Disclaimer: If you've seen it, I don't own it.
A/N: Here ya go. It explains all. (or most of the questions that must be going through your minds.)
Chapter 7: Dumbledore's talk
The boys got back to the house only to discover that half the order was there. The Dursleys were furious and completely healthy. Everyone was quiet when Remus walked in with the boys.
Moody stopped in mid threat to the Dursleys about pushing the boys to do stupid things with their treatment of them.
Harry looked around in horror at the number of people they had upset. He hadn't realized so many people cared about his safety and well being.
Draco on the other hand was shocked at the people who were in the house. He recognized a few of them but most he did not even know. Who were these people?
Dumbledore came down the stairs and Harry aimed his gaze at the floor unable to meet the old man's eyes. He had broken the man's trust in him. He couldn't look him in the eye. Not even when he had yelled at him for everything did he feel this bad. Then he had dragged his younger brother into it. He had endangered not only himself by this decision but his twin brother as well.
Draco saw Harry's eyes focus on the floor. He wondered why he would do such a thing until he himself looked into the old wizards eyes. He saw extreme disappointment in the man's eyes and it made him ashamed. There wasn't any anger, or the usual twinkle; his eyes were just dull with disappointment in them.
"Come, you need to pack your things." Was all Dumbledore said. The boys trudged upstairs without a word. They were not happy to be leaving the Dursleys anymore. Putting up with Aunt Marge would be better than leaving right now. Knowing that their fate would be to face Dumbledore and his disappointment in them.
Harry grabbed the pieces of the letters from the drawer and put them in an envelope so that someone could try and fix them later. They packed quickly and dragged their trunks downstairs.
Kingsley shrunk their trunks and put them in his pocket before apperating away. Harry turned to his angry family and waved to be polite. Aunt Marge had this look of utter shock on her face while Dudley looked completely terrified.
Dumbledore handed them a portkey and not a minute later they disappeared.
The boys arrived in what seemed to be an old castle. It was made of stone but enchanted to be warm. It was smaller than Hogwarts but still quite large.
Draco looked around at the place amazed. Harry was too busy staring at all the Order members walking around. There were more than there used to be.
Dumbledore soon appeared in the middle of the hustle and bustle.
"I'll show you two to your rooms or did you want to share a room?" Dumbledore looked led them down a hall as he asked this.
"Can we share a room?" It was Draco that thought this would be better.
"Sure." Dumbledore opened the door to one of the rooms to reveal the largest room Harry had ever stayed in. The room was shaped as if it was two rooms but was missing the wall that would have gone in between. One bed was dark blue and the other red. Harry looked on in awe as he noticed two phoenixes sitting one on each side of the room.
"The phoenixes are a gift for each of you from the order. As your birthday is coming up we thought they would make a great gift." Dumbledore explained as he gestured towards the birds.
"They don't have a name right now. You will have to give them one. I will need to talk to you boys before dinner. Unpack your things and come see me before dinner. We really need to talk." Dumbledore left them to unpack their things.
They unpacked silent at first. Draco finally broke the silence. "Do you think he's angry?"
"No. I've seen him angry. He's not angry, just disappointed. I think that is worse though." Harry remembered the anger and power that had radiated from Dumbledore in fourth year.
"Are you going to ask him if you can change houses and be enrolled under Potter?" Harry changed the subject.
"Maybe. I might not. I think now would not be the best time to be asking for favors."
They finished unpacking and began to think of names for their birds. Harry's was Red and Silver as opposed to red and gold like Fawkes. Draco had chosen the other who would have been identical to Fawkes if he hadn't had the white edge on his tail feathers.
The boys took a few minutes to think of names for their birds. Harry had decided to name his Zeus after the Greek god.
Draco thought a little harder and named his bird. Soon they made their way out of the room. As soon as they were out the door they were lost. They didn't know where they were supposed to meet Dumbledore.
Luckily Mad-eye Moody was just passing. "Sir, where can we find Professor Dumbledore?" Harry asked the old aurour.
"Follow me Potter, Potter." Harry and Draco followed Mad-eye down the corridor turning every now and then till they came to a study. Harry knocked lightly and opened the door at the soft "come in" he heard.
Draco shut the door behind him. "Sit down, dinner will start in a little bit." Dumbledore gestured to a stuffed sofa before sitting across from them in an armchair.
"So how has your summer been this far?" Dumbledore asked as if the events of earlier in the day had never happened.
"Strange. It has taken some time to get used to having a brother and well Sirius is gone. It's been a time to adjust." Harry answered for his part. He found it easier to talk about Sirius now that Draco had forced his feelings into the light.
