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Aw my darling readers…well here it is, my next chapter. Gosh it's been a long time since I've updated. A lot has happened in my life and it's just been crazy. Now I'm back at the computer and finally writing again. Anyways I just want to say how disappointed I am in many of you. For the 6 people who reviewed the last chapter I say thank you so much. For the other 504 people who did not review but read the chapter I say: REVIEW. Please! Thanks a bunch. Well without further waffling I present to you the next chapter of Harry Potter and the Return of Lord Voldemort.
Order Meeting
Harry walked into the kitchen of 12 Grimmauld place and looked around. A group of witches and wizards sat around the table speaking in low voices, they stopped and everyone looked up at Harry with white faces.
Kingsly Shaklebolt was sat beside Moody who glanced at Tonks and Lupin who sat soberly across the table, beside Professor McGonagal whose face was deathly pale and her lips were reduced to a thin line as she stared into space. Harry noticed Hermione was looking closely at Ginny and appeared worried, he knew why, neither of them felt comfortable with allowing Ginny to listen to an important Order meeting, but they couldn't come up with a good enough reason to give to Ginny, other than the fact she had just been kidnapped, but that didn't work. Ginny insisted that she attended the meeting so Harry and Hermione gave in.
Meanwhile, Ron was acting very different. He had been more shifty and nervous and yet acted perfectly happy. Harry looked to see Ron was stood at the head of the table, something burned in his chest.
That was where he usually stood. He was the head of the Order after all. Harry strode over to Ron and gave him a forced smile; Ron nodded his head and sat down beside Ginny. Harry took a breath. Maybe he was jumping to conclusions. He cleared his throat and addressed the quiet room. Tonks, who had been asked to record the meetings, set her quill ready on a piece of parchment on the table.
"I Harry James Potter, leader of the Order of the Phoenix declare this Order meeting officially started. The date is September 28th 2007, Right everyone, thank you for coming. We have a lot to talk about." Harry said formally. His words were followed by many nods and murmurs of agreement as the quill whizzed across the parchment on its own, then the order members fell quiet again.
"The first thing to be said, is Voldemort has returned." Harsh cries and gasps filled the room as Harry said Voldemort's name, Harry waited for the room to quiet itself again.
"He came to the wedding of Ginny Molly Weasley and myself Harry James Potter. Voldemort appeared and said that he needed Ginny, then he and Ginny disappeared. Ronald Weasley and myself found her in the hidden chamber of secrets in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. We were joined by Hermione Granger President of the Spew organisation-"
"It's S. P. E. W. Harry!" Hermione interrupted annoyed. Harry's refrained from grinning and inclined his head politely.
"Ginny was alone, and unconscious, she also had her wand-"
"She had her wand?" Moody cut in, his faced screwed up in confusion. Harry looked at him and smiled politely.
"Please leave questions to the end" he simply said. Moody huffed slightly and fell quiet.
"Ronald, Hermione and I left Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with Ginny, we did not encounter any persons, other than Myrtle the ghost who resides in the third cubical of the girl's toilets on the second floor of Hogwarts."
Harry stopped talking for a moment and nodded to Tonks who took a new sheet of parchment.
"Now any questions?" Harry asked. The room broke out in conversation as everyone tried to ask their question first. Harry raised his hands.
"Please, please one at a time" he called above the talk. Everyone fell quiet and glanced at each other. Moody stood up.
"You said this woman was allowed access to her wand." He said gruffly. Harry nodded to show he understood.
"Do you not think that is suspicious? What would Voldemort be doing, kidnapping a witch and allowing her to keep her wand?" Moody said, there were calls of agreement.
"That is precisely what I have been thinking about Alastor." Harry said calmly. Hermione seemed to be trying to say something to Harry with her eyes, but Harry couldn't make sense and looked away.
"What confuses me is how you found miss Weasley so quickly? What made you think of the Chamber of Secrets?" Professor McGonagal asked suspiciously. Harry eyed the quill which continued to take account of everything the order members said. He swallowed uncomfortably.
Although he didn't feel comfortable with telling everyone of his ability to sense Voldemort, Harry decided that he should be open with the group. However, he was also nervous about saying infront of Ron and Ginny, who could be giving information to Voldemort. Then Harry remembered that Voldemort knows of their connection so it would not be new information anyway. Harry opened his mouth to speak and was surprised to find his voice calm and controlled.
