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The betrayal:

The room stayed silent after Ron finished his speech. Dumbledore was looking at the necklase pensively. Finally he reached out a hand and said:

"Can I have a look at it?" Harry nodded and took of his necklace. He walked up to where Dumbledore was sitting and handed him the necklace.

"Here you go, sir." the moment the necklace touched Dumbledore's hand the old wizard gasped in surprise, nearly dropping it. Everyone looked at him alarmed but the headmaster ignored them. He took a closer look at it and saw what seemed like fire inside the necklace. He could easily feel the great power emanating from the small object.

"It's incredible. This little necklace holds a great amount of magic, it's nearly like a wand." Harry laughed a little embraced. And looked at his friends who were also nervously shifting.

"Actually, you have nearly got it right." The old headmaster looked at him questioningly. "Inside the necklace are the ashes of our wands. You know we kept the parts, well properly cremated they can still be used. It's now more of a catalyst of our powers, it amplifies them."

"Incredible. You can't do magic without them." Harry shook his head and stretched his hand to his glass willing it to appear in his hand. It promptly did so.

"We can still do magic, the necklace just makes it easier and more powerful."

"I see." The headmaster handed the necklace back to Harry, who promptly put it around his neck again and went to sit next to his friends. "I have seen a fire inside the necklace, what is it? And what's the material you have used to do the necklace? I don't think I recognise it." Hermione took a sip from her cup and talked.

"What is inside is actually a little of the fire of a phoenix, frozen by Griffins blood, it's what actually makes the energy change. To hold that and the ashes we needed something very strong and resistant to magic. We found it in the scales of a dragon."

"Interesting, so you have used your animagy forms to do this? Assuming Ron takes the form of a Griffin." The redheaded boy nodded.

"That's exactly so, sir." Dumbledore nodded once again.

"I'm also guessing there are a lot of spells around it, I could sense some of them, others were just to complicate for me to identify."

"Yes, there are some spells, and they aren't that difficult, just a little disguised so they seem that way."

"Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Do you think you could make more of them?" Harry shrugged his shoulders.

"Sure, but they wouldn't be that powerful, the wand's ashes really do a big deal in it but it takes time to properly learn how to work them."

"That's ok, Harry, the protection is more than enough." the old headmaster stood up and looked around the hall, everyone had been listening closely, not interrupting the headmasters questioning. Now Dumbledore looked them over and smiled. "If you three don't mind I would like for the teachers to test you, to see at which level you are." The trio silently exchanged a look and Hermione talked.

"We'll think about it, sir." A brief look of regret passed the headmaster, they still didn't trust them much, but then he pushed it back, they had every right to be suspicious. He smiled sadly at them.

"Very well, tell me when you have decided. Now, if you excuse me, I need to go to the ministry to tell everyone young Mr Weasley is alive and to take a look at the death eaters you caught yesterday." He stood up and turned to Lupin.

"Remus, where are Mundungus and Arabella?"

"They went to search the forest this morning, they are looking for clues as to who put the imperious on Sirius." Dumbledore nodded and turned to Harry.

"Talking about Sirius. Could you go talk to him Harry? He has taken what happened last night very hard, he's nearly at the point of breaking." Harry looked at Dumbledore for some time, making the old man a little uncomfortable. "You don't have to if you don't want to, it's just..." Harry looked once again at his plate, who had now been filled with food.

"Don't worry, I was already planing on going." He could hear Lupin and Dumbledore sigh in relieve but decided to ignore it, centring all his attention on his breakfast. Dumbledore left the room and everyone started to eat in silence. After a while Harry finished and he bent over Ron.

"Do you mind if I go to Sirius now, Griffin?" The boy looked at him surprised.

"No, why do you ask?"

"Well, someone will have to help you to your room."

"Oh, don't worry, if Phoenix can't manage, I'm sure one of my brothers can help, I don't mind that much." Harry saw that was not really true, but let it slip. He nodded grateful at his friend, stood up and after giving Phoenix a quick hug he left the room, followed quietly by Remus. When they arrived at the hospital wing they saw Sirius was still sleeping in his bed, on the other laid Mrs Weasley with Madame Pomfrey fussing over her. The nurse looked up when they entered and smiled a little nervously at Harry, the boy didn't return the smile but nodded and then took a seat next to Sirius's bed.

To be continued...

Author's notes: Kind of pointless chapter, oh, well. Thanks for all reviews.