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Chapter 11
Mayhem in the Great Hall
"Professor Lupin!!!" Harry screamed.
"What about him?" Hermione asked. But Ron had already seen the problem-tonight was a full moon, and Moony was sitting right across from them.
"Oh no," Sirius groaned. The other Order members seemed to have noticed something was wrong, and Remus's eyes widened in horror.
"How could I forget?!" were his last words before he changed form, his body becoming rigid and everyone else frozen in place, not knowing what to do.
"We could stun him," Tonks suggested as they moved away from the quickly forming werewolf.
"Good idea. I can change form too, in case that doesn't work. But you three," Sirius turned his attention to Harry, Ron, and Hermione, "need to get out of here. Go!"
"But-l"
"Harry, he's right! Move!" Ron cried as he and Hermione dragged Harry to the doors. They could hear Sirius and Remus snarling at each other in the background.
"Hermione! The door's locked!!"
"Oh Ron, don't do that, you know that this door is never locked!" She tugged on the handle. "Oh, look, heh heh, the door's locked." Ron and Harry glared at her.
"Now what!?" they yelled.
"Umm, I don't know, let me think!" At that point, Tonks came skidding to a halt beside them and panted,
"Apparently, you cannot stun a werewolf! Why are you still standing here?!"
"The door's locked!" Harry answered.
"You can use magic in emergencies, didn't you realize that you never got a warning for fighting those Death Eaters? Now, move over. Alohomora!" The spell had no effect. "I said, Alohomora!!!!! Alohomora!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Um, Houston, we have a problem!"
"Can't we just sit here until morning?"
"Ron, what are you thinking?! How would you like to sit in a room with a werewolf for ten hours?!" Hermione screamed, starting to panic.
"She's right, Sirius is holding him off for now, but I doubt he can do it for much longer." Tonks seemed to be right; Harry glanced over in the direction of the fighting and saw a group of Order members surrounding Moony and Padfoot. He could see a large number of cuts and gashes in Sirius's fur, even at the distance of almost the entire Great Hall. His godfather seemed to be panting, on the verge of collapsing on the spot. Without realizing what he was doing, Harry ran over to them, ignoring the screams telling him to stop, coming from both his friends and his mind.
Sirius looked over to see what all the commotion was, a look of fear on his doggy face as he saw his godson sprinting toward him. Unfortunately, the werewolf also noticed him, and started to advance on Harry. Sirius lunged forward, but couldn't stop Remus, who was now running full strength at his new prey. Harry, still having no idea whatsoever as to what he was doing, shouted the first spell that came to his mind-the jelly legs jinx. Surprisingly, it seemed to work, and Moony stumbled and lie on the ground, snarling. The rest of the Order members, who seemed to have been petrified at the previous scene, shouted at the same time, "Incarcerous!" and used cords from their wands to bind him and stared at disbelief at Harry.
"What on earth were you thinking?!?!?!?!" Sirius, who had changed form, screamed at Harry. "You could have been killed!!!! He could have bitten you!!!" Sirius appeared to be at a loss for words, so Harry took over.
"I was just making up for almost letting you die in a desert," he replied.
"Well kid, do me a favor then: NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!!!!!"
"Ok Sirius. And you need to go up to the hospital wing!"
"Why?!"
"Look at yourself!" Sirius, for once, obeyed Harry, and noticed all of the cuts on his body.
"Well, I guess I kind of should do something about these."
"There are just two problems," Tonks remarked.
"Okay, what."
"Number one, it wouldn't do you any good to go up to the hospital wing since Madam Pomfrey isn't there. Number two, we can't open the door."
"Oh, you weaklings, let me try it!"
"NO!" Harry and Tonks screamed, and Sirius started, looking back and forth at the pair of them.
"You're not going anywhere until we heal all of those cuts!"
"And how, pray tell, dearest godson of mine, are you going to do that?" Harry looked to Tonks for an answer.
"I can't heal him like this! I would need to disinfect them first!"
"Ummmmm, now what?"
"Don't look at me, I can't do anything until I'm healed."
"Sirius, you're not helping!" At that point Fawkes flew into the room and landed on Harry's shoulder. "Ha! See, Fawkes will heal you!"
"How do you know that phoenix?" Tonks asked.
"I met him in second year; he healed my Basilisk bite."
"You were bitten by a Basilisk?!" Sirius roared, scaring everyone in the hall.
"Yes, I was. And then I killed it with Godric Gryffindor's sword. But I can tell you about that later. Fawkes, can you heal Sirius?" The phoenix understood him and perched on Sirius's outstretched hand. Harry and Tonks were amazed to see how many scratches Padfoot had actually received from his fight with Moony. However, he was completely healed in a few minutes.
"Now can I go and open the door, mother and father?"
"Yes, Siri dear, but can you clean up your room first?"
"And cut the grass, it's getting dreadfully long," Harry added. Sirius glared at them and left without another word.
It took much more than just Sirius to open the door, however. It seemed to be sealed with some kind of dark enchantment, and none of the Order could get it open. Sirius finally resolved to show them a secret passageway out of the Hall that he had learned of during school, although he was very reluctant to show anyone, except for Harry, Ron, and Hermione, who, with the Marauder's Map, knew about the passage anyway. Dumbledore held a meeting in his office afterwards, once again excluding the students. However, Sirius filled them in on it later anyway.
"I'm afraid my suspicions were correct; we have a spy in our midst."
"What makes you say that?" Mrs. Weasley asked, apparently scared to death at the thought of it.
"It took powerful dark magic to keep that door closed-it held up not only against our own spells, but it also broke through the wards placed on the entire school." Dumbledore sighed. "I don't know what to do." he admitted dejectedly.
"Well, can't we just move the Order?" Mr. Weasley suggested.
"That would make sense, but if we moved, then our spy would only tell Voldemort where we had moved."
"What about making everyone drink Veritaserum?" Dumbledore looked as if he would strike that down too, but changed his mind.
"You know Sirius, that's not a bad idea. In fact, it's a rather good idea."
"Well, what do you expect, coming from me?" The rest of the Order glared at him.
"Severus!"
"Yes Headmaster?"
"Please bring me as much Veritaserum as you can carry." Snape nodded and hurried out of the room. "Now, I must insist that the rest of you give me your wands so that you cannot tamper with the potion. It's not that I don't trust you, well, okay; I don't trust one of you. I don't know whom yet, but it's one of you."
"What about Sniv-I mean Severus? He could mess with the potions!"
"Yes, that is possible, but highly unlikely. Might I remind you that I trust him?"
"Of course, Dumbledore." Snape came down the stairs a few minutes later with a box of vials. Going through all the Order members in the room, Dumbledore asked them a series of questions, trying to catch them off guard. The end result surprised everyone in the room.
"Are you a Death Eater?" Dumbledore asked Sturgis Podmore.
"Yes, I am." All of the other members stared in disbelief at the response.
"D-do you serve Lord Voldemort?"
"Yes, I do. I always have and I always will."
"Well, well then, I guess we know who our Death Eater is."
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