Chapter Seven
Holiday At Grimmauld's Place
Harry sat in the bedroom he still shared with Ron, and just sat there thinking over his encounter with Bellatrix. All those muggles, He thought. If I had known earlier, they wouldn't have had to die. I didn't get any vision for the whole summer. And what does she mean by Voldemort having greater plans for me? Surely he wouldn't want me for my blood again will he? Bellatrix, why didn't I just kill her that time? I swore that I would kill her when I met her. But what she said was true, I might just give her a nosebleed even if I did try killing her. I couldn't even curse her properly with the Cruciatus Charm, why would I succeed in killing her? Harry sat in an armchair with his knees tucked up under his chin, as many thoughts came and went like a blizzard.
There was a knock from the door, which made Harry look up. "Come in." He said, in a quiet voice. The door opened, it was Hermione and Ron, each carrying a plate of food enough for three. "We thought we would just eat in here with you." She said curtly. Ron plopped down on the other armchair and started attacking his food with as much enthusiasm he could muster. Hermione dropped onto the bed and ate her food at a just right pace. Bite, chew, chew, chew, swallow, and start again.
Harry only nibbled his chops, with a long sigh. Hermione raised her eyebrows and said: "Oh for goodness sakes, Harry. First, it wasn't your fault that those muggles were attacked. Second, it's no use wondering what Voldemort's plans are. And third, you couldn't have killed her even if you wanted to."
Apparently, the she meant Bellatrix. "So get a grip on yourself Harry. Cheer up, don't let this ruin your summer holiday."
Her words cheered Harry up slightly and made him realize that he was being a git again. He glanced up at her and grinned, "Wicked Hermione! You read my mind!"
She just grinned in a knowingly way and huffed, "Of course I know Harry, how can I not know when I have known you for six years!"
"Umph, she's right mate. *munch munch*Just by looking at your face *munch, we know what you are thinking." Added Ron.
"Ron!" exclaimed Hermione, giving him a death glare. "Don't talk when you still have food in your mouth!"
Ron seemed to shrink before her eyes. He looked down and muttered, "girls", and resumed eating.
"Well," said Harry brightly. Trying to break the tension that had sprung up between Ron and Hermione. "We still have a month to go before school starts. What do you reckon we do?"
"I'd say that we start reading some of our new textbooks. We're going to have our NEWTs next year! I've started studying already, so if you guys want to graduate with flying colors, then I suggest you start now!" Hermione said, with her usual tone of impatience when it comes to pushing the boys to study.
"Hermione, give us a break would you? Harry finally escapes from the Dursleys and now you're starting to make this place a Study Hell (*Hall*). Come on Harry, let's play a game of wizard chess. See if your strategy skills have improved over the summer."
" Improvement! As if Dudley would so much sit down and play chess with me." Harry snorted. That's when he remembered the Gameboy Dudley gave him the day before he left the Dursleys. Ron would surely be thrilled to play a game with a muggle device.
"Wait here, Ron. I've got just the thing to play with!" Harry hurried over to his trunk and pulled out the Gameboy, still half wrapped in the wrinkled wrapping paper.
He retrieved back to the bed, and tossed the gaming device to Ron.
"Harry, what is that thing?" asked Ron.
"It's-
"It's a muggle gaming device, called a Gameboy," Explained Hermione before Harry could open his mouth, "but to me, it's totally a waste of time playing that thing. I would rather go and find a good book."
"What does it do?" Ron asked as he examined every square inch of it. He jumped and almost dropped the Gameboy when he pushed a button and images started to appear out of the screen. It was an old Mario game, with a stupid song while you played.
"Bloody hell Harry, this is fascinating!" Ron yelled with excitement. He started tinkering with the other buttons and found out what they all do. In less then 10 minutes, Ron was sprawled on the bed, his long legs sticking out from the bed, playing Mario with utmost concentration, and had actually gotten past level one already.
