Harry sat there opposite Ron and Hermione. They were being shifty, wouldn't answer all of his questions properly, insisting Dumbledore ordered them not to talk about the all order.

"By the way mate, don't mention Percy round the family he –

"I know what he did Ron" Harry said

"Harry, you couldn't have." Hermione said

"Ginny told me, because unlike you two she actually wrote proper letters. She complained about Snape's homework, she helped me with the nightmares, unlike you two, who seems to not have much imagination to write a descent letter" Harry snapped bitterly

"Mate Dumbledore told us –

"To not tell me about the order but he didn't tell you not to write a nice letter. You could have said things like Fred and George are driving me nuts or I'm stuck doing chores. But no you just had to write a sentence and leave it at that."

"Harry, please we wanted to –

"SO WHY DIDN'T YOU?"

Ron and Hermione backed away slowly

"Is it because you think you'll die?" Harry whispered

"What?"

"Well I haven't got the greatest track record have I? I mean Hermione almost died at Halloween in first year, Ron almost died in the chess set, Hermione was petrified, Ron almost died in the chamber in that avalanche, both almost died in third year and last year Cedric died."

"Harry, you're our best friend and we still want to be your best friend"

"BEST FRIENDS WRITE LETTERS, GINNNY WROTE, FLEUR WROTE, VIKTOR WROTE, BUT YOU TWO MY BEST FRIENDS SINCE FIRST YEAR CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO WRITE"

There was two pops and Fred and George appeared

"Can you say that a bit louder Harry the old women in America missed the last part" Fred said grinning

Harry grinned back; the twins always knew how to cheer him up. "I could but my throat hurts now"

"Not surprised" George said "you were interfering with the extendable ear reception"

Harry gave them a questioning look

"New invention, allows us to eavesdrop" Fred said quickly.

The door flew open knocking the twins onto the floor as a red hurricane threw her arms round Harry and started to kiss the living daylights out of him.

"I – kiss – missed – kiss – you – kiss – how – kiss – are – kiss – you – kiss"

She pulled away briefly to look in his eyes to make sure he wasn't lying.

"I feel better now you're here" he said honestly before pulling her into a long kiss.

"Hem, hem it iz not pleasant to see my leetle brother kissing"

They turned to see Fleur and Viktor standing at the door.

"The meeting has finished, Mrs Veasley said dinner will be ready in a minute so please come down stairs"

The kitchen of number twelve was crowded and loud. Harry sat down in between Ginny and Sirius with Tonks and Remus opposite. The five of them were talking about the infamous pranks of the Weasley twins and marauders. Mrs Weasley was lecturing her twins about proper use of magic, while Mr Weasley, Bill, Fleur and Viktor were discussing about the goblins. Mundungus was sleeping and Ron and Hermione kept shooting Harry looks.

"Tonks do the pig snout" Ginny said

Tonks changed her nose into a pig snout and grew long curly blonde hair she reminded Harry strongly of Dudley.

"Wow can you do people?" Harry asked

"Sure I can do all sorts, what me to do an impression?"

"Do McGonagall" Fred said

Soon the stern Gryffindor head was sitting there looking odd in the t-shirt and jeans. After various transformations Tonks ended up looking like Remus (Sirius's idea)

"Hi I'm moony, I have an obsession of chocolate and I live in these horrible sweaters"

Everyone laughed, Harry thought he heard Remus say "do you really hate my sweaters?" and Tonks replying with "no I think you look absolutely intelligent and hot in them" but then again he could me imagining things.

They talked about the order. Not much but enough to know that the order is guarding a weapon and Voldemort is lying low. The next morning they were doing some chores in the drawing room and Sirius was showing them the hated family tree.

"Now this would interest you Harry" Sirius said pointing to an incinerated spot. "Dorea Black married Charlus Potter their son James Potter. This makes me your second cousin, so welcome to the family"

"The Weasleys are related to the Blacks too aren't they Sirius?" Ginny mumbled

"Don't worry Gin-Gin, Cedrella is my fifth cousin twice removed you and Harry are barely related"

"Err…. Harry could we talk to you?" Ron mumbled

"Yeah sure"

Ron and Hermione led Harry to the sofa and sat down.

"Harry we are sorry that we didn't write much but we thought that we couldn't say much without it being intercepted" Hermione started

"You know Hermione for the smartest witch of our year you have no idea how to write a normal letter that doesn't mention the order. It could simply say 'I'm reading so and so' or 'me, mum and dad went to so and so' and Ron you could have written how nuts your brothers are driving you or about the chores you do. I spoken to Sirius about this earlier and he agreed and apologised."

Both Ron and Hermione looked rather guilty

"Now….. Mrs Weasley has just baked a nice cake; let's get there before the twins sabotaged it."

Both Hermione and Ron smiled weakly. Harry may have forgiven them now but if they repeated the same mistake or did worse he might never forgive them.

Later that day Harry was passed an envelope, he opened it with Fleur and Viktor to find a letter and a gift card to honey dukes.

Dear Harry

Happy birthday. Please don't blame yourself; Cedric would have wanted you to keep fighting. I and my husband have joined the order; however we probably won't see you despite our promise.

Love

Amy Diggory