Chapter 4
Grimmauld Place
Harry stepped out of the fireplace at number 12 Grimmauld Place and up to Ron and Hermione who were sitting at the kitchen table holding hands and looking quite down. The place was lighter and more homely than the last time Harry was there. He walked up to his friends.
"Harry, Ginny is really upset. Is there anything you want to tell us about Tonks?" Hermione asked.
"Erm… Tonks stayed over at Privet Drive… to help me with some training. I… I started training… to be an animagus." Harry was having a little trouble telling his friends what had been going on. "I… erm… we that is… erm… got a little close. Nothing happened though and it's all over now." Harry said quickly towards the end.
"Oh Harry, Ginny is still pining for you. She was so happy in Diagon Alley and then… then seeing Tonks with you, it just upset her so much. Hang on a minute, did you say animagus training?" Hermione asked.
"I'll go and talk to her." Harry said trying to avoid Hermione's question.
"No, she's with mum. Leave her be." said Ron who was also upset about the state of his younger sister.
All three of them sat at the table for what seemed hours silently and then Mrs Weasley entered, followed by Ginny. Harry got up and rushed towards Ginny embracing her saying "oh Ginny, I'm so sorry, I really am"; Mrs Weasley ushered Ron and Hermione out of the kitchen to give Harry and Ginny some privacy.
"I'm sorry Harry, I… I was being stupid. We're not even… going out… together" stumbled Ginny looking down at her feet.
"Well, that will have to change then" said Harry with a smile.
Ginny looked up into Harry's eyes "what… what are you saying?"
"Ginny Weasley, will you go out with me?" asked Harry.
"Oh yes. Yes I will." replied Ginny.
They hugged for a moment and then left the kitchen holding hands and joined everyone else in the living room upstairs. The living room, which used to be the drawing room, was also a lot brighter and less grimy than the last time Harry was there.
Mrs Weasley stood there with her hands on her hips looking at Harry and Ginny. Ginny just hugged Harry and said "everything's fine now".
"I hope so" replied Mrs Weasley, "your father will be here soon. Why don't you all take your things up to your rooms, you're in the same rooms as last year."
And with that, they all exited the living room and went upstairs.
Ron was trying to transfigure his trunk back to it's normal size but Harry noticed he was having a bit of trouble with it. Harry walked up and with a wave of his hand, Ron's trunk was back to it's normal size. Harry then did the same with his trunk.
"Whoa, Harry, when did you learn to do that?" ask Ron with an amazed look upon his face.
"That was one of the things I've been learning this summer." Harry replied as though it wasn't anything special. They both finished sorting their things out and went upstairs to join Hermione and Ginny.
The girls had finished unpacking and were sitting on one of the beds talking when Harry and Ron entered the room. As soon as they entered the room and sat down, Mrs Weasley shouted up the stairs for them all to come back down into the living room.
"Oh no, shouting like that'll wake that old bag up!" explained Harry thinking about Mrs Black's portrait.
"Don't worry Harry, the members of the Order have taken her away" explained Ginny.
Harry suddenly remembered the dream he had about being back here and noticing that Mrs Black's portrait was gone. "What about Kreatcher?" asked Harry.
"Oh, he's around somewhere, I think" replied Ginny, "oh and Buckbeak has been moved to Hogwarts. Hagrid is taking care of him now and Buckbeak's room has been redecorated."
They all went downstairs to the living room and were greeted by Mr Weasley looking as happy as always.
Ginny ran up to her father and gave him a big hug and Ron just nodded and put his arm around Hermione. Harry went up and shook Mr Weasley's hand, "good to see you sir." Harry said.
"Oh Harry, come now. You should call me Arthur. Now Molly, is everyone coming to dinner tonight?"
"Yes dear. They'll all be arriving by floo in an hour or so, except Fred & George who always like to make an entrance! I'll start getting dinner ready."
"I'll help you mom" said Ginny and they both went off to the kitchen.
"I've got a few things to tidy up back at the office, so I'll see you all in an hour or so, okay?" said Mr Weasley.
"Okay Dad" replied Ron.
Harry, Ron and Hermione sat down in the living room for a minute or two not talking and then Hermione got up, "I'll go and help with dinner" she said and wondered off to the kitchen.
Harry turned to Ron, "Ron, I want to show you something" and touched Ron's arm. With a POP, they were both on the outskirts of Hogsmeade, just outside the cave where Sirius hid out two years previous.
"Whoa, Harry! What else have you been learning this summer?" exclaimed Ron.
