Author note
sorry for the delay, but Igot caught up in my studies, this chapter is somehow long, but it cover a good part of the story. I would be very happy to hear your comments on my story, so please review.
Chaptre 7
Harry was very frustrated, it had been three days since his birthday, and there was no sign of dementors. He knew that the attack would occur soon, but he was going nuts doing nothing. It didn't help that he was apparently being kept out of the loop, as Sirius and Ron's letters were laking information.
it was Dumbldor plan, and he and Hermione had talked about it a lot, and they had agreed to keep apparance. It wouldn't do to rise unwanted questions or suspicions. They wanted the ordre to trust that Hermione would follow what ever directions she was given, and she wouldn't send him letters, but they would keep in contact using muggles tooles and their house elves.
Hermione had bought two cellulars the first day of the holiday, and she had send him one via Dobby, and so he knew that she had reached the ordre quarters two days ago.
He had been very disappointed when he had been told that he had to spend time at the Dursleys. It had confronted his feelings for the animagus,he knew that wile Sirius loved him and would die for him, he would always put Dumbldor ordres first. And so it showed him that the only person who would always put him first was his sister.
He had made it clear to the Dursleys that he wasn't their slave anymore. Any core they wanted they would need to do it themself, and that it would be better for them to leave him alone. The dursleys had been far from pleased with the situation, but the threat of a mass murder was very convincing, so they had grudingly indulged his requests, but they forbade him from eating their food to pay him back.
He was extremly happy with the arrangement, because he had now free time and free reign to study exercise, and relax without his relatives interference, and he had Dobby cooking for him, so he wasn't worried about his meals.
He knew that the potions he had taken during last year would start showing effect in the near future, and that he had a month befor all the damage done to his body by years of Dursleys abuse disapear completely. The first change had already taken place, he had built some muscles, and his bones were more strong now, his stamina was also better, and he didn't tire easyly, so he kept his physical routine, and he finished his homeworks the first month of the holiday.
But now he getting bored, he had asked Hermione to buy him some clothes, because his old ones weren't fit anymore, and was pleasd when she send him some books with the clothes package. His sister was a genious, and she knew him to well. So he had spend the last two weeks reading his novels around the neighborhood, but he was also doing some sighting work, he had observed the members of the ordre who were on garde duty, and by now he knew their patern very well.
He was so deep in his thoughts that he almost missed the chilling in the wind, but as he looked around he noticed the dementors coming his way.
'time for fun' was the tought that crossed his mind.
He and Hermione had searched this problem profusely, and while they agreed that the demenors were vile creature and that they needed to be stoped, they knew that it was best if Harry didn't use magic to do it. They didn't need the ministry input. So they had searched for other solutions to their problem.
What they found had left them stunned. It seems that the dementors like any other creature could be burned given enaugh fire or acide.
Those wizards was really stupid. They had tried to search for a complicated solution when they had one just under their noses.
The two pretenders had spend the last week of school preparing for a set of actions that Harry could take when faced with them. They had a very strong potion and stored it in some bottles that Harry would use to splach the two dementors by a very strong acid that would burn the two vile creature. They had some other back up plan in case the first one didn't work, but they were hoppeful.
Now that it was time, he just throw the two the two bottles at the dementors, befor they even had a chance at getting close enaugh to him or to his cousin. He was releaved when he saw the holes that appears in the two creatures and he heared their screams, and he saw them exploding, he released his breath.
He was so happy that it had ended that he almost missed Mrs Figg rant about Fletcher, but he played it allong. He showed his surprise at the squib statut of the old lady, and her relationship with Dumbldor, and when asked about what he had done to the two dementors he had a very logical answer ready. He had shown to the ordre membres garding him enaugh boredom that they could belive he would do anything to shake the feeling, so nobody would suspect him when he told them that he was experimenting with potions, and it would be very plausible that his creation would be of a poor quality that he would throw it away. And when the dementors had attacked he was heading to the near trash with the his latest creation. The dementors just happened to be in the way when he throw the two bottles befor graping his wand.
