Chapter Five – Chaos Theory
"I call this meeting to Order!" Dumbledore announced, receiving silence from the members in the kitchen of Grimmauld Place. Hermione and Ron sat up importantly, not all too sure as to why they were there actually, but still they were sure it meant that they were important. Well at least in Ron's head it did. Hermione just believed that they had heard from Harry at last and wanted to tell them he was safe.
"Why are my son and Hermione here Professor?" Molly Weasley asked, looking at him inquiringly.
"They are here to see if they can give an insight as to where Harry may be."
"Ah."
"Also, we have some new news on the 'Smokey' character." Dumbledore said, receiving hushed whispers from the other Order members. "If Belinda will please tell us what she learnt today in Diagon Alley."
"Well I went into Ollivander's after other Order members had told me that he had gone in there. I went in with my daughter, who as you may know, is about to start Hogwarts."
"Yes yes, I have her records already." Dumbledore said, smiling kindly at her.
"Well They had obviously finished choosing a wand for the other man, Ice was what Ollivander called him. Smokey was quiet actually. It was what Ollivander said that made me concerned. Ollivander called him, his son. Ice was quite clearly Smokey's mate,"
"Which in itself is worrying."
"Exactly, but Ollivander called him son. Smokey is Ollivander's son." Belinda said, receiving a dead silence from the occupants of the room.
"Pardon?" Shacklebolt asked, stunned.
"I said Ol-"
"I know what you said. I just can't believe it. Ollivander has a son."
"Yep. That's what he said. Maybe he adopted though, because as far as I know, Ollivander has never been married." Belinda said, looking at Dumbledore for confirmation.
"Indeed. Ollivander has never been married. He probably adopted a child to train to carry on the family business. That would also explain why he never came to Hogwarts." Dumbledore explained, receiving nods from other members. "What about the other members who followed Smokey around Diagon Alley."
"We followed them into the usual shops, they bought some books in Flourish and Blotts, but we didn't see what they were. They also spent a large amount of time in Madam Malkin's, buying what looked to be a whole new wardrobe for both Demons. Finally they also went to Animal Menagerie. It seems that Ice bought a familiar, but we never got to see what it was, as Smokey knew the owner of the store and was allowed to go into the back." Shaklebolt said, receiving a couple of incredulous looks from other members in the room. Remus smiled softly, wondering when it was that Harry had made friends with Arnold.
"It is also clear that this Ice character is Smokey's mate. They were quite close all through the shopping trip and glared at anyone who showed too much interest in the other." Moody said, false eye swirling around his socket at speeds that made the people watching it, feel quite ill.
"Do we know which one is in the Submissive and which one is the Dominant."
"We are not entirely sure. But we think that Ice would be the Dominant, as he is the taller of the two and was more protective than Smokey." Moody said, looking around the room at the others there suspiciously.
"Ah, that may be good news or it may not. Sadly we have no idea who these people are, and we won't unless we manage to get them here to talk to them." Dumbledore said, making Remus, the twins, Tonks and Snape all pale.
"Sir I do not think that that is a good idea." Snape said, making the other four breath a sigh of relief.
"Why not Severus. We need to see if they will work with us, or if they will go with the Death Eaters. Ollivander has never taken a side but that does not mean that his Demon son will not." Dumbledore said, making the people on Harry's side roll their eyes at the futileness of this. Hopefully one of them would be able to contact him before this happened and if it did, then he would be prepared.
"What does this Ice look like?" Remus asked, frowning slightly, and wanting to see if he knew his godsons Mate.
"He is quite tall, about six foot I would say. Has extremely pale skin. His hair was long and white, with silver tips and his eyes were like molten silver, especially when he glared at people." Shaklebolt told him, making Remus frown slightly in confusion. He didn't know anyone of that description. He looked at Snape quickly and noticed the brief nod, telling him that he had an idea of who it was at least.
"Okay then. They will probably need to go into Diagon Alley again, so when they do we will capture them and bring them back here. When they arrive here, we will apologise and then explain the situation. Hopefully they will understand and give us their help in the war." Dumbledore said, not hearing the snort of derision that came from Snape.