"I told you about the apparating!"
"Yeah but you didn't tell me you could apparate with someone, that's really advanced!"
"Yeah well, I can. I want to teach you, Hermione and Ginny how to do it as well. Now listen, there's something I want to tell you. One thing I haven't told you is about the visions I got during my… erm… training…"
Run cut Harry off, "Visions? From Voldemort?"
"No, visions from Gryffindor, Godric Gryffindor. I… I think he wants me to find something and I think it's around here. I think we need to search this place but I don't know what I'm suppose to be looking for."
"Harry, what exactly do you mean by 'erm' training?"
"My… erm… animagus training"
"Can I see it?"
"I haven't finished training yet and have only managed to transform a few times. Most of the time I just get the visions and collapse on the floor. Anyway, we should get back before anyone notices us. We'll have to come back here to have a good look around."
Harry touched Ron's arm and with a POP they were back in Harry's living room.
"You're certainly getting more powerful now Harry!" Ron exclaimed.
Harry brushed this remark off, "well, I am the 'general' of the DA, as Fred and George call me" he said with a smile.
"And what is the 'general's' intentions towards my sister, eh?" asked Ron.
"Only honourable ones Ron, only honourable."
Just then Bill and Charlie Weasley entered the room, then two loud cracks like thunder behind them and Fred and George appeared.
"Alright little bro" asked Bill hugging Ron. "Yeah" replied Ron. Charlie shook Ron's hand and then gave him a hug and then moved on to shake Harry's hand.
Mrs Weasley then entered the room and announced that dinner was ready. Everyone followed her to the kitchen where Mr Weasley had just magically expanded the kitchen table to fit everyone around it and everyone sat down.
Mr Weasley stood up and raised his glass, "To Harry, we wish him well with his new home. I hope you find everything nice and homely" he said looking at his wife, "Molly spent quite a while fixing everything up for you. I hope you like your birthday present from all of us?"
"Well, I didn't do everything dear. Fred and George helped out with the decorating and you and a few others from the Order managed to get rid of that horrible portrait in the hall."
Harry stood and raised his glass, "Thank you everyone for making this house into more of a home. To family…" Harry raised his glass, followed by everyone and sat down again.
As soon as everyone was ready to eat after Harry's toast, the food magically appeared in front of them on their plates. Everyone dived in and began eating.
The meal went smoothly with all the Weasley's, except for Percy, gathered in one place. When everyone finished their meal, Fred, George, Harry and Ron helped clear everything up and then joined everyone in the living room.
When they entered the living room, Arthur and Molly Weasley stood up. "Right, we'll leave you all to it and return to the Burrow."
Bill and Charlie got up as well. "We'll join you and leave the 'youngsters' in peace."
"Okay," Molly said, "but don't cause any trouble, Fred and George! You two are in charge!"
The four eldest Weasley's went back into the kitchen and went back to the Burrow using the floo network.
"Fred," said George, "I think it's time to retire to our room."
"What's up with you two?" asked Ron, puzzled at his brothers sudden lack of party spirit.
Fred replied "Well little brother, when you're a successful business man like us, you'll understand" he said with a smile.
"We've got loads of preparing and organising to do before we move up to Hogsmeade" George said. Fred and George got up and went upstairs to their room.
"Well, back to us four then" said Ron.
Harry sat in one of the armchairs with Ginny sat on his lap and Ron sat on the settee with Hermione lying down with her head on his lap.
Harry suddenly woke up and realised he was now alone with Ginny still in his arms on the armchair. 'Ron and Hermione must have gone to bed' he thought. He leaned down and kissed Ginny on the top of her head, which made her murmur and wake up. Harry smiled at her and she smiled back and nudged herself closer into Harry's chest and he closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep again.
The next morning Harry woke up with the sound of dusting and polishing. "Oh, did I wake you?" asked Molly. "You two look so comfortable, you remind me of my youth with Arthur." she said with a smile.
"Mum?" Ginny asked, waking up. "What time is it?"
"Time for you to get up dear" replied her mother.
Ginny got up off the settee and left for the bathroom.
"Mrs… err… I mean… Molly, do you mind Ginny and I being together?" asked Harry.
"Of course not dear. I can't think of anyone I'd rather have as a son-in-law."
"Thank you Molly. If you don't mind, it's time for my morning run." said Harry.
"I don't think you should go out side on your own Harry, you should take someone with you."
