"Jamie boy! So good to see you again!" said Sirius and then seeing the box
in his hands added, "So you found something for the prank, knew I could
count on you!"
"Stop with the cheesy nicknames and yes I did find something for you," he said handing Sirius the box.
"James, these are almost a year old," said Sirius looking puzzled.
"Yes, you see the older the dung bomb the deadlier the aroma," James smiled deviously.
"So, Sirius," Lily started, trying to get their conversation off of the prank, "have you heard about the murders?"
"Yes, that is what this meeting is about, isn't it?" he asked looking a bit more serious now.
"Yes, Sirius, I have no idea why you didn't get a notice about it. Must have slipped Dumbledore's mind," said Lily.
"I am glad you are here, Sirius. You have to see the scrap book that Lily put together. There are some hilarious pictures of you in it," laughed James running up stairs to get the scrap book.
"So how was your honeymoon, Red?" Sirius asked.
"It was great, although it did rain most of the time so we couldn't do a whole lot outside," said Lily. "Please, have a seat Sirius," she said motioning for him to sit on the couch.
"So no you want to spill about the vacation? Anything exciting happen?" he asked cheekily.
"No, Sirius, nothing that concerns you," said Lily blushing.
Sirius laughed. "I understand," he said. Sirius stuck his nose into the air and sniffed. "Do I smell cookies?"
"They're for the meeting," said Lily. Sirius got off of the couch and went over to the kitchen. "Don't eat them all, other people in this world like my cookies too you know," she called after him remembering all to well at James' 18th birthday party. Sirius had eaten all of the cookies before the first guest had even arrived. She had wizened up though; she had hid the cookies before the party as a precaution.
James came running down the stairs with the red scrap book in his hand. "Where's Sirius?" he inquired.
"Raiding the kitchen for cookies, I can guarantee that he won't find them though. I hid them in the oven and I'm not quite sure he knows how to open it," she laughed.
"Yeah, well Padfoot does know how to follow his nose, he'll find some way to open the door," said James. Just after he said these words there was a loud bang in the kitchen.
"I'll help him," sighed James setting the scrap book on the coffee table. "Sirius? What are you doing?" James asked watching as Sirius tried to pull open the oven.
"Your wife is a cruel witch, Prongs!" Sirius teased. "She hid her cookies in a muggle contraption that I can't open! Where did I put my wand?"
James laughed. "Ah, found it. Alohomora!" Sirius yelled.
"Its not locked, Padfoot," said James very amused. Sirius had now resorted to shaking the oven violently.
Lily ran into the kitchen and smiled. "You can't beat me Sirius," she laughed.
Sirius scowled. "Just tell me how to open it and I'll only eat two," he begged.
James looked at Lily for some sign of approval. "Go ahead James, put him out of his misery," she laughed.
James went over to the oven and pulled open the door. "And that, my friend, is how you open an oven," he said, slightly stressing the word oven.
Sirius looked amazed. He closed the oven door and opened it again. "What exactly do you use an oven for?" he asked pulling out two cookies off of the plate that was nestled on the middle rack of the oven.
"Cooking," sighed Lily.
Sirius shrugged and stuffed a cookie into his mouth. "What ever flies your broomstick," he sighed throwing another cookie into his mouth.
James walked over to Lily as Sirius amused himself with the other buttons and knobs on the oven. "Better put those cookies somewhere else now that he knows how the oven works," he laughed.
"How about in the microwave?" she whispered back.
"No, we hid the cupcakes in there the last time he was over. What about the bread box?" he suggested.
"Okay, just occupy him so I can hide them properly," laughed Lily.
Sirius screamed and jumped away from the oven. Lily threw her hands over her mouth once she saw what he had done. "What are you trying to do?" she cried.
James ran over and turned off the stove that lay on top of the oven. Sirius had innocently turned on the gas. "The oven isn't a toy, come on, lets look at the scrap book," said James leading Sirius out of the room.
Lily calmed down and went over to the oven to hide the cookies in the bread box. It wasn't an easy task. First she had to empty all of her magical touch spices out of it, making sure that the muggles next door couldn't read the labels. She threw the cookies inside and tried to close the bread box door, but the tray was too big. She went through her cabinets looking for another dish.
Lily opened the third cabinet to the left next to the oven and found her trays haphazardly stuffed in. "Sirius," she muttered pulling out the smallest try she could find. She piled the cookies on the plate and had to put a loose sticking charm on the cookies so they stuck together. Lily mentally reminded herself to perform the counter spell before she set the cookies out at the meeting.
She roamed around her kitchen checking each cabinet looking to see if Sirius had disrupted them as well. Lily only found two and magically sorted them back to normal. She looked up at the clock 5:45. Fifteen minutes until Dumbledore was to arrive. Lily went into the living room to tell Sirius and James.
Lily entered the living room to see that Dumbledore was already there in the room. "You're early," she said.
"Things are a bit more urgent than we thought. I have told everyone to report over here at 6:30, if you don't mind," he said.
"That's fine," James said looking serious again.