"These are Demons. With all due respect sir, I don't think you quite understand how merciless they are. Especially if the Dominant of the two believes you are going to hurt his mate." Snape said, sneering slightly at the headmaster.
"Yes well we can but try. Now, onto the whereabouts of Mr Potter. Has anyone heard from him since yesterday?" Dumbledore asked, not really thinking he would get a response. That blasted child had managed to hide himself very well.
"No sir. He hasn't sent us a letter for a while now. I tried to send a letter last night to him, telling him that we wanted to see him, but it was returned. The owl obviously hadn't been able to find him. Maybe he is under fidelius then?" Hermione suggested, getting a shocked look from Ron, whether it was because she had actually tried to contact Harry or that she thought of Fidelius, it was unclear though.
"Maybe Miss Granger. That would mean that we would need to find the Secret Keeper. Does anyone have any idea as to who he would ask?"
"Well I would have thought he would have maybe asked us, but obviously he doesn't trust us." Ron said, slumping in his chair and sulking.
"Yes well, who would trust you? I would have thought that the fact that you are here, talking about Mr Potter behind his back, would suggest you are as trustful as a Death Eater." Snape said, sneering fully at Ron.
"Like you, you mean?" Ron said, glaring back and suddenly regretting it, as Snape glowered at him and made him feel like he was about to spontaneously combust.
"Yes Mr Weasley. I don't think you should trust me one bit. I would tell your secrets as soon as you told me them." Snape said, sneer turning into a smirk as Ron gulped, remembering what Harry had told him about his Occlumency lessons with the man.
"That is enough you two. Now then, I think we should make sure that we try to search out this Secret Keeper." Dumbledore said, making the small group of Harry's confidantes gulp and glance at each other, nodding discreetly to say that they would meet up in the usual place.
"If that is all then Headmaster, I have left a potion boiling at home and should really return to it." Snape said, standing up and looking at the others discreetly, telling them that he would be there.
"Of course Severus. This meeting is now over." Dumbledore said, allowing the others to breathe a sigh of relief and everyone stood up to leave.
IIIIIIIIIIIIII
Remus walked through the doors and into the living room, of the house he was now sharing with Bill, Charlie and Tonks. Walking into the living room, he quickly lit the fireplace and then walked into the kitchen.
The kettle had just boiled when he heard two pops, the front door open and someone enter via the floo simultaneously. Poking his head round the door, Remus nodded a greeting to Severus and then returned to making the tea, knowing that the other three who arrived would have been his housemates.
"Do you know when the twins will arrive?" Severus asked, walking into the kitchen and helping Remus make cups of tea as they heard a crash that signified the arrival of Tonks in the living room. Bill and Charlie yelled their greetings as well from the living room and Severus and Remus walked in with a tray of tea and some biscuits.
"So who else is coming beside the twins?"
"Well first, the twins should be here any minute now, they are just collecting Ollivander and Griphook." Remus said, taking a seat next to Severus and sipping his tea.
"Right, so we should wait for them to arrive then." Tonks said, sitting in her seat by the window.
It wasn't long before the twins arrived followed by Griphook and Ollivander through the floo.
Dusting himself off, Ollivander smiled at them and then sat down in a sofa next to Griphook. The two twins then conjured another sofa and sat down on that and everyone looked at each other in the silence, not sure where to begin.
"I ma assuming that we are here because of what was said in the Order Meeting today?" Griphook asked, deciding that he would be the one to start the conversation.
"Yes. A couple of things came up that worried us and we thought that we should all meet up to discuss what to do." Remus said, leaning back in his seat and looking around him.
"Right, well first you should tell us what was said that was so worrying. I am guessing that one of them may have had something to do with what happened in my shop."
"Yes, Dumbledore is worried that you have a wayward son that no one knew about, well until now. Sadly this made him come to the conclusion that he needed to speak with the mysterious Smokey and he decided that in order to do that, he would have to capture him. Along with Ice as well if needs be." Severus said in his usual derisive tone.
