Harry Potter and the Impossible Mission
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Summary:
Harry is reflecting on the things that happened last year at the Department of Mysteries when he gets an unexpected visitor. He learns about his family and moves on after the death of Sirius. A new event begins at Hogwarts and Harry learns he must participate if he wants to help the Order. Harry begins working harder than ever to accomplish the task when one of the only people he feels understands him is taken by Voldemort. He deals with the contents of the prophecy and all the pressures that normal teens have, growing stronger to do what's asked of him all the time.
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Chapter 6: The Announcement
When Harry opened his eyes he saw he was in a room vaguely familiar. It seemed he had been sleeping for a while because sunlight was streaming in through the window. Harry checked his pockets to make sure his calming stone was there, which it was, and then he scanned around the room for a moment until he saw Dumbledore. He must have seen Harry was awake because he set aside what he was working on, and walked over to Harry's bedside.
"Harry," said Dumbledore in a relieved voice.
" Hi Grandad," said Harry very quietly," I'm sorry I went after the Death Eaters when I was told not to."
"It was dangerous, but right now I'm just glad you're back safe. After your rest, come to my office because we have some business to discuss," Dumbledore said as he looked down at Harry. He smiled down at him and, without another word, Dumbledore left.
"But I don't need rest…" Harry protested. Dumbledore was gone before he got a chance to hear Harry.
Madam Pomfrey spoke up as she walked towards Harry's bedside," You do need your rest, young man. Here take this." She thrust a bottle with a swirling light blue liquid toward Harry, who took it out of the nurse's hand. He drank it quickly to keep the bad taste from lasting too long and soon felt him falling into a dreamless sleep.
Dumbledore's P0V
Dumbledore walked down the many halls of Hogwarts and into his office. As he scanned the room, he saw three Order members waiting on him. Dumbledore sighed and made his way towards his desk. He sat down behind it and looked around the room one more time. Most had worried expressions on their faces since no one but himself had yet heard of how Harry was feeling.
" I know you are all wondering how Harry is doing and I assure you he is doing fine, but he will have to be in the hospital wing until Madam Pomfrey says that he can leave." said Dumbledore casually, knowing only too well it could be quite a few days before Harry was out of the place while under the Hogwarts nurse's care. "Now though, we need to get to the business this meeting was called for. Since we know that Voldermort's headquarters are at Knockturn Alley, I would like Lupin and Tonks to watch the entrance to Diagon Alley," Dumbledore looked at the two members. Lupin and Tonks nodded their agreement.
"Severus, should Voldemort decide that headquarters will change, which I believe he will after tonight, please inform us immediately," Dumbledore said, turning to his Slytherin spy.
Snape nodded, getting up and leaving since he felt he had no other need to stay with the Gryffindors that surrounded him. Dumbledore chuckled slightly to himself as he dismissed everyone else and headed out of his office and down to the hospital wing to visit his great grandson. It was nice that Harry finally knew.
Harry's POV
Harry turned his head at the sound of the hospital doors swinging open. He thought it might have been Ron and Hermione coming to ask about everything that had happened. This was something he wasn't in the mood for. He saw who it was and smiled as he set the book he had been reading aside.
" Hi Grandad," said Harry excited, hoping that he won't have stay in the hospital wing any longer. Maybe, just maybe Dumbledore would let him out. Someone else seemed to know what he was thinking though, and quickly ruined his hopes.
"He will need a few more days," said Madam Pomfrey, looking sternly down at her most familiar patient. Harry sighed and looked down gloomily.
" How are you feeling?" asked Dumbledore as he sat down in the wooden chair by Harry's bed. He looked down at the boy, concerned.
"Fine," said Harry, thinking a tiny lie couldn't hurt. He looked up to find that his lie didn't work when he saw Dumbledore's face. Harry sighed and fell back against the soft, white pillows.
"Once you're out of here, which I've been assured will be in a few days if you behave," Dumbledore said, looking down at Harry with an amused spark in his eyes, "You will need to come to my office to hear start of school notices and some other business." Harry looked at the man curiously for a moment, but said nothing, guessing it had something to do with Order business. He couldn't be talking about that here. Harry nodded as the doors to the hospital wing opened with a bang.
Harry and Dumbledore both looked to the door as Harry's two best friends ran in looking quite out of breath. Harry held back a laugh as Dumbledore stood up, nodded to him and left the wing. "What did you two do, run here?" Harry asked as Ron sat in the chair by his bed and Hermione sat at the foot. They looked at each other before turning back to Harry which confirmed his question was true. Harry laughed slightly and both glared at him.
"We were just worried about how you were," Hermione said grumpily, clearly not liking the laughter. Ron nodded his agreement. Harry sighed and rolled his eyes. His two best friends were the craziest people at times. This thought caused him to laugh again and they just sent more glares his way.
