Author Note: I am sorry for the delay. But I had a bit of writer's block for this chapter. However I have passed it and hopefully it won't happen again, or at least not to often. Thank you for all you readers who have reviewed my story. I can't believe I broke 100 reviews, I was so happy. Thank you again all you wonderful readers.
Notations: /Thoughts/
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Harry woke up in cold sweat again from his second nightmare of the night. It was the same he had been having for the past week, one every time he would see the eerie graveyard after grabbing the cup with Cedric. Than he would here that Voldemort's voice, "Kill the spare." A flash of green light and Cedric falling to the ground dead. Harry always trembled with fear every time he saw Cedric fall to the ground, than that's where the nightmare intensified. He would see a ghost like figure of Cedric and everyone Voldemort ever killed including his parents all telling him, "It's all your fault…" "Why couldn't you do anything?" "You're a failure…" and more, just kept being repeated to him. Eventually Harry would wake up from the nightmare as he did just now, still hearing what the people in his dream said. Harry looked at the clock in the room and saw that it was six in the morning. / Well there's no point in trying to go back to sleep. / Harry thought as he climbed out of bed and headed for the showers. Even though he had access to the prefect's bathroom, he really didn't feel like going all the way there. Harry was so tired and depressed from the nightmares that he completely forgot about what happened last night when Ron and Hermione came to see him.
After taking a long hot shower, Harry dried himself off and put on some comfortable clothes and his school robes. He looked at himself in the mirror as he tied his long hair into a ponytail. He was thankfully that his hair was now no longer messy, but straight and tame. When he finished tying his hair back, he noticed that he was starting to get dark circles under his eyes, showing that he wasn't getting enough sleep. Harry signed and grabbed his wand; during the summer he found a handle glamour charm for a person's face. He quickly cast the charm on himself, and the dark circles disappeared. After being satisfied with himself, he put on the phoenix amulet. Every time he put it on he felt much happier than he normally felt even at this moment. As he was heading out he saw his old glasses sitting on the nightstand next to his bed. / Well, I won't ever have to worry about where I put them anymore. / Harry thought as he chuckled at the idea. He glanced at the clock again and saw that breakfast should be starting soon and the rest of the students should be waking up soon.
Harry walked to the Great Hall, and was surprised that Dumbledore and some of the professors were up already eating breakfast. When he entered Albus looked up to see Harry had just entered. He watched Harry with a concerned face wondering, / Why is Harry here so early?/ He quickly looked around the staff table and saw that the other professors there were wondering the same thing. Once Harry sat down at the Gryffindor table, food for the area he was sitting in appeared. So he helped himself to some of the food, not really eating a lot. After a while more students started to filter in and started eating. After a while Ron and Hermione came in and they saw him eating what remained of his breakfast. As they came up to him, they were ready to ask 'why didn't he wait for them?', but Harry gave them a look telling them, 'please don't ask.' After they sat down, they didn't bring it up, instead that talked about what classes they had for today. All three were wondering how DADA was going to be since they had it as their first class of the day, and that it was a new professor.
After finishing breakfast the trio started to walk to their DADA class to see if this year's professor was any good and would survive for than one year. When they entered the classroom most of the students were there already, and they took their seats in the middle of the class. When the bell rang, Professor Figg stood up and faced the class.
"Good morning, everyone! My name Arabella Figg, of course you'll have to address me as Professor Figg but if we're in private I really don't care. Now for a little background about myself, I was an Auror before I decided to leave it and to do some other work, which I am not a liberty to discuss. And now that, that job is over I might return to being an auror or maybe stay and continue to teach I am sure yet. I am also aware that so far every DADA professor you had never lasted for more than a year. Correct?" She received nods from the entire class. "Well that's kind of excepted, your first professor, Quirrell turned out to be a traitor, your second professor, Lockhart was a fraud and a complete loser, and your last teacher Moody turned out to be a fake. The only professor that I was impressed with was Remus Lupin. Who I believe taught you during your third year?" asked Professor Figg. The entire class smiled and nodded, which told her that they like him more than the other professors. While Professor Figg was giving her welcoming speech, Harry was remembering what Professor Dumbledore said last to Sirius about gathering the 'old crowd', and he was certain that he heard the name 'Arabella Figg.' Harry wondered. / Could she be the one that Professor Dumbledore was talking about? /
"All right I have review what your class have study over the past four years. And you've covered a very large range of things concerning this subject. But you only bits and pieces of each area, so I'll try to cover the same things only in more detail and a few new things, since you're taking your O.W.L.S. this year. So for today let's start with the patronus charm." Harry's face picked up and showed excitement. He already learned this in his third year with Professor Lupin, so this lesson was going to be easy. "Who can tell me, what a patronus charm is and what's it used for?" Hermione's hand shot up in an instant; trying to get the professor's attention, although Harry knew what a patronus charm was he really didn't feel like answering. "Yes, Ms. Granger?"
