thought that you were coming alone Professor?"

"At first I was, but then these two made me drag them along."  Said Dumbledore as he gave an infamous wink at Harry. 

"Sir, do you mind if I ask you a question?"

"Go ahead."

"Why did you look like a glow in the dark muggle?" 

Remus couldn't hold in his laughter and giggles threw his teeth.

"Good question Harry.  I used a spell that is similar to the spell that Hogwarts uses to stay hidden from muggles.  Whenever a muggle sees me, I turn into what you said was a glow in the dark muggle." 

This time all three of the men laughed and the giant dog gave a bark. 

"Harry, before we got I have to ask you a question.  Do you want to go back to Hogwarts or stay here?  It will be your choice.  Just know that with your visions, I do not know how safe you will be here now."

"Are you kidding?  I don't want to stay another minute in this place" replied Harry. 

"I have another motive for asking you to come back to the castle.  With Voldemort still in power, you will not be allowed to do magic.  I do not wish this to happen.  I want to bring you back to the castle and start a variety of different training exercises.  These will not be included in your course schedule for your new term.  This will be, how shall we put it, extracurricular activities.  You will be learning all sorts of new spells and other stuff you might find interesting.  This is not the time to talk about it.  I will explain everything once we get back to the castle."

This was it.  He had to tell Dumbledore what James had told him.  Dumbledore was not a Parseltongue so he couldn't possibly know about the spell.

"Um professor, I have something to tell you."

"I am listening."

"I used magic outside of Hogwarts.  Don't worry, I didn't get a letter from the ministry like last time.  I used to spell to block outgoing and incoming spells."

Remus looked at Dumbledore with a confused look.

"Harry, how would you know of such a spell?  I do not even know a spell like that even existed."  Asked Remus.

"Well that is an interesting story.  Hagrid gave me a basilisk for my birthday.  He said that he might not have time to give it to me on my birthday with his mission and all.  I started talking to this basilisk and he told me that Parseltongues have there own level of magic.  They have spells that only they can perform because they can speak the language.  I can show you the spell once we get back to the castle."

Dumbledore gave Harry a very reassuring look. 

"Interesting.  I, not being a Parseltongue would be interested in seeing such a spell.  Will you show me when we get to Hogwarts?"

"Yes sir.  You aren't mad at me?  I mean I wanted to try it out to practice some defense spells just in case something happened."

Harry tried to make that sentence sound believable.  He didn't think Professor Dumbledore bought it.

"I am not mad at you.  If how you describe the spell is correct, there would be no harm in it now would there?"  Dumbledore gave Harry a wink.

Harry was relieved.  He thought that Dumbledore would be upset about Harry doing magic outside of Hogwarts. 

"Now another question I wanted to ask.  Why did you not come with Fawkes when I sent him to you?"

"Um…well…my Uncle kinda locked me in the cupboard for having a vision.  I was in there while Fawkes came to get me.  Obliviously I couldn't go because I was in the cupboard.  I'm sorry though."

"You have nothing to be sorry about.  Matter of fact, I think that your Aunt and Uncle are the ones that have to be sorry."

Dumbledore made a motion back towards the house with his wand out stretched when Harry stopped him.

"Sir, I do not want to have to look at those people again.  Can't we just forget about it and go back to the castle?"

Dumbledore seeing that Harry was quiet serious in his comment nodded.

"Of course we can just go back to the castle."

Harry thought that if Dumbledore was in a sort of good mood, that it couldn't hurt if he could ask to stay of The Burrow for awhile during the summer.

"Sir, could it..would it be possible for me to stay at The Burrow some time during the summer?"

Dumbledore gave a sad look to Harry.

"I am sorry Harry, but you can not stay at The Burrow.  You will be too vulnerable there.  With Voldemort now in power, you will not be safe there.  Plus, I know that you do not want to endanger your friends."

"No sir."

"Okay then.  Now go tell your relatives that you will be staying at your school the remainder of the summer."

