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Chapter 13 Shocking News, Switching Sides
~*~ Normal POV ~*~
Things had been calm since the Marauders had joined the Order. Before they knew it Christmas break was there. The training they received from Dumbledore and some other Order members had improved their skills greatly.
Harry had trained his telepathy skills and could now easily pick up thoughts that people are thinking too "loud". During the lessons he would try to pry some info out of the teachers' minds. He also had the ability to transform parts of his body like Tonks and so she instructed him in that, this had caused some late night humor blows when Harry would make his nose look like Snape's but with Dumbledore's hair.
Audrey had discovered that she could talk to animals, she had engaged a discussion about flying on a broomstick with a Hippogriff and only when Hagrid asked why she was talking to a Hippogriff did she notice that she had understood everything it had said. She could no be found on the grounds talking to all sorts of (magical) animals, she kept insisting that Fang was actually an interesting conversationalist. She could also create real looking illusions. She almost gave some first year Slytherins a heart attack when she created a life sized dragon in front of them.
Hermione was exploring her ability to see the Future. Unfortunately for her Harry, Ron and Audrey had teased her because she ended with the Trelawney powers. She had just smiled as her three companions hadn't noticed that they were about to step in a trick step and had then left them there for a little while before Audrey realized that she could levitate and helped them all out.
Ron was training his ability to transform into Earthbound animals. Though he did not enjoy it when he had changed into a cat and Harry had, in his animagus dog form, chased him around the grounds thinking he was a normal cat.
Along with these new abilities came the power to change into their element or surround themselves by it. (a/n; if you don't get it then mail or review me 'bout it)
They still trained together, to improve their martial arts and weapon skills. The Order didn't interfere with this training, cause frankly they didn't know the tiniest bit about hand to hand combat in the way the mages did it.
~*~
On the second day of the holidays the Marauders were sitting in the common room, they were four of the 8 students who had decided to stay. Everyone wanted to see their family, especially with the shadow of Voldemort hanging over their heads. The Marauders could have gone to HQ but that would mean that Ginny or the twins could find out that they were members of the Order.
"So what are we going to do today?" Hermione asked.
Ron and Harry were playing chess. Harry, as usual, was getting his ass kicked by Ron.
Hermione and Audrey were going through some Order reports about Voldemorts' movements.
"What, aren't you having fun with those reports?" Harry asked slowly while looking intently at the board.
"Not really, Voldy is being completely illogical! At the end of October when we joined the Order he attacked 5 times relatively fast after one and another. But from the time interval of the 15th of November to the15th of December he has done nothing." Audrey explained frowning.
"That can only mean that he's up to something big, cause I don't think old Voldy is the hybernation type." Ron said.
"Yeah, we figured as much." Hermione sighed.
"Question. What is he up to?" Audrey added.
The four of them thought about it, then Harry's head suddenly snapped up.
"An initiation!" he said breathlessly.
His companions got eyes big as saucers.
"Holy Goddess, Snape did report that Voldemort had lowered the initiation age to 16!" Hermione exclaimed.
"All the Slytherins have gone home and we know that a lot of them have DeathEater parents." Ron pointed out.
"And they'll want their children to join their great cause and serve their Lord." Hermione said.
"I think we'd better go and talk to Dumbledore." Audrey said looking at her.
She and Hermione hid the files and headed to the headmasters' office together with the boys.
"Skittles." Harry said to the statue. It jumped alive and let the Marauders get onto the moving staircase. Once upstairs Ron knocked on the door.
"Come in." Dumbledores cheery voice bid them.
The Marauders entered the office.
"Ah, Harry, Audrey, Ron, Hermione. Is anything amiss?" Dumbledore cheerily asked.
"Sir, we were looking at the Order reports about Voldemort's movements over the past month, or more specifically the lack thereof. We wondered if you had figured out anything." Audrey began.
"We have indeed noticed that Lord Voldemort has been quiet lately, but unfortunately Severus has been unable to contact us. By the last message he was able to send, it seemed that he would be stuck for the entire holidays." Dumbledore said.
"Well, we figured that Voldemort could have a large initiation on his mind, in an earlier report by Sna.Professor Snape he said that Voldemort had already lowered the initiation age to 16." Harry said.