"Please don't worry Molly. I've been running all summer and I've got a few tricks up my sleeve in case anything happens!" He smiled at Mrs Weasley and went upstairs to his and Ron's room to get changed. When he got into the room, he noticed that Ron's bed hadn't been slept in, 'mmm' he thought. He knew where Ron would be.
Harry got changed into his tracksuit bottoms and t-shirt and left the front door of 12 Grimmauld Place. He quickly got his bearings and ran down the road towards Regent's Park. When he got there, after about 10 minutes, he did a circuit around the park and sat down on a park bench near the boating lake and watched a small group of people controlling remote control boats. After a short while, he got up and ran back to his house.
Harry arrived back at Grimmauld Place to find Ron, Hermione and Ginny already sitting at the kitchen table and Molly running around, mainly after Ron, to try and get everyone fed. He walked into the kitchen all sweaty from his run. Hermione looked at him in disgust and Ron laughed, showing the mashed up potato in his mouth. "That looks too much like hard work." Ron said.
Harry looked at himself, he did look a state. He just waved his hands all over himself and in a flash he was clean, dry and smelling of roses, literally.
"Whoa Harry, just how powerful are you now?" asked Ron.
Harry shrugged his shoulders. "All I did was banish all the bacteria and transfigure the moisture into deodorant."
"Oh, is that all" said Ron with a sarcastic tone.
"Ready for some breakfast dear?" Molly asked Harry.
"Yes please" Harry replied as he sat next to Ginny. Molly served him a nice good English breakfast and put a dozen slices of toast in the rack in front of him.
"Well, that's me done. Don't forget to tidy up after yourselves. I'll be back later and if you need me, I'll be at the Burrow." Molly then disappeared with a POP.
"Right, what mischief are we going to get into today?" asked Ron with a mischievous grin on his face. Hermione slapped his arm; "Ronald Weasley!", she sighed. Harry and Ginny laughed.
"Well," said Harry, still smiling at Ron, "we could all do some DA practise?"
"What? All work and no play? Is this the new Harry Potter?" asked Ron, receiving another slap from Hermione.
"I for one would love to practice with Harry!" exclaimed Ginny. Everyone looked at her ; she went bright red and ran out of the room. Harry rolled his eyes and followed her.
"Ginny? Where are you?" shouted Harry. Harry huffed when there was no answer and apparated into each room looking for her. He found her in her bedroom sat on the edge of her bed. "Ginny, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, I'm just being silly again."
Harry held out his hand, "come on Gin, I want to show you something." As soon as Ginny got up and held Harry's hand, there was a POP and they disapparated.
Ginny just walked around, staring up at the clearing in the trees, "where are we?"
"Hogwarts, the forest" Harry replied.
"Is this what you wanted to show me?"
"No, I brought you here to show you my Animagus form, only, I might need your help. I've only managed to transform a few times."
Harry walked up to Ginny and put his arms on her shoulders, "Ginny, sometimes when I've transformed I've… erm… collapsed. I need you to be here for me, okay?"
"Okay Harry," she replied looking quite worried.
Harry stepped back a few paces, closed his eyes for a moment and transformed into the golden griffin. He walked forward and rubbed up against Ginny's legs like a large domestic, Crookshank's looking, cat, nearly knocking her over. Ginny laughed and cried and knelt down and stroked his fur, making Harry purr loudly. After a few minutes, Harry managed to drag himself away from the tranquillity of being near Ginny and transformed back into his human form.
Ginny ran up to Harry and gave him a big long slow kiss on the lips; she looked up into his eyes for a moment and then hugged him. "Thank you Harry. Thank you for showing me."
"Ginny… that's just part of it."
"What… what do you mean?" asked Ginny, looking a little frightened.
"What do you think I transformed into, Ginny?" asked Harry.
"A… a lion?"
"No Ginny. I am now aware that I'm the heir of Gryffindor and as such I have inherited his ability to transform into a golden griffin." explained Harry. "It also seems as though I've inherited a few other Gryffindor traits as well, such as my magical abilities."
"I want to start teaching you a few things so you can defend yourself in case of any threats from Voldemort or his death eaters. Do you want to learn?" asked Harry.
"I think I should. He knows about us now, from the Ministry."
Harry looked down at his shoes, "Right". Being reminded of those events were still painful to Harry. "Now, sit down and make yourself comfortable; now close your eyes and clear your mind of all thoughts."
They both sat down and after a few minutes Harry began his legilimency training.
'Ginny,' Harry thought, 'can you hear me?'
'Yes, I can', Ginny replied in her mind.
