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John Doe-Doe

After everyone had eaten, they all hung around the house. No letters from John had come yet, so they couldn't leave the house. Giny was still working on her spell, and when Harry had asked her why it was taking so long, she had replied rather snappishly that in was a very complictated spell, and if anyone wanted it to get done, then they should leave her alone.

Harry left her alone after that. Hermione had been holed up in the library, researching Esther English, to find out if she had ever been charged with anything. Ron and Harry had been spent the day playing wizard chess. It had been a very boring day, all in all. Harry was very glad when it was over.

The next day was mostly the same, to Harry and Ron's obvious disapointment.

But later that evening, when Harry and Ron were arguing over what to have for supper, when Ginny came running in, looking extremly happy. Harry looked at her with curoisity, and was about to ask what had happened, when Hermione came in looking very upset.

" I found something on Esther, she was charged with mass murder about thirty years ago. But she broke out ten years after she was put into Askaban. It was all over the muggle news, and in papers everywere." she said with a twinge of annoyenss. Harry and Ginny had blank look on their faces, but Ron was nodding. Ron shook is head slightly, so Harry and Ginny didn't say anything.

Harry looked at Ginny and said " What was it you wanted to tell us, Gin?". Ginny smiled again, and squealed " I found who is writeing the letters!". Everyone waited execptantly. Ginny didn't say anything for a minute, then smiled and said " Oh, I haven't opened it yet, I was waiting for you." Everyone crowded around Ginny, and she slowly opened the letter. (I thought of doing a little more detail, and ending it there, but the odd person that I am, I wanted the 10th chapter to be really good.) Harry relized he was holding his breath, and let it out. The words were written very small, and Harry had to strain to see them. Very very small they read:

Albus Percival Wulfric Brain Dumbledore

Harry stepped back, shocked. He knew that couldn't be true, he was dead! Everyone in the room seemed to be thinking the same thing. " I must have made a mistake!" Ginny whispered fervently.

She ran out of the room, and came back with a few peaices of parchment. She looked at them for a few minutes, then read them again.

Ron was still sitting there looking shocked.

Ginny shook her head and said " I didn't make any mistakes, but that's not true, so there must have been something wrong with the spell." She had tears in her eyes, so Harry came over, and numbly hugged her.

Hermione looked completly confused, and she said somewhat off-handly " Ginny, come on. Let's go look at those papers, ok? We'll see what happened.". Ginny nodded, and they left together.

Harry got up and left also, leaving Ron to fugure it out on his on. Harry wondered the halls for a few minutes, then headed down the hallway to the one room of the house that he han't been to.

He slowly opened the door to Siruis's room, and walked in, shutting the door behind him. Harry looked around, and smiled sadly. It looked like Siruis, it had quiditch pictures on the wall, and there was a picture of Harry on the dusty night table, the one of him holding up the Hungarian Horntail,the dragon he had fought in his fourth year. That was before Siruis, Dumbledore, and cedric had died, before Voldomrt came back.

Suddenly Harry was angry, these last four years had been the worst years of his life! Worse than the Dursleys, and worst than his parents death. It worse than his parents death because he couldn't rember it, and he wouldn't have understood when he was one. " I have everything taken from me! Everyone I love has died!" he whispered furiosly.

Harry shook his head, he knew that wasn't right, he had the Weaslys, and Hermione, and Ginny. He knew this wasn't they way to talk, or think right now. He took a dep breath, and left, shutting the door behind him.

A few hours later, they were all sitting in the kitchen, the girls were going to tell Harry and Ron what they had found out.

Hermione took a deap breath, and started to say something, but Ginny interuptted her. " Let me tell them, Hermione." She said quietly. " Hermione and I have been going over the letter, and the spells, and she says theres only one thing she can think of. The muggles have a DNA testing thing, and she says her Dad might be able to help. He's a...scitest." Ginny faltered slightly. " Scientist." Hermione promped her quietly. " Yes, scientist. Well he's a scientist. He'll be able to figure out who's blood, or hair, or anything that he's touched, and be able to compare it to John, which we have on the letter. All we have to do is get something we know that has some of Dumbledores DNA on it. The place we knows has his DNA is...Hogwarts." Ginny looked at her hands, then looked up, trying to smile. Harry and Ron nodded, trying to take it all in. " So in order to get the DNA, we have to go to Hogwarts, I'm sure Headmistress won't mind." Ginny said, with a smile.

Harry looked at her, and nodded slowly. I'll write John...or whoever he is, and tell him we have to run an erand. We can leave when we get a letter back." he said quietly. They nodded, and Harry went to write the note.

