Chapter Seven
"Harry, come on mate, wake up. I'm hungry and they're having sticky buns. Neville said there great and he has already had three. Come on there's probably only enough left for me to have four or five unless we hurry," Ron said.
"Okay, Ron, I up," said Harry as he walked into the bathroom to get ready.
"Ten minutes later Harry and Ron made their way down to the Great Hall where they met up with Sarah and Hermione.
"Hey Sarah, Hermione, did you both sleep well?" Asked Harry.
"Yeah, those beds are so comfortable, and Hermione introduced me to Lavender and Parvati. They are both nice girls, but they talk too much. Other then that I think I get along great with all of the Gryffindor girls.
"Well what are we all taking today," Hermione asked everyone.
"I have Charms, Transfigurations, and Divination," said Ron
"I have Charms, Transfigurations, and Ancient Runes," said Sarah
"I have Charms, Transfigurations, and Potions," said Harry.
"Oh that's great, I have Charms, Transfiguration, and Potions too Harry," said Hermione.
"Hey are we still having the D.A meeting tonight at seven. The last time I talked to Ginny she said that everyone from last year is still interested," Said Ron.
"Yeah, but like I said, just because they were members last year does not mean they are excepted into this order. I don't want another mishap like we had last year," said Harry.
"Harry, Sarah told me about the charm you placed on that parchment that we you are using to see if people are worthy and trustworthy, where did you ever learn such a thing? I have never even heard of it before," said Hermione.
"Well lets say you are not the only one who reads any longer, the more magic I can learn means the stronger I can become," said Harry as they made their way to Charms.
"Well those two classes weren't that bad, and bloody hell Harry you got us thirty points towards Gryffindor for being the only one to be able to do the Disillusionment Charm on your first attempt. I mean where did you learn such a thing. Hermione couldn't even do it on her first try?" Said Ron.
"Yeah Harry, that was pretty advance magic you showed back there. I'm impressed Harry and glad that at least one of you boys finally started to listen to me. Maybe if you had Ron you could take Potions with Harry and I, and stead of going back to that old crackpot Trelawney. Don't get me wrong, what Umbridge did to her was awful, but can you believe Dumbeldore hired her back when he knows she is a fraud," Hermione said.
"Hermione, I would rather swim naked with the giant squid than go back into the dungeons with Snape breathing down my neck about stinking potions. Trust me I am better off with her then him any day of the week," Ron said earning him laughs from Harry and Sarah.
"Well, I certainly never crossed paths with Snape, but he doesn't seem to nice. I guess it is good that my whole family in incompetent when it comes to potion making," said Sarah.
"Well, we will see you guys at dinner then," said Harry as he and Hermione headed down into the dungeons.
"As Harry and Hermione walked into the potions classroom, Snape was giving Harry a scathingly look. "Potter, I don't know what they were thinking when they gave you a high enough score to get in my Newt level potions class, but one slip up from you and you will be out of here before you know it, is that clear?" Said Snape.
"Crystal," said Harry as he returned just as sour a look back at him.
"Okay, class we are going to be making a potion today that is used to make people and animals go blind temporarily. Just one drop can make you go blind for up to five minutes and a splash in your eyes can make you go blind for up to an hour. I suggest you all use caution in dealing with this potion, I would hate to see any of you go blind because of you incompetence," said Snape as he stood smirking towards Harry.
"Okay, bottle your potion and bring it up to the front for me to check," said Snape about forty-five minutes later.
"Harry having already learned how to do this potion from the book he took from the D.A room last year walked up to Snape's desk first. "Here Professor, I think you will find this meets your standards," said Harry.
Snape's eyes widened as he took the vial from Harry seeing as it was correct while the rest of the class besides Hermione and a few others where all terrible.
CRACK, "Oh I'm terribly sorry Potter, but your potion seemed to slip out of my hand and into the waste bucket, I'm afraid since you have already discarded the rest of your potions that this will have to go down as a zero. I am almost positive it was incorrect anyway," said Snape.
