Harry was on the doorstep of Grimmauld place. He was happy and nervous at the same time. As he stepped in he was immediately smothered in hugs handshakes, and hellos. Hermoine was the first to get to him and she almost suffocated him since she was hugging him so tight, Ron gave him a friendly pat on the back and greeting, and Ginny even gave him a small hug. Then, when he could finally breath again Mrs. Weasley came and crushed him in another hug. Just as last year there was an order meeting going on. Soon they were all ushered upstairs to the bedroom that Harry would share with Ron. Harry walked up the stairs and saw all of the Black family portraits, he thought of Sirius and all of the things he had done with him. He was able to talk to Sirius about anything. All of a sudden a wave of emotion swept over him, remembering that his was Sirius' house, but he forced himself to stay together, because he had a lot of explaining to do to his friends. They went into the bedroom and Harry sat his stuff in a corner. He sat on one of the beds and Ginny sat down next to him, while Ron and Hermoine sat on the other bed. Hermoine was the first to speak "So, how have you been this summer Harry?" she asked, sounding like she was afraid he might yell at her like he had last year. "I have been a lot better than I thought I would be," he said, "a lot happened, but I have also been thinking about the department of mysteries a lot." "Well, you look like you have at least been getting out, you look nothing like you did last year,'' said Hermoine. "Yea, well I went to the park to think a lot, and I know I didn't write to you two a lot, but I wrote to Ginny and I told her a little bit of what happened. I have a lot to tell all of you." "Well we have all night," said Ron, "the last time they had a meeting, they were in there until two o clock in the morning.'' Harry sighed; this was not going to be easy. "Well just promise to let me get through everything before you interrupt me, please," said Harry. "Okay," they all responded. "Well you remember the prophecy that got smashed in the department of mysteries?" asked Harry "Yes," said Hermoine, "It got smashed so no one heard it." "Well no one heard it that night, but their are two people who knew about it before. Dumbledore and Trewlawney." "What does that old bat have to do with this?" asked Ron. "Well," said Harry, "she is the one who gave the prophecy, and Dumbledore was the one who was there to hear it." "Did he tell you what it said?" asked Ginny. "Yes," Harry responded, "he told me last year after we all got back. The prophecy basically says that either I have to kill Voldemort or he has to kill me." The three others just stared at him. "Well he has to be killed eventually anyway doesn't he?" asked Ginny. "Let me explain it the best I can remember," said Harry, trying to remember exactly what Dumbledore had told him, "The prophecy said that Voldemort would mark his equal, who was born on the seventh moon and whose parents had defied him three times, but the chosen one has a power he knows not. And one cannot live while the other survives, so one must die at the hand of the other. "So basically what you are saying," said Hermoine, "is that Voldemort marked you by giving you your scar because you were born in July and you are considered his equal, or have power equal to him, and that you have to kill him or he has to kill you." "That's exactly what I am saying," said Harry, not surprised that Hermoine had figured it out so fast. "The thing is... Dumbledore told me that Voldemort had two choices. He could have chosen Neville, but chose to mark me as the one equal to his power." "Oh, Harry," said Hermoine, running over and giving him a hug, "you have nothing to worry about. We can look in books and find ways to help you, you can kill him I know you can." "I am going to try my best, but I am still trying to sort out everything that's happened so I haven't had time to do much except study my defense books." "Don't worry mate," said Ron, "you know we will always be here to help you, you wont have to face this alone." "Thanks you guys, "said Harry, "but there's one more thing I need to tell you." "What is it Harry?" asked Hermoine sounding concerned. "Well you know how my cousin went to summer camp over the summer?" "Yes" "Well as you also know he came back with a few broken bones." "Yes, but what does this have to do with anything Harry?" asked Ron. "Well," started Harry, "when he came back he wanted to talk to me, which I found odd, but anyway, he told me that all of a sudden he felt all cold like he had when the Dementors attacked us last year, then he said someone screamed from the forest and when they went to see what was wrong they found a girl in the woods. Dudley said that when they got to her, she was alive, but she wouldn't talk and would barely move." The three other people in the room gasped. "You think they kissed her?" asked Hermione. "From the way Dudley described it I'm pretty sure." "But why would Dementors attack a muggle summer camp?" asked Hermoine. "I don't know," said Harry, "but that's not all. I guess when they took the girl back; they made everyone go back to their cabins. Dudley said that after a while there was a flash of green light and all of the cabins suddenly caught on fire. As he was trying to get out he fell on the ground, and a few seconds later a hooded figure came in. he said that it must not have seen him, but he heard it shout 'obliviate'. He said after that it disappeared and none of his friends could remember what had happened when they got out." Hermoine and Ron gasped, Ginny just looked scared at hearing the whole story. Hermoine looked deep in though which did not surprise Harry and she was the first to speak, which didn't surprise him either. "So Voldemort must have sent Dementors to kiss that girl and distract everyone so that Death eaters could get into the cabins, and when everyone was in their cabins they set them on fire and then memory charmed them." "That's pretty much what I got out of it," said Harry with a sigh. "But what I don't get is why he attacked in the first place" "I mean, he had a dementor kiss a girl, and he set the place on fire, but what did that do except scare people?" "I don't know," said Hermoine, "Have you talked to Dumbledore?" "No, but I really need to," said Harry with a quick glance at Ginny. "Hmm I guess we will just have to wait and see," said Hermoine. "Lets go check on the meeting." "You two go ahead," said Harry to Hermoine and Ron, "I want to talk to Ginny for a minute." The two gave him odd looks but went through the door