"It's been..."Draco shrugged.
Dumbledore understood perfectly. "Now about your sixth year in Hogwarts. There will be many changes this year. Now that the ministry has accepted Voldemort's return the school will no longer be their main concern."
"That's good to hear Professor." Harry said shuddering at the thought of another Umbridge.
"First things first, Hagrid will no longer be teaching Care of Magical Creatures-"
"But that's what he loves doing so much! You can't make him stop!" Harry was outraged.
"Calm down Harry. Hagrid suggested this himself. He will be busy talking to the giants, taking care of Grawp, and being a messenger to Beauxbatons. Now on another note there will be two resident aurors throughout the year as well as three members of the order that will rotate their schedule to help guard the school. There will also be a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. I think I know who will be taking over that position but I have to confirm it with her. Now then as you have not had the normal post, I have your Hogwarts letters for this year. Your owl results are repaired and on your beds. We can discuss your classes later. As for the matter with Draco, we must decide what to do with you."
"I want to switch houses if that's possible and enroll under Potter. I want nothing to do with the name Malfoy any more."
"You know this will lose you the spot on the Quidditch team and your prefect position?"
"Yes. Lucius bought both those positions and I want nothing to do with them."
"Alright then, on the first of September you will wait at the front of the Great Hall with the first years to be sorted. Since I mentioned Quidditch I should tell you Harry, that all decrees made by Dolores Umbridge have been made void. Your Quidditch ban has been lifted and all clubs may continue as they would before she came along. Will you be continuing the DA?"
"Let me talk it over with Ron and Hermione. I probably will because it helped us with the OWLS last year and it is a great study group."
"If you should choose to keep it a secret we will make an official Rule book and there will be a signed pledge that one will never betray the society. We do not want Voldemort hearing of what you are learning on your own."
"Yes sir. I'll ask Hermione what she thinks. She's usually the one who sees things from the objective point of view." Harry hadn't thought about what he would do with the DA too much over the summer. Too many other things had been important.
Draco remembered turning the DA members in one day last year. "This time brother I will be a part of your society instead of the one looking to tear it apart." Draco patted Harry's back happy that Harry had other things to think of now that all decrees were void.
"I have two more things I need to discuss with you. One of them is why exactly we needed you two separated at birth, the other was what your future careers might be and what classes you will be taking this year."
Draco seemed interested in the reason that he was separated from his twin brother at birth.
"First you have to understand what a real prophecy is. A prophecy is usually stated by more than one seer and deals with something drastic that will happen. Many prophecies can change the fate of many lives and as such are kept secret. Only a few actually know these prophecies and that is why so few work in the Department of Mysteries. You see there was once a prophecy about the blood of the Hogwarts three destroying the bloodline of the fourth. The prophecy also spoke about their being two of the Hogwarts three's blood doing so. Your father and his brother had that blood so we thought they would fulfill the prophecy. Then your Uncle was killed before he could even come to Hogwarts so we lost hope. Then you were born. We knew that you would be the ones to fulfill the prophecy and save the world. We separated you in hopes that Voldemort who knew the prophecy would not know that you would destroy him. He killed your father and had moved to kill you when your mother sacrificed herself for you Harry. Everyone thought he was just trying to kill your family because they wouldn't join him but it wasn't true. In truth you and your brother are the only ones who can save the world."
Harry sat stunned. Draco seemed to be thinking about what had happened. "Do you think we can win?" he finally asked.
"Yes. I have no doubt that you can defeat the Dark Lord. All it takes is a little practice. Together he can't beat you but if you are separate he can."
"So if he catches us apart we might die but if we are together then we'll be fine."
"Not exactly, if the two of you are apart and he happens to come across one of you, you will still be able to survive but you have a greater chance of getting hurt or even killed. If he finds you when you are together, you are more likely to survive any attack he may throw at you." Dumbledore explained a little better.
"Oh, I think I get it. We have no chance of beating him alone. Ok so what about the other things you wanted to talk about?" Harry decided to change the subject.
"Ah yes your classes for the next year. As I understand it, neither of you had truthful career advice. Harry we can start with your career choice. I believe professor McGonagall said you wanted to be an auror. Do you have your owl results with you?"
"Yes sir." Harry handed his results to the old man.
Dumbledore looked over them quickly. "Seems like you have the grades to take all the classes you need. Would you like me to sign you up for the necessary classes?"
"That would be nice sir."
"And you Draco? What does your goal consist of?"
"I don't know. I've never thought about what I really wanted out of life. Can I have some time to think about it?"