Harry watched with amusement at Ron, thinking it was really funny that Ron could get so interested in a Gameboy. But quickly, his mind shifted towards what he was planning to do with the last month before school. He thought maybe he would play Quidditch with Ron and the twins, since he hadn't had a chance to anyways all because of that Toad. But then he couldn't play Quidditch all the time, he needed other things to keep him busy. Suddenly, without knowing why, he was suddenly blazed with a fire in his heart. I will become a powerful Auror, and I will kill you Voldemort, let's see who shall die so the other can live! Harry clenched his fist with determination, and found himself even sweating a little.
"What's wrong Harry?" Hermione asked when she saw him.
"Hermione," he said, "Hermione I need you to help me study."
Harry thought Hermione would look surprised and ask him why he wanted to do that. But instead, she grinned, and said, "You're finally taking a leaf out of my book, Harry."
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So here came the busiest holiday Harry would ever had. The next day, he got up early in the morning to play Quidditch with Ron, George, Fred, and Ginny.
Since they didn't have any snitches, Harry played Chaser. So in the game, Ron played Keeper, Fred and George played Beater by levitating watermelons and hitting them towards the Chasers. Ginny and Bill also played Chasers. The point of the game was to try and throw in as much goals as possible. While Fred, George, and Ron tried to prevent them from entering any goals.
Harry kicked up on his Firebolt and sped up towards the sky feeling free and relaxed. The cool autumn wind whipped against his face, the fresh smell of autumn leaves made him forget everything but flying. He turned around to find all the others in the air too, and flew towards them.
"Everyone ready?" asked Fred grinning towards Harry.
"I was born ready." Grinned Harry.
And so the whole morning was spent playing Quidditch. Harry and the others trotted back during lunchtime looking dirty, disheveled, but happy in other words. Ron was a sight, he still had watermelon seeds stuck in his hair.
"Ron! What happened to you?" cried Mrs. Weasley, "Scourgify!" she muttered, doing a cleaning charm. Instantly, the watermelon seeds vanished.
"I see you like what we did to ickle Ronnikins." Smirked Fred.
"We feel very honored to tell you the story." Added George.
"Oh no you-
Before Ron could finish his sentence, George had already casted a Silencing Charm on him. Then the twins launched into the tale of how Ron got those watermelon seeds.
It turned out that Fred and George were hitting the watermelon towards Harry, because he was just going to score. Harry, with his natural born quick reflexes ducked out of the way just in time, while the watermelon zoomed into Ron's face. It splattered and left Ron with his hair full of watermelon seeds after the watermelon juice dried from his hair. Mrs. Weasley sighed and said, "be careful next time Ron."
They had a delicious lunch of spaghetti and meatballs, with some cream custard for dessert. Fred and George said that they had to get back to their joke shop and dissapparated. Ginny went back to her room, saying that she still had a bit of homework left to do. Harry, Ron and Hermione trampled upstairs to Harry and Ron's room to study, ("I'll just do a little study and go play that Gameboy" said Ron). Harry opened Advanced Transfiguration For 6th Years Hermione bought in Diagon Alley yesterday, and started reading.
Introduction of 6th Year Advanced Transfiguration. In 6th Year Transfiguration, students will be mainly attempting Conjuring Spells, Advanced Vanishing spells, Animagus, and Advanced Switching Spells. In order to learn Conjuring Spells, students must first finish Advanced Vanishing Spells. Animagus will not be attempted until the end of the year and even so, it is not required to accomplish them. However, points will be added to your Transfiguration NEWTs if Animagus transfiguration is successful.
Advanced Switching Spells The difference between Switching Spells and Advanced Switching Spells is that Advanced Switching Spells require even more concentration, and are for switching complex objects, like things that do not seem physically there, or switch a function of an object onto another object. The theory of this spell is to first learn the structures of the object you are attempting to switch and it's function if needed.
