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More Than One Meeting
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Harry woke up very early the next day even though he had very little sleep. He went to the great hall immediately in search of Professor Snape and Headmaster Dumbledore.
Not many people were eating when Harry walked into the great hall. He looked up at the head table and saw only Dumbledore and a couple other teachers there.
Snape was not.
Harry ran up to the head table and came face to face with Albus.
"Where is Professor Snape?" Harry asked immediately and nervously.
"Calm down Mr. Potter. He is in the hospital wing but he is okay," Dumbledore said.
Harry ignored the rest of what the headmaster was saying and took off towards the hospital wing. He opened the doors and walked in to see Madame Pomphrey walking in the main room.
"Where is Professor Snape? I have to see him," Harry told the medi-witch.
"I'm sorry minister but Professor Snape is sleeping at the moment. You will have to come back a little later."
"Well is he okay?" Harry demanded.
"I am afraid he has been through quite an ordeal but yes, he will recover."
Madame Pomphrey shooed Harry out of the hospital wing and Harry found himself alone in the hallways. He decided to go to the great hall even though he wasn't really hungry. He wanted to see his friends. Sure enough sitting at the Gryffindor table were the bickering Ron and Hermione. He sat down and tried not to think about his professor in the hospital wing.
Two letters came for Harry brought by two different owls.
"Hey its Errol!" Ron exclaimed reaching out for the letter that the extremely old owl was carrying. Harry grinned when the owl dropped the letter Ron was reaching for on his lap and not on the red head sitting across form him.
"It must be for you Harry," Ron said with a hint of disappointment in his tone.
"I guess so Ron," Harry said taking a letter from another owl.
Harry opened the letter the Weasley's owl gave him and was overjoyed to see who it was from.
Minister Potter, Thank you for the offer of assistant minister. I accept gratefully and I promise to do the best job I can. I will see you at the meeting tonight where we can hopefully discuss certain things.
Regards,
Arthur Weasley
Harry smiled and handed the note to Ron. Ron went from being disappointed from not getting a letter from his family to shocked, surprised and happy.
"Merlin Harry! He's the new assistant minister?"
"What?" Hermione yelled. "Wow!"
Harry nodded. "Yeah. He gets 3 times as much money and an office 4 times as big as his old one."
Harry listened to Ron go on about how happy he was and how amazing it was while he opened the other letter from the unknown owl. He was wondering about what meeting Mr. Weasley was talking about in the letter but the second he opened the other letter he knew. It was a short three-sentence letter that was directly to the point.
Mr. Potter, There is an order meeting tonight at 8:00. Please stop worrying about Professor Snape. He will be fine.
Albus Dumbledore
Harry folded up the note and looked up at Dumbledore who had his eyes fixed on Harry. Harry gave a brisk nod and started to eat a little bit.
Classes went by smoothly. Snape wasn't in potions though. Sirius was his substitute He didn't really know much about the subject. The whole time he just insulted Snape. The Gryffindors laughed but the Slytherins glared. Harry didn't laugh though. He felt like Snape being in the hospital wing was his fault. He could've picked some other deatheater to stay behind but no. He picked Snape. Now Voldemort has probably caught the potions master as a spy. Harry had made a huge mistake.
Just as Sirius was calling Snape a greasy old bat with hair plugs the potions master came billowing in glaring hard at the substitute.
"I am not staying black," he spat.
He then went on to talk more to his childhood enemy but soon left through the back door.
At the end of class Sirius called Harry to stay back to talk to him.
"Harry what's wrong?" Sirius asked.
"Nothing," Harry lied.
"Harry, I know you well enough to know when something is bothering you. You can tell me anything you know?"
"Yeah I know. It's just that I think I made a really big mistake," Harry said sadly and continued to tell his godfather, who was more like a father to him, the story about what happened the night before and how Snape was there and how he got hurt from probably getting caught as a spy.
"Harry, I'm sorry," Sirius said after listening to his godson talk. "But everyone makes mistakes. Lets just pray to Merlin he wasn't caught."
"Sirius! I think he was caught and it is all my fault!" He yelled very loudly.
"Ahem," someone cleared their throat at the back of the room.