'Good. Now focus your mind on my mind and try and visualise yourself in my mind.'
Harry concentrated and started thinking of the visions from Godric Gryffindor. 'What do you see Ginny?'
'I see a golden griffin flying.'
'Good. Now concentrate on the area around the griffin and tell me what you see.'
'I see a village… and… and Hogwarts, I think. It kind of looks smaller.'
'Concentrate Ginny. Is it really Hogwarts? Tell me what you see.'
'I see a village, a big lake, a castle and a forest. It has to be Hogwarts!'
'Good Ginny. That's all for now. Now, clear your mind again and open your eyes.'
"Wow Harry, I was really in your mind." said Ginny.
"Yes Ginny. That's the vision I've been getting from Godric Gryffindor. I'm still not sure what he's trying to show me, if anything, but with your help I'll be able to figure it out. Now, we must get back before we're missed." And with that, Harry touched Ginny's arm and they disapparated back to Grimmauld Place.
When they got back, Harry said "Ginny, please don't tell anyone about this, except Ron and Hermione."
"Okay Harry, don't worry, I won't say anything." Ginny replied.
"With a bit more practice, anytime you want to speak to me and I'm not around, you should be able to contact me that way, okay? Now, let's find Ron and Hermione, they'll probably be worried about us being gone for so long."
Harry and Ginny went down into the basement and into the kitchen. Hermione stood up as soon as they entered. "Where have you two been, we've been worried sick?" Hermione asked.
"I told you they'd be alright." said Ron.
"Sorry, we just went… out… for a bit." replied Harry. He reminded himself about the training he was supposed to be getting on with, with Ron, Hermione and Ginny. "Do you want to do any DA training now? Afterwards we can go to Hogsmeade if you want?" asked Harry.
"Okay" said Ron.
Hermione being the cautious one of the group replied "Are you sure it will be okay Harry?"
"Where we're going it shouldn't be a problem Hermione," replied Harry, "All ready?"
"Yeah", they all said.
"Right, touch my arm and we'll go"
Harry apparated them all back to the clearing in the forbidden forest next to Hogwarts. It was a perfect training place, a large clearing right near the centre of the forest with little chance of being found or disturbed by anyone.
"Right," said Harry, "one thing I've found really useful is apparating. I want to teach you all to apparate, I suppose you could say advanced apparition, as it appears that most witches and wizards can't do what I can do. Even Dumbledore was surprised when I apparated into his office," Harry added with a smile "although it was an accident!". Harry suddenly thought about what he'd said and hoped nobody picked up on it about apparating to Dumbledore's office.
"First thing first..." Harry was cut off.
"Hang on a minute, you apparated into Dumbledore's office?" Hermione exclaimed.
"Er... Yeah... Right..."
"But that's impossible!"
"Hermione, so's surviving a killing curse and Harry did that too," said Ron. "Carry on Harry," Ron said with a smug grin.
"Right... err... everyone spread out" Harry said, pointing to where he wanted everyone.
"Hermione, take a look around here and try and memorise where everyone is standing, close your eyes and clear your mind. When your mind is blank, make yourself disappear and reappear next to me, think of nothing but transporting yourself next to me. Think of opening a passageway or tunnel and push yourself towards me." Harry wasn't sure whether he explained himself properly, but seconds later, Hermione appeared next to him. Harry smiled, "Well done, now apparate over to Ron, then Ginny and back where you were."
POP… POP… POP… Hermione managed to apparate successfully. Harry knew that a fine witch like Hermione wouldn't have any problems, but now it came to Ron's turn.
"Now Ron, the same as Hermione please. Take a look around, memorise where everyone is, close your eyes and clear your mind completely" Harry started wondering whether this was such a good idea. "Now, think about disapparating, and apparating to Hermione when you're ready."
Harry waited a few minutes and wondered whether Ron had fallen asleep, but, then… POP… Ron appeared next to Hermione. "I did it!" exclaimed Ron. Harry clapped and smiled, "well done Ron, now do the same and try and apparate back to where you were."
After a few more minutes Ron disappeared with a POP and reappeared more or less in the same place he was before. "Well done, but you do need to practice more."
"Now Ginny, come to me" Harry said with his arms open wide, smiling.
POP
Ginny appeared, right into his arms. Harry whispered "I never doubted you Ginny Weasley" and kissed her deeply.
Everyone, including Harry, continued their apparating training for a few hours, until Ron started complaining about being hungry.
Just then… POP… POP… Hermione and Ron appeared at his side.
