A/N: Hey there! Things get a little romantic here, but if you want real romance, well, that's going to come in the next couple of chapters.

Disclaimer: I wish I owned all the Harry Potter characters, but unfortunately, I don't. They Belong to J.K. Rowling.

Chapter 4

A Little Argument.

Harry appeared in Number 12, Grimmauld Place with Sirius. Sirius had managed to keep his balance but Harry was sitting on the floor, looking much shaken. He didn't exactly like Portkeys.

There were two loud cracks and Dumbledore and Tonks were by Harry's side.

"Sirius, you will need to look at some plans that we made while you were gone, and Tonks, could you fill him in? I really need to go now. Bye Harry, you will see me soon. Ms.Granger, Mr.Weasley, the next meeting of the Order will be tomorrow. Fill Harry in on everything." Dumbledore said and disappeared.

"Well, see you later Harry." Said Sirius.

"Same here." Said Tonks.

Tonks and Sirius walked out of the room, talking in low voices.

"Oh Harry, I'm so happy to see you again!" Hermione hugged him and kissed him on the cheek, taking Harry completely by surprise.

Harry looked at Hermione and saw that she looked different. Her hair wasn't all frizzy but sleek and straight. She also had on a little eye shadow and a berry colored lip gloss on her lips.

"Hermione, chill out," Said a dangly, freckled Ron, "Are you going to be cheating on me now?"

"Oh," Hermione said, turning red, "I was just welcoming Harry, that's all. It was nothing."

Harry sensed something was going on. "What do you know that I don't?" Harry was looking from Ron to Hermione suspiciously. "What's the hell is going on?"

Hermione and Ron looked at each other, (They were holding hands), "Well, you see, we are sort off uh, well we are-"

"Dating. They've been going steady for three years now." finished Ginny, who had just come into the living room with another girl that Harry didn't know.

"WHAT! ARE YOU KIDDING ME, IS THIS SOME KIND OF JOKE?"

Hermione and Ron turned really red.

"Well, that's the same thing that I said when they told me." Ginny said, giggling. "It turns out that they've been going out in secret since their third year."

"And you never told me?" Harry said incredulously, "I thought that we were friends and didn't keep any secrets from each other."

"Well Harry, we wanted to, but we thought that you would laugh at us so we went out in secret."

"But all that bickering and fighting was all fake?" asked Harry, feeling hurt that his best friends kept something that important from him for 3 years now. "When did you get together?"

"After the Dance in our fourth year." Said Hermione.

Harry turned to Ron, "And you never told me about this? How could you?"

"Dang, Harry, you're taking this even harder than me." Said Ginny. "I mean, Hermione does have bad taste in men, but seriously, Ron? Nobody would be crazy enough to go steady with him. I almost fainted of shock. But you're just ravin' mad."

"Mad? Well of course I'm mad. My friends have been keeping something that was clearly very important to them from me for 2 years. How could I not be mad?"

"Harry, do try to calm down."

"You know, she's right Harry, you do need to calm down." Said the new girl.

Harry looked at her and liked her right away. She looked pretty with her eye shadow and lip gloss. She had bright blue eyes and black hair which was up to her back that she wore in a ponytail.

He felt very foolish since she probably heard him shouting. Maybe she wouldn't like him anymore. He felt that he was truly in love, even though he didn't even know her name. Just play it cool, he thought, you might still have a chance with her.

"When did you get here?" he asked her.

"Just about 5 minutes ago. Ginny was showing me around."

"What's your name?"

"Susan, Susan Calsier."

"Do you go to Hogwarts?"

"I used to go to Rulfus Academy of Magic, but I'm going to Hogwarts this year."

"How do you know about the Order?"

"Minerva McGonagall is my grandma and my parents decided to be in the Order, so I had to move."

"Oh."

There was a moment of silence, and then Ginny said:

"Uh, I'm gonna go up to my room and write a letter to Victor Krum."

"Why?"

"Because he's my boyfriend now."

"When he shouldn't be. I don't trust anybody who goes out with you." Said Ron.

