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Disclaimer: I wish I could be as good as JK Rowling but I'm not. This is her stuff and not to mention the influence that this story took from various fanfics.

Chapter 24
Potter vs The Order

Harry, Ginny, Kayla, and Alexia were talking to each other when they were interrupted by Ron yelling, "Everybody, dinner time!" At the hearing of Ron's voice Harry's temper flared and energy could be felt flowing off of him. While trying to keep his anger in control he said, "I'm not sure how long I will be able to keep my anger in check so just be careful."

The three ladies nodded and the group made their way back to the house. When they entered the room everybody was already in the dining room getting ready to eat. The four of them sat off to one side of the table while Ginny placed a comforting hand on Harry to help him calm down while trying to keep her own anger in check. The four of them were quiet for most of dinner until Hermione asked, "How come the four of you are so quiet? What did you all do today?"

Kayla knew that if either Harry or Ginny spoke then all the energy they were spending on keeping their anger in control would be lost. She answered for the group and said, "We were just talking to each other and playing with a few pets."

The rest of the table gave each other some quick glances as to what they talked about and hoped that they didn't tell Harry the truth of what has been going on. All of them silently reasoned to themselves that if Harry didn't come storming in and yelling at everybody than Alexia and Kayla must not have told. At the end of dinner Dumbledore stood up and said, "I would like everybody here to come to Grimmauld Place tonight for a meeting. There is something that needs to be discussed and most of the order is not allowed here and it would be best done when everybody is together."

Everybody agreed to leave and Harry had already instructed to start taking people back to Grimmauld Place but not to take them back to Potter Mansion. Harry also instructed the house elves to start to pack up all of the guests' belongings and take them to Grimmauld Place when everything is packed and everybody has left already. Before he left, he also reset the wards so that he was the only person that can return with the exception of Ginny, Kayla, and Alexia.

Harry was the last one to leave and with the assistance of Nightlight, he appeared in his bedroom at Grimmauld Place. Ginny was waiting for him there along with Kayla and Alexia. He told them what he did and took a few deep breathes before he went down. The group came down together and sat to the back of the kitchen as Order members showed up. Ron and Hermione came in and wanted to sit with Harry and Ginny but there were no room left around them so they ended up sitting with Luna and Neville near the middle of the room. Everybody that Harry knew to be in the Order were there including Remus, Tonks, the entire Weasley family, and the rest of his supposed friends. Hermione's parents decided that they were going to go home and get ready for work the next day.

When everybody was there, Dumbledore stood up and said, "We are here for a special meeting of the Order of the Phoenix."

Molly stood up and said, "Albus, should the children be here for this?"

Dumbledore said, "Yes, this meeting is mainly about them. I would like to induct them into the Order of the Phoenix."

Snape stood up to Harry's surprise because he didn't even notice the man come in. Snape said, "You can't be serious. Potter is a menace and can not be depended on for anything."

Dobby popped in again and with Winky this time. Winky said, "You will not insult Harry Potter. Harry Potter is a great wizard and you are only here because he allowed you to come into his home for meetings of the Order. If you speak badly of Harry Potter then Winky will dispose of you."

Dobby nodded and Snape went pale at the thought of being booted out of the building again and humiliated in front of so many people. Harry looked on displaying no emotion on his face while Dumbledore and McGonagall looked pleadingly at Harry to stop the house elves. Harry still didn't say anything and Snape said, "Potter, are you going to control these elves of yours?"

Harry just continued to look on and say nothing. The twins wanted to laugh so hard at the desperation in Snape's voice. Dobby said, "Apologize to Harry Potter."

Snape said, "I'm not going to apologize to Potter." He turned to Harry and said, "Potter, if you don't control them then I will do it."

Winky said, "You is going to apologize to Harry Potter."

Snape pulled out his wand but the elves were too quick for him and immediately shot him against the wall again. They popped next to him and took his wand. The two house elves grabbed the potions master by his legs and started to drag him out. Dumbledore said, "Dobby, Winky, stop what you are doing." He said to Harry, "Harry please ask the house elves to leave the professor alone so we can continue on with this meeting."

While void of emotions, Harry said, "Who started this disturbance? Did Snape, me, Dobby, or Winky start this?"

Dumbledore said, "Harry, it is Professor Snape. It is not important who started it but to end it now so we can start."

