The Story So Far......
Calypso Ann Grey is a rather unusual lass. An Australian witch, backpacking through Europe "because a buzz in my head told me to", she finds herself walking down a deserted country road. Dehydrated, exhausted and lost, she follows a dog to a paddock, where a red cottage appears out of nowhere, along with a certain Remus Lupin.
Calypso collapses on the doorstep, and wakes up in bed inside the house, all by herself - apart from the dog and a note saying to make herself comfortable. When Remus comes home from work, it becomes evident that Calypso was not physically supposed to be able to find the house, or see it. After a bit of hedging questions, Calypso admits that she is actually a witch, albeit an untrained one that was forbidden to learn magic or have contact with magical people, but declines to disclose why. After finishing a Chemistry degree in Australia, she started hearing a 'buzz' in her head that made her pack up and wander across the world, winding up at Remus' place. Also, she is a seer. After showing Remus that she can levitate things, since Remus tested her with a Pocket Sneakscope, he lets her stay another night until she can sort things out.
Since the Pantry was sulking and refusing to serve food, Calypso offers to go to the local Village (with Snuffles in tow) the next day to pick up provisions. However, while in queue for the checkout, she has a vision of Death Eaters on broomsticks blowing up the Supermarket in sixteen minutes time. Calypso runs out and calls in a bomb threat from the nearest payphone, and dashes back to the hidden entrance to the road to Remus' place. She and Snuffles only just get there when the Death Eaters strike - the explosion also destroyed the charms hiding the road entrance, blowing Calypso and Snuffles against a fence.
Calypso wakes up in St. Mungo's, suffering cracked ribs, a broken wrist and slight bleeding at the back of her brain. Confined to hospital for three days under observation, she has an unusual vision. She dreams of the Entrance Foyer of St. Mungo's, and an emergency case on a stretcher that arrives. The man on the stretcher has a monkey dressed in Rastafarian clothes, attacking him and bouncing on his chest. Waking up from the vision, Calypso sneaks out of her ward and is chased by many orderlies and nurses. Eventually reaching the Entrance Foyer, she meets the emergency case she dreamed about, who is clearly under the force of some dark spell that is killing him. Recognising the red brooch on the man's robes matching the monkey's eyes, Calypso grabs it and dashes it on the floor, where it shatters and forms the Dark Mark. In the chaos that ensues, Calypso realises that she has been running about the hospital with the back of her hospital robes flapping wide open.
Made respectable by a kindly Nurse Dot, Calypso and Remus are ushered to an audience with Dumbledore. The illustrious wizard updates Calypso on current events and offers her a job working for the League Against the Dark Arts, (LADA) which is Dumbledore's underground anti-Voldemort group. Surprisingly, Calypso declines, citing that Seers cannot take sides unless they see themselves intervening. Suddenly the 'buzz' in Calypso's head starts talking, tells her off and Calypso is hit with a vision of herself attending the next LADA meeting. So reluctantly she hitches up with Dumbledore, and Remus says that she can stay at his place.
Remus and Calypso fly home on broomsticks - Calypso has to be taught how to fly - and when they arrive home she continues to play around on the broom. When inside, she joins Remus and Snuffles napping in the afternoon sun, and has a dream about when she was a small child, visiting her elderly neighbour, Kuia. Unbeknown to the small Calypso, Kuia was lying in her bedroom, brutally murdered, not sleeping as Calypso thought. When Calypso wakes up from her distressing memory, she reacts badly to Remus and Snuffles' attempts to make her feel better, and storms off to have a bath. When she emerges from the bath, Remus' girlfriend Maria is at the house. Maria is a smart cookie and after hearing Calypso's extraordinary narrative, suggests that Calypso tries asking the 'buzz' in her head questions. The buzz answers rudely, but does say that it is a long-dead seer who is trying to manipulate the future through Calypso, to help defeat Lord Voldemort. That night, Calypso has a strange dream, involving riding a horse down a beach, trying to outrun a cloud of fear that destroys her.
Since the next LADA meeting is in three days time, Calypso takes the broomstick the next day and flies to London for a bit of touristy sight- seeing and to buy some more clothes. After a wonderful day, she bumps in to a man named Monohan in the subway, who attacks Calypso. She loses him eventually by flying away and sitting with some marijuana-smoking punks, as Monohan tracks people's minds, and drugged people have altered minds. Smoking a bit herself, Calypso flies home safely (if a little manically) and starts to worry as Monohan should be in the Australian Wizard Gaol. She goes to the village to use the telephone and warn her sisters back home, only to find them all hysterical. According to them, she has been missing for six months. According to Calypso, she rang them last week. However, back at Remus' house, comparing Calypso's passport and the current date suggests that she has a 'blank period' of six months, between landing at Heathrow and walking to Remus' cottage. The buzz in Calypso's head pipes up and claims responsibility for the missing months, and refuses to say why. Maria, the ever watchful female, realises that Calypso is not telling everyone the complete truth, and works out she has some sort of link to the Australasian Death Eaters, but does not press the matter.
