~ The Diary of the Phoenix ~
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and his magical world belong to his respective owners and creators.
"We're nearly there" Harry said to Hermione who was holding onto him tightly. Harry and Hermione were sharing his firebolt while Ron flew next to them on one of the school brooms. They had flown at top speed nearly all the way there and it had been freezing.
Harry wasn't sure that it had been fair of him to bring Hermione and Ron along. Both of his best friends were still in their pajamas, and even though they kept strong faces, Harry knew that they felt less than strong on the inside.
Harry didn't feel terrible strong at the moment. He felt scared, worried, annoyed, frustrated, confused, upset, cold and even slightly stupid, but he didn't feel very strong. He was also angry with himself for breaking his promise to Dumbledore, but then not every promise can be kept, no matter how important they seem to be.
He had decided that they would land near the riddle house then approach on foot, but take the brooms with them, just in case. After all it would be easier to manoeuvre on a broom than on foot if spells and curses were suddenly directed towards them.
Harry waved for Ron's attention then pointed to an open area of land just outside of the cemetery. The landed quietly and Harry looked at his two best friends. "You know, you don't have to come any further, I don't want either of you to get hurt and..." Harry started but went quiet as his two friends rolled their eyes at him and started walking towards the cemetery.
Harry smiled, he couldn't have asked for a better pair of friends.
* * *
The three jumped the fence that surrounded the cemetery and crept around to where they could hear voices. Voldermort and Sirius were no longer alone with a group of death eaters standing behind the dark wizard laughing. "Sirius" Harry said as he saw his Godfather being held up in the air by Voldermort.
"Are you sure Sirius, that you don't want to work for me. I believe that you and Harry have a certain connection that I could use" Voldermort laughed,
"I will never join you" Sirius growled glaring at Voldermort.
Voldermort and the Death Eaters went silent. "Then you will die" Voldermort said grinning at Sirius
Sirius threw his head back and laughed, "Oh Voldermort," He said causing the death eaters to hiss angrily at the use of their masters name "I've seen worse than death in my life, dying will just be a freedom that I have not felt for years."
Voldermort did not seem happy with this answer at all. "Then how do you feel about being locked up again Sirius, I'm sure I can find a cell that would suit you just fine."
Sirius smiled at Voldermort though Harry knew that thought had phased his Godfather. "Whatever pleases you, oh mighty dark lord" He said still laughing,
"You find this funny do you" Voldermort snapped, "I assure you, I will make every day of your life painful, I will torture your beloved godson to death I..."
"You'll have to capture him first" Sirius growled angrily, "And you haven't proved yourself at being very good at that" The death eaters hissed at the comment and Voldermort threw a powerful "crucio" at him.
Sirius hit the ground with a thump and Death Eaters swooped down and pulled him up, holding his arms behind him. "NO" Harry screamed suddenly and everyone looked towards him. He had stood up alone letting Ron and Hermione stay hidden. "Let him go"
Sirius stared at Harry, "What are you doing here!" He cried "Get out of here Harry!"
"Get him!" Voldermort cried but suddenly spells were coming from all directions. Hermione and Ron had stood up and were sending spells towards the death eaters, but that wasn't all. Aliandra, Mad-eye Moody, and a group of others were sprinting towards him sending curses and jinxes towards the death eaters.
Harry too had pulled out his wand, but he found little use for it as most of the death eaters fell before they'd even made it to him. Though that changed when he saw Voldermort move towards Sirius. "STOP!" He yelled his voice echoing through the cemetery. Voldermort stopped in his tracks and turned to face Harry,
He was visibly stunned by the powerful order that Harry had just given him and he stared at Harry as though he was trying to find something that was not there before. Harry had his wand out in front of him pointed directly at the dark wizard. "Leave him alone" He growled glaring at Voldermort angrily.
Voldermort smiled, "Why Harry, are you afraid that I might take away your godfather as well"
Harry was shaking, he knew he was shaking but he didn't know why. Voldermort was grinning at him, but he wasn't afraid... no, he was shaking because he was angry. "Poor poor Harry Potter, but then, your parents didn't have to die, it was you I wanted, they..."
