Erm, I know the book is out in two days but I couldn't wait! Hope you enjoy! Plez r & r!

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Harry kept running but didn't know where to go. All he wanted to do was escape from the voice…..

"Harry," it whispered. "Harry, you can't escape me." The voice sounded closer. Harry bolted down the corridor, past the History of Magic room where it was now deserted. He kept running but the voice was still there.

"Where are you?" Harry yelled while turning his head to look around while sprinting.

"I'm right here!" Harry turned around to look in the direction of the voice but there was just a statue. "You can't escape me!" it repeated. "I am with you wherever you go!" All of a sudden Harry felt a jolt throughout his brain. To his horror he had know realized what happened. Voldemort had taken control!

(Earlier)

It was the night before Harry's birthday. He had just gotten his results for his O.W.L.s that morning (followed by shouts and lecturing from Uncle Vernon for the barn owl that dropped them off). To his surprise, he pulled off getting acceptables' and higher for Charms, Potions, Transfiguration, Care of Magical Creatures, Herbology, and Defense Against the Dark Arts (though not much surprise for the last one). All of those needed to be an Auror. Ron and Hermione sent him owls telling him what they got, too. Hermione obviously got top grades and got about ten O.W.L.s, and Ron got about the same grades as Harry.

Things were looking quite bleak for Harry. Not knowing when he would be leaving Privet Drive or seeing his friends again was quite depressing. He had fixed the mirror Sirius gave him and ordered ones for Ron and Hermione. So whenever he got bored or anxious about thinking of Lord Voldemort, he contacted them and asked about the Order. The answers were the same as always: they didn't know squat. Now Fred and George were out of Hogwarts, they had joined the Order, but were busy now their new shop was thriving.

At that moment of Harry pondering of what would happen to him, his mirror turned hot. He pulled it out and saw Ron and Hermione's face.

"Hey guys-," Harry started.

"Sorry Harry," Ron interrupted. "We can't talk long. Members are being sent to you. YOU NEED TO GET OUT NOW!" Then Ron's and Hermione's faces disappeared.

Just then, Harry heard two loud pops and the Dursleys' screams. Harry realized that the members must be Apparating. Very confused on what was going on, he grabbed his trunk and Hedwig's cage and ran down the stairs to meet them. There he saw Mad Eye Moody and Tonks.

"'Lo, Harry!" Tonks said brightly.

"Er, hi," replied Harry, still very confused on what was going on.

"Enough chitchat!" growled Mad Eye. He first blew out the Dursley's electric fireplace stuff out of the fireplace, pulled out what looked to be the Weasley's floo powder pot, grabbed a pinch of it, and threw it in the fireplace. "You remember how to use this stuff, right?" When Harry nodded, Mad Eye stepped in the fire and said, "Number 12 Grimmauld Place!" and was enveloped in a swirl of green flames.

Tonks pushed Harry forward towards the fire place. He took one long last look at the Durleys in their living room like in his fourth year. All of their faces were set in what looked like plastered sets of horror. Dudley, now as fat as a small African Elephant, had fainted. After pleading looks from Tonks, he took a pinch of the floo powder and called out Number 12 Grimmauld Place like Mad Eye. A couple seconds later he was thrown out of the fire place of the Black's manor, covered in soot.

"Hello Harry. Want an explanation of what just happened I suppose?" said the calming voice of Kingsley Shacklebot. He continued before Harry could reply. "Well, some Death Eaters are on the loose close to your house and are coming for you."

"But I thought they couldn't touch me in that house because of the charm my mother did!" Harry cried. This was confusing him greatly.

"Um, well, they've gotten past the charm," Kingsley replied. "We don't know how yet. So we moved you here! And don't worry about your relatives," he said, mistaking Harry's look of worry for his Aunt and Uncle's safety. "They can't harm them because the neighbors will find that suspicious and Voldemort wants his killings to a minimum. For now. Until he has his army ready, he has no one to back him up."

Before Harry could ask any more questions, Mad Eye prodded him towards the fire. "This here was a rest stop," he explained. "See, the muggles you live with might tell the Death Eaters what we did and where we are. So Kingsley here is to capture them if they come, and we are going to the Burrow." With that, Tonks appeared in the fire place.

"Mad Eye, the Death Eaters haven't come yet but it's a matter of minutes. The Dursleys are in a bit of a shock Ah well. Let's go!" She pinched the floo powder again and called the Burrow. Tonks then disappeared in a lick of flames. Mad Eye pushed Harry forward and he too did the same.

A minute later, Harry found himself in the Weasley's living room, covered in more soot. He noticed Tonk's hair next to him, normally bubble gum pink, was now nearly black.

"Harry!" He heard Hermione's voice ring out among what looked to be the whole Order waiting for his arrival in the small Weasley living room. Ron, Hermione, and Ginny (Fred and George were at their joke shop) ran toward him and pulled him away for a second as Mad Eye came crashing in. "Harry we're glad to see you!"

"Alright now," came the motherly voice of Mrs. Weasley. She looked half exasperated all these people were here. "Now there's no need for everyone to be here now Harry's home." Soon after a couple minutes of brushing people out of her house, Mrs. Weasley let out a big sigh. She, her husband, and a couple others were the only ones left in the house. "Moving the Order here when the Black house is perfectly capable, it's unheard of!"

"Now, Molly," said Remus Lupin, who stayed to help clear up. "You know when Sirius died he didn't leave a will, or if he did we can't find it. That means the house belongs to whoever related to him wants it."

"But no one closely related to Sirius even knows about it! And if they did, they're all Death Eaters! Do you really want Death Eaters owning his house? What about Tonks? She's related to Sirius," Mrs. Weasley argued.

"Now you'll have to go to Dumbledore for that," smiled Mr. Weasley, joining the argument.

"Come on, let's go to bed," suggested Ron when Mrs. Weasley brought out some cleaning tools. He, Harry, Hermione, and Ginny went upstairs to Ron's room. "Well, Bill and Charlie are still here helping out but they're hardly around, working and doing stuff for the Order. That's why they weren't here tonight."

"What about Percy?" asked Harry, wondering whether he had gotten nicer than before when Harry came to the Order last time.

"Well, he's gotten at least a little more tolerable than last time," explained Ginny. "He now says he belongs to the family since Fudge saw you-know-who but is still pretty close to him. He hardly ever writes and when he does, Percy pretends he and Fudge were never wrong about you-know-who."

"Geez, and you know nothing about the Order?" asked Harry.

"Nope," said Hermione bluntly.

"Hey it's getting late. I think we ought to go to bed," said Ron. And with that he gave a huge long yawn. Hermione and Ginny left the room and Ron and Harry dressed for bed. Harry set Hedwig's cage next to Pig's and she hooted reproachfully and ruffled her feathers in disgust. She had never liked that bird and clicked her tongue in protest. Harry ignored her and set his trunk down next to his pull up bed.

Harry had a hard time imagining that just an hour ago he had been wondering how to get away from the Durleys and now he was here. Then he fell into a deep sleep, waking up to a big chorus of Happy Birthday from the Weasleys and Hermione. Things were looking pretty good for him. If only that good could last…

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'K, don't worry, the story will get better. Just had to set the beginning. Hope you enjoyed! Plez review if you can!