That night is hot and sticky, and Calypso decides to go for a night-time stroll. But Remus has put a charm over her door so she can't go anywhere. Yet with the help of a talking mirror called Rorrim, Calypso scrambles out the window and trots off. While outside, Calypso sits down and after much effort, transforms into a Wolf. While gallivanting around the place, she runs into Snuffles and another wolf - it's the full moon. After chasing small prey all night with them, she is shocked to watch the wolf change back into Remus and Snuffles change into Sirius Black, mass murderer.
Sneaking back into tbe house, she sleeps well into the next morning, and finds herself in an empty house. Taking advantage of the quietness, she has an 'interview' with the buzz in her head, getting proper answers to her questions by threatening to have an exorcism. The buzz's name is Virginia, and was a seer in the 1600s who saw the troubles with Lord Voldemort, and therefore had set up elaborate spells to work with Calypso to foil his plans. Apart from that titillating information, Virginia didn't disclose much else.
Calypso also interviewed Rorrim, the gossipy mirror in her room, and found out that Remus was one of three children - the older brother had disappeared, and the parents and younger sister murdered by Lord Voldemort.
Remus was also investigating Calypso's past at the Ministry Office - and came up against an awful lot of red tape. At the same time, There were ructions in the Death Eater Camp - Lucius Malfoy was getting pissed off at being demoted again, as the Australasian Death Eaters arrive and their leader, a fanatical woman named Octavia, is given the #3 spot after Peter Pettigrew, who has become a powerful psychopath after receiving the silver hand.
After having many dreams and predictions, including the horse and beach dream again, and a new one involving a boy writing a letter which turned to gibberish, Calypso wakes up to dinner with Maria, Remus, Snuffles and a visitor called Neil - Maria's partner at work. During dinner, she informs the dinner party that she knows perfectly well who Snuffles really is. Sirius appears and Calypso says that Rorrim, her bedroom mirror, had told her the truth. That night, Calypso slips up and accidentally discloses that for the past few years, she had shared a house with other magical people that she had met while at school. She also explains that she is an orphan, and has two sisters, one who is blind and one who is disabled.
That night, Calypso has a multitude of dreams. The first involves two Australasian Death Eaters standing on a rooftop, about to launch an attack. This merges into the horse on the beach dream, but Calypso follows Virginia's instructions to 'try something different' - and runs towards the scary thing that is chasing her, instead of away - and suddenly dreams she is in paradise, with Virginia. Virginia says that the dream was a lesson, designed to teach her to stop running away from her past, no matter how scary it was.
The next day Maria escorts Calypso to London, to meet up with Neil's daughter, who will be taking her into Diagon Alley for the day, before the DADA meeting starts. Neil's daughter is Angelina, and she and Calypso first visit a Muggle bank where Calypso receives three suitcases, which she then puts into a new Gringott's vault. After a fun day in Diagon Alley, Calypso reluctantly leaves Angelina and goes to Maria's shabby flat for the DADA meeting with the other Phoenixes. The meeting is interesting - Calypso is not the only 'newbie' - there are five other young people from various countries, who are apprentice Phoenixes, with a cover as 'student teachers' at Hogwarts on a teacher exchange programme. Fleur Delacour is among these apprentices, and will be the DADA student teacher. Calypso is introduced as a seer, and receives great scepticism. However, after breaking a few encoded owls from Lucius Malfoy, using information from her dreams, she gains a slight amount of respect - but not enough for anyone to take her seriously when she realises the dream she had last night was predicting an attack on Maria's flat at that very moment!
So Calypso takes matters into her own hand, and drags a Death Eater down from the roof. At that, the Phoenixes spring into life and rush onto the roof and a rather frenzied battle ensues. Fleur is captured by a Death Eater, who portkeys them both out of the fray. Calypso scarpers off and starts swinging around the side of the roof, where she meets Snape, brushes past him and goes straight through a lethal spellshield.
In the meantime, Ben Hunter, the apprentice Auror of a contingent of Aurors freshly arrived from Australasia, is trying to go to sleep after an awful Portkey journey. Fudge only booked accommodation at the Leaky Cauldron for eleven people, not twelve, so Ben, the apprentice, ends up in the dusty attic with no Dreamless Sleep potion to combat the jetlag. When a curse crashes through his room, tearing the roof open, Ben forgets about sleep and rushes into battle.
When the Death Eaters suddenly fold, most portkey away just before the Hit Wizard squad arrives. The Hit Wizards take Ben away, suspecting that he may be a Death Eater, and then suddenly Calypso appears from down the street. But before she walks back to Maria's now destroyed flat, Snape confronts her, tells her that 'he knows' her secrets and dumps her on the Knight Bus, with strict directions to go to his house and hide in the cellar.
However, on the Knight Bus Calypso meets an old woman who promptly stuns her and portkeys them both away. Snape tells the rest of the Phoenixes what he has deduced - Calypso is a Death Eater. She walked through a spellshield that only Death Eaters could go through alive, and her disappearance for the next three weeks seems to back the story up.
