Chapter 26
A/N: I don't have the fifth book, so I'm basing lines and scenes from the movie. As we all know, the film doesn't exactly follow the book so keep that in mind while you're reading. Thank you.
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With one last glimpse, Ewan Potter port keyed away.
He landed hard on the ground right in front of the entrance of the maze. The crowd went nuts; firecrackers of multiple colors went off. Dumbledore lifted him to his feet. His ears were ringing.
"Mr. Potter! Are you well?" asked Dumbledore.
"He's back, Voldemort he's back." Ewan whispered to the man.
"Are you sure?" asked Dumbledore. Ewan nodded his head; a wave of dizziness hit him.
"Severus, escort the students back to the castle. Minerva, call the Order." started Dumbledore issuing out orders.
"Come along boy, come along." pulled Professor Moody on Ewan's shirt. "Come on Potter!"
Ewan allowed himself to be escorted to the castle and into Moody's office. "Are you alright, Potter?"
"Yeah, just…"
"Shocked?"
"Yeah."
"You shouldn't be. Does it hurt?" Moody said pointing to Ewan's cut.
"Not anymore, I can fix it." Ewan said pulling out his wand.
"There's no need." Moody said snatching his wand out of his hand. "Perhaps I better take a look at it."
"The Cup was a port key… but how? OW!" Moody had pressed his finger on the cut, making it sting.
"What was it like? What was he like?"
"Who, Professor?"
"The Dark Lord. What was it like to stand in his presence?"
"Horrible. But, how did you-"
He never finished his question as Moody starting shaking all over, running all over his office. Then he went quiet. Finally, he spoke.
"Were there others? In the Graveyard, were there others?"
"I didn't say anything about a graveyard, Professor."
"It was me. I told Hagrid to tell you about the dragons, I told the ghost to point you the way in the Black lake, I, Potter, was the one to make the cup to a portkey." Moody grabbed Ewan's arm. "The blood that runs in your veins, that runs in your brothers, your blood runs in the Dark Lords!"
Moody continued shaking. "Imagine how the Dark Lord will react when I get rid of one of the Potters!" he said lifting Ewan's own wand. "Avada-"
Suddenly, the door to Moody's office blasted open. "Expelliarmus!" shouted a new voice to the duo. In ran, Headmaster Dumbledore, Professor Snape, and Professor McGonagall. "Severus!" yelled Dumbledore. Professor Snape poured a potion down Moody's throat.
"Do you know who I am?" asked Dumbledore to Moody, holding him by his shirt.
"Albus Dumbledore." answered Moody.
"Are you Alaster Moody?"
"No."
"Is he in this room?" Moody eye fall onto a trunk in the corner. "Move away, Ewan."
Professor Snape opened the trunk. Inside, deep within the trunk was a man who looked identical to Moody.
"If that's Moody then who is he?" asked Ewan.
Professor Snape sniffed Moody beloved flask. "Polyjuice Potion."
The man impostering Professor Moody began to change. "Barty Crouch Jr."
"Mr. Crouch? The judge, Didn't he go missing a few months back?" asked Ewan.
"I'll show you mine, if you show me yours." said Barty Jr., pulling his sleeve up exposing his Dark Mark.
Ewan looked down to his cut. Ewan pulled his sleeve up. "Now you and your brother are marked." Said Crouch. "You know what this means, don't you? He's back. Lord Voldemort had returned."
"He'll be gone, soon enough." said Ewan, picking his wand up from the floor.
"Send an owl to Azkaban, tell them their missing a prisoner." said Dumbledore to Professor McGonagall.
With that, Dumbledore pulled Ewan from the room, while Professor Snape watched over Barty Jr.
* * *
The general wizardry public didn't acknowledge Dumbledore claim of Voldemort being back. Few knew it to be true. "Dark and difficult times lie ahead, soon we must all face the choice of what is right and what is easy." Dumbledore had told the entire Great Hall during the leaving feast.
After all the Durmstrang students and Beauxbatons students had left, Ewan, Harry, Katie, Hermione, and the Weasley's were on the train for home.
"Do you think we'll ever have a quiet year at Hogwarts?" asked Ron.
"No." answered everyone else.
"Oh well, whats life without a few dragons." He said.
"Everything is going to change now, isn't it?" asked Hermione.
"If it didn't I would be scared." answered Ewan.
* * *
After the train had stopped at Platform 9 3/4, Ewan shrunk his and Harry's trunk, and place them in his pocket.
"It is so cool you can do magic outside of school." said Harry.
"Isn't it?" said Ewan.
"I can't wait to be able to do magic outside school."
"Two more years, unfortunely, I still have to go to school for another year." complained Ewan stepping off the train with Harry.
"The twins said the same thing." answered Harry.
"Oh I forgot to tell you, you know your wand and mine wand has the both have feathers from the same phoenix."
"Voldemort does too. Mr. Ollivander told me when I got my wand."
"Wand triplets, weird."
"Hey boys." said Sirius, who was meeting them with Jon and Lara.
"Ewan!" said Lara, rushing at Ewan. "I was so worried!" she said hugging him tightly. "Sirius told all about those tournaments! Death tolls!"
"But you won!" said Jon, excitingly. "Amazing, fighting a dragon!"
"Jon, don't encourage him!" said Lara. "You might give him more idea's or even give Harry ideas!"
Jon rolled his eyes. "Technically, he's an adult now; he can do what he wants…"
"Speaking of that," said Ewan, interrupting Jon. "Can I go over to Fred and George's?"