"Ah. So we need to tell Harry about this, preferably before he is captured. Sadly though, that means his mate and Flees could possibly make it even more difficult for him to leave the house." Ollivander said, shaking his head sadly.
"By the way, who is Ice? I have an idea of course, but I would like to be told." Severus asked, looking at Ollivander with a piercing stare.
"Who do you think it is?" Ollivander asked, with a mischievous twinkle in his eye, that grew when Severus growled in exasperation.
"Draco Malfoy." Severus said, receiving incredulous stares from everyone else in the room beside Griphook.
"What? Malfoy? No way!" George said, shaking his head.
"Yeah! They hate each other!" Fred agreed.
"Is it Mr Malfoy, you insufferable old man?"
"Yes it is. They are well suited as well, if their wands are anything to go by. Ice also seemed highly protective of Smokey." Ollivander said, looking highly pleased and slightly proud of Harry.
"Right. So I take it that Mr Malfoy has changed somewhat?" Remus asked tentatively.
"Very much so. I do not know how they came to meet and realise that they were mates but they are good for one another." Griphook said, beating Ollivander to the bullet so to speak.
"Okay, what was the other thing that brought cause for concern?" Ollivander asked after a couple of minutes of contemplative silence.
"Ah yes. When did Harry want to come in to Diagon as himself does anyone know?" Bill asked, looking around him.
"He was going to go in on the fifth. Which is the day after tomorrow isn't it?" Ollivander asked, thinking about what the date was.
"Er… no. It is tomorrow." Charlie said, making Ollivander look at him and grin sheepishly.
"Right. Sorry I lost track of time for a moment there. Well he is thinking of going in tomorrow." Ollivander said, shrugging.
"Why do you want to know?" Griphook asked, taking a sip of the tea that had appeared in front of him (they had house-elves but they didn't like to use them all the time. Sadly House-elves rather like work and cannot be old when to take a break. They just plea selective hearing.)
"Dumbledore has become quite frantic in his search for Harry. He has now set everyone the task of finding who Harry's Secret Keeper is."
"Oh dear. Well he can't force it out of you two. Do you both have to be there or can just one of you tell someone where he lives?" Ollivander asked curiously.
"Just one of us needs to disclaim where he lives. We don't both have to be there, but we are both the Secret Keeper." George said, Fred nodding his agreement.
"Right, well we somehow have to get Harry to bring Seamus, Dean and Neville somewhere else so that you can tell them where he lives, without Dumbledore finding out that it is you two. Do you know how we can do this?" Griphook asked, looking around at the others.
"Er.. this may be a little um… silly. But shouldn't we be getting Harry's input of this?" Charlie asked tentatively.
"Ah, you have a point Mr Weasley." Severus said, showing an uncharacteristic sense of embarrassment.
"I'll just contact him."
IIIIIIIIIIIIII
It was about half an hour later that Harry arrived, followed by Draco and Flees. They walked into the front room, having arrived just outside, as is normal etiquette for wizards, or so Draco pointed out. Harry of course argued that they wouldn't mind and that it was his house anyway, but Draco was having none of it and pulled the 'I'm the dominant of this relationship, listen to me bitch.' Card, so Harry had to listen.
"So then, what's the problem peeps?" Harry asked, walking in, and throwing himself into a chair, much to the horror of the socialite Draco.
"Harry, will you please act like you have some decorum? For gods sake." Draco muttered, sitting down next to him but with some 'decorum'. Flees on the other hand, was in his cat form and took great delight in jumping on Draco's lap and settling down.
"First off, I am so happy that someone managed to get to you Draco. I tried, but sadly, your father suspects me and kept me away from the manor. Your friends contacted me several times, asking to help you, but I could not. Thank you Harry." Severus said, making Draco jump and look at him in shock.
"Sev? What are you doing here?" Draco asked quietly, looking at his godfather in shock.
