Harry Potter and the Order of the Chronic
Calm before the Storm
I don't own any of the characters, all JKR, no profit to be made.
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Harry groaned loudly as he rolled over. He swiped away some rather uncomfortable empty beer cans he had been laying on. He stood up in a daze rubbing his eyes looking around at what looked like the Gryffindor common room except that it was covered in empty beer cans and bottles. Cigarette and ash burns were abundant in the furniture along with some stains. There were even pieces of clothing strewn about here and there as he walked groggily through the clutter scratching himself.
Harry could hear music sounding through the open portrait to Gryffindor tower. After stopping at a bathroom he stumbled into the Great Hall where a cloud of smoke hung lazily in the air and some students were still up playing drinking games. He got a few pats on the back and some cheers as he sat down at one of the house tables staring at it.
"I swore food used to just appear here didn't it?"
Harry looked to his side seeing Roger Davies staring at the table as well.
"I know right. I'm fucking starving." Montague said from the Slytherin table. Harry could see a few others with him like Blaise and Theo.
"Fuuuuuuuck." Harry groaned. "I sent the house elves away."
"Why the hell would you do that?"
"Something about being safe." Harry said with a shrug. He got up and began shuffling out of the Great Hall.
"What the hell are we supposed to eat? We're going to starve!"
Harry paused and turned.
"I swear you morons wouldn't last a second in the real world. How the hell did you live this long?"
"Don't answer that!" Harry said holding up his hand before any of the students could speak.
"Follow me."
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"Who wants eggs? Montague eggs? Fred, George eggs? Nott, Zach, Blaise? Crabbe, Goyle... who am I kidding they will definitely want eggs. Neville you gotta try my eggs."
Harry piled a heap of scrambled eggs onto a plate with some bacon before cracking a dozen more and whisking them into a pan to start cooking. They had picked up a few companions along the way to the kitchens and they were now all eating Harry's eggs.
"You know that whole thing yesterday escalated pretty quickly." Blaise said as he piled some eggs into his mouth.
"It did! Didn't it."
"Jumped up a notch."
"Speaking of which what is the plan Harry?" Hermione asked as she had just entered the kitchen drawn by the smell of food, she walked to Harry's side giving him a kiss on the cheek.
"Where is Ron? I haven't been able to find him." Harry said ignoring Hermione's comment.
The Weasley twins laughed.
"Been up all night with your stalker friend." George said.
"Surprised you didn't hear them. They were screaming like banishes." Fred said as he sucked down a fork full of eggs.
Harry smirked slightly and then gave a shrug.
"Harry that doesn't answer my earlier question. What are we going to do next?" Hermione said.
"Well right now I'm going to finish cooking and eat some more eggs. Then I'll probably have a shower. Then I'll-"
"No I mean about the fact that Hogwarts is half destroyed and the fact that we attacked Ministry of Magic personnel."
Harry nodded his head as he ate a few bites of food. "I've been thinking about that. So I think we should all find a close friend or relative to stay with. Lay low for awhile, because we are most likely all wanted criminals."
Hermione threw her hair back and gave Harry a stiff smile. "Don't you think maybe we should go find some of the younger students who weren't part of our rebellion and tell them its over? And don't you think we should try to find Dumbledore? If we want this to succeed we will need his help. The Ministry is bound to regroup and come marching in. And if what you said last night about the owl you sent Fudge is true then he will not trust anything you say."
Harry pushed his empty plate away and nodded.
"I like my plan better."
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"I want every possible witch or wizard we have, here right now!" Fudge shouted.
"Not tomorrow, not a few hours from now. I want them here now!"
"Yes sir."
Fudge took a deep breath as the Auror left his room at the Three Broomsticks. Fudge had set up an encampment down at Hogsmeade and had been calling in all available Ministry of Magic personnel. After what a distraught Dolores Umbridge told him he was in no mood to be trifled with. As soon as darkness came he would move in with his Ministry personnel to take back the school and deal with the Potter boy.
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"Mick where the hell have you been?"
"Here is a better question Harry. What the hell happened to this place?" Cormac said as he kicked some empty bottles and paper out of his path.
"Uhh, well if you had been around. You would have seen how I and the glorious KGB took back this school for the good of the people." Harry said taking a hit from a bowl.
"Well that is good news... you feeling okay Harry?" Cormac said with peaked interest.
"Well I'm pretty sure the Ministry is going to arrest us. I think I'm cheating on Fleur with Hermione. And I have a splitting headache, but other than that I'm pretty good."
A shadow passed over Cormac's face. "My Hermione?"