"Of course, so obvious.why didn't we see it? The Order is much larger and stronger than last time, so it's logical that Voldemort would want a larger army." Dumbledore said. "Very good work. I'll call and Order meeting for tomorrow evening, I expect you to be there" Dumbledores eyes sparkled.
The four friends nodded their consent and Dumbledore dismissed them.
~*~
The next evening the four Marauders were sitting on a couch in the HQ living-room looking through the notes they had. They had to apparate there and hoped neither Ginny nor the Twins would see them. People had just started to arrive, and the Marauders were soon joined by Tonks.
"Wotcha kids?" she asked.
"Just Fine." the four grunted.
"Don't sound too happy to me, though." Tonks said cheerfully.
"Jee, ya think?" Audrey muttered sarcastic.
"Your sarcasm hurts me, m'dear little cousin!" Tonks said feigning hurt.
"You'll understand as soon as the meeting begins." Hermione replied while glowering at the notes.
Tonks sighed an "Okay" and stood up to talk to some other members wich had just arrived.
Not much later Dumbledore entered the living-room with Bill closing the door.
~ Luckily my mom isn't here, she's still not happy with us joining. ~ Ron said tiredly.
~ Luckily for us indeed. ~ Harry replied.
"If you'll all be seated please?" Dumbledore asked.
Everyone sat in a chair. There were several rows of chairs. Some people stared at the Marauders who were sitting on the front row. Dumbledore saw this and called for attention.
"For those of you who didn't know yet Harry Potter, Audreana Black, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger have joined our cause. It was also their findings that have called for this meeting." he said smartly.
People started to whisper to each other.
"Miss Black, Miss Granger if you please." Dumbledore asked.
Audrey and Hermione stood up and walked to the front, ending up standing next to Dumbledore.
"As you all know, Lord Voldemort has been strangely quiet during the past month." Audrey began, many people murmured their agreement. "That and some other factors can only be formed into one conclusion.a grand initiation." she finished.
Everyone who didn't know this gasped.
"How many new DeathEaters would that bring?" Charlie asked.
"By our estimate, around 40." Hermione speaked up. "The worst part of this is that most of them are 16 or 17 and some don't even want to be DeathEaters but have to be because of their parents." Hermione finished.
She and Audrey sat down. Everyone started to talk and it took Dumbledore three times calling for order before everything quieted. He then asked for suggestions and ideas.
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The meeting lasted another two hours, in discussion, and it was found that they would have to let the initiation continue since nothing could've been done about it. During the whole discussion the Marauders just sat and watched.
~ One bit of shocking news and everyone turns into headless dragons ~ Ron thought as he shook his head to the others when they stood up.
McGonagall and Remus walked towards them and greeted them.
"So, need a lift?" Harry asked.
"Won't that tire you?" Remus asked.
"Hardly." Audrey replied smiling.
Harry took Remus' hand and Audrey took McGonagall's' hand and the six of them disapparated, landing in Remus' office.
"We'll be going now." said Hermione.
They said goodbye for the day to Remus and McGonagall and left for Gryffindor tower.
~*~
On Christmas day Harry and Ron woke up when they got a nice cold shower courtesy by Hermione and Audrey.
"We wish you a Merry Christmas, We wish you a Merry Christmas, We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Very-Nice-Cold-Wet-Wake-Up-Call!!!" they sang in a very fast mode.
Ron and Harry looked very angry as they glared slightly at the cheerful girls. Harry cast a quick drying spell on Ron and himself.
~ What do you say Prowl, shall we pay our beloved female companions back? ~ Harry suggested to Ron.
~ Definitely ~ Ron replied evilly.
They jumped out of bed and chased after the two girls, who had run out of the dormitory as soon as they saw the glance between the boys. The boys caught them in the common room and pinned them down to give them a tickle session. After the boys had secured their revenge they got to unpacking their presents.