Harry slowly slipped into a dream, he felt himself zooming over hills and rivers, and then into a dark building. He could smell death in the atmosphere, and didn't need to think twice before he knew where he was. A group of Death Eaters were huddled in a circled, and in the center of the circle stood the darkest wizard that history ever had. Voldemort was pacing around, seemingly to be waiting for something. Suddenly the circle of Death Eaters broke apart, when another Death Eater came through holding a limp form. "Awaken her." Voldemort demanded. "Ennervate" drawled the voice which seemed to be Lucius Malfoy. The form slowly stood up. Harry gasped, no it can't be, he thought, how could that have happened? The figure turned out to be Nymphadora Tonks. "Crucio" said Voldemort with a bored voice. Sounding as if he did this spell so often it bored him. Which was true, since he really did do this spell at least 10 times a day. Harry's scar immediately started hurting like mad, as if it was going to split his head in half.
"AAHHH-
"Harry, HARRY!" a voice cried. Harry opened his eyes and found Ron and Hermione looking at him anxiously.
"Voldemort.Tonks." He managed to say. They immediately paled, getting exactly the message.
"It.it can't be..Tonks is an Auror.how can she get caught so easily?" asked Hermione, looking to Ron for comfort.
"I was there, I saw her, Voldemort was torturing her." Said Harry, after regaining his strength. His scar still tingled but it was much better.
Hermione looked alarmed. "Unless..yes, this could be it." She muttered to herself.
"Unless what, Hermione?" asked Ron.
"Unless Voldemort is trying to lure Harry into being the hero again. Unless Tonks was never captured." She said quickly.
"I guess it's time to use that mirror of you mom's, Ron. We should contact Tonks first, and then tell Dumbldore." Said Harry.
"Mirror? What Mirror?" asked Ron.
"Remember yesterday I met Bellatrix?" They nodded, frowning at the name of Bellatrix, "Well after I came back, Mrs. Weasley used this mirror she kept with her and contacted Remus. I guess that's one way the Order keep in touch with each other." Explained Harry.
"So that's how the Order keep in touch! I've always wondered how they get messages to each other when they can't in any other ways." Cried Hermione.
"What are we waiting for then? Let's go!" said Ron as he bolted towards the door.
They found Mrs. Weasley in the kitchen. Harry explained his dream to her and Hermione explained their theories of the dream being fake and Voldemort trying to lure Harry to act the hero once again. Mrs. Weasley looked shocked, but quickly pulled out her mirror and tapped it with her wand. "Communication mode: normal, Recipient: Nymphadora Tonks, Sender: Molly Weasley." The kitchen was quiet. Even a pin dropping onto the floor would have seemed loud. Everybody was holding their breaths, wishing that Harry's dream wasn't real.
After a few seconds, Tonks cheery face appeared on the mirror. "Wotcher Molly!" she said. Everybody slowly sighed. Tonks looked around seeing their relieved faces and joked, "You seem as if you thought I was captured by Voldemort or something."
"Oh, but that was just what we were thinking Tonks." Replied Molly. She explained the story to Tonks, who looked paler by the second.
"By golly!" was all she could say after the explanation. "You should tell Dumbledore, Molly."
"That is just what we are going to do. Maybe you should come here too because Dumbledore might call an emergency meeting. And tell Arthur for me will you?" said Mrs. Weasley.
"Sure. Be right there."
After that, Mrs. Weasley alerted Dumbledore. Dumbledore looked grave after he heard the story, he told Molly to alert all the people from the Order for an emergency meeting.
Lupin, Moody, Mundungus, and all the other people in the Order arrived minutes later, all looking bedazzled at to why they were being called on for an emergency meeting. Dumbledore arrived not moments later. He walked over to Harry and said, "Harry, I wish you to participate in this meeting," he nodded towards Hermione and Ron, "you two should join too."
Everybody went down to the kitchen and settled down. Mrs. Weasley bustled around getting out butterbeer and pumpkin juice out. Dumbledore marched up to the front of the room and said,
"This meeting will come to order."