"THAT'S ENOUGH" Harry roared and suddenly something strange happened. He could feel the magic that was running through his own veins, the magic that was alight like a fire in his very soul, and it frightened him.
Harry looked at Voldermort. The dark wizards magic was as black as nights sky, the magic made Harry feel like he had just jumped into icy water, but then everything was warm, his own magic fought it, his own magic was more powerful... he, Harry Potter, was more powerful than Voldermort, even if it wasn't by very much.
Harry looked around, he looked at Aliandra, who was holding the book out in front of her, she radiated magic, a white magic that was significantly different to what radiated from Voldermort. He looked to Sirius who too had that white magic. Harry was awed by his godfather's power which, apart from Voldermort's, was closest to his own.
Harry really wasn't sure what to do now. For some reason Harry had always thought that if he knew he was more powerful than Voldermort, he would be ready to fight him, but now that Harry knew he didn't know what to do and he stood there awkwardly.
The few seconds that Voldermort had had while Harry had been caught up in his thoughts had been enough for the dark wizard to get his wand out and think up an entertaining curse to throw at Harry, but too the dark wizards surprise it hadn't worked the way he had planned. "TERTIA" Voldermort roared and yellow light went flying towards Harry.
Harry just stood their watching the light fly towards him. He measured the magic that was in the spell, then some how willed his own magic to act as a shield. Harry hadn't said a word but the spell rebounded of Harry and went flying into the tree that had stood right next to Voldermort.
"CRUCIO!" The dark wizard cried in anger, this spell worked, after all the crutacious curse could not be blocked and Harry screamed. The spell was dropped and Harry fell to the ground in pain, suddenly Harry couldn't feel the magic anymore, but he knew, he knew he could beat Voldemort.
Voldermort was laughing as Harry struggled to stand, "What a waste of your parents lives..."
"CRUCIO!" Harry screamed and the curse went flying towards Voldermort and the dark wizard cried in pain.
Harry was so surprised by his own move that he dropped the spell after a few seconds and just stared at Voldermort who was glaring at Harry wishing no less that a painful death upon him. "That probably wasn't the best idea, I've ever had" Harry muttered to himself.
"You will pay for that" Voldermort growled standing up with his own wand in front of him.
"Oh no he won't" Aliandra cried then a brilliant white light lit up the sky and suddenly they were no longer in the old cemetery, but on the Hogwarts quidditch field.
Harry fell to the ground in shock. He was still shaking violently and was still surprised by the fact that he had just shot a 'Crucio' at Voldermort. It wasn't as if Voldermort didn't deserve it, it was just that well, Harry didn't really want to sink to his level.
"Harry?"
"Harry? are you all right?"
"Harry, mate, are you okay?"
"Harry!"
Harry shook himself out of his thoughts as Sirius called his name. "Sirius" He said then looked up at his godfather who was kneeling in front of him.
"Harry, if you ever do anything like that again, I sware.... oh god" He said then he pulled Harry into his embrace.
"What happened, how did we get here?" Harry asked,
"We got the book Harry" a witch with fluro pink hair said kindly.
"Who are you?" Harry said puzzled then he looked back at Sirius, "What, how did we end up here?"
"The book" Aliandra said softly, "One of the protection spells is the mass movement of people, I used it to bring us all back here safely."
Harry was still shaking, "Sirius, it's all my fault"
"What is Harry?" Sirus asked kindly,
"If I'd never been born, my parents would still be..."
"Harry" Sirius said cutting him off, "It's not your fault." He said sternly.
"But..."
"But nothing, your parents would never have just given you up, they loved you and it's not your fault that they were murdered." Sirius said, "Now I think we should get you to the hospital wing, I think you overdid it a bit Harry"
Harry just nodded, "Tell Dumbledore I'm sorry" He said looking at Sirius. "Tell him I'm sorry for breaking my promise to him."
