Harry Potter and the Secrets of the Order
Chapter 2
Harry and Sirius' Promise
By: Sirius' Friend
June 28, 2003
Harry lay asleep in his bed tossing and turning evidentially having a very back dream.
'Come on, you can do better then that!' Sirius yelled making his cousin angry then she yelled an unforgivable curse and hit Sirius who stopped moving and just fell back wards. He landed on the floor dead.
"SIRIUS!!" Harry yelled shot up and then fell out of bed sweating and breathing very hard.
"What in ruddy blazes is going on boy." Demanded Uncle Vernon.
"That's not how it happened!" Harry said as he started to stand up.
"Harry what's wrong darling?" a kind caring female voice asked startling uncle Vernon as she ran past him.
"Sirius where's Sirius?" Harry asked frantically then saw Anna kneeled down in front of him. She has shoulder length brown hair and like sapphire color eyes. "Anna where's Sirius?" he asked.
"Harry calm down. Nothing is wrong with Sirius I swear. Just look down at your watch and you'll see he's fine." Anna said and smiled at him when he looked at her surprised.
"He's…he's in bed at the house." Harry said and sighed then smiled at Anna when he looked back up at her.
"See Harry nothing but a bad dream. Now let's get you ready and go shall we." Anna said and smiled at Harry as she stood up and put out her hand then he took it and she pulled him up off the bed.
"Who in Ruddy heck are you and what are you doing in my house and for that fact how did you get in here?" asked uncle Vernon.
"Do you really want to know?" Anna asked and pulled out her wand and dangled it in front of Vernon and Petunia now.
"No…" Uncle Vernon said in a shaky voice.
"Thanks Anna." Harry said as he put all his stuff in his trunk then looked at her. "How are we getting there this time and do I have a guard again?" he asked very curious.
"We're flying of course. You might want to put on a traveling cloak Harry you remember last time. And I'm your guard every one else in the order had to restrain Sirius from coming." Anna said and laughed lightly then used her want to get her traveling cloak which she had lost on her running spree up the stares of the Dursleys house.
"All right I guess I'll have to open my trunk again to get one." Harry said and shrugged.
"Don't bother." Anna said and waved her wand and another cloak appeared in her hand she handed it to Harry and waved her wand again so that Harry's trunk was now levitating and following her out the door to Harry's room past Petunia and Vernon and now Dudley. She proceeded down the stares and watched as Harry came running down with his Firebolt in his hands and the traveling cloak wrapped around him. he also carried his cage for Hedwig.
"Were is Hedwig?" Harry asked.
"Oh we just told her to stay at the house since you'd be joining us the next day." Anna said then walked out into the yard where her broom lay and fixed it to where Harry's trunk and Hedwig's cage was tied down to it. "Are you ready Harry?" Anna asked and smiled.
"All way's." Harry said and mounted his brume then kicked off and was hovering waiting for Anna to join him.
"I don't know if he'll see you next you we just may keep him." Anna said to Vernon and Petunia then kicked off too she flew up to where she was beside Harry then they took off.
"Did you mean that Anna?" Harry asked excitedly.
"Yeah it just depends on Dumbledor though. Can't say he's too keen on the idea that's for sure." Anna said but smiled at Harry. "Harry what were you dreaming about?" she asked as she watched him. He looked away from her and watched where he was going.
"That night." Harry said finally after several long moments of silence.
"That night you hear your prophecy Harry when Sirius got injured?" Anna asked.
"Yes…" Harry said and looked down at his hands around his Firebolt.
"Harry you should have know that it was just a nightmare. You know Sirius was fine and alive." Anna said and looked at him sadly.
"I know but it was my fault for letting myself get tricked into thinking Voldemort had him and was torturing him." Harry said.
"No Harry. Yes you should have put a little bit more into you Occlumency lessons from Snap but it is his fault for kicking you out and not teaching you what he was supposed to have been teaching you. And if he would have moved faster you wouldn't of left Hogwarts at all." Anna said in a motherly tone. "Don't ever blame yourself for that night Harry. It was all our mistakes. The grown-ups did it all and almost got you, your friends, and Sirius killed. Don't ever blame yourself for our mistakes." Anna seamed sad as she said it but determined to make Harry for get about his dream and his self blame for that night.
"But…" Harry started but stopped because of Anna.
"No butts Harry. Just stop blaming yourself." Anna said and smiled over at Harry who just starred at her like he was happy again. Several minutes later Anna got so curious she had to ask, "Harry if you don't mind me asking what was the prophecy? Dumbledor said he'd only told two people and wouldn't even tale Sirius saying that if you wanted up to know you'd tell us." Anna said.
"Oh well it said…I can't remember it all perfectly… but it said…the one with the power to vanquish the dark Lord born to those who had Thrice defied him. Bore as the seventh month dies. The dark Lord will mark him as his equal. And either must die at the hands of the other for neither can live while the other survives…that's basically what it said. Meaning I have to murder him or he has to murder me." Harry said in a sad tone.