"Whatever."

Ginny left.

"Uh, I better go too, I need to unpack my trunk." Said Susan.

Harry stared after her, wishing that she wouldn't leave.

Hermione noticed this and said, "Harry, do you like her? Cause if you do, I can hook you two up."

Harry didn't answer but turned to Ron and Hermione, "So why didn't you tell me about you two?"

"Well, I thought that we were being pretty obvious." Said Hermione.

"Not obvious enough."

"We were just afraid to tell you, that's all. Now enough of this, Harry, let me help you with you trunk." Said Ron.

"I can carry it up myself." Said Harry finally, not looking at Ron. Without another word, Harry started dragging his trunk up the stairs.

Harry couldn't believe it. How could they keep something so big from him? Harry was angry at them, but in a way, he was sad. He knew that now that it was out in the open, Hermione and Ron would probably spend a lot of time together. Without him. They would be a couple and he would be by himself. This was the worst birthday present that he ever got in his life, even worse than a pair of Vernon's old stinky, smelly socks that the Dursleys gave him one birthday. Feeling very depressed, Harry opened the door to the room that he would have to share with Ron. He put the trunk and the cage down by his bed and lay down on his bed, staring at the ceiling. Maybe he should ask Sirius if he could move into another room, Ron and Hermione would probably want some time by themselves to snog each other. Harry didn't know why he was feeling like this. Was he actually jealous? He didn't even know why he acted the way he did. He knew that this year would be different, with Voldemort back and all, but he thought that at least his friends wouldn't change. How wrong he was. Turning onto his side, he fell asleep.

When Harry woke up, he found out that he was really hungry since he skipped lunch. He went into the kitchen and found out that Sirius and Lupin were there, drinking tea and eating cake.

"Hey, Harry, come drink some tea with us." Lupin invited him.

"'kay."

After Harry helped himself to some tea and cake, "So can you tell me what's going on with the Order?"

Lupin and Sirius exchanged looks.

"Didn't Hermione and Ron tell you already?"

Harry looked uncomfortable, "Uh, not yet."

"Why?" asked Sirius.

"I-I forgot to ask them." Lied Harry and tried to look as if he really did forget.

Sirius seemed to have guessed the truth, "You're not talking to them, are you?"

Harry nodded.

"What happened?"

Harry had no choice but to tell Sirius the whole story.

"Well, love can be strange." Said Sirius wisely.

"But why did they have to keep it from me? I would actually be talking to them right now if they were honest for the past 3 years." Harry said, his temper building up.

"Look at it from their point of view;" said Sirius, "they were afraid to tell you because they thought that you would take it the wrong way."

"And you did." Lupin pointed out.

Harry felt very foolish now. Sirius and Lupin both had a point. He wanted to run up the stairs, find Ron and Hermione and apologize to them. But his pride held him back.

"Okay, okay, now can you tell me what's going on with the order?" asked Harry.

"You should go ask them yourself." Said Sirius.

"I'm not going to right now."

"How about you go ask them in the morning?" suggested Lupin.

"Nah, I'll find Ginny and ask her."

"Did someone say my name?" asked Ginny who came into the kitchen, holding Crookshanks.

"I was just going to ask you what's been going on." Said Harry.

Ginny put the cat down. "Oh, well come on then, I'll tell you while you start unpacking."

Harry left the kitchen with Ginny.

Once they were out of earshot of Sirius and Lupin, Ginny said, "We are allowed to attend the meetings, but we can't actually hear the plans and top secret stuff since were Junior Members. We did try with Extendable Ears, but Mum put that charm on the door again so we can't hear."

"So what's going on?"

"Nothing much, the Order is trying to catch important Death Eaters so we can give them Veritaserum and ask them questions. The Order already got a lot of information from Malfoy and those Death Eaters that we captured last year. But from what they said, it seems like You-Know-Who has gotten about another couple hundred of Death Eaters. Also Dumbledore thinks that someone on our side is passing information to Voldemort."

"It's Snape."

"What are you talking about?" asked Ginny.