"Sev? How come Draco gets to call you Sev! You said no to me!" Harry said, sticking out his lower lip and sniffing pathetically.
"I believe we have become off track. This is not the point of your two being here. The problem is two things that Dumbledore is doing. They are completely different, but sadly they both effect you." Remus said, shaking his head at Harry's expression in amusement.
"Sorry Remy. What did you need to see us about?" Harry asked, looking serious in the blink of an eye and making Charlie, Bill and Tonks dizzy with the sudden change of emotion.
"Well the main one is that Dumbledore is trying to find out who your Secret Keeper is." Remus told Harry, getting an angry look from the young Demon and Draco reached across to calm him down by grabbing his hand and squeezing it.
"Well what do we do? I need to twins to tell Dean and the others where I live or they can't come."
"We didn't come up with that decision. We decided to wait and see if you had any ideas."
"Hmm. Well we could go in our Smokey and Ice disguise." Harry said musingly. Draco and Flees looked at each other and then turned their questioning gaze to Harry.
"Why would that help?"
"Dunno, I just don't like to be under glamour to be Harry bleeding Potter. Seems like a good idea to turn up as the two demons that everyone fears, yet secretly lusts after and wants to bump uglies with." Harry said, making Draco shake his head in bemusement.
"I don't know where you come up with it, I really don't."
"But you love me anyway."
"Sadly. Damned Demon genes." Draco muttered, gaining him a swat over the head from Harry and snickers from everyone else.
"I think we should go in and act like we are just walking around. Then Fred or George can slip a note telling us where I live into one of our pockets. Then I can take them back home with me and show them the piece of paper." Harry said, making the rest look at him in shock.
"When did you become so Slytherin?" Draco asked in complete shock, and staring at him with a little pride in his eyes.
"Well you never made a conscious effort to et to know me. Only to own me. So I never showed it to anyone. Now. What does everyone think of my idea?"
"I think it is the best plan we have, I suppose. Well done Harry for using your brain for once." Severus said with his usual tone of derision.
"Hang on. I ignored it earlier as relief or something. But what has gone on between you two. I thought you hated each other." Draco said, looking between Harry and Severus.
"Well we haven't hated each other since October of our sixth year. But anyway, is this all you needed to tell us, because we need to get back to our training." Harry said, standing up and brushing himself off. Draco stood with him, making sure to keep hold of a now sleeping Flees.
"Yes, that was all we needed to tell you. What kind of training do you have to do?" Remus asked, shooting a warning look at the others, who were about to ask why he hadn't mentioned the other thing.
"We just need to learn how to control our abilities. We aren't the best of Demons, as our nicknames may tell you. Well mine at least. Yours seems perfectly suited to your ability." Harry said, pouting slightly.
"Oh hush you. Well we really should be going, so if you really don't have anything else to tell us." Draco said, juggling with holding Flees and wanting to hold Harry's hand protectively. Harry sensing his plight, sniggered and took Flees off of him.
"I know you're awake, stop being awkward. You can walk you know." Harry said, prodding the cat. Flees blinked open his eyes, growled at Harry then jumped from his arms, changing into his 'Anthropomorphic' form.
"You know, you are no fun. Especially now that you're all 'sub-y' I mean come on! I was just resting my eyes, then mate-y boy over there, gets twitchy cause he can't hold your hand and you take his side! He has his own familiar to do that! Why won't you take my side?!" Flees said, stomping his foot and pouting, oblivious to the incredulous stares being sent their way from the Order members.
"Blimey! You really do have an Anthrofeline! I thought it was my brother exaggerating." Bill said, looking at Flees in awe, which made the cat start to preen himself and forget about his sulking.
"Yes, I have a beautiful Anthrofeline, he is one of the best friends you could have ever asked for. And I do not act all sub-y thank you very much." Harry added, making Draco snicker slightly behind his hand.
"Well I was just commenting. I mean you didn't see yourself when you first saw him. 'Oh my god, my hair! My eyes! My make-up!' It was quite sickening actually." Flees said, again doing a high pitched voice and pointing to the mentioned features as he exclaimed, mimicking Harry. The twins and Charlie burst into laughter, receiving a glare for their efforts from Harry.