"Oh Harry that's horrible. Having to murder or being murdered. That's a nice life. Course that's what happens when you're in the Order." Anna said.
"I'm not in the Order." Harry said.
"Oh Harry just because Molly say's your too young doesn't mean any thing. Yes we'd like it if you weren't but you are. Molly and Dumbledor are the one's not letting you in our meeting, not us. Dumbledor like Molly believes you're too young. But what they don't realize is you've face Voldemort more times then any one else in the order. And you've survived it Harry. Not meaning to make you our to be a hero or any thing but you can't run from the facts." Anna said.
"But I've always' had help." Harry said.
"Yes of course Harry only very few wizards realize that they need help during duels. Harry we all need help to fight Voldemort. If we just rely on our own strengths then we'll never beat him. And he'll win. We won't have a third chance. You were our second chance Harry. We won't let you fight him alone. we're friends, family if you want to call it that. That's what I call it. If we forget our loyalty's, friendships, family, and love of every thing then Voldemort wins." Anna said sadly.
"I'll never forget my loyalty's, friends or family Anna don't worry about that." Harry said.
"I know you'd never forget that. But others the stain of the war can get to them and they'd welcome death or change sides." Anna said sadly. "That's what happened to my parents. The last war drove them to change sides. And when they did Voldemort got all the information he could get out of them then killed them on the spot. I was just a teen then like James and the others. But when Dumbledor told me it nearly killed me. The Potters took me in like Sirius. Dumbledor wouldn't let me join the order saying I was too young." Anna said then looked down at her broom with was a Nimbus Two Thousand. The next best broom nest to the Firebolt.
"Sorry. I know how it feels to lose your parents then find out later what happened." Harry said comfortingly.
"Yeah Lily and James were wonderful people thought. Nothing like that dreadful aunt you have. My parents were pretty good friends with the Potters so you have very good wizard blood in you even thought James was a little mean during his teen years. He always' picked on me and Snap course I knew he did it to get Lily's attention. I got them hooked up. Partly to get him to stop showing off." Anna said and laughed a little.
"Did he show off all the time like what I saw him do to professor Snap?" Harry asked.
"No not always' some times he'd do it when he was on the Quidditch Pitch or during Defense Against the Dark Arts class where he knew almost every thing. Or he'd just pull small pranks like Fred and George did while they were there." Anna said then looked at the grown. "We're here Harry. Let's go down and land." She said and started he decent slowly to make sure Harry follow her which he was so she sped her decent up knowing how good he is at flying. When they landed they could hear yelling and screaming at the top of lungs.
"Oh no his mother is up. Well they can't blame you and me." Anna said and started for the door with her broom in her hand she had bewitched Harry's trunk and Hedwig's cage to follow her. She opened the door then dropped to the floor quickly dragging Harry down too. "Darn it Moody if you had hit Harry you barbaric idiot. Look before you start throwing hexes and jinxes at the door when it opens!!" Anna yelled. Standing up then pulling Harry up too. They walked in and shut the door. Harry's stuff flew up to his room that he'd shared with Ron last summer.
"Sorry Anna got a little anxious." Mad-eye said.
"More like Paranoid. Would you shut up you old bat!!" Anna yelled and drew the curtains in front of Mrs. Black.
"How is it that you and Sirius are the only two that can do that?" Lupin asked.
"We both knew her when she was a live." Anna said.
"I knew her." Lupin said.
"Moony you and James knew of her. Sirius and I knew her. Where is Sirius any way?" Anna asked, then they heard a loud thud of the floor that sounded like some one falling down stairs.
"Sirius!!" Harry yelled and ran up the stares. Lupin and Anna followed after him.
"Sirius I told you to stay in bed." Anna said once she and Lupin caught up to Harry and spotted Sirius looking up at them smiling. He was laying with his head toward the bottom of the stares and his feet towards the top of the stares.
"I wanted to great Harry down stares Anna." Sirius said and Anna sighed.
"Well you got half way down there. But I think you fell most of it though." Lupin said helping Sirius into a sitting position.
"Yeah that first step's a doozy." Sirius said and rubbed the back of his head.
"Are you sure your all right Sirius?" Harry asked very worried.
"I'm fine. But I think I'll be staying down stares for a while." Sirius said and smiled at Harry then messed up his hair.
"Oh it's hard enough to get it to kind of lay down." Harry whined and tried to get his hair to lay down again. Which made Sirius laugh a little.
"Oh come on Sirius let's get you the rest of the way down stares." Anna said helping him up then down the rest of the stares so he didn't fall the rest of the way down.
"I heard you yelling at Moody. What was that all about?" Sirius asked.
"Oh the idiot just decided to start casting hexes at the door when it opened to let Harry and myself it. He didn't even use his magical eye to see who was on the other side of the door." Anna said angrily.
"Oh that's because it's been stuck since just after you left to retrieve Harry." Lupin said and smiled down at Harry. "You know Harry it's no use trying to get your hair to lay down you have James' hair." Lupin said and laughed a little.