"But that's not fare Professor, Harry was done first and his potion looked exactly like what you said it should look like," cried Hermione.
"Silence Granger, when I want your input I will ask for it!" Said Snape.
"Don't worry Professor, here I have another vile in case you had an accident with my first one," said Harry as he pulled another vile of his potion from his robes and handed it to him.
"Fine Potter, full marks, now everyone out of my classroom," said Snape.
"Wow, Harry I wish I had been there when you did that. I bet Snape about blew a fuse. All most makes me wish I had done well enough in potions to have been there to see it," said Ron.
"Well, I tried to tell you," said Hermione.
" I said almost," said Ron.
"Hey enough you two, its time to head to the room of requirements for our first meeting," said Harry.
As the four of them walked into the room of requirements they were confronted with about twenty-seven people. Including Fred, George, and Angelina who had all left last year.
"Hey you guys, I didn't expect you all to be here, how did you get here anyway?" Asked Harry.
"You don't think we would miss your first meeting did you? Ron mailed us the charmed message you made extra for your order, and since we could read it we decided that we wanted to be in your order as well, and we took it to Angelina to see if she could see it to," said Fred.
"Okay, well that's great, but now I need to see if everyone else can see it to, so if you three don't mind would you keep everyone occupied while I pull someone out one at a time to see if they can read the parchment?" asked Harry.
"Sure thing, we have a few new inventions we were wanting to show off anyway," said George.
As Fred and George started demonstrating their new products, Harry went around pulling people one at a time out into the Hall and seeing if they could read the parchment with the message on it.
The first person Harry pulled out was Neville. "Okay Neville, if you can see something on this piece of parchment then please read it to me quietly, said Harry.
Neville quietly read off what was on the parchment to Harry then looked up at him after finishing. "Harry I would be honored to join your order. I am tired of people thinking I am weak, and I will fight with you to the death if that's what it takes," said Neville in a proud tone.
"Thank you Neville and I knew without a doubt that you would be able to read what was on the parchment after you showed you true self last year at the Ministry of Magic, and I am honored that you are in my group. Now if you would please go back inside and send out someone else without uttering a word of what when I out here I would be thankful,' said Harry.
"Of course," said Neville.
After about thirty minutes of this everyone present at the meeting tonight had come out and had their meeting with Harry where only two people had not been able to see anything. Harry politely told them that their would not be a D.A class this year, but if they still wanted to train privately to please feel free to ask at any time, and he would be more then happy to teach them anything he was able to teach them.
"Okay," Harry said as he addressed all of the people that had been able to read the parchment.
"As you all can tell this is no longer the D.A, but the Secret Order of The Phoenix. I am proud to see that all of who I thought would be here are, and I know in my heart that I can count on each and every one of you one hundred percent as well as you can on me. Now, seeing as this is now a secret order, remember what you have read, and that any leakage of information from anyone present will be met with consequences that could leave you quite confused as to what you have been doing for a while, but I am not worried of that happening. Now are there any questions any of you would like to ask at this time, The floor is open to anyone who would like to speak, said Harry.
"Yeah, will you still be teaching us defense techniques and attacks," asked Cho.
"When I said that this is now an order, I did not mean that we would still not train. Listen up everyone. I want you all to know that this order will be strenuous and will require a lot of work on everyone's part. We will decide responsibilities at another meeting, this one however; I would just like to explain how things are. Now, to your question Cho, that is what will take up a majority of our time in these meetings. It is my responsibility to all of you to make sure that when we all come face to face with a death eater that everyone will be able to hold their own. Trust me when I say that I have put several hours and am still currently doing so in going through countless books to find the best spells and curses to train you with," said Harry.
"Is there any other question?" Asked Harry.
"When will we meet?" Asked Ernie McMillan.