The Phoenixes are then bombarded with work - not good! Then when Snape spots Calypso after a Death Eater Rally, singing and dancing, the Phoenixes deduce Calypso was a very talented spy. Things get worse - Vernon Durlsey goes mad and tries to murder Harry, but only succeeds in breaking his leg. He is whisked away to Remus' place, where he is much happier, if a bit bored.
But when Remus gets his hands on Calypso's red-taped file at the Ministry, things become interesting. Calypso's father is Cain, Remus' 'missing' brother, who is also the co-leader of the Australasian Death Eater Tribe. She had participated in many of the attacks when young, but had betrayed her parents to the Aurors when she was seven. At the same time, Angelina mentions that she had seen Calypso looking out of a window of a building in Muggle London. A group of the Phoenixes quickly Apparate to the opposite building to assess the situation - to their surprise Calypso creeps outside onto the rooftop after dismantling a fire door, sits down and starts smoking a cigarette. Sirius rashly Apparates over next to her, and learns a few interesting things.
Calypso claims that she's not a spy, and she's not supporting the Death Eaters. However, she's trapped inside the spellshield and can't leave, and has to pretend to support her parent's cause. But the other Death Eaters are highly suspicious of her and her story, which is full of holes, and Calypso fears for her life. Sirius offers her a place in the Phoenixes again, and offers to bust her out of the building. Calypso says that she has a plan to get out - and that Fleur will be coming with her. But before she can say more, Monahan, who had followed her outside and overheard the whole coversation, attacks Calypso from behind. Calypso manages to overpower him (by fighting dirty) and knocks him out. Things look even worse for Calypso when another Death Eater also appears - but this one is friendly. Kerian fixes Calypso's injuries, patches up Monahan and modifies his memory and gives Calypso a present - a pet Puffskein. Kieran is assisting Calypso in her bid for freedom, and seems to dislike the Death Eaters too.
Meanwhile, Ben the Australasian apprentice Auror, is getting quite drunk with the other apprentices at the Leaky Cauldron. While taking a 'rest' on the staircase, he overhears a conversation between two men about pesky Grindylows in the vege patch. They suggest a Remus Lupin for consultation, and Ben finally realises the 'Wemis' Calypso said she was staying with is probably Remus. The men say Remus can be contacted via Dumbledore, and so Ben plans to pay Dumbledore a visit. When he does so the next day, he explains how he knows Calypso - he was her flatmate in Australia, and asks where Calypso is.
At that moment Calypso had wrangled her way into the Death Eater Laboratories during Snape's hours - after upsetting Snape's cauldron, Calypso takes a collection of potions from different cauldrons and puts them in her pockets. She also tells Snape to pick up Fleur from a park in little over two hours, and which house the Death Eaters are planning to attack that night. Snape informs Calypso that since the Phoenixes have been disbanded, and are now a part of the British Auror Force, Calypso would no longer be welcome on the side of people fighting Voldemort, as Dumbledore, Calypso's greatest advocate, no longer calls the shots.
Despite this, Calypso and Kerian still go through with their plan - Calypso takes some Juliet Potion, and is rushed to St. Mungo's, apparently dead. Kerian steals her body from the morgue before Aurors arrive, and gives Calypso the antidote. Kerian also delivers Fleur a measure of Polyjuice Potion and a hair from his head - Fleur changes into Kerian, and since the guard had Confusing Concoction in his coffee, he doesn't notice that Kerian had left Fleur's cell twice. Things were going smoothly until Fleur is stopped by Monohan as she is about to leave - there is an unexpected Death Eater meeting called. Fleur goes to the toilets and searches for another escape. She squeezes out the small windows above the men's urinals, but when someone comes into the bathroom she falls out the window while trying to get out of sight.
Meanwhile Calypso has stolen a car and is on her way to the airport with a fake passport, intending on heading home for good. However Virginia soon pipes up, asking what's being going on, as while Calypso was with the Death Eaters, various wards prevented the two from communicating. When Calypso explains, Virginia demands that Calypso goes back and checks that Fleur got away safely. When Calypso spots Fleur's unconscious form outside the Death Eater building, and Fleur groggy from the two-story fall, she picks up the French girl, dumps her in the stolen car and zooms to the park, intending to dump Fleur there and to get out of sight as soon as possible.
However there is a problem at the park - Monohan is there, and had murdered the Aurors that were to pick up Fleur, and many civilians. He traps the helpless Calypso, and is about to kill her when Snuffles kills him. Calypso gets a wand off one of the dead wizards and overpowers Monohan, and Sirius stuns him. When Sirius, Calypso and Fleur go to make their getaway, they find that Calypso's stolen car had been stolen again, leaving them in a pretty pickle. Sirius transfigures a coke can into a fake gun for Calypso, and she holds up a car at the traffic lights and they take off down the motorway, perused by the Muggle police. Sirius manages to change his emergency portkey to include the contents of the car, and also informs Calypso that Remus is her uncle, a fact she was unaware of. Just in the nick of time, the portkey is activated and they crash-land heavily at The Burrow, an Auror Safe House.
