Chapter 6

The Order of Griffins

After leaving the kitchen and smiling as he passed the disillusioned entrance hall, a very satisfied Harry Potter headed up the stairs to the room that he and Ron shared the previous year, hoping that both Hermoine and Ginny will be there as well. Stopping in the doorway he noticed three very confused teens talking to each other!

(A/N As of from this chapter. Hermoine: "Speaks" Ginny: "Speaks" Ron "Speaks" Harry (Speaks")

I'm telling you Mom didn't mention anything about the entire house being redecorated and besides you can still smell the fresh paint!

Then please explain the changes. Some one had to do it all it's not as if the house decided to get a redo itself all on its own you know!

You two stop bickering I'm sure there is a perfectly logical explanation for all of this.

Hermoine's right Ron lets jus wait till the meeting adjures then we can ask mom about it.

Deciding to let them know of his presence he interrupted the little argument "Sorry Ginny but your mother wont know anything about it. It will be as much a surprise to her as it was to you," He said stepping into the room, only to find himself staring down the ends of three wands pointed at him.

"You can put those away you won't be needing them. At least you still remember what I taught you last year in the DA," He continued into the room completely unfazed by their wands still pointing at him. He settled himself into one of the comfortable pair of chairs that stood at the chessboard.

After recovering from the shock when Harry reintroduced himself to them, Ginny took a seat in the chair across of him while Ron and Hemoine settled on the bed.

After giving them a quick rundown of what happened during the summer, ending the explanation with the fight down in the kitchen, it was needles to say that there was three very amazed teens in the room openly staring at him in wonder.

The first to recover was the ever-practical Hermione, asking the one thing running through all of their minds at the moment - whether Harry had managed to disable the entire order without being caught, claiming that he had to have used extremely advanced magic to do so. After reassuring her that he had used only three spells, namely Stupefy, Expelioarmus and Protego, Hermione settled.

He went on to tell them about his intentions on starting his own order. He wasn't at all surprised to see that all three of them were very eager to join, explaining to them that they would finish the arrangements tomorrow morning. He informed Ron that the room they were currently using belonged to him and directing Hermione to the room across from Ron's informing her that it was all hers.

Asking Ginny to follow him up to the next floor, he appointed her the room next to his own. Just as he was going to enter his room her voice held him back. Turning around to face her and intending to decline her offer to go and sit with her before he retired to bed. But he thought better of it and rather proposed that they use his room instead.

Ginny left Harry's room when the order meeting broke up, which was a good three hours later. Removing the Manticore hide clothing and looking at his improved physique in the mirror his thoughts drifted to a certain girl in the room next door and what she would look like wearing nothing but her underwear? What was he thinking?! Ron would still try and kill him if he knew that he was thinking of his sister in that way! Although, the chances of him winning that fight were pretty slim. Deciding that if he was to get any sleep at all during the remainder of the night, he was going to need a VERY cold shower at the least!

But after finishing his shower it didn't look as if Harry was destined to receive any sleep. For sitting or should I rather say crouching on the bed was none other than Gunther the Griffin.



Meanwhile in the room next door a certain redhead wasn't having any better luck in going to sleep either. She just couldn't get the image of the new improved Harry out of her mind. She definitely approved of the changes, he looked good enough to eat in those clothes and the rebelliousness of his now longer hair together with the tattoo and earring completed the picture of a Rogue Warrior, who was prepared to go to any length to defeat Voldemort.

She know longer had that stupid crush on the Boy-Who-Lived. But rather it had developed into a much deeper feeling for the man behind the legend! Hopefully he was developing the same feelings for her she thought. It seemed like that in their letters to each other over the summer for he was definitively flirting with her, and tonight he actually talked to her as a friend and companion, not only as a mere acquaintance or the sister of his best friend. Rolling on to her side with a satisfied smile on her face, Ginny Weasley closed her eyes and tried to go to sleep again, dreaming of a green-eyed man.

One flight down there was another Weasley thinking about the changes of his friend. Smiling to himself, he thought that this would prove to be an interesting year. With Harry starting his Order of Griffins and the training they would almost certainly receive, not to mention that he might finally work up the courage to ask Hermione out he looked forward to the coming year. Closing his eyes he mumbled something of Gryffindor's are brave and went to sleep.

In the room across from him, Hermione was thinking the exact same thing only deciding that if Ron didn't ask her by Christmas, she would take the plunge and ask him out herself. Going over the events of the day she also closed her eye's and went to sleep.

Moving around his circular office having just returned from the meeting, Albus Dumbledore was thinking over the changes that he had witnessed in Harry Potter. He found the transformations that the boy had undergone very interesting, and for the first time since Voldomort's resurrection he felt some of the weight lift from his shoulders. Smiling, he decided that he wasn't going to stop Harry in forming his own Order, but rather help him and supply him with all the information he could. It was time for a new generation to protect the magical community and he couldn't think of any one better than Harry to head this cause.

Entering his private quarters neighboring his office, he got ready for bed and went to sleep, with a smile on his face, thinking that tomorrow he would help Harry to organize his Order and help him to organize forces for the upcoming war.



Unbeknownst to him, Harry Potter didn't need any assistance in forming his order or procuring forces for the war.

Greeting Gunther as he left the bathroom, he took a seat in the Emerald green couch facing the bed.

After two hours of discussion about whom Harry wanted in his Order and for what reason he wanted them there, Harry's list ended up something like this:

Ron as Strategist

Hermione and Ginny as Researchers (Having found out during the summer that Ginny was just short of equaling Hermoine in her grades.)

Neville and Luna as Healers in training

Fred and George as potion masters, plus in charge of creating new weapons.

Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks as his Commanders (If he could convince them in joining his Order)

The Griffin asked him if he had considered who he was going to ask to join his Forces. Harry having already thought of this listed the possibilities he had thought of.

Werewolves

Centaurs

After Gunther added

Griffins plus Dragons to the list.

He explained that he would personally help Harry in obtaining the griffins support and revealing to Harry a little known fact that Dragons could understand Parseltongue, because of their serpentine nature. The only problem was that even Lord Voldomort had to come face-to-face with a snake before being able to speak Parseltongue.

Thus, Harry had to find a way to speak in Parseltongue to the dragons for that would insure their allegiance to Harry. Finishing their discussion the Griffin bid Harry farewell and told him to be ready in a week's time to go to Egypt to meet with the griffins.

Harry wearily made his way to bed at five to four in the morning. Curling up into a ball, and thinking of a certain redheaded Weasley, Harry fell into a peaceful sleep.

A/N what do you think?