Sirius nodded and smiled, "Sometimes promises just aren't meant to be kept. So long as you are safe Harry, I doubt highly that Dumbledore will spend his time worrying about a broken promise" Sirius said and Harry smiled, he felt as if a heavy weight had just been pulled of his shoulders and he let himself relax into his godfathers arms and fell asleep.
* * *
"Will he ever wake up?" Someone asked and if Harry had his eyes open he would have rolled his eyes at the irony of the statement.
"Of course he will, don't be so stupid Ron" another voice said that undoubtedly belonged to Hermione. "You heard what Dumbledore said, he just used an amount of magic that he wasn't used to using."
A woman laughed, "Basically he's just exhausted. With time he will get a good grasp on that magic and eventually he won't get tired at all." she said, and while Harry wasn't sure he had an idea that the voice belonged to Aliandra.
"But it was amazing wasn't it" Another woman's voice said, "After all these years, Voldermort finally got a taste of his own medicine"
"Potter has quite a bit of magic packed up inside of him" A rough voice said and Harry had an idea that it belonged to Mad-eye Moony.
"He'll probably kill himself with it" Snape sneered, and suddenly Harry realised that a warm hand was on his forehead.
"Harry'll be fine, once he's been trained up a bit" Hagrid said warmly,
"I agree" Remus said "He's far too much like his father to be stupid enough to kill himself with his own magic." and Harry struggled to open his eyes, he was starting to wonder who *wasn't* in the room with him.
"He is a lot like his father, isn't he" Mr Weasley said warmly.
"He is" Sirius whispered, "But he's as much his father's son as he is his mothers," He paused and Harry felt someone brush a strand of hair away from his face "Lily and James would be proud" The room fell silent and remained so for a few moments. Harry shifted uncomfortably and his eyes fluttered open. Once again found he couldn't see anything apart the blurred images of the people standing around him. "Well hello there Harry," Sirius said grinning at his godson as he passed him his glasses.
Harry yawned, "Hello" He said groggily. He sat up and looked around the room. It was filled with witches and wizards, many of which he didn't know. "Erm- Hi?" He said to everyone then looked at Sirius.
"HARRY!" Hermione cried and she threw her arms around Harry's neck. Ron laughed at Harry's awkward expression as the girl hugged him tightly.
"Can you still breath there Harry?" He asked while laughing.
Harry laughed, "Just" He said and Hermione pulled back and smiled.
"How are you Harry?" She said seriously.
"I'm fine Hermione, though I could use a little more sleep" Harry said yawning.
"A little more!" Ron cried, "You've been sleeping for a week, how much more sleep could you possibly need?" Harry grinned
"You must've been bored" Harry said laughing at Ron.
"Your telling me, and we haven't had the diary because they've all be working on separating the diary and Merlin's Book, now that Voldermort knows about it, its hiding place must be changed." Ron said, "So we've spent our time reading and doing homework."
Harry snickered, "You know it could be worse," he said causing Hermione to roll her eyes and mutter something along the lines of "boys".
Ron shook his head, "No, you have no idea of how many essays we've had while you've been sleeping. Even in divination! Trelawny made us write an essay about what we saw in our futures."
Harry laughed, "Still could have been worse"
"Ahh Mr Potter, your finally awake?" McGonagall said as she walked into the hospital wing. She sighed as she looked around, "Really, is it necessary for *all* of you be in here?" She said
"Of course it is" The woman with fluro pink hair said grinning.
"Your too much like your cousin"
"Second cousin" Sirius corrected, "Andromeda was my cousin"
McGonagall rolled her eyes. "Has anyone alerted the Headmaster that Harry has awoken?" She said looking around at the group. Everyone had gone silent and were looking around at the others.
"Snape went to alert Albus as soon as Harry woke up" Sirius said smiling at McGonagall, "He was very happy to go," A small smile made its way to the Transfiguration teachers face at the comment but it disappeared quickly as Severus and Dumbledore walked into the room.