Calypso is cleaned up by Molly and sent off to have a bath, while Fleur is taken to St Mungo's and Sirius takes Monohan into custody. While in her bathtub, the Weasley clan arrives home, ransacks Molly's baking and heads off to play Quidditch, Calypso joining them when she gets out of the bathroom. Playing Quidditch with the Weasleys is Ben, whom Calypso meets joyously. Things are going well, apart from Calypso's playing abilities, when the game is interrupted by the arrival of Auror officials from the Auror Board, who place Calypso under arrest and take her to Azkaban until they can decide what to do with her.
Meanwhile, Lord Voldemort extracts his revenge on the guard who let Fleur escape - Fleur was meant to be involved in a complex potion to help Voldemort kill Harry Potter. Plots are also afoot in Azkaban - Wormtail is running around the drains, planning and plotting with the inmates, and the Dementors have not declared allegiance to either side. While in the awful Azkaban cells, Calypso dreams constantly of finding Kuia, her grandmother figure, murdered in her room, and also has a strange dream involving sandcastles in the shape of Azkaban and Hogwarts - they start to crumble and she is told that only one can be saved.
The Auror board battles in court to get Calypso released from Azkaban so she can work with the Aurors the judge rules that since Calypso has such an awful record - a Death Eater with 7 scalps, and a Muggle criminal history - that she should become a Ward of Alastor Moody.
Moody takes Calypso back to his house - a dismal house covered with anti- intruder alerts. Calypso goes to sleep, but not before reading the Daily Prophet and finding that Sirius was being blamed for the massacre at the park, and that Calypso herself was down as an accomplice. After sleeping for twenty hours, she spends a day cleaning the house while Moody goes to see Remus - and finds Calypso's two sisters, Melody and Aria, also staying there. Moody promises Calypso that if she co-operates at the Auror Board Meeting that night, she can see her sisters.
The Board meeting is interesting - Calypso explains why she suddenly turned away from the Death Eater movement at the age of seven - her sister Melody was not born blind. Instead, Melody was hit by a Death Eater curse intended for a Muggle policeman during a raid at Surfer's Paradise. Her mother's lack of empathy and the things the Muggles had said to Calypso before they were killed made her start to wonder if she was really fighting for the good guys. Also, being the daughter of two prominent Death Eaters, Calypso has lots of Death Eater secrets to divulge to the Auror board, so it was a long and titillating meeting. Since Monohan knew important restricted information, but was inoculated against Truth Serums, Calypso suggests they try a Muggle truth serum on him. Only to get the dose right, they try it out on Calypso first. That goes without a hitch, but when taking the Floo network back to Lupin's place, Calypso is still under the influence of the drug, and freaks out while in the Floo network, and gets off far too soon - at the remains of a remote battlezone, with magical wards still in place.
With pouring rain and howling wind, Calypso quickly becomes hypothermic, and only when the wards die and she is able to transform into a wolf is she able to get warm again, and goes to sleep under a tree. Unfortunately, when searchers arrive at the fire grate, they disregard the large sleeping 'dog' , but luckily when they mention the 'dog' in conversation Ben realises it is really Calypso. He Apparates off to the site and Floos the feverish, hypothermic Calypso back to Lupin's house.
After four days of feverish dreams, Calypso sends her sisters home, knowing they would be safer far away, and has some disturbing dreams. In one recurring one, Calypso is killed - seemingly by herself. The duel she dreams is between herself and Mundungus Fletcher, but then Mundungus becomes another Calypso, and both are killed at the clifftops. Troubled, she is about to unburden to Maria when Remus contacts the pair urgently - Calypso has been named in the newspaper as dead, and a Death Eater. Also, her bank vault is being frozen. Flooing off to Diagon Alley (underneath an invisibility cloak) immediately to shift the money before it is frozen, Calypso notices a mysterious door in the rubble of the destroyed British Auror Force HQ, which was destroyed by Death Eaters while she was ill. However no-one else can spot this door. When reaching the new BAF HQ, Kerian's face pops into the fireplace - he is feeding information to the Aurors, and tells them of a plan to murder the Azkaban Warden. While Aurors rush off to Azkaban, some Australasian Aurors come in to use the fireplace, citing that their apprentice, Ben, is at St. Mungo's after being hurt. Calypso panics, leaps out the window and runs off to see Ben, convinced that he is seriously injured. Luckily, he had just broken his collarbone playing Quidditch.
While trying to find the exit from St Mungo's, Calypso runs into a mad woman in the corridors, who gives her an unusual message from Virginia, whom Calypso has lost contact with. The woman says that Virginia has left equipment and a message behind the invisible door, stuff that will get her out of working for the Aurors, and there is a trick to the second door. When Calypso gets back to the HQ, she finds a very angry trio waiting for her - Moody, Sirius and Snape. She convinces them to let her investigate the door before joining the others at Azkaban. Reluctantly, Moody, Sirius and Snape follow her through the door....
and that brings us up to Chapter 17!!!!
