Harry tried to look around the dark room. The only thing he could make out
was that twenty or so witches and wizards were pointing their wands at him.
Had Aunt Petunia given him a port key to a death eater meeting or
something? He slowly reached to pull his wand out of his back pocket.
"Harry?" Cried out the voice of Mrs. Weasley from his right.
"Mrs. Weasley! It's Sirius!" Harry yelled without thinking. A collective gasp around the table made him rethink his statement. "My dog, Snuffles is injured, and I think it's serious.", he corrected.
Harry couldn't believe that he had been foolish enough to announce to an entire room full of strangers that the escaped prisoner, Sirius Black, was sitting on their table. "I need Dumbledore.", he cried.
There was a shuffling sound and a door opened. He could see the backs of several people as they were leaving the room. A chandelier above him lit up brightly blinding him.
"It's true. Two of his ribs have broken clean in half." Said the voice of Professor Moody.
"Professor Moody?" Harry cried. He reached behind him and pulled out his wand from his back pocket. The room was beginning to come back into view. Moody standing in front of him looking at Sirius gravely.
"Snape." Moody said simply.
Next thing Sirius was floating away from Harry. Snape had his wand out and was apparently levitating him. They both went out of the door the other people had just walked out of. Harry looked around the room. There were several people he recognized Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, Bill Weasley, Mad Eye, Alex and Mrs. Figg, Remus, and quite a few he did not recognize.
Mrs. Weasley hopped up onto the table beside him and gave him a bone crushing hug."Oh, Harry what have those- those muggles done to you?"
"It's my dog." He muffled into her shoulder.
Mrs. Weasley pulled away and began inspecting him thoroughly.
"Mrs. Weasley, my dog." Harry said pulling away and feeling rather guilty in doing so.
"Black will be fine, Potter. Severus is taking care of him now. He'll be right as rain in the morning." Mad Eye said.
Harry climbed down from the table and help Mrs. Weasley down. A heart shaped, blue haired witch he didn't recognize said, "Such a gentleman."
Harry looked around the room thoroughly confused. "Where am I?", he asked.
"Snape Manor." Remus said grinning at him.
The door opened again and this time Lee-Lee Figg came rushing into the room. She was carrying a doll that looked quite similar to Dumbledore. Half moon glasses, long silver beard and all. "Hawwee!", she squealed hugging his knee caps with all her might. He reached down and scooped her up. She gave him a wet and suspiciously sticky kiss on the cheek. "Hello, Lee-Lee." If Lee-Lee were here things couldn't be so bad.
"What are you doing out of bed, munchkin." Alex said frowning. Lee-Lee giggled. "Wanna see Hawwee."
Alex took the little girl from Harry, "Good to see you Harry.", she said to him and then to Lee-Lee a bit more firmly, "Bed, and I expect you to stay there this time." She carried the little girl out of the room closing the door behind her.
"What happened Potter?" Mad Eye Moody asked.
Mrs. Weasley directed Harry to sit down at the table. She began fussing over him. Pouring him juice and making him a sandwich. Remus levitated the trunk off of the table and into a corner.
"Well, it was Marge. She was picking on me. I just try to ignore her, but Sirius got mad. He attacked her. The muggles were fine until she came!" Harry said defiantly. "Aunt Petunia gave me an envelope and said it was a port key."
"Did he get a good chunk out of her?" Moody asked grinning.
"Wh- no, Uncle Vernon stepped into the row. I don't think I will be able to go back again. Dudley attacked Uncle Vernon to keep him from hurting Sirius any more, so I imagine he is deep trouble." Then it hit him. He had done magic. He had caused Marge to go though the window. "I accidentally sent Marge through the window." He muttered, thinking it was best to get it all out in the open.
They all started arguing amongst themselves. He heard snippets of their heated conversation. "Better contact Dumbledore." And "Fudge will have a field day." Were the things he heard most. Remus noticed the worried look on his face. "Molly, why don't you bring Harry up to his room with Ron? Don't worry Harry, Dumbledore will sort things out."
Harry nodded numbly, and let Mrs. Weasley take him from the room. She led him down a long dark hall lined with empty picture frames. "Can I see Sirius first?" Harry asked.
"Of course." Mrs. Weasley said directing him down yet another dark hall. When they reached the end of the hall she opened an obscure door and led Harry down into a dungeon.
Snape was bent over a cauldron, and just behind him Sirius was laying quite quietly in his human form again. "How is he, Severus?" Mrs. Weasley asked. Snape looked up from his cauldron with a blank look on his face. "He is fine."