"It's good to see you've finally woken up, I was afraid that you might have had water poured over you by a pair of twins should you have slept any longer" Dumbledore said smiling,
Harry frowned, "I'm sorry" He said,
Dumbledore smiled warily, "Nothing can be changed, and while your decision was not one of your better ones, it has done none any harm." Harry still looked down at the white sheets silently. "Harry, all you've done is put yourself in more danger." Dumbledore said and Harry looked up almost instantly.
By the looks on everyone else's faces they had already know this piece of information, which slightly bothered him, but still he wanted to know the facts behind this claim. Dumbledore looked at Harry carefully, "Voldermort is furious. He has not once suffered a blow as painful to himself as to his reputation as that one."
"What do you mean?" Harry asked,
"Voldermort has shown weakness for the first time in years and as a result some of his followers are beginning to have doubt in him. Many death eaters are forging alliances with our side as we speak, some have given themselves up... and what's worse is that you got away again" Dumbledore said
"Basically you bruised his ego badly" Aliandra said, "And he wants revenge."
To the rooms surprise though Harry just shrugged, "So what's new?" Harry said, "You don't understand, your all looking at me as though I'm mad, but I've spent four years knowing that Voldermort is after me, and making him angrier doesn't change that fact, even if it does speed things up a bit"
Harry had explained it so simply, so acceptably that the group found it easy to understand, but most of them, apart from Sirius, Remus, Dumbledore and Aliandra, still looked at him completely stunned. "What?" Harry said,
"Well aren't you afraid?" The fluro pink haired woman asked,
Harry frowned, "Well I wouldn't be human if I wasn't the slightest bit afraid, but that doesn't change the fact that he's after me, and well, I'm not sure but I think that when he does find me, or come and get me, being afraid won't do me too much good" He explained, "I don't really know how to explain it, but it doesn't really come down to if your afraid or not, but whether your willing to accept it or not."
Dumbledore smiled at Harry, "I think, Harry, that you have explained it perfectly."
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and his magical world belong to his respective owners and creators.
"We're nearly there" Harry said to Hermione who was holding onto him tightly. Harry and Hermione were sharing his firebolt while Ron flew next to them on one of the school brooms. They had flown at top speed nearly all the way there and it had been freezing.
Harry wasn't sure that it had been fair of him to bring Hermione and Ron along. Both of his best friends were still in their pajamas, and even though they kept strong faces, Harry knew that they felt less than strong on the inside.
Harry didn't feel terrible strong at the moment. He felt scared, worried, annoyed, frustrated, confused, upset, cold and even slightly stupid, but he didn't feel very strong. He was also angry with himself for breaking his promise to Dumbledore, but then not every promise can be kept, no matter how important they seem to be.
He had decided that they would land near the riddle house then approach on foot, but take the brooms with them, just in case. After all it would be easier to manoeuvre on a broom than on foot if spells and curses were suddenly directed towards them.
Harry waved for Ron's attention then pointed to an open area of land just outside of the cemetery. The landed quietly and Harry looked at his two best friends. "You know, you don't have to come any further, I don't want either of you to get hurt and..." Harry started but went quiet as his two friends rolled their eyes at him and started walking towards the cemetery.
Harry smiled, he couldn't have asked for a better pair of friends.
* * *
The three jumped the fence that surrounded the cemetery and crept around to where they could hear voices. Voldermort and Sirius were no longer alone with a group of death eaters standing behind the dark wizard laughing. "Sirius" Harry said as he saw his Godfather being held up in the air by Voldermort.
"Are you sure Sirius, that you don't want to work for me. I believe that you and Harry have a certain connection that I could use" Voldermort laughed,
"I will never join you" Sirius growled glaring at Voldermort.
Voldermort and the Death Eaters went silent. "Then you will die" Voldermort said grinning at Sirius
Sirius threw his head back and laughed, "Oh Voldermort," He said causing the death eaters to hiss angrily at the use of their masters name "I've seen worse than death in my life, dying will just be a freedom that I have not felt for years."