Harry replied, "You didn't answer my question. Did I provoke Snape in any way?" He purposely did not use the word professor because to Harry, he wasn't one.

Dumbledore said, "You did not provoke Professor Snape, Harry. Now will you tell the house elves to stop?"

Harry asked, "Why do you allow him to get away with such disrespect? He is in my house yet he does not feel to pay me or anybody here any respect. It is also interesting that you always seem to allow him to do so."

Dumbledore sighed then said, "He is important to the cause Harry and therefore I give him certain benefits. Professor Snape will give you respect Harry from now on."

Harry nodded and said, "Dobby, Winky, please let him go. If he disrespects me or anybody else in this house again than feel free to evict him and never permit him to return in this house."

Dobby and Winky let the potions master go. Snape stood up and tried to walk back to his seat with dignity. When he got to his seat, Snape said, "My wand."

Harry asked, "What is the magic word?"

Snape was fuming at Harry's baiting but one look from the Headmaster and he relented. Snape said, "Please."

Harry nodded and Dobby threw Snape his wand before the two house elves disappeared. There was muffled giggling from a few people because of Snape's submission to Harry. Dumbledore said, "Alright now to the meeting at hand. There is one major issue tonight which is I would like to admit Harry, Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Kayla, Neville, Luna, Fred, and George into the Order."

There were loud discussions for and against letting the kids in but Harry muttered to Ginny, "Why are they putting on this act?"

Ginny whispered back, "I think that they're starting to brace themselves for what Kayla and Alexia weren't supposed to tell you yet."

Harry nodded and heard Molly yell, "You can not be serious. Ginny is too young for this. It's too dangerous."

Ginny wanted to jump up and yell back but Harry held her back and whispered, "Let them play this game and watch how they play it out."

Ginny nodded as Dumbledore said, "I would not recommend this course of action if it wasn't necessary. We all know that Harry is the key to everything."

Molly calmed down with some words from Mr. Weasley, Bill, and Charlie. Snape stood up and said, "We can not allow them to join. They are reckless as evident in what they did at the end of the last school year which resulted in a death."

McGonagall said, "I am inclined to agree with Severus here. The kids are just not ready."

This was a surprise to many people because nobody has heard McGonagall openly oppose what Dumbledore said. Dumbledore responded, "They do have much to learn but we will teach them. It is important that they are part of this group so that incidents like last year don't happen again. All in favor than please raise your hands."

About three fourths of the room raised their hands along with a few people that were opposed to it at first but didn't want to vote against the leader like Molly and McGonagall. After the vote, Dumbledore said, "I would like to welcome Harry, Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Neville, Luna, Kayla, Fred, and George into the Order."

There was some congratulatory clapping but the interesting thing to Harry was that Ron, Hermione, Neville, Luna, Fred, and George were not at all surprised with the events that just happened. Apparently, they knew that this was going to happen. Dumbledore said, "Since you are now a member Harry, we would like for you to open up Potter Mansion to the Order."

Harry looked at Dumbledore like he was stupid for asking that question and Harry said, "No. I will not open it up."

McGonagall stood up and said, "Mr. Potter, you will give the Headmaster the respect that he deserves. What Professor Dumbledore just said was not a request but an order and as a member of this organization, you are to obey."

Right when McGonagall said those words, she wanted to take them back. Harry stood up and Ginny stood with him as he said, "I will not submit just because the Headmaster wants me to." Harry said Headmaster like it was a plague threatening everybody in the room.

Hermione stood up and yelled, "Harry, what is wrong with you. You are a member of the Order now and you should listen to what the Professor says! There really is no reason for you not to open up Potter Mansion to everybody because it seems like that place is safer than Grimmauld Place."

Harry was getting angry now and the waves of energy were flowing from him. Almost everybody in the room could feel all the magic that he was emitting. Harry asked in a calm yet cold voice, "Who in this room has not betrayed me?"

Everybody in the room froze at what they just heard. Almost everybody was thinking, how did he find out, does he know, how much does he know, or what's going to happen now? Ron stood up and did the acting job of his life when he said, "Nobody here betrayed you Harry. We are here for you and will always be here to help you."

Harry said, "Dobby, Winky, Ray, and Rain, can you all come here?"

The four house elves popped into the room and Harry asked, "Are all the instructions that I gave you earlier completed?"