(a/n: I'm not in the mood to describe their presents, so we'll skip that)
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After they had unpacked their presents and thanked each other they got dressed and went down for breakfast. They sat down with the other four students that had stayed at school and talked about many things, mainly Voldemort. Ron almost choked on his pumpkin juice when he heard one girl's theory about Voldemort's lack of movement. She said that he had made a deal with Fudge to take over England quietly. Which was laughable as Fudge would kill himself since he is to low on braincells to fix the job of ruling with Voldy, if not Voldy got rid of the jackass himself. The Marauders found it hard not to fall of their chairs laughing, which would've been very unprofessional.
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That afternoon the Marauders were outside holding a snow ball fight, though it wasn't completely fair since they kept using their powers. After a while they grew bored with the game and sat on the front stairs talking instead.
"Excuse me?" the heard from behind them.
They looked around and saw a very nervous 2nd year Hufflepuff boy.
"What is it?" Ron sounding annoyed asked, seeing the little Hufflepuff jump when he spoke.
"Professor Dumbledore wishes to speak to you" the jumpy boy replied.
"Okay, thanks for the message" Hermione said smiling.
The 2nd year nodded and quickly walked away.
"You scared him!" Audrey said to Ron.
Ron growled and was about to reply but Harry cut in; "Cut it! Let's go see what our beloved old coot wants."
The Marauders stood up, brushed the snow of their clothes and walked into the castle. Soon they were in front of the statue.
"Chuppa Chups!" Audrey said and the statue moved out of the way.
"Dumbledore and his sweets..." she muttered shaking her head.
They stepped on the stairs while it was still moving. Harry knocked on the office door.
"Come in!" Dumbledore said, as always in a cheerful mood, especially as it was Christmas.
The Marauders walked in.
"You wanted to see us Professor?" Harry said, but faltered slightly when he saw the three other persons standing in the room. Harry and the others froze and cast hating looks to the three. There stood Draco Malfoy, Blaise Zabini (a/n There seems to be a problem with this one. Some authors make it male, other make it female. In this tale it's a guy, kay) and Pansy Parkinson.
"What's the imperial golden quartet doing here!?" Draco spat (a/n these slyths will be named by their first name from now on).
"That will be explained in due time Mr. Malfoy." Dumbledore said. "Now if you'll please tell this entire group what happened?"
Draco cast a death glare at the four mages (course, they don't know that yet =P) but only met four cold stone looks.
"Well.as you may know all Slytherins were ordered to come home for the holidays by our oh so lovable parents." he began with a sneer which he usually just used at the group instead of his parents. "When we arrived at our respective homes our parents told us that something "fabulous!" was going to happen at Christmas. They spent days preparing and early this morning we were brought to a mansion. They left us all in a room, around 40 in total, and told us what was going to happen. They were going to make DeathEaters out of us! Some were thrilled about this but most were either disgusted or afraid." Draco said coolly.
"And you three didn't want to be DEs'?" Ron snorted. Hermione put her hand on his shoulder, a frown on her face and he calmed down.
"How did you escape?" Dumbledore asked, ignoring Ron's comment, he quickly glanced at Harry who just gave a little nod.
"The ceremony was to be held at my family's mansion in Wales. It has many secret passages and we took one that led outside. After that we called the Knight Bus and came here." Pansy answered looking cheesy at the group.
"Mr. Potter?" Dumbledore asked.
"They're speaking the truth" Harry replied, getting weird looks from the three standing before them.
"Very good, then we have some things to do. Mr. Malfoy, Ms. Parkinson, Mr. Zabini, you do understand that we can't let you stay in the Slytherin dorms anymore?" Dumbledore said.
The three nodded.
"I'll arrange a separate house for you. I would also like the four of you to move in there." Dumbledore said, smiling the last part to the Marauders.
"WHAT!?!?!?!" everyone screamed.
"I'll never live together with those despicable nonintellectual wannabes!" Draco exclaimed. Red was appearing on his otherwise pale cheeks. "It's an outrage!"
"It's better for everyone" he said to the three "and you'll be able to train without any problems during the night." Dumbledore said to the quartet.
Draco, Pansy and Blaise looked confused, while the mages just nodded in understanding, though they were not happy in the slightest. They were more of the downright pissed in the most possible meaning of the word about it.