Harry and Sirius turned around dreading who it was and just like they thought, it was Severus Snape.
"Black can you leave so I can talk to Potter? Don't you have to be at your Defense Against the Dark Arts class?" Snape drawled.
Harry winced in nervousness as Sirius gave Harry a reassuring pat on the back and left the room leaving the dreadful potions master and Harry all alone.
Harry stood only 3 feet away from the man in black who was leaning on the desk for support. Neither said a word. After several minutes of silence Harry decided to speak.
"Professor I-"
"Potter, how did you know it was me last night?" Snape interrupted.
"I.erm..I heard someone talking to you about a potion and I just took a guess."
"Oh," he replied with no emotion showing on his face or sounding in his tone. There was another awkward silence but soon curiosity got the better of the young minister.
"Professor, what happened after we left?" he asked suddenly.
Snape sighed at remembering the horrible aftermath. He knew he should answer because even though he was talking to an "insufferable stupid Gryffindor," he was still the minister and technically his boss.
"After you left," Snape began a little less harsh than usual. "I ran to a group of deatheaters and told them that everyone had gotten away and stunned me. I didn't tell them who came to their rescue. Then they took Crabbe, Goyle and myself to Voldemort who then tortured us incredibly."
"Professor, I'm really sorry," Harry began sincerely. "I should've picked someone else to stay instead of you. I wasn't thinking I guess. Instead I picked you who could've been exposed as a spy or even killed."
Harry looked down at his feet. He couldn't bear to look at someone he put in grave danger just hours ago.
"Potter, even though it was very stupid it was probably the most logical choice." Snape hated himself for talking like this to the boy he hated so much. "You picked two idiotic morons and that was smart. Everyone else is not as dumb as them and would've been quite a challenge." Snape could not believe he was being slightly civil to the boy in front of him.
"I could've handled them. There were aurors all around."
"Potter will you just shut up for once!" Snape spat. "I'm fine. This isn't the only time I've gotten tortured. This IS another reason why I am a spy!"
The conversation ended there. Snape turned around to walk away when Harry said something that made him stop in his tracks.
"I'm sorry," Harry whispered.
The order meeting started instantly at 8:00. It was in a room next to Dumbledore's office. Harry got there 10 minutes ahead of time and Dumbledore guided him to the opposite head of the table. Dumbledore sat at the other side. People Harry recognized soon started filing in. Sirius gave Harry a quick hug and sat next to his godson. Lupin sat at the other side.
Harry and everyone else were quite shocked when Draco Malfoy walked in the room following Severus Snape and took a seat. No one knew that the son of a very powerful deatheater who was in Voldemort's inner circle and now in Azkaban was in the Order of Phoenix.
Arthur greeted Harry and asked to speak with him over tea after the meeting.
"I was going to ask you the same thing," Harry replied. "My room after the meeting then?"
Arthur nodded and took his seat.
When everyone was seated Dumbledore cleared his throat for a quiet room and began to talk.
"Welcome everyone. We have much news to discuss today and I would like to start things off by introducing the newest order member, Draco Malfoy."
Whispers washed through the room and everyone fixed there eyes on the evil deatheater's son. Dumbledore saw this and decided to continue.
"Mr. Malfoy is in no way involved with Luscius Malfoy or Voldemort.
The whispers died down.
"I would also like to mention four worthy candidates for the order. I think these people would be a great asset," Dumbledore announced and turned his gaze on Mr. and Mrs. Weasley.
"The four people are Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Ron Weasley and." Now Dumbledore turned to look at Harry. "Hermione Granger."
"No!" Mr. and Mrs. Weasley and Harry all yelled at once.
"I think it is a matter to discuss a little later," Dumbledore said calmly.
Harry didn't want his best friends in the order. No one else could die because of him. Well it wasn't necessarily him who was in charge of the order but he didn't want his friends to die. He remembered how he felt when he thought Sirius died and he couldn't imagine what it would be like without his greatest friends.
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A/N- Sorry I ended in the middle of the meeting. I unfortunately have to work on my other story that I should've update yesterday. Next chapter hopefully Thursday!
Did I spell Luscius right? How about Errol? Sorry if I didn't. How do you spell Luscius??