"We will all meet here in this room at seven o'clock on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. When quiditch picks up we will all meet very early in the mornings to accommodate everyone's quiditch schedules. Fred, George, and Angelina, I will meet with you once a week in Hogsmead to go over what happened in the week, but I expect you to be here every Friday so you do not fall behind on training with the order. I expect that you will train on the defense spells while you are on your own and are not at the meetings. I will be in a disguise when we meet so no one will recognize me so do not worry," said Harry.
"Is there any other questions?" asked Harry.
"No, well let me again tell you how appreciative I am that you have all excepted this, and believe me when I say that I hope we can obtain more members, but until then I again ask that not a word about this order to be spoken to anyone outside of this room, and until Wednesday I hope you all try to come up with ways to make this order better. Fred, George, and Angelina I will meet you all on Saturday at the Three Broom Sticks where I will be the guy with long black hair, blue eyes, and black robes that will have a silver tiger clasp that keeps my robes together. Be there at nine o'clock sharp that night where I will fill you in on what takes place here Wednesday. Until then I wish you all well," said Harry.
As everyone left the room of requirements everyone stopped and told Harry how proud the were to be excepted into his order, and that they would give him one hundred percent of their service as they already new that he would to them. This left Harry with a sense of accomplishment and knew that in a few months time his new order would be a force to be reckoned with.
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To answer a few more of everyone's inquiries. I did not want to spend ten chapters on everyone getting to know Sarah. I was afraid some people would think she was a little too quick to get close with Harry. So lets just say she had a crush on him before she even got there, and I tried to make it where she seemed unbashfull around him by putting in Sarah's little sister Cindy as being open and talking to Harry even though she didn't know him. Maybe that type of behavior runs in her family. I know you all didn't get to know Sarah before hand, but I can assure you she is not some super hero or has a dark side. She is just your average girl. I hope this chapter showed you that Harry is taking a stand and is really making headway in the battle towards Voldemort. Again I really appreciate the reviews, all of them. Please feel free to review and tale me something that is bothering you on this story, and I will try and fix or explain why I did what I did. I also will not update on the 12th, but I should have another chapter up on the 13th. Until then happy reading.
"Harry, come on mate, wake up. I'm hungry and they're having sticky buns. Neville said there great and he has already had three. Come on there's probably only enough left for me to have four or five unless we hurry," Ron said.
"Okay, Ron, I up," said Harry as he walked into the bathroom to get ready.
"Ten minutes later Harry and Ron made their way down to the Great Hall where they met up with Sarah and Hermione.
"Hey Sarah, Hermione, did you both sleep well?" Asked Harry.
"Yeah, those beds are so comfortable, and Hermione introduced me to Lavender and Parvati. They are both nice girls, but they talk too much. Other then that I think I get along great with all of the Gryffindor girls.
"Well what are we all taking today," Hermione asked everyone.
"I have Charms, Transfigurations, and Divination," said Ron
"I have Charms, Transfigurations, and Ancient Runes," said Sarah
"I have Charms, Transfigurations, and Potions," said Harry.
"Oh that's great, I have Charms, Transfiguration, and Potions too Harry," said Hermione.
"Hey are we still having the D.A meeting tonight at seven. The last time I talked to Ginny she said that everyone from last year is still interested," Said Ron.
"Yeah, but like I said, just because they were members last year does not mean they are excepted into this order. I don't want another mishap like we had last year," said Harry.
"Harry, Sarah told me about the charm you placed on that parchment that we you are using to see if people are worthy and trustworthy, where did you ever learn such a thing? I have never even heard of it before," said Hermione.
"Well lets say you are not the only one who reads any longer, the more magic I can learn means the stronger I can become," said Harry as they made their way to Charms.
"Well those two classes weren't that bad, and bloody hell Harry you got us thirty points towards Gryffindor for being the only one to be able to do the Disillusionment Charm on your first attempt. I mean where did you learn such a thing. Hermione couldn't even do it on her first try?" Said Ron.