Voldermort did not seem happy with this answer at all. "Then how do you feel about being locked up again Sirius, I'm sure I can find a cell that would suit you just fine."
Sirius smiled at Voldermort though Harry knew that thought had phased his Godfather. "Whatever pleases you, oh mighty dark lord" He said still laughing,
"You find this funny do you" Voldermort snapped, "I assure you, I will make every day of your life painful, I will torture your beloved godson to death I..."
"You'll have to capture him first" Sirius growled angrily, "And you haven't proved yourself at being very good at that" The death eaters hissed at the comment and Voldermort threw a powerful "crucio" at him.
Sirius hit the ground with a thump and Death Eaters swooped down and pulled him up, holding his arms behind him. "NO" Harry screamed suddenly and everyone looked towards him. He had stood up alone letting Ron and Hermione stay hidden. "Let him go"
Sirius stared at Harry, "What are you doing here!" He cried "Get out of here Harry!"
"Get him!" Voldermort cried but suddenly spells were coming from all directions. Hermione and Ron had stood up and were sending spells towards the death eaters, but that wasn't all. Aliandra, Mad-eye Moody, and a group of others were sprinting towards him sending curses and jinxes towards the death eaters.
Harry too had pulled out his wand, but he found little use for it as most of the death eaters fell before they'd even made it to him. Though that changed when he saw Voldermort move towards Sirius. "STOP!" He yelled his voice echoing through the cemetery. Voldermort stopped in his tracks and turned to face Harry,
He was visibly stunned by the powerful order that Harry had just given him and he stared at Harry as though he was trying to find something that was not there before. Harry had his wand out in front of him pointed directly at the dark wizard. "Leave him alone" He growled glaring at Voldermort angrily.
Voldermort smiled, "Why Harry, are you afraid that I might take away your godfather as well"
Harry was shaking, he knew he was shaking but he didn't know why. Voldermort was grinning at him, but he wasn't afraid... no, he was shaking because he was angry. "Poor poor Harry Potter, but then, your parents didn't have to die, it was you I wanted, they..."
"THAT'S ENOUGH" Harry roared and suddenly something strange happened. He could feel the magic that was running through his own veins, the magic that was alight like a fire in his very soul, and it frightened him.
Harry looked at Voldermort. The dark wizards magic was as black as nights sky, the magic made Harry feel like he had just jumped into icy water, but then everything was warm, his own magic fought it, his own magic was more powerful... he, Harry Potter, was more powerful than Voldermort, even if it wasn't by very much.
Harry looked around, he looked at Aliandra, who was holding the book out in front of her, she radiated magic, a white magic that was significantly different to what radiated from Voldermort. He looked to Sirius who too had that white magic. Harry was awed by his godfather's power which, apart from Voldermort's, was closest to his own.
Harry really wasn't sure what to do now. For some reason Harry had always thought that if he knew he was more powerful than Voldermort, he would be ready to fight him, but now that Harry knew he didn't know what to do and he stood there awkwardly.
The few seconds that Voldermort had had while Harry had been caught up in his thoughts had been enough for the dark wizard to get his wand out and think up an entertaining curse to throw at Harry, but too the dark wizards surprise it hadn't worked the way he had planned. "TERTIA" Voldermort roared and yellow light went flying towards Harry.
Harry just stood their watching the light fly towards him. He measured the magic that was in the spell, then some how willed his own magic to act as a shield. Harry hadn't said a word but the spell rebounded of Harry and went flying into the tree that had stood right next to Voldermort.
"CRUCIO!" The dark wizard cried in anger, this spell worked, after all the crutacious curse could not be blocked and Harry screamed. The spell was dropped and Harry fell to the ground in pain, suddenly Harry couldn't feel the magic anymore, but he knew, he knew he could beat Voldemort.
Voldermort was laughing as Harry struggled to stand, "What a waste of your parents lives..."
