Harry, Isabelle, Neville, Sarah, Ginny, Hannah and Alex landed just outside of Potter Manor. Harry opened the door with his free hand and the group entered. Ginny levitated Hannah and Alex into one of the spare bedrooms, and Harry turned to a Neville"
"Ok Nev" said Harry "Before I got your call well, Kingsley was here"
"Ok" said Neville knowing by the way Harry said it that it wasn't just a social call "What for?"
"Well, he bought 5 people with him; now before you freak out when you see them, just believe me when I tell you it really is them even though I have no idea as to how yet"
"Sure Harry, but the way you said it makes it sounds like they were dead"
"That is because they were" Replied Harry, Neville was rather shocked, Ginny came back down stairs and they made their way into the kitchen where Teddy, was talking to Remus and Dora, 'James', 'Lily' and Sirius were talking to one another and James, Albus and Lily were sitting in a corner half asleep playing quietly, Neville stared at the room shocked for a good few minutes before turning back to Harry
"Are you sure I'm not seeing things" Asked Neville finally
"I'm positive" said Harry,
"Ok" said Neville accepting the answer, though still rather shocked
Harry and Ginny went to put James, Albus and Lily to bed, whilst Neville put Isabelle and Sarah to bed in one of the spare bedrooms.
"So" asked Harry as he came back into the kitchen "how are you guys here?"
"You know the veil in the Department of mysteries?" said Sirius, Harry, Neville and Ginny nodded slightly "Well when I passed through it I met up with James and Lily almost straight away, and because time passes differently in there a few minutes later Dora and Remus met up with us, from where we were we could see the other side of the veil that I'd fallen through and decided that we wanted to see if it would take us back through to the world of the living, and well here we are"
"So that's it?" asked Ginny. Sirius, Remus, Dora, 'James' and 'Lily' nodded
"What exactly happened Neville?" asked Remus, Neville shakily explained what had happened, when Neville finished explaining Ginny went over and hugged him.
"Wouldn't Rodolphus and Rabastan be in Azkaban though?" asked Lily
"They were" answered Harry "but they managed to escape last night along with, Dolohov. Greyback, and Malfoy, we have no idea how yet though because they shouldn't have been able to get past the wards, as human or animal"
"How do you know that?" asked 'James'
"Know what?" asked Harry "about the wards, or that they escaped last night"
"Well both would be nice" said Dora
"Well quite apart from anything else the escape was in the Prophet this morning" said Harry "and I know about the wards because, me and Kingsley were the ones that put the wards up to begin with"
"You did" asked Remus to which Harry nodded "well that explains why you know so much about the wards"
"So what, do you guys do?" asked Sirius
"Well I'm the Herbology professor at Hogwarts" said Neville
"Really what happened to Sprout?" asked 'Lily'
"She retired a few years ago, she didn't want to teach anymore"
"What about everyone else?" asked Sirius
"Me, Luna and Hannah are healers" said Ginny "Hermione and Percy's wife Audrey work in the Experimental Charms Department, Ron, George and his wife Angelina run Weasley Wizard Wheezes, Bill's still working for Gringotts, Fleur also works at Gringotts, Charlie still works in Romania with dragons, Percy is the Head of The Department of International Magical Co-operation, my dad has gone back to being the head of the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts office"
"What about Harry though?" asked 'James'
"I'm the head of the DMLE" answered Harry
"Cool" said Tonks "do you reckon that I could become an Auror again"
"Sure you could" said Harry "you'd have to go through a refresher course, but nothing too difficult"
"Really?" asked Dora "because I'd like to be an Auror again"
"Yes really"
"Maybe we should all turn in for the night it is getting quite late" suggested Ginny. Everyone agreed and headed upstairs to their respective rooms, Ginny showing Neville to the spare room in which Hannah and Alex were resting whilst Harry showed his parents, Sirius, Remus and Dora the spare bedrooms before heading into his bedroom and laying down next to Ginny.