Holiday At Grimmauld's Place
Harry sat in the bedroom he still shared with Ron, and just sat there thinking over his encounter with Bellatrix. All those muggles, He thought. If I had known earlier, they wouldn't have had to die. I didn't get any vision for the whole summer. And what does she mean by Voldemort having greater plans for me? Surely he wouldn't want me for my blood again will he? Bellatrix, why didn't I just kill her that time? I swore that I would kill her when I met her. But what she said was true, I might just give her a nosebleed even if I did try killing her. I couldn't even curse her properly with the Cruciatus Charm, why would I succeed in killing her? Harry sat in an armchair with his knees tucked up under his chin, as many thoughts came and went like a blizzard.
There was a knock from the door, which made Harry look up. "Come in." He said, in a quiet voice. The door opened, it was Hermione and Ron, each carrying a plate of food enough for three. "We thought we would just eat in here with you." She said curtly. Ron plopped down on the other armchair and started attacking his food with as much enthusiasm he could muster. Hermione dropped onto the bed and ate her food at a just right pace. Bite, chew, chew, chew, swallow, and start again.
Harry only nibbled his chops, with a long sigh. Hermione raised her eyebrows and said: "Oh for goodness sakes, Harry. First, it wasn't your fault that those muggles were attacked. Second, it's no use wondering what Voldemort's plans are. And third, you couldn't have killed her even if you wanted to."
Apparently, the she meant Bellatrix. "So get a grip on yourself Harry. Cheer up, don't let this ruin your summer holiday."
Her words cheered Harry up slightly and made him realize that he was being a git again. He glanced up at her and grinned, "Wicked Hermione! You read my mind!"
She just grinned in a knowingly way and huffed, "Of course I know Harry, how can I not know when I have known you for six years!"
"Umph, she's right mate. *munch munch*Just by looking at your face *munch, we know what you are thinking." Added Ron.
"Ron!" exclaimed Hermione, giving him a death glare. "Don't talk when you still have food in your mouth!"
Ron seemed to shrink before her eyes. He looked down and muttered, "girls", and resumed eating.
"Well," said Harry brightly. Trying to break the tension that had sprung up between Ron and Hermione. "We still have a month to go before school starts. What do you reckon we do?"
"I'd say that we start reading some of our new textbooks. We're going to have our NEWTs next year! I've started studying already, so if you guys want to graduate with flying colors, then I suggest you start now!" Hermione said, with her usual tone of impatience when it comes to pushing the boys to study.
"Hermione, give us a break would you? Harry finally escapes from the Dursleys and now you're starting to make this place a Study Hell (*Hall*). Come on Harry, let's play a game of wizard chess. See if your strategy skills have improved over the summer."
" Improvement! As if Dudley would so much sit down and play chess with me." Harry snorted. That's when he remembered the Gameboy Dudley gave him the day before he left the Dursleys. Ron would surely be thrilled to play a game with a muggle device.
"Wait here, Ron. I've got just the thing to play with!" Harry hurried over to his trunk and pulled out the Gameboy, still half wrapped in the wrinkled wrapping paper.
He retrieved back to the bed, and tossed the gaming device to Ron.
"Harry, what is that thing?" asked Ron.
"It's-
"It's a muggle gaming device, called a Gameboy," Explained Hermione before Harry could open his mouth, "but to me, it's totally a waste of time playing that thing. I would rather go and find a good book."
"What does it do?" Ron asked as he examined every square inch of it. He jumped and almost dropped the Gameboy when he pushed a button and images started to appear out of the screen. It was an old Mario game, with a stupid song while you played.
"Bloody hell Harry, this is fascinating!" Ron yelled with excitement. He started tinkering with the other buttons and found out what they all do. In less then 10 minutes, Ron was sprawled on the bed, his long legs sticking out from the bed, playing Mario with utmost concentration, and had actually gotten past level one already.