"A patronus charm is a charm that is made of a person's happy thoughts. And the charm is used for driving a dementor away. Also if he person can concentrate enough and get a very strong happy thought, the charm will take the form of an animal." Hermione answered happily, as she liked showing that she knew a lot of information.
"Correct, 5 points to Gryffindor. Now what she just said is correct so I will skip over the general information about the charm and we'll go straight into practicing it. Okay, the incantation for the charm is 'expecto patronum'. Now I will demonstrate." Professor Figg cast the charm and a large silvery mist came out of her wand, unfortunately it didn't take any form. After a while she flick her wand the silver mist disappeared. "As you can see, I am not the proficient in this charm since it is very advance magic. Not many full-grown wizards can even get as far as I did. So who here has had any experience with this charm?" she asked, with her eyes surveying the room. Harry could feel Ron and Hermione's eyes on him since they knew he could from third year, but he didn't raise his hand and when he looked at Professor Figg her eyes were on him. / She knows. She must be the same Arabella Figg that Dumbledore was talking about. Why else would she be staring right at me, Dumbledore or Sirius must have told her, I was able to drive all those dementors away. / Harry thought as he ever so slowly raised his hand. "Ah, Mr. Potter. All right why don't you come up in front of the class and show us what you can do?" Harry groaned as he stood up and walked to the front of the class. When he was in front of the class he pulled out his wand and pointed it at the class. He quickly thought about Sirius being declared innocent, as his happy thought. "Expecto patronum!" A white flash came out of the tip of his wand followed by a silvery white stag. The entire class was in shock, because Harry was able to cast the patronus charm perfectly, while their new professor was only able to get a large silvery cloud. The silver stag trotted around the room once and came to a stop beside Harry. Harry smiled at his patronus, since his was apparently was the animagus form of his father. After about a minute of silence from the class and professor, Harry decided to end the charm so he flick his wand and his patronus disappeared. This brought everyone out of their shocked state.
"Well I see that you don't need help with his spell." Said Professor Figg and she turned her attention to the class. "What you just saw was an absolutely perfect patronus charm. Now you have an idea of what it's supposed to look like, just keep in mind that each person's patronus will be different. So now I want all of you to use the time left in class to practice this spell." As the class started to scatter around the room to practice, Professor Figg turned back to Harry and asked, "Can you go around the room and offer help to those who need it?" Harry answered by nodding and went around the room to offer his assistance to anyone. By the end of class only a few were even able to get anything silvery out of their wands.
The rest of the day was pretty dull, since History of Magic with Professor Binns was never interesting, Divination was an absolute bore since again Professor Trelawney predicted his death yet again, so he left in a particularly bad mood. Although Herbology was all right, he really didn't pay attention all that much. However the only interesting thing that happened was during lunch, when Fred and George came up to Harry.
"Hey Harry, we want your vote," said Fred.
"On who you think should be team captain," continued George as he handed Harry a piece of parchment and quill. While they were talking to Harry, he could see the rest of the team, Angelina, Katie, and Alicia. Harry hadn't really thought about quidditch, but now since the twins brought it up. They needed a new captain and keeper, since Oliver Wood graduated. He wondered if who it should be, / Maybe Katie should be it, since she's a strong leader, and a good player. Yeah that'll be my choice. / Harry wrote down Katie's name and handed it to George. Once George had it he put it in his pocket and extended his hand to Harry as if to shake it. Harry stared at his hand than at George, "Why are you doing that?"
