To The End: Chapter 5
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Tonight was the first meeting of the Order of the Phoenix with Harry as co-leader. To say he was nervous was an understatement.
Harry paced the halls of Hogwarts quietly until it was time. He called Fawkes to him and asked him to summon his friends to his side.
One by one they arrived and all looked at Harry expectantly.
"Order meeting tonight, who wants to go?" Harry said simply.
Everyone at once said, "Me!"
Harry grinned to himself at their enthusiasm.
He bent down to be on Lilliana's level.
"I need you to promise you won't tell anyone about the Order, I already explained to you but I just wanted to make sure. Promise?" Harry asked her.
"I promise," she said looking him in the eye.
Harry using his Leglilimancy noted their was nothing deceitful about her eyes and she was telling the truth.
"All right lets go." Harry said and in a flash of fire later they were outside the doors of the Great Hall ready to go in.
Harry took the lead with Fawkes on his shoulder. He started to put his mental shields up as he walked through the doors.
Everyone in the Order looked to him, some apprehensively, some in awe, and some shooting him furious glances. But no one said anything, including Mrs. Weasley which truly surprised him.
Moody was seated at the head of one of the tables, with an empty seat next to him. Harry made his way over and sat down. His friends sat as close to him as possible.
Moody started off the meeting declaring Dumbledore's order's on the co-leadership by Harry and Moody.
Hell broke loose soon after, many shouting for Harry to leave the meeting, some shouting in his defense.
Harry got up with a thunderous expression on his face and burning green eyes and slammed both his fists in the table leaving a tremendous BOOM!
Everyone shut up and stared at Harry in fear. Harry said slowly and calmly, but with a edge of coldness no one expected, "If you have a problem with Dumbledore's order's, then calmly let me know."
"You're too young to be in the Order, never mind leading it!" One of the more aggressive wizards stated.
"What's your name?" Harry stated.
"Erick, Erick Duncan!" The man said.
"Okay Erick. Come here." Harry said slowly.
The man named Erick got up and boldly walked over to were Harry was.
"Prepare yourself Erick." Harry said calmly.
"Legillmens!" Harry cried.
Erick fell to his knees while memories flew before Harry. But Harry knew what he was doing thanks to Dumbledore powers. So he searched, and suddenly before him came something that he wanted to see. An image of Lucius Malfoy and Erick having drinks together.
"ENOUGH!" Erick cried.
Harry lowered his wand, his eyes blazing like a green inferno.
"GET UP!" Harry bellowed.
Erick shakily got up to his feet.
Harry charged toward him his wand in between Erick's eyes.
"Mind telling me what you were doing having drinks with Lucious Malfoy!" Harry shouted at him.
Nearly everyone in the Order gasped. They hadn't expected this.
Erick was shaking and Harry was moments from losing control. He needed to weed out all the bad links in the Order.
With a sharp wave of his wand Erick lay on the floor with ropes binding him from head to tow.
"I will not let what happen to Dumbledore, happen ever again." Harry told the group quietly while his eyes never left Erick.
"Tonks, can you oblivate him and get him to Azkaban." Harry asked.
"Yea Harry no problem" She said.
About ten minutes later she returned and took her seat again. Everyone looked to Harry.
"If anyone doesn't approve of me being the co-leader of the Order, then please come forward." Harry said.
No one moved.
"If you choose to stay in this Order, the Order that protects the innocent from the darkness that spreads, the Order that works together to destroy Lord Voldemort, then please know you will be required to pledge once again and sign a paper with your name on it, if you disobey the Order in anyway, the paper will retaliate." Harry said.
"And if I found out you hurt this Order, Lord Voldemort will seem like a bumbling idiot compared to what I'll do to you." Harry said ending in a whisper.
Everyone looked shocked. But everyone stood in a line declaring their allegiance while Harry used his skills to tell if they were lying or if they were well versed in Occlumency. No one made him nervous and everyone signed the paper.