"Now, Ms. Granger can you please apparate to HQ and warn the members that are present there, and do try to evade Ms. Weasley and the twins?" Dumbledore asked.
Hermione nodded and disapparated with a soft "pop".
"But you're not supposed to be able to apparate within Hogwarts!" Blaise gasped.
"Let's just say that we're exceptions." Harry said grinning.
"And HQ of what?" Pansy asked looking confuted with made her dogface look even more dumb.
"All in due time Ms. Parkinson." Dumbledore said, his eyes twinkling madly. "Mr. Weasley, could you go and get professor McGonagall and tell her to come to the painting of Eufora Black?" Dumbledore asked.
Ron nodded and disapparated with the usual "pop".
"Grandaunt Eufora!?!?!" Audrey and Draco groaned.
Blaise and Pansy looked at Draco and Audrey surprised.
"You're related?!" Blaise asked aghast.
"Unfortunately yes." Audrey replied moaning pitifully.
"We're cousins, our mothers were sisters." Draco said moaning equally miserable.
Blaise and Pansy were doing a very good impression of two goldfishes.
"I'm sure that you would like to meet aunt Andromeda, since she's been cast out of the family." Audrey said.
"I'm sure that she's better company than aunt Bellatrix." Draco said shuddering.
"A Basilisk is better company than aunt Bellatrix!" Audrey said agreeing. Then she slowly looked up looking at Draco with wide eyes. And then both made a discussed sound and hurriedly scrambled away to make as much of a room between them as possible. A Black and a Malfoy agreeing on something? Bleh! NEVER!
"You can continue that conversation in your new house." Dumbledore cheerily said looking at the group with an amused twinkle. He led the group to a tower on the east side of the castle and soon they stood before a painting of a lady with long red/brown hair, much like Audrey's, except Eufora had dark blue eyes and a unhappy sneer on her face.
"Hello Eufora.Destiny" Dumbledore said.
The woman grunted sourly and the portrait swung open. Dumbledore led them into a common room that was decorated in blue, violet and forest green.
"Ladies, you have a dorm upstairs to the left and gentlemen you have a dorm upstairs to the right." Dumbledore said pointing. The group gaped at him. Then Ron and McGonagall walked in.
"Albus what's going on?" she asked.
"Ah, that's easily said Minerva, Mr. Malfoy and his two friends here decided to switch sides." Dumbledore explained happily.
"I see." she said, looking over her nose down at them. "And Mr. Weasley also told me that you wanted to put him and his friends in this house as well, why?" McGonagall asked sternly.
"Because of who and what they are" Dumbledore said easily.
McGonagall nodded.
"Sir, not to sound annoying but are we on a power bind?" Harry asked timidly.
"No, quite the contrary actually, if someone wants to hurt anyone in this group you are allowed to do what you deem is necessary." Dumbledore said.
"Now due to this change of circumstances I think that we need to tell Mr. Malfoy, Ms. Parkinson and Mr. Zabini about the Order" Dumbledore said.
Every member of the Order in the room nodded in agreement with the others just looking on.
"I'm sure you and professor McGonagall can do that sir, we're going to join Mione at HQ." Audrey said.
"Very well, bring my regards." Dumbledore said.
"Of course. Sir." Audrey said and with a salute to the rest in the room she and the boys disapparated.
As soon as they were gone the people that had stayed behind sat down and Dumbledore and McGonagall started to explain to Draco, Pansy and Blaise about the Order.
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"I can't believe they put us in the same dorms as those Slytherins!" Ron groaned as soon as the last "POP" sounded.
"We're going to have to learn how to deal with it." Hermione said.
"Perhaps now that they aren't acting as cold Slytherins because of their parents, I'm sure that they'll be much more friendly" Harry said hopefully.
"I agree with Prowl. We'll just have to see where this all will go." Audrey said.
It became quiet. Then Ron asked them "Do you really think Malfoy will drop his Slytherin ass and move on?" "What planet are you from? Hell will freeze over before Malfoy gets there with his attitude and not before."
That they could agree on. They stayed at HQ until past midnight and then apparated to their new residence. Luckily Draco and co. were already asleep. They told each other goodnight and fell to sleep in their beds.