He knew his alibi was perfect, and he would have enaugh witness to back up his claims. They wouldn't digg further. Because who would suspect the golden hero of the wizarding world, the griffindor golden boy of something so calculating.
He would have to think Rita Skeeter for that. She had painted him as the naive and stupid student who was seeking attention rather then the brillant mind he was.
He had arrived at home, twenty minutes befor the letters from the ordre began flooding the house. All they had told him was to remain in the house. And he didn't have any other infomations. But this time he didn't receive a word from the ministry. He had been prepared for the trial, and he had a very good defense all set up, but one couldn't have everything he wanted. He'll have to wait till school to torment Umbridge. He was sure that she would make the defense teacher next year.
Later that night he received a very enlightning call from his sister. She told him that the ordre were discussing his retrival for the next days. He had hoped that they would just apparate him to the Black house, but it wasn't action enaugh for the aged aurors who wanted to increase the fear in every ordre member to motivate them.
The retrival mission was a bloody parody. Didn't these wizards have anysense of tactics. They had flown for two hours, and when it was somehow warm on earth, it was very cold on air. The brooms weren't the idéal when in caval. And to top it there was ten of them, when just one or two was enaugh. They had deemed his retrival from a safe house to another worthy to spare ten members, when just one was suffiscient. Didn't they had other duties ? wasn't there something more urgent to do ? he was becoming rather annoyed at their mentality. They wasn't doing anything to win this war. All they did was try to slow him down, but he wouldn't let them. He was going to fight it with his style. He wasn't someone puppet. And they would know that in time.
At their arrival he had been asked to go upstairs untill the meeting end, and he had lanched at his friends. He had shared an amused look with his sister at his rant. Ron had tried to act like he didn't have a choice, but the look he had given Harry had been smugg, like he knew something the boy who lived didn't, and that made him feel more important.
But what nobody knew was that Harry and Hermione knew every thing said in the meetings. Not only had they made Dobby place recording machine in the quitchen, and the librairy at the house, abut also in Dumbldor office, the staff room at the school, the minister office and Umbridge office. So they knew all that was said in those so called important meetings. They found it very enlightning that all those wizards had done was bikering and argumenting. There wasn't one bloody action taken against Voldemort. It wasn't a surprise that the dark lord had been so close to victroy in the first war if that was the resistance he encountered. All they had done was defensive action. They had garded him and the prophecy, and nothing else. It was very frustrating.
After the meal, Harry had asked the people present there what they had done so far to stop Voldemort. Their responses had been excatly like in the fifth book, wich had convinced him that Dumbldor and his ordre weren't doing anything to win this war, they were merely trying to keep the statut quo. They were pleased with their life, and weren 't willing to risk there qiuet existance to fight. For them it was Harry destiny, even if some of them tried to make it look like they care for him.
he had retired early, explaining that he was tired from the long travel. He had thrown a look to Hermione, and she had responded to him by a morse message that she would come later to debrief him. They had made this methode of communication in school, and they had both tried it in front of many wizards. The results were always successful. All the wizards would notige would be the taping of finger and they would complain about the noise. And now it was apparent they weren't even aware that Hermione had given him a quick summery of the last ordre meetings, noone, not even the aurors had notice a thing, and they called themeself the resistance.
He had simuled sleep, to avoid the Weasleys. And when he was sure that every body was asleep, he had exited the rooms and made his way to the third floor, where he found Hermione waiting for him. she had two tapes in her hand, one from the last ordre meeting, and the other from Umbrige office. They spend some time listening to them. The ordre meeting didn't have anything new save from the rant of Mrs Weasley which was also very intertaining. The nerve of that women, he wasn't her son, and she was just a guest, in Sirius house, so what right had she to commond them aroud like small children. she acted like she was the only one with good intentions toward him. But did she have them really ? her behavior was anything but rassuring in that matter. If she was honest, she wouldn't have battled with Sirius to keep him in the dark, and she would have insisted that he and the others would be trained in defense, and not smother them like some two year old.
