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A/N: Okay. I'm back for another round.
A/N2: DIE FUDGE!!!!!!!!! DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
A/N3: I have Fudge issues. Sorry 'bout that.
"I hate that man with a burning passion," said Cadance once Fudge had left the room. He went off to round up the Ministry Members that he had brought with him. They were still inspecting the castle.
"Yes, dear, we all know," said Albus Dumbledore.
"Can we go eat now?" asked Cadance.
"How can you think about your stomach at a time like this? Sirius escaped. Someone has to go find him," said Jen.
"Never mind about that," said Cadance. "I didn't eat anything before I left this morning and I'm starving."
"Why didn't you eat anything? You knew that we'd be gone for a while," said Charlie.
Cadance threw him the evil eye. Charlie, Cadance, and Jen walked down to the Great Hall for lunch. Dumbledore had stayed in his office to… do whatever it is that Headmasters do.
The Great Hall was now full. Jen walked over to the Gryffindor table and was quite surprised to find Sirius sitting at Harry's side near it. Cadance and Charlie went up to the Head Table and were talking quietly with Minerva McGonagall. Lunch was served and people started talking about the Quidditch Match scheduled for Saturday. It was Gryffindor vs. Slytherin. After lunch, Charlie left to go back to Romania. He had work the next day.
It wasn't until the end of dinner that night that Fudge walked into the Great Hall to loudly inform everyone that he had finished his inspection of the school. Cadance probably would have made some…unnecessary comment but Minerva kicked her under the table. He was just about to leave when the doors to the Great Hall opened and an out-of-breath man in a white Auror uniform came running in.
"Minister!" he exclaimed. "Death Eaters are attacking a little town outside of London!"
Everyone in the Hall was stunned. "Have Aurors been summoned?" asked Fudge.
"We've tried. We can't get a hold of enough that are on duty tonight to stop the Death Eaters," said the Auror.
"Then summon some that are off duty!" exclaimed Fudge. He and the Auror stormed out of the room. The Great Hall was in an uproar.
Minerva leaned into Cadance and whispered, "Hey Cadance. Do you still have your Auror's License?"
"Not any more. I gave it up when I started teaching. Do you?" replied Cadance.
"I gave it up, too," said Minerva.
Cadance and Minerva looked at each other for a second. Then they got up and rushed out of the hall.
"Where are they going?" asked Snape absent-mindedly.
Trelawny was sitting next to him. "I foresee nothing good coming from this." Snape rolled his eyes. Dumbledore had gotten up and followed the two teachers out of the Hall.
Cadance and Minerva caught up with Fudge. "Ms. Dumbledore," said Fudge. "Please. No wise-cracks."
"Chill, Fudge," said Cadance. "We're here to help. We're offering our services." Dumbledore came up at this point (Pretty fast for an old guy, huh?).
"What are you waiting for!" exclaimed Fudge. "Get to Hogsmeade and Apparate!"
Cadance and Minerva ran off. Dumbledore kept Fudge back a second. "If anything happens to either of them, I'm holding you responsible," he said. Fudge stared at him blankly. "You do realize that neither of them have an Auror's license, don't you?" He just got another blank stare in return.
Cadance and Minerva Apparated to the Death Eaters. There were only about ten Aurors there. There were about fifty Death Eaters. They spotted Arabella Figg running up to them.
"What are you doing here?" she asked as she blocked some spells.
"We came to help," said Minerva. Cadance threw a couple of fireballs. Only a few Death Eaters were fighting back. The others were going in and out of houses, blowing things up, and setting fire to things.
"They're looking for something," said Cadance. She threw a few more fireballs. One of them hit the Death Eater's robe. It caught on fire. "Oops," said Cadance as they watched the other Death Eaters try to put out the fire.
Minerva put her hands in front of her with her palms up. She concentrated on the Death Eaters. Some of them were flung backwards and landed with a thud. Cadance froze some Death Eaters, but the others were either moving too fast or blocking them.