"Snape is the one that's passing information."

"How do you know?"

"Last night, I had one of my visions and I saw that Snape was with Voldemort. Has he been around lately?"

"Come to think of it, no. He's been gone for quite some time. Not that we missed him, actually, we were glad that he didn't hang around. He actually wanted to stay for dinner one night, can you believe that?"

"Strange." Harry said.

They didn't realize where they were going but they found themselves in upstairs, facing their rooms.

"Well, bye." Said Ginny.

"See ya in the morning."

Harry went into his room and Ginny went into the room across the hall.

Harry entered his room and did a double take. Ron was standing in the middle of the room, waiting for him to come in. When Harry got in, Hermione shut the door behind him.

"Now Harry, you will have to listen to what we got to say." Said Hermione who was leaning against the door so Harry wouldn't be able to get out.

"Look, we know that you're mad at us but can you actually explain why. You don't want us together or something?" asked Ron.

"No," Harry said irritably, "I don't give a damn if you're together or not. I'm mad since you didn't bother to tell me about you guys for 2 years now. Two years! Even though you are my so-called best friends. Two years!"

"Harry, we're very sorry, I understand what you're thinking." Said Hermione, "Like I said, we're very sorry. We have made a terrible mistake for not telling you."

"Well, it was a mistake and Hermione, this is the first mistake that you ever made, isn't it?" said Harry, calm again.

"Does this mean that you're not mad at us anymore?" Ron said.

"Yep."

"And that you're okay with us dating,"

"Couldn't be happier for you."

"Are you sure you're okay?" asked Hermione suspiciously.

"Yes, I'm fine," Harry answered, "I'm still a little mad at you, but not as mad as I was."

"Great. Now, does anybody want to play Gobstones? Fred and George lent me their game set."

"Personally, I would rather reread "House-Elf Slavery throughout the Years". Said Hermione importantly.

"Oh come on Hermione, give yourself a break, will you? You read that book 10 times already." said Ron.

"But it's so interesting. It's all about house-elves and how they-."

"Don't worry, you still have the whole school year to read your book, but when do you have time to hang out with a couple of friends? Come on, play for a while." Said Harry, grinning.

Hermione smiled and joined them in the game.

After ten games in a row, (which almost all of them were won by Ron), Mrs.Weasley said that it was time for bed. After saying their goodnights, (Ron kissed Hermione on the lips), Harry and Ron changed into their pajamas and fell asleep the minute their heads touched the pillow.

In the morning, Harry woke up to find out that Ron was already dressed and talking to him.

"Come on, the meeting is going to be in like 10 minutes. You better hurry up and get dressed."

"What meeting?" asked Harry, confused.

"Well, duh, Harry, the Orders meeting, and Hermione and I still haven't filled you in; you'll be so confused at the meeting."

"Its okay, Ginny filled me in."

Ron looked at Harry suspiciously, "Since when do you come to Ginny for answers?"

"Since he didn't want to ask you and Sirius and Lupin didn't want to tell him." Answered a new voice. Ginny came into the room. "You had better get dressed or there won't be any pancakes left. Fred and George are stuffing their mouths with them. I think that they're trying to make themselves puke." Ginny left the room.

Harry got up and dressed. He went downstairs and found out that Ginny was right. Fred and George were eating without swallowing. Harry did manage to retrieve a small stack from Fred and George.

Just as he finished, the doorbell rang. Mrs.Weasley went to get the door. Harry expected the screams of "FILTH, CREATURES OF DIRT, and HOW DARE YOU COME HERE-." But it didn't Harry sat there, confused.

Just then, Sirius came into the room.

"Sirius, where's that portrait of your mother?" he asked.

"I just found out that they stripped it down so she's not here anymore. And neither is the House-elf."

"Where's Kreacher?"

"He died of old age. Finally, it was about time for him to go. Come on, Harry, the meetings about to start."

He led Harry down to the room that the meeting was held in.

The meeting was unnaturally boring. Just as the good part started, Mrs.Weasley led them to another room and gave them some papers that they had to put a stamp on and put in an envelope.