Calypso Ann Grey is a rather unusual lass. An Australian witch, backpacking through Europe "because a buzz in my head told me to", she finds herself walking down a deserted country road. Dehydrated, exhausted and lost, she follows a dog to a paddock, where a red cottage appears out of nowhere, along with a certain Remus Lupin.
Calypso collapses on the doorstep, and wakes up in bed inside the house, all by herself - apart from the dog and a note saying to make herself comfortable. When Remus comes home from work, it becomes evident that Calypso was not physically supposed to be able to find the house, or see it. After a bit of hedging questions, Calypso admits that she is actually a witch, albeit an untrained one that was forbidden to learn magic or have contact with magical people, but declines to disclose why. After finishing a Chemistry degree in Australia, she started hearing a 'buzz' in her head that made her pack up and wander across the world, winding up at Remus' place. Also, she is a seer. After showing Remus that she can levitate things, since Remus tested her with a Pocket Sneakscope, he lets her stay another night until she can sort things out.
Since the Pantry was sulking and refusing to serve food, Calypso offers to go to the local Village (with Snuffles in tow) the next day to pick up provisions. However, while in queue for the checkout, she has a vision of Death Eaters on broomsticks blowing up the Supermarket in sixteen minutes time. Calypso runs out and calls in a bomb threat from the nearest payphone, and dashes back to the hidden entrance to the road to Remus' place. She and Snuffles only just get there when the Death Eaters strike - the explosion also destroyed the charms hiding the road entrance, blowing Calypso and Snuffles against a fence.
Calypso wakes up in St. Mungo's, suffering cracked ribs, a broken wrist and slight bleeding at the back of her brain. Confined to hospital for three days under observation, she has an unusual vision. She dreams of the Entrance Foyer of St. Mungo's, and an emergency case on a stretcher that arrives. The man on the stretcher has a monkey dressed in Rastafarian clothes, attacking him and bouncing on his chest. Waking up from the vision, Calypso sneaks out of her ward and is chased by many orderlies and nurses. Eventually reaching the Entrance Foyer, she meets the emergency case she dreamed about, who is clearly under the force of some dark spell that is killing him. Recognising the red brooch on the man's robes matching the monkey's eyes, Calypso grabs it and dashes it on the floor, where it shatters and forms the Dark Mark. In the chaos that ensues, Calypso realises that she has been running about the hospital with the back of her hospital robes flapping wide open.
Made respectable by a kindly Nurse Dot, Calypso and Remus are ushered to an audience with Dumbledore. The illustrious wizard updates Calypso on current events and offers her a job working for the League Against the Dark Arts, (LADA) which is Dumbledore's underground anti-Voldemort group. Surprisingly, Calypso declines, citing that Seers cannot take sides unless they see themselves intervening. Suddenly the 'buzz' in Calypso's head starts talking, tells her off and Calypso is hit with a vision of herself attending the next LADA meeting. So reluctantly she hitches up with Dumbledore, and Remus says that she can stay at his place.
Remus and Calypso fly home on broomsticks - Calypso has to be taught how to fly - and when they arrive home she continues to play around on the broom. When inside, she joins Remus and Snuffles napping in the afternoon sun, and has a dream about when she was a small child, visiting her elderly neighbour, Kuia. Unbeknown to the small Calypso, Kuia was lying in her bedroom, brutally murdered, not sleeping as Calypso thought. When Calypso wakes up from her distressing memory, she reacts badly to Remus and Snuffles' attempts to make her feel better, and storms off to have a bath. When she emerges from the bath, Remus' girlfriend Maria is at the house. Maria is a smart cookie and after hearing Calypso's extraordinary narrative, suggests that Calypso tries asking the 'buzz' in her head questions. The buzz answers rudely, but does say that it is a long-dead seer who is trying to manipulate the future through Calypso, to help defeat Lord Voldemort. That night, Calypso has a strange dream, involving riding a horse down a beach, trying to outrun a cloud of fear that destroys her.
Since the next LADA meeting is in three days time, Calypso takes the broomstick the next day and flies to London for a bit of touristy sight- seeing and to buy some more clothes. After a wonderful day, she bumps in to a man named Monohan in the subway, who attacks Calypso. She loses him eventually by flying away and sitting with some marijuana-smoking punks, as Monohan tracks people's minds, and drugged people have altered minds. Smoking a bit herself, Calypso flies home safely (if a little manically) and starts to worry as Monohan should be in the Australian Wizard Gaol. She goes to the village to use the telephone and warn her sisters back home, only to find them all hysterical. According to them, she has been missing for six months. According to Calypso, she rang them last week. However, back at Remus' house, comparing Calypso's passport and the current date suggests that she has a 'blank period' of six months, between landing at Heathrow and walking to Remus' cottage. The buzz in Calypso's head pipes up and claims responsibility for the missing months, and refuses to say why. Maria, the ever watchful female, realises that Calypso is not telling everyone the complete truth, and works out she has some sort of link to the Australasian Death Eaters, but does not press the matter.