Harry was pretty much asleep when someone knocked loudly on the front door of the manor, Harry was instantly awake and after throwing a robe on quickly and picking his wand up from his bedside table made his way downstairs, followed closely by Ginny, Neville, 'James', 'Lily', Remus, Sirius and Dora all of whom had awoken as well.
Harry opened the door and was surprised to see Kingsley again so soon
"What's up Kingsley?" asked Harry
"Sorry for calling so late" said Kingsley "but this is urgent"
"What is?" asked Harry instantly alert
"You know the veil in the Department of Mysteries"
"Yes" replied Harry warily "what about it?"
"Well your parent, Sirius, Remus and Dora weren't the only ones who returned through it"
"They weren't?" asked Ginny slightly bewildered coming up beside Harry
"No they weren't" said Kingsley then turning behind him called out "Fred can you come over here?"
Fred stepped out from the shadows and Ginny hugged Fred tightly with unshed tears in her eyes after Ginny let go of Fred, Kingsley continued
"He also wasn't the only other one, we have Cedric Diggory whom I dropped off at his parent's house with an explanation and Colin Creevy who I dropped off at his brother's house also with an explanation" Harry stood thoughtfully for a moment after Kingsley had finished
"They weren't the only ones either were they?" said Harry after a few minutes "other wise you would have waited till morning to tell us, that and you said it was urgent"
"No they weren't, but I'll explain it all once I have everyone together" Harry paled slightly
"You aren't rounding up people with ties to the order, are you?" asked Harry fearful of the answer
"Right in one Harry" everyone was now rather pale as the meaning of that became clear
"So I meet you all at Grimmauld place then?" said Kingsley "That is assuming we can use it as headquarters again?" Harry nodded
"Yes, It needs to be re-warded and cleaned again though" answered Harry "but I'm sure our two house elves Gryff and Ray won't mind helping clean it"
"Thank you Harry, I must be off" said Kingsley "but I'll meet you all again at Grimmauld place after I find everyone else"
"See you shortly then" said Ginny as Kingsley walked over to the edge of the property and apparated away
Everyone stood quietly for a few moments thinking about what Kingsley had said, and wondering what he hadn't said and would be explaining to the Order of the Phoenix shortly
"Voldemort didn't follow you guy's through did he?" asked Ginny hoping that he didn't
"I sure hope not" replied everyone else as one
"Do you know?" Harry asked Fred who shook his head
"He didn't tell me" replied Fred "I'd just finished talking to Kingsley when he was called down to the Department of Mysteries again, then he returned to his office told me he was rounding up anyone with ties to the Order of the Phoenix and we left"
"So we don't know" sighed Dora "I just hope it's not Voldemort again, he caused more than enough trouble the last two times"
"But what else could get Kingsley to reform the Order so quickly" sighed Harry
"I don't know" replied Neville warily "but I suppose we better wake the kids and Hannah, she's fine to move about isn't she?"
"Yes" said Ginny "she just has to take it easy for a few days" everyone went back upstairs to dress properly and wake the kids and Hannah, after explaining to Hannah about 'James', 'Lily', Remus, Dora, Sirius and Fred they walked to the edge of Property, and Harry holding a Lily who was asleep again with her head resting on Harry's shoulder summoned the Knight Bus with his free hand and everyone boarded
"Grimmauld place London please"
Everyone sat down on the beds provided, the kids falling asleep again, Teddy curled up in between his parents, James curled up in between Harry and Ginny, Albus curled up asleep on Ginny's lap, Lily stayed sleeping in Harry's arms, Alex in Neville's arms, and Isabelle curled up asleep next to Sarah on one of the bed's.
Shortly after the Knight Bus stopped outside number 15 Grimmauld place and everyone got off. Harry holding Lily, Ginny holding Albus, 'Lily' holding James, Neville holding Alex, Hannah holding Isabelle and Sirius holding Sarah and Teddy trailing sleepily behind them. Harry came to a stop outside number twelve, everyone watched as Harry handed Lily over to 'James' and lowered the falling wards surrounding number twelve before putting all the wards apart from the Fidelius Charm back up again. The group headed into the house which looked rather dark and dirty covered in layers of dust shutting the door behind them.