Ray said, "We have completed everything Harry Potter sir has asked."

Harry replied, "Thank you. I have another task to ask of. Will you please bring a few bottles of Veritaserium for me?" The four house elves nodded and disappeared only to appear a moment later with each of them carrying a bottle with the clear and odorless liquid.

Harry said, "If what you are saying is the truth then everybody in this room will not have a problem with submitting to this test."

Hermione said, "Harry, you've been our best friend for how many years and you have so little trust in us?"

Harry replied, "I could say the same about you."

That confirmed it for everybody that Harry knew something that was going on that he wasn't supposed to know. Now the question becomes, how much and what does he know. Harry walked around to the front and said, "Well, it's interesting that nobody in this room will submit to a simple test. I've already taken the liberty to lock down Potter Mansion to ensure the security of my home."

Ron asked, "What about our stuff? We have to go back to get it."

Harry said, "I have already taken the liberty of sending all of your things here already. The house elves finished that just a while ago and you will find all of your things in your rooms here."

Hermione said, "That was not necessary Harry."

Dumbledore added on to what Hermione just finished saying with, "That was very drastic what you did. Do you place so little trust in us? We've been looking out for your interest for over a year now as a group."

Harry looked at Ginny. She walked over to him and said, "There are many secrets here, that let's just say, Harry does not particularly like. As a matter of fact, he absolutely hates them and I agree with him. I'm always surprised when it comes to those who have betrayed me and now Harry." She was looking over at her family when she talked about betrayal.

Dumbledore asked, "Why don't you tell me what it is that you know and if it is wrong then we will correct it."

Harry shook his head and said, "I don't particularly like to play mind games Professor and this would be much easier if you were to confess everything to Ginny and me and we will confirm if that is what we heard or not."

McGonagall said, "Do you have so little respect for everybody now Mr. Potter?"

Harry replied, "I only respect those that I can trust and right now there are only three people that I do trust right now in this room. It is quite simple really, I have always given my trust to people easily but once that trust is betrayed then the only way to get it again is to go to Hell and back. So the question now becomes, who is ready to go to hell and back."

Ginny said, "Harry, I think that you should consider locking down Grimmauld Place also considering how little we can trust them."

Dumbledore interjected, "That will not be necessary. We must work together if we are to survive this war. Harry please think about it."

Harry said, "Ginny, you know I might just have to do that. I have always hated lies and when it comes from those that I thought I could trust and thought of as family, it just hurts so much more. The Order of the Phoenix is no longer allowed to spy on me, stalk me, and control my life anymore."

Dumbledore said, "Harry, you are a part of the Order now and will have to listen to what is agreed upon here."

Harry shook his head and said, "Who said anything about me wanting to be in the Order? You all took it upon yourselves to put me in this group without consulting withme. I am really tempted to kick everybody out right now but the two of us have the same goal which is to remove Voldemort." Many people shuddered at the name as Harry continued on to say, "This is really sad. How is it that you all are going to fight against a man that you can't even say or stand to hear his name?"

Snape said, "Don't you dare disrespect us like that. All of a sudden, you think that you're more important than the rest of us. How arrogant can you really get? Just like your pathetic father and mudblood mother."

At that moment, the house elves disarmed Snape and hit him with a few bludgeoning spells then threw the man out of the house. Dumbledore asked, "Will you please let him back into the house?"

Harry shook his head and said, "I warned him already and everybody here heard me warn him. You may not back up what you say but I do."

Molly interjected, "Harry, I am tired of this blatant disrespect of the Headmaster and everybody else in this room. We did what we did to ensure your protection."

Harry replied, "I can only respect those that respect me and obviously you all don't respect me when you launch a series of spies to monitor everything that I do plus setup innocent people to take the fall for things that you all know they did not do."

Molly replied, "It is obvious that you no longer want us around. My family will leave so you don't have to worry about us."

Bill said, "Come on Ginny, you're coming with us."

Ginny shook her head and said, "I'm staying here with Harry. In case you don't know, I know what you did to me also."

Charlie asked, "What are you talking about?"

Ginny yelled back, "The fact that the Order tried to get me to spy on Harry! And when I refused you all erased my memories of the event! To think that I used to look up to the people in this room! At least now I know the truth and prefer to live with the truth than live a life of lies."

Bill asked, "What are you talking about? We don't know anything about that."