"Of coarse you can. Tell me when you are ready to decide. That's all for right now boys. I suggest you get you homework done; Professor Snape and Professor McGonagall will be here tomorrow. I have a meeting of the whole order and then I wish to see you again to explain a few more things. The Weasleys and Hermione will be here in the morning so you best get some sleep after dinner."
Dumbledore led the boys to the door and called someone to lead them back to their room. After they had washed and dressed in clean clothes they made their way to the dinning room following the smell all the way there.
Harry was almost knocked over as he entered the dinning room by a rather happy house elf.
"Mr. Harry Potter, sir. Its so good to see you sir." Dobby pulled back a little, "Sir is too skinny, sir must eat lots." Dobby turned his attention to Draco. "Who is Harry Potter's friend?" Dobby looked at Draco but the question was directed to Harry.
"This is my brother Draco, Dobby. Draco you know Dobby." Draco stared at the elf that had once served the Malfoy family. "Nice to meet you Dobby." Draco stated as he looked around.
"You is much to skinny too. Sit over here and we will make you less skinny." Dobby said as he pulled them to the table already lined with Order members.
"Hiya Harry. I'm sorry I wasn't able to help rescue you but I had to be at work today. So how has your summer been?" Tonks asked as she filled her plate with the food that was being passed down.
"Good." Harry answered as he began to feed himself quickly.
Draco smiled at the shocked looks they were getting for eating so fast. This was the first proper meal they had had since Hogwarts. Well for Draco, Harry hadn't eaten much since Sirius' death.
Remus, who was sitting next to Harry, managed to get the plate out from under Harry receiving a death glare from the boy.
"I know you're hungry but you'll get sick eating that fast." Remus chuckled at the dumbfounded look Harry shot him. "You do need to breath every once in a while as well."
Harry grabbed for his plate but Remus moved it. Draco almost invisibly slid his plate toward Harry who quickly ate the rest off it.
Remus chuckled and shook his head. They weren't going to feel good tonight.
A/N: That was long. It didn't seem that long when I typed it. Oh well. Sorry for the delay, I had school and the teacher wouldn't let me go to the computer lab. Sigh the injustice of high school. Anywhoo. I just need a little more on Chapter 8 to be done with it so until then ta ta. Note: next chapter will have Ron and Hermione's reactions to the situation.
A/N: Here ya go. It explains all. (or most of the questions that must be going through your minds.)
Chapter 7: Dumbledore's talk
The boys got back to the house only to discover that half the order was there. The Dursleys were furious and completely healthy. Everyone was quiet when Remus walked in with the boys.
Moody stopped in mid threat to the Dursleys about pushing the boys to do stupid things with their treatment of them.
Harry looked around in horror at the number of people they had upset. He hadn't realized so many people cared about his safety and well being.
Draco on the other hand was shocked at the people who were in the house. He recognized a few of them but most he did not even know. Who were these people?
Dumbledore came down the stairs and Harry aimed his gaze at the floor unable to meet the old man's eyes. He had broken the man's trust in him. He couldn't look him in the eye. Not even when he had yelled at him for everything did he feel this bad. Then he had dragged his younger brother into it. He had endangered not only himself by this decision but his twin brother as well.
Draco saw Harry's eyes focus on the floor. He wondered why he would do such a thing until he himself looked into the old wizards eyes. He saw extreme disappointment in the man's eyes and it made him ashamed. There wasn't any anger, or the usual twinkle; his eyes were just dull with disappointment in them.
"Come, you need to pack your things." Was all Dumbledore said. The boys trudged upstairs without a word. They were not happy to be leaving the Dursleys anymore. Putting up with Aunt Marge would be better than leaving right now. Knowing that their fate would be to face Dumbledore and his disappointment in them.
Harry grabbed the pieces of the letters from the drawer and put them in an envelope so that someone could try and fix them later. They packed quickly and dragged their trunks downstairs.
Kingsley shrunk their trunks and put them in his pocket before apperating away. Harry turned to his angry family and waved to be polite. Aunt Marge had this look of utter shock on her face while Dudley looked completely terrified.
Dumbledore handed them a portkey and not a minute later they disappeared.
The boys arrived in what seemed to be an old castle. It was made of stone but enchanted to be warm. It was smaller than Hogwarts but still quite large.
Draco looked around at the place amazed. Harry was too busy staring at all the Order members walking around. There were more than there used to be.
Dumbledore soon appeared in the middle of the hustle and bustle.
"I'll show you two to your rooms or did you want to share a room?" Dumbledore looked led them down a hall as he asked this.
