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St. Mungo's
Harry woke up a hour later, his scar burning. Ginny was sitting in a chair reading a book.
" Gin?" Harry called, and Ginny looked up and smiled. " What happened?"
" Remus and Ron brought you back. They said you found and destroyed the horcrux, then you fainted." Ginny smiled again, and rubbed his hand. " I thought you might, you fainted last time."
Harry nodded. " Okay. Is everyone alright? No one got hurt?" He asked.
" Yes Harry, everyone is alright. Now go back to sleep, we can talk later." Ginny replied.
Harry nodded, and was soon asleep.
" Harry, Harry wake up!" Someone said, shaking Harry awake. He looked around, and groped around for his glasses. Once he found them, he slipped them on, and everything came into focus.
It was Hermione had woken him. " Harry, get up and get dressed quickly, we have a problem." And without another word, she turned and left, leaving Harry to get dressed.
He got dressed, and ran down stairs. " Hermione? Ginny? Anyone?" He called.
Hermione came out of the dining room, and pulled him in.
Ron, Ginny, Dumbledore, and Neville Longbottom was seated at the long table.
Neville looked up when he saw Harry come in, and wiped tears from his eyes. " Did she tell you Harry? Did she?"
Harry shook his head, bewildered. " Tell me what?"
Hermione sat down, and gestured for him to do the same. Harry sat, worried what this meant.
" Harry, last night something terrible happened." Hermione quietly, looking at Neville. " Harry, the Longbottoms where murdered."
Harry stared at her, then at Neville. Ginny rubbed his shoulder softly. " Why?" Harry asked.
Neville looked up at him tearfully. " Either because they used to know something, or to get to us."
Harry looked at him sympathetically. " Neville, I am so sorry."
" That's not all." Ron said, looking at his hands. " Gildroy Lockhart swears it was Bellatrix."
Harry sighed. " I thought it probably was." Neville sniffed loudly. " Neville, we need to talk for a second, I'll be right back. Professor, come with me for a second?"
Dumbledore nodded, and followed him outside.
" Sir, I know that we aren't even a part of the Order, but I have a request." Harry started, slowly. " I think that Neville should join the Order. He deserves it, even more than I do."
Dumbledore beamed. " I agree, Harry! After you five go check out the hospital, we will have a meeting."
" Thank you, sir." Harry replied, and went back into the room to inform them of the plan.
Harry walked down the hall, and into the empty private room, that used to be the Longbottoms. Neville was right behind him, and the other three behind him. As soon as Neville walked in, he stopped in shock, and gasped. He apperantly hadn't seen it yet, and it was a suprise. The room was completly neat, even neater that it was when the Longbottoms lived in it.
A Healer walking past the room, stuck her head in the door. " I'm sorry, this room is restricted acess only." She said, then looked closly at Neville. " Oh! Mr. Longbottom, I am so sorry. Of course you can be in here. I am terribly sorry for your loss."
Neville nodded tearfuly. " Thank you."
The Healer nodded, and left quickly.
Now Neville and I are even more alike. Now both his parents are dead, the only two diffrences is Voldomort marked me as his equal, not Neville. And that he a grandmother who doesn't hate his guts. Harry thought bitterly.
" Neville, are you alright?" Hermione asked, as Neville sobbed quietly, on his mothers bed.
Neville looked up at Harry. " I didn't really know them...but I thought maybe, just maybe they might wake up."
Harry nodded, and sat on the bed next to him. " Don't worry Neville, we'll get the person that did this, don't worry."
Ginny, Ron, and Hermione nodded in agreement.
" Harry, we should go see Lockhart." Ginny whispered.
Harry nodded. " Neville, let's go see Lockhart, then we'll go back."
Ron looked sour. " That old bat, why?"
Hermione glared at him. " Shut up, Ronald!" She whispered feircely.
Harry led the way down the hall, and into the ward where Lockhart was kept.
" We're here to see Gildroy Lockhart." He said, to a healer at a desk.