Harry walked over to Sirius and sat in a chair beside the bed. "Let him sleep Potter.", Snape whispered silkily. Harry nodded and walked back to Mrs. Weasley. She led him quietly back out of the room and up the stairs to the main house. Once they were back in the main hall again she brought him to another set of stairs, but these led up. "Come on.", she said. "Ron should be sleeping, but you can just sleep in the extra bed. He will be happy to see you've come so soon."
Harry followed obediently. He didn't take much of the house in. It was too dark to try. He did know that his and Rons room was the third door on the right and that was enough to be getting along with, for now. Mrs. Weasley opened the door and there was a loud cracking sound. "Ron, I know you are awake." Mrs. Weasley said lighting the candles in the room with her wand.
Ron was laying on one of two beds in the center of the room. He opened one his eyes and jumped up. "Harry! What are you doing here?" Mrs. Weasley turned down the extra bed. "Never mind. He is here and that is enough. Get to bed the both of you." She turned to Harry looking a bit more kindly. "Harry dear, we will see to your things tomorrow. Until then you can borrow a set of Ron's pajamas."
Harry nodded, "Thank you Mrs. Weasley." Ron pulled some pjs out of one of the large dressers in the room and tossed them to Harry. Mrs. Weasley smiled, "You are welcome Harry. Now, the two of you go straight to bed. No talking.", she said firmly and left the room.
Harry changed into the p.j.s Ron had thrown to him and there was another loud crack. When he pulled his head through the night shirt he saw Fred and George sitting rather comfortably on Ron's bed.
"Hiya Harry." George said grinning.
"Wotcha Harry." Fred said moving over to sit on Harry's bed.
"What are you all doing here at Snapes house?" Harry asked feeling quite left out of the loop.
Ron shrugged, "Dumbledore came to the Burrow late one night to talk to mum and dad."
"They sent us all straight up to bed of course." Fred said.
"But we used one of our inventions, extendable ears, to listen in." George added.
"All we managed to catch was that Dumbledore said it wasn't safe and we had to move quickly." Fred said and shrugged.
"Next day we all packed up and moved here except." George said looking uncharacteristically dark.
"Percy." Ron said, his ears turning red.
"Why not Percy?" Harry asked.
"He and Dad had a row." George said frowning.
Harry decided that now was not the time to find out about Percy. Fred, George and Ron all looked quite upset by the whole conversation. The door handle jiggled and Ginny came walking into the room. "She is back down stairs.", she said joining George and Ron.
George nodded. "What about Alex?" Ginny shrugged. "Still reading Lee-Lee a story."
"We'll just listen for her to go back downstairs." Fred said seriously. "Then we can let the munchkin out."
"Who were all of those people down stairs, and why do we have to go to bed it isn't even dinner time yet." Harry asked.
"The Order of the Phoenix. They work against Voldemort. Dumbledore founded them. Lee-Lee knows more about it. We were trying to get more information out of her, but she suddenly jumped up and left." George said.
"Yeah, she came downstairs to see me." Harry said smiling.
"Oh, really?" Fred said. "Hmm." George said giving Fred a conspiratorial look. "So," Fred said, "Harry how well do you know Lee-Lee?"
Harry shrugged, "I dunno. I only knew her for a few days, before I had to go back to the Dursleys. We shared a dream about Snapes wife so Sirius and I had to go stay with Dursleys until they made other arrangements."
Ron gaped, "Snapes married?"
"Yeah, she has been in a coma for years. She was hit by a muggle car. Voldemort woke her up." Harry said watching as they all flinched when he said Voldemorts name.
"What do you know about her?" Ginny asked opening a chocolate frog and tossing him one.
Fred laughed. "Ginny, we don't have to bribe Harry for information."
Ginny blushed, "Sorry, I am just so used to it."
"Have you all been bribing Lee-Lee for information?" Harry asked incredulously.
"Sure." Fred said. "She sits in on most of the meetings." George said.
"I happen to have it on good authority that she loves doughnuts." Harry said grinning. That would explain the sticky kiss she gave me earlier.
"Wait, listen." Ginny said.
They all stopped and listened. Outside in the hall someone was walking by and down the hall. George stood and peered out of the door. "She's gone.", he whispered and entered the hall closing the door behind him.
"Why don't you just use your invention to listen in?" Harry asked Fred.
Fred scowled, "Snape knows about them. He put an imperturbable charm on the room so we can't use them."
"Why does Snape know about them?" Harry asked.
"Slinky found them and Snape asked to use some of them." Fred said. "He also helped us with a few of our inventions that had glitches. He really isn't so bad."