"I wanted to congratulate and shake the hand of our new quidditch team captain." said George, loud enough for the whole Gryffindor table to hear. When everyone heard it, the entire table clapped and cheered for him. "What!? You never even looked at my vote." said Harry in shock. "That was only a technicality, since you are on the team you had to put in your vote. But the five of us already voted for you." replied Angelina happily. Harry couldn't believe it was now the Gryffindor Quidditch Team Captain. "All right I'll accept the position. But I am going to need help form the rest of you, since I'll have no clue what I'm doing." responded Harry. Harry announced that the team would be having tryouts on Saturday of next week. Ron was excited since he'd been practicing at home during the summer and he wanted to try out for the Keeper position. Harry gave him his support and wished him luck when the tryouts started. And Hermione gave Harry a hug for making team captain.
However during dinner Harry's day was about to get a lot more interesting. As Harry and his friends were sitting at the table enjoying their meals, someone tapped Harry on the shoulder. When Harry turned around it was Professor McGonagall.
"Mr. Potter, the Headmaster would like to see you in his office at about 9:30 tonight." She said in her normal stern voice. Harry nodded, but was still curious as to why he had to see Professor Dumbledore, "Um Professor, if it's not too much to ask. Why does the Headmaster want to see me?"
"I'm afraid I can't tell you that. But everything will be explained when you get there." Said Professor McGonagall, not sounding irritated by the Harry's curiosity. Harry nodded again, and she left. Harry turned around again still wondering what that was all about, to see that Ron and Hermione were wondering the same thing. "What do you suppose that was about?" This came from her, who looked worried that Harry was being called to the Headmaster's office and a week hasn't even passed yet. "I don't know. But I'm sure it can't be anything bad." said Harry as he was finishing his meal. "Let's hope so, mate." replied Ron, as he grabbed more food.
After they finished their dinner, they headed up to the common room. When they arrived Hermione was immediately on them, telling them that they should start their homework and study for the O.W.L.s. Harry and Ron complained at first, but they knew that she would give up so they agreed to do their homework. Once they had their books, Harry started on his potions assignment, while Ron started his Divination, and Hermione started on her Charms homework. When it was 9 o'clock, Harry decided that he head to Dumbledore's office, even though it was still early. "I'm going to head to Dumbledore's office now. Maybe if I see him early I can finish our meeting early." Ron and Hermione agreed that it was a good idea, so Harry left the common room. When Harry came up to the gargoyle that guarded the entranceway to Dumbledore's office, he realized that he didn't know the password. So he started guessing, "Um. Lemon Drops." Nothing. "Every Flavor Bean." Nothing, and he listed more candies that he knew and the gargoyle still didn't move. Harry at this point was getting rather frustrated, so he gave up on candy and started on food. "Canary Creams." He said angrily and to his surprise the gargoyle jumped out of the way showing the staircase. / Gee. What a password, using one of Fred and George's prank inventions. / Thought Harry as he walked up the stairs and knocked on the door. When nobody answered Harry tried the door to find that it was unlocked. As he stepped into the office, Harry found that nobody was in and the office hadn't changed at all, as far as décor was. He looked at the clock to see that he still had about fifteen minutes before he had to meet Dumbledore so he took a seat and decided to wait.
As Harry waited he noticed that Fawkes wasn't on his perch next to Dumbledore's desk. Harry than remembered that while he was in the hospital wing recovering, he was able to talk to Fawkes. He hoped that he would get another chance to talk to the phoenix and ask him more question. Harry was than distracted from his thoughts when he heard what sound light the phoenix song. Harry stood up and listened carefully and followed the sound. As he followed the song, he ended up in front of a bookcase. / Strange. Why is a phoenix song, coming from the other side of this bookcase? / Harry surveyed the book on the shelves, and his eyes caught a particular book that stuck out from the rest of the books. It was on the shelf directly in front of him, and all the books on this shelf were blue while a single red one, which was slightly larger than the blue ones, was sitting in the center. Curiosity getting the better of him, Harry reached out for the book. The moment he touched the book the bookcase started sliding out of the way to reveal a hidden door. After the bookcase stopped moving, Harry was surprised that there was an old wooden door behind it. As Harry stared at the door the phoenix song he was hearing stopped. So he slowing turning the doorknob and the door creaked open slowly. Harry stuck his head into the room to see what it was.