Ginny said, "Talk to your little brother over there," she was pointing at Ron, "Hermione and him were trying to get me to spy on Harry for the Order and when I didn't agree they obliviated me so that nobody would know about it."

Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, Bill, and Charlie yelled, "What?" Mrs. Weasley turned to Ron and asked, "Is this true?"

Ron said, "It was for what is best. We needed to find out about what Harry was hiding and we knew that if he was telling anybody then it would be Ginny."

Charlie yelled at Ron, "What the hell were you thinking? She's your sister and you treat her like that. No wonder Ginny and Harry are so mad at the whole Order. There's no telling what else you have done that we don't know about. Whose idea was this because you obviously don't have the brain to think of anything but yourself."

Dumbledore said, "That was my plan. Everybody knows the importance Harry plays in everything and we must know everything that he is doing. He was less than forth coming with information so we had to find other means."

Harry lost it at that moment and yelled out at Dumbledore before Charlie could respond. The magical energy was flowing off of him and intimidated most of the people in the room as they slowly pulled away from the teenager. Harry yelled, "What gives you the right to determine what is right for me! I can make my own decisions and as far as I know of so far, every bad decision I've made so far was due to the lack of information that was withheld from me by you and the Order! You are not my parent! You're not even my guardian! Who gave you the authority to destroy my life and allow you to use me nothing more than a pawn! Everything that you have said or done ever since I met you has been a lie!"

McGonagall lost her temper and came to the defense of the Headmaster. She was yelling at Harry, "How dare you talk to the Headmaster like that! He has been taking care of you and even bending the rules to help you! You are being selfish right now Mr. Potter and I will have no more of it!"

Ginny was whispering to Harry in an attempt to calm him down. Harry managed to regain some composure when he heatedly said, "Since when did I ask for special privileges? Everything that I've gone through has related to Dumbledore in some way. He has either been setting up traps for me to fall into and fight my way out or I've been cleaning up his mess."

McGonagall said, "You are really arrogant if you believe that to be true."

Harry responded, "What's really pathetic is that you truly believe that. Anybody who knows me knows that I absolutely hate attention. The times that I am in the lime light are when I am trying to do something for someone else or someone brings the attention to me. Since you fail to see where I am coming from than let's run through my history with Dumbledore. The first year with the Sorcerer's Stone, all of the supposedly secure methods of protecting the stone only relied on one thing which was enough security. That one thing was the Mirror of Erised. Everything else was nothing more than challenges because you didn't bother to place detection charms or wards that would have better protected the area around the stone. It is convenient though that all that was required was a first year's knowledge to make it through everything. My second year, Dumbledore and the faculty failed to protect the students and once again a group of Gryffindors had to clean up the mess that has been around since the days that Dumbledore was a professor. My third year was mostly filled with the lies of Sirius was dangerous and was coming to kill me but interestingly enough he was coming to protect me. Dumbledore knew that Sirius was innocent but wanted to keep me away from Sirius. As the story continues the same group of Gryffindors had to come to the rescue and fight to free Sirius but also defend the students from Dementors that almost killed Hermione, Sirius, and me. Interestingly enough that year, Dumbledore finally brings in a Defense teacher that knows what he is saying and knows how to teach unlike Snape who likes to verbally abuse students. Now let's go on to fourth year where Dumbledore's supposed fool proof method of protecting those not supposed to compete failed and my name was entered by an imposter that Dumbledore hired to teach Defense. I will say that he was a competent teacher but not as much as Remus. Then later on in the year Pettigrew gets this great plan of his to resurrect Voldemort. I will accept that part of the reason why Pettigrew was there was because I allowed him to live but Dumbledore is also to blame considering he spent so much time hanging over Sirius that he didn't bother trying to hunt down the rat and pretty much opened the way for the second war to start. Now to the all so popular fifth year, where the Headmaster managed to let the Ministry control so much of the school, torture the students, and pretty much set the stage for me to get Sirius killed. I was at fault for it and I will accept that but Dumbledore and Snape were not blameless. Dumbledore ordered Snape to give me occlumency lessons which Snape used as his opportunities to assault and weaken my mind. Voldemort used my weakened state to plant false messages in my head."

Moody spoke up and asked, "Potter, what were you saying about the torture of students last year?"

