(A/N) Ok, I know I said that I might not update for a while but this idea just came to me and I had to write this chapter. I hope you like it, read and review:D:D (Something weird has been happening with my uploader, any help? When I came to check on this story it said this chapter had no text... If you do read this can u send me a reply telling me so, so I know if its just my computer or not)

The room came into focus with every blink. Rory could make out the four posters that surrounded her bed, and she twitched her left hand and felt the smooth bedding, she blinked a few more times and could make out a few more sleeping forms in the beds next to her own. She twitched her right hand and felt the warmth of someone else's fingers as they carressed her hand.

Their face was still blurry but she could make out long flowing black hair and the distinct smell of a grown man. Slowly she could hear what the man said as he gazed on to, what he thought, was a fast asleep Rory.

"She looks just like her mother, so peaceful when she sleeps..." his hand brushed her dark bangs from her eyes. "You shouldn't have brought her here, you shouldn't have gone looking for her, Harry!"

"She needed me, Dad!" she heard Harry reply quickly, there was dangerous edge to his voice as he added. "At least one of us tried to find her, at least one of us cared for her safety."

"That's hardly fair, I loved your mother and sister, that's why I left them," who now Rory realised was Sirius shot back.

"Well, we have her now, that's all we should care about," Harry replied.

"Well, you're lucky no one else was seriously injured, thank god Mrs. Weasley knew all the necessary reversing and healing spells," Sirius replied. "And why in merlin's name did you bring five other school kids with you!?"

"Well, Ron and Hermione came on their own accord. Ginny followed us and refused to go back to Hogwarts, and the muggle is Rory's boyfriend, Jess, who came with her," Harry replied.

"And what was Luscious's son doing tagging along?" Sirius asked. "The Malfoy's are known death eaters!"

"Draco is different! He showed up at the Leaky Cauldron! He risked his life to warn us that the Death Eaters were approaching and that Voldemort knew about Rory! He even tried to protect Ginny when the dementors swooped in on us!" Harry defended.

"I don't know Harry, how did he even know where you were, that you were out looking for Rory?" Sirius asked.

"Hermione, he's been secretly friends with her for a few months now, she trusts him," replied Harry. "Do you now not trust Hermione?"

"You know I do Harry," Sirius sighed.

"Is the Order coming over?" Harry asked in a softer tone.

"Of course they are, we need to insure you two are protected now!" Sirius replied sadly, there was a long pause where the two men sat in silence, looking down at Rory, she wondered if this was her cue to stop pretending she was sleeping.

Then Harry spoke again, "Does she really look like Mum?"

"Yes, she looks like your mother, but she looks more like you, Harry," Sirius replied in a kind tone. "Oh god, I still can't believe that... Lorelei was always so strong, so determined that she would never die at the hands of Voldemort's men!" Rory's stomach began to tie into a deep knot of fear and her heart stopped beating in her chest for a few moments.

"But Dad," Harry said, his voice quivering. "She died of a heart attack... didn't she?"

"I doubt it, Harry, you're mother was healthy, so very healthy..." Sirius muttered.

"If Voldemort knew about Mom, then why wasn't Rory killed too?" Harry asked him.

"You told me she was at Yale most of the time," Sirius said. "The death eaters probably camped outside her house, and watched her, since they didn't see your sister, they figured that Lorelei had only given birth to you before I left her."

"Oh god," muttered Harry.

"So one night, when she was vulnerable, they snuck in and performed the crutiatus curse before they eventually killed her with the killing curse," Sirius replied gravely and Rory felt her whole body shake as tears swelled behind her eyes.

"How do you figure they tortured her first," asked Harry.

"I had loved her more then anything, and she had given birth to the famous Harry Potter," said Sirius. "She was lucky they killed her and didn't just let her live in a tortured state."

"I wish I had gotten to know Mom, she sounds great!" said Harry.

"You can get to know her, through Rory," replied Sirius. "And what I told you, about how your mother died, don't tell Rory, she has enough on her mind."

"Of course," Harry replied.

The door opened quickly and shut quietly again and Rory heard quick foot steps that stopped at her beside.

"How's she doing, Molly?" Sirius asked the new comer.

"I'm going to try and wake her up, she should really eat some choclate," the woman replied in a warm voice that almost made Rory think that her mom had retuned to her and was now going to wake her up and tell her it was all a joke.

A small hand rested on her shoulder and shook her lightly, Rory pretended to just be waking up from a deep sleep. And automatically looked up into a round face that smiled down at her warmly, Molly had curly red hair and small blue eyes, she wore a yellow dress over her small roundish body.

