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A/N: Sorry I haven't written in like a month, but College has been hectic. I will say this; if you haven't read chapters 3 and 4, go read them otherwise this chapter won't make very much sense.
Chapter 6: The plan
On the day of the Order meeting, it was July eighth. In the kitchen we find Alice, Joanna, Lily, Molly, and Rochelle cooking breakfast.
"So you say you met Hollianne Lily?" Alice asked while frying pancakes.
"Yes I certainly did." she responded. The sizzling, boiling, and crackling followed her response before someone spoke.
"So what is she like?" Joanna questioned.
"Which do you mean, physically or mentally?" Lily asked. The question hung in the air for a few seconds while the women contemplated the answer.
"Both, if you can provide it." Molly said after a few seconds.
"Well, physically speaking, she's a very pretty young woman, but she's not very tall, (Not that it matters.) As for her mental status I really can't tell. She told me something about recruiting James to be a follower of hers when Harry finishes off Voldemort--like she has the guts to do something like that." Lily sighed.
"And she's 19?" Rochelle asked. They all looked at Lily oddly with a bemused look.
"Apparently," Lily said, and everyone stopped staring, and resumed cooking. The kitchen was quiet again, and the atmosphere was almost back to normal when this statement was said,
"Your right, a young thing like that wouldn't have the guts to take his place." Alice said with a tone of finality.
"I wouldn't be so sure of that Alice," Joanna said doubtfully. The middle-aged woman looked at the other women in the room, and it was clearly written on there faces that she was crazy. Molly was the only one that didn't give her a bemused expression.
"Can you guys remember how old some of the students were that you graduated with? Those students joined He-who-must-not-be-named at the age of 17, or earlier. Remember Peter Pettigrew?" Molly said with pursed lips.
"Yeah, I s'pose your right, but a cute little thing like that"..." Lily trailed off, and left her question hanging.
"... Could be used to You-know-who's advantage. Don't you think?" Rochelle finished the question for her. It was like the adults took a vow of silence, because the atmosphere in the room lifted again for a moment before they heard,
"Why do you all hate her so much?" A male's voice quarried drifting in from the doorway.
Molly turned around to greet the first kid to arrive to breakfast.
"Bill, I don't hate her any more after the story you told three days ago."
"What did she do to any of you?" Bill pressed the other adults. Lily turned to Molly and asked,
"What story is this?"
"Do you guys remember when Percy used to date Hollianne?" the adults nodded, "well, it was also his fault that they aren't together any more..."
"How was it Percy's fault!" Alice exclaimed, interrupting Molly.
"She was the one who hexed him into unrecognition, wasn't she?" Rochelle asked.
"Percy was the one who hurt her first, he said some things that weren't nice." Molly answered.
"What kind of things did he say?" Joanna wondered aloud.
"The two I can remember the most are: (to bad something that good looking is wasted on that sightless freak,) and (she's only getting good grades, because the teachers do the work for her.)" The four adults looked at each other before Bill said,
"And it's not just what he said that pissed her off,"
"What else could have done it?" Lily asked.
"Right after she hexed Percy, Penelope took it upon herself to punch Holly in the face, (knocking out her prosthetic,) take her cane and wand, and rip her clothes."
"But ..." Alice said,
"Because he was jealous that she was doing better than him." Harry said forcefully as he came into the kitchen, and took a seat at the table. Bill followed Harry's example, and sat beside him. Molly and Lily piled two plates of food and handed each person a plate.
The adults were forced to drop the subject until later at the Order Meeting, because just as they started up the conversation again, more footsteps were heard on the stairs, and they found everyone else was awake.
"So who's up for a game of Quidditch?!" Fred and George asked looking around at the others. They heard a bunch of "I do's!" From the students that attended Hogwarts, "I don'ts," From the one's who just didn't know how to play, "I can't play's," from the younger siblings of each family, and very few, "not until after chores," from the adults; although, James and Sirius wanted to play themselves, they admitted to the fact that there were just to many people living under one roof that the chores would take just as long tomorrow if they didn't get done this morning. So, after breakfast, the hectic chore assigning begun. Finally, after lunch the kids had their free time to play Quidditch. Sirius and James were the referees while the kids got to play. On one team they had: Clayton who was Sirius' son as keeper, Alice and Franks twins, Gracie and Dale as beaters, the three chasers were James' daughter (and Harry's twin) Carianna, Sirius' daughter Anastasia, and Remus' son Neil, and they had Harry as seeker. The other team was: James' daughter Jane as keeper, Molly and Arthur's twins Fred George as beaters, the chasers were Remus' twins Christopher and Kevin Along with Alice and Frank's daughter Kira, and Molly and Arthur's daughter Ginny as seeker. The game lasted for about two hours, and by the end, Ginny caught the snitch, (because Harry wasn't paying attention,) but Harry's team won anyway, because although Jane was the better keeper, Carianna, Anastasia and Neil were better chasers, and the other team didn't have many attempts to score. As a result, the score was 270 for Harry's team, and 240 for Ginny's.