Harry wasn't able to see much so he pushed the door open more, now he was standing a completely dark room and the only source of lighting being the moonlight coming through the windows along the wall. As Harry stepped further into the room the door that he entered closed on him, and he couldn't open it when he turned around. / Well, isn't this great? / Harry thought as he squinted his eyes to try and make out anything that could be used as a light source. As he moved along the wall he could make out the outline of what appeared to be a rectangular table in the center of the room, and a fireplace on either side of it. So Harry pulled out his wand and lit the fireplace closes to him. It didn't really provide much light for he entire room, so he walked around the table and lit the other fireplace. This did the trick the entire room was now coming to life, as torches were suddenly lighting themselves to provided more illumination. As Harry surveyed the room, the phoenix song was being sung again; he quickly looked around to see if Fawkes was in there. Only to see that he wasn't there at all. Harry's eyes quickly glanced at the table that could hold about twelve people, and was covered in a white linen cloth designed with gold edging. His eyes followed from what appeared to be the head of the table and followed the length of it, until he stopped right at the center.
There in the center of the table, right in between the two fireplaces was the most beautiful statue Harry had ever seen. It was a statue of a phoenix. It was barely noticeable since it appeared to be made out of some kind of glass material. When Harry stepped closer to it, he suddenly realized that the phoenix song he was hearing was coming from the statue. When he was at the table leaning over to look closer at the phoenix statue, he noticed that it was wasn't made out of a glass material, in fact it was made out of what appeared to be diamond, white diamond to be more precise. He gasped at the realization, he never thought that sculpture was even possible, but looking closer at it, it was. The entire statue of the phoenix except for the pedestal it was on was made out of diamond. The size of the phoenix statue was about the same size as Fawkes was. And the way the phoenix statue was presenting itself, was similar to the phoenix amulet he was wearing. Harry looked at the pedestal it was standing on; it was made of gold and silver. The gold and silver were mended together and shaped into how fire would be burning. Harry couldn't believe his eyes that someone could create such a sculpture and they would just use it as a table ornament. As he observed more closely still hearing the phoenix song, he noticed that there was a faint white glow around the phoenix.
When Harry stood up again, he saw a door on the side of the room that he hadn't noticed before. Curiosity getting the better of him again, he went up to the door and opened it. In this room he saw what looked like furnished common room, with red armchairs and couches, with a fireplace already burning brightly. But this room had a large portrait hanging above the fireplace, and he couldn't make out who was on it. So he walked up to the fireplace, and when he was just in front of it he looked up. Harry's eyes widened, his mouth hung open, and he was at a lost for words, and his heart nearly stopped from the shock. He slowly started backing up no paying any attention to where he was going, and fell into one of the armchairs, still staring up at the portrait.
Harry couldn't believe what he was seeing. In the portrait, was what appeared to be a family portrait of two adults, and a teenager. The portrait was like all the others in Hogwarts, they were moving and smiling and enjoying each other's company. And the based on the décor of the portrait it was a royal family of some kind. The young lady had red hair, dressed in scarlet robes, and had emerald green eyes just like Harry, and she was sitting in an elegantly decorated chair almost like a throne. The man who Harry assumed was her husband was standing to her left, he had brown eyes, and black messy hair much like what Harry used to have. And he was dressed in dark blue robes. The two adults looked just like his parents. But what really shocked and scared Harry the most was the young man who was standing on the right of the lady who looked like his 'mom'. / It's me. But that's impossible, that can't be me. / The young man looked about his height, about 15 to 16 years old, and had long shoulder length black hair with strands of brown hair all tied back in a ponytail. He was also dressed in mostly black robes with dark blue trim. But what drew Harry's attention to him the most was that he had bright emerald eyes, just like his. If Harry didn't know any better, he'd say it was him in the portrait. The only thing that would distinguish him from the portrait look alike was that he couldn't see the famous lightning bolt scar on his forehead. But then again, he really could tell since the family in the portrait minus the baby, were wearing crowns. The three of them were wearing the same type of crown design made of what appeared to be gold, and each one had one diamond shaped, diamond embedded vertically on the front of the crown. Only the one that looked like Harry, his crown was the same as the other two, only his diamond was larger. It settled on his forehead, where if Harry wore it he assumed it would cover his entire scar.
(A/N: Just to help with the crown design. I am using the same crown design as in Lord of the Rings. The one use by Lord Elron (sp) in Rivendell during the council meeting with the humans, dwarves, and other elves. Only mines have the diamond on them in the front as described above. I hope this helps with the visualization.)