The friends were soon in conversation, talking about how the first day back was and Harry explained what happened after he had been taken. Other than telling his part, the trio had a good time. Harry could tell they were hiding something from him, he just couldn't figure out what.
Madam Pomfrey soon interrupted the trio," If you want Harry to get better, you'd better let him get his rest." Hermione and Ron left. Hopefully this is my last day in the hospital wing, Harry thought. Harry dozed off, and a few hours he was awaken by the sound of something falling to the floor. He sat up straight and looked around the room until his eyes fell on a corner where heard a woman's voice. He smiled mischieviously at the corner where he heard someone picking up pieces of something and muttering to themselves. Harry crept quietly over to the corner where he crouched down looking where the he thought the person would be.
"Hi Tonks," Harry said mischievously. The woman yelled, and the cloak slipped off of her. To his surprise, it was Tonks. Harry kept talking, " Why were you in here?" He already knew the answer.
Tonks just shrugged, "You know, uh, Dumbledore just asked that I come here and uh, uh, fix up this thing that broke!" Tonks exclaimed as she held up the pieces of glass she had in her hands. Harry raised an eyebrow in amusement at the woman's sad attempt to lie and began to laugh. The laugh turned into a cough though since he still hadn't completely recovered from the incident.
Tonks helped Harry stand back up and cross the room to his bed just as Dumbledore came in the wing. When he saw, he rushed over and helped Tonks with Harry as he looked questioningly at the woman over Harry's head. She looked down guiltily as they helped Harry into bed. As soon as Harry reached the bed, he quickly fell back to sleep and didn't wake until the next morning.
The next morning, Harry woke up, refreshed. He was ready to get out of the hospital wing. Knowing Madam Pomphrey though, it would be a while. He was eager to see his friends and start Quidditch again.
Madam Pomfrey came over to Harry to give him good news. The news Harry has been waiting for since he got to the hospital wing. "Well, you may leave now, but remember to take it easy. Professor Dumbledore also wishes to see you in his office once you leave," as Madam Promphrey said this Harry walkedt out of the hospital wing.
Dumbledore was in his office waiting for Harry's arrival. Harry walked in the room and noticed Dumbledore wore the same worried expression he had when Harry had woken up in the hospital wing for the first time.
"Good morning Harry," Dumbledore said with a smile when he saw the boy.
"Morning," Harry replied as he sat down in one of the chairs in front of Dumbledore's desk. Even after the numerous times he'd been in there sitting in that same spot, he felt nervous every time he did. Maybe because bad news always came when he sat here. Harry sighed and looked up to the man.
"Are you feeling better today?" Dumbledore asked him.
"Yes sir," Harry replied, wondering what he had wanted to see him for.
"Good, good. Now, since you're in the Order this year, you will have to take extra classes after your school classes to help you with training and protection," Dumbledore said. Harry nodded and Dumbledore continued.
"You will be taking extra courses of Transfiguration, Potions, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Charms. I also ask that you will take Occlumency again." As Harry opened his mouth to argue, Dumbledore held up a hand to stop him.
"You don't need to worry about Professor Snape for your Occlumency lessons. I will be teaching you that," Dumbledore said. Harry sighed with relief and Dumbledore continued.
"Professor McGonagall will be teaching you Transfiguration, Professor Snape will do Potions, Alastor Moody will do Defense Against the Dark Arts, Professor Lupin will teach you charms," said Dumbledore. Harry nodded. That sounded pretty good, though he couldn't imagine how he could take another class of potions with Snape. He didn't have much time to think about it though before Dumbledore started the start of term notices.
"I believe you know all the normal notices. The banned objects, no going into the forest, and it would be quite nice if you actually didn't make a trip in there this year unless it's related to any of your classes," Dumbledore said. Harry looked down, thinking about his last trip in.
"There will also be a tournament taking place this year known as the Hogwarts School Tournament. Each house will have a member in it and I would really like it if you would consider competing in it," Dumbledore said looking very seriously at Harry. Harry wasn't quite sure why he wanted Harry to do it after what had happened in the last tournament Hogwarts had. Harry didn't even really want to do it. It would just draw more attention towards him.
" I'll think about it," Harry said unsurely, and then left Dumbledore's office. When Harry walked out of the office, it was time for lunch. He met up with Ron and Hermione in the hall. "Hi," said Harry. "Madam Pomfrey finally let me out of the hospital wing. How's it going with you two?"
"Pretty good," Hermione said as they turned into the doors of the Great Hall.
"So have you heard about the tournament yet?" Ron asked as they sat down at the table.
"Yeah," Harry replied as they sat down at the Gryffindor table. " I thought there was something you two were hiding from me when you came to visit the hospital wing and now I know." Ron and Hermione glanced at each other worriedly, thinking Harry would be mad at them, but Harry just grinned and the three started eating.
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