Harry watched with amusement at Ron, thinking it was really funny that Ron could get so interested in a Gameboy. But quickly, his mind shifted towards what he was planning to do with the last month before school. He thought maybe he would play Quidditch with Ron and the twins, since he hadn't had a chance to anyways all because of that Toad. But then he couldn't play Quidditch all the time, he needed other things to keep him busy. Suddenly, without knowing why, he was suddenly blazed with a fire in his heart. I will become a powerful Auror, and I will kill you Voldemort, let's see who shall die so the other can live! Harry clenched his fist with determination, and found himself even sweating a little.
"What's wrong Harry?" Hermione asked when she saw him.
"Hermione," he said, "Hermione I need you to help me study."
Harry thought Hermione would look surprised and ask him why he wanted to do that. But instead, she grinned, and said, "You're finally taking a leaf out of my book, Harry."
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So here came the busiest holiday Harry would ever had. The next day, he got up early in the morning to play Quidditch with Ron, George, Fred, and Ginny.
Since they didn't have any snitches, Harry played Chaser. So in the game, Ron played Keeper, Fred and George played Beater by levitating watermelons and hitting them towards the Chasers. Ginny and Bill also played Chasers. The point of the game was to try and throw in as much goals as possible. While Fred, George, and Ron tried to prevent them from entering any goals.
Harry kicked up on his Firebolt and sped up towards the sky feeling free and relaxed. The cool autumn wind whipped against his face, the fresh smell of autumn leaves made him forget everything but flying. He turned around to find all the others in the air too, and flew towards them.
"Everyone ready?" asked Fred grinning towards Harry.
"I was born ready." Grinned Harry.
And so the whole morning was spent playing Quidditch. Harry and the others trotted back during lunchtime looking dirty, disheveled, but happy in other words. Ron was a sight, he still had watermelon seeds stuck in his hair.
"Ron! What happened to you?" cried Mrs. Weasley, "Scourgify!" she muttered, doing a cleaning charm. Instantly, the watermelon seeds vanished.
"I see you like what we did to ickle Ronnikins." Smirked Fred.
"We feel very honored to tell you the story." Added George.
"Oh no you-
Before Ron could finish his sentence, George had already casted a Silencing Charm on him. Then the twins launched into the tale of how Ron got those watermelon seeds.
It turned out that Fred and George were hitting the watermelon towards Harry, because he was just going to score. Harry, with his natural born quick reflexes ducked out of the way just in time, while the watermelon zoomed into Ron's face. It splattered and left Ron with his hair full of watermelon seeds after the watermelon juice dried from his hair. Mrs. Weasley sighed and said, "be careful next time Ron."
They had a delicious lunch of spaghetti and meatballs, with some cream custard for dessert. Fred and George said that they had to get back to their joke shop and dissapparated. Ginny went back to her room, saying that she still had a bit of homework left to do. Harry, Ron and Hermione trampled upstairs to Harry and Ron's room to study, ("I'll just do a little study and go play that Gameboy" said Ron). Harry opened Advanced Transfiguration For 6th Years Hermione bought in Diagon Alley yesterday, and started reading.
Introduction of 6th Year Advanced Transfiguration. In 6th Year Transfiguration, students will be mainly attempting Conjuring Spells, Advanced Vanishing spells, Animagus, and Advanced Switching Spells. In order to learn Conjuring Spells, students must first finish Advanced Vanishing Spells. Animagus will not be attempted until the end of the year and even so, it is not required to accomplish them. However, points will be added to your Transfiguration NEWTs if Animagus transfiguration is successful.
Advanced Switching Spells The difference between Switching Spells and Advanced Switching Spells is that Advanced Switching Spells require even more concentration, and are for switching complex objects, like things that do not seem physically there, or switch a function of an object onto another object. The theory of this spell is to first learn the structures of the object you are attempting to switch and it's function if needed.