"Hello dear," she said softly as Rory pushed herslef up, trying not to look at her father.

She had never met the man before and was now somehow afraid of meeting him. After countless nights of invisioning him in her mind she would finally meet the real living form of her true father. She could hear him breathing quickly from her right but still refused to acknowledge him.

"Jess," she muttered as fear suddenly consumed her, where was everyone? "Draco, Hermione! Ginny's hurt!" she said quickly but before she could get anything else out a huge block of creamy milk choclate was shoved in her mouth.

"They're all fine, my dear," Molly replied, Rory got the distinct feeling that this was Ron and Ginny's mother as she chewed the massive amouth of food. "Now take it easy, I have to go see how Draco is doing," she replied, his name seemed to fluster her. She quickly stepped out of the room, Rory watched her leave and finally she let her eyes fall on her father.

He had many wrinkles around his eyes and mouth that looked like laugh lines, his eyes were beatle black as they looked into hers and she looked down at his worn out hands that had stange tattoos. His clothes that had always looked sloppy in the photos she had seen were strangely clean and looked almost new, Rory had the feeling that was because he was jsut as nervous of making a good impression as she was. And his long wavy black hair had been combed back but still looked rather messy.

She opened her mouth but didn't know whether to call him Sirius or Dad, she shut it quickly and got began to fear she was making more of an impression that she was an idiot. Suddenly he leapt at her and bound her body in a tight hug.

"Oh my dearest, Rory," He muttered tearfully and Rory let her arms wrap around him.

"Daddy," she said through her own tears. Harry was standing at the edge of the bed smiling at the pair but then her attention was drawn back to her Dad as he drew away from her, his two hands braced around her neck as if trying to confirm that she was real and not a fragment of his own hopes.

"You have your mother's blue eyes, but my lips," Sirius commented.

"You look better then I could have ever dreamt," Rory mumbled and Sirius let out a laugh.

There was a sound of heavy footsteps from outside and then the loud booming scottish voice of a man came thorugh the closed door.

"For heaven's sake, Molly! Let us through, we have to see the girl for ourselves!" he yelled.

"She's resting, I just can't let you!" Molly yelled back.

"We need to see the girl," the scottish man growled, and Molly let out a squeak of fear.

Suddenly the door burst open and a burly man limped through, he had a thick walking stick that had vines curling up it, and a scarred face, and where his left eye should be was a clear blue fake one that whizzed around and landed on Rory. He stopped short and let out a small gasp.

"Dear god, it is true then," he muttered his accent stong in his state of shock.

"Honestly Alastar, you're just taking the mickey out of us," called a man from outside the room, he strowled in and when his eyes fell upon Rory his claims fell to the floor as he too gaped at her. He had short golden hair that had wisps of grey in it. His clothes looked rather dirty and his face looked years beyond what it probably was. Following silently behind him was a yooung woman with bright pink hair, she laughed lightly as she strode into the room, her Doc Martens clinking as she went. When her eyes fell on Rory her pink hair turned white then a bright yellow.

"She could be the answer to our prayers, Remus!" she whispered to the blond haired man.

"We'd have to train her first, Nymphadora," Alastar replied, her yellow haired turned flame red and she looked to him.

"Don't you call me that, Mad Eye!" she spat back but then she turned back to Rory and her hair went to its gleaming yellow shade.

A tall black man dressed in purple african robes walked into the room but did not address Rory, he calmly turned to Sirius.

"Maybe we should carry on this conversation in the kitchen, away from eaves droppers," he said, his voice deep and hard to disagree with.

"Excellent idea, Kingsley," Sirius said and he stood up from Rory's side. He turned to Harry. "Don't listen in Harry, just make sure Rory stays in bed, and make sure your friend Ron doesn't get any bright ideas, I know he's sneaking around somewhere."

"Of course, Dad," Harry replied, Rory turned to face him and caught him winking secretly at her.

And with that the five adults, followed by an angry Molly Weasley, left Rory alone with Harry and the other sleeping teenagers.

"Oh, come off it," Harry said to the other beds. "I know you're all awake!"

They all sat up quickly and smiled coyly over at Harry and Rory, the other people in the room were Jess and Ginny. Rory quickly sprung from the bed and hugged Jess tightly who just kind of grunted, his arm hung in a cast, she quickly drew away and frowned.

"I'm so sorry, it was all my fault!" she cried, looking over to Ginny who had a black eye and multiple stitches running down her one perfect cheek.

"No, infact this," said Ginny pointing to her gash, "was Snape's fault."

