The Meeting Will Come To Order

"This meeting will now start, quiet everyone please." Kingsley said as he stood at the head of the table in the Weasley's kitchen.

"Now today we need to discuss any remaining issues we have concerning the Order, now that Voldemort is gone and most of the Death Easters have been killed or tried and convicted of their crimes and are in Azkaban; we need to tie up any loose ends we have and then life can go back to as normal as it ever can be. Is there any business that needs to be discussed?"

Everyone in attendance tonight sat around the table or standing against the counter of the kitchen looking around but not saying a word. Harry was sitting next to Ginny who was on his right and Hermione on his left. Harry looked over at Hermione waiting for her to say something, but she was distracted looking at Ron who was sitting across the table from Harry next to George.

"Okay if there isn't any business that needs to be discussed then the meeting is over. Is dinner ready Molly?"

"Yes it is Kingsley; all that needs to be done is setting up the tables and benches outside." Molly stated.

Harry slightly elbowed Hermione in the side trying to get her attention so she could bring her idea of researching a way to bring Sirius Black back to the rest of the Orders attention so that it could be discussed. Harry elbowed Hermione a bit harder since she hadn't seemed to notice the first time.

"Ouch! What was that for Harry?" Hermione exclaimed.

"Sorry, 'Mione but wasn't there something that you wanted to ask the Order?"

"Oh yeah sorry, I guess I wasn't paying attention. Um… So I was thinking yesterday while talking to Harry that um… maybe there is some way to possibly bring Sirius back, since he wasn't killed and didn't die a natural death and just fell through the veil, maybe there is something that can be done to bring him back. I know Harry has all of us but we aren't actual family, granted Sirius isn't either but he is Harry's Godfather and that is different than the rest of us. I know that I am missing my parents and I know that it is going to be a while until it is safe enough for me to be able to go and find them in Australia, but maybe in the mean time I could research and possibly find something that could be useful. It's worth a shot right? At least it can't really hurt; worse thing that could happen is I don't find anything that can be helpful."

"Well Hermione we spent six months trying to bring Sirius back after the battle at the Department of Mysteries and we didn't make much progress, that was almost two years ago now." Minerva said in a soft voice.

"Yes I am aware that it has been that long but the Order had so much more on our plate back then that I doubt it was given the full attention of any one much less given the time it deserved. It's not anyone's fault that we had bigger things to deal with then, but now we don't; now we aren't worried about Death Eaters and being killed any minute. So now we have the time to dedicate to researching a way to possibly bring him back. I don't have anything better to do since I took my newts three days ago. Even with missing a year at Hogwarts I managed to get all O's on it as well. So there is nothing keeping me from researching this is there?"

"Well dear, if you feel like that then I don't see any reason to deny you the opportunity to do as you wish. We will get the research we were able to acquire when we looked into the possibility of bringing Sirius back two years ago. I will personally make sure that you get it all by tomorrow night as all the research is currently in my office at Hogwarts." Minerva said as she stood from her chair at the other end of the table.

"Well if that is all, I think it is time for dinner." Kingsley said.

As everyone started to exit the overcrowded kitchen and headed towards the garden were Molly was serving dinner, Arthur and Bill set the tables and benches up so dinner could be served. Molly, Minerva, Fleur, Ginny and Hermione helped bring out all of the food and drinks as well as the dishes needed for the meal. As they all sat down to enjoy Molly's wonderful cooking Hermione couldn't help but think about the research that was ahead of her. She knew that the research the Order had done almost two years ago was just going to be her jumping off point but she wanted to look over it several times, take notes and then figure out where to really start.

Dinner was quite a lively occasion, with the threat of harm in the past the members of the Order settled back into a comfortable normal existence. The older order members including Minerva, Kingsley, Aberforth, Arthur and Molly all retired to the sitting room of the Burrow after dinner was over leaving the younger members outside to clean up and have a bit of leisurely fun in the moonlight. After about thirty minutes Bill and Fleur said their goodbyes and headed indoors to floo back to Shell Cottage where they has taken up residency during the war and continued to live now that it was over. The next to leave were Luna and Neville who headed towards the edges of the wards around the Burrow so Neville could walk Luna home.

The rest of the younger Order members headed back inside the Burrow to spend some time relaxing with Molly and Arthur before they all headed to bed. Minerva was just getting ready to floo back to Hogwarts when George, Ron, Harry, Ginny and Hermione walked back inside the house and into the sitting room.