and Harry heard them going downstairs. He turned to Ginny. "So, how have you been Ginny?" asked Harry, mainly just to get conversation going. "Oh, pretty good I guess, with the exception that if I leave Ron and Hermoine alone and then come back to them I always find them snogging." "Well I guess we all saw that one coming," said Harry. "Why didn't they tell me?" "Well, no offense, but I think they were afraid you might get mad and feel like they were making you the third wheel." "Well, I certainly don't feel that way, they have needed to get together since third year, but I guess I could play dumb," he said with a mischievous smile. "Just don't get me in trouble," said Ginny. "They get mad enough when I walk in on them, even if I told them that I would be right back." Harry just laughed. They were silent for a few minutes and Harry found himself string at Ginny curiously. Her style had changed over the last few years. She was wearing a small tank top and shorts, which Harry noticed hugged her frame in all of the right places. He also noticed that she had on makeup. She was not a little girl any more. When Harry realized what he had been doing and blushed slightly. Ginny saw this and realized that he had been staring at her. She thought it was funny that Harry would stare at her and then blush, but she had been doing the same thing to him. She knew that he had probably noticed her change of style. She was no longer an awkward little girl, she had grown into her body and she had the clothes to show it. His style had changed as well. Ginny could tell through the black tee shirt he was wearing that quidditch had done him good. Harry decided to break the silence and plunge right in to what he needed to ask her about. "Have you had anymore nightmares?" he asked. "No," said Ginny, "not since I had the same one as you." "I think that next time Dumbledore is here we should talk to him, especially if it were to happen again. " "I agree," said Ginny. "I don't know why Voldemort would give us of all people a connection." "You never know with Voldemort," said Harry. "But there had to be a reason." "So what exactly are we going to tell him?" asked Ginny, "Just tell him that we all of a sudden had the same nightmare and that we think there may be a connection?" "Well, maybe in a little more detail," said Harry, "but I don't think it was just a nightmare, it felt like one of my visions, something real." "This is all so confusing," said Ginny sitting on the bed, and Harry sitting down next to her. "Why does all of this happen to us? Why are we having the same nightmare? Why was your cousins summer camp attacked? Why?" Ginny was getting very frustrated and Harry could tell. "I don't know, but like I said Voldemort must have a reason for giving us the same nightmare." "But there's just so much to think about and figure out." Said Ginny, "How do you do this all of the time Harry?" "I honestly don't know," he told Ginny. "Sometimes I feel like I would rather just let him kill me instead of seeing all of the people I care about suffer, but somehow I always manage to have a reason to keep going." Harry didn't know why, but after he had told Ginny this he felt much better. He had never told anyone this before , and he wondered why he was telling her. "I'm glad we talked got to talk about this in person." Said Ginny. "Yea." Said Harry, "Thanks for being such a good friend Gin." "No problem but lets not tell Ron and Hermione just yet. There probably to busy snogging to care anyways." She said with a smile. Harry smiled back, and without really knowing what he was doing pulled Ginny into a hug. Ginny was a little surprised by this, but she hugged him back. After they separated, they were both a little embarassed, but they recovered quickly. "Shall we go find Ron and Hermoine before they snog each others brains out?" asked Ginny.
"Lets." Said Harry with a smile. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Harry and Ginny went downstairs as quietly as they could, as to not wake up the portrait of Sirius mother. They went to the kitchen door to find that it was still closed and locked, meaning the order was still meeting. Ron and Hermoine were not in the hallway, so they went into the parlor to find them, not surprisingly, snogging. "Hmm, you think they can breathe Harry?" said Ginny with a smile. At the sound of her voice they jumped apart from each other and both turned a dark shade of red. "I don't know Gin," said Harry. "Sure didn't look like it." Both he and Ginny were trying to contain their laughter. "Umm... well Harry you see Ron and I are sort of ... dating..." said a very flustered Hermoine. "Sort of? You looked pretty serious to me," he said raising an eyebrow. This caused both of them to turn red again. "We were going to wait until you were in a really good mood to tell you." Said Ron, instantly getting a glare from Hermoine. "Oh." Said Harry seriously, "You were afraid I would get mad? That I would feel like it would ruin our friendship? Well I have news for you." "Harry," Hermoine interrupted. "We just wanted to wait and see what happened, please don't be mad." Harry smiled inside at their faces. They were afraid he was going to yell at them. He thought about messing with them for a little longer and making them think he was really mad, but decided against it. "I was just going to say congratulations," said Harry smiling at the looks on Ron and Hermoine's faces. "I knew you two would get together soon. If not you would kill each other." "We were really that obvious?" asked Ron. At this point Harry and Ginny could no longer contain their laughter, and fell down shaking on the couch next to them. "What is so funny?" asked Hermoine at the sudden outburst. After a few moments Harry had caught his breath to reply, "nothing, absolutely nothing." "What were you two talking about anyway?" asked Ron, who seemed eager to change the subject; "You were up their for a while." Harry and Ginny looked at each other then replied together "Nothing." And were saved from giving a further answer by the order members finally coming out of the meeting. They went into the kitchen and Mrs. Weasley offered them dinner. They pestered her for information, but gave up and went to bed when they realized they were not going to get anything.

A/N Sorry it took me so long to get this chapter up. I was on vacation in Alaska for two weeks. I had a long plane ride, so I have the next few chapters written, I just need to type and submit them. I promise the story gets better as it goes on. PLEASE REVIEW!! Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanx! Lizzie