"Rory, no one blames you," Jess said and he let his undamaged hand bring Rory's face close to his own and kissed her. She moved in and let her slef dissolve in the kiss, it washed away all her fears and all her doubts, he drew away and then kissed her right ring finger where his ring sat.

"I'll fetch Ron and the others," Harry said and suddenly he disappeared. Rory le out a sharp gasp and looked around the room for her brother.

"Oh, don't worry, that's just magic transportation, called disapparating," explained Ginny. "He'll be back any moment.

As if on cue Harry came back into the room with a whoosh, followed by two more pops and a small crack Draco, Hermione and Ron followed him. Everyone in the room, Rory included, all smiled like naughty children who knew all too well they were going to disobey their parents orders.

"Those people who came into the room before, they were the Order of the Pheonix, weren't they?" Rory asked Harry and he nodded.

"The Order is here," Hermione asked, he had a long gash on the inside of her arm from her wrist to her elbow.

"Yeah, they're downstairs now discussing what to do," Harry replied and Ron's face broke into a devilish grin.

"Is everyone ok to get up?" Ron asked Ginny and Jess. They both nodded and hopped from their beds, wearing the same slightly dirtied and blood specked clothes from the attack early that morning. Rory looked down and saw her own grey pajamas cling to her, still muddy from when she had fallen to the ground next to Jess. Even Ginny's blue shirt had turned brown from the blood that had fallen from her gash, and Harry's had numerous gash from narrowly avoiding deadly curses.

Ron fished inside his pajama bottom's pockets and fishing out a large ear that wiggled in his hand, it was attached to a very long string and at the other end of that was a second ear.

"Compliments of my older twin brothers, Fred and George Weasley," Ron said still smiling deviously.

They all snuck out of the small bedroom on their tiptoes, they crowded around the banister as Ron lowered the ear down to the floor, and suddenly, The Order's voices could be heard as if they were standing right behind them.

"Now all we have to make sure you're stupid cat doesn't eat the ear," Ron said slyly to Hermione who faked a laugh, shot him a glare, and then silence fell upon the group.

"Why'd you keep her a secret, Padfoot," came the voice of Remus, he sounded as if he had just been slapped. Sirius had probably just explained who Rory was and why she was there.

"For her safety, if I confided in any of you about her, you and she would be in grave danger!" Sirius replied. "And I was ashamed of myself, I missed her and her mother terribly!I could never admit, even to myself, about what I had done to her, it's too emotional for me."

"She was in grave danger from the moment her mother died!" growled the scottish man.

"That's Mad Eye Moody, he's great, completely off his nocker, but great," Ron whispered to Rory.

"Didn't you think to send any of us to fetch her, to bring her here," Moody finished.

"Bring her here for what, safety?" Sirius scoffed. "I hoped she had gone on with her life, and I could reunite us all when we had conquered Voldemort."

"The only chance we have of conquering Voldemort is your Rory!She and Harry together can bring Voldemort down!" Rory heard the pink haired girl insist.

"That's Tonks," Ginny explained. "She's laugh, a lot more laid back then the others!"

"It wasn't safe, it was safer," Sirius began to shout but Molly hissed for him to keep it down.

"What," growled Moody. "Safer in the muggle world? Where she had no means of protecting herslef? At least now she's got a wand!"

"But she doesn't know how to use it, she'll need training, we don't even know if she's any good," said an unfamiliar voice.

"That's our dad," Ginny and Ron said at the same time. Rory felt slightly offended, who was it that had conjured the leopard!

"Aw yes, but Harry and Ron both told me the most extraordinary story," Sirius said, his voice full of pride. "Of her, how should I put it, her 'lack' of talent."

"Spit it out then," barked Moody.

"She conjured a patronus," Sirius almost laughed. "A ginat snow leapord that not only blew away both dementors with ease but scared away the remaining death eaters and saved the desperate situation they had found theirselves in!"

"Wow, she may be as good as her brother," Remus muttered.

Rory felt ashamed, the only reason the situation had reached the terrible state she had salvaged it from, was her own fault! It was she who hadn't conjured the leopard on time, therefor giving the dementors the oppurtunity to try and kill both Draco and Jess.

"Yes, but she doesn't have nearly as much experience as her brother!" Moody reminded them all. "Right now she's just a dumb kid with supreme powers and no idea how to use them."

"Easy Mad Eye, that's my daughter you're talking about," sirius warned.

"Look, all Moody is saying is that Rory needs intense training before we even consider putting her with her brother in the open world, and I agree," Tonks said.

"What do you mean, try a-and cram her head full with defencive spells then send her back to-to Hogwarts?" Sirius almost spluttered.