"Yeah Harry, that was pretty advance magic you showed back there. I'm impressed Harry and glad that at least one of you boys finally started to listen to me. Maybe if you had Ron you could take Potions with Harry and I, and stead of going back to that old crackpot Trelawney. Don't get me wrong, what Umbridge did to her was awful, but can you believe Dumbeldore hired her back when he knows she is a fraud," Hermione said.
"Hermione, I would rather swim naked with the giant squid than go back into the dungeons with Snape breathing down my neck about stinking potions. Trust me I am better off with her then him any day of the week," Ron said earning him laughs from Harry and Sarah.
"Well, I certainly never crossed paths with Snape, but he doesn't seem to nice. I guess it is good that my whole family in incompetent when it comes to potion making," said Sarah.
"Well, we will see you guys at dinner then," said Harry as he and Hermione headed down into the dungeons.
"As Harry and Hermione walked into the potions classroom, Snape was giving Harry a scathingly look. "Potter, I don't know what they were thinking when they gave you a high enough score to get in my Newt level potions class, but one slip up from you and you will be out of here before you know it, is that clear?" Said Snape.
"Crystal," said Harry as he returned just as sour a look back at him.
"Okay, class we are going to be making a potion today that is used to make people and animals go blind temporarily. Just one drop can make you go blind for up to five minutes and a splash in your eyes can make you go blind for up to an hour. I suggest you all use caution in dealing with this potion, I would hate to see any of you go blind because of you incompetence," said Snape as he stood smirking towards Harry.
"Okay, bottle your potion and bring it up to the front for me to check," said Snape about forty-five minutes later.
"Harry having already learned how to do this potion from the book he took from the D.A room last year walked up to Snape's desk first. "Here Professor, I think you will find this meets your standards," said Harry.
Snape's eyes widened as he took the vial from Harry seeing as it was correct while the rest of the class besides Hermione and a few others where all terrible.
CRACK, "Oh I'm terribly sorry Potter, but your potion seemed to slip out of my hand and into the waste bucket, I'm afraid since you have already discarded the rest of your potions that this will have to go down as a zero. I am almost positive it was incorrect anyway," said Snape.
"But that's not fare Professor, Harry was done first and his potion looked exactly like what you said it should look like," cried Hermione.
"Silence Granger, when I want your input I will ask for it!" Said Snape.
"Don't worry Professor, here I have another vile in case you had an accident with my first one," said Harry as he pulled another vile of his potion from his robes and handed it to him.
"Fine Potter, full marks, now everyone out of my classroom," said Snape.
"Wow, Harry I wish I had been there when you did that. I bet Snape about blew a fuse. All most makes me wish I had done well enough in potions to have been there to see it," said Ron.
"Well, I tried to tell you," said Hermione.
" I said almost," said Ron.
"Hey enough you two, its time to head to the room of requirements for our first meeting," said Harry.
As the four of them walked into the room of requirements they were confronted with about twenty-seven people. Including Fred, George, and Angelina who had all left last year.
"Hey you guys, I didn't expect you all to be here, how did you get here anyway?" Asked Harry.
"You don't think we would miss your first meeting did you? Ron mailed us the charmed message you made extra for your order, and since we could read it we decided that we wanted to be in your order as well, and we took it to Angelina to see if she could see it to," said Fred.
"Okay, well that's great, but now I need to see if everyone else can see it to, so if you three don't mind would you keep everyone occupied while I pull someone out one at a time to see if they can read the parchment?" asked Harry.
"Sure thing, we have a few new inventions we were wanting to show off anyway," said George.
As Fred and George started demonstrating their new products, Harry went around pulling people one at a time out into the Hall and seeing if they could read the parchment with the message on it.
The first person Harry pulled out was Neville. "Okay Neville, if you can see something on this piece of parchment then please read it to me quietly, said Harry.
Neville quietly read off what was on the parchment to Harry then looked up at him after finishing. "Harry I would be honored to join your order. I am tired of people thinking I am weak, and I will fight with you to the death if that's what it takes," said Neville in a proud tone.