Harry raised his writing hand up to show everybody the words, 'I will not tell lies,' imprinted on his hand. He said, "Umbridge tortured all of the students that believed that Voldemort had returned and were brave enough to stand up to her. She placed us in detention and forced us to use a blood quill that imprinted a little message on your hands while we were bleeding out from it. I'm also sure that his spies around me notified him but he didn't do anything about it."

There were some glares directed at Ron, Hermione, but mostly at Dumbledore. Dumbledore said, "Harry, it was your job to come tell me if this was going on."

Harry responded, "What? I come and tell you and you turn the other way. Don't even try to say that you would have done anything because you didn't even dare look at me all through last year and made yourself as scarce as possible."

There were more glares directed at Dumbledore and Emmeline Vance came to his rescue this time as she said, "You all can not seriously expect the Headmaster to stop everything for Potter. He has other responsibilities that he must tend to."

Harry nodded and surprised everybody when he said, "I agree. The Headmaster does have many things on his plate but I will not be one of those anymore."

Vance responded, "You can't be serious Potter. It is our job to watch over you and we intend to do it."

Harry shook his head and said, "It's awkward really that one of the criticisms of Deatheaters is that they blindly follow their master around without question. It is the same with you all in here. You blindly follow Dumbledore around and you don't even know the reason why you are doing some of these things."

A man who Harry didn't recognize said, "How dare you compare us to those Deatheaters? We are defending the light and in some cases we must follow without getting all of the information."

Harry responded, "You all claim to defend the light but how much have you all really done? As far as I can tell, the Order has had little if any effect on every major and minor attack by Deatheaters so far."

A woman that Harry didn't know responded heatedly, "Who are you to judge us. We have been doing this for years and you are nothing more than a kid with a big head."

Ginny responded for Harry, "Many of you think that Harry is arrogant but in a sense he is. You need to be a little arrogant if you are going to face the worst Dark Lord of all time. How many of you can claim to go up against Voldemort five times and survived to talk about it? Every single time it was different and yet he still managed to fight his way out and usually saving somebody while he was at it. If anything you all are pathetic because you can't hear his name and a teenager can fight while staring him in the eyes."

Percy said, "I guess Potter now has you brainwashed into what he wants now Ginny."

Ginny turned her glare on Percy and said, "You should talk. Shouldn't you be up Fudge's ass right now making sure that he keeps it clean or appear to be clean for the public? I chose to stand by him given everything that I know. He has stood by me when I needed him and I will stand by him, for the man he is which is more than anybody else in this room."

Percy angrily responded while approaching Ginny, "Don't you dare talk about me or the Minister like that. You have been around Potter for too long."

Harry walked up to Percy and said, "I know Ginny can take care of herself so I don't have to worry about her but I promise you that if you cross the line with her I will tear you apart one limb at a time."

Percy froze as Harry said those words. Bill said, "Harry, you are not going to threaten anybody in this family and get away with it. My sister may stand by you but I will defend my family before anything else." There were murmurs of agreement from the rest of the family.

Harry responded, "So you choose Percy over Ginny. That is nice to know."

Charlie said, "We did not choose Percy over Ginny but we will defend any of our family if they are threatened." He turned to Ginny and said, "Come on Ginny, you're going home."

Ginny shook her head and said, "I'm not going anywhere. It is you all that is blinded by Dumbledore and resent Harry right now. I am going to do what I believe to be right. That is one thing that our family has always stressed. We always stand by what we believe to be right."

Harry turned to the rest of the Order and said, "I can see that nothing else will be accomplished here tonight so Ginny and I will be leaving. I will allow for the Order to use this house as their meeting space but you all are going to restrict yourselves to the first floor only with the exception of those that are allowed to live here. The house elves will have instructions on what to do to those that trespass into any other part of the house or talk ill of my parents or Sirius. I don't believe that that will be a problem considering Snape will never be allowed back into the house."

Harry walked out of the room followed closely by Ginny. The two of them went to Harry's room which was formerly Sirius' room and stayed there until the Order left. The rest of the kids were left at Grimmauld Place with Lupin and Tonks watching the place while everybody else went home. When Harry left, he heard lots of bickering about what just happened but mostly everybody was demanding answers to what Harry and Ginny were talking about earlier. In one night, Harry managed to shake up the Order and openly announce that he and Dumbledore will be going head to head with anything that concerns him and Voldemort.