Now it was Harry's turn to gape. Fred Weasley was saying Snape wasn't so bad? What was this world coming to? The door opened and George came in carrying Lee-Lee. He closed the door and sat down. Lee-Lee hopped out of his lap and crawled into Harry's.
"Oh, I see how you are." George said grinning. "Now that Harry is here, it's George who?"
Lee-Lee giggled and blew George a kiss.
"So, what are Dumbledore and the Order doing about Voldemort?" Harry asked. Fred shivered. "We did manage to get some information about him using extendable ears."
Ron nodded looking glum. "He said that he warned the Wizangamot and they took him off. He has lost his order of Merlin and everything."
Ginny smiled, "Bill said, Dumbledore doesn't care as long as he can stay on Chocolate frog cards."
George nodded, "And now the Ministry is trying to interfere with Hogwarts. Fudge made a new law that says if the Head Master can't find someone to take a position at Hogwarts that the Ministry can appoint someone of there own."
Fred grinned, "They tried to appoint someone named Umbridge to the DADA position, but Dumbledore out smarted them. Lee-Lee's mum took the job."
"Lee-Lee wiggled excitedly in Harry's lap. "Goin to Hogwarts!", she sang.
"But Fudge and the Ministry are giving Dumbledore a hard time. They say that an unwed single mother is not a good role model for Hogwarts students." Ginny said frowning.
All heads turned to Ginny. "When did you find this out?" Fred asked incredulously.
"I heard Alex explaining it to Lee-Lee when I peeked to see if she had gone yet." Ginny said.
"How dare they!" Fred shouted. "An outrage!" George yelled.
"We is goin'" Lee-Lee said calmly.
"But if the Ministry-" Fred started.
Lee-Lee raised her hand and spoke in a very stern voice, "We is goin'"
"Of course you are." Ginny said smiling at the little girl. "So, Harry tell us more about Snapes wife.", Ginny said obviously attempting to change the subject.
"Well, not much to say. Snape left to bring her here. Haven't you all seen her?" Harry wasn't sure if he should share that she and Snape had both been death eaters. Ginny nodded, "No. She stays locked up on the top floor of the house. Snape and Dumbledore are the only ones that can go in there." A knock on the door interrupted their discussion. Mr. Weasley poked his head around the door. "You can all come down stairs for dinner now.", he said smiling knowingly at them all.
When Mr. Weasley had closed the door behind him Harry asked, "Why did they send us to bed anyway?"
"It's this weird thing mum keeps doing every time there is a meeting. She treats us like kids." Fred said frowning.
"Harry?" Cried out the voice of Mrs. Weasley from his right.
"Mrs. Weasley! It's Sirius!" Harry yelled without thinking. A collective gasp around the table made him rethink his statement. "My dog, Snuffles is injured, and I think it's serious.", he corrected.
Harry couldn't believe that he had been foolish enough to announce to an entire room full of strangers that the escaped prisoner, Sirius Black, was sitting on their table. "I need Dumbledore.", he cried.
There was a shuffling sound and a door opened. He could see the backs of several people as they were leaving the room. A chandelier above him lit up brightly blinding him.
"It's true. Two of his ribs have broken clean in half." Said the voice of Professor Moody.
"Professor Moody?" Harry cried. He reached behind him and pulled out his wand from his back pocket. The room was beginning to come back into view. Moody standing in front of him looking at Sirius gravely.
"Snape." Moody said simply.
Next thing Sirius was floating away from Harry. Snape had his wand out and was apparently levitating him. They both went out of the door the other people had just walked out of. Harry looked around the room. There were several people he recognized Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, Bill Weasley, Mad Eye, Alex and Mrs. Figg, Remus, and quite a few he did not recognize.
Mrs. Weasley hopped up onto the table beside him and gave him a bone crushing hug."Oh, Harry what have those- those muggles done to you?"
"It's my dog." He muffled into her shoulder.
Mrs. Weasley pulled away and began inspecting him thoroughly.
"Mrs. Weasley, my dog." Harry said pulling away and feeling rather guilty in doing so.
"Black will be fine, Potter. Severus is taking care of him now. He'll be right as rain in the morning." Mad Eye said.
Harry climbed down from the table and help Mrs. Weasley down. A heart shaped, blue haired witch he didn't recognize said, "Such a gentleman."
Harry looked around the room thoroughly confused. "Where am I?", he asked.
"Snape Manor." Remus said grinning at him.
The door opened again and this time Lee-Lee Figg came rushing into the room. She was carrying a doll that looked quite similar to Dumbledore. Half moon glasses, long silver beard and all. "Hawwee!", she squealed hugging his knee caps with all her might. He reached down and scooped her up. She gave him a wet and suspiciously sticky kiss on the cheek. "Hello, Lee-Lee." If Lee-Lee were here things couldn't be so bad.