That night is hot and sticky, and Calypso decides to go for a night-time stroll. But Remus has put a charm over her door so she can't go anywhere. Yet with the help of a talking mirror called Rorrim, Calypso scrambles out the window and trots off. While outside, Calypso sits down and after much effort, transforms into a Wolf. While gallivanting around the place, she runs into Snuffles and another wolf - it's the full moon. After chasing small prey all night with them, she is shocked to watch the wolf change back into Remus and Snuffles change into Sirius Black, mass murderer.
Sneaking back into tbe house, she sleeps well into the next morning, and finds herself in an empty house. Taking advantage of the quietness, she has an 'interview' with the buzz in her head, getting proper answers to her questions by threatening to have an exorcism. The buzz's name is Virginia, and was a seer in the 1600s who saw the troubles with Lord Voldemort, and therefore had set up elaborate spells to work with Calypso to foil his plans. Apart from that titillating information, Virginia didn't disclose much else.
Calypso also interviewed Rorrim, the gossipy mirror in her room, and found out that Remus was one of three children - the older brother had disappeared, and the parents and younger sister murdered by Lord Voldemort.
Remus was also investigating Calypso's past at the Ministry Office - and came up against an awful lot of red tape. At the same time, There were ructions in the Death Eater Camp - Lucius Malfoy was getting pissed off at being demoted again, as the Australasian Death Eaters arrive and their leader, a fanatical woman named Octavia, is given the #3 spot after Peter Pettigrew, who has become a powerful psychopath after receiving the silver hand.
After having many dreams and predictions, including the horse and beach dream again, and a new one involving a boy writing a letter which turned to gibberish, Calypso wakes up to dinner with Maria, Remus, Snuffles and a visitor called Neil - Maria's partner at work. During dinner, she informs the dinner party that she knows perfectly well who Snuffles really is. Sirius appears and Calypso says that Rorrim, her bedroom mirror, had told her the truth. That night, Calypso slips up and accidentally discloses that for the past few years, she had shared a house with other magical people that she had met while at school. She also explains that she is an orphan, and has two sisters, one who is blind and one who is disabled.
That night, Calypso has a multitude of dreams. The first involves two Australasian Death Eaters standing on a rooftop, about to launch an attack. This merges into the horse on the beach dream, but Calypso follows Virginia's instructions to 'try something different' - and runs towards the scary thing that is chasing her, instead of away - and suddenly dreams she is in paradise, with Virginia. Virginia says that the dream was a lesson, designed to teach her to stop running away from her past, no matter how scary it was.
The next day Maria escorts Calypso to London, to meet up with Neil's daughter, who will be taking her into Diagon Alley for the day, before the DADA meeting starts. Neil's daughter is Angelina, and she and Calypso first visit a Muggle bank where Calypso receives three suitcases, which she then puts into a new Gringott's vault. After a fun day in Diagon Alley, Calypso reluctantly leaves Angelina and goes to Maria's shabby flat for the DADA meeting with the other Phoenixes. The meeting is interesting - Calypso is not the only 'newbie' - there are five other young people from various countries, who are apprentice Phoenixes, with a cover as 'student teachers' at Hogwarts on a teacher exchange programme. Fleur Delacour is among these apprentices, and will be the DADA student teacher. Calypso is introduced as a seer, and receives great scepticism. However, after breaking a few encoded owls from Lucius Malfoy, using information from her dreams, she gains a slight amount of respect - but not enough for anyone to take her seriously when she realises the dream she had last night was predicting an attack on Maria's flat at that very moment!
So Calypso takes matters into her own hand, and drags a Death Eater down from the roof. At that, the Phoenixes spring into life and rush onto the roof and a rather frenzied battle ensues. Fleur is captured by a Death Eater, who portkeys them both out of the fray. Calypso scarpers off and starts swinging around the side of the roof, where she meets Snape, brushes past him and goes straight through a lethal spellshield.
In the meantime, Ben Hunter, the apprentice Auror of a contingent of Aurors freshly arrived from Australasia, is trying to go to sleep after an awful Portkey journey. Fudge only booked accommodation at the Leaky Cauldron for eleven people, not twelve, so Ben, the apprentice, ends up in the dusty attic with no Dreamless Sleep potion to combat the jetlag. When a curse crashes through his room, tearing the roof open, Ben forgets about sleep and rushes into battle.
When the Death Eaters suddenly fold, most portkey away just before the Hit Wizard squad arrives. The Hit Wizards take Ben away, suspecting that he may be a Death Eater, and then suddenly Calypso appears from down the street. But before she walks back to Maria's now destroyed flat, Snape confronts her, tells her that 'he knows' her secrets and dumps her on the Knight Bus, with strict directions to go to his house and hide in the cellar.
However, on the Knight Bus Calypso meets an old woman who promptly stuns her and portkeys them both away. Snape tells the rest of the Phoenixes what he has deduced - Calypso is a Death Eater. She walked through a spellshield that only Death Eaters could go through alive, and her disappearance for the next three weeks seems to back the story up.