Umbridge rant on the other hand was very interesting. She was very angry at the failed attack, and had tried to have him accused of harming the dementors, but had stoped when she remembered that nobody knew of the dementors presence near his home. She knew she didn't have any reason to explain the dementors, and even if she told the wizangamot that the horrible guard were sent to guard potter, it would immediately confirm the brat claim about he who must not be named return, wich she wanted to avoid. Finally she decided to wait untill she was at Hogwarts, there she would teach the brat the lessons he lacked. It made him very wary of her, and he resolved to avoid her like the plague.
They discus the last events, and what they should do now. They were both amused by the reaction the slaying of dementors had enacted from the ministre. All of the ministry workers were stunned that someone had been able to kill dementors, but nobody could act because the ministry denied the presence of dementor in Private Drive. The two teens had been aware of that, it was the reason, they had made the potions in the first place.
But now they had other matter on hand. They need to work on the remaining horcruxes, and they both had an idea about it.
They quietly made their way to the dinning room, and they began searching for the locket. They had both ordred their elves to keep it in the formal dinning room and to hide it, and Hermione had found it earlier and had remembered it's place, so it was easy to find it, but they didn't touch the horcrux. They knew from the books and their personnal experiance that the horcrux feed from the wizards energy, and they guessed that the reason it had made such strong reaction in the seven books was because it had enaugh energy to be able to influence them, Hermione had joked that maybe the presence of the horcrux was what had caused Kreatcher to become insane. So they had decide that they wouldn't take a chance with it.
Hermione had fetched a bowl from the kitchen and they had poured the basilic venon in it, befor droping the locket in the bowl. When they were sur the locket was covered by the venon, Harry said' time to finich what Regulus had began all those years ago' and he hissed 'open' in parseltongue.
The scream that occured was a good proof of the horcrux destruction. 'it's three down now, but we have four others to take care of befor you have to face him' said Hermione
'yes you're correct, but we can do it, we could have the fourth in our next trip to Diagon Alley, as for the others, we will have to wait and see. We can't try anything now, it would alert Dumbldor to our action, now let's clean this mess and go to sleep befor someone find us' replied Harry.
They weren't aware of th pair of eyes that had seen every move they had made. Kreatcher had always been a loyal elf, and when the master had come back to the house with two other elves, he had wanted to leave here, but the ordres the master had given him had made it impossible for him. He had seen the other two clean the house, he hadn't had the time to hide his master Regulus Locket, when the new master had began throwing the old thing, but to his surprises, the two new elves, had left the locket where he had left it.
When those blood traitors and mudblood had arrived he had wanted to protect master Regulus locket's, so he had placed a spell on the locket that would alert him if someone touched the locket. When he had sensed the breach he had quickly apparted to the dinning room, only to find those two teens talking wile they had a bowl in front of them. He had been surprised that they knew master Regulus, and were trying to finich his quest. He was more surprised when the two had succed in destroying the locket wile he had spend many years trying without results, he after the screams had finished, began feeling stronger and happier.
He resolved then and there to help those two with everything they asked from him, and he made himeself visible to them.
To say they were stunned, was the least. They had feared that someone from the ordre had found them. But they were rassured when they noticed that it was only Kreatchur
'you had destroyed evil locket, Kreatcher, will help you with all you need master and mistress, you can asked anything you want from kreatcher.'
The next few days was very intersting, he had seen the way Ginny would look at him and Hermione and the way she would try to make him notice her, and he knew that the red head was up to something. And his toughts were confirmed that night when he lissened with a shocked hermione to a very enlightening conversation
' he didn't seem to notice me at all mum, all he do is sit with the bloody mudblood. She isn't even pretty, and all she do is read. I don't know what to do anymore mum' said Ginny.