"CRUCIO!" Harry screamed and the curse went flying towards Voldermort and the dark wizard cried in pain.
Harry was so surprised by his own move that he dropped the spell after a few seconds and just stared at Voldermort who was glaring at Harry wishing no less that a painful death upon him. "That probably wasn't the best idea, I've ever had" Harry muttered to himself.
"You will pay for that" Voldermort growled standing up with his own wand in front of him.
"Oh no he won't" Aliandra cried then a brilliant white light lit up the sky and suddenly they were no longer in the old cemetery, but on the Hogwarts quidditch field.
Harry fell to the ground in shock. He was still shaking violently and was still surprised by the fact that he had just shot a 'Crucio' at Voldermort. It wasn't as if Voldermort didn't deserve it, it was just that well, Harry didn't really want to sink to his level.
"Harry?"
"Harry? are you all right?"
"Harry, mate, are you okay?"
"Harry!"
Harry shook himself out of his thoughts as Sirius called his name. "Sirius" He said then looked up at his godfather who was kneeling in front of him.
"Harry, if you ever do anything like that again, I sware.... oh god" He said then he pulled Harry into his embrace.
"What happened, how did we get here?" Harry asked,
"We got the book Harry" a witch with fluro pink hair said kindly.
"Who are you?" Harry said puzzled then he looked back at Sirius, "What, how did we end up here?"
"The book" Aliandra said softly, "One of the protection spells is the mass movement of people, I used it to bring us all back here safely."
Harry was still shaking, "Sirius, it's all my fault"
"What is Harry?" Sirus asked kindly,
"If I'd never been born, my parents would still be..."
"Harry" Sirius said cutting him off, "It's not your fault." He said sternly.
"But..."
"But nothing, your parents would never have just given you up, they loved you and it's not your fault that they were murdered." Sirius said, "Now I think we should get you to the hospital wing, I think you overdid it a bit Harry"
Harry just nodded, "Tell Dumbledore I'm sorry" He said looking at Sirius. "Tell him I'm sorry for breaking my promise to him."
Sirius nodded and smiled, "Sometimes promises just aren't meant to be kept. So long as you are safe Harry, I doubt highly that Dumbledore will spend his time worrying about a broken promise" Sirius said and Harry smiled, he felt as if a heavy weight had just been pulled of his shoulders and he let himself relax into his godfathers arms and fell asleep.
* * *
"Will he ever wake up?" Someone asked and if Harry had his eyes open he would have rolled his eyes at the irony of the statement.
"Of course he will, don't be so stupid Ron" another voice said that undoubtedly belonged to Hermione. "You heard what Dumbledore said, he just used an amount of magic that he wasn't used to using."
A woman laughed, "Basically he's just exhausted. With time he will get a good grasp on that magic and eventually he won't get tired at all." she said, and while Harry wasn't sure he had an idea that the voice belonged to Aliandra.
"But it was amazing wasn't it" Another woman's voice said, "After all these years, Voldermort finally got a taste of his own medicine"
"Potter has quite a bit of magic packed up inside of him" A rough voice said and Harry had an idea that it belonged to Mad-eye Moony.
"He'll probably kill himself with it" Snape sneered, and suddenly Harry realised that a warm hand was on his forehead.
"Harry'll be fine, once he's been trained up a bit" Hagrid said warmly,
"I agree" Remus said "He's far too much like his father to be stupid enough to kill himself with his own magic." and Harry struggled to open his eyes, he was starting to wonder who *wasn't* in the room with him.
"He is a lot like his father, isn't he" Mr Weasley said warmly.
"He is" Sirius whispered, "But he's as much his father's son as he is his mothers," He paused and Harry felt someone brush a strand of hair away from his face "Lily and James would be proud" The room fell silent and remained so for a few moments. Harry shifted uncomfortably and his eyes fluttered open. Once again found he couldn't see anything apart the blurred images of the people standing around him. "Well hello there Harry," Sirius said grinning at his godson as he passed him his glasses.