With this, Harry went back into the house and went to the kitchen. Of course Uncle Vernon and Dudley had not left yet.  They were probably on there twenty-eighth helping.

"Uncle Vernon, I am going to stay at school the remainder of the summer.  Don't worry, you will not have to drive me to the bus station.  I am going to be leaving now."

Uncle Vernon didn't even Harry a second look.  After a few moments of silence, Harry ran up the stairs three at a time and went into his room.

"James, are you in here?"

"Yes."

"Okay.  We are leaving so get ready."

Harry put everything that he had in the room into his chest. 

"Do you want to slither around me or go in the chest?"

"I will go around you."

In an instant James was around Harry's torso.  Harry took out his want and hissed "Abscondere Absque Magicus."  A giant silver bubble had engulfed Harry as he made his trunk levitate down the stairs.  The expressions on the Dursleys faces were unforgettable. 

He made his way out the door when he met Professor Dumbledore, Sirius and Remus.

"Ready to go Harry?"  asked Dumbledore.

"Ready Sir."

All of the sudden there was a hissing coming from inside Harry's rode.

"What was that?" asked Remus.

"O, that is just James, my basilisk."

James popped the front of his head out and the two men and the dog jumped back.

"Don't worry, he won't bite, unless I tell him to."  Harry smiled at the end of that remark.

"Why are they looking at me like that?"

"Because they aren't used to seeing a basilisk inside someone's robes.  Now stay in there, we are getting ready to leave."

The two men and the dog looked at Harry with amazment.

"Ah yea.  You probably haven't seen a Parseltongue conversation before.  Sorry if I scared you."

"On the contrary, that was amazing.  Anyway we should be going Albus." Said Remus.

"Right you are.  We shall apparate to Hogsmead and wait for you there."

Dumbledore took out his wand and shrunk Harry's trunk and put into his pocket.  He was pointing the wand at himself getting ready to apparate. 

"Sir, wait.  How am I supposed to get there?"

"Ah yes.  I forgot.  Forgive me Harry.  I almost forgot the surprise."

Dumbledore gave a whistle and out of nowhere Fawkes appeared and landed on Dumbledore's shoulder.

"Wow."

Professor Dumbledore gave a motion and Fawkes moved over to sit on Harry's shoulder.  What Fawkes did next was something that he had not heard since second year in the chamber of secrets.  Fawkes started singing.

"Hi ya Fawkes."

"Hello my young friend."

Harry quickly looked at the two men and the dog whom were staring at him and shuck his head. 

"Okay, are we ready to go?  Sir, won't riding Fawkes all the way to Hogsmead take a while? "

Dumbledore gave Harry a smile.

"When Fawkes carried you out of The Chamber of Secrets, he was not going his full speed.  Trust me Harry; you will be there in no time." 

The next instant both men and the dog were gone with three pops.

"Ready Fawkes?"

"Yes."

Again, Harry just shook his head and grabbed hold of Fawkes.  What happened next was unexpected.  Fawkes flew straight up and then took a deep breath and started flying.  Harry felt the familiar pull form behind the naval, but was surprised that the flight was most enjoyable.  Just like Dumbledore said, he was in Hogsmead in no time. 

He landed and Fawkes went to fly toward someone behind Harry.

"How was the ride?" asked a voice from behind Harry.

"Fine Professor.  Much better than Floo Powder.  I just wish I could fly with Fawkes everywhere."

Fawkes gave Harry a look and flew off in the direction of Hogwarts.

"Yes a phoenix is an amazing creature.  Shall we be on our way?"

Harry walked towards the caste with Professor Dumbledore, Remus and Sirius. 

                             To Be Continued…

A/N:  Sorry about the delay with this chapter.  I had a Physics test.  Had to study for it.  I know =[.  Anyway good news, I am getting a laptop this Saturday, so I shall be able to write more. YEAH !!!  Thanx for the reviews, they mean a lot.