"Hermione, I will make sure you get the research by the early afternoon tomorrow I just have to make sure it is all together and then I will come and drop it off. I would send an owl but the owlery was severely damaged in the battle and the owls are not currently on the grounds."

"Thank you so much Minerva, I really do appreciate it. I will be around so I will see you tomorrow afternoon."

"Goodbye everyone, have a good rest of your evening." She said as she threw the floo powder into the flames and stepped inside the fireplace and called "Hogwarts School, headmistress' office."

Harry and Ginny cuddled up on the loveseat, Ron and George were in the corner looking like they were up to no good and Molly and Arthur were sitting on the couch across from the fireplace finishing up the conversation they had been having with the older members of the Order. Hermione decided that she was going to go take a long hot shower while everyone else seemed occupied down stairs.

She walked up the stairs and in to the room she shared with Ginny, she walked over to her trunk that lay at the end of her bed and opened it up to grab a set of fresh pajamas and underwear. Then she walked to her bedside table and opened the cabinet underneath it and took out her shower stuff, finally she grabbed her towel from behind the door and heading across the landing to the bathroom. Once inside she locked the door and placed her wand on the back of the toilet, hung her towel on the hook on the back of the door and sat down her shower caddy on the edge of the tub/shower combo. Next she sat her clean clothes on the toilet lid and turned on the water before undressing, leaving her clothes from the day in a pile on the floor near the sink. She stepped into the shower and under the hot spray and began to relax. The past couple of weeks had been extremely stressful and she simply needed to unwind with a long hot shower and then have a good night's rest.

As she started to wash her hair she starting thinking about the research she would be starting the next day. She contemplated whether she really thought there was really anything that she could do. Could she really figure out a way to bring Sirius back from beyond the veil? Had it been too long since he had crossed over? If she could figure out how, would he be the same as when he went in? Would he have aged while gone? Would he even remember what happened? So many questions ran through her mind. She suddenly realized she had been shampooing her hair for ten minutes. She rinsed it out and began to put conditioner in, since her hair was very curly it needed a good amount of conditioner to keep it from being the frizzy mess it had been when she was younger. As she had grown up she had learned a thing or two about hair care and how to make her normally frizzy, mess of a head of hair a bit more controlled. Leaving the conditioner to do its job she began to wash her body, in the process she inspected herself checking to see if all of her wounds from the last battle had finally healed. She still had a large lingering bruise on her right hip from being thrown into a wall and her left shoulder still had a bit of a scrap on it but other than that she was pleased with the progress she had made towards looking and feeling normal again in just the past two weeks. The water began to get cold so she quickly rinsed off and turned off the water. Stepping out of the shower she grabbed her towel and wrapped it around her body, she them picked up her wand and used it to dry her hair. Once her hair was dry she put it up into a large bun on the top of her head, she didn't like sleeping with her hair in her face, and she felt as if she were smothering herself in the middle of the night. She finished getting dressed in her pajamas and gathered her things and headed back across the landing to her room.

Once inside her room she put her shower things back in the cabinet where she kept them, hung her towel up to dry and put her dirty clothes in her hamper. She lay down in bed, placed her wand on her bedside table and picked up the book she had been reading. As she snuggled down into the covers and told herself to just relax and enjoy the book. After about an hour of reading Ginny opened the door and came in, she pulled out pajamas from her trunk and got changed. Ginny then came and sat on the edge of Hermione's bed, Hermione looked up and saw Ginny looking as if she wanted to talk about something, so she marked her spot and placed her book on the bedside table.

"What's up Ginny?" Hermione asked.

"I was wondering how you were doing? You have been a bit distracted lately and quiet and I was wondering if you wanted to talk about anything."

"Your right I have been distracted but I think starting to work on this research tomorrow should help me focus more."

"Okay, well you know if you want to talk I am here any time."

"Yeah Gin, I know, thanks for being a great friend. I will be okay, I just need to focus on something that I can actually do something about, you know?"

"Yeah I guess I can understand. Well are you ready for bed? I'm really tired!" Ginny proclaimed as she yawned and got up off Hermione's bed and walked across the room to her own.

"Yeah I am, good night Gin."

"Night 'Mione!"