"Can we share a room?" It was Draco that thought this would be better.
"Sure." Dumbledore opened the door to one of the rooms to reveal the largest room Harry had ever stayed in. The room was shaped as if it was two rooms but was missing the wall that would have gone in between. One bed was dark blue and the other red. Harry looked on in awe as he noticed two phoenixes sitting one on each side of the room.
"The phoenixes are a gift for each of you from the order. As your birthday is coming up we thought they would make a great gift." Dumbledore explained as he gestured towards the birds.
"They don't have a name right now. You will have to give them one. I will need to talk to you boys before dinner. Unpack your things and come see me before dinner. We really need to talk." Dumbledore left them to unpack their things.
They unpacked silent at first. Draco finally broke the silence. "Do you think he's angry?"
"No. I've seen him angry. He's not angry, just disappointed. I think that is worse though." Harry remembered the anger and power that had radiated from Dumbledore in fourth year.
"Are you going to ask him if you can change houses and be enrolled under Potter?" Harry changed the subject.
"Maybe. I might not. I think now would not be the best time to be asking for favors."
They finished unpacking and began to think of names for their birds. Harry's was Red and Silver as opposed to red and gold like Fawkes. Draco had chosen the other who would have been identical to Fawkes if he hadn't had the white edge on his tail feathers.
The boys took a few minutes to think of names for their birds. Harry had decided to name his Zeus after the Greek god.
Draco thought a little harder and named his bird. Soon they made their way out of the room. As soon as they were out the door they were lost. They didn't know where they were supposed to meet Dumbledore.
Luckily Mad-eye Moody was just passing. "Sir, where can we find Professor Dumbledore?" Harry asked the old aurour.
"Follow me Potter, Potter." Harry and Draco followed Mad-eye down the corridor turning every now and then till they came to a study. Harry knocked lightly and opened the door at the soft "come in" he heard.
Draco shut the door behind him. "Sit down, dinner will start in a little bit." Dumbledore gestured to a stuffed sofa before sitting across from them in an armchair.
"So how has your summer been this far?" Dumbledore asked as if the events of earlier in the day had never happened.
"Strange. It has taken some time to get used to having a brother and well Sirius is gone. It's been a time to adjust." Harry answered for his part. He found it easier to talk about Sirius now that Draco had forced his feelings into the light.
"It's been..."Draco shrugged.
Dumbledore understood perfectly. "Now about your sixth year in Hogwarts. There will be many changes this year. Now that the ministry has accepted Voldemort's return the school will no longer be their main concern."
"That's good to hear Professor." Harry said shuddering at the thought of another Umbridge.
"First things first, Hagrid will no longer be teaching Care of Magical Creatures-"
"But that's what he loves doing so much! You can't make him stop!" Harry was outraged.
"Calm down Harry. Hagrid suggested this himself. He will be busy talking to the giants, taking care of Grawp, and being a messenger to Beauxbatons. Now on another note there will be two resident aurors throughout the year as well as three members of the order that will rotate their schedule to help guard the school. There will also be a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. I think I know who will be taking over that position but I have to confirm it with her. Now then as you have not had the normal post, I have your Hogwarts letters for this year. Your owl results are repaired and on your beds. We can discuss your classes later. As for the matter with Draco, we must decide what to do with you."
"I want to switch houses if that's possible and enroll under Potter. I want nothing to do with the name Malfoy any more."
"You know this will lose you the spot on the Quidditch team and your prefect position?"
"Yes. Lucius bought both those positions and I want nothing to do with them."
"Alright then, on the first of September you will wait at the front of the Great Hall with the first years to be sorted. Since I mentioned Quidditch I should tell you Harry, that all decrees made by Dolores Umbridge have been made void. Your Quidditch ban has been lifted and all clubs may continue as they would before she came along. Will you be continuing the DA?"
"Let me talk it over with Ron and Hermione. I probably will because it helped us with the OWLS last year and it is a great study group."
"If you should choose to keep it a secret we will make an official Rule book and there will be a signed pledge that one will never betray the society. We do not want Voldemort hearing of what you are learning on your own."
"Yes sir. I'll ask Hermione what she thinks. She's usually the one who sees things from the objective point of view." Harry hadn't thought about what he would do with the DA too much over the summer. Too many other things had been important.
Draco remembered turning the DA members in one day last year. "This time brother I will be a part of your society instead of the one looking to tear it apart." Draco patted Harry's back happy that Harry had other things to think of now that all decrees were void.
"I have two more things I need to discuss with you. One of them is why exactly we needed you two separated at birth, the other was what your future careers might be and what classes you will be taking this year."