"What are you doing out of bed, munchkin." Alex said frowning. Lee-Lee giggled. "Wanna see Hawwee."
Alex took the little girl from Harry, "Good to see you Harry.", she said to him and then to Lee-Lee a bit more firmly, "Bed, and I expect you to stay there this time." She carried the little girl out of the room closing the door behind her.
"What happened Potter?" Mad Eye Moody asked.
Mrs. Weasley directed Harry to sit down at the table. She began fussing over him. Pouring him juice and making him a sandwich. Remus levitated the trunk off of the table and into a corner.
"Well, it was Marge. She was picking on me. I just try to ignore her, but Sirius got mad. He attacked her. The muggles were fine until she came!" Harry said defiantly. "Aunt Petunia gave me an envelope and said it was a port key."
"Did he get a good chunk out of her?" Moody asked grinning.
"Wh- no, Uncle Vernon stepped into the row. I don't think I will be able to go back again. Dudley attacked Uncle Vernon to keep him from hurting Sirius any more, so I imagine he is deep trouble." Then it hit him. He had done magic. He had caused Marge to go though the window. "I accidentally sent Marge through the window." He muttered, thinking it was best to get it all out in the open.
They all started arguing amongst themselves. He heard snippets of their heated conversation. "Better contact Dumbledore." And "Fudge will have a field day." Were the things he heard most. Remus noticed the worried look on his face. "Molly, why don't you bring Harry up to his room with Ron? Don't worry Harry, Dumbledore will sort things out."
Harry nodded numbly, and let Mrs. Weasley take him from the room. She led him down a long dark hall lined with empty picture frames. "Can I see Sirius first?" Harry asked.
"Of course." Mrs. Weasley said directing him down yet another dark hall. When they reached the end of the hall she opened an obscure door and led Harry down into a dungeon.
Snape was bent over a cauldron, and just behind him Sirius was laying quite quietly in his human form again. "How is he, Severus?" Mrs. Weasley asked. Snape looked up from his cauldron with a blank look on his face. "He is fine."
Harry walked over to Sirius and sat in a chair beside the bed. "Let him sleep Potter.", Snape whispered silkily. Harry nodded and walked back to Mrs. Weasley. She led him quietly back out of the room and up the stairs to the main house. Once they were back in the main hall again she brought him to another set of stairs, but these led up. "Come on.", she said. "Ron should be sleeping, but you can just sleep in the extra bed. He will be happy to see you've come so soon."
Harry followed obediently. He didn't take much of the house in. It was too dark to try. He did know that his and Rons room was the third door on the right and that was enough to be getting along with, for now. Mrs. Weasley opened the door and there was a loud cracking sound. "Ron, I know you are awake." Mrs. Weasley said lighting the candles in the room with her wand.
Ron was laying on one of two beds in the center of the room. He opened one his eyes and jumped up. "Harry! What are you doing here?" Mrs. Weasley turned down the extra bed. "Never mind. He is here and that is enough. Get to bed the both of you." She turned to Harry looking a bit more kindly. "Harry dear, we will see to your things tomorrow. Until then you can borrow a set of Ron's pajamas."
Harry nodded, "Thank you Mrs. Weasley." Ron pulled some pjs out of one of the large dressers in the room and tossed them to Harry. Mrs. Weasley smiled, "You are welcome Harry. Now, the two of you go straight to bed. No talking.", she said firmly and left the room.
Harry changed into the p.j.s Ron had thrown to him and there was another loud crack. When he pulled his head through the night shirt he saw Fred and George sitting rather comfortably on Ron's bed.
"Hiya Harry." George said grinning.
"Wotcha Harry." Fred said moving over to sit on Harry's bed.
"What are you all doing here at Snapes house?" Harry asked feeling quite left out of the loop.
Ron shrugged, "Dumbledore came to the Burrow late one night to talk to mum and dad."
"They sent us all straight up to bed of course." Fred said.
"But we used one of our inventions, extendable ears, to listen in." George added.
"All we managed to catch was that Dumbledore said it wasn't safe and we had to move quickly." Fred said and shrugged.
"Next day we all packed up and moved here except." George said looking uncharacteristically dark.
"Percy." Ron said, his ears turning red.
"Why not Percy?" Harry asked.
"He and Dad had a row." George said frowning.
Harry decided that now was not the time to find out about Percy. Fred, George and Ron all looked quite upset by the whole conversation. The door handle jiggled and Ginny came walking into the room. "She is back down stairs.", she said joining George and Ron.
