Disclaimer: Here's another chapter that includes direct quotes from OotP. Sorry, but I can't change everything, you know! My creativity has limits!

Dinner

During dinner, Harry, Ron, and Hermione were unsurprisingly quiet. Ginny followed suit due to a conversation on the stairs before dinner. Sakhmet and the twins however continued talking to the other more talkative people at the table. Sakhmet had been dozing during that conversation and hadn't heard any of it, so she didn't mind. After being called upon to silence her grandmother, Sakhmet had been in a fairly good mood. Tonks tried to cheer everyone up by changing her nose into a variety of different shapes, including one that looked rather like a hairy pickle. But this did nothing to lift the sad mood from that section of the table.

"Dementors, huh?" said Sirius, in an attempt to lift the silence. "And I thought sandstorms were interesting."

"How many times do I have to tell you that was an accident? It's not my fault the goddess decided to manifest my powers at the wrong time. Even she says so!" interjected Sakhmet.

"Sandstorms?" asked Harry inquisitively. Nobody had told him there were sandstorms here too. Nobody had told him anything actually.

Sakhmet glared. "I got mad at Sirius for not telling anybody that I existed, and apparently the goddess had manifested my powers at the same time. So—"

"Who's this goddess person exactly?" asked Tonks. "You never really explained it that well."

"Sakhmet is also the name of the Egyptian goddess of destruction and war. She's also a goddess of healing, but nobody really mentions that much. She used to be Hathor, but then Ra asked her to kill some people who were conspiring against him. So she went down to earth and went psycho on a bunch of Egyptians. She would have killed everyone if they hadn't tricked her into stopping," answered Bill. He had spent enough time in Egypt to know these things.

"Exactly, and apparently there's some idiot prophecy that says I'll do the same sort of thing," added Sakhmet. "So the goddess explains different stuff to me. And it's also her duty to manifest my powers. That's why I accidentally made an indoor sandstorm."

"But she made sure I didn't die afterwards, so it's all good," said Sirius. "But it was a pain in the neck cleaning up that sand."

Sakhmet rolled her eyes and went back to eating.

There was an outburst of laughter from the other end of the table. Mundungus Fletcher was telling another tale of his nefarious business dealings. "And then, if you'll believe it, 'e says to me, 'e says,''ere, Dung, where didja get all them toads from? 'Cos some son of a Bludger's gone and nicked all mine!' And I says, 'Nicked all your toads, Will, what's next? So you'll be wanting some more, then?' And if you'll believe me, lads, the gormless gargoyle buys all 'is own toads back orf me for twice what 'e paid in the first place—"

"I don't think we need to hear any more of your business dealings, thank you very much, Mundungus," said Mrs. Weasley. She was glaring death at him in a way that almost made Sakhmet jealous of her glaring abilities.

"Beg pardon, Molly," said Mundungus. "But, you know, Will nicked 'em orf Warty Harris in the first place so I wasn't really doing nothing wrong—"

"I don't know where you learned about right and wrong, Mundungus, but you seem to have missed a few crucial lessons," was the icy reply.

Dinner continued with many stifled giggles and a few laughs turned coughs. After a while, Mrs. Weasley said, "Nearly time for bed, I think."

"Not just et, Molly," replied Sirius. "You know, I'm surprised at you. I thought the first thing you'd do when you got here would e to start asking questions about Voldemort."

"I did!" answered Harry. "I asked Ron and Hermione but they said we're not allowed in the Order, so—"

"And they're quite right," interjected Mrs. Weasley. "You're too young."

"Since when did someone have to be in the Order of the Phoenix to ask questions?" asked Sirius. "Harry's been trapped in that Muggle house for a month. He's got a right to know what's been happen—"

"Hang on!" interrupted George.

"How come Harry gets his questions answered?" asked Fred.

"We've been trying to get stuff out of you for a month and you haven't told us a single stinking thing!" added his twin.

"'You're too young, you're not in the Order'," said Fred, imitating his mother. "Harry's not even of age!"

"It's not my fault you haven't been told what the Order's doing," said Sirius. "That's your parents' decision. Harry, on the other hand—"

This went on for quite some time. In the end it was decided that Harry, Fred, George, Ron, and Hermione would be allowed to stay. Ginny yelled all the way to bed, and Sakhmet made a resolution to tell her everything before she went to bed.

When Sirius looked at her pointedly, Sakhmet said, "Go ahead. Try and make me leave."

Sirius just laughed and said, "So that's all of you? Except Ginny of course. Well, then, Harry, what do you want to know?"

Now if you happen to have OotP handy, you can just read Chapter 5, because that's where this conversation is. Oki? Gewd.

Afterwards, everyone went to bed. Well, except Sakhmet who snuck into Ginny's room to tell her everything she had heard. Then Sakhmet went to bed and more dreams of the goddess.