"What are we, House-Elves?" grumbled Ron, his tongue all dry from licking all the envelopes.

"Well now you know how House-Elves feel when they have to do all that work." Said Hermione.

"Maybe we can listen in." suggested Fred, "Hopefully Mum forgot to put the charm on the door."

"Nope, it's there." Answered Ginny, "I already tried chucking stuff at it, it bounces away."

"Damn," George said softly, "We won't be able to hear anything that they're planning in there. We can't even hear one fucking report that they give."

"Watch your language." Hermione said crossly. "I don't know how Elizabeth puts up with you and your language and pranks-."

"She doesn't even know about them." Said Ron, "George acts his age around her and still makes a fool of himself."

George looked like he wanted to kill Ron, but he just glared at him.

The door opened and all the Order members began filing out. Everybody stopped what they were doing in hopes to hear something but the words were indistinguishable.

Mrs.Weasley opened the door. "Come on; get your booklist ready, we're going to Diagon Alley.

"Mrs.Weasley, is Sirius going to come with us?" Harry asked her.

"I'm sorry dear, but it would be unsafe for him to come out in the open. He has to go to a meeting with Fudge so Fudge can make a statement that he is not a murderer. Now, hurry up, don't dawdle."

Once everybody was ready, Mrs.Weasley gave everyone a little bit of Floo Powder. When it was Harry's turn, he stepped into the fireplace, thrown down the powder, and said "Diagon Alley". All at once he began spinning. Then he landed in the fireplace in The Leaky Cauldron. He got out and brushed himself off. After him Appeared Ginny, then Ron, then Hermione, then Mrs.Weasley. The twins apparated to the Leaky Cauldron.

Once they were there, all of them went into separate directions. They went in pairs and agreed to meet in The Leaky Cauldron in two hours. Hermione and Harry had to go to Madame Malkins for some new robes, Ginny went to find some of her friends, and Harry, who was very happy at the thought, had to go with Susan.

First they went to Gringotts, where they got some money out of their vaults, and then they went to the bookstore to get their books and all their other stuff. When they were finished with shopping, Harry bought both of them some blueberry swirl ice cream. (It was a new flavor) at Florean Florescue's Ice Cream Parlor.

"You're gonna like it here in Hogwarts. What classes are you going to take this year?"

"Well, I want to be a healer, so I'm gonna have to take Transfiguration, Potions, Herbology, Charms and Defense against the Dark Arts. What are your classes?"

"Defense against the Dark Arts, Potions, Transfiguration and Charms so I could be an Auror."

"Oh, you have almost all the same classes that I do, except I have more."

There was silence as both of them slurped their ice cream.

"Hey, do you want to go to the Quidditch supplies store?"

"Sure, I love Quidditch."

"Great. Do you play Quidditch?"

"Yeah. On my old team I was a chaser."

"Cool On our team we need three more chasers. You should try out."

"OK, what time are the tryouts?"

"I don't know yet, when do you think it should be? I'm the captain so I get to decide when it will be. I'm also the seeker of our team."

"How about on Friday of the first week of school?"

"Sounds perfect." Like you, Harry thought.

They reached the store. On display, there was a Sandy 3000, a brand new broomstick that had just come out. It was only second best next to the Firebolt.

"My parents bought me this broomstick for my birthday." Said Susan, pointing at the Sandy 3000. "What kind of broom do you have?"

"A Firebolt."

"Wow, a firebolt? Where did you get the money to buy one?"

"My godfather bought it for me for Christmas."

They talked about Quidditch for a while. Harry was surprised at how relaxed and at home she seemed to be. On the other hand, Harry felt like as though he ate something very squirmy from breakfast.

Then they went to Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. (I don't know how to spell it). Harry was surprised at all the stuff that Fred and George invented. From fake wands to ton tongue toffees, Sirius would have been proud of all the tricks that they made. Harry got a slight pang at the thought of Sirius being alone in the gloomy house. Harry and Susan didn't actually buy anything from the joke shop, (although the twins even wanted to give them special discounts). It was time to be heading back so Harry and Susan managed to escape the Weasley twins and got out of the shop.

