Harry Potter and the Trio of Darkness
By: Final Spirit

-Reunited-

The minute Harry heard the voice of the figure behind him, his fear vanished. He felt the spell fade away, and he came face to face with non e other than Remus Lupin. "Professor?" Harry questioned in an astonished tone, "What are you doing here?"

Lupin merely continued smiling at Harry with a knowing gaze. "Well luckily Harry," he replied, crossing his arms, "I received your owl just in time, and came her right away. I had a feeling that you might do something a bit rash, and here you are, proving me right."

Harry smiled back at Lupin sheepishly. It appeared as though his escape plan had been crashed, and now the chance of doing anything on his own to seemed to be fading away more and more.

"About the letter, what happened?" Harry asked, changing the subject. "Do you know anything about it?" Right now, despite being caught, he wanted to know the truth about his dream the other night. If Lupin was here, that probably meant that there was some validity in his dream. And if there was, Harry had a right to know.

Glancing around, Lupin grabbed Harry's hand and dragged both him and his suitcase away from the house. "Here is not the time and place to be asking those things Harry," Lupin whispered. "I'm going to apparate us over to Hogwarts, where its safe."

Before Harry could protest, he felt the familiar pressure as Lupin apparated the two of them away from Privet drive, and to the front gates of Hogwarts. Without even another word, Lupin began dragging Harry up to the castle at a brisk pace.

"Professor!" Harry shouted, yanking his hand out of Lupin's grip, "What's going on?" Harry wanted to know what was going on, and why Lupin was in such a hurry. What was so urgent?

Lupin glared at Harry strongly, before giving a deep sigh. "Harry, it's not safe to talk out here in the open. Hermione, Ron, and the rest of the Weasleys are already in the castle, and we're all waiting on you. You'll get your answers Harry, but you just have to come with me."

Although grudgingly, Harry held his tongue as he followed Lupin up the rest of the pathway, awaiting the answers to all of questions. The way Lupin was acting, it seemed as if something had happened, something bad. And Harry was going to get to the bottom of it.

Following Lupin in the castle, Harry came face to face with a Hogwarts like he had never seen it. The castle walls were stripped bare, and half the of the great hall lied bare. Only a few table remained, all occupied by people Harry recognized as members of the Order of the Phoenix.

In fact, Harry was so shocked by the appearance of Hogwarts, that he failed to notice a very excited and enthusiastic Ginny running straight at him. By the time Harry finally noticed her, he barely had time to catch her as she pounced on top of him and held him in a deep hug.

"Harry!" she cried happily, pressing her lips to his. Harry deepened the kiss, holding Ginny tightly. He'd missed her so much, and it hurt him to think that he might have never seen to her again.

Their warm reunion however was crashed as a loud "OY!" sounded from across the Great Hall. Harry looked up to see Ron and Hermione running at him, clearly overjoyed to see him. Ron glared at the two of them protectively, and Harry backed off Ginny. "I don't mind you snogging my sis, but just don't do it on front of me, okay mate?" Ron suggested with a warm smile.

Harry knew that was Ron's way of saying how much he missed him, so Harry merely smiled back. Hermione though, was much more warm in her welcome than Ron. "Harry…we though we'd never see you again!" she cried, wrapping her arms around him.

Whether or not, he wanted to admit it, Harry had missed all of them. Despite his plans to go at it alone, he'd had many second thoughts about his plan every time her thought of all of his friends.

"What are you guys doing here?" he asked, "I'd have though you guys would be your house or something."

Hermione was the first to answer. "McGonagall was the one to bring us here Harry," she replied, "She's taking over Hogwarts, with the Ministry's approval. She had a hard time convincing the Ministry to reopen Hogwarts, but she managed to do it."

"That's great Hermione," Harry replied, happy to hear the news, "But that still doesn't explain much. What's going on? Why's everyone here now?"

This time, Ron cut Hermione off before she could break him the news. "McGonagall managed to convince the Ministry to re-open Hogwarts, but only if she had a full staff and a couple of aurors to guard the place. A couple of people from the Order agreed to help, and they dragged us along too."

"When Lupin got your letter, he rushed off to get you Harry," Ginny added on, "He was actually looked pretty surprised at what you'd written, like it surprised him or something. He gave the others the letter before he left, and we haven't seen McGonagall or Moody since."

Ginny's words made Harry wonder. What did the others know about his dream? "Do you know anything about what they said?" he asked tentatively, "About my letter I mean, what did they say?"

"We couldn't hear much mate," Ron replied, crossing his arms, "We tried using some of Fred and George's Extendable Ears, but we still didn't hear much. It sounded like they were saying though like it couldn't be true, what your letter said I mean."

Hermione was quick to question Harry after Ron finished however. "Harry…" she questioned in an unsure tone, "What did your letter say though? We never got a chance to read it, but if it's got everyone in the Order so worried, what was it?"

While he knew it was going to be hard to explain, Harry managed to tell everyone about his dream as best as he could. About the strange beings…Voldemort…Snape…even the strange and mysterious three girls. He told them about his connection with one of the girls, the one Voldemort had called his daughter.

"Well I can understand now why the Order must be in such a panic Harry," Hermione added after Harry completed the wild tale. "Most of your visions have almost always been true, and if this one is true like the others, then it means that there's a powerful force out there that Voldemort's after."

Harry nodded. "I know Hermione, I know. I wanted to find out about it, but Lupin got me before I was able to leave the Dursleys. And I'm guessing now that I'm here, they'e not going to let me leave to figure things out."

"You better not leave," Ginny threatened with stern glare, "You've given everyone here enough of a scare, got it?"

Ginny's words made Harry laugh. "Leave you? Now? I wouldn't dare…" he joked, putting his arms around her. Hold her still he looked up at Hermione and Ron. "So what do we do now?"

"We do the only thing we bloody can do mate," Ron said, "We wait."