Dumbledore took out and unfurled the copy of the Evening Prophet. "There has yet been another attack, the rest of Dippet's nephew's family. So, naturally, his oldest son, Brian, will not be attending the meeting tonight," he said passing the prophet to James.
"This is driving me crazy! How can perfectly healthy people just snuff it like that?" Sirius asked scratching his head.
"There are ways to do such horrible deeds," Dumbledore sighed hanging his head.
"Then why haven't I heard about them?" Sirius asked.
Lily sighed, "Cuz you never paid attention during Defense Against the Dark Arts in our 6th year. You were always fooling around and asking stupid questions. Don't you remember anything about the unforgivable curses?"
James and Sirius both scratched their heads. James couldn't remember anything about them, nor did he even realize that they existed. "No, what are they?" James asked.
"I can't remember their names, but one is used for torture, another for mid controlling, and one for killing. All I know is that you have to be a powerful wizard to perform them," said Lily.
Dumbledore cut in, "Exactly, the one for torturing people is called the Cruciatus Curse, the mind controlling curse is called the Imperius Curse, and the killing curse is called the Advada Kedavra which is the one that is supposedly killing everyone."
"Then why hasn't the prophet said anything about the curse being suspected of killing people?" asked James.
"They don't want people to think that there is a powerful wizard running around, people would panic. In my opinion, if there is a dark powerful wizard running around he would want people to panic, it would cloud their minds," said Dumbledore.
"So who is coming to this meeting?" asked Sirius.
"Frank and Alice Longbottom, Alasar Moody, Dedalus Diggle, Marlene McKinnon, Emmeline Vance, Remus Lupin, Benjy Fenwick, Edgar Bones, Sturgis Podmore, Caradoc Dearborn, Rubeus Hagrid, Elphias Doge, Gideon Prewett, my brother Aberforth, Dorcas Meadows, Peter Petigrew who informed me that he was going to be late, Molly and Arthur Weasley, and of course us. Hopefully we can get more people as time goes on," said Dumbledore.
The doorbell rang and Lily excused herself from the room to answer it.
A/N- I am still trying to figure out the ages of the Weasley children at this time. I would have posted it in this chapter, but I have no idea how long it is going to take me to find out, and I'd rather not keep you waiting for this chapter which is kind of short, but it ends in a convenient place for me. As you can probably see if you have read book 5 the people attending the meeting in the next chapter are all mentioned while Moody is showing Harry the photograph of the original Order. I think I am going to add a few more people, but they aren't going to attend the first meeting, when the picture is taken. Next chapter will delve even more into the plot although most of you can guess what it is.
"Stop with the cheesy nicknames and yes I did find something for you," he said handing Sirius the box.
"James, these are almost a year old," said Sirius looking puzzled.
"Yes, you see the older the dung bomb the deadlier the aroma," James smiled deviously.
"So, Sirius," Lily started, trying to get their conversation off of the prank, "have you heard about the murders?"
"Yes, that is what this meeting is about, isn't it?" he asked looking a bit more serious now.
"Yes, Sirius, I have no idea why you didn't get a notice about it. Must have slipped Dumbledore's mind," said Lily.
"I am glad you are here, Sirius. You have to see the scrap book that Lily put together. There are some hilarious pictures of you in it," laughed James running up stairs to get the scrap book.
"So how was your honeymoon, Red?" Sirius asked.
"It was great, although it did rain most of the time so we couldn't do a whole lot outside," said Lily. "Please, have a seat Sirius," she said motioning for him to sit on the couch.
"So no you want to spill about the vacation? Anything exciting happen?" he asked cheekily.
"No, Sirius, nothing that concerns you," said Lily blushing.
Sirius laughed. "I understand," he said. Sirius stuck his nose into the air and sniffed. "Do I smell cookies?"
"They're for the meeting," said Lily. Sirius got off of the couch and went over to the kitchen. "Don't eat them all, other people in this world like my cookies too you know," she called after him remembering all to well at James' 18th birthday party. Sirius had eaten all of the cookies before the first guest had even arrived. She had wizened up though; she had hid the cookies before the party as a precaution.
James came running down the stairs with the red scrap book in his hand. "Where's Sirius?" he inquired.
"Raiding the kitchen for cookies, I can guarantee that he won't find them though. I hid them in the oven and I'm not quite sure he knows how to open it," she laughed.
"Yeah, well Padfoot does know how to follow his nose, he'll find some way to open the door," said James. Just after he said these words there was a loud bang in the kitchen.
"I'll help him," sighed James setting the scrap book on the coffee table. "Sirius? What are you doing?" James asked watching as Sirius tried to pull open the oven.
"Your wife is a cruel witch, Prongs!" Sirius teased. "She hid her cookies in a muggle contraption that I can't open! Where did I put my wand?"
James laughed. "Ah, found it. Alohomora!" Sirius yelled.
"Its not locked, Padfoot," said James very amused. Sirius had now resorted to shaking the oven violently.
Lily ran into the kitchen and smiled. "You can't beat me Sirius," she laughed.
