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Harry lands in Grimmaulds Place hours later. Stepping forward, he removes the disillusionment charm as the door to the Order headquarters appears before him.

Walking down the still dark corridor, he enters the kitchen where all conversation stops.

Mrs Weasley is the first to react, leaping to her feet and grabbing Harry into a tight hug.

'Harry dear, it's wonderful to see you again. Though you are still far too skinny." She says. Harry laughs, smiling at her, though keeping his new teeth firmly hidden by his lips. It was going to take them time enough to get used to the wings, height, hair, lack of glasses and eyes, but if they saw he had fanged teeth right now… Looking past Mrs Weasley, he sees Hermione and Ron, Ron looking shocked, his mouth open, though Hermione just smiles at him.

"It's good to see you Harry, how's your holiday's been?" Harry snorts slightly, causing Hermione to smile wider before coming to give him a hug.

"Harry mate, you've got wings." Ron says. Harry raises an eyebrow at his oldest friend before looking over his shoulder and putting a shocked expression on his face.

"By Merlin's beard, so I have." Ron blushes as Mrs Weasley scolds him for being so insensitive. Harry is suddenly attacked and grabbed in a tight embrace. Looking down and leaning back slightly, he looks into the smiling face of Ginny Weasley, who's smile falters when Harry doesn't give her a kiss, just smiles friendlily at her. Although Harry had broken their short relationship at the end of the last school term, Ginny still considered that they were an item. But then, Harry had told her that he'd only broken up with her to protect her from Voldermort, and that was only half the reason. The other half was that he just didn't find himself attracted to her as much as he thought.

Stepping out of her embrace, Harry smiles at the other Order members. Remus Lupin, Kingsley Shacklebolt and Tonks were sitting at the table along with Bill, Fred, George, Charlie and Mr Weasley. As they finish greeting each other, a soft tapping can be heard from the window. Mr Weasley stands, drawing his wand and opens the window, everyone surprised when an official looking owl flies in, deposits a letter beside Harry's hand on the table then flies back out of the window. Harry takes the letter as Mr Weasley closes the window. Harry scowls as he notices the symbol on the flap of the letter.

"It's from the Ministry." He says coldly as he rips it open. Scanning the letter, his scowl deepens.

"What's it say Harry?" Hermione asks.

"It says

Dear Mr Potter,

It has come to our attention that at 11:00 am on the 31st of July,

you experience a number of changes. Due to these, we require

your presence at our offices at 1 pm this afternoon.

Yours sincerely,

Dirk Cresswell

Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures

They make me sound like some kind of monster," Harry says, scrunching the letter in hand. Mrs Weasley looks annoyed.

"You don't have to go Harry dear." She says kindly. Harry smiles at her.

"In a way I do. It seems the Ministry might be my only leads in finding out what's happened to me. Though if the Minister tries to enlist me into his side again…" He says, allowing his sentence to trail off as an open threat. This would have been more effective if he hadn't suddenly clenched in cramping pain, clutching his abdomen.

"What's wrong Harry?" Hermione asks.

"Nothing. Just some aftershocks from these changes I guess." He says, but needn't have bothered as Mrs Weasley forces him to sit at the table, putting a heavily laden plate of food in front of him, which he quickly begins to work his way through, his underfed body not knowing when it would get food like this again, though his brain said-seeing as it was Mrs Weasley- the same amount of food, if not more, would be sitting in front of him at dinner.

As 11 am drew closer, Harry grew tenser until Mr Weasley came up to him.

"Harry my lad. It's time that we should go." He says. Harry stands.

'If it's alright with you Mr Weasley, I'd like to go myself. I don't want you to get into trouble if I meet the Minister. And if I do see him, it's very likely I'll annoy him with my independence." He says. Mr Weasley nods as Harry waves to the others and disappears.