"Oh shut up." Harry said, blushing and swatting at the Anthrofeline.
"Well it's true. Anyway, we should be going. You're still a Smokey. And slush-puppy over there is even worse." Flees mentioned, waving in Draco's direction when he mentioned him. Draco glared at him, quite put out at the nickname.
"Hey! I'm not that bad!" Draco said, moving forward threateningly, Flees hissed at him and then hid behind Harry (which was quite difficult when he was a good four inches taller than Harry in human form.)
"Leave him alone Draco. He's just a spiteful little kitty." Harry said, chucking Flees under the chin in a condescending manner.
"Hey!"
"Well it's true."
"Hmph, well what I said was true. He is a Slush Puppy. Of course he wouldn't be called that if he was in fact a slush demon. But he's not! He's an ice demon. The worst he could do is make me chilly."
"Hmph."
"Oh hush both of you. Lets get home and check on Slinky."
"His name is Anguis!"
"That's not what he told me."
"Well what was Flees name before you got him."
"Hey1 Don't bring me into this! You don't want or need to know my name."
"It was socks."
"Shut up Smokey!!"
"Make me Socks!"
"Why you!" Flees lunged for Harry, growling as he pounced, and Harry tumbled backwards, knocking into the sofa and falling across Remus and Severus, who stared at the two scrapping creatures in shock.
"What are you doing to my mate!"
"He started it!"
"I did not!"
"You did!"
"I never you flea bitten thing!"
"You take that back!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"Shut up! Get off of him! We are going now!" Draco yelled, grabbing Flees by the scruff of the neck, dragging him off of Harry then grabbing Harry and disappearing them all in a splash of icy cold water.
The order members stared at where the feuding creatures were scrapping in shock, before Ollivander coughed and broke the silence.
"I have never liked that blasted cat, and him joining up with Harry is a nightmare. You should have seen what they did to my shop. Honestly, adding fire demon blood to ice phoenix feathers." Ollivander muttered, getting shocked and somewhat amused looks from the rest in the room.
"They added fire demon blood to Ice Phoenix feathers? What happened?" Fred asked, lips twitching in amusement.
"Let's just say that you would have been proud of the explosion. I am amazed that your brother and sister did not tell you about it." Ollivander said, sighing and shaking his head when everyone burst into laughter.
"I must admit, I haven't seen Draco so relaxed for a long time. I know that when he turned into a Demon on his birthday, that he began to look for his mate straight away but just couldn't sense him or her. That made him slightly withdrawn but even before that, he was withdrawn. He didn't talk to his friends as much and certainly wouldn't have joked or even smiled." Severus said, smiling somewhat at the thought of his Godson happy.
"Well I don't think I have ever seen Harry quite so laid back either. Though that is possibly because he can watch as much CSI as he could possibly want, but still, it is nice to see him joking around again." Remus stated, getting funny looks from most of the others who had never heard of CSI.
"Er.. What is SCI?"
"CSI. It's a Muggle TV show. Harry loves it. He has bought all of boxsets available. Well his last letter to me told me that he had at least." Remus mused.
"So what is it about?" Bill asked
"I have no idea. I've never seen it. Of course, none of you are to tell Harry that, or I may be forced to watch every single episode before Hogwarts starts up again." Remus said, shaking his head.
"Are you the DADA professor this year? I know Dumbledore was thinking about asking you back as no one else will take the job and even Ministry officials are refusing." Severus said, smirking darkly at the thought of terrified Ministry officials.
"Yes I am, of course I haven't told Harry yet, and I wanted to leave it as a surprise for him."
"So you don't want any of us to tell him either then, I assume?" Ollivander asked, raising an eyebrow at him.
"If you wouldn't mind. So when will everyone next be seeing Harry?"
"We see him tomorrow, we'll be carrying out his plan then, when he comes into our shop."