"Now, I need to tell you something. Professor Dumbledore and I were working on a project to bring down Lord Voldemort. I know it will work and we already have proof of it. I can't speak of my mission but know I might need help from time to time." Harry said.
"There is one thing I can trust you all with. The weapon you were trying to protect last year." Harry said softly not meeting anybody's eyes.
Harry pulled Dumbledore's pensieve out of his rucksack and looked at it for a moment before placing it on the table.
He pulled a strand of string from his head and placed it in the bowl.
Tapping his wand it showed and enraged Harry Potter standing over Professor Dumbledore.
Harry Potter in the vision suddenly flipped over a table smashing tons of silver instruments.
"I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE---"
"You do care," said Dumbledore. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it."
The present Harry pointed his wand at the pensieve and it started going faster until it was a blur. Then tapping it again it stopped.
"Voldemort tried to kill you when you were a child because of a prophecy made shortly before your birth." Dumbledore said.
At this Harry pointed his wand sharply at the pensieve.
"This is what you were guarding with your lives. Voldemort hasn't heard the whole prophecy. Only the first couple lines thanks to Severus Snape." Harry said calmly, but even then everyone noticed the tension in air.
Harry tapped the pensieve again and a ghostly Professor Trelawney came out of the pensieve.
"THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO VANQUISH THE DARK LORD APPROACHES…. BORN TO THOSE WHO THRICE DEFIED HIM, BORN AS THE SEVENTH MONTH DIES… AND THE DARK LORD WILL MARK HIM AS HIS EQUAL, BUT HE WILL HAVE POWER THE DARK LORD KNOWS NOT… AND EITHER MUST DIE AT THE HAND OF THE OTHER FOR NEITHER CAN LIVE WHILE THE OTHER SURVIVES… THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO VANQUISH THE DARK LORD WILL BE BORN AS THE SEVENTH MONTH DIES…" Professor Trelawney said.
Harry tapped the pensieve, and then brought the memories back into his mind.
"What this means everybody. Is that two children born at the end of July, who had parents that defied Lord Voldemort three times would be apart of this prophecy. It was either Neville Longbottom or me. But Voldemort chose me and by trying to kill me he marked me as his equal." At this Harry moved his hair so everyone could see his scar.
"This prophecy also means that no one can kill me or Voldemort. Except for each other, at least until the prophecy is met." Harry said softly.
Everyone was in shock; even his friends hadn't heard some parts of it. Some people were in tears but he didn't see who.
"So when the final battle happens, you all stand down. Voldemort is my fight and mine only. I will not tell you twice, his battle is up to me and me only." Harry said now looking every Order member in the eye.
The next afternoon found Harry once again pacing along the Hospital Wing where he was finishing his stay.
Suddenly Harry felt as if he'd been hit in the gut and a picture of his relative's house on Privet Drive flashed before his eyes.
Harry fell to his knees from the shock of it but he knew what was wrong at once. The protections placed on Privet Drive were down and gone.
Harry summoned Fawkes to himself without speaking and the Phoenix went to land on his shoulder to flash him away to Privet Drive at the same time Ron grabbed his other shoulder to see if he was alright.
They both got up and Harry motioned for Ron to keep quiet as they crept up to the house slowly. Once looking through the back window Harry noticed that there was nothing inside the house, that it looked completely empty.
Harry then realized was that they had simply moved away and without telling him. Something strange tugged at Harry's emotions but he didn't know quite how to place it.
"Its okay, Ron." Harry said without looking at his best mate.
"They left, and when they no longer called this house home the blood protection fell. Let's go Ron." Harry said.
Ron nodded and they were gone in a flash.
While Harry and Ron were at Privet Drive, Lilliana was in the Gryffindor Common Room looking at Helga Hufflepuff's cup where Harry put it last to examine it.
She ran her fingers along the side of it and noticed it was unusually colder then it should be. She grabbed the handle and blacked out as a strong presence broke her will.