Dinner was held around 5 that evening in the enlarged kitchen. Every once in a while order members were trickling in to wait for 7 o'clock to arrive. The lively chatter that issued from the children was nothing to how the adults felt, and this was why the adults didn't converse very much. At 6:45 Professor Dumbledore arrived, and with the help of Joanna, Lily, Rochelle, and Molly all the children were out of the kitchen by 7, and the meeting began.
The mood in the room shifted when Molly shut the door after the last child exited. Some looked frightened, some looked nervous, and some were even fidgeting in the seat they were sitting in. The meeting began with Dumbledore announcing,
"Voldemort is getting stronger," and at the mention of his name, a collective shudder rippled through the room.
"He wants something, and I have a hypothesis on what it is." His blue eyes twinkled as his gaze rested on each order member, and a second longer on Lily and James.
"What is it that he is after?" Emmeline questioned.
"I believe he is after the prophecy that concerns Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort." Dumbledore concluded. Lily's eyes filled with tears, but she didn't let them fall, because she had no idea what lay ahead, but she asked,
"The prophecy?"
"Yes, the prophecy, and now that he's back I'm afraid he will try to get a hold of it, and Harry if he can. I would have no doubt that he would even go as far as stealing Carianna." Lily and James looked at each other horrified, but they knew they should have expected something like this to happen.
"What did this prophecy say?" Asked Mad-Eye Moody. Under the table, James squeezed Lily's hand in reassurance, and she recited it with almost no emotion.
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches. ... Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies ... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not. ... And either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives. ... The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches will be born as the seventh month dies. ..."
Complete, extreme and utter silence followed those words, and for a summer day the wind outside was howling, wailing, and roaring menacingly. Just as it came it went when Lily exclaimed,
"Albus, speaking of the prophecy what did Hollianne tell you!"
From the uneasy silence to the sudden outburst from Lily the order members jerked in their chairs, and Nymphadora Tonks flew out of hers, and clattered to the floor. James looked at Lily cautiously, and then resumed his attention back on Dumbledore. Molly, Arthur, James and Bill stared at Lily, as Bill asked coldly,
"You're still not on about her are you?"
Lily glared at Bill, and then looked pleadingly at Dumbledore. Dumbledore's eyes still twinkled, and before anything got too serious he said,
"I had a talk with her a few days ago, and she told me some things that made sense, and others that didn't." he said with a grim look.
"And what did this mysterious person tell you?" Marlene McKinnon asked.
"Well," Dumbledore started, "she told me that her resource started after the demise of Lily and James."
"What!" Lily and James exclaimed. Dumbledore looked at the pair and then said,
"You guys only had Harry, and he was the only one that survived the attack."
"How?" Lily asked. Dumbledore's eyes twinkled in Lily's direction, and a smile came across his features,
"You sacrificed yourself to save him. The both of you did." He added when James gave him an (what about me) look. "Voldemort vanished after the attack, and wasn't heard of until Harry's first year."
"Do you know what happened in his first year Albus?" Remus asked.
"That is what we (I mean Hollianne and I) will be discussing on the tenth. So, no, I have no idea." He waited a few seconds before continuing, "I have now found something that is the same between the resource Hollianne is using and our lives." The group was silent before Sirius asked,
"What is that?"
"Lily and James house was under the protection of the fedalius charm." At these words, James' face contorted with rage, and glared daggers at Sirius.
"He betrayed us?" Lily exclaimed in hysterics. James put his arms around his wife, as Dumbledore explained,
"No, actually, Peter Pettigrew betrayed them."
"But Sirius was our secret keeper," James asked fearing the worst.