Then, in the sky appeared something that struck fear into the hearts of all Aurors present: The Dark Mark. The Death Eaters saw it. Some of them turned to the Aurors and fired a few last spells before they Apparated out. Even though their hoods were up, they Aurors could see their smirks. The remaining Death Eaters Apparated out.
The Dark Mark had been blasted above a small house tucked back in the corner of the street. Cadance, Minerva, and Arabella went to investigate it. They opened the door to the house. They knew what they would find before they found it. On the floor were a man and woman. Both were dead. "The McRohans," said Minerva when she saw them.
"Why did the Death Eaters tear the town apart and only kill them?" asked Cadance.
"I don't know," said Minerva. "We better get someone from St. Mungo's in here." She retreated out the door and Cadance followed. Arabella stood there for a second. She had gone to school with the McRohans. She followed Minerva and Cadance out the door. Cadance and Minerva spent only as much time as necessary in the little town before they left. Fortunately, the town's occupants were all witches and wizards, so no memory erasing had to be done.
Cadance and Minerva Apparated to Hogwarts and went immediately to Dumbledore's office. They walked in to find him at his desk. He immediately stood up. "What took so long?" he asked. "I was beginning to get worried."
Cadance looked at her watch. "We were gone for a half-an-hour," she said.
"What happened?" asked Dumbledore.
"They killed the McRohans," said Minerva.
"That's two more Aurors gone," said Dumbledore.
"Do you think that's why they killed them? Because they were Aurors?" asked Minerva.
"There were ten Aurors plus us attacking them. They could have taken out any of us instead. No. They weren't just looking for Aurors," said Cadance. "They wanted something else."
"We just have to find out what they wanted," said Dumbledore.
Just then, the door opened and Remus Lupin walked in. "Did you hear?" he asked. "Sirius escaped!"
Dumbledore turned to Cadance. "You forgot to tell Remus?" he asked.
"Oops," said Cadance.
"What's going on?" asked Remus.
"I might have killed Fudge and set loose all the prisoners of Azkaban," said Cadance.
"You didn't!" exclaimed Remus, with a look of horror on his face.
"Yeah, you're right. I didn't," said Cadance. "I just wanted to see if you'd fall for it."
"What really happened?" asked Remus.
"Oh nothing really," said Cadance. "Me 'n Charlie Weasley snuck into Azkaban and let Sirius out."
"How?"
"Long story," said Cadance.
"Where is he?" asked Remus.
Minerva and Cadance looked at each other then shrugged. "We haven't been here for the past half-hour," answered Cadance.
"Where were you?" asked Remus.
"I'll fill you in later. We're going to have a meeting of the Order tomorrow night," said Dumbledore.
* * *
"Welcome back, Order members," said Dumbledore to the Order the next night. Snape was the only member missing. "As you probably notice. One of our members has rejoined us."
"Yes," said Nicholas Flamel. "But how?"
"Out of all the people in this room," said Sirius. "Who would you think would be most involved?"
"Either Cadance and Charlie," said Arthur Weasley looking thoughtful, "or Remus."
"It was Cadance and Charlie," said Sirius. "And let's just leave it at that."
"We're too predictable," said Charlie to Cadance. "The next time there's an emergency, we're going to sit back and do nothing."
"Especially if it involves Dementors," said Cadance. "I still have chills from being in Azkaban."
"Next order of business," said Dumbledore, cutting off the conversation, "is to discuss our Death Eater issues."
"We don't have issues. The Death Eaters are the ones with the issues," said Cadance.
"We need to have more protection around the castle," said Cadance.
"And the Ministry needs more Aurors," said Arabella.
"What good are they going to be if Fudge doesn't believe the Voldemort is back?" asked Perenelle Flamel.
"I'll talk to the seventh years, anyway" said Dumbledore. "At the end of the year, maybe some of them will consider getting their Auror's license once they are out of school."
"It might be too late by then," said Cadance.
"Do you have any suggestions?" asked Arabella.
"No," said Cadance.
"Wow. That's a first. You don't have any dangerous, stupid ideas," said Sirius.
Cadance glared at him.
