HA! TOLD YOU I WOULD UPDATE SOON! Here it is!
Chapter 15
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After a lot of brainstorming the Order still had no other plan except to go in there and charge. McGonagall wouldn't agree to it because she was using her brain, unlike anyone else in the room.
"C'mon Minerva… the time we are wasting now is also wasting time for Harry! The sooner we get him out of there… the sooner he'll be safe." Tonks yelled, and was greeted with cheers.
"No, we would all get killed and that wouldn't help Harry's case at all." Lupin said, lapsing in to silence again. So McGonagall wasn't the only one using simple logic.
"We have to come up with something! The longer he is there the faster he is dieing!" Moody yelled. There were nods around the room.
"What do you think we are doing here, sipping tea and talking pleasantly? We're trying to come up with a plan that won't get us all killed!" Sara yelled back. They all went silent, thinking hard. It was as if the volume in the room had been turned off.
Then after a moment Dumbledore's portrait spoke up. "Well it doesn't seem we are getting anywhere tonight, I think the best thing we can do right now is go home and get some rest." He said kindly.
"What? While Harry is still rotting away in a cell? I don't think so!" Katherine yelled. Nods once again greeted her.
"Trust me. I might have a plan… just go home. I will perfect it tonight and I'll tell everyone in the morning." Dumbledore said.
"Why don't you just tell us now?" Ron asked.
"I have my reasons." He replied back. For a second nobody moved.
Then Lupin stood up. "Well you heard the man." He said and walked out. After a moment Tonks followed him. Soon everybody pushed their chairs back and was filing out the door, silently.
Sara and Katherine stood there awkwardly, not knowing where to go. McGonagall walked over to them. "You can stay here, at Hogwarts. I'll show you to your room." She said and walked out of her office. Soon they were going through another maze of corridors and stairways. McGonagall led them to the extra rooms they had there. She opened the door with, "Exploding Snap" and Katherine and Sara gasped. It looked like it could have been a five star hotel room.
"Well I could get used to this…" Katherine said. It had two full sized feather beds with a purple bed canopy and plushy couches. There was a table with a grand chandelier over it and the table was filled with all different kinds of fruits, crackers, and cheeses. There was a walk in closet and a large bathroom with a whirlpool bathtub and a shower and marble counter tops. All in all it looked very welcoming to the weary travelers.
"Make yourselves at home. Breakfast is served at eight, lunch at twelve, and dinner at five. Come get me if you have any questions." She said. They nodded and walked in to the room.
Sara went in to the bathroom and looked around while Katherine went in to the walk in closet. When she walked in she felt a tingly feeling in her stomach and suddenly a wardrobe appeared taking up half of the closet. Katherine looked at it in awe.
Aunt Sara suddenly popped her head in and said, "The bathroom's are amazing!" and just like that, the other side of the closet was filled. She fully stepped in, looked at a blouse, and nodded in approval.
Katherine shook her head. She was going to have to get used to this. Aunt Sara went over and picked out a nightgown. Katherine did the same and changed. Soon she was under a soft comforter and it felt as if the feather bed was sucking her in. "Don't worry Harry," She whispered to herself, "help is on the way." Then she fell to sleep, and for the first time in days, didn't dream about Harry, Voldemort, and the cell, but instead of back when he parents were still alive and everything was peaceful.
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After getting back from leading Katherine and Sara to their new room, McGonagall wearily opened her door. It was starting to get late and it had already been a long day, but it wasn't over yet.
"Minerva, please come here." Dumbledore said. A slight bit confused, McGonagall walked over to her desk and sat down.
"Yes, Albus?" She replied.
"You do want to know my plan, are my correct?" He said. She nodded her head slightly.
"But first you have to agree that you will listen to it all the way through before talking or asking questions. Understood?"
She looked at him suspiciously. "Understood." She simply stated.
"First let me start off last year, Harry's sixth year," he started, "When I figured out that Voldemort was using horocrux's and started to search for them, I knew the chances of me surviving were slim." McGonagall already knew about Harry's hunt for horocrux's, because Dumbledore had explained it to her soon after he had died.
"At that same time Voldemort was starting to get suspicious of Severus intentions. Together we made a plan, but he didn't like it at all, and we had several arguments over it.
"I knew that Voldemort wouldn't want to kill who ever tried to get the horcrux immediately, so the plan was that when I knew that I was going to die, I would be able to get back and alert him. Then he would single young Malfoy to come, and he would be the one to kill me. What was to happen after he killed me was that he was supposed to run off to Voldemort and not tell anybody, even you Minerva, what really happened. He was to just tell Voldemort that he killed me.
"But what makes the plan complete was that I told him that if anything like this happened we would contact him, but under any circumstances he cannot contact us, because ever since he became a member of the inner circle he is tracked. Therefore if he sends an owl, it is searched, or if he meets someone in the middle of the woods, he is spied on, so what he has to do is have a diary.
"It is like Riddles when the Chamber of Secrets was opened. He is supposed to write of any Death Eater attack being planed in it, and it sinks in to the paper. Once he is done it goes to the same diary here, but it is always closed. Only when it is opened dose a connection get established, you can read all of his past entries, as well as write to him, and he can write back without anyone knowing, but it is very risky. Voldemort can since magic, and he might figure out where the connection is coming from, it must be used sparsely,"
"I told him that if anything like this would happen, we would contact him and make a plan, and I think now is that time." Dumbledore finished.
McGonagall was baffled. "W-why didn't you tell me this before? We could have prevented this whole Death Eater attack in the first place!" She nearly yelled.
"Bad thinking on my part. I, as many others, thought Harry had indeed passed away, and I thought we did not need it quite yet, but I think that now is as good of a time as any to use it."
McGonagall nodded slowly. Then another thought crossed her mind. "Where is it?"
Dumbledore nodded over to a blank piece of wall, next to his pensive. "Go over to there, tap the wall with your wand three times and say 'Lemon Drops'" McGonagall got up with out question and did as she was told. As soon as she finished it sounded as if thunder was rumbling off in the distance. The wall slowly slid backwards and then to the side and reveled a hole. In the middle of the hole was a stand holding a normal looking violet book.
She walked in and grabbed the book, but before she opened it she looked up at Dumbledore. "Shouldn't we make a plan first?" She asked. "Just so I can get in and out of this quickly?" Dumbledore smiled and said, "I believe that I already have one."
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The next morning the Order all went in to McGonagall's office bright and early, eagerly waiting to hear the plan. McGonagall stood up, once everybody was there. They all noticed that she had dark circles under her eyes, as if she had been up all night. "Prepare yourselves." She stated simply. "D-day is tomorrow."
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TBC…
That "plan" took a lot of brainstorming. I have a white board in my room that is now labeled the "STORY BOARD" and it is dedicated to Dead!... Anyways the next chapter is what you've all been waiting for! The story is drawing to a close, but I don't know how many more chapters that it is going to take. Anywho here's to my reviewers!
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