Later on that night Lilliana woke up feeling extremely cold all over. She climbed out of the Portrait and made her way towards the Hospital Wing.
When she made it she noticed everyone was their talking in hushed whispers.
Harry's head snapped up from were it was when he was discussing shielding techniques with Hermione when he felt a familiar presence enter the Hospital Wing.
Every head snapped to Lilliana after Harry's intense gaze lingered over her.
She stumbled over to Harry and fell to her knee's and weakly said, "I don't feel too good."
Harry put his hand on her forehead and felt for her magic. Something wasn't right.
"What did you do?" Harry said urgently a trace of panic in his voice.
"I don't remember." Lilliana said weakly then passed out onto of him.
Harry carried her to a bed and laid her down staring intently at her. When his friends crowded around them he said softly, "I don't get it. She feels like Voldemort." Harry said softly.
Harry noticed she was getting colder and colder and he then called out for Madam Pomfrey. After some silence and nothing happened, Harry took out his wand quickly and looking from bed to bed around the Hospital Wing looking for anything out of place.
"GET AWAY!" Harry roared to his friends and they all jumped out of the way in fright from his voice.
Suddenly one of the Hospital Wing beds came flying towards Harry. Harry sliced his wand diagonally and cut right through it leaving the pieces on either side of him. Harry never keeping his eyes off of the direction of the where the bed came from, waved his wand towards Lilliana's bed sticking it to the floor and her to the bed while also leaving a shield around her.
Harry walked out calmly and said quietly, "Come out, Tom."
Lord Voldemort came out of the side of a curtain holding what looked to Harry like Madam Pomfrey's wand.
But this wasn't the Lord Voldemort Harry knew, his face wasn't yet as grotesque as it is now but it looked exactly like when Voldemort came to Dumbledore for the Defense against the Dark Arts position.
"Harry Potter," Voldemort hissed.
Harry understood what happened as soon as he saw the face and started pacing.
Voldemort walked calmly toward Harry and hissed out, "Join me, or die."
"I'd rather die, thank you." Harry hissed back.
Voldemort whipped his wand in a circle and made the two beds on Harry left and right come flying at him.
Harry slashed his wand and cut one in half while pushing the other away with a shield charm, then burned it to ash.
Harry faced Voldemort and slashed his wand diagonally sending a vicious cutting hex at Voldemort's midsection then twirling towards a bed to slam into Voldemort the same time as the cutting hex.
Voldemort called a shield from nowhere and reflected the hex towards the bed that was flying at him cutting it in half in the last second which was enough for Harry.
Harry had Fawkes flash him behind Voldemort as he was busy getting rid of the bed and hit him with a silent, "Sectumsempra!" The curse hit Voldemort in the back and Harry watched with satisfaction as blood ran down onto the floor.
Voldemort jumped forward while twisting and let loose a Killing Curse aimed at Harry's chest.
Harry hardly had time to raise his wand as the Killing Curse hit him in the chest and the last thing Harry noticed before the darkness claimed him was the sudden intense pain in his scar.
Harry's friends watched Harry's duel with horror on their faces.
When they saw the green fly towards Harry and strike him in the chest the strangest thing happened.
Harry flew backwards, blood streaking through the air from his scar as green suddenly flew out of his chest and rushed towards the just now landing Voldemort hitting him in the chest making Voldemort shriek, clutch at his heart and explode in a puff of smoke.
Lilliana suddenly woke up screaming and Hermione clumsily waved her wand in her direction to unstick her from the bed while running towards Harry's prone form.
Harry was laid spread eagle on the floor, his eyes closed, and robes smoking slightly. Dark red blood was seeping from his scar onto the floor behind him.
Hermione quickly levitated him onto one of the beds and started checking his condition the best she knew how while yelling to Ron to find Madam Pomfrey.
Ron nodded numbly and ran towards Madam Pomfrey's office to find her stunned on the floor. Ron woke her up and gave her back her wand which was where Voldemort last stood. She ran over to Harry and started waving her wand around him as fast as she could.