As Harry continued to look upon the portrait, something in the background caught his attention. It was a phoenix on a perch near the window off to the side. But what Harry found strange was the phoenix looked awfully like Fawkes; this popped even more questions in Harry head. He was so attention drawn to the portrait he didn't even realize that someone walked into the room and was now stand right next to him.
"They look like a happy family don't they, Harry?" asked the person. Harry who was still oblivious to the fact that someone was there, answered. "Yes. They really do." / Wait a minute. Who said that? Who else is here? / Harry thought as he realized that someone asked him a question. He quickly snapped his head to the side to see Professor Dumbledore looking down at him smiling.
"Professor!" yelped Harry, he quickly stood up and straightened himself out, nervously worried that he might get into trouble for going into the room. Dumbledore could only chuckle at Harry's nervousness. "Relax, Harry." Harry looked into his eyes to see that there was nothing wrong, with him being there and Harry relaxed in relief. "I suppose your wondering, about this painting here?" asked Dumbledore looking up at the portrait. "Yes, sir. I was wondering about… about…" Harry just couldn't seem to find the right words to finish his question. Dumbledore sensing that confusion helped, "Wondering why the two adult look like your parents and why the other one looks sort of like you?" Harry nodded. "Well, I really don't know that answer myself. But what I can tell you is that this painting is about 5,000 years ago." Harry's head snapped up to the painting with shocked eyes. "Sir? How can this painting be that old? I never seen or heard of painting that old before?" Dumbledore's eyes sparkled at the Harry's curiosity. "Well, as you know magic can help with certain things, such as preserving things." Harry now understood what the Headmaster was saying, that magic was able to keep the painting in perfect condition. Suddenly Harry remembered that there was a reason he came up to he Dumbledore's office in the first place. "Sorry, sir. But was there a reason you wanted to see me?" "Yes, I wanted you to meet a few people. They are here to help in the fight against Voldemort. And please call me, Albus when we're here. Just remember that when we're in public, address me accordingly." Said Dumbledore to Harry as they started walking for the door. "Um yes, sir. I. I. I mean, Albus." replied Harry, thinking that it was going to take time to get use to call his Headmaster by his first name. Dumbledore only smiled at Harry awkwardness at calling him by his first name. As they both left the room, neither of them noticed that the three people in the painting were watching them leave or more precisely watching Harry leave with a concern for him. Just as the door closed the one that looked like Harry reached for neck of his robes and pulled out a necklace. And on the end of the necklace was the phoenix amulet, and he grasped it tightly watching the door finally click shut.
As Harry re-entered the 'conference room' as he called it, he was surprised that there were people in it already. But as Dumbledore entered the room first, he noticed that the phoenix statue started glowing white slightly, it was small but it was still noticeable to him. / Strange it's never done that before. / Many of the people Harry knew already, there was Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Arabella Figg, Severus Snape, Mad-Eye Moody, Arthur Weasley, and someone he never saw before. Sirius immediately came over to Harry and gave him a huge hug, "Hey Harry." "Hey Sirius. What are you doing here?" asked Harry. "You'll find out soon, Harry." replied Sirius, smiling at Harry. Suddenly someone patted Harry on the back and he turned around to see Professor Lupin. "Hello, Professor." "Hello, to you too Harry. And please call me Remus, I'm teaching here, so you don't have to call me professor." asked Remus, and Harry nodded. Mr. Weasley nodded a hello to Harry, who happily returned it.
Harry than turned his attention to Professor Figg, "Um excuse me Professor?" "Yes, Harry what is it?" She asked. "I was wondering something. I don't mine to be rude or anything. But you look like my babysitter, because I don't know why. But you just seem awfully familiar to me." Said Harry trying not to sound weird. But he saw that Professor Figg wasn't offended at all, in fact she laughed. Harry could only stare at her and wonder what was so funny. "Well, you assumed right. As I said in class today, I worked as an Auror until I took left and did some other work. Albus, here came to me with a job. It was to protect you, while you were at the Dursleys incase any Death Eaters ever found out where you lived. Of course I couldn't let on that I was witch, so I took the disguise of an old women that lived a few door down, that would happily take care of you." Harry was shocked to say the least; his old babysitter was actually a witch all this time. And that she was placed there by Dumbledore to protect him if Death Eaters came. "Well, I guess I should like you for watching over me all this time." said Harry after absorbing and sorting the new information. "Now problem Harry."