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Chapter 13 Shocking News, Switching Sides
~*~ Normal POV ~*~
Things had been calm since the Marauders had joined the Order. Before they knew it Christmas break was there. The training they received from Dumbledore and some other Order members had improved their skills greatly.
Harry had trained his telepathy skills and could now easily pick up thoughts that people are thinking too "loud". During the lessons he would try to pry some info out of the teachers' minds. He also had the ability to transform parts of his body like Tonks and so she instructed him in that, this had caused some late night humor blows when Harry would make his nose look like Snape's but with Dumbledore's hair.
Audrey had discovered that she could talk to animals, she had engaged a discussion about flying on a broomstick with a Hippogriff and only when Hagrid asked why she was talking to a Hippogriff did she notice that she had understood everything it had said. She could no be found on the grounds talking to all sorts of (magical) animals, she kept insisting that Fang was actually an interesting conversationalist. She could also create real looking illusions. She almost gave some first year Slytherins a heart attack when she created a life sized dragon in front of them.
Hermione was exploring her ability to see the Future. Unfortunately for her Harry, Ron and Audrey had teased her because she ended with the Trelawney powers. She had just smiled as her three companions hadn't noticed that they were about to step in a trick step and had then left them there for a little while before Audrey realized that she could levitate and helped them all out.
Ron was training his ability to transform into Earthbound animals. Though he did not enjoy it when he had changed into a cat and Harry had, in his animagus dog form, chased him around the grounds thinking he was a normal cat.
Along with these new abilities came the power to change into their element or surround themselves by it. (a/n; if you don't get it then mail or review me 'bout it)
They still trained together, to improve their martial arts and weapon skills. The Order didn't interfere with this training, cause frankly they didn't know the tiniest bit about hand to hand combat in the way the mages did it.
~*~
On the second day of the holidays the Marauders were sitting in the common room, they were four of the 8 students who had decided to stay. Everyone wanted to see their family, especially with the shadow of Voldemort hanging over their heads. The Marauders could have gone to HQ but that would mean that Ginny or the twins could find out that they were members of the Order.
"So what are we going to do today?" Hermione asked.
Ron and Harry were playing chess. Harry, as usual, was getting his ass kicked by Ron.
Hermione and Audrey were going through some Order reports about Voldemorts' movements.
"What, aren't you having fun with those reports?" Harry asked slowly while looking intently at the board.
"Not really, Voldy is being completely illogical! At the end of October when we joined the Order he attacked 5 times relatively fast after one and another. But from the time interval of the 15th of November to the15th of December he has done nothing." Audrey explained frowning.
"That can only mean that he's up to something big, cause I don't think old Voldy is the hybernation type." Ron said.
"Yeah, we figured as much." Hermione sighed.
"Question. What is he up to?" Audrey added.
The four of them thought about it, then Harry's head suddenly snapped up.
"An initiation!" he said breathlessly.
His companions got eyes big as saucers.
"Holy Goddess, Snape did report that Voldemort had lowered the initiation age to 16!" Hermione exclaimed.
"All the Slytherins have gone home and we know that a lot of them have DeathEater parents." Ron pointed out.
"And they'll want their children to join their great cause and serve their Lord." Hermione said.
"I think we'd better go and talk to Dumbledore." Audrey said looking at her.
She and Hermione hid the files and headed to the headmasters' office together with the boys.
"Skittles." Harry said to the statue. It jumped alive and let the Marauders get onto the moving staircase. Once upstairs Ron knocked on the door.
"Come in." Dumbledores cheery voice bid them.
The Marauders entered the office.
"Ah, Harry, Audrey, Ron, Hermione. Is anything amiss?" Dumbledore cheerily asked.
"Sir, we were looking at the Order reports about Voldemort's movements over the past month, or more specifically the lack thereof. We wondered if you had figured out anything." Audrey began.
"We have indeed noticed that Lord Voldemort has been quiet lately, but unfortunately Severus has been unable to contact us. By the last message he was able to send, it seemed that he would be stuck for the entire holidays." Dumbledore said.
"Well, we figured that Voldemort could have a large initiation on his mind, in an earlier report by Sna.Professor Snape he said that Voldemort had already lowered the initiation age to 16." Harry said.