"Did this house just appear out of nowhere?" asked Hannah. Harry shook his head
"No it's always been here, just under an extremely weak Fidelius Charm that was just short of failing completely"
"Weak?" asked Neville more than a little confused
"Yes" said Harry "Dumbledore was originally the secret keeper for the Order, but after his Death, everyone who knew where Headquarters was effectively became secret keepers which was a lot of people and it severely weakened the strength of the charm, and left as weak as it was over an extended period of time weakened it further so it was just short of failing but had it completely fallen, all the other wards would have fallen with it, so the house had to be entirely re-warded"
"Really, Why?" asked Hannah rather interested
"How much do you know about wards first?" asked Harry
"Almost nothing" answered Hannah truthfully
"Right well there is a basic ward structure that is used and any subsequent wards including the Fidelius Charm are woven through this base structure, making it next to impossible to remove a ward without removing the base structure and obviously with it every single ward and because wards are so tightly woven together through the base ward one weakened one will slowly weaken the others over time"
"So let me get this straight" said Hannah "Because the Fidelius was almost non existent the others wards were as well because of how they are so tightly woven through this basic ward structure you were talking about"
"Yes, and had it given out completely which it would have sooner or later being so weak it would have pretty much destroyed the basic ward structure with it and so all the other wards as well"
"It sounds way to complicated if you ask me" commented Fred
"It's not really" said Harry "it just seems that way, maybe I could show you one of the many books I own on wards"
"Now you're turning into Hermione on us" said Fred shaking his head in mock disappointment "shame on you" everyone else laughed
"There is nothing wrong with reading" said 'Lily' after the laughter died down
"Never said there was it just that it's more Hermione's forte then Harry's"
"Who is Hermione anyway?" asked 'James'
"One of Neville, Hannah's, Harry's and my friends and also one of my sister-in-laws as well now" said Ginny
"Really who'd she marry" asked Fred "Charlie?"
"No" Harry shook his head "Charlie's not married"
"No, Ok then Percy"
"Nope not Percy either, he married Audrey Lakes"
"How about George then?"
"Nope he married Angelina Johnson"
"No way" said a slightly shocked Fred "that only leaves Ron"
"And what is so bad about that?" asked Ginny
"Nothing, I was just surprised is all"
"We were only surprised that they finally admitted their feelings to one another" commented Ginny giggling slightly "especially since they spent the better part of seven years denying it, even though it was pretty obvious to everyone else, especially after the Yule Ball"
"Really?" asked 'Lily' and Ginny nodded
A short while later Kingsley walked through the door followed closely by Cedric, Colin and Dennis
"Everyone else should be here shortly, and I'd suggest that until I've explained how your here to everyone else, that Cedric, Colin, Fred, 'James', 'Lily', Remus, Sirius and Dora wait in the room just off the kitchen"
"Ok" agreed 'James' as they made their way out of the hall way leaving the kids with the others
"Oh and Harry it may be a good idea to get one your house elf friends to clean this place up a bit"
"Sure" said Harry before calling Gryff and Ray
"What can we's be doing Master Harry?" asked Gryff
"Could you two please clean this house up?"
"Sure Master Harry" replied Ray before both Gryff and Ray started cleaning
Harry turned as the front door opened and Aberforth Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, Arabella Figg, Mundungus Fletcher, Hestia Jones, Dedalus Diggle, Elphias Doge, Hagrid, Arthur Weasley, Molly Weasley, Bill Weasley his wife Fleur and their three children Victoire, Dominique and Louis, Charlie Weasley, Percy Weasley his wife Audrey and their two children Molly and Lucy, George Weasley his wife Angelina and their two children Fred and Roxanne and lastly Ron and Hermione Weasley with their two children Rose and Hugo.