"Harry," said Dumbledore getting his attention, "the meeting about to start." Harry nodded and was lead to a chair to the right of the chair that Dumbledore was getting ready to sit in. After everyone was seated Dumbledore leaned over to Harry to say something that only he could hear, "Harry I only want to listen to what this meeting is about, nothing else. You can offer your opinions, if you have any we will listen." said Dumbledore. Harry nodded and replied, "Yes, si… I mean Albus. This is going to take some getting use to." Dumbledore smiled at Harry efforts. Once he was done he stood up to address everyone and finally spoke when the talking stopped.
"Well everyone to the first meeting of the Order. As you all know we are here, because of the threat known as Voldemort. Now as I'm sure everyone here know everyone one else, I believe we can proceed to the initiation ceremony." Stated Dumbledore as he and everyone else except Harry, stood up and walked over to the phoenix statue at the center of the table. Dumbledore was first to start the ceremony; he placed his hands on the gold and silver fire pedestal of the statue and closed his eyes. The phoenix statue glowed brightly and Dumbledore glowed white also and the faint sound of the phoenix song went through the air. After about a few seconds, when the glow faded Dumbledore removed his hands and moved out of the way for the next person to continue. Everyone else in the room repeated the same thing that the Headmaster did, and each one had the same outcome. Apparently from what Harry could make out, the phoenix statue was the one that decided if a person was worthy enough to join the order. He was surprised that Snape was allowed in, but he hid his surprise. Once everyone was done, they all stared at each other as if waiting for someone or something to happen, until Dumbledore walked back to his seat and sat down. Everyone else followed suit, and once they were seated they seemed about ready to ask the same question, but was stopped when Dumbledore raised his hand. "Well discuss that issue later." The others nodded, and Harry was left completely lost at what they were wondering.
After everyone agreed, the meeting went underway. Many issues were brought up about Voldemort. Such as what was his current status, which was provided by Snape. But it wasn't much since Voldemort hasn't called his Death Eaters as of lately. Which started to worry Harry since his scar hasn't burned lately not that it wasn't a bad thing but; now he wasn't sure what Voldemort was doing. Dumbledore also informed everyone on the status of the giants, that they weren't going to join Voldemort's side but, they weren't joining theirs either. The issue on the dementors at azkaban was also talked about. Harry learned the stranger he didn't know was, Mundungus Fletcher who apparently worked at the Ministry just like Mr. Weasley only in another department, which was closer to the Minister's area. Minister Fudge still doesn't believe the Voldemort has returned and so he refuses to remove the dementors from the island prison. This worried everyone great, because when Voldemort does asks them to join him, they would without a second thought. The meeting went on for about two hours, most of it though Harry didn't pay attention all that too much to since he was starting to fall asleep. Dumbledore started to notice that Harry was falling asleep so he decided that he end the meeting for now. "All right everyone, I think that's enough for now. I would like to call this meeting to an end. I will notify you when the next one will be. There is just one more issue I would like to bring up before you leave. Last time this meeting was called it was during Voldemort's first reign, it was than called the Order of the Phoenix. Are we still in an agreement to keep that name?" Everyone seemed to think about, and nod their heads showing that they agreed. However Harry was contemplating it in his head, the name sounded all right but to him it just didn't seem right. He fiddled with the phoenix amulet; he could feel the gentle warmth from it as he held it. Suddenly an answer and a name appeared to have entered his mind, and Harry not realizing it aloud.
"No." Everyone looked at him and as they heard Harry speak for the first time in the meeting. "Light. The Order of Light." Harry said to no one, not realizing that he said it aloud. Harry was brought out of his thoughts by Dumbledore who was about to inquire the reason for that suggestion, but was stopped by the gentle sound of the phoenix song. Everyone including Harry looked to see that the phoenix song was coming from the statue, and Fawkes had just landed next to it. Fawkes was also singing with the statue, and everyone knew that when the name for the Order was picked the phoenix statue would sing if it agreed to it. But they were shocked to see that Fawkes also agreed with the phoenix statue's decision on Harry's suggestion of calling the 'Order' the Order of Light. Needless to say Harry was surprised at what the phoenix statue and Fawkes were doing.