She smiled brightly. " Alright, he's right down here. Are you freinds of his?"
Ron looked as though he might burst out laughing.
Harry nodded. " Yes, you could say that."
The Healer smiled. " Okay, he's right in there." She showed them a door, with a small window, When looked inside, he could see Lockhart sitting at a small desk, signing pictures of himself.
" Hasn't changed a bit, has he?" Ron whispered under his breath to Harry.
The Healer smiled again. " My name is Healer Park, if you need me."
Harry nodded, and slowly pushed in the door.
Lockhart looked up. " Oh! I've got visiters! Wonderful, autographs all around!"
" No, no Mr. Lockhart. We wanted to ask you about the lady you saw the other day." Hermione said gently.
Lockhart was consontrated on the pictures he was signing. " Her name is Bellatrix Lestrange. She killed those people. They where crazy, so was she. She kept laughing, and swinging a twig around, and that made them twist and turn. It looked quite painful."
" NO!" Neville shouted, falling to the ground. Harry and Ron quickly helped him back up again.
Lockhart looked at him closly. " Are you crazy too?"
Hermione shook her head. " No Mr. Lockhart, those people where his parents."
Lockhart thought for a moment. " Oh, I'm terribly sorry. Now, here are your autographs, I've got five of them, come back later, and I'll have more, so you can have them all over your wall." He said, and shoved them into their hands.
They five nodded, and quickly left, shutting the door behind them.
" Finished? Oh, he gave you some pictures. I'll take them, unless you want them." Healer Park said, as the walked past the desk.
They handed her the pictures, and she dumped them a trash can.
" Thank you for going to see him, all of us feel quite sorry for him. He doesn't get many vistors, though when he saw that murder, the Aurors came to see him." She went on, not noticing Nevilles pale face.
" Okay, thank you. Goodbye." Hermione said quickly, and dragged Neville off.
The Healer stared after them, shaking her head.
Dumbledore sat at the head of the table, and the entire Order of Phoenix sat around the long table.
" Hello." Dumbledore started. " We have five new members to the Order of Phoenix today. Will they stand up?" Harry, Ron, Ginny, Hermione, and Neville all stood. Neville looked very nervous.
" Alright, let's do oldest to youngest, shall we?" Dumbledore said, and pulled Hermione forward.
" Hermione Granger, do you promise to help the Order of Phoenix a secret?" Hermione nodded.
Dumbledore smiled. " Do you promise to help in any way possible?" Hermione nodded again. Dumbledore took out his wand, and pointed it at Hermione. " Teratella." He said, and a blue steam came out, and covered Hermione for a moment. When the the smoke uncovered Hermione, it went into the shape of a otter.
" Alright, welcome to the Order of Phoenix Hermione." Dumbledore said, and started clapping.
Everyone else joined in, and Hermione took a seat next to Tonks.
" Ronald Weakly," Dumbledore said, as Ron moved forward. " do you promise to keep the Order of Phoenix a secret?" Ron nodded nervously. " Do you promise to help in any way possible?" Ron nodded again, and started to go white. Dumbledore nodded, and said the spell again, but this time the smoke was orange. It covered Ron, and a Jack Russell Terrier came out this time.
Then Neville joined, his was a red hawk. Then, it was Harry turn. Dumbledore asked him all the quistons, then he said the spell. His smoke was a forest green, and when is surrounded him, it was the strangest feeling. It was as though he weighed nothing at all, but like something was pushing him down on his shoulders, so he didn't float away. Then, the feeling disappeared, and he was back on the ground. The green stag came out, then disappeared. Dumbledore started clapping, and he took his seat next to Remus. " Welcome, Harry." Remus whispered.
Then it was Ginny's turn. Her patronus was a purple lion, and once it disappeared, she took her seat next to Harry.