"Sure we can drive you to…" started Lara.
"No I can apparate." said Ewan grinning.
"Oh, well then." She said turning to Jon. "What time should we expect you back home?"
"Oh Lara, he's an adult. And it's the summer, just call us." Leaving his trunk with Sirius, and taking his wand, Ewan went over to Fred and George and the Weasley's.
* * *
Summer was usually a time for Ewan to spend with Harry and Sirius at 12 Grimmauld Place, however this year Sirius had told him to stay home till he comes to get him. Ewan wasn't happy about this. Here he was a seventeen year old, of age wizard, who could apparate and he was grounded!
He had written Harry, but Harry didn't say much because he himself didn't know either. Harry had said there were times when he was told not to come out of his room. Ron and Hermione didn't say anything either. Hermione had gone over to Ron's during the summer, and then the Weasley's with Hermione went to 12 Grimmauld Place. 'Am I the only one NOT there!?'
It was early July, when Ewan, along with a muggle friend, Joshua Parks, were coming back from playing footie, when suddenly it got cold and frost started forming on the ground.
"Bloody hell!" yelled Josh.
"Dementor…" whispered Ewan.
"What?" asked Josh. "Stop it! Stop!"
"Run!" yelled Ewan, grabbing Josh by the shirt and running down the shirt. After a a minute of running with the Dementor chasing after them, Ewan tripped on the curb falling o the ground. Josh was still running, after a few seconds he was out of sight.
Looking around and not seeing anyone, Ewan stood up faced the dementor, pulling out his wand he yelled: "Expecto Patronum!"
A corporal patronus, a wolf, erupted from Ewan's wand. The wolf charged at the dementor repelling it away. Ewan's heart was pounding, he fall to curb. "Oh my god… I think I'm having a heart attack."
A series of popping noises made him lift his head. There stood, Albus Dumbledore, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and Arthur Weasley all with their wands out.
"Ewan, are you okay?"
"Yeah, my heart racing a mile a minute though." said Ewan standing up. "A dementor just attacked me!"
"Where is it?" asked Lupin.
"Gone, my patronus sent it away." Said Ewan. "What are you all doing here?"
"We came to get you, silly, to bring you to my house." Said Sirius
"About time… wait, why do I need an escort, when I can just apparate?"
"Safety precautions."
"Safety precautions?"
"Yes, safety precautions now let's get to the Tyler's and get your things."
* * *
There were more people at 12 Grimmauld Place then ever before.
"What's going on here?" Ewan asked Harry.
"Headquarters, to the Order of the Phoenix." answered Harry.
"It's a secret society." added Hermione.
"Dumbledore founded it when they first fought You-Know-Who." Said Ron.
"Let me guess, they won't let you know anything about it? Adults only." Asked Ewan.
"Yeah, nothing." said Ginny.
"It's a good thing I' am an adult then." Smirked Ewan. Two pops of appartion sounded signing the entrance of Fred and George.
"We're of age-" started George.
"-and we're still no allowed to attend." added Fred. "But we have an idea."
* * *
"What are these?" asked Ewan.
"Extendable ears." answered Fred and George. "We invented them."
"Is Bill here?" Ewan asked. "I hear his voice right? I thought he was working in Egypt."
"He applied for a desk job so he could home and work for the Order," said Fred. "He says he misses the tombs, but," he smirked. "there are compensations..."
"What d'you mean?"
"Remember old Fleur Delacour?" said George. "She's got a job at Gringotts to eemprove 'er Eeenglish-"
"-and Bill's been giving her a lot of private lessons," sniggered Fred.
After a few mintutes of hearing a conversion about Harry, Crookshanks, Hermione's cat, attacked the ear.
"No!"
"Bad Crookshanks!"
* * *
"So what's going on in the Wizardry World that I missed?" asked Ewan taking a bite off his plate at dinner.
"The ministry is being a git." answered Harry, pulling out a copy of the Daily Prophet.
"Is this…a smear campaign?" asked Ewan.
"Exactly. Fudge is using everything he has to show the world that You-Know-Who is dead. That you, Dumbledore, and Harry are liars for believing it." Answered Mr. Weasley.
"So Fudge sent Dementors after me?"
"No that wasn't Fudge, that was someone else, someone acting alone." Said Lupin
"Who?"
"We don't know yet. But we will." Said Sirius.
"But why doesn't Fudge believe Dumbledore, I mean no one in their right mind-" started Harry.
"That's it; Fudge isn't in his right mind. He's afraid, and fear make people do terrible things." interrupted Lupin. "Last time, Voldemort gained power we almost lost everything that we hold dear. Fudge will do almost anything to avoid admitting that Voldemort as returned."
"We think Voldemort wants to build up his army again. Last time, he had huge numbers at his command, not just humans but dark creatures also, he's been recruiting heavily. So have we, but gathering follower's isn't the only thing he is interested in." There was a pause. "We believe Voldemort might be after something… something he didn't have before."
"You mean like… a weapon?" asked Harry.
"No, that's enough, their just kids, the lot of them. You say anymore you might as well indute them in the order!" complained Mrs. Weasley.
"Good, we're joining then." Ewan said.
"Yeah, I want to join, if Voldemort is raising an army then I want to fight."
Sirius nodded to Mrs. Weasley.
"No, now go upstairs, all of you." said Mrs. Weasley.
Ewan, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Fred, and George all groaned and rose from their chairs.