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More Than One Meeting
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Harry woke up very early the next day even though he had very little sleep. He went to the great hall immediately in search of Professor Snape and Headmaster Dumbledore.
Not many people were eating when Harry walked into the great hall. He looked up at the head table and saw only Dumbledore and a couple other teachers there.
Snape was not.
Harry ran up to the head table and came face to face with Albus.
"Where is Professor Snape?" Harry asked immediately and nervously.
"Calm down Mr. Potter. He is in the hospital wing but he is okay," Dumbledore said.
Harry ignored the rest of what the headmaster was saying and took off towards the hospital wing. He opened the doors and walked in to see Madame Pomphrey walking in the main room.
"Where is Professor Snape? I have to see him," Harry told the medi-witch.
"I'm sorry minister but Professor Snape is sleeping at the moment. You will have to come back a little later."
"Well is he okay?" Harry demanded.
"I am afraid he has been through quite an ordeal but yes, he will recover."
Madame Pomphrey shooed Harry out of the hospital wing and Harry found himself alone in the hallways. He decided to go to the great hall even though he wasn't really hungry. He wanted to see his friends. Sure enough sitting at the Gryffindor table were the bickering Ron and Hermione. He sat down and tried not to think about his professor in the hospital wing.
Two letters came for Harry brought by two different owls.
"Hey its Errol!" Ron exclaimed reaching out for the letter that the extremely old owl was carrying. Harry grinned when the owl dropped the letter Ron was reaching for on his lap and not on the red head sitting across form him.
"It must be for you Harry," Ron said with a hint of disappointment in his tone.
"I guess so Ron," Harry said taking a letter from another owl.
Harry opened the letter the Weasley's owl gave him and was overjoyed to see who it was from.
Minister Potter, Thank you for the offer of assistant minister. I accept gratefully and I promise to do the best job I can. I will see you at the meeting tonight where we can hopefully discuss certain things.
Regards,
Arthur Weasley
Harry smiled and handed the note to Ron. Ron went from being disappointed from not getting a letter from his family to shocked, surprised and happy.
"Merlin Harry! He's the new assistant minister?"
"What?" Hermione yelled. "Wow!"
Harry nodded. "Yeah. He gets 3 times as much money and an office 4 times as big as his old one."
Harry listened to Ron go on about how happy he was and how amazing it was while he opened the other letter from the unknown owl. He was wondering about what meeting Mr. Weasley was talking about in the letter but the second he opened the other letter he knew. It was a short three-sentence letter that was directly to the point.
Mr. Potter, There is an order meeting tonight at 8:00. Please stop worrying about Professor Snape. He will be fine.
Albus Dumbledore
Harry folded up the note and looked up at Dumbledore who had his eyes fixed on Harry. Harry gave a brisk nod and started to eat a little bit.
Classes went by smoothly. Snape wasn't in potions though. Sirius was his substitute He didn't really know much about the subject. The whole time he just insulted Snape. The Gryffindors laughed but the Slytherins glared. Harry didn't laugh though. He felt like Snape being in the hospital wing was his fault. He could've picked some other deatheater to stay behind but no. He picked Snape. Now Voldemort has probably caught the potions master as a spy. Harry had made a huge mistake.
Just as Sirius was calling Snape a greasy old bat with hair plugs the potions master came billowing in glaring hard at the substitute.
"I am not staying black," he spat.
He then went on to talk more to his childhood enemy but soon left through the back door.
At the end of class Sirius called Harry to stay back to talk to him.
"Harry what's wrong?" Sirius asked.
"Nothing," Harry lied.
"Harry, I know you well enough to know when something is bothering you. You can tell me anything you know?"
"Yeah I know. It's just that I think I made a really big mistake," Harry said sadly and continued to tell his godfather, who was more like a father to him, the story about what happened the night before and how Snape was there and how he got hurt from probably getting caught as a spy.
"Harry, I'm sorry," Sirius said after listening to his godson talk. "But everyone makes mistakes. Lets just pray to Merlin he wasn't caught."
"Sirius! I think he was caught and it is all my fault!" He yelled very loudly.
"Ahem," someone cleared their throat at the back of the room.