"Hermione, did you just apparate Ron?" asked Harry amazingly.
"Yes, once you get the hang of what you're trying to do it's quite easy, isn't it?" said Hermione, proud of herself.
"Hermione Granger," said Ron, "you're the brightest witch I know!"
Hermione embraced Ron and with a POP they were gone.
"Oh dear," Harry said looking around, "I hope they're okay."
Ginny replied, "like Ron said, Hermione's a great witch. I'm sure they're okay."
Harry took Ginny in his arms again and apparated back to Grimmauld Place. Harry breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Ron and Hermione in the kitchen. Hermione just had a big smile on her face.
"Carry on like that Hermione and I might have to promote you to being my second in command!" exclaimed Harry as he walked out the kitchen with Ginny smiling.
When they were both in the living room, Ginny asked "why did you tell that to Hermione? Ron'll be upset now!"
"I said that to Ron more than Hermione. He won't want to be out done by a woman, even if it is Hermione. Just the thought of his brothers knowing that he was beat by a woman will encourage him to do better. Now, whenever possible, please practise your legilimency, I want you to become very strong in this area so you can talk to me whenever you want or need me okay?"
'Okay Harry' Ginny thought. 'Excellent' Harry thought back with a smile on his face.
Harry conjured up what looked like a larger than normal dart board and hung it on one of the walls in the living room and then conjured up a chalk board and hung that next to the dart board. 'Want a game of darts Ginny?' Harry thought.
'What's darts?' Ginny thought back.
'I'll show you. This won't be exactly like muggle darts, it'll be more like miniature wizard archery.'
Harry enchanted the chalk board to put two scores up and he then pointed and flicked his wand at the dart board saying "brevis calamus promitto" and a small arrow shot straight out towards the board. He shot two more arrows at the dart board and the chalk board automatically deducted his total score from the score on the chalk board.
Harry explained the scoring to Ginny, 'Now, the scoring is easy. You can see the numbers around the edge of the board. The black areas score whatever it says on the edge of the board, the outer red area scores double and the inner red area scores treble. There's two areas right in the middle of the board, the bit right in the middle scores fifty and the bit around the middle scores twenty-five. The chalk board is charmed to automatically take off your score, you have to get down to zero to win.'
'Okay, let me try.' Ginny thought. Quick as a flash, Ginny shot three arrows at the board and again, the chalk board automatically deducted her total score from the score on the chalk board underneath Harry's score.
Just as Harry and Ginny's game was nearing the end, Hermione and Ron entered the room and sat down to watch. All Harry needed was double top, he shuffled his feet, aimed his wand and said "brevis calamus promitto". The small arrow flew out of Harry's wand and straight in the double twenty area on the board, Harry won!
"You were very close Ginny" Harry said leaning down to kiss her.
"What's that game Harry?" asked Ron.
Hermione rolled her eyes and said "it's darts, only the dart board is bigger and they're arrows, not darts."
"Yeah, I thought we could have some fun with this and perhaps use it for training as well" explained Harry.
"Good idea. Anyway," said Hermione, "dinner's ready."
They all went down to the kitchen and sat down at the table. There was only the four of them and Molly Weasley.
"Mum, where's everyone else?" Ginny asked.
"Oh, they're all busy doing one thing or another. Fred and George are busy with the shop and Charlie's helping them. Bill's helping them out at night when he's not at work at Gringott's and your father is busy at the Ministry." Molly leant forward and said in a hushed voice "there's rumours that the Minister is going to step down", she straightened up; "about time too!"
Molly waved her wand and food appeared on the table in front of them all; "Right, I'm off back to the Burrow, call if you need anything."
Everyone said goodbye and tucked in.
After dinner they all went back into the living room and sat down, all well and truly stuffed. Mrs Weasley certainly knew how to cook a good hearty meal!
"I'm bored!" exclaimed Ron. Hermione just looked up from the book she was reading, rolled her eyes and continued reading.
"Want a game of darts Ron?" asked Ginny.
"Okay" replied Ron.
Ginny started explaining the rules and the scoring for the game to Ron and then started playing. Surprisingly, Ron got the hang of it quite quickly and started beating his sister.
Harry decided to take the opportunity to borrow the greatest mind he knew, 'Hermione' he thought, 'can you hear me? Concentrate and reply with your mind.'
'Harry? Is that you?'
'Yes. Hermione, I will leave to the kitchen, when I do, follow me. I want to speak to you.'
'Okay' Hermione replied in her thoughts and Harry got up and left for the kitchen without Ron and Ginny noticing.