"Thank you Neville and I knew without a doubt that you would be able to read what was on the parchment after you showed you true self last year at the Ministry of Magic, and I am honored that you are in my group. Now if you would please go back inside and send out someone else without uttering a word of what when I out here I would be thankful,' said Harry.
"Of course," said Neville.
After about thirty minutes of this everyone present at the meeting tonight had come out and had their meeting with Harry where only two people had not been able to see anything. Harry politely told them that their would not be a D.A class this year, but if they still wanted to train privately to please feel free to ask at any time, and he would be more then happy to teach them anything he was able to teach them.
"Okay," Harry said as he addressed all of the people that had been able to read the parchment.
"As you all can tell this is no longer the D.A, but the Secret Order of The Phoenix. I am proud to see that all of who I thought would be here are, and I know in my heart that I can count on each and every one of you one hundred percent as well as you can on me. Now, seeing as this is now a secret order, remember what you have read, and that any leakage of information from anyone present will be met with consequences that could leave you quite confused as to what you have been doing for a while, but I am not worried of that happening. Now are there any questions any of you would like to ask at this time, The floor is open to anyone who would like to speak, said Harry.
"Yeah, will you still be teaching us defense techniques and attacks," asked Cho.
"When I said that this is now an order, I did not mean that we would still not train. Listen up everyone. I want you all to know that this order will be strenuous and will require a lot of work on everyone's part. We will decide responsibilities at another meeting, this one however; I would just like to explain how things are. Now, to your question Cho, that is what will take up a majority of our time in these meetings. It is my responsibility to all of you to make sure that when we all come face to face with a death eater that everyone will be able to hold their own. Trust me when I say that I have put several hours and am still currently doing so in going through countless books to find the best spells and curses to train you with," said Harry.
"Is there any other question?" Asked Harry.
"When will we meet?" Asked Ernie McMillan.
"We will all meet here in this room at seven o'clock on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. When quiditch picks up we will all meet very early in the mornings to accommodate everyone's quiditch schedules. Fred, George, and Angelina, I will meet with you once a week in Hogsmead to go over what happened in the week, but I expect you to be here every Friday so you do not fall behind on training with the order. I expect that you will train on the defense spells while you are on your own and are not at the meetings. I will be in a disguise when we meet so no one will recognize me so do not worry," said Harry.
"Is there any other questions?" asked Harry.
"No, well let me again tell you how appreciative I am that you have all excepted this, and believe me when I say that I hope we can obtain more members, but until then I again ask that not a word about this order to be spoken to anyone outside of this room, and until Wednesday I hope you all try to come up with ways to make this order better. Fred, George, and Angelina I will meet you all on Saturday at the Three Broom Sticks where I will be the guy with long black hair, blue eyes, and black robes that will have a silver tiger clasp that keeps my robes together. Be there at nine o'clock sharp that night where I will fill you in on what takes place here Wednesday. Until then I wish you all well," said Harry.
As everyone left the room of requirements everyone stopped and told Harry how proud the were to be excepted into his order, and that they would give him one hundred percent of their service as they already new that he would to them. This left Harry with a sense of accomplishment and knew that in a few months time his new order would be a force to be reckoned with.
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To answer a few more of everyone's inquiries. I did not want to spend ten chapters on everyone getting to know Sarah. I was afraid some people would think she was a little too quick to get close with Harry. So lets just say she had a crush on him before she even got there, and I tried to make it where she seemed unbashfull around him by putting in Sarah's little sister Cindy as being open and talking to Harry even though she didn't know him. Maybe that type of behavior runs in her family. I know you all didn't get to know Sarah before hand, but I can assure you she is not some super hero or has a dark side. She is just your average girl. I hope this chapter showed you that Harry is taking a stand and is really making headway in the battle towards Voldemort. Again I really appreciate the reviews, all of them. Please feel free to review and tale me something that is bothering you on this story, and I will try and fix or explain why I did what I did. I also will not update on the 12th, but I should have another chapter up on the 13th. Until then happy reading.