Harry and Sirius turned around dreading who it was and just like they thought, it was Severus Snape.
"Black can you leave so I can talk to Potter? Don't you have to be at your Defense Against the Dark Arts class?" Snape drawled.
Harry winced in nervousness as Sirius gave Harry a reassuring pat on the back and left the room leaving the dreadful potions master and Harry all alone.
Harry stood only 3 feet away from the man in black who was leaning on the desk for support. Neither said a word. After several minutes of silence Harry decided to speak.
"Professor I-"
"Potter, how did you know it was me last night?" Snape interrupted.
"I.erm..I heard someone talking to you about a potion and I just took a guess."
"Oh," he replied with no emotion showing on his face or sounding in his tone. There was another awkward silence but soon curiosity got the better of the young minister.
"Professor, what happened after we left?" he asked suddenly.
Snape sighed at remembering the horrible aftermath. He knew he should answer because even though he was talking to an "insufferable stupid Gryffindor," he was still the minister and technically his boss.
"After you left," Snape began a little less harsh than usual. "I ran to a group of deatheaters and told them that everyone had gotten away and stunned me. I didn't tell them who came to their rescue. Then they took Crabbe, Goyle and myself to Voldemort who then tortured us incredibly."
"Professor, I'm really sorry," Harry began sincerely. "I should've picked someone else to stay instead of you. I wasn't thinking I guess. Instead I picked you who could've been exposed as a spy or even killed."
Harry looked down at his feet. He couldn't bear to look at someone he put in grave danger just hours ago.
"Potter, even though it was very stupid it was probably the most logical choice." Snape hated himself for talking like this to the boy he hated so much. "You picked two idiotic morons and that was smart. Everyone else is not as dumb as them and would've been quite a challenge." Snape could not believe he was being slightly civil to the boy in front of him.
"I could've handled them. There were aurors all around."
"Potter will you just shut up for once!" Snape spat. "I'm fine. This isn't the only time I've gotten tortured. This IS another reason why I am a spy!"
The conversation ended there. Snape turned around to walk away when Harry said something that made him stop in his tracks.
"I'm sorry," Harry whispered.
The order meeting started instantly at 8:00. It was in a room next to Dumbledore's office. Harry got there 10 minutes ahead of time and Dumbledore guided him to the opposite head of the table. Dumbledore sat at the other side. People Harry recognized soon started filing in. Sirius gave Harry a quick hug and sat next to his godson. Lupin sat at the other side.
Harry and everyone else were quite shocked when Draco Malfoy walked in the room following Severus Snape and took a seat. No one knew that the son of a very powerful deatheater who was in Voldemort's inner circle and now in Azkaban was in the Order of Phoenix.
Arthur greeted Harry and asked to speak with him over tea after the meeting.
"I was going to ask you the same thing," Harry replied. "My room after the meeting then?"
Arthur nodded and took his seat.
When everyone was seated Dumbledore cleared his throat for a quiet room and began to talk.
"Welcome everyone. We have much news to discuss today and I would like to start things off by introducing the newest order member, Draco Malfoy."
Whispers washed through the room and everyone fixed there eyes on the evil deatheater's son. Dumbledore saw this and decided to continue.
"Mr. Malfoy is in no way involved with Luscius Malfoy or Voldemort.
The whispers died down.
"I would also like to mention four worthy candidates for the order. I think these people would be a great asset," Dumbledore announced and turned his gaze on Mr. and Mrs. Weasley.
"The four people are Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Ron Weasley and." Now Dumbledore turned to look at Harry. "Hermione Granger."
"No!" Mr. and Mrs. Weasley and Harry all yelled at once.
"I think it is a matter to discuss a little later," Dumbledore said calmly.
Harry didn't want his best friends in the order. No one else could die because of him. Well it wasn't necessarily him who was in charge of the order but he didn't want his friends to die. He remembered how he felt when he thought Sirius died and he couldn't imagine what it would be like without his greatest friends.
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A/N- Sorry I ended in the middle of the meeting. I unfortunately have to work on my other story that I should've update yesterday. Next chapter hopefully Thursday!
Did I spell Luscius right? How about Errol? Sorry if I didn't. How do you spell Luscius??
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