"Well, I have a two suggestions," said Minerva.
Everyone looked at her and she continued, "First, I'm sure that there are some Ministry Members who would get an Auror's license and do both jobs. The Aurors are only called when they're needed. It'll be easy to do both. I'll get my Auror's license again, too."
"I will, too," said Cadance.
"It'll be hard for you two to hold both jobs and teach," said Dumbledore.
"No it won't. Death Eaters may be evil but they're not stupid. They'll only attack at night," said Minerva. "We could hold both jobs easily."
"Mild-mannered teachers by day, forces of good by night," said Cadance. "I like it."
"Mild-mannered. That's a good one," said Charlie.
Cadance kicked him under the table.
"What's your other suggestion, Minerva?" asked Remus Lupin.
"I suggest asking the American Ministry for help," said Minerva.
"Damn Yanks. They butchered the English language, ruined gallons of tea, and always enter every war late," growled Moody. (A/N: Don't flame me!!!! I'm proud to be an America! But you have to remember, Moody's… eccentric, for lack of a better word).
"Well those 'Damn Yanks' might just be able to help," said Minerva.
"How come you're allowed to swear but when I swear you tell me to watch my language?" asked Cadance.
Minerva just rolled her eyes (along with quite a few other people).
"I think Minerva's right," said Dumbledore. "I think that we're going to have to get some help. If Voldemort continues to gain power, what's going to stop him from taking over the rest of the world?"
"Us," said Arabella Figg. "That's what we're here for, isn't it?"
"But we're not meant to defeat Voldemort," said Cadance. "The heir of Gryffindor is meant to seek revenge on the heir of Slytherin. It's written in the stars… or so the centaurs say."
"But Harry's not powerful enough to vanquish Voldemort," said Sirius. "No without… oh no. Cadance please tell me you didn't."
"I didn't," said Cadance.
"Thank god," said Sirius.
"You do realize I'm lying, don't you?" asked Cadance.
"Yeah," said Sirius. "Give me a minute. I'm still in denial."
"What did you do this time, Cadance," said Minerva.
"I got the Crystal of Gryffindor," said Cadance proudly.
"And what did you do with it?" asked Remus although he and everyone else present knew exactly what she did with it.
"I gave it to Harry," she said.
"Where did you find it?" asked Nicholas Flamel.
"Godric's Hollow," said Cadance. "At Harry's parent's house… Oh my god."
"What?" asked Dumbledore.
"I think I just figured out why the Death Eaters were looking for the McRohans," said Cadance.
"Why?" asked Moody.
"Think of who Voldemort specifically went after and killed. The Prewetts. The McKinnons. The Bones. My parents. Harry's parents. My grandparents. Harry's grandparents. Sirius's parents. Remus's parents. What do they all have in common?"
"They were all Aurors," said Arabella.
"I thought that we already established that that wasn't the reason Voldemort sent Death Eaters to kill," said Minerva.
"They all lived in Godric's Hollow!" exclaimed Cadance. "The McRohans lived in Godric's Hollow before Voldemort lost power. And Arabella's partially right. Everyone in Godric's Hollow was an Auror. Of course, a good portion of the Wizarding population was an Auror."
"Why would Voldemort target those who live in Godric's Hollow?" asked Moody.
"He knows that the heir of Gryffindor lived there. He doesn't know that Harry is the heir of Gryffindor. It's the heir of Gryffindor's destiny to destroy the heir of Slytherin. If he doesn't, then maybe nobody can," said Cadance.
"Why doesn't the Book of Light say that the heir of Gryffindor is supposed to vanquish the heir of Slytherin?" asked Minerva.
"It does. There's a section on Slytherin and it mentions the heir of Slytherin and the heir of Gryffindor," said Cadance. "There's a whole section devoted to the Crystal of Gryffindor as well. And I suppose I should tell you that I had Harry read it so he knows that he has the Crystal of Gryffindor."
"Does he know that he's the heir of Gryffindor?" asked Sirius.
"All he has to do is put two and two together. But it seems that he's not so good at math or he would have said something."
