Danny yawned as he invisibly watched the Dursley house. It had been three days. Three days filled with little sleep, stress, coffee and patrolling.

"Almost like being in Amity Park," Danny mumbled to himself. The plan was simple. Tonks sent the muggle family an invite to an award ceremony for winning some award for their lawn. The Dursleys would leave Harry alone and the advance guard, a group of volunteers in the order, would collect Harry and guide him to headquarters. Two extra teams would follow the first in case something went wrong and Harry needed to be guided by someone else. The advance guard would leave a letter explaining the situation to the family. Danny's role was simple. Keep the Dursleys out until Harry was gone.

It would be easy, especially since he'd admitted to being able to overshadow people to Lupin and Dumbledore. Lupin had come a couple of days ago to explain the plan to the halfa, assuring him that his lessons with Miss Fisher had been reorganised and that Danny was expected to stay in Little Whinging until Harry was moved.

Danny was currently in ghost form waiting for the muggle family to leave the house. He'd fly after them and overshadow people to delay them or inform them that the ceremony was cancelled. A few minutes later the front door creaked open and three people walked out. The first being a thin, horse-faced woman in a floral blue dress and her hair neatly pulled back. Then a boy about Danny's age, but at least five times as big, waddled out in a tight suit. They both got into the car as a large man with a bushy moustache in an expensive looking suit locked the front door. Danny frowned. They were acting like no one else was in the house. But Danny knew for a fact that Harry was inside. He checked first thing and he'd been watching all day.

His internal debate to double check that Harry hadn't somehow snuck out without him knowing was interrupted by a car engine starting. With a sigh, Danny hoped that the wizard was inside and floated into the air to follow the Dursleys' car.

An hour later, the car pulled into a large car park. It was the fake location for the award ceremony. Danny invisibly floated along after the trio of muggles as they got out of their car.

"How do I look Vernon? I didn't crease my dress, right?" the woman muttered worriedly.

"You look lovely Petunia, don't worry," her husband answered, almost automatically.

"Why do I have to be here?" the beefy teen complained.

"Come now Dudders, this is an honour. We should all be here to accept this prize," Petunia soothed.

"Besides son, I'm afraid it was this or staying in the house," Vernon added. The teen shuddered.

"Pompkin, are you alright? Cold?" Petunia fussed over her son.

Danny scowled. How could they be so cruel towards Harry? Okay, he got that Harry was the black sheep and it could be frightening to have such a sought after wizard living in the same house, but Danny had heard what the Dursleys had said among themselves about Harry, mostly between the adults. The teen, Dudley, had refused to be out of the house since the attack, and certainly not after dark.

Danny scanned the car park as dusk fell. The Dursleys had to stay out of the house for another hour or so at least. Spotting an official looking guy, Danny phased into the man and overshadowed him. Once in control, Danny focused on taking complete control of the man's voice. He'd learnt how to hide his voice while overshadowing others, much to Tucker's annoyance. He hadn't worked out how to hide his eyes yet but he just tugged the official's hat lower.

"Excuse me?! Can I help you?" Danny, through the man's voice, called with as much authority as possible. The Dursleys turned to him.

"No. We're fine. Just here for the award ceremony. We're favourites to win," Vernon proudly bragged.

"Award ceremony? Sir, there's no award ceremony here tonight," Danny informed the large man.

"Yes there is. All-England Best Kept Suburban Lawn Competition. We're finalists," Petunia interjected incredulously. Danny hummed in realisation.

"Oh! That. The venue change last minute. Don't worry, you have plenty of time to get there in time," Danny fake-remembered and gave them a new destination.

Softly cursing, the Dursleys returned to their car and left. Danny phased out of the man, who had a brief dizzy spell before returning to work, and raced after the retreating car. Within another hour, the car reached its second destination. With a grin, Danny noticed that he'd kept the family out long enough and overshadowed a second official looking man. The Dursleys got out of the car and rushed through the car park to the building entrance.

"Sorry! Building's closed!" Danny, once again using his host's voice, bellowed.

"Closed!?" Vernon growled angrily, his face starting to redden.

Danny nodded and stood in front of the door.

"That's right. Now, don't make me remove you from the premises," Danny retorted. Petunia once again spluttered the ridiculously long name Tonks made up. Danny hummed in recognition.

"Sorry folks. Cancelled. Lack of interest and participation. But thanks for coming. Some people thought it was a hoax," Danny told them. Vernon gurgled angrily.

"Now see here! You can't just say something's cancelled without proof!" Vernon argued.

"There's your proof sir. No one else turned up. Do yourself a favour, go home," Danny retorted stiffly, gesturing to the numerous empty parking spaces.

After twenty minutes of arguing, the Dursleys finally left in their car. Danny phased out of the man he was overshadowing and floated off to a discrete corner. Danny then teleported to Grimmauld Place, as per orders. He reverted back to human and walked casually across the square to number twelve. He hopped up the step to the front door and knocked. Less than a minute later, the door swung open revealing Mrs Weasley and the five teens just inside. The teens' faces fell.

"Wow, I feel welcome," Danny muttered as he stepped indoors.