"That everyone now?" asked Kingsley counting heads as people came in
"I think so" replied Harry
"Right down to kitchen then" said Kingsley "and I'll let you all know why I called everyone here"
Everyone walked down to the kitchen and sat down on one of the many chairs in the kitchen, Teddy curled up on a chair to Harry's Right and fell asleep again with his resting on Harry's shoulder, James curled up on the chair in between Harry and Ginny and fell asleep with his head resting on Harry's left arm, Albus curled up on Harry's lap and Lily on Ginny's, Rose curled up on Ron's and Hugo on Hermione's. Victoire curled up on a chair in between Bill and Fleur with her head resting on Fleur's shoulder Dominique curled up on a chair the other side of Fleur with her head resting on Fleur's other shoulder whilst Louis curled up asleep in Bill's lap, Molly curled up asleep in Percy's lap and Lucy in Audrey's, Fred climbed up onto George's lap and fell asleep whilst Roxanne fell asleep on Angelina's, Isabelle fell asleep on a chair in between Hannah and Neville whilst Sarah climbed up onto Neville's lap and fell asleep and Alex Fell asleep again on Hannah's lap
"Right" said Kingsley bringing the meeting to order "You're probably all wondering why I called you all here" everyone nodded and Kingsley continued "though I know some of you have some idea as to why"
"Firstly does anyone here know anything the veil in the Department of Mysteries" everyone shook their heads "right well apart from those of you I have already told something's to would you believe me if I was to tell you that 10 people have emerged from the veil within in the past 24hours" there was some muttering between the people assembled
"10" asked Harry "who are the other two?"
"Wait" Hermione asked Harry "you know who 8 of them are?" Harry nodded
"Five of them have been with me pretty much since just before Dinner, one of them has only been with me for the last hour and a half roughly and two others I know about but only saw really briefly before they disappeared into the other room, but yes I know who eight of them are"
"I'll just go and get them shall I" suggested Kingsley before anyone could ask Harry anymore questions, everyone nodded, those who didn't already know wanting to know who they were. Kingsley went in to the other room and returned shortly followed by 'James', 'Lily', Sirius, Remus, Dora, 'Fred', Colin and Cedric. Everyone was rather shocked, and all the adult Weasley's had unshed tears in their eyes and hugged 'Fred' tightly one by one
Once everyone had settled down again Kingsley continued
"Now some of you may have noticed that most of you are what was left of the Order of the Phoenix after the second war against Voldemort and the rest of you are people that this affects and I could contact easily, well not Neville and Hannah so much but they're staying at Harry's and Ginny's place for awhile" said Kingsley "But assuming you all agree to it you will become the reformed Order of the Phoenix due to the identity of the last two individuals that emerged from behind the veil" everyone nodded agreeing though wondering why Kingsley was reforming the order.
"Now after 'Fred', Colin and Cedric had finished explaining their story, even though it was pretty much the same as the one I had previously heard from 'James', 'Lily', Sirius, Remus and Dora" said Kingsley "I was called yet again down to the Department of Mysteries where the Unspeakable on night duty down there told me what had happened. He had seen two people if you can call them that walk past not noticing him working in a dimly lit corner but he did manage to identify them for me as Voldemort"
"Again?" Harry groaned "He's caused more than enough trouble the last two times" everyone else nodded agreeing with Harry and Kingsley continued
"And Bellatrix Lestrange"
"She's caused more than enough trouble as well" Neville groaned
"Now the entire Ministry has been tightly locked down with as far as I know no-one in it, and nothing tighter than the Department of Mysteries" Kingsley continued "now whilst Voldemort and Bellatrix were no where to be seen when I had the entire ministry searched I sealed the Department of Mysteries until we can figure out how to destroy the veil so that no one else can come through because the last thing we need is for more Death Eaters to come through or anyone else with ill intent for that matter, a brief article about all of this will appear on the front page of every single publication sometime in the next couple of days"
"Now whilst this is quite a sizeable amount of people I want more people recruited to our cause" Kingsley turned to Harry "now Harry who did the DA that you founded in your fifth year consist of because that is probably a good start"
"Katie Bell, though I think she's married to Oliver Wood now" Harry mused, Angelina nodded to indicate that this was correct "Susan Bones, though it's now Goldstein, Terry Boot, Lavender Brown, Cho Chang, Michael Corner, Marietta Edgecombe, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Seamus Finnigan, Anthony Goldstein, Lee Jordan, Ernie Macmillan, The Patil twins, though one's now Thomas and the other Finnigan, Zacharias Smith, Alicia Spinnet though its now Jordan, Dean Thomas and Luna Lovegood though its now Scamander, I think that was everyone, well those that aren't already here at any rate"
"There was more than that?" asked Kingsley shocked and not having known how many students Harry was teaching that year
"Sure" said Harry "there was me obviously, Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Hannah, 'Fred' and George, Angelina, Colin and Dennis as well" Those who didn't know how many people the DA consisted of were rather surprised
"Does anyone have any other questions?" asked Kingsley
"Yeah" said George "what about the five Death Eaters that managed to escape from Azkaban?"
