13th of August 1978

Well, now we know.

Remus went today, to try and get some of Cassandra's stuff, and clean out her house, and he went to get her keys, which he keeps on his bedside table, in a little draw. We all new that, but no one had thought anything of it. She gave Remus the keys in case of emergencies…now; don't you think that, had there been an emergency then Remus could have used alohamora? Couldn't he have, in a real emergency, bashed the door down, thrown a good reductor curse at it, or even flown to the nearest window?

No. Cass had every possible charm on that house; she wasn't a fool, she new how dangerous it was. She had two keys, one for her, and one for Remus, and she had even bewitched them so that they couldn't be copied. That was how cautious Cass was.

And all this time, we were thinking that it would have been easy for anyone to get into her house…until Remus went to get his keys…

They were gone. That's how the filthy little scum of the earth, murdering traitor got into the house. Someone in the Order Of The Phoenix stole Remus' keys, and used them to murder his grandmother.

Remus, who had begun to actually recover slightly, and was even letting Ella hug him again, took this new revelation as even more of a reason to sink into wallowing self pity, and now he believes that he not only led her to her death by; a/ being born. B/ being in the order and c/ being a werewolf, but he now has made himself believe that the fact he didn't guard that set of keys with his life was the death of his grandmother, and that isn't healthy. I know that he misses her, and it's devastating that it has happened, but he needs to stop blaming himself, it makes it so hard to reason with him. Remus is normally the intelligent one, with a level head, and here he is spinning out. I don't know what the rest of us are going to do!

I don't mean to be sounding selfish, either. I mean, I am saying this because I am concerned for Remus, not because I am concerned bout who I will go to for help if Lily and I ever have a fight, or something like that.

The thing is, the fact that the keys were stolen means nothing, because whoever stole them did it on the night that the entire Order of The Phoenix was here, so it gets us no closer to them, because it could have been anyone at all!

Whoever they were just have thought that out, or it happened on a mere fluke, but they were clever all the same. They got away with it, and we are none the wiser as to who gave the keys to the death eaters.

15th August. 1978 report by Lily Evans

Just a quick musing, but I was going through the memories of school today, so that I could possible come up with a suggestion for Dumbledore as to promoting a greater sense of inter house unity at Hogwarts this year, when it hit me. The only real way that they mixed when I was there was threw the Slug Club, or when there was a ball or dance, and people asked those from other houses to accompany them.

The ball doesn't work that well, as many people don't know anyone from other houses to ask in the first place, though that was how Margaret and Peter met, and Dani had some success in that department.

SUCSESS?

Sirius! How the hell did you do that?

I found the other piece of paper that you use to interrupt James.

Oh, that's ok then, for a moment you frightened me! Now sod off.

Say that I am hotter than that bloody Ravenclaw ever was!

Sirius…

I'm not leaving until you say it!

All right; Sirius Black is much hotter than Matt Carving, the hunk of a Ravenclaw ever was.

You back tracked. You called him a hunk.

Shut up Sirius, I am trying to be normal, now leave!

Ok, fine, have fun writing about the other houses. I hate them. GRIFFINDORE RULES!

Oh dear god… NOW. As the ball didn't only make them meet knew people it also caused riffs, which Sirius has so kindly demonstrated just now, I think that they Slug Club has some promising potential as a way to bring the houses together, or maybe something of the same nature. Other clubs of the sort, that aren't just focused on one of the houses. Maybe I will talk to Slughorn about it.

Or even Ella, she'll be teaching there next year. That's weird. She'll be teaching people whom we went to school with this year. Three months prior…strange.

I will owl Slughorn in the morning.

20th of August 1978

Report Made by Cardoc Dearborn.

James, Lily, Sirius, Dani and I have been training and practising every day since the meeting now, with the exception of the eleventh. Though for some of the time James seemed much more intent on staring at Lily whimsically, I know that we will all do a fine job at the battle, for we have practised many things, including Godric Shield, which Dumbledore tells us that we wont master easily, though James and Sirius are so determined that we might just make it yet.

It is a spell, that no one but Dumbledore has mastered, as far as I know. I don't even know whether anyone has tried though. We couldn't do anything but cause a great head ache for the first day that we tried,. By the second we were getting a little better, and even producing a faint red glow at the tips of our wands, though there is a chance that that might have been from concentrating too hard, and seeing stars and spots.