"Of course, so obvious.why didn't we see it? The Order is much larger and stronger than last time, so it's logical that Voldemort would want a larger army." Dumbledore said. "Very good work. I'll call and Order meeting for tomorrow evening, I expect you to be there" Dumbledores eyes sparkled.
The four friends nodded their consent and Dumbledore dismissed them.
~*~
The next evening the four Marauders were sitting on a couch in the HQ living-room looking through the notes they had. They had to apparate there and hoped neither Ginny nor the Twins would see them. People had just started to arrive, and the Marauders were soon joined by Tonks.
"Wotcha kids?" she asked.
"Just Fine." the four grunted.
"Don't sound too happy to me, though." Tonks said cheerfully.
"Jee, ya think?" Audrey muttered sarcastic.
"Your sarcasm hurts me, m'dear little cousin!" Tonks said feigning hurt.
"You'll understand as soon as the meeting begins." Hermione replied while glowering at the notes.
Tonks sighed an "Okay" and stood up to talk to some other members wich had just arrived.
Not much later Dumbledore entered the living-room with Bill closing the door.
~ Luckily my mom isn't here, she's still not happy with us joining. ~ Ron said tiredly.
~ Luckily for us indeed. ~ Harry replied.
"If you'll all be seated please?" Dumbledore asked.
Everyone sat in a chair. There were several rows of chairs. Some people stared at the Marauders who were sitting on the front row. Dumbledore saw this and called for attention.
"For those of you who didn't know yet Harry Potter, Audreana Black, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger have joined our cause. It was also their findings that have called for this meeting." he said smartly.
People started to whisper to each other.
"Miss Black, Miss Granger if you please." Dumbledore asked.
Audrey and Hermione stood up and walked to the front, ending up standing next to Dumbledore.
"As you all know, Lord Voldemort has been strangely quiet during the past month." Audrey began, many people murmured their agreement. "That and some other factors can only be formed into one conclusion.a grand initiation." she finished.
Everyone who didn't know this gasped.
"How many new DeathEaters would that bring?" Charlie asked.
"By our estimate, around 40." Hermione speaked up. "The worst part of this is that most of them are 16 or 17 and some don't even want to be DeathEaters but have to be because of their parents." Hermione finished.
She and Audrey sat down. Everyone started to talk and it took Dumbledore three times calling for order before everything quieted. He then asked for suggestions and ideas.
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The meeting lasted another two hours, in discussion, and it was found that they would have to let the initiation continue since nothing could've been done about it. During the whole discussion the Marauders just sat and watched.
~ One bit of shocking news and everyone turns into headless dragons ~ Ron thought as he shook his head to the others when they stood up.
McGonagall and Remus walked towards them and greeted them.
"So, need a lift?" Harry asked.
"Won't that tire you?" Remus asked.
"Hardly." Audrey replied smiling.
Harry took Remus' hand and Audrey took McGonagall's' hand and the six of them disapparated, landing in Remus' office.
"We'll be going now." said Hermione.
They said goodbye for the day to Remus and McGonagall and left for Gryffindor tower.
~*~
On Christmas day Harry and Ron woke up when they got a nice cold shower courtesy by Hermione and Audrey.
"We wish you a Merry Christmas, We wish you a Merry Christmas, We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Very-Nice-Cold-Wet-Wake-Up-Call!!!" they sang in a very fast mode.
Ron and Harry looked very angry as they glared slightly at the cheerful girls. Harry cast a quick drying spell on Ron and himself.
~ What do you say Prowl, shall we pay our beloved female companions back? ~ Harry suggested to Ron.
~ Definitely ~ Ron replied evilly.
They jumped out of bed and chased after the two girls, who had run out of the dormitory as soon as they saw the glance between the boys. The boys caught them in the common room and pinned them down to give them a tickle session. After the boys had secured their revenge they got to unpacking their presents.