"No, in this different source, Peter was the secret keeper, and that was how you lost your lives. After the murder Sirius went to find Peter to seek revenge. When Sirius cornered Pettigrew, Peter blasted the street behind him killing 12 muggles, and then cut off a finger, and then transformed into a rat. We all know what happened after that."
"He came to live with us as that rat." Arthur said with a pained look on his face.
"So, what happened to Sirius me and the kids?" asked Rochelle.
"From what I understand, you never had any of them. Alice only had Neville, and Joanna didn't have any kids either. As for Sirius, he went to Azkaban without a trial." Dumbledore supplied.
"Why didn't we do anything about it?" Alice asked.
"You and Frank were tortured into insanity, and remained in St. Mungos for the rest of your lives." Dumbledore answered calmly.
"What happened to Neville?" Frank asked next.
"He went to live with your mother."
"And Harry." Dorcas meadoes questioned.
"Minerva, Hagrid, and I took him to live with Petunia." After Dumbledore said the last word, Lily shot up from her seat and shouted.
"What!! My horrid sister!! How could you do such a thing Albus!!" James wrapped his arm around his wife pulling her down to sit.
"What about my parents," James asked.
"Dead," was all Dumbledore could say, and then continued, "the only other piece of information I've got left concerns Remus."
"What's that?" Tonks queried.
"She told me that Remus was a werewolf."
"She told you this?" Remus said trying to stay calm as his face turned beat red.
"Yes Remus, she told me this."
"Do we know what went on at my sister's house?" Lily inquired.
"Hollianne said nothing about it, but I'll be sure to ask her." Dumbledore assured, "so about the prophecy, do any of you have any suggestions on the matter."
"Is there anyway of protecting it from Voldemort," Molly suggested first.
"Like guard it somehow," Severus Snape added to what Molly already said. This was the first time any of them noticed he was in the room.
"Oh! And I just remembered one last piece of information she told me. It slipped my mind earlier." Everyone's eyes were on Dumbledore, and finally he revealed the bit, "she also knows who let slip part of the prophecy to Voldemort," and he pointed a finger at Professor Snape. Following this was a murmur of gasps, and everyone turned to face Snape expecting an answer.
"I'm not turning any of you in, besides I wasn't the one who sold my best friend to the Dark Lord remember?" The room relaxed, and then Dumbledore said,
"About the protection of the prophecy, I think it's a great idea to put a guard near the department of mysteries." As the schedule was laid out for all of July the time was 9, and many needed to get home before it became any later.
When the last person exited The Burrow the remaining adults sat in silence. No one could believe that just about everyone in the room was dead according to Hollianne's source. They could not fathom how horrible their lives could be at that moment.
"Do you think what Albus said was true?" Alice asked finally breaking the heavy silence.
"I do," James said, "as much as I don't like it, I believe him."
Every one nodded their heads in agreement, and Lily asked shakily,
"Do you think we'll all make it out alive?"
James rubbed her back, and her dark haired friend Joanna responded,
"We can all only hope..."
"I think we have more to deal with on our hands than we are prepared for." Lily's other Dark haired friend Rochelle finished.
"What would happen to our kids?" Alice finally asked the question that every adult had running through his or her minds. The conversation drifted to other things as the night went on, but they all knew danger lay ahead.
Up in the room Ron and Harry shared with the other older boys, Harry was reading a letter sent to him by Holly.
"Harry,
I heard Uncle James told you some about me. I also know that you found some pictures of me and my siblings in your attic. Mind telling me which you found? I'm just curious to know. I use magic just like the rest of you, but I rarely attended Hogwarts. This stopped in the middle of my second year, because I got into a fight with someone, and it took them an entire month to figure out which way his head went and which way his feet went. From then on I was tutored in magic, and attended a public school, and blind school part days. Doing work for three different schools was difficult, but I obviously made it through. Because of my blindness this made me more determined to learn magic, so by the time my fourth year ended I was ready to take my NEWT's. For my last three years, I was tutored in more advanced magic, and trust me, I could be an auror, but my Mum, your Aunt Kendra won't let me. This is what my ambition is, and she can't change my mind. Well, I'd like to hear some things about you, so write back, and I can tell you many things about me and the rest of your cousins.
Your loving cousin,
Holly."
A/N: Hope you enjoyed reading! I can't promise when I'll update, but hopefully it will be before the end of the month. All I ask is for at least 5 reviews, and I'll definitely post the 23rd of this month. Now, I'm going to translate this so you can read, and review!