Draco seemed interested in the reason that he was separated from his twin brother at birth.
"First you have to understand what a real prophecy is. A prophecy is usually stated by more than one seer and deals with something drastic that will happen. Many prophecies can change the fate of many lives and as such are kept secret. Only a few actually know these prophecies and that is why so few work in the Department of Mysteries. You see there was once a prophecy about the blood of the Hogwarts three destroying the bloodline of the fourth. The prophecy also spoke about their being two of the Hogwarts three's blood doing so. Your father and his brother had that blood so we thought they would fulfill the prophecy. Then your Uncle was killed before he could even come to Hogwarts so we lost hope. Then you were born. We knew that you would be the ones to fulfill the prophecy and save the world. We separated you in hopes that Voldemort who knew the prophecy would not know that you would destroy him. He killed your father and had moved to kill you when your mother sacrificed herself for you Harry. Everyone thought he was just trying to kill your family because they wouldn't join him but it wasn't true. In truth you and your brother are the only ones who can save the world."
Harry sat stunned. Draco seemed to be thinking about what had happened. "Do you think we can win?" he finally asked.
"Yes. I have no doubt that you can defeat the Dark Lord. All it takes is a little practice. Together he can't beat you but if you are separate he can."
"So if he catches us apart we might die but if we are together then we'll be fine."
"Not exactly, if the two of you are apart and he happens to come across one of you, you will still be able to survive but you have a greater chance of getting hurt or even killed. If he finds you when you are together, you are more likely to survive any attack he may throw at you." Dumbledore explained a little better.
"Oh, I think I get it. We have no chance of beating him alone. Ok so what about the other things you wanted to talk about?" Harry decided to change the subject.
"Ah yes your classes for the next year. As I understand it, neither of you had truthful career advice. Harry we can start with your career choice. I believe professor McGonagall said you wanted to be an auror. Do you have your owl results with you?"
"Yes sir." Harry handed his results to the old man.
Dumbledore looked over them quickly. "Seems like you have the grades to take all the classes you need. Would you like me to sign you up for the necessary classes?"
"That would be nice sir."
"And you Draco? What does your goal consist of?"
"I don't know. I've never thought about what I really wanted out of life. Can I have some time to think about it?"
"Of coarse you can. Tell me when you are ready to decide. That's all for right now boys. I suggest you get you homework done; Professor Snape and Professor McGonagall will be here tomorrow. I have a meeting of the whole order and then I wish to see you again to explain a few more things. The Weasleys and Hermione will be here in the morning so you best get some sleep after dinner."
Dumbledore led the boys to the door and called someone to lead them back to their room. After they had washed and dressed in clean clothes they made their way to the dinning room following the smell all the way there.
Harry was almost knocked over as he entered the dinning room by a rather happy house elf.
"Mr. Harry Potter, sir. Its so good to see you sir." Dobby pulled back a little, "Sir is too skinny, sir must eat lots." Dobby turned his attention to Draco. "Who is Harry Potter's friend?" Dobby looked at Draco but the question was directed to Harry.
"This is my brother Draco, Dobby. Draco you know Dobby." Draco stared at the elf that had once served the Malfoy family. "Nice to meet you Dobby." Draco stated as he looked around.
"You is much to skinny too. Sit over here and we will make you less skinny." Dobby said as he pulled them to the table already lined with Order members.
"Hiya Harry. I'm sorry I wasn't able to help rescue you but I had to be at work today. So how has your summer been?" Tonks asked as she filled her plate with the food that was being passed down.
"Good." Harry answered as he began to feed himself quickly.
Draco smiled at the shocked looks they were getting for eating so fast. This was the first proper meal they had had since Hogwarts. Well for Draco, Harry hadn't eaten much since Sirius' death.
Remus, who was sitting next to Harry, managed to get the plate out from under Harry receiving a death glare from the boy.
"I know you're hungry but you'll get sick eating that fast." Remus chuckled at the dumbfounded look Harry shot him. "You do need to breath every once in a while as well."
Harry grabbed for his plate but Remus moved it. Draco almost invisibly slid his plate toward Harry who quickly ate the rest off it.
Remus chuckled and shook his head. They weren't going to feel good tonight.
A/N: That was long. It didn't seem that long when I typed it. Oh well. Sorry for the delay, I had school and the teacher wouldn't let me go to the computer lab. Sigh the injustice of high school. Anywhoo. I just need a little more on Chapter 8 to be done with it so until then ta ta. Note: next chapter will have Ron and Hermione's reactions to the situation.