Disclaimer: I don't own anything that you recognize as someone else's. Charmed owns the Book of Shadows, too but in this story it's not a good book.

A/N: Leo's Hot!

A/N2: Okay, There is a line in here that was based on one from The Fellowship of the Ring. Obviously, J.R.R. Tolkien owns that line. There's also a joke in here that I heard in The Flower and the Stag by Starfishy (READ IT!).

To Bill Weasley: I see someone watches Charmed. Yeah, I don't think that Harry's going to get any powers naturally. I don't think that any of our Sorceress/Sorcerer friends are going to have the power to heal because Phoenix tears are natural healers and Cadance is a Phoenix Animagus. I have plans for Harry's future that don't involve powers though… you'll just have to wait and see! Thanks for your review. I might put up a Charmed story soon. Check it out later.

After Dumbledore's speech, everyone went back to their House Common Room to get ready for the meeting at three o'clock. Generally, everyone was in a bad mood. They had gotten no sleep and they were hungry. Fred and George did their best to make everyone laugh by telling jokes.

"Okay," said Fred. "There were idiots sitting in front of a fence. They had to get to the other side. How did they do it?"

"They went over," said Jen. She was the only one listening, besides George.

"Nope. Too high."

"Under?"

"Nope. The fence touched the ground."

"I don't know. I give up."

"Yeah, so did the other idiot." That resulted in Fred getting chased around the Common Room by Jen until she finally realized it wasn't worth it and started to play Wizards Chess with Ginny.

"Hey, Fred," said George. "Where do you look to find an ugly person?"

"I don't know. Where?" asked Fred.

"Well, I don't know where I find an ugly person, but you see one when you look in the mirror."

"You do realize that you're identical twins don't you?" asked Harry who was watching Jen and Ginny play chess.

"Damn," said George.

At lunchtime, everyone trudged down to the Great Hall. There was an extremely large table up next to the Head Table. Everyone assumed that it was for Fudge and the other ministry members and they were right. Also, there were two extra places set at the Head Table. They found out what that was about when Bill and Charlie Weasley showed up. Everyone assumed that they were there for the meeting. They were right again. During lunch, nobody talked much (with the exception of Bill, Charlie, and Cadance who were talking quietly at the Head Table).

After lunch the students left the Great Hall and loafed around until 3 o'clock. They walked down to the Great Hall with a little less lethargy than they had before. They wanted to see which teacher would lose patience with Fudge first. Bets were going around. So far, McGonagall was up in the polls but Cadance wasn't far behind. Not one student was missing from the meeting, even though it was optional that they were there. There were about 25 ministry members plus Fudge present. Among the ones that Harry recognized was Arthur Weasley, Remus Lupin (and Sirius in dog form), Macnair the executioner for Dangerous Creatures, and Amos Diggory, not to mention various other Aurors from last night.

When everyone was settled, Fudge began, "I know you are all worried as a result of last night's attack, but I assure you once more: Voldemort is not back." This was met by furious yells from ministry members, teachers, and students alike. Dumbledore alone remained silent, though there was a look of fire behind his normally bright blue eyes. Cadance and Professor McGonagall were perhaps the angriest of all (you would be too if you jumped out of a window into an icy cold lake and some moron is still trying to tell you that Voldemort is not back!). Fudge continued, "I don't know why the Death Eaters are active again, but I assure you that Voldemort is not behind it." More angry yells. "Voldemort has been dead for fourteen years."

Now Cadance lost it. Jumping to her feet, she said, "You're a fool, Cornelius Fudge. You've always been one and you'll always be one."

"Voldemort is dead," reiterated Fudge.

"He who has a heart of stone is not truly alive and cannot die," recited Cadance.

"What?" asked Fudge.