' we wouldn't allow her to remain at his side Ginny. She will be Ron's wife, and he would control her. All you need to do now, is try to become Harry friend. Ron will keep her busy for the rest of the holiday, and you will have your chance with him.' replied Molly
'but what if it didn't work ? what if he still didn't notice me ?'
'in this case we will try other means. There are several potion that could help you. I will give you the recipes, but you have to wait untill the school year to try them. We don't want anyone having the wrong idea, you'll have to brew a bunsh for Ron to give to the mudblood, it would put her in her place'
This conversation made Harry and Hermione very angry at the weasleys and they resolve to keep surveilling the red heads. Harry specially was very angry at them, he resolve to protect his sister even if he had to kill them all.
They passed the next days surveilling the weasleys and the ordre members. They had many allies. The three elves were competing to please their masters, and the two teens were thankful specially for the food. They weren't fool to eat anything coocked by the read head matron. Wile Molly had said she would wait untill the school year, they wouldn't risk to test the theory. The elves also had leagued against the two younger Weasleys, with their mother taking the house in charge, they were all assigned some cores, and wile the older weasley had tried to separate the sibiling, the elves were a big help for distracting the two Weasleys, and adding to their cores wile they helped silently their masters. It also helped that Ron was allergic to libraries, and Ginny was a pamperred princess. So the two of them could spend some quiet time without been disturbed.
The morning after their letters arrived, they were ready for their trip to Diagon alley. And wile Mrs Weasley and several ordre member had tried to stop Harry from going, he had simply replied that if Voldemort hadn't done anything public untill now then he wouldn't risk pointing his noose in the wizards shoping area wile all of the wizards would be presents, even his followers children. And as he would be with a good escort then they didn't have a reason to stop him.
He pointed out that he needed clothes badly, his old one didn't fit anymore.
So they were ready, early the next morning wile the weasleys were late. They took the chance to depart quickly, explaining that Sirius and Remus could escort them, wile Mrs Weasley would wait for her children. They didn't give her time to reply, and quickly exited the house.
Their first stop was Gringots. Wher they would take money from their vaults. When they entered the bank hermione asked
'didn't you took control of the Lestrange Vaults last year Sirius'
' yes I did why do you ask'
'I was thinking that now that Voldemort is back, he would try freeing his followors from Azkaban, and they would give him money to help his cause. What if we took it first, we don't have to close the vault,or even take it on one time, you could transfer it progressively to not raise suspicion.'
The grin on Sirius face was enaugh answer, ' you know you're the most brillant witch I have ever met'
' well we could visit the vault today, and see the amount of money there, we can also see if there is books, arms or jwellery that w could benefit from
That was it. Soon the four of them was in Bellatrix vault. And there the two teens began searching for the cup. They quickly found it and without directly toughing it they packed the cup in Hermione book bag.
Their trip in the alley didn't took a long time. Hermione had suggested that they separate to fifnsh quickly. And so wile Harry was been fitted for his clothes with Sirius as escort, Hermione and Remus were gathering their potions supplies from the apothicary, and wile the amount of ingredients were important Remus didn't react because he knew that Hermione was an overachiever. Their next stop was the owlery where they purchased some treats for Hedwige, befor gathering some for Croocshanks. The parchemints and quils were their last stop befor the bookshop. They were pleased to have finished befor Harry, and so they returned to Mrs MALKIN SHOP, to gather the other two. They took a quick break of icecream, before heading to the bookshop, where they spend a good amount of time. They again choose some extra books.
When they exited the alley. Harry asked the two older wizards, to escort him to a muggle clothes shop, where he bought some needed clothes, their last stop was to buy shooes for the teen.
Their return trip was very eventful, but the reception they got at home, were anything but quiet. Harry had lost his temper, in front of the blasted women and had been very close to tell her to quiet the concerned act because she hadn't the right to regent his life. Unstead he told her that it was his right to do his shoppings without anyone interfering. He had seen the anger she had felt at his words, but he didn't care.