He sat down on his bed, and wrote on the small peice of parchment:

John, we're going to run an errand. We'll leave as soon as you write back, I'm not going to say were we are going, in case this is intercepted.

Harry

Harry sealed the letter, and tied it to Hedwigs leg. He didn't want to go back downstairs, so he decided to use the mirrow to check on the Dursleys. He pulled it out of the trunk, and said very clearly " Vernon, Petunia, and Dudely Dursely." The mirror fogged, then cleared, and Harry saw the Dursleys. They were all sitting around the table, playing cards. Harry sighed, and put the mirror back. " What did I expect?" He thought to himself.

The next morning, they got a letter back from John, who gave his consent. They decided to leave right after lunch. They ate hurridly, and got ready.

When they got to Hogsmeade, they walked up to Hogwarts. When they reached the gates, they all hesitated, then Harry pulled the gates open. As they entered the entrance, they saw it was deserted. " They're all in class." Hermione said quietly. They walked down the hallway, towards the Headmistress's office. When the got there, they all stopped. They had forgotten about the password, and no one could get without it. They all sat in deep thought for a minute, then Harry had an idea. " Chocolate Frogs!' he said. Nothing happened, so they tried every kind of candy the could think of, when Proffesor McGongall came out. She looked at them with sprsie. " Mr. Potter, what...no, never mind. We'll talk about in my office." She turned to te statues, and said " Exploding Snaps". Harry rolled his eyes, he knew that it would be something like that.

They enetered the office, and all sat down. McGongall looked at them expantly. " Proffesor, we need something of Dumbledores. Something that you know he's touched." Ron said clearly.

She looked at the with apperant suprise, this obviosly not what she had expacted.

" Something of Albus's? What ever for?". They looked at each other un-easily. " Umm...I don't think we should answer that quite yet, ma'm." Hermione said with a look of panic. Harry knew that she was not happy that she had to disrespect a teacher. McGongoll sighed. " Fine, there's a drawer here, I haven't touched anything in it. It has Dumbledores papers and things." Harry nodded, and she opened the drawer. Hermione came over and grabbed something with a bag. It was ornament that Dumbledore always had on his desk. " This will work, thanks." Harry said. McGongoll nodded, and sat back down. " Will you be staying tonight?" she asked. Harry shook his head, and replied " No, we're staying somewhere else. We'll go to Hogsmeade and disapperate back." McGongoll shook her head and said " The sixth years are takeing their tests today, you can go there." They nodded, and left quickly. They got to the hall, and left very quickly. before anyone noticed they were there.

Three days later, Hermione came back from her parents, and looked very un-Hermioneish. As she walked into the dineing room, where they all were, Ron stood up quickly, and ran to her."Hermione, what's wrong!" he asked with alarm. Hermione held out a peice of paper. Ron took it, and opened it slowly. He looked at it for a second, the gasped and dropped it. Ginny picked it up, and brought it over to Harry. It was the DNA test results.

The two unknown examples, are a match.

Is all Harry read, Ginny cried out, and fainted. Harry caught her, and brought her back to her room.

Three hours later, they still hadn't talked. Ginny had woken up about fifteen minutes after she fainted, then had gone on a walk. Hary was sitting in Siruis's room again, thinking. How could it be Dumbledore? I saw him die, Snape killed him!

"Avada Kedavra's a curse that needs a powerful bit of magic behind it -- you could all get your wands out now and point them at me and say the words, and I doubt I'd get so much as a nosebleed."

Harry shook his head, the fake Moody had said that in his fourth year. But why wouldn't Snape want to kill Dumbledore? He's a Death Eater!

Hagrid was walking slowly up the aisle between the chairs. He was crying quite silently, his face gleaming with tears, and in his arms, wrapped in purple velvet spangled with golden stars, was what Harry knew to be Dumbledore's body.

" So what if I didn't see his body! Doesn't mean it wasn't their!" Harry thought.

I was comin' outta the forest the other evenin' an' I overheard 'em talking -- well, arguin'. ... I jus' heard Snape sayin' Dumbledore took too much fer granted an' maybe he -- Snape -- didn' wan' ter do it anymore ... Dumbledore told him flat out he'd agreed ter do it an' that was all there was to it."

Harry shook his head, he still didn't know what Dumbledore had meant. Harry sighed, he knew there was one thing he could do.

Harry tied the letter to Hedwigs leg, and sat down wearily at his desk. He still hadn't seen Ginny, or anyone. Harry's stomache rumbled, so he decided to go get some lunch.

