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AUTHOR'S NOTE
I can't believe all of you reviewed that fast to my survey…guess I'm popular huh? I mean seriously30 smoething reviews and everyone voted.
Before I forget, I just want to thank all of you who are reading and reviewing Not Another Prophesy or I Have Sisters! It means so much to me to know that…"You like me, you really like me."
LOL! Sorry, I couldn't help it. I HAD to take the opportunity since it presented itself.
And before you all bite my head off…The introduction of Buffy and Scoobies to the Order will be in the next chapter.
Phew! Now that, that is out of the way, here is the long awaited chapter 10. Hope it lives up to all your expectations. So please…I need reviews people. They are my writer's food. The more I get, the more I write.
Chapter 10:
The Scoobies and the Order
Dumbledore had the guts to look somewhat sheepish when Buffy questioned his timing. Truth be told, one of the reasons they were later was because Dumbledore wanted to observe what skills Buffy and the rest of the Scoobies had, and what they had taught to Harry and his friends.
He and the Order were completely shocked at the level of skill they possessed. He and the rest of the order had watched as the seven wand using witches and wizards, the most powerful Wiccan witch in the world and a muggle almost single handedly stopped the attack. Until Bellatrix Lestrange stepped forward and began to fire off a couple of curses at Harry.
He had been worried when Harry and Buffy had begun taunting Bellatrix, but their strategy of getting her off kilter seemed to work. When Buffy and her friend Willow had bound and frozen Bellatrix, the rest of the Death Eaters made ready to fight again as the Aurors and the Order, finally swooped in to help.
After the battle, as he walked over to Buffy, he noticed the angry and annoyed look on her face, in her body language and in her eyes. He winced mentally at the thought of what she might do, especially when she turned on him and said in an irritated voice, "What took you so long Dumbledore?" Dumbledore had the decency to look abashed as he looked at the irate blonde. "I thought you and the Order were meant to be protecting Harry. So where were you?"
Dumbledore faltered under Buffy's impressive glare and was about to respond when Minerva McGonagall, Deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts spoke up.
"Don't you know who you're talking to?" she asked incredulously and appalled that anyone would treat Dumbledore like that.
Buffy switched her gaze to Minerva and replied, "Yeah I know. Albus Dumbledore, supposed to be the most powerful wizard in the world, and the guy who's supposed to be protecting Harry," she shot Dumbledore another glare before turning back to McGonagall, "I'm Buffy Summers, and you are?"
Minerva looked at Buffy once more and was shocked by the amount over power this younger woman contained. "I am Minerva McGonagall, Deputy Headmistress at Hogwarts. I also teach Transfiguration and am the head of Gryffindor House," she enlightened Buffy.
Buffy was about to respond when Dumbledore spoke up. "I think it best we leave introductions till we get to Headquarters, and after we deal with the authorities."
Everyone nodded in agreement, for the next hour and a half they all helped with the clean up, and had their statements taken by the Aurors. Who, after being trained by Mad-eye Moody, who was reinstated as an Auror instructor by the Minister of Magic, Amelia Bones, (yes Fudge was FINALLY replaced after the incident with at the Ministry.) were a lot better trained than they were during Fudge's administration.
As the last person, who happened to be Willow, had her statement taken and wrapped up, Dumbledore looked over to Buffy, who nodded, and quickly conjured a long length of rope to change into a portkey. As Willow walked over, the white color drained from her eyes and hair. Buffy turned and smiled at her best friend. "You ok Wills?" she asked in concern.
Willow nodded her head. "Yeah, no appearance of Darth Willow. But Goddess Willow nearly did," she said tiredly.
Buffy swung and arm around her friend's shoulder and let Willow lean on her. "As soon as we get to headquarters, you can sit," Buffy assured Willow, as she turned her head to look at Dumbledore. "And you're working on that, right Dumbledore?"
He nodded and handed her a piece of paper with the words:
The Order of the Phoenix can be found at Number Twelve Grimmauld Place…
written on it. As Buffy looked up to ask Dumbledore what this paper was for he beat her to it, saying, "Read, and memorize the words on that piece of paper. Then burn it."
Buffy, Xander, Dawn, and Willow all looked at one another before shrugging their shoulders, reading, and memorizing the words on the paper.
After making sure they had the sentence memorized, Buffy took her wand, pointed it at the piece of paper and said, "Flammare!"
Flames instantly engulfed the paper and once it was ashes, Dumbledore told everyone to grab the rope and hold on. Once everyone going to Headquarters, was holding onto the rope, Dumbledore said, "Nitwick," activating the portkey, and in the blink of an eye, the group of twenty was gone.