"Well than, I guess that matter has been taken care of. I will notify all of you when the next meeting takes place. Good night, everyone." Announced Dumbledore, bringing everyone out of their daze. "Sirius, Remus, Severus, and Arabella could you stay just for a moment, please?" Than he turned his attention to Harry who hadn't moved, since he was really told to. "Go on Harry. It's late and you look like you could use some sleep." Harry just nodded, and he agreed that he was tired to he got up and made for the door. When he opened the door, Harry turned out since Dumbledore want to tell him one more thing. "Oh and Harry. I don't want you telling anyone about this meeting or about the Order. Not even you friends, Mr. Weasley and Ms. Granger. Understood?"
"Yes, Albus." Harry replied remembering that Dumbledore want to called that. Harry was touched that 'Albus' could trust him with such information and secrets, so he vowed that he wouldn't ever break that trust that he had between the two of them. After he left, it was only the five adults in the room. But Dumbledore did notice that when the door clicked shut after Harry left the phoenix statue stopped its gentle white glow, and Fawkes was gone.
"Albus, I was wondering something?" asked Sirius.
"My word. Black actually thought of something, I guess there really is a brain in that thick skull of yours." commented Snape, smirking. He was meet with a cold glare from Sirius and Remus. When Sirius was about to open his mouth to answer back to Snape's comment, Albus stepped in since he knew where this would lead.
"Alright you two. That's enough, what was question Sirius?" asked Albus. Still staring coldly at Snape, Sirius answered, "I was wondering why the phoenix statue didn't chose a leader?"
"A reasonable question. One that I might have the answer too, but I am not certain to as of yet. So for now I shall not say anything." replied Albus. All four adults groaned, since they thought that Albus was going to be the leader of the Order again. Seeing this Albus decided that maybe he could give them something. "Although I can give you and observation I that I made during this meeting. But remember it is only an observation, it doesn't mean any solid." After see them nod in understanding he gave them it. "Well, have any of you noticed the phoenix statue glowing slightly during them meeting?" He asked looking at their faces to see if they saw what he did. All but Remus shook their heads.
"Yes now that you mention it. It did appear to be glowing white slightly. But if I remember correctly, it never did that before. It only glowed when someone was being judge by it, did it ever glow white. I didn't say anything, incase I was just seeing this and everyone thought I was going crazy." said Remus, pointing out what he saw. While Snape laughed a little at the thought of Lupin thinking that he was going crazy. Which earned him another cold stare from Remus.
"Well, than he both would be consider crazy because I noticed it also. And if you looked at it now, it is not glowing at all." Albus pointed out, as the four turned and looked at it to see that it wasn't glowing. "As I'm sure you all remember everyone who was in this room was there the first time, we started the Order. And the phoenix statue never did that. This time everyone was here again, except there was one more person here this time." continued Albus, hoping that the four would realize who he was implying. Suddenly all four realized who he was talking about, Albus was talking about Harry Potter but this only confused them more. Seeing this confusion Albus decided to add one more observation. "I assume you noticed that this person, also suggested the name of our Order. Which I might add was agreed upon by the statue the moment it was said." This little bit of information confirmed their guess on the person even more, but it still wasn't clear to them as to why him.
"Albus are you telling us that Potter, has something to do with this?" asked Snape in his usual sneering voice. He couldn't believe that Potter… No he absolutely refused to believe it.
"I'm not saying anything, Severus. I'm only telling you what I observed. But I do want you and Arabella to keep a closer eye on him though. Report back to me, if anything you notice that's different about him." After seeing them agree, he decided to end their little private meeting. "All right I think that enough for tonight. Good night everyone, we all have a busy day tomorrow." Albus stood up and headed for the door and was followed by everyone else still in the room. After closing the door, they all went to their respected rooms to turn in for the night.
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When Harry left the meeting he was so tired that he didn't even realize that he took one of the secret passages that lead straight to the Gryffindor tower. He gave the password to the Fat Lady who was a little grump to have been awakened at such a late hour. After getting into the common room, he noticed that it was completely empty. / I guess that Ron and Hermione got tired. That's all right with me; it is kind of late anyway. / Thought Harry as he walked up to the 5th year boys dorms. After changing and limbed into bed and fell asleep before his head even touched the pillow.
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