The Phoenixes are then bombarded with work - not good! Then when Snape spots Calypso after a Death Eater Rally, singing and dancing, the Phoenixes deduce Calypso was a very talented spy. Things get worse - Vernon Durlsey goes mad and tries to murder Harry, but only succeeds in breaking his leg. He is whisked away to Remus' place, where he is much happier, if a bit bored.
But when Remus gets his hands on Calypso's red-taped file at the Ministry, things become interesting. Calypso's father is Cain, Remus' 'missing' brother, who is also the co-leader of the Australasian Death Eater Tribe. She had participated in many of the attacks when young, but had betrayed her parents to the Aurors when she was seven. At the same time, Angelina mentions that she had seen Calypso looking out of a window of a building in Muggle London. A group of the Phoenixes quickly Apparate to the opposite building to assess the situation - to their surprise Calypso creeps outside onto the rooftop after dismantling a fire door, sits down and starts smoking a cigarette. Sirius rashly Apparates over next to her, and learns a few interesting things.
Calypso claims that she's not a spy, and she's not supporting the Death Eaters. However, she's trapped inside the spellshield and can't leave, and has to pretend to support her parent's cause. But the other Death Eaters are highly suspicious of her and her story, which is full of holes, and Calypso fears for her life. Sirius offers her a place in the Phoenixes again, and offers to bust her out of the building. Calypso says that she has a plan to get out - and that Fleur will be coming with her. But before she can say more, Monahan, who had followed her outside and overheard the whole coversation, attacks Calypso from behind. Calypso manages to overpower him (by fighting dirty) and knocks him out. Things look even worse for Calypso when another Death Eater also appears - but this one is friendly. Kerian fixes Calypso's injuries, patches up Monahan and modifies his memory and gives Calypso a present - a pet Puffskein. Kieran is assisting Calypso in her bid for freedom, and seems to dislike the Death Eaters too.
Meanwhile, Ben the Australasian apprentice Auror, is getting quite drunk with the other apprentices at the Leaky Cauldron. While taking a 'rest' on the staircase, he overhears a conversation between two men about pesky Grindylows in the vege patch. They suggest a Remus Lupin for consultation, and Ben finally realises the 'Wemis' Calypso said she was staying with is probably Remus. The men say Remus can be contacted via Dumbledore, and so Ben plans to pay Dumbledore a visit. When he does so the next day, he explains how he knows Calypso - he was her flatmate in Australia, and asks where Calypso is.
At that moment Calypso had wrangled her way into the Death Eater Laboratories during Snape's hours - after upsetting Snape's cauldron, Calypso takes a collection of potions from different cauldrons and puts them in her pockets. She also tells Snape to pick up Fleur from a park in little over two hours, and which house the Death Eaters are planning to attack that night. Snape informs Calypso that since the Phoenixes have been disbanded, and are now a part of the British Auror Force, Calypso would no longer be welcome on the side of people fighting Voldemort, as Dumbledore, Calypso's greatest advocate, no longer calls the shots.
Despite this, Calypso and Kerian still go through with their plan - Calypso takes some Juliet Potion, and is rushed to St. Mungo's, apparently dead. Kerian steals her body from the morgue before Aurors arrive, and gives Calypso the antidote. Kerian also delivers Fleur a measure of Polyjuice Potion and a hair from his head - Fleur changes into Kerian, and since the guard had Confusing Concoction in his coffee, he doesn't notice that Kerian had left Fleur's cell twice. Things were going smoothly until Fleur is stopped by Monohan as she is about to leave - there is an unexpected Death Eater meeting called. Fleur goes to the toilets and searches for another escape. She squeezes out the small windows above the men's urinals, but when someone comes into the bathroom she falls out the window while trying to get out of sight.
Meanwhile Calypso has stolen a car and is on her way to the airport with a fake passport, intending on heading home for good. However Virginia soon pipes up, asking what's being going on, as while Calypso was with the Death Eaters, various wards prevented the two from communicating. When Calypso explains, Virginia demands that Calypso goes back and checks that Fleur got away safely. When Calypso spots Fleur's unconscious form outside the Death Eater building, and Fleur groggy from the two-story fall, she picks up the French girl, dumps her in the stolen car and zooms to the park, intending to dump Fleur there and to get out of sight as soon as possible.
However there is a problem at the park - Monohan is there, and had murdered the Aurors that were to pick up Fleur, and many civilians. He traps the helpless Calypso, and is about to kill her when Snuffles kills him. Calypso gets a wand off one of the dead wizards and overpowers Monohan, and Sirius stuns him. When Sirius, Calypso and Fleur go to make their getaway, they find that Calypso's stolen car had been stolen again, leaving them in a pretty pickle. Sirius transfigures a coke can into a fake gun for Calypso, and she holds up a car at the traffic lights and they take off down the motorway, perused by the Muggle police. Sirius manages to change his emergency portkey to include the contents of the car, and also informs Calypso that Remus is her uncle, a fact she was unaware of. Just in the nick of time, the portkey is activated and they crash-land heavily at The Burrow, an Auror Safe House.