"Look," said Cadance mainly to the ministry members. "I don't know some of you half as well as I should and some of you I like less than half than you realize." McGonagall had to purse her lips to keep from laughing and some ministry members (the ones she was talking about mostly) had to think to try to sort out if it was an insult or a compliment. Dumbledore rolled his eyes. "But I know witches and wizards and I know that none of you believe that Voldemort isn't back." A murmur of agreement went up among most of the people present in the room.

"Sit down, Ms. Dumbledore. You've never been able to keep your comments to yourself," said Fudge.

"You've never been a good minister," said Cadance.

"Cadance," warned her uncle.

"Can we get back to the meeting?" asked McGonagall. Cadance stuck her tongue out at Fudge, but that was the end of their verbal argument… for now.

"Cornelius," said Dumbledore. "What will it take for you to believe us?"

"I want proof," said Fudge. Just then, three ministry members got up and walked silently out of the room. A few people raised their eyebrows but most ignored them. Then, a few ministry members who were almost, but not quite, as bad at keeping their comments to themselves as Cadance started arguing with Fudge about proof.

Then there was a sound in the back of the room and in a swirl of black light, there were twenty-five Death Eaters standing there.

"Don't they ever get sick of attacking people?" asked McGonagall quietly

"How…" Fudge trailed off. "You can't apparate in or out of Hogwarts."

"They didn't apparate… they blinked. And they aren't just any Death Eaters… they're Dark Lighters." said Cadance. (A/N: My Dark Lighters are a bit different from the Dark Lighters of Charmed)

"Very good, Ms. Dumbledore," said one.

Jen Dumbledore looked up towards Cadance and mouthed, "What's a Dark Lighter?"

Cadance looked at her and mouthed, "Later." So Jen turned to Hermione and asked her. She didn't know. Jen didn't bother to ask anyone else. If Hermione didn't know, then nobody else would.

"Now," said another Death Eater/Dark Lighter, "Time to get down to business. I have a proposition that you might find very interesting, Cadance."

"I don't make deals with Death Eaters," said Cadance.

"You might," said the Death Eater. He pulled something out of his bag. It was a book. "You might for the Book of Light."

Jen's eyes narrowed at the Death Eaters. Cadance looked at her and shook her head. Jen gave her a funny look. Cadance turned to the Death Eaters. "No. There will be no deal."

"Don't you want your sacred book back?" asked the Death Eater.

"But I already have it. You, however, do not," said Cadance. She stuck out her hand and the book came flying towards her. She grabbed it out of thin air and opened it up. It was not the Book of Light. "See?" she said showing the book to the Death Eaters. "Decoy." She reached down to the bag that was at her feet and pulled out a book. It was the Book of Light. "Now, I believe there is a spell to destroy Dark Lighters in here. Do you want to wait around to find out?"

"The Order will fail!" called out a Dark Lighter. Then, there was a swirl of black light again and in an instant the Death Eaters were gone again.

"You know what Fudge? You're right. The Dark Lord isn't back. And what just happened? That didn't have anything to do with Voldemort. I was so stupid to believe that," said Cadance quite sarcastically.

"That's enough sarcasm, Cadance," said Dumbledore.

"Isn't that enough proof, Fudge?" asked a ministry member.

"No," said Fudge. "That is just proof that Mr. Potter down there isn't the only one with enemies on the Dark Side." Harry rolled his eyes. "As far as I'm concerned, this meeting is over. Everyone's dismissed." Nobody moved.

Dumbledore stood up. "Would all students please go back to your dormitories?" All of the students got up and walked silently back to their Common Rooms.

When they had all left Fudge turned to Dumbledore. "I'll be back here on Saturday. We'll have a meeting then… without the students. And the teachers." He looked at Cadance then, who was standing behind her uncle. She smiled sweetly at him. Fudge rolled his eyes.

"Fine, Cornelius," said Dumbledore. Then, he turned to Cadance and Jen. "I need to speak with the two of you." He picked up the decoy book and Cadance grabbed the Book of Light.

"You have a nice day, Fudge," said Cadance to him. They walked out of the Great Hall (leaving Fudge to deal with angry ministry members plus Bill and Charlie Weasley) and into Professor McGonagall's office, since it was closest.