"My scar enables me to sense Voldemort and find out where he is." The room gasped.
"Surely you didn't try that!" Professor McGonagol broke out in outrage and shock. There were several murmurs of agreement.
"That is incredibly dangerous, You-Know-Who would have known where you were," Tonks said quickly. Lupin gently argued.
"But we should remember that Voldemort went to the Burrow, he knew where Harry was in the first place." He said. Kingsley Shaklebolt gasped as a sudden thought dawned on him.
"He knew where you were." He said slowly. Everyone looked at him. Harry felt his heart stop as he understood what Kingsley meant.
"How did he know?" Harry asked. Lupin sat upright uncomfortably, Tonks squeezed his hand and stared at the moving quill. Hermione looked pointedly at Harry and her eyes flew towards Ginny, Harry looked at her and noticed that she was sat very still with a blank expression on her face, her eyes, shining blue. Ron looked down at the floor and shifted in his seat. Harry turned towards the fireplace, placed his hands on wall and sighed.
"Is it appropriate, Harry, to suggest that perhaps we should think about the possibility of a spy among us?" Moody's quiet growl filled the silence. Harry turned back to them and blinked. The mood became very awkward and the order members looked at each other nervously as if wondering if the person they were sat next to was in fact a death eater in disguise.
"Stop the quill," Harry said dully. Tonks looked shocked at Harry and looked like she was about to question but Harry gave her a hard look and she hurriedly picked up the quill and tapped it with her wand. The quill fell to the table and lay still.
Everyone looked up at Harry with a mixture of shock and disbelief. Even Ginny looked worried. Harry stood up straight.
"This meeting is over. Ron will you take Ginny home and make sure she is alright?" Harry asked in a low voice. Ron looked surprised but nodded. Ginny shot up and ran to Harry.
"I'm staying with you," she demanded as she took his hands. Harry gave a forced smile, feeling daggers at his heart as he looked at the woman she had loved for so long and found her to have been under a spell all this time.
"I'll come back to the Burrow with Hermione soon, I just want to talk to Lupin about things." Harry emphasised the word things and gave her a look to say "I want to talk about Sirius". Ginny's eyes widened and she nodded.
"Alright see you later." She said softly and kissed him gently on the lips. Harry cringed inwardly, it felt so false and so wrong. Yet he forced himself to smile again as he watched her follow Ron out the door.
A few moments passed and no one had moved. Then Harry strode to the door of the kitchen, opened it and saw the front door of Grimmauld place close. He breathed and turned back to the room of Order Members.
"This meeting isn't over." He said seriously.
Moody sat up straight and nodded, Kingsley was still staring at the kitchen door, Hermione was looking grim, Lupin looked thoughtfully at Harry and Professor McGonagol just blinked. Tonks however fumbled about with her quill, but Harry held up a hand to her, she stopped and stared at Harry, confusion in her eyes.
"This must not be recorded" Harry said darkly, he felt horrible about the things he must say, the people he must accuse and the danger everyone was in. Tonks nodded and let the quill rest on the table again and the other order members remained quiet for what Harry to speak.
Harry looked at Hermione who gave a supportive nod and he found himself speaking to the members.
"My friends," he said "I have reason to believe that Ginny Weasley is and has been for many years under the imperious curse,"
Everyone except Hermione gasped. "I also have reason to believe that the person must be someone who is very close to her, so that Ginny may always be under the spell, therefore it should be someone we all trust, which means someone is in fact a death eater using a polyjuice potion."
"Who are you suggesting it is?" Moody asked dangerously. Harry swallowed.
"Hermione and I believe that it could be Ronald Weasley, Ginny's brother." He said.
There was a stunned silence.
"Harry, do you realise what you're saying?" Professor McGonagol asked in a shocked voice.
"You're saying that Ginny, the person you were going to marry, is actually acting against her will…that her own brother is being held captive…or has been killed and a death eater has taken his place."
Harry swallowed hard. Things seemed a thousand times worse when Professor McGonagol explained them. He couldn't reply, he couldn't do anything. All he could think about was whether his best mate is alive and if he is, where he is being held captive.
Hermione covered her mouth with her hands, looking at Harry with a hurt expression and then broke down into tears.
"Oh Ron!" she cried.
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