(a/n: I'm not in the mood to describe their presents, so we'll skip that)
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After they had unpacked their presents and thanked each other they got dressed and went down for breakfast. They sat down with the other four students that had stayed at school and talked about many things, mainly Voldemort. Ron almost choked on his pumpkin juice when he heard one girl's theory about Voldemort's lack of movement. She said that he had made a deal with Fudge to take over England quietly. Which was laughable as Fudge would kill himself since he is to low on braincells to fix the job of ruling with Voldy, if not Voldy got rid of the jackass himself. The Marauders found it hard not to fall of their chairs laughing, which would've been very unprofessional.
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That afternoon the Marauders were outside holding a snow ball fight, though it wasn't completely fair since they kept using their powers. After a while they grew bored with the game and sat on the front stairs talking instead.
"Excuse me?" the heard from behind them.
They looked around and saw a very nervous 2nd year Hufflepuff boy.
"What is it?" Ron sounding annoyed asked, seeing the little Hufflepuff jump when he spoke.
"Professor Dumbledore wishes to speak to you" the jumpy boy replied.
"Okay, thanks for the message" Hermione said smiling.
The 2nd year nodded and quickly walked away.
"You scared him!" Audrey said to Ron.
Ron growled and was about to reply but Harry cut in; "Cut it! Let's go see what our beloved old coot wants."
The Marauders stood up, brushed the snow of their clothes and walked into the castle. Soon they were in front of the statue.
"Chuppa Chups!" Audrey said and the statue moved out of the way.
"Dumbledore and his sweets..." she muttered shaking her head.
They stepped on the stairs while it was still moving. Harry knocked on the office door.
"Come in!" Dumbledore said, as always in a cheerful mood, especially as it was Christmas.
The Marauders walked in.
"You wanted to see us Professor?" Harry said, but faltered slightly when he saw the three other persons standing in the room. Harry and the others froze and cast hating looks to the three. There stood Draco Malfoy, Blaise Zabini (a/n There seems to be a problem with this one. Some authors make it male, other make it female. In this tale it's a guy, kay) and Pansy Parkinson.
"What's the imperial golden quartet doing here!?" Draco spat (a/n these slyths will be named by their first name from now on).
"That will be explained in due time Mr. Malfoy." Dumbledore said. "Now if you'll please tell this entire group what happened?"
Draco cast a death glare at the four mages (course, they don't know that yet =P) but only met four cold stone looks.
"Well.as you may know all Slytherins were ordered to come home for the holidays by our oh so lovable parents." he began with a sneer which he usually just used at the group instead of his parents. "When we arrived at our respective homes our parents told us that something "fabulous!" was going to happen at Christmas. They spent days preparing and early this morning we were brought to a mansion. They left us all in a room, around 40 in total, and told us what was going to happen. They were going to make DeathEaters out of us! Some were thrilled about this but most were either disgusted or afraid." Draco said coolly.
"And you three didn't want to be DEs'?" Ron snorted. Hermione put her hand on his shoulder, a frown on her face and he calmed down.
"How did you escape?" Dumbledore asked, ignoring Ron's comment, he quickly glanced at Harry who just gave a little nod.
"The ceremony was to be held at my family's mansion in Wales. It has many secret passages and we took one that led outside. After that we called the Knight Bus and came here." Pansy answered looking cheesy at the group.
"Mr. Potter?" Dumbledore asked.
"They're speaking the truth" Harry replied, getting weird looks from the three standing before them.
"Very good, then we have some things to do. Mr. Malfoy, Ms. Parkinson, Mr. Zabini, you do understand that we can't let you stay in the Slytherin dorms anymore?" Dumbledore said.
The three nodded.
"I'll arrange a separate house for you. I would also like the four of you to move in there." Dumbledore said, smiling the last part to the Marauders.
"WHAT!?!?!?!" everyone screamed.
"I'll never live together with those despicable nonintellectual wannabes!" Draco exclaimed. Red was appearing on his otherwise pale cheeks. "It's an outrage!"
"It's better for everyone" he said to the three "and you'll be able to train without any problems during the night." Dumbledore said to the quartet.
Draco, Pansy and Blaise looked confused, while the mages just nodded in understanding, though they were not happy in the slightest. They were more of the downright pissed in the most possible meaning of the word about it.