"This book is no ordinary book," began Dumbledore when the door had closed. He tapped the cover of the decoy book. "This is the evil counterpart to the Book of Light."

"The Book of Shadows," said Cadance.

"You know?" said her uncle.

"Of course. For almost every spell there is in the Book of Light, there is an evil counter to it in the Book of Shadows not to mention various other spells, potions, etc." said Cadance.

"I don't get it?" said Minerva.

"If there's a truth potion in this the Book of Light, then there is a stronger truth potion in the Book of Shadows, or there's a potion to block it or something like that. Or if there's a spell on how to vanquish a demon in the Book of Light, then there's a spell to bring it back in the Book of Shadows," said Cadance.

"So, Cadance just took a valuable weapon off of the enemy?" asked Minerva.

"Basically," said Dumbledore.

"Should Jen know about this?" asked Minerva.

"Oh, that's right. I have to bolt. I told Jen that I'd tell her what a Dark Lighter was," said Cadance.

"Don't tell her about the Book of Shadows just yet," said Dumbledore. "Tell the Gryffindors that there will be another Hogsmeade trip this Saturday. It will be open to all students. I want to get as many of them out of the castle as possible while Fudge is here on Saturday."

"Right," said Cadance. "I'll leave the Book of Light here." She walked out of the room and up to Gryffindor Tower.

She gave the password and walked into the overly crowded Common Room. All of Gryffindor was there, which usually only happened during parties. Usually there were a couple people in their room or in the library or something. Everyone was crowded around a very haggard-looking Remus Lupin (and, of course, "Snuffles" was sitting next to Harry).

"I don't know anything," said Remus to the Gryffindors.

"No arguments here," said Cadance. "Run Remus. I'll hold them off."

"I'm forever in your debt," said Remus. "Bye, everyone. C'mon, Snuffles." Sirius barked ("Awwww, how cute!" said Lavender Brown). "Okay, okay. Stay here. I don't care."

"I'll make sure he goes home before he bites Snape," whispered Cadance to Remus as he passed her to walk out of the portrait hole. He nodded then continued on to Hogsmeade (out of bounds… you can apparate/disapparate there).

"All right, all right," said Cadance. "What were you bugging Remus about?"

"Oh, c'mon Cadance. You aren't that dense. You know what we were talking about," said Jen.

"Only you could get away with calling me dense, you know that?" she said. "Okay. So what did you want to know? About Fudge's stupidity or the Dark Lighters? I'm an expert on both."

"Dark Lighters," said Fred. "We're pretty much up-to-date about Fudge's stupidity." Everyone sat on a couch or a chair or on the floor and Cadance began.

"Dark Lighters… hmmm… where should I begin? They're big, they're stupid and they're like the Wood Elves in Lord of the Rings," said Cadance.

"What?" said George.

"Lord of the Rings," said Jen. "It's only the best muggle-book out there!" (A/N: and it's a pretty damn good movie)

"Never mind," said Cadance. "They have bows and arrows with a tip that is deadly to White Lighters. And they can sword fight. They can orb, which is like apparating only you have that black light that you saw…"

"Back it up," said Harry. "What's a White Lighter?"

"It's like a Guardian Angel for witches and wizards. They have the power to heal people. But it doesn't work on dead people," said Hermione.

"You know what a White Lighter is but you don't know what a Dark Lighter is?" said Jen. Hermione shrugged.

"She's right, though," said Cadance. "And, most of the time, you don't know when someone's a White Lighter. They are people who have died. They choose who get to become White Lighters when they die."

"They?" asked someone. "Who is 'they'?"

"I have no idea," said Cadance. "Every White Lighter I've every known always referred to them as 'they' or 'them'. They don't have a name. Well… I know it's a Council of White Lighters. But it's not like I've ever been up there…" she looked up, "to meet them. The only way up is to have a White Lighter orb you up. Only White Lighters can orb up. They orb like Dark Lighters, only it's white (obviously). They are mortal enemies of Dark Lighters."