"He may also visit me in my shop tomorrow also, so possibly tomorrow. You will definitely see him tomorrow Griphook, when he comes in to 'sort out' his accounts, as Dumbledore expects him to do when he first goes to Diagon."
"Indeed. I will also be ready for him, playing the part of lowly train Goblin. I believe that Dumbledore thinks Hillrock is still the Potter accountant." Griphook assured them, making them all breath a sigh of relief.
"Well I don't know when any of the rest of us will be seeing him. Does anyone know if he is starting up the poker nights again?" Bill asked, looking around at everyone.
"He has told me at least that he will be having a Poker night at the end of summer and told me to bring Rockbrook. So I assume he won't be having them every Sunday night, but has obviously decided that he will have one this summer."
"Oh good, I miss the Poker nights. Of course I won't miss having to place numerous charms and wards on his bedroom in Privet Drive, but I suppose that was part of the fun." Bill said reminiscing somewhat of the previous summer.
"I've never been to a Poker night. What are they like?" Severus asked them.
"Have you ever played Poker?" Remus asked, confused as to how Severus knew what a Muggle game was.
"Yes, Harry taught me the delights of poker last year when he spent most of his time hiding out in my quarters."
"Ah so you've played with Harry as well?" Remus asked with a knowing smirk.
"Yes, I have had the delight of playing Poker with Harry. That boy is more Slytherin than Salazar himself. I don't think I ever won one game." Severus said sounding highly affronted.
"Yes I don't think any of us have ever actually won against Harry. It should be interesting game now that he has found his mate. Draco may actually be able to win a game." Remus mused, getting nods of agreement from everyone else.
"Rockbrook won a game once, didn't he?" Tonks asked, looking over at Griphook, who looked pensive for a moment and then nodded.
"Yes he did. It was a victorious day for us all. Of course Harry was slightly down that day, but he still won." Griphook recounted, getting grins from those reminiscing in the moment.
"Well I think that is all we needed to discuss, but I would like to know one thing before I leave." Severus said, standing up and looking at Remus with a piercing stare.
"What's that?" Tonks asked, looking between the two in confusion.
"Why didn't you warn Harry about the main plan Dumbledore has made about Smokey the Demon?" Severus asked, glaring at Remus.
"He has a point Remus. Why didn't you warn him?" Charlie asked, looking at Remus enquiringly.
"Because I knew that is Draco or Flees found out about the plan, then they wouldn't allow him to leave the house until Hogwarts. I am not going to allow that! Harry will not be happy and he will begin to act like the Harry of sixth year before you helped him Severus! Do you really want that?" Remus asked, throwing his hands in the air and looking at Severus in anger.
"I see your point. But this means that we will always have to be on hand just in case Dumbledore does manage to capture him. I don't know whether to hope that they are captured together or just one of them alone."
"Surely it would be better to have Draco on our side, if they were to capture one. I mean, he is the Dominant of the two, so must be the more powerful of the two." Bill said, biting his lip when Ollivander, Griphook, Remus and Severus burst into laughter.
"Who is the more terrifying? Your mother or your father, Bill?" Remus asked, looking at the Weasley with genuine interest.
"My mother." Bill said, getting emphatic nods from the rest of the Weasley's.
"It is the same for Harry and Draco. Harry is the one who will carry the children, and so he is built to be much, much more vicious to those who may pose a threat to the children." Remus said, making the Weasley's look at him questioningly.
"In the Demon world, it is very difficult to survive if you are high up in the political ladder. Harry is the heir to Lucifer. He is basically the future leader of Tartarus. Many Demons would want to kill his child, so that the line does not carry on. Because of this, Harry's genes have made him vicious. He may not have discovered it yet, or he may just not shown anyone, but Harry will have very sharp and long claws. He will have much more powerful abilities than Draco. Fire melts Ice. Ice can only freeze, but it will never freeze a flame. Fire can kill with a touch." Severus said, making Bill realise just how powerful Harry was, and thanking the Twins for introducing him into Harry's very elite inner circle.