As he walked into the kitchen, Harry saw all his freinds sitting at the table. They looked up as he entered. He smiled at them, and went over to icebox to get something to eat.

" Here Harry, I'll make you a sandwich." Hermione said earnestly. Harry nodded, and sank into the seat next to Ginny. " Sorry I got all dramatic earlier Harry, it just scared me." she said softly. Harry nodded, and squeezed her hand. " Are you okay mate?" Ron asked with concern. " You look kinda pale." Harry nodded and gladly took the sandwich Hermione was handing him. After he had eaten, he looked around the table.

" I wrote Joh-Dumbledore. I told him to we know who he is,and to come to headquarters. If he comes here, then we'll know he's really Dumbledore. If he doesn't...then someone has been messing with Dumbledores office.". Everyone stared at him with shock. " Harry! Are you sure...?" Hermione asked. " Yes." Harry nodded. She didn't answer for a moment, then nodded and said, " Then I'm behind you.". Harry looked at her with suprise, he had expected a bigger fight from her.

" So am I." Ron added. Harry smiled at him, and looked at Ginny. She hesitated, then asnwered, " I guess I am too, then.". She smiled at him.

The days passed, and Harry was starting to get worried. They hadn't heard from John, and Hedwig hadn't returned. He paced the room back and forth, wondering if he had done this wrong.

Three days had passed, and Hedwig wasn't back. Harry had decided that John was not Dumbledore, and he had killed his owl. Hermione had been trying to calm Harry down, but so far, she hadn't been sucsessfull. Harry had just about decided to go storming down to the shack were John had been staying, with Hermione at his side saying " Harry! Harry please, this isn't going to help.". But Harry was ignoring her. All of a sudden a loud crack came from outside. Harry ran to the window, and saw a tall cloaked figure outside. Then someone knocked on the door, and Ron ran to answer it. He stepped back shocked, then he pulled out his wand and pointed it at the figure.

" Mr. Weasly, I think it'll be fine to put that away," he pulled the hood back. " Ms. Granger, Ms. Weasly, Mr. Potter." It was John. He whistled shrilly, and Hedwig flew in through the open door. " Hedwig!" Harry shouted. She flew to his shoulder, and nibbled at his fingers afectiontly.

" She wouldn't leave untill I agreed to come, I didn't think it would be wise at first.". Harry stared at him opened mouth, then put his wand down. Everyone else did the same.

" I asked Proffesor Snape to fake kill me. I decided to go and search for the horcruxes, and I knew that if I did it publicly, then someone would find out. " Dumbledore was saying, he had started to change back into his real body, he had not taken the potion in a while. " I did not mean for you to be there, Harry. That's why I froze you. Voldomort found out I was not dead, and captured me. He forgave Severus because he helped him find a woman he was looking for. Severus then helped me escape." Everyone was still staring at him shocked. Harry was the first to say something. " Why were you begging, sir?" he asked, still staring at his former Headmaster. " Severus didn't want to do it, I had to ask him repetidly to get him to even say yes in the beggining. A few weeks before I needed it to happen, he backed out. I'm afraid I got rather pushy...". Hesaid with a twinkle in his eye. By now, he had changed back completly. " Proffesor, who were you pretending to be?" Hermione asked, she had closed her mouth, and was playing with her hair nervously. Dumbledore smiled. " I don't know really, I went to a muggle hair parlor, and after a man left, I picked up a handful of his hair. I've been using a peice for every couldrenfull.". She nodded, and went back to playing with her hair.

" Well, if you don't mind, I'de really like to go lie down for a while, so I'll be going back to the shack now." Dumbledore smiled, and started to open his flask. " Proffsor, you can stay here if you like. We have plenty of extra rooms." Harry said quickly. Dumbledore smiled, and said cheerfully, " Thank you Harry, I would like to. Why don't you show me to a room then.". Harry nodded, and left with Dumbledore.

Hermione was compleltly paniking when Harry got back. " WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? WE NOW HAVE..." She stopped, and disolved into tears. Ron rolled his eyes, and gave her a hug. " Hermione, Harry and I will go to Diagon Alley, and buy something to eat, just calm down okay?" He said quietly. Harry looked at him quizzikly.Ron shook his head, and mouthed " Girls.". Harry smiled. Hermione nodded, and sat up. " Okay then, I want a ham, and mashed potatoes, and sweet peas, and pumpkin juice. I'de also like some apple pie.". She wrote it all down, and Harry and Ron left quickly.