The last weeks of the holiday, had been very funny for the two pretenders. The Weasleys actions spook volumes about wizards mentality. And it was this time that made Harry mind. They were both making their life in the muggle world. Or they would use altern identity in the wizarding world.
The first weeks of school were very intersting. Umbridge action were the most entertaining, and both teens had a hard time keeping strait faces.
They had both prepared for the blood quil. And wile their professor sat confortable in her chair believing that Harry suffered the martyr from her quil. They were both laughing at her stupidity. She hadn't tought to check on his hands, to see, if he had any scares left, and after the first try they were both certain that she hadn't any mean to know if Harry use her quil, or if he use another one.
What their estimed professor didn't know was that Harry was very talented and quick with his hands, so when she had given him the blood quil, he had made a show at examining the quil, wile he had subtilise it with another red quil. It did the trick, he would act like he was suffering, and she would buy it.
They had both know that they would have to hide this fact so Hermione had learned to cast an illusion spell to simul the scares on Harry hand.
The rest of the first term was very quiet. He had finished his second and third mental barriers, and was pleased to be on the same level as Snape. He would need to straighten the barriers everyday, but now his toughts were protected. Hermione had the same level, wile Neville and Luna had finished the second. The rest of their group had finished the first level.
They had enlarged their group, and wile they would have prefered to exclude the wasleys they knew that it was a necessary evil.
They had began the DA meeting in October, and was pleased with the results they were seeing. They knew that Umbrige needed to find out about their group so they allowed Edgcombe in their group.
But this time, they had been prepared early , the cuin had been prepared at the begining of the year, and the list of members had many defensive charms.
As the holidays neared. They were both very anxious, they knew from the book that Nagini attack on Mr weasley would happen the last day of term, and they both agreed that it would be the best chance at getting rid of the snack. Voldemort wouldn't suspect a hunt for his horcruxes if they destroyed the snack at the ministry, because it would be normal for a wizard to defend himeself against the snack.
They both hoped that Voldemort wouldn't want to sheck on his other horcruxes, but even if he did, he would find the ring and the fake locket, they were certain he wouldn't test it because of his weak powers.
Harry had been able to sense some of voldemort toughts, but it wasn't very strong. He was certain that the blood of Flinch had something to do with it, and Snape reports connfirmed that toughts. The potion master had told the old coat that the dark lord hadn't use the cruciuos curse very often, and would always use it one or two time at the meeting. He had also noticed that Voldemort use of magic was very little. He had been asked to brew many revitalising potions by his master and had found it very suspicious, but it confirmed Harry's ideas.
He couldn't sleep from the fear, he knew that he had to be at the school, specially for that night. And so he and Hermione had decide that she would be the one killing the snack. They had ask Dobby and Kreatchur to take turn at surveilling the prophecy hall, and to come take Hermione when they would notice the snack. At first they had wanted to ask the elves to do it, but they had changed their mind. They needed every body to believe that Mr Weasley was the one to kill the snack for their plan to work, so not only would they need his wand, but also to make him believe he had cast the spel. He soon felt the connection, and he opened his mind to the snack. He saw the attack on the red head wizard, but it quickly ended.
He was very frustrated that his sister would face the dangers alone, and was about to call Dobby when a note appared next to him. it was the signal he had been waiting for, so he began tossing arround in his bed. He succed to awake all of his classmates, and soon found himeself in the director office, where he told the headmaster and the Weasleys that there was an attack at the ministry and that Mr Weasleys had been injured.
What followed was what exactly happened in the book, tough he sensed Dumbldor brush of his mental defense, but he projected the attack, and was relieved when the headmaster hadn't push for more.
And that was how he found himeself in his godfather house waiting for his sister to arrive. he knew they were close to their goal, but he also knew that it wouldn't be easy.