For the next week the order members flowed in and out of the house. There were the usuals, like Snape, the Hogwarts professor, who Harry hated. Then there were some new members. Harry never got to meet those people, but they seemed like they were on a strict time limit.
Fawkes was coming in and out casually, with messages from Dumbledore. He was staying at Hogwarts, and Harry hadn't seen him since the time that he tried to kill Kreacher.
Harry wasn't really paying attention to Hermione and Ron, because they spent most of their time together. He spent most of his time talking with Ginny and playing wizards chess with her.
The one morning that the house was filled with owls Harry assumed that there was a major attack by Voldemort. Well, as it turns oue he was wrong. They were the O.W.L. results from the year end exams.
Harry didn't bother to find out what the others got, but he just took his envelope and went to see Ginny.
"Good luck."she said as he was opening them.
It turned out that he got all the needed courses for him to become an auror, but the downside was that he was going to be stuck with professor Snape in the dungeons again this year.
"well?" Ginny asked.
"I got them all, I think that I am droping Divination though." harry said, but then thought about her possibly having another prediction. He didn't want to miss hearing it. "Wait. On seccond thought, it might not be a bad subjest to keep up with. I could always use the randomness."
"I dont know. I think that you should drop it, but it is your choice." Ginny replied. "Oh and you better make up your mind quick, so you can send in what classes you are taking."
"Alright, I made up my mind, I am taking it. So that means that I have potions, defense against the dark arts, transfiguration, charms, care of magical creatures and divination. Sounds prety easy to me."Harry said in a sarcastic vioce.
"Oh, Harry, I wonder who the new defense teacher is?!" Ginny said in a anxious voice."They have to be better than Umbrige, I mean, like anyone could be better than her."
"Hahaha, too true, I hope its Lupin, that would be only too cool."
"Yah, but I think that parents would have much to say about that, They wouldnt like it too much." said Ginny in a down voice. "What if it's Snape? We could have gotten a new potions teacher, and then he would take over the cursed job." she added, but then seeing the worried look on his face she finished. "At least he would be gone after this year. He wouldnt be able to outlast any of the teachers we have already had!"
And with that Harry smiled. He could only imagine. A Snape free world. That was too good to be true.
"I think that I'm headed to breakfast, see you." Harry said as he got ready to leave.
---------------------------------------------------
That day was rather boring. Untill dinner time that is.
Harry was sitting close to the fireplace when someones head popped into it, surrounded by green flames. The order members seemed to recognise her and it seemed like she had something urgent to say.
"Molly, where is Dumbledore?" she said anxiously. "I must talk to him, Voldemort and his supporters are here. They are looking for my house, and my daughter is out, I dont know what to do!"
"I'm sorry Tiffany, but he isnt here, try up at his office, he should be there. I will send some members on their way." said Molly in a nervous voice.
"Thank you so much. But tell them to find Del first." she said very silently, but then added in a wisper "I think that the charm is working so far, but they are right outside, they are going to find me, please don't let them get me."
"Step through the fire Tiffany, you will be safe here. There are members on their way to find your daughter and send away the Death Eaters. Just please come."
"Alright, but wait one minute, I need to get some things." she said as she went to go away.
"No, there isn't time. Get over here now!" Molly yelled.
Tiffanny wasn't budging, so Molly reached in the fire and pulled her through.
"Let me get back there!" Tiffany screamed as the green flames vanished.
"No." Said a wise voice from the doorway. It was Dumbledore. He always seemed to turn up at the right time.
"Dumbledore!" Harry yelled. "What is going on?"
"There has been another attack." He turned to Tiffany "Mrs. Maren, your daughter has been located and she should be here any seccond."
It happened in a flash. There was a crash as a teenage girl landed right on the floor in front of the fireplace. The first thing that Harry noticed was that she was very prety. She had long dirty blonde hair, with golden-red streaks, her eyes were different colours. One was green, while the other was blue. She was indeed worried, and obviously had no clue what was going on.
"Delfina! Where were you? Why didn't you come home when you felt that they were there.?" Tiffany questioned as she embrassed her daughter in a close hug.
"Mom! Get off! Don't!" Delfina said in a angry voice. Harry stood in awe. If his mother had huged him like that then he wouldnt have pushed her away.
"Your daughter had just had a very traumatising experience. The Death Eaters caught her, and I would advise you to just leave her alone. Harry, if you wouldn't mind, I would like you to show her to a spare room. If there are none, then just call me and I will conjure a bed in Ginny's room." Dumbledore was always so calm, even in the most serious of situations, so Harry just followed the orders that he gave.