"Exactly, all those kids belong back there, well not that Jess boy," Remus said calmly, Rory felt a wave a fear hit her, she couldn't part with Jess! "And don't forget its there they foiled Voldemort's attempts and it was there that they sent back information on the death eater families, things that helped us put them in Azkaban!"

"And what? Have Snivellus teach her defence against the dark arts? She'd be killed before her head hit the dorm room pillow, for merlin's sake!" Sirius shouted again, everyone hissed at him to be quiet. Everyone but Rory and Jess sniggered at the name 'Snivellus'.

"Of course not," said Moody. "I'll go to the school and talk to Dumbledore, he can give me my old DADA teaching position and Snape can go back to being an angry Potions master! She'll be safe and it'll be better for her to have a continual teacher on the subject."

"But she's so vulnerable away form here," Sirius said, his voice a desperate whisper. "So open, so easy for Voldmeort to just slip in and kill her!"

"Sirius," Molly whispered back. "There is no safer place for Rory right now then Hogwarts, Dumbledore has taken Harry under his wing and I'm sure has no obligations to taking Rory under it as well. He supports the Order all the way, he founded us for heaven's sake!"

"I'd like you to know," Kingsley spoke for the first time in the whole conversation. "This conversation is being listened to."

Before any of them could cram the ear back into Ron's pocket they had suddenly appeared in the kitchen where Tonks, Remus, Moody, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, Kingsley and Sirius all sat at the table, glowering at them. Rory smiled sheepishly and looked over at Ron who was still holding the ear in his hand, the other end flipping around on the floor like a fish out of water.

"How much did you hear?" Sirius asked Harry who stood bravely by Ron's side.

"Enough to know what's going on," he replied simply, Rory wondered if that had been Kingsley's intent, for them to know as much as the order did.

"If I'm going to Hogwarts," Rory said with more bravery then she actually felt. "I don't want Jess to leave! If I go to Hogwarts, Jess comes with me."

"He can't," Moody replied simply, "He'll have his memory erased and sent back to the america, this is to dangerous for a mere muggle."

Rory let out a small cry and threw her arms around Jess, who looked just as scared as she did but covered it up with hate as he glared at Moody.

"B-but, I love Jess! With-with all my heart-t!" Rory said, she now stood protectively in front of Jess as she tried to get a hold of her emotions. "He can't leave and forget me, I love him t-too much!"

"I'm not leaving Rory! She's my life!" Jess snarled behind her.

"Have a heart, Alastar," Molly said to Moody, looking at Rory with a sad smile.

"He can't go to Hogwarts, he's a muggle," Moody growled.

"I'm not letting you take him from me!" Rory said defiantly.

"Ah," Moody sighed looking at Rory with hard eyes, but she saw admiration flicker behind them, his clear blue magical eye flipping from Jess to Rory. "Now I see why you're partonum was a snow leopard."

"So is he coming with me then," Rory asked quickly.

"I suppose he can help me set up and pack away after each lesson," snarled Moody objectively. "And I can enlarge a book closet to fit a bed for him to sleep in..."

All seven teenagers cheered and Rory turned round and gave Jess a big hug, feeling him hug her tightly back. The six order members muttered contently amungst themselves.

"I love you, Rory," Jess whispered into her ear.

"I love you too, Jess," she whispered back.

"Sit, sit, I've made dinner!" Mrs. Weasley said in a cheerful voice and they all sat down to eat, Rory walked to the other side of the table and sat in between Draco and Moody and dircetly across from Jess. She turned and Watch Moody as he sat back in his chair, his eyes glazed over as he was lost in thought.

"Excuse, Mr. Moody," Rory whispered, her voice trembling. No one else was paying attention to them but were other wise engaged in shoving their mouths full of food.

"You shoudl call me Professor Moody," he barked quietly, not looking over at Rory.

"Right, well, can I ask you a question Professor?" Rory pressed on, Moody grunted which she took as a yes. "Why did you allow Jess to come to Hogwarts?"

"Because, Gilmore," he said with no evidence of a growl, looking at her straight in the eye. "The one thing in this world worth fighting for, is not honour, justice or rights of passage. But love, true love. Because it is love that conquers all."

"Thank you, Professor," Rory said, feeling as if she had just been whispered the meaning of life.

"Don't forget that girl," he said as he sat back in his chair and began to eat his food.

"Oh, I won't..." muttered Rory, looking at Jess as she began to eat her deliscious food, he caught her eye and smiled back.

(A/N) In the next Chapter Hermione takes the next step with Ron after a spell binding day...