"When they said, 'The Order will fail', what did they mean?" asked someone.

"They were talking about the Order of the Phoenix… I shouldn't have told you that. You didn't hear it from me! All I'll tell you about the Order is that they battle Death Eaters and they don't get paid like Aurors to do it. It is a secret Order."

"So why did they mention it to you?" asked George.

"I have no idea," lied Cadance.

"Back on subject. Dark Lighters were once White Lighters except they went bad. Lord Voldemort ("Don't say that name!") got them all on his side, which makes all Dark Lighters Death Eaters."

"What did those Dark Lighters want?" asked Ginny.

"They wanted a certain book of spells," said Cadance. "But that doesn't matter. You don't have to worry about it… well, Jen does. But no one else does. Anyway, I'm supposed to tell you that there is going to be a Hogsmeade trip this weekend," she paused dramatically, "open to all students who wish to come." This was greeted by cheers from first and second years who had never set foot in the village of Hogsmeade. "All right," said Cadance. "Go do your homework or play chess or play pranks or whatever it is you do in your spare time. I'm leaving." She walked out of the room. Fred and George Weasley decided that they would for once take the advice of a teacher… they went off to the corner to scheme up pranks. Hermione and Jen went to the library (Hermione to study, Jen to get absorbed in Lord of the Rings for the ump-teenth time). Ginny went up to her room. Most people dispersed up to their rooms or out of the Common Room (because Fred and George Weasley were thinking up pranks and they didn't want to get in the way). Harry, Ron, and Sirius went up the boy's fifth year dorm. It was empty. They took out the Marauder's Map so that they could make sure that no one was coming and Sirius transformed.

"Hello, Sirius," said Ron.

"Hey, Sirius," said Harry.

"Hi," said Sirius. "So… anything eventful happen?"

"Are you serious?" asked Harry.

"That's my name, don't wear it out," said Sirius.

"No," said Ron. "He means, where have you been? There have been plenty of eventful things happening around here."

"I mean besides that? Any more Dark Marks?" asked Sirius.

"No," said Harry. "And I went to Dumbledore."

"I know. He wrote to me and Remus."

"Hermione is coming," said Ron. He had been watching the map.

"She can come," said Sirius. The door opened and in walked Hermione.

"Hey, Sirius," she said.

"Hello, Hermione," said Sirius.

"Ron, did you take my Transfiguration essay?" asked Hermione.

"I wasn't copying it. I was only borrowing ideas," said Ron.

"Well, I wasn't finished," said Hermione.

"You shouldn't have left it sitting out if you didn't want me to borrow it."

"It was in my Transfiguration book!"

"Oh, c'mon Hermione!"

"Oh, fine. But I need it now because I have to finish it."

"It's downstairs. C'mon," said Ron and he walked out of the dorm and downstairs with Hermione at his heels. Sirius and Harry looked at each other and shook their heads.

"Listen Harry, about this Hogsmeade visit…" Sirius began.

"I know. You want me to be careful," said Harry.

"Well, I'm only trying to fulfill my duties as a godfather," said Sirius.

"You're doing a good job," said Harry.

"I try."

They were interrupted by a knock on the door. Sirius turned into a dog and Harry opened the door. It was Jen.

"Guess what!" she exclaimed."You'll never guess what Hermione and Ron are doing."

Sirius barked as if to say, "Let's go be nosy."

Harry and Sirius followed Jen to the library. Harry's jaw dropped at what he saw. Hermione and Ron were sitting at a table… kissing. Sirius barked and Hermione and Ron broke away to look at them.

"I don't even want to know," said Harry grinning. He walked out of the library (and most likely back to Gryffindor Tower to tell everyone). Sirius followed.

Hermione and Ron went back to kissing. "You know, I don't think anyone can study with you two snogging," said Jen.

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