Harry yawned, "Hello" He said groggily. He sat up and looked around the room. It was filled with witches and wizards, many of which he didn't know. "Erm- Hi?" He said to everyone then looked at Sirius.
"HARRY!" Hermione cried and she threw her arms around Harry's neck. Ron laughed at Harry's awkward expression as the girl hugged him tightly.
"Can you still breath there Harry?" He asked while laughing.
Harry laughed, "Just" He said and Hermione pulled back and smiled.
"How are you Harry?" She said seriously.
"I'm fine Hermione, though I could use a little more sleep" Harry said yawning.
"A little more!" Ron cried, "You've been sleeping for a week, how much more sleep could you possibly need?" Harry grinned
"You must've been bored" Harry said laughing at Ron.
"Your telling me, and we haven't had the diary because they've all be working on separating the diary and Merlin's Book, now that Voldermort knows about it, its hiding place must be changed." Ron said, "So we've spent our time reading and doing homework."
Harry snickered, "You know it could be worse," he said causing Hermione to roll her eyes and mutter something along the lines of "boys".
Ron shook his head, "No, you have no idea of how many essays we've had while you've been sleeping. Even in divination! Trelawny made us write an essay about what we saw in our futures."
Harry laughed, "Still could have been worse"
"Ahh Mr Potter, your finally awake?" McGonagall said as she walked into the hospital wing. She sighed as she looked around, "Really, is it necessary for *all* of you be in here?" She said
"Of course it is" The woman with fluro pink hair said grinning.
"Your too much like your cousin"
"Second cousin" Sirius corrected, "Andromeda was my cousin"
McGonagall rolled her eyes. "Has anyone alerted the Headmaster that Harry has awoken?" She said looking around at the group. Everyone had gone silent and were looking around at the others.
"Snape went to alert Albus as soon as Harry woke up" Sirius said smiling at McGonagall, "He was very happy to go," A small smile made its way to the Transfiguration teachers face at the comment but it disappeared quickly as Severus and Dumbledore walked into the room.
"It's good to see you've finally woken up, I was afraid that you might have had water poured over you by a pair of twins should you have slept any longer" Dumbledore said smiling,
Harry frowned, "I'm sorry" He said,
Dumbledore smiled warily, "Nothing can be changed, and while your decision was not one of your better ones, it has done none any harm." Harry still looked down at the white sheets silently. "Harry, all you've done is put yourself in more danger." Dumbledore said and Harry looked up almost instantly.
By the looks on everyone else's faces they had already know this piece of information, which slightly bothered him, but still he wanted to know the facts behind this claim. Dumbledore looked at Harry carefully, "Voldermort is furious. He has not once suffered a blow as painful to himself as to his reputation as that one."
"What do you mean?" Harry asked,
"Voldermort has shown weakness for the first time in years and as a result some of his followers are beginning to have doubt in him. Many death eaters are forging alliances with our side as we speak, some have given themselves up... and what's worse is that you got away again" Dumbledore said
"Basically you bruised his ego badly" Aliandra said, "And he wants revenge."
To the rooms surprise though Harry just shrugged, "So what's new?" Harry said, "You don't understand, your all looking at me as though I'm mad, but I've spent four years knowing that Voldermort is after me, and making him angrier doesn't change that fact, even if it does speed things up a bit"
Harry had explained it so simply, so acceptably that the group found it easy to understand, but most of them, apart from Sirius, Remus, Dumbledore and Aliandra, still looked at him completely stunned. "What?" Harry said,
"Well aren't you afraid?" The fluro pink haired woman asked,
Harry frowned, "Well I wouldn't be human if I wasn't the slightest bit afraid, but that doesn't change the fact that he's after me, and well, I'm not sure but I think that when he does find me, or come and get me, being afraid won't do me too much good" He explained, "I don't really know how to explain it, but it doesn't really come down to if your afraid or not, but whether your willing to accept it or not."
Dumbledore smiled at Harry, "I think, Harry, that you have explained it perfectly."