Calypso is cleaned up by Molly and sent off to have a bath, while Fleur is taken to St Mungo's and Sirius takes Monohan into custody. While in her bathtub, the Weasley clan arrives home, ransacks Molly's baking and heads off to play Quidditch, Calypso joining them when she gets out of the bathroom. Playing Quidditch with the Weasleys is Ben, whom Calypso meets joyously. Things are going well, apart from Calypso's playing abilities, when the game is interrupted by the arrival of Auror officials from the Auror Board, who place Calypso under arrest and take her to Azkaban until they can decide what to do with her.
Meanwhile, Lord Voldemort extracts his revenge on the guard who let Fleur escape - Fleur was meant to be involved in a complex potion to help Voldemort kill Harry Potter. Plots are also afoot in Azkaban - Wormtail is running around the drains, planning and plotting with the inmates, and the Dementors have not declared allegiance to either side. While in the awful Azkaban cells, Calypso dreams constantly of finding Kuia, her grandmother figure, murdered in her room, and also has a strange dream involving sandcastles in the shape of Azkaban and Hogwarts - they start to crumble and she is told that only one can be saved.
The Auror board battles in court to get Calypso released from Azkaban so she can work with the Aurors the judge rules that since Calypso has such an awful record - a Death Eater with 7 scalps, and a Muggle criminal history - that she should become a Ward of Alastor Moody.
Moody takes Calypso back to his house - a dismal house covered with anti- intruder alerts. Calypso goes to sleep, but not before reading the Daily Prophet and finding that Sirius was being blamed for the massacre at the park, and that Calypso herself was down as an accomplice. After sleeping for twenty hours, she spends a day cleaning the house while Moody goes to see Remus - and finds Calypso's two sisters, Melody and Aria, also staying there. Moody promises Calypso that if she co-operates at the Auror Board Meeting that night, she can see her sisters.
The Board meeting is interesting - Calypso explains why she suddenly turned away from the Death Eater movement at the age of seven - her sister Melody was not born blind. Instead, Melody was hit by a Death Eater curse intended for a Muggle policeman during a raid at Surfer's Paradise. Her mother's lack of empathy and the things the Muggles had said to Calypso before they were killed made her start to wonder if she was really fighting for the good guys. Also, being the daughter of two prominent Death Eaters, Calypso has lots of Death Eater secrets to divulge to the Auror board, so it was a long and titillating meeting. Since Monohan knew important restricted information, but was inoculated against Truth Serums, Calypso suggests they try a Muggle truth serum on him. Only to get the dose right, they try it out on Calypso first. That goes without a hitch, but when taking the Floo network back to Lupin's place, Calypso is still under the influence of the drug, and freaks out while in the Floo network, and gets off far too soon - at the remains of a remote battlezone, with magical wards still in place.
With pouring rain and howling wind, Calypso quickly becomes hypothermic, and only when the wards die and she is able to transform into a wolf is she able to get warm again, and goes to sleep under a tree. Unfortunately, when searchers arrive at the fire grate, they disregard the large sleeping 'dog' , but luckily when they mention the 'dog' in conversation Ben realises it is really Calypso. He Apparates off to the site and Floos the feverish, hypothermic Calypso back to Lupin's house.
After four days of feverish dreams, Calypso sends her sisters home, knowing they would be safer far away, and has some disturbing dreams. In one recurring one, Calypso is killed - seemingly by herself. The duel she dreams is between herself and Mundungus Fletcher, but then Mundungus becomes another Calypso, and both are killed at the clifftops. Troubled, she is about to unburden to Maria when Remus contacts the pair urgently - Calypso has been named in the newspaper as dead, and a Death Eater. Also, her bank vault is being frozen. Flooing off to Diagon Alley (underneath an invisibility cloak) immediately to shift the money before it is frozen, Calypso notices a mysterious door in the rubble of the destroyed British Auror Force HQ, which was destroyed by Death Eaters while she was ill. However no-one else can spot this door. When reaching the new BAF HQ, Kerian's face pops into the fireplace - he is feeding information to the Aurors, and tells them of a plan to murder the Azkaban Warden. While Aurors rush off to Azkaban, some Australasian Aurors come in to use the fireplace, citing that their apprentice, Ben, is at St. Mungo's after being hurt. Calypso panics, leaps out the window and runs off to see Ben, convinced that he is seriously injured. Luckily, he had just broken his collarbone playing Quidditch.
While trying to find the exit from St Mungo's, Calypso runs into a mad woman in the corridors, who gives her an unusual message from Virginia, whom Calypso has lost contact with. The woman says that Virginia has left equipment and a message behind the invisible door, stuff that will get her out of working for the Aurors, and there is a trick to the second door. When Calypso gets back to the HQ, she finds a very angry trio waiting for her - Moody, Sirius and Snape. She convinces them to let her investigate the door before joining the others at Azkaban. Reluctantly, Moody, Sirius and Snape follow her through the door....
and that brings us up to Chapter 17!!!!