"What's the matter Harry?" Harry touched her arm and apparated both himself and Hermione to the clearing in the forbidden forest.
"Why hav…". Harry cut Hermione off, "I'm going to transform into a griffin, when I do, get on my back and hold on. When we're up in the air I'm going to join our minds together and show you the vision I keep getting from Godric Gryffindor."
"Harry, are you sure about this?" Hermione asked nervously.
"Hermione, you're the brightest witch I know. That, and I know you wouldn't mind riding the most famous wizard on the planet." Harry said with a twinkle in his eyes.
"Harry! Behave yourself!"
"Are you ready?" asked Harry.
"As ready as I'll ever be, yes" she replied looking worried about flying.
Harry transformed into his griffin form and spread out his wings. Hermione got on Harry's back and he told her, with his mind, to hold on. He flew up over the forest and swung down towards the cave where Sirius once hid out. Once Harry was in sight of the cave and joined his mind with Hermione and showed her Godric Gryffindor's vision. He started circling the area of the caves.
'Hermione?'
'Yes Harry?'
'Can you make any sense of the vision? Is it trying to tell me to go anywhere?'
'I… I can't tell… There's something familiar about it. If it is showing you someplace, I think you're in the right place but it's not very specific.'
'Right, I'm going to land, hang on.' Harry started spiralling down towards the ground and touched down just outside Hogsmeade.
"This is near the cave Sirius hid in!" exclaimed Hermione.
"Yeah, I know," replied Harry feeling slightly uneasy, "come on, let's get back before anyone realises we're missing."
Hermione nodded, popped and disapparated. Harry apparated straight to the kitchen in Grimmauld Place where Hermione was sat at the kitchen table waiting for him. Harry sat down opposite her and just stared at his hands on the table.
Hermione broke the silence, "maybe you shouldn't rush into this, give it time."
"Yes I know, I just keep seeing the same thing over and over again. I can't make any sense of it."
"Why don't you try doing something else to take your mind off it and it might just come to you? You never know, sometimes that works." Hermione got up and left Harry sitting at the table.
Harry stayed in the kitchen on his own and after about half an hour a small elf crept up to him looking rather sorry for himself. "What are you doing here Kreatcher? I'm surprised your head hasn't been chopped off and thrown out with the rest of the Black's elves!" Harry spat getting up from his chair.
Just as Harry was leaving the kitchen, there where two pops behind him. Harry spun round, drew his wand and got slapped straight in the face. "Sloppy boy, you're gonna have to do a lot better than that!"
"Leave him alone Moody!" exclaimed Tonks as she knelt down next to Harry.
"You leave him alone! He'll turn all soft with your mothering" replied Moody.
Harry, still shocked, asked "what are you two doing here? Has anything happened?"
Moody extended his arm, Harry took it and got up. "Nothing's happened that you should worry yourself over. We're just borrowing your kitchen for an Order meeting."
Hermione, Ron and Ginny ran into the kitchen. "What's going on?" they all asked at once.
"By Merlin! You're slow you lot. What are they teaching you at Hogwarts nowadays?"
"Oh shut up Moody!" exclaimed Tonks, again.
Tonks escorted everyone away from Moody and as Harry walked out the door, he glanced back at Moody who smiled and winked at Harry. Harry understood that Moody was right, he was sloppy. If it had been a Death Eater attack, he'd probably be a tortured wreck by now.
As soon as Tonks left the living room to go back to the kitchen, Harry turned to the rest of the group. "Well, the Order is having a meeting, so, why don't we have a DA meeting?" he asked looking around.
"What, just the four of us?" asked Ron.
Hermione rolled her eyes and sighed, "no silly, we can go out and get those members who can't apparate and bring them here."
Harry smiled at Hermione, she was brilliant, she knew what Harry was thinking. Ron however needed a little nudge in the right direction!
"Hermione, Ginny, go get Neville and Luna. I think that should do for now. We ought to have Fred and George here but they're busy."
With a double POP, both Hermione and Ginny had gone. Harry and Ron sat down and waited for them to return.
"How are you doing with your apparating training Ron?" asked Harry, "Everyone should be able to do it before getting back to Hogwarts. I think it will come in quite handy this year!"
"Not bad, a little off course sometimes, but I'll have it sussed before we get back. We've got another couple of weeks yet. What else are you planning for the DA?"
"You'll see!"
In truth Harry didn't know what to do with the DA, that's why he wanted this meeting. He sat there in silence waiting and planning out the DA's return.