In the third day, we tried again, but this time Remus came out and saw what we were doing. I think that he was hurt a little, and offended that he wasn't going to be coming with us, but he came to his senses and smiled a little at us, and moved in, getting us all to stand closer together.

"Put all your wands together." He said kindly, and patiently. It struck me then that he would be a great teacher, when the war was over, and when he came out of hiding. It was the first words that he had said to a large group since the death of his grandmother, and I saw the other four exchange excited, triumphant looks as he spoke, We smiled back at him, and did what he told us.

"Ok, now try it." He said, and we looked at him, shocked. We were so close together, and our wands were almost joined, so that we were pointed at one position I the middle of the tight circle e had put us into.

"Go on." He said again, and grinned.

We did. Everyone's face seemed to revibrate with concentration, and we tried the spell once again.

Godric's shield, I should explain, works simular to a patronus, except instead of focusing on something happy, you focus on someone that you love, so that the shield is mad up of your love for that person. When cast the spell only lingers for as long as you are concentrating, but it will protect you form unforgivable curses.

Screaming out the incantation at the same time, and focusing on the thing that we love the most, we tried to create the shield.

James Potter's wand erupted with a blinding red dome, that encased him. He let out a triumphant whop, and it lingered for a moment before fading away.

Everyone looked at Remus, expectantly, after congratulating James. He grinned, and said quietly. "I knew that that would work."

"What would work ? Did all of our power go to his wand or something?" Dani asked him. Remus shook his head, and laughed quietly.

"No, I just put you in a circle so that it wasn't obvious. All I really wanted to do was give James a valid excuse to look at Lily while casting the spell, and it worked." He said, shrugging. Lily gave a tiny giggle, and wrapped her arm around James' back, kissing him on the cheek. James blushed, and Remus kept walking, looking proud of himself.

That's when I got the idea.

Remus was brilliant at teaching. He knew everyone in the Order so well. He knew our personalities. It could be brilliant.

We have me teaching strangers, Ella teaching students…what if we had Remus teaching defence classes for the Order of The Phoenix themselves? It might to be the dangerous mission that he longs for to prove himself, but it would be something. And it would be great for the Order as well.

James was on a roll after that though. He was walking around, calling himself the strongest wizard since Dumbledore, until Lily told him to shut up, and said that she should really get all the credit for being so loveable. That shut him up for a while, and made Sirius laugh, and I saw Remus smile that small smile that he had worn back out I the courtyard.

James is getting very good at the shield now though. And so is Danielle. They can make a shower of red light form a dome around them, and it almost blinds you to watch, but they still cant hold it for long, and that's where they're going down. The moment that they succeed in conjuring up the shield they get so elated that they forget to keep focusing on keeping it up there, which isn't good.

There are now thirteen days until the battle at Hogsmeade, and there is still so much to do. James and I are going to visit the village tomorrow, and check out places that there are to hide and ambush and so forth. Ella is going to the castle practically every day at the moment, to prepare for classes. The rest of the Order has been stopping in occasionally, wand we saw everyone at Cassandra Blakehurst's funeral, which was on the 14th. Frank and Alice stayed for a few nights. Hagrid was here as well, and it was quite a laugh, I'm telling you, to watch him get stuck in the fireplace after trying to floo here. Moody drops in from time to time, tells us of the near misses that he's had with Death Eaters that day. Not that the bloke admits that they were near misses mind you, but he's getting tireder by the day. Best auror that the ministry has gone I'd say, and they're over working him big time. They'll be none of him left by the time that the war is over.

Now, as for this spy. I don't think that I know anyone who is suspect enough to have any opinion on this matter what so ever, though James did ask me to write a statement. I really don't think that I can make one though. I don't think that I could see anyone here working for Voldermort, from James with his bloody shield of love to Margaret and her obsessive cooking disorder. So who ever you are, you are safe for the moment. I haven't discovered you, as sick as it makes me feel that I am currently living I the same facility as you.

Signing off-

Cardoc Dearborn.

A/N: hope that that was a teensy bit enjoyable for you. Please r&r, weather it was or not! Cardoc Dearborn…that's a fun name to say.

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