Chapter 13: Meetings

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A/N: This is for Sheree. Her review was so great. I now like this person a lot. Here for the benifit of lazy people who are curious: From: Sheree()

There are only 2 stories where Harry and Draco turn out to be brothers. One of them has Harry as a Malfoy and the other is this one. I like Remus being the boys' guardian and I like the way they are taking Dudley in. That's one thing about Rowling's books I don't care for. No one seems to grow or change that much. Not much character development.I hope you will update soon. Maybe the Hogwarts Express. I can't wait to see the Slytherins' reactions to Draco being Harry's brother.

Isn't it so cool. Oh as for your there are only 2 stories like this thats not true because I read one where they both end up Potters. It never explains how that happened though. Oh well enjoy.

"What do you mean sir?" Draco asked as he joined the group.

"Voldemort is testing our reaction time and strength. He is planning something big. We have to figure out what." Dumbledore looked around. "Finish your shopping quickly. Spread out. Two of you go get all the books, two of you potions ingredients needed, two of you quills and parchment, Remus, Tonks, get whatever else they need. The Weasley twins will just have to bring any purchases you might have made to Headquarters. Go on now." Dumbledore instructed.

Hermione and Ron went for books, Draco and Dudley went for quills and parchment, and Ginny and Harry went for potion ingredients.

Harry was having a nice chat on the way there with the youngest Weasley. "So how is it going with you and Dean?" he asked looking for a conversation topic.

"I was never dating Dean so good. See I said it to tick off the over protective Ron. He is so annoying with that I decided to play with his mind a bit." Ginny smiled at the memory of Ron's face. "It was well worth it."

Harry thought about it. He hadn't really paid attention, in fact, he really had only caught a few parts of the conversation. He had instead been focusing on the pain of Sirius' death.

They bought what was needed before heading back to the prearranged meeting spot. Ron and Hermione came last with Ron weighed down by books for everyone save Hermione who carried her own books. Harry ran to help his friend by taking some of the books.

"Did you buy the whole store Mione?" Harry asked looking at the amount of books.

"Most of these are yours Harry. Learning to be an Auror takes a lot of studying. I chose to be a teacher, which also takes an enormous amount of studying. The rest of the books are for everyone else. They don't have nearly as much." Hermione explained as the boys separated the load. They managed to get on the Knight Bus and get back to the little town quickly enough. As they began their walk towards Headquarters (from which the Dursleys had been booted) Tonks finally got tired of the struggle and just shrunk the books before slipping them in her purse.

"You couldn't just do that from the beginning?" Ron asked incredulously.

"No, it was too fun watching you struggle."

The boys all looked stunned that she could be so evil.

The moment they reached Headquarters they were pulled into a meeting. The teens were to attend as well.

"This meeting of the Order of the Phoenix and what few members we have so far of Dumbledore's Army is about Voldemort's next move. We need to figure out what he's been planning." Dumbledore gestured around the room. "I'm open for ideas."

Hermione looked in deep concentration. "It will be something that would be a tremendous blow to our self-esteem but not a straight forth plot. Hmmm."

Snape was looking at her smugly because she hadn't figured it out right away.

"The train." Harry said simply. "What would be a bigger blow to anyone than a bunch of kids on a train to school. That would hurt everyone, including Dumbledore. The train is sort of in a bad spot where it is. There is one way in and out and we can't risk muggle exposure so we have to be careful how fast we come out. Then the students would be trapped on the train itself while any defense would be hard with just aurors and order members. Too many entries to the train to block them all and some members will be helpless if they bring Dementors."

"So anyone got a plan to protect the train?" Draco asked looking around. The Order seemed shocked that his idea might be right and that the train was indeed vulnerable.

"We could just let the students in. We could put anti-apperation spells on the platform and have Moody stand guard at the barrier." Kingsley suggested.

"That doesn't stop Portkeys." Hermione supplied simply.

"Granger is right." Mad-eye stated. "We need some more reliable defense for on the train. Something that wouldn't seem so obvious so we could catch them by surprise."

"The DA. We can help protect the train. If Harry, Ron, and I can visit some of the DA members we can make sure they are prepared for it. We would need to be able to use magic though, and we'll need that book to pledge loyalty to the DA as well as the rule book." Hermione began to get an idea.

"How long will it take you to write the rules Miss Granger?" Dumbledore asked the young witch.

"Dumbledore you can't be serious! You would put students to defend students?" Hestia Jones protested.

"I'm serious. They went into the Department of Mysteries against many Death Eaters and came out in good shape. They practiced dueling all year last year and didn't get caught. They were turned in by one of their members but we have solved that problem. They are capable enough so long as they stay on the train." Dumbledore looked directly at Harry.

Harry looked down guiltily.

"Dumbledore who are we talking about here? How many students?" another person asked.

"What did you have about 30 people Harry?" Dumbledore turned to the young man.

"Around that sir. Hermione has a copy of the list, I think. We can start talking to them as soon as you'd like." Harry answered and watched as Hermione thought for a second before running off to get the list.

She returned a few minutes later holding a piece of parchment. "Here you are sir." Hermione handed him the list.

"Two of you may go. We only have one book that they can sign. Hurry and finish writing the rules and I will make them official and from there we will send you off." Dumbledore passed the list around before waving his wand. Two books appeared on the table, which Dumbledore promptly picked up and handed to Hermione.

"To ensure the safety of the names you will have them sign in this book," he picked up a black book with gold lettering reading 'The DA', "so that when they sign, their name is not known. Only members of the DA, people who have signed the pledge of loyalty that is unbreakable, can read it. The other book is for the rules that only whoever is secretary at the time can write in. Until the first meeting you are the secretary. At the first official meeting you will vote for both a leader and a secretary." Dumbledore gestured for the teens to leave and once they were out of earshot they continued the meeting.

The group of adolescence worked for the whole afternoon on perfecting the rule book. They ate dinner in silence, too tired from the day's events for conversation.

They went to their rooms and went to bed after giving both books to Dumbledore. Harry and Hermione were to go to all the DA members the next day to either get their pledge and explain the plan or to retrieve the coins Hermione had made.

Harry fell asleep quickly.

It was dark. Harry couldn't see anything but he could hear voices and the whispering of leaves in the wind. Suddenly, there was light in the middle of the darkness, revealing a group of about 20 death eaters in what seemed to be a clearing in a forest. Voldemort stood just behind the light source in the center of the circle.

"How many?" he hissed.

"300, my lord." One of the hooded figures spoke.

"100 will attack the train. The rest will take Hogwarts. Are the recruits ready to be tested?" the evil wizard spoke to one of the hooded Death Eaters.

"Yes my Lord."

"Bring them." Harry turned at a movement to his right.

"Three figures were shoved forward. "My Lord, I could not find Lucius' boy. The others were where they were supposed to be." The figure behind them stated simply.

"Let us begin."

The vision started to fade just as Harry caught site of the three "new recruits" faces.

A/N: Aren't I evil? That was fun. Really it was. I would have gone on but it just seemed a good place to stop. 1,377 words. I'll try and put the # of words on the posts for those who are curious. I would be. Bye, I must go make my plans to take over the world- uh I mean work on the next chapter. Yeah that's what I meant. ::Eyes dart back and forth::