When they were heading back to the Leaky Cauldron, Harry and Susan met Ron and Hermione.

"Hey, Harry, did you get everything you need?" asked Hermione.

"Yeah."

"You should have gone with us. We went to Fred and George's joke shop, you would not believe it! There was like all the stuff that they ever invented, they're going to put Zonko's out of business."

"I know, we went there too. Did you go to Florean Florescue's Ice Cream Parlor? They had a new flavor there."

"Nope, we didn't have enough time because Hermione wanted a new quill. She just had to spend the last 30 minutes picking out a new quill." Ron glowered at Hermione.

"Well, I couldn't decide, they were both so pretty." Said Hermione.

Ron gave an exasperated sigh.

"See, that's why it's better not to even go near that shop or you will find an hour wasted at choosing quills." Said Harry.

"Speaking of that, I do need a new quill, I forgot to buy one." Susan said.

"Alright, we'll go back to buy you your quill." Harry said, smiling.

"It's okay, I'll go by myself, and you wait here."

"No, I'll come with you."

Susan smiled and blushed. Harry and Susan left together.

"What the hell is going on?" Hermione asked Ron.

"I don't know about you, but I think that both of them fancy each other. Did you see how close both of them were standing next to each other?"

"Yeah, they definitely like each other."

"It's for the best. Harry does need a girlfriend. Cho gave him too much trouble, I wonder if he's over her yet."

Just then, Susan and Harry came in, followed by Ginny and Mrs.Weasley.

"Did you get your quill?" Ron asked Susan.

"Yes, it's a blue one."

"Just like the color of your eyes." said Harry.

Susan giggled.

Hermione and Ron looked at each other. Harry was being pretty obvious. Too obvious, to tell the truth. He must have really liked the girl.

"Here," Mrs.Weasley said, giving all of them some Floo Powder.

Each of them took it and traveled back to Sirius's house. Once there, Harry put his new books in his trunk and unpacked his clothes that he didn't unpack the night before. He never actually got around to do the task the night before.

The rest of the two weeks passed uneventfully. Harry and the gang didn't find out anything new from the Order since Mrs.Weasley always made sure that they couldn't overhear a single word. Finally, it was the day before the start of school. Everybody seemed to spend the day trying to find all their belongings. After Harry found most of his, he decided to look for Sirius. He found him in his mother's room, feeding Buckbeak.

"Hey Sirius."

"Oh hey, Harry, I didn't hear you come in." Sirius answered.

"Are you going to go to Platform 9 ¾ with us tomorrow?"

"Yep. As long as I wear a disguise so that no Death Eater could recognize me."

"What will your disguise be?"

"I'm going to be dressed like an old man." Sirius scowled at the thought.

"Hey Sirius."

"Yeah."

"You know that mirror that you gave me last year?"

Sirius nodded.

"Well, can I talk to you through it while I'm at Hogwarts?"

"Sure." He said enthusiastically. "I would love that."

"Aren't you going to be lonely here by yourself?" asked Harry.

"Not really. Dumbledore decided that I could go and do work for the Order. He said that since Voldemort is out in the open, and fudge already made his statement, I'm free and could do whatever I please."

"Then why do you have to wear a disguise tomorrow?"

"So I won't be seen with you, Harry. If some disguised Death Eater sees me with you, there's no telling what he might do. Now you better go to bed so you will be fresh tomorrow."

"'kay. Night Sirius."

"See you in the morning."

Harry went to the room that he was sharing with Ron. He opened the door and found out that Ron was asleep. He crept to his bed, changed into his pj's, and lay a long time, thinking about things. When he did fall asleep, he found himself dreaming of Susan.

A/N: Okay, now. I need more reviews. I'm not posting another chapter until I have 10 reviews so right now, I need 3 more. The person who will post the 10th review will receive special thanks written in the next chapter. So hurry up and read. Peace.