George nodded. "What about Alex?" Ginny shrugged. "Still reading Lee-Lee a story."
"We'll just listen for her to go back downstairs." Fred said seriously. "Then we can let the munchkin out."
"Who were all of those people down stairs, and why do we have to go to bed it isn't even dinner time yet." Harry asked.
"The Order of the Phoenix. They work against Voldemort. Dumbledore founded them. Lee-Lee knows more about it. We were trying to get more information out of her, but she suddenly jumped up and left." George said.
"Yeah, she came downstairs to see me." Harry said smiling.
"Oh, really?" Fred said. "Hmm." George said giving Fred a conspiratorial look. "So," Fred said, "Harry how well do you know Lee-Lee?"
Harry shrugged, "I dunno. I only knew her for a few days, before I had to go back to the Dursleys. We shared a dream about Snapes wife so Sirius and I had to go stay with Dursleys until they made other arrangements."
Ron gaped, "Snapes married?"
"Yeah, she has been in a coma for years. She was hit by a muggle car. Voldemort woke her up." Harry said watching as they all flinched when he said Voldemorts name.
"What do you know about her?" Ginny asked opening a chocolate frog and tossing him one.
Fred laughed. "Ginny, we don't have to bribe Harry for information."
Ginny blushed, "Sorry, I am just so used to it."
"Have you all been bribing Lee-Lee for information?" Harry asked incredulously.
"Sure." Fred said. "She sits in on most of the meetings." George said.
"I happen to have it on good authority that she loves doughnuts." Harry said grinning. That would explain the sticky kiss she gave me earlier.
"Wait, listen." Ginny said.
They all stopped and listened. Outside in the hall someone was walking by and down the hall. George stood and peered out of the door. "She's gone.", he whispered and entered the hall closing the door behind him.
"Why don't you just use your invention to listen in?" Harry asked Fred.
Fred scowled, "Snape knows about them. He put an imperturbable charm on the room so we can't use them."
"Why does Snape know about them?" Harry asked.
"Slinky found them and Snape asked to use some of them." Fred said. "He also helped us with a few of our inventions that had glitches. He really isn't so bad."
Now it was Harry's turn to gape. Fred Weasley was saying Snape wasn't so bad? What was this world coming to? The door opened and George came in carrying Lee-Lee. He closed the door and sat down. Lee-Lee hopped out of his lap and crawled into Harry's.
"Oh, I see how you are." George said grinning. "Now that Harry is here, it's George who?"
Lee-Lee giggled and blew George a kiss.
"So, what are Dumbledore and the Order doing about Voldemort?" Harry asked. Fred shivered. "We did manage to get some information about him using extendable ears."
Ron nodded looking glum. "He said that he warned the Wizangamot and they took him off. He has lost his order of Merlin and everything."
Ginny smiled, "Bill said, Dumbledore doesn't care as long as he can stay on Chocolate frog cards."
George nodded, "And now the Ministry is trying to interfere with Hogwarts. Fudge made a new law that says if the Head Master can't find someone to take a position at Hogwarts that the Ministry can appoint someone of there own."
Fred grinned, "They tried to appoint someone named Umbridge to the DADA position, but Dumbledore out smarted them. Lee-Lee's mum took the job."
"Lee-Lee wiggled excitedly in Harry's lap. "Goin to Hogwarts!", she sang.
"But Fudge and the Ministry are giving Dumbledore a hard time. They say that an unwed single mother is not a good role model for Hogwarts students." Ginny said frowning.
All heads turned to Ginny. "When did you find this out?" Fred asked incredulously.
"I heard Alex explaining it to Lee-Lee when I peeked to see if she had gone yet." Ginny said.
"How dare they!" Fred shouted. "An outrage!" George yelled.
"We is goin'" Lee-Lee said calmly.
"But if the Ministry-" Fred started.
Lee-Lee raised her hand and spoke in a very stern voice, "We is goin'"
"Of course you are." Ginny said smiling at the little girl. "So, Harry tell us more about Snapes wife.", Ginny said obviously attempting to change the subject.
"Well, not much to say. Snape left to bring her here. Haven't you all seen her?" Harry wasn't sure if he should share that she and Snape had both been death eaters. Ginny nodded, "No. She stays locked up on the top floor of the house. Snape and Dumbledore are the only ones that can go in there." A knock on the door interrupted their discussion. Mr. Weasley poked his head around the door. "You can all come down stairs for dinner now.", he said smiling knowingly at them all.
When Mr. Weasley had closed the door behind him Harry asked, "Why did they send us to bed anyway?"
"It's this weird thing mum keeps doing every time there is a meeting. She treats us like kids." Fred said frowning.