"Mick we have been over this. She isn't property and I can't influence her. I can't help it if I am just so macho and awesome."
"Uh huh."
"Come on Mick take a hit, have a beer. We have to meet with some of other students to figure out a real course of action since apparently my plan of hiding wasn't realistic." Harry said making air quotes.
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"Theo, Montague, Bell, Hermione, Mick, Davies... er who are you?" Harry said going around the room of assembled students.
"I'm Hannah."
Harry shook his head.
"Hannah Abbott. I'm in your year except in Hufflepuff."
"Yeah... right then, shall we get started." Harry said showing no sign that he recognized the Hufflepuff girl as he cracked open a beer.
"So we are here to discuss what we should do next now that we have won the Great Battle of Hogwarts." Harry said as he stood up at the table they were huddled around.
"Despite Harry's plan. I think we should come up with something a bit more realistic and he is willing to hear suggestions." Hermione said gently touching Harry's arm.
"Harry are you okay mate?" Theo asked from across the table.
Harry was still standing staring blankly across the room before his eyes rolled into the back of his head and fell face first onto the table with a thud.
A few people around the table chuckled as Hermione shrieked "Harry!"
"How many has he had?" Mick said in frustration as he grabbed Harry and pulled him into his seat.
"That is his first one today." Hermione said as she looked down at Harry and screamed because Harry's scar was bleeding and he was shaking violently and muttering feverishly to himself.
"Help him!"
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"Is he dead?"
"Of course not you moron he is breathing."
"Why was he going on about Sirius Black the convict?"
"Department of Mysteries? Like the one in the Ministry of Magic?"
"Must be. Do you know of any other?"
"What is the Department of Mysteries?"
Harry groaned as he opened his eyes. Hermione was staring down at him with a rag pressed against his forehead over his scar.
"Harry are you okay?" she said softly down to him.
"I had the most fucked up vision. Sirius being tortured at some place and I think Voldemort might have been there." Harry replied softly, but half the room still heard and jumped at Voldemort's name.
"We heard most of what you were saying, but how can that be true? How could You-Know-Who or Sirius possibly being at the Ministry?" Hermione said back to him.
"Well you do realize like the whole Ministry is down in Hogsmeade right now." Davies said as the entire room listened to their conversation.
"Do you really think You-Know-Who has him?" Hermione said as she bit her lip nervously.
Harry nodded and then shook his head "I have no idea. We have to check Grimmuald Place to be sure."
"I'm on it." Cormac said as he left the room.
Harry got back up to his seat as those around the room began to question him about Sirius and Voldemort. Harry gave the short version of what he had learned about Sirius in his third year and as far as he knew Voldemort wasn't back, but he supposed anything was possible.
After a short while Cormac showed back up.
"I didn't see him mate. A house elf told me he was gone on an important mission at the Ministry of Magic."
Harry groaned.
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"I'm going with you Harry and you can't stop me." Hermione said as they walked through the halls of Hogwarts passing students drinking and partying among the debris and carnage of the school. They were heading to the nearest teachers office with a fireplace preparing to use the Floo Network to go to the Ministry of Magic.
"Listen you shouldn't come with me it could be dangerous. Besides some of you need to stay here and organize this lot." Harry said motioning to a group of drunk students attempting to play Gobstones.
"No argument here." Montague said.
"If You-Know-Who is back I'm not going anywhere." Davis said.
"The rest of you should stay as well." Harry said opening the door to one of the offices. The door creaked and then fell off its hinges to the floor.
"Hannah is staying her to. I had to have her send a message." Katie Bell said catching up to Harry. "I'm going with you."
"So who is going and who is staying?"
Hermione, Nott, Bell, and Cormac raised their hands for the team that would be going with Harry and the rest would be staying.
"Before we go I came up with a plan." Harry said.
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A Couple Hours Later
Music could be heard across the grounds of Hogwarts as the Ministry personnel approached under the cover of darkness. They had to approach one of the side entrances to the castle since the main entryway was in disarray with wreckage.
Two Aurors kicked in the door and Fudge came charging in with a hoard of Aurors.
Two students sat amongst the wreckage waving a white flag.
Fudge walked up to them gingerly flanked by his Ministry underlings.
"Where is Potter?"
"I'm afraid you missed him Minister."
Fudge raised his eyebrow in question.
"Left a few hours ago."
"Where?!" Fudge barked.
"To the Ministry of Magic of course."
Fudge's face turned red with fury. He would not let Potter sack the Ministry as he had done to this school.
"All ministry personnel back to the Ministry of Magic now!"
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