" Now we have five new members, so welcome Harry, Ron, Ginny, Hermione, and Neville." Dumbledore said, smiling at them. " Now, I have one thing I would like to say before we dismiss. Three years ago, Voldomort came back to power. Since then, I have done as much as I can to get ready for the battle I know will come. Now, Harry has done as much as he can. I would like to, with everyone's consent, let him officialy be the head of the Order."
Harry gasped. " Sir, are you sure?"
Dumbledore nodded. " Yes Harry, you have done more here than I could hope to do. I will, however, help out whenever I am needed. I will still be part of the Order, just not in charge."
Harry didn't answer, just stared at him.
" Harry, are you going to except?" Remus prompted.
Harry nodded numbly. " Yes, I will. Thank you sir."
Dumbledore beamed. " Thank you, Harry."
Everyone in the room started clapping, and stood up. The twins cheered. " Go Harry!"
After the meeting, the five new members stayed behind, to discuss everything.
" I have to go back to school." Neville said.
Hermione nodded. " Of course. You can come to the important meetings with Proffesor McGongall."
Neville nodded. " Alright."
They finished talking quickly, and Ron, Ginny, and Hermione went down for dinner. Neville was about to follow them, but Harry stopped him. " Neville, I need to talk to you."
" Yes?" Neville asked.
Harry sighed. " Neville, when we went to the Department of Ministry's in our fith year, there was something we never told you. There was a prophecy, about Voldomort and someone. A very talented seerer told a prophecy to Dumbledore before I was born. This is what she said. ' The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches..born to those who have thrice defied his, born as the seventh month dies...And the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not...And either must died at the hand of the other, for neither can live while the other survives...The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies...' "
Neville nodded. " Okay...so that's you. What does this have to do with me?"
" Neville, you where born the day before me. You and I are more alike than you relize. Your parents where tortured into insanity by Bellatrix, my parents where killed by Voldomort, so we where both pretty much orphans. Your parents where in the Order, so where mine. Both of them defied Voldomort three times."
Neville didn't say anything for a moment. " But I'm not that person, am I?"
Harry shook his head. " No, my name is on the prophecy. Voldomort marked me as his equal."
" Why?" Neville asked, once he had gotten over the shock.
Harry shrugged. " I don't know Neville, I guess he just figured I was his best bet."
" He was right to pick you, I wouldn't stand a chance against him." Neville said, and started to leave.
" Neville, hold on a second." Harry said quickly. " How did you know about Dumbledore being alive?"
" Proffesor McGonagoll told me." Neville answered.
A few days later, Neville was back at school, and everyone was back to their normal activities.
One afternoon, they where working in the library, trying to find something on horcruxes. They had been through more than half of the library by now, and was still searching. Hermione had said that this library would be the most likely place for them to find something, because the Blacks had liked the Dark Arts so much.
Harry was just about to give up, and go find something else to do, when Ginny squealed. " I found something! Harry I found something!"
Everyone in the library jumped up and ran over to Ginny.
" It's right here." Ginny said, pointing to the worn page in the large book. " It's says that horcruxes are made by committing murder. They are mostly made in a object, though in small amount of evil witches and wizards who make them, there is a eve smaller amount that would dare make one out of something alive. In order to get rid of a horcrux, it must be destroyed." Ginny paused. " If the horcrux is a whole person, or animal, it must be killed. If, however, it a part of the body, such as a finger, it must be removed, and destroyed." Ginny looked at Harry, fearfully. " Harry, how can we..."
Harry didn't answer for a moment. " I don't know, I don't know Gin."
A/N 'Ello people! What's up? So what did you think of this chapter? I know some of them are kind of out of character, but you'll live I'm sure. I have one thing to say about the last chapter. I was extremely hyper when I wrote that, and I a goofy mood. So that explains the milk thing. I am going to re-write than, make it something else. Also, I have been writing two stories at the same time, and that has been kind of hard. The other story is almost done though, just one more chapter left. So, I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter, I had fun writing it, but not as much as the last one, ;D! Lol. So, please please review, I would be very grateful.
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