At six o'clock, they all sat down to eat. It all loked splendid, and Harry told Hermione so. Dumbledore nodded, and told her it looked wonderfull. " Much better than chicken, I'm afriad that chicken on a daily basis, is not something I would recomend. I don't how the muggles do it.".( I don't know how many of us Muggles really do, but I know I have it often enough.). Harry forced a smile, he still wasn't used to seeing dumbledore there.

The rest of the evening went fairly well, everyone but Dumbledore was a little edgy though.

The next couple of days was spent talking about where the next horcrux might be. Dumbledore thought there might be one at where Rowena Ravenclaw was born, so they decided the next place to go was there.

The day before they were going to leave, Dumbledore pulled Harry aside. "Harry, I need to speak to you." He led him into a room, and shut the door. " I know you don't like Proffesor Snape very much, but I do trust him. He helped me with this plan, and sacfraficed his own life doing so. When Voldomort captured me, Sevurus almost was killed. He then did something I don't belive he will ever forgive himself for. He showed Voldomort where the woman that ran the orphange that he grew up in, was. Voldomort then tortured, and killed her." Dumbledore sighed. " Severus has been sent on a mission by Volomort, and he is going to stop by here." Harry looked at Dumbldore quickly, was he joking?

Dumbledore was looking at him seriously, so Harry guessed not. " Oh yes sir, just have old Snape come right on in. Mabye he can make it in between torturing a poor muggle, and telling Voldomort where Headquarters is." Harry replied sarcasticly. Dumbledore didn't answer for a minuete, then said, " Harry, I know you dislike him, but he is on our side. He has one of the most dangrous jobs there is. I can't tell you to let him come, but I can strongly suggest it.". Harry sighed, he knew that he couldn't say no. " Fine, let him come." Harry replied. " But Hermione, Ginny, Ron and I will have out our wands." Harry added firmly. Dumbledore sighed, and nodded his agreement. " He'll be here in about a hour, I suppose." Dumbledore smiled at Harry, then left the room. Harry waited a minuete, then went to go tell everyone else.

" What!" Ron exclaimed, " You're letting Snape come here! Why!". Harry sighed, he knew that Ron wouldn't take it well. " Believe me Ron, I'm not doing it for my enjoyment. I'm doing it because Dumbledore asked me to.". Ron glared at him. " When's he going to get here?" he asked huffily. " In about fourty-five minuetes." Harry replied. Hermione and Ginny had not said anything, but they both looked strained. " We all can have our wands out." Harry offered. Ron nodded. " I'm going for a walk." He said, and walked out. Hermione sighed, and went after him. Harry and Ginny were alone in the kitchen. She looked at him, and said " Well that went well.". Harry laughed, and nodded. He noticed she looked tense, so he went over and started rubbing her shoulders. She relaxed for a moment, then stood up and turned around to face him. He smiled at her, then pulled hr close and her kissed her.

A crack came from outside, and Harry tensed. Snape was here. Dumbledore went oer to the door, and opened quickly. The form of Snape stepped in, and looked around, his upper lip turned up nastily. " Proffesor." He said to Dumbledore. Dumbledore smiled, and nodded back. Harry came down stairs, with Ron and Ginny following. Snape looked at them, and sneered at Harry. Harry glared coldly at him, and he guesses Ron and Ginny were too. Dumbledore seemed oblivios to this, and said cheerfully, " Well, why don't we go get a bite to eat, shall we?". He looked around the room. Harry nodded stiffly, and lead the way to the kitchen. Hermione was in there, and when she saw them come in, she smiled at Harry nervously. " Tea?" she asked. Everyone nodded, and sat around the table. Harry sat as far from Snape as possible, and Snape seemed to have the same idea.

They all ate quickley, and Snape left soon after.

A/N OK, so I know I put a lot into this chapter, but like I said before, I'm odd so I wanted to do a nice long one. The next chapter will be shorter, thank God. I'm sorry I took so long to get this out, I wrote it all out on someones lap top, and when it was finished, I relized it didn't have internet. And I couldn't download it onto the computer, so that was very annoying. Someone told me that I had it so annynmous reviewers couldn't review, so I fixed that. Thanks Axerton. I do not take any credit for finding those clues at the top, I got them from: There are also more clues there, so if you don't believe me, then go there. I know that it might jut be wishfull thinkig...but it's researched wishfull thinking! I'll start the next chapter today or tommorow, so it'll be out most likely by Wednsday. Thank you for reading my story guys! Please review! Everyone, even annoymnous people!

Her-My-Oh-Knee / Sam