"Yeah poor kid just stood up all the time. James' mother didn't know what to do with him." Anna said then smiled back at Harry.
"Course James' didn't try to keep it laying down like Harry. Actually James' liked it standing up. He messed up his hair every time his mum actually got it to lay down. Which made her furious with him at times." Sirius said and laughed as they entered the Kitchen.
"Hey were are the Weasley's and Hermione?" Harry asked.
"Oh they'll be here tomorrow." Anna said before Sirius could which earned her a nice little glare from him. "Sorry Sirius." Anna said and started to cook and early breakfast since it was five in the morning.
"What was that for?" Harry asked a little confused about Anna saying she was sorry to Sirius.
"I wanted to answer all the questions you asked." Sirius said kind of disappointed.
"Why?" Harry asked just to see if Sirius would answer.
"I want to be more of a godfather to you." Sirius said and looked down at the table. "But no one well let me do any thing for you." He said sadly.
"Sirius I'm not a child any more. You need to heal properly so you'll be with me for every thing I need in the future. I need a family. And you're all I have left. I need you alive and healthy why do you think I went there that night to save you. With I almost got you killed." Harry said sadly and looked down at the table unable to look at his godfather any more.
"You, Lupin, and Anna are all I have left. You guys are my family. I'd risk my life to save you. That's my discission no one else's. So don't blame your self for that night Harry." Sirius said making Harry look up at him.
"You three are the only family I have left except the Dursleys but I never want to see them again. They're a horrible bunch of Muggles. I don't want to lose my only family left Sirius please be safe and don't do any thing rash." Harry said more in a pleading voice then any thing.
"Oh all right Harry I promise I won't do any thing rash as you put it. But if you're in trouble I won't just stand by and let every one else save you." Sirius said.
"Agreed. Same goes for me. If I know you're in trouble I won't just stand around while all the grown-ups try to save you either. Got it Sirius." Harry said.
"He's just like James! That's exactly what he would have said." Lupin said smiling at Harry.
"I really didn't expect anything less then that. Agreed Harry." Sirius said and shook hands with Harry.
"Good now that's settled maybe I can get you in bed and keep you there." Anna said carrying the egg's over to the table since Lupin had already set it for them and was now staring to carry the toast and bacon.
"Don't get your hopes up Anna." Sirius said out of the corner of his mouth as she walked back to the stove and got the biscuits.
"Oh Lupin, Dumbledor offered me the new Defense Against the Dark Arts position should I take it?" Anna asked.
"Yes!" Harry said at once. And every one just looked at him stunned.
"Well Why should she Harry?" Sirius asked.
"After that idiot we had teaching us last year we need some one who knows what they're doing." Harry answered after a moment but then had doubts. "But that'll leave Sirius here by himself again." Harry said sadly.
"No he won't. I already told Dumbledor that I'd asked Lupin and you what you thought, and if both of you thought it to be a good idea then I'd do it. But we'd have to find a way to hide Sirius in the castle cause I wasn't about to leave him hear alone with Kreacher." Anna said.
"He said he had the perfect place for Sirius to stay but that's still up to Sirius. You'd be closer to Harry." Anna said as she looked up to him and smiled at him.
"But what about the ministry and the Malfoy's?" Harry asked.
"Oh yeah Dumbledor said he's working on the Ministry and the Malfoy's well if they catch sight of him I can just take points off for lying." Anna said and smiled when Harry started laughing. "Dumb Slytherin's. What do you think Sirius." Harry asked.
"Well the Griffindor's hatred of the Slytherin's is still present. Sure. But it's still Anna's choice if we do it." Sirius said and smiled at them.
"That'll leave Lupin, Moody, or Kingsley here to watch head quarters at all times. They'll also have Molly and Author no doubt." Anna said and smiled. "I'll give Moody ten day's with out us here to kill Kreacher. Little traitoring thing, Moody hate's traitors, well in any case we're going I guess after Breakfast I'd better let Dumbledor know." Anna said then laughed a little.
"Aren't you an Auror Anna?" Harry asked.
"Was till I became a teacher." Anna said and smiled.
"What's it like?" Harry asked.
"Oh it's a lot of fun once you get the hang of it and all the stupid studding out of the way." Anna said and smiled. "Kingsley know what I mean. Why do you want to be an Auror Harry?" Anna asked.
"Yeah." Harry said and slightly blushed.
"Well Snap will be your toughest obstacle. He's all way's been a pain in the butt." Sirius said.
"Course you and James didn't make it any easier for him." Lupin said.
"Hay before you became a prefect you were right along side them." Anna reminded Lupin.
"Oh you remember that do you…" Lupin said smiling dumbly at her.
"Of course I remember you three were either torturing Snap or me." Anna said then smiled at the two guys setting across from her and Harry.
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Authors Note: all though I wish I did I don't own Harry Potter. Please review my story thought I'd really like to know what you think.