"Sorry Danny, we thought you were Harry," Hermione admitted. Danny nodded, he wasn't offended.

"He should be here soon, assuming nothing changed or went wrong," Danny assured them.

"Right, meeting as soon as the others get in Danny. The rest of you, bedrooms. I'll send Harry up when he arrives," Mrs Weasley ordered. Danny nodded and stepped into the kitchen, joining Mundungus, Mr Weasley and Sirius.

"Hey," Danny called in greeting.

"Danny, everything go alright for you?" Mr Weasley inquired.

"Yeah, got into an argument with the Dursleys for like twenty minutes. But personally, kind of enjoyed it after seeing how they behaved around Harry," Danny answered.

"How was he? Harry I mean," Sirius asked. Danny smiled.

"Looked bored and frustrated to me. Didn't get a good look other than when he started pacing. Never left his room. His aunt took him food," Danny replied.

Mrs Weasley joined them.

"Danny, would you like anything to drink. Dinner's after the meeting," Mrs Weasley inquired.

"Coffee, if you've got it. Not slept much the last few days," Danny requested.

"Why not?" Mundungus asked from his corner.

"Unlike others, I take guard duty seriously. Up early, in late. Thanks Molly," Danny retorted, accepting the cup of black coffee. Ignoring the milk and sugar Mrs Weasley put on the table Danny gulped down a scalding mouthful.

Mrs Weasley frowned at the teen but a knock on the front door prevented her commenting. Gradually the kitchen filled up with order members, Danny was introduced to Bill who got a desk job and joined the order a couple of weeks ago. He had plans of the Ministry building to help the order come up with better ways to get access to the Department of Mysteries to guard the prophecy. The last to arrive before Harry and the advance guard was Snape.

"Where is Moody? Reckon he took Harry to Hogwarts early?" Sirius grumbled jokingly, but was clearly worried.

"I'm sure they're fine Sirius," Bill assured the wizard.

"I didn't see anything around Little Whinging," Danny added helpfully. Snape curled his lip.

"No offence, but it wouldn't be hard to sneak past a child," Snape remarked condescendingly. Danny glared at the potions master.

"You'd be surprised by what I'm capable of Severus. Trust me, if anyone was near Harry that shouldn't be, I'd know," Danny retorted.

Mrs Weasley suddenly perked up and hushed the group, she scampered out of the room and soon after the advance guard filed in. Lupin gave Danny a tired smile.

"What took you?" Bill inquired as he began to lay out the plans.

"Moody. Must have circled London for an hour," Tonks grumbled and glared at the retired auror. Mad-Eye ignored her and clomped to a seat beside Danny.

"See anything suspicious?" he growled.

"Nope. All quiet. So unless they took their chance at three o'clock in the morning or something, no Death Eaters were anywhere close to Harry. But whenever I slept, Mrs Figg left a few of her cats on watch. If they had spotted anything, they would have warned me. I'm a light sleeper," Danny reported confidently, giving Lupin a pointed glance to say that included ghosts.

Mrs Weasley returned and cast a spell on the door.

"No Dumbledore? I would have thought he'd want to be here for such a big meeting," she remarked.

"He told me to send someone here to report everything we decide," Snape informed them.

"I'll go. I need to talk to Dumbledore anyway," Danny volunteered. There was a round of muttered consent for the teen to report to Dumbledore.

"Alright. To business. Snape," Moody ordered.

"Well, the Dark Lord is growing more urgent in his need for the prophecy. We should increase security," Snape announced.

"We already do shifts in the Ministry," Tonks interjected, motioning to a number of the members already employed by the wizard government.

"But we could start patrolling in the department itself," Kingsley suggested. Bill shuffled through his plans.

"Only entrance is on the lower levels. We could guard that door," Bill proposed.

"And what if we're caught? Besides Death Eaters are slippery creatures, and a lot of them have connections," Moody retorted.

"Well, inside the door is the door chamber and from there it's a labyrinth. We'd need to know our way. And only wizards in the department know that," Bill informed them.

"I might know a guy that can help us. He owes me a favour," Mr Weasley offered.

Danny frowned in thought and caught Lupin's eye. The wizard raised an eyebrow. Danny wasn't meant to know about Phantom, but Lupin was.

"We could send in our secret weapon," Lupin suggested on Danny's behalf. The members that knew of Phantom shared looks.

"They can get past most people," Tonks carefully reminded everyone, giving Mad-Eye a nervous look.

"We'll ask Dumbledore. He's the only one who knows where they are," Moody concluded, clearly thinking it was a good plan. The meeting then turned to the reports of Death Eaters being tailed. Snape finished up with a report that it seemed that Hagrid wasn't going to convince the giants to join the order.

I thought that Danny should get the chance to mess with the Dursleys. Also in the books, only the advance guard and a back up guard were mentioned. While they probably wouldn't care about the Dursleys being around, they got rid of them for a reason. And yet they just relied on that award ceremony being enough. So I thought it was a good idea for Danny to be given the job to ensure the muggles didn't go home early for whatever reason.

Let me know what you guys think.

Until the next chapter.