Sirius scowled. "Just tell me how to open it and I'll only eat two," he begged.
James looked at Lily for some sign of approval. "Go ahead James, put him out of his misery," she laughed.
James went over to the oven and pulled open the door. "And that, my friend, is how you open an oven," he said, slightly stressing the word oven.
Sirius looked amazed. He closed the oven door and opened it again. "What exactly do you use an oven for?" he asked pulling out two cookies off of the plate that was nestled on the middle rack of the oven.
"Cooking," sighed Lily.
Sirius shrugged and stuffed a cookie into his mouth. "What ever flies your broomstick," he sighed throwing another cookie into his mouth.
James walked over to Lily as Sirius amused himself with the other buttons and knobs on the oven. "Better put those cookies somewhere else now that he knows how the oven works," he laughed.
"How about in the microwave?" she whispered back.
"No, we hid the cupcakes in there the last time he was over. What about the bread box?" he suggested.
"Okay, just occupy him so I can hide them properly," laughed Lily.
Sirius screamed and jumped away from the oven. Lily threw her hands over her mouth once she saw what he had done. "What are you trying to do?" she cried.
James ran over and turned off the stove that lay on top of the oven. Sirius had innocently turned on the gas. "The oven isn't a toy, come on, lets look at the scrap book," said James leading Sirius out of the room.
Lily calmed down and went over to the oven to hide the cookies in the bread box. It wasn't an easy task. First she had to empty all of her magical touch spices out of it, making sure that the muggles next door couldn't read the labels. She threw the cookies inside and tried to close the bread box door, but the tray was too big. She went through her cabinets looking for another dish.
Lily opened the third cabinet to the left next to the oven and found her trays haphazardly stuffed in. "Sirius," she muttered pulling out the smallest try she could find. She piled the cookies on the plate and had to put a loose sticking charm on the cookies so they stuck together. Lily mentally reminded herself to perform the counter spell before she set the cookies out at the meeting.
She roamed around her kitchen checking each cabinet looking to see if Sirius had disrupted them as well. Lily only found two and magically sorted them back to normal. She looked up at the clock 5:45. Fifteen minutes until Dumbledore was to arrive. Lily went into the living room to tell Sirius and James.
Lily entered the living room to see that Dumbledore was already there in the room. "You're early," she said.
"Things are a bit more urgent than we thought. I have told everyone to report over here at 6:30, if you don't mind," he said.
"That's fine," James said looking serious again.
Dumbledore took out and unfurled the copy of the Evening Prophet. "There has yet been another attack, the rest of Dippet's nephew's family. So, naturally, his oldest son, Brian, will not be attending the meeting tonight," he said passing the prophet to James.
"This is driving me crazy! How can perfectly healthy people just snuff it like that?" Sirius asked scratching his head.
"There are ways to do such horrible deeds," Dumbledore sighed hanging his head.
"Then why haven't I heard about them?" Sirius asked.
Lily sighed, "Cuz you never paid attention during Defense Against the Dark Arts in our 6th year. You were always fooling around and asking stupid questions. Don't you remember anything about the unforgivable curses?"
James and Sirius both scratched their heads. James couldn't remember anything about them, nor did he even realize that they existed. "No, what are they?" James asked.
"I can't remember their names, but one is used for torture, another for mid controlling, and one for killing. All I know is that you have to be a powerful wizard to perform them," said Lily.
Dumbledore cut in, "Exactly, the one for torturing people is called the Cruciatus Curse, the mind controlling curse is called the Imperius Curse, and the killing curse is called the Advada Kedavra which is the one that is supposedly killing everyone."
"Then why hasn't the prophet said anything about the curse being suspected of killing people?" asked James.
"They don't want people to think that there is a powerful wizard running around, people would panic. In my opinion, if there is a dark powerful wizard running around he would want people to panic, it would cloud their minds," said Dumbledore.
"So who is coming to this meeting?" asked Sirius.
"Frank and Alice Longbottom, Alasar Moody, Dedalus Diggle, Marlene McKinnon, Emmeline Vance, Remus Lupin, Benjy Fenwick, Edgar Bones, Sturgis Podmore, Caradoc Dearborn, Rubeus Hagrid, Elphias Doge, Gideon Prewett, my brother Aberforth, Dorcas Meadows, Peter Petigrew who informed me that he was going to be late, Molly and Arthur Weasley, and of course us. Hopefully we can get more people as time goes on," said Dumbledore.
The doorbell rang and Lily excused herself from the room to answer it.
A/N- I am still trying to figure out the ages of the Weasley children at this time. I would have posted it in this chapter, but I have no idea how long it is going to take me to find out, and I'd rather not keep you waiting for this chapter which is kind of short, but it ends in a convenient place for me. As you can probably see if you have read book 5 the people attending the meeting in the next chapter are all mentioned while Moody is showing Harry the photograph of the original Order. I think I am going to add a few more people, but they aren't going to attend the first meeting, when the picture is taken. Next chapter will delve even more into the plot although most of you can guess what it is.