"Well" said Harry "The DMLE will be trying the best that they can to recapture them but that has been made harder by the Fact that as soon as they know that Voldemort is back again then it will be harder to track them down and capture them, though not impossible"
"Two of them were actually almost recaptured again earlier tonight but they fled when they realised that they weren't going to achieve much by hanging around" said Neville quietly
"They were" asked Hestia "Which ones?"
"Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange" answered Harry because Neville didn't trust himself to answer "They attacked Neville and Hannah earlier this evening, Neville had Rodolphus subdued and was obviously close to having Rabastan as well because he fled taking Rodolphus with him, but not before levelling the house entirely"
"Did everyone get out alright?" asked McGonagall "I know that Neville, Hannah, and the kids are alright but what about Augusta?"
Harry shook his head and replied quietly "Rabastan killed her"
Neville had tears in his eyes from thinking about it again and Hannah hugged him trying to give him some comfort even though the events from earlier that evening had affected her almost as badly as Neville
"Has anyone got anything else they wish to discuss or any other questions?" asked Kingsley
"Yeah" said Bill "How warded is this place and does Harry need any help to re-warding it?"
"No I'm fine thank you Bill" said Harry "I re-did all the wards apart from the Fidelius earlier this evening"
"Right" said Kingsley "That's probably it, Harry has his two house elves taking care of cleaning, the rest of you can stay here for a minute I just want to see Harry briefly" Harry got up slowly careful not to disturb Teddy and put Albus who was still sleeping on his lap back on his chair and followed Kingsley out into the Hall.
"Harry" Kingsley asked "would you be the secret keeper for Headquarters?"
"Sure, do you want to cast the charm now whilst everyone is here?"
"Yes that was the idea" said Kingsley "how do we tell the young kids though, because I assume that they'll b brought to meetings with you" Harry nodded
"We actually don't have to tell anyone that is currently in the house, because they are inside when the charm is cast, whilst they can't tell anyone not being secret keepers, they still know the location of the house"
"Right" said Kingsley "let's get to it then"
Harry and Kingsley walked out of the front door and Kingsley cast the charm over number 12 with Harry as the secret keeper, after the charm was cast Harry walked back into the house and into the study quickly grabbed a small piece of parchment and a quill and quickly wrote
The Headquarters
for the Order of the Phoenix
can be found at
12 Grimmauld Place London
Harry then walked back outside handed the small slip of paper over to Kingsley who memorised it quickly before burning it and they both made their way back inside and down to the kitchen
"Ok everyone can go now" said Kingsley "and those people who are either new to the Order or have lost the communication necklaces that we use can grab one on the way out and I'll contact you all soon about a time for the next meeting which will hopefully include some more new members" everyone slowly headed out the door some carrying sleepy children and headed home.
A:N/ Sorry I took so long to update the story, but anyway here is another chappie and i hope to have an update again soon, for either this or my other story, please review and let me know what you thought of this chapter
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