"Now, Ms. Granger can you please apparate to HQ and warn the members that are present there, and do try to evade Ms. Weasley and the twins?" Dumbledore asked.
Hermione nodded and disapparated with a soft "pop".
"But you're not supposed to be able to apparate within Hogwarts!" Blaise gasped.
"Let's just say that we're exceptions." Harry said grinning.
"And HQ of what?" Pansy asked looking confuted with made her dogface look even more dumb.
"All in due time Ms. Parkinson." Dumbledore said, his eyes twinkling madly. "Mr. Weasley, could you go and get professor McGonagall and tell her to come to the painting of Eufora Black?" Dumbledore asked.
Ron nodded and disapparated with the usual "pop".
"Grandaunt Eufora!?!?!" Audrey and Draco groaned.
Blaise and Pansy looked at Draco and Audrey surprised.
"You're related?!" Blaise asked aghast.
"Unfortunately yes." Audrey replied moaning pitifully.
"We're cousins, our mothers were sisters." Draco said moaning equally miserable.
Blaise and Pansy were doing a very good impression of two goldfishes.
"I'm sure that you would like to meet aunt Andromeda, since she's been cast out of the family." Audrey said.
"I'm sure that she's better company than aunt Bellatrix." Draco said shuddering.
"A Basilisk is better company than aunt Bellatrix!" Audrey said agreeing. Then she slowly looked up looking at Draco with wide eyes. And then both made a discussed sound and hurriedly scrambled away to make as much of a room between them as possible. A Black and a Malfoy agreeing on something? Bleh! NEVER!
"You can continue that conversation in your new house." Dumbledore cheerily said looking at the group with an amused twinkle. He led the group to a tower on the east side of the castle and soon they stood before a painting of a lady with long red/brown hair, much like Audrey's, except Eufora had dark blue eyes and a unhappy sneer on her face.
"Hello Eufora.Destiny" Dumbledore said.
The woman grunted sourly and the portrait swung open. Dumbledore led them into a common room that was decorated in blue, violet and forest green.
"Ladies, you have a dorm upstairs to the left and gentlemen you have a dorm upstairs to the right." Dumbledore said pointing. The group gaped at him. Then Ron and McGonagall walked in.
"Albus what's going on?" she asked.
"Ah, that's easily said Minerva, Mr. Malfoy and his two friends here decided to switch sides." Dumbledore explained happily.
"I see." she said, looking over her nose down at them. "And Mr. Weasley also told me that you wanted to put him and his friends in this house as well, why?" McGonagall asked sternly.
"Because of who and what they are" Dumbledore said easily.
McGonagall nodded.
"Sir, not to sound annoying but are we on a power bind?" Harry asked timidly.
"No, quite the contrary actually, if someone wants to hurt anyone in this group you are allowed to do what you deem is necessary." Dumbledore said.
"Now due to this change of circumstances I think that we need to tell Mr. Malfoy, Ms. Parkinson and Mr. Zabini about the Order" Dumbledore said.
Every member of the Order in the room nodded in agreement with the others just looking on.
"I'm sure you and professor McGonagall can do that sir, we're going to join Mione at HQ." Audrey said.
"Very well, bring my regards." Dumbledore said.
"Of course. Sir." Audrey said and with a salute to the rest in the room she and the boys disapparated.
As soon as they were gone the people that had stayed behind sat down and Dumbledore and McGonagall started to explain to Draco, Pansy and Blaise about the Order.
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"I can't believe they put us in the same dorms as those Slytherins!" Ron groaned as soon as the last "POP" sounded.
"We're going to have to learn how to deal with it." Hermione said.
"Perhaps now that they aren't acting as cold Slytherins because of their parents, I'm sure that they'll be much more friendly" Harry said hopefully.
"I agree with Prowl. We'll just have to see where this all will go." Audrey said.
It became quiet. Then Ron asked them "Do you really think Malfoy will drop his Slytherin ass and move on?" "What planet are you from? Hell will freeze over before Malfoy gets there with his attitude and not before."
That they could agree on. They stayed at HQ until past midnight and then apparated to their new residence. Luckily Draco and co. were already asleep. They told each other goodnight and fell to sleep in their beds.
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