Harry slowly slipped into a dream, he felt himself zooming over hills and rivers, and then into a dark building. He could smell death in the atmosphere, and didn't need to think twice before he knew where he was. A group of Death Eaters were huddled in a circled, and in the center of the circle stood the darkest wizard that history ever had. Voldemort was pacing around, seemingly to be waiting for something. Suddenly the circle of Death Eaters broke apart, when another Death Eater came through holding a limp form. "Awaken her." Voldemort demanded. "Ennervate" drawled the voice which seemed to be Lucius Malfoy. The form slowly stood up. Harry gasped, no it can't be, he thought, how could that have happened? The figure turned out to be Nymphadora Tonks. "Crucio" said Voldemort with a bored voice. Sounding as if he did this spell so often it bored him. Which was true, since he really did do this spell at least 10 times a day. Harry's scar immediately started hurting like mad, as if it was going to split his head in half.
"AAHHH-
"Harry, HARRY!" a voice cried. Harry opened his eyes and found Ron and Hermione looking at him anxiously.
"Voldemort.Tonks." He managed to say. They immediately paled, getting exactly the message.
"It.it can't be..Tonks is an Auror.how can she get caught so easily?" asked Hermione, looking to Ron for comfort.
"I was there, I saw her, Voldemort was torturing her." Said Harry, after regaining his strength. His scar still tingled but it was much better.
Hermione looked alarmed. "Unless..yes, this could be it." She muttered to herself.
"Unless what, Hermione?" asked Ron.
"Unless Voldemort is trying to lure Harry into being the hero again. Unless Tonks was never captured." She said quickly.
"I guess it's time to use that mirror of you mom's, Ron. We should contact Tonks first, and then tell Dumbldore." Said Harry.
"Mirror? What Mirror?" asked Ron.
"Remember yesterday I met Bellatrix?" They nodded, frowning at the name of Bellatrix, "Well after I came back, Mrs. Weasley used this mirror she kept with her and contacted Remus. I guess that's one way the Order keep in touch with each other." Explained Harry.
"So that's how the Order keep in touch! I've always wondered how they get messages to each other when they can't in any other ways." Cried Hermione.
"What are we waiting for then? Let's go!" said Ron as he bolted towards the door.
They found Mrs. Weasley in the kitchen. Harry explained his dream to her and Hermione explained their theories of the dream being fake and Voldemort trying to lure Harry to act the hero once again. Mrs. Weasley looked shocked, but quickly pulled out her mirror and tapped it with her wand. "Communication mode: normal, Recipient: Nymphadora Tonks, Sender: Molly Weasley." The kitchen was quiet. Even a pin dropping onto the floor would have seemed loud. Everybody was holding their breaths, wishing that Harry's dream wasn't real.
After a few seconds, Tonks cheery face appeared on the mirror. "Wotcher Molly!" she said. Everybody slowly sighed. Tonks looked around seeing their relieved faces and joked, "You seem as if you thought I was captured by Voldemort or something."
"Oh, but that was just what we were thinking Tonks." Replied Molly. She explained the story to Tonks, who looked paler by the second.
"By golly!" was all she could say after the explanation. "You should tell Dumbledore, Molly."
"That is just what we are going to do. Maybe you should come here too because Dumbledore might call an emergency meeting. And tell Arthur for me will you?" said Mrs. Weasley.
"Sure. Be right there."
After that, Mrs. Weasley alerted Dumbledore. Dumbledore looked grave after he heard the story, he told Molly to alert all the people from the Order for an emergency meeting.
Lupin, Moody, Mundungus, and all the other people in the Order arrived minutes later, all looking bedazzled at to why they were being called on for an emergency meeting. Dumbledore arrived not moments later. He walked over to Harry and said, "Harry, I wish you to participate in this meeting," he nodded towards Hermione and Ron, "you two should join too."
Everybody went down to the kitchen and settled down. Mrs. Weasley bustled around getting out butterbeer and pumpkin juice out. Dumbledore marched up to the front of the room and said,
"This meeting will come to order."