Harry knew that as soon as he left the room, they would start to talk about Delfina's experience. Apparently Delfina knew it too.
"Right this way." Harry said breaking the awkward silence.
"Yea..." she replied.
They came to an empty room and he knocked to be sure that nobody was in there and he led her straight in.
There was someone, well not someone, more of something in there. Something that Harry wanted so bad to lunge at and kill.
"Kreacher, out." Harry said trying to keep his cool. "You aren't to come in this room again. You are to leave here and never come back in this room again."
"Oh, now Harry Potter is being civil. He is trying to order Kreacher around, but what Harry Potter doesn't know is that I won't follow..." Kreacher trailed off, then said in a much louder voice "Yes Harry Potter, I will do as you says."
"You better, or else your head will be on that wall sooner than you expected." Harry said with a hint of a threat. With that Kreacher left mumbling incoherantly.
"Delfina, if there is anything that you need, don't hesitate to ask. I will have it here in no time. If that elf bothers you just tell me and I will deal with him."
She nodded and he turned to leave. "Harry, call me Del, not Delfina. I get all my friends to call me Del. So that means that it is just you and Rach....."she broke off.
"Do you need some one to talk to? I could go get Ginny for you to talk to."
"No, could I talk to you about it?" she asked hopefully.
"Umm, sure I guess." He said.
"My friend and I were on our way to my house when I felt the presence of the Death Eaters. Yes you heard me right, I felt the presence of the Death Eaters." She ploped down on the bed, and looked up at Harry. "Don't ask why I can feel them, I just can, I don't even know how. But anyways. We were on the way to my house, because it was the only place that I knew of that was safe. I knew that it had the Fidelius Charm placed on it. We were almost there when they came and took us away. Rachel didn't have a clue about what was going on, she was a muggle."
Harry sat and thought about this. If she is talking about her in the past tense then that means that she is most likely no longer around.
"I pulled out my wand, but i knew that I would be no match for them. Rachel was hit with the killing curse. She didn't stand a chance against them. I didn't think that I did either. But then my chain started to glow yellow, and it seems like there was a yellow and green net weaved around me." she pulled out a chain similar to the one that Harry had.
Harry reached inside his robes and pulled out his. "Wow!" And wow was right. they started to glow. Harry's was glowing red, but Del's was glowing yellow, and a red and yellow net began to weave around them.
The glowing stoped when they moved farther away from eachother. "Let me see yours." Harry asked. "I hope that it's not what I think, but it may be.
Del pulled out her chain and showed it to Harry closer. "But... what? Where did you get yours?"
"You tell me what you are thinking before I tell you anything."
"Alright. Mine is the symbol of Gryffindor, and yours is Hufflepuff. I'm guessing that the green light in the net was made by one of the death eaters chains, which I am betting is Slytherin, so that means that there would have to be a chain for Ravenclaw as well." Harry said all of that in no time at all, even though it seemed so complicated in his mind.
"You two have done very well in figuring out the purpose of your pendants." Harry and Del turned to look at the door, and it was Dumbledore there. "It took many wizards to find the purpose of the pendants, but it seems you two are prety bright."
"But we dont know the purpose, we just think that there is four of them." Del said.
"Ah, I see. But you two do realise that when brought together, the four pendants will create something great."
"Yes, but what is it?" Harry questioned.
"Power." Dumbledore said in his calm vioce.
"So... this is what Voldemort is after?" Del asked. Harry was shocked that she would say his name.
"Yes Miss Maren. It is what Voldemort is after."
"But where are the other two? The two of us each have one." Harry stated.
"There are actually three more." Del said in a voice which said that she was thinking hard about it.
"Ah, you are very right. There are in all five of them. But we shall talk about that later. It is getting late and I think that Delfina should get to bed."
"You have to tell us sometime. Even tell her now and then you could tell me at school." harry said hopefully.
"Why wouldnt I just tell both of you a school? Yes Harry. Delfina will be joining you and your classmates at Hogwarts this year. She will not be sorted by the hat, because I think it is obvious what house she already belongs in."
"Could you possibly let her be in Gryffindor? I think that she would like it in that house." Harry asked
"I could see what I can do about that, but even if you arent in the same house. You could still join eachother at the meals and in the spare time that you have." Dumbledore said as he left. Harry turned to follow.
"Harry?" Del asked.
"Ya?" he replied.
"I'm sorry about what happened to your godfather."
"It's alright" he said, believing her, she spoke softly so that he knew that she meant what she said. "I'm really sorry about happened to your friend."
And with that he left and went to sleep. He had a dream about the power of the pendants.