At Last!
Disclaimer: I only own Kitty.
"Calm down Harry," said Kitty. Harry, who was pacing up and down the room, looked at her. "How much longer do they expect us to wait?" he said angrily. When Hedwig returned after her morning hunt, Harry sent Sirius, Ron, and Hermione notes asking him when they would get out of the Dursleys' house.
On the fourth day, after Hedwig's departure, Harry and Kitty were sitting in Dudley's second bedroom. Kitty was talking through the two way mirror to Vandyll, and telling her what had happened. Harry was leaning out of the window, trying to see if Hedwig was coming. "I don't know, Vandyll, no one's telling us anything at all."
Suddenly they heard Uncle Vernon's thundering footsteps on the stairs. "Put that away," Harry, pointing to the mirror. "I have to go, Van. Will talk later," said Kitty hurriedly, and tucked the mirror under her pillow.
The bedroom door opened. "We're going out, Petunia and Dudley and I," said Uncle Vernon. "I am going to lock your door, so that you cannot sneak out and steal food from the fridge or touch our possessions."
"You do that," said Harry, as he left. They heard the clicking of the lock, and Uncle Vernon's footsteps retreating down the stairs. A few minutes later, they heard the slamming of car doors, the rumble of an engine, and the unmistakable sound of the car sweeping out of the drive.
A few minutes later, they heard a crash in the kitchen below. "Do you suppose that's Hedwig?" asked Kitty. "Why would he go to the kitchen? He always comes straight into the bedroom," said Harry. Both Harry and Kitty snatched up their wands and jumped up, as they heard a second crash. The lock gave a click, and the bedroom door swung open.
Motioning to Kitty to stay in the room, Harry cautiously moved out of the doorway, to the head of the stairs. A second later, Kitty heard a familiar voice, "Lower your wand boy, before you take someone's eye out."
"Professor Moody?" came Harry's voice. Then, she heard another voice, "It's all right Harry, we've come to take you away." Kitty jumped up joyfully, and ran out of the room and down the stairs. "Remus!" she cried, leaping at him. "Kitty, how are you?" said Remus breathlessly.
'Oooh, they look just like I thought they would,' said a witch who was holding her lit wand aloft. She looked the youngest there; she had a pale heart-shaped face, dark twinkling eyes, and short spiky hair that was a violent shade of violet. 'Wotcher, Harry!'
"I see what you mean," said a tall bald wizard, "Harry looks like his old man, and Kitty here looks just like Lily."
"They've both got Lily's eyes, though," said a wheezy voiced silver haired wizard.
'Are you quite sure it's them, Lupin?' Moody growled. 'It'd be a nice lookout if we bring back some Death Eaters impersonating them. We ought to ask them something only the real Potters would know. Unless anyone brought any Veritaserum?'
'Harry, what form does your Patronus take?' asked Remus.'A stag,' said Harry nervously.
'That's him, Mad-Eye,' said Remus. He turned to Kitty and asked, "Kitty, who's your favourite teacher?"
"Professor Snape," said Kitty. Harry rolled his eyes. Remus nodded. "That's her."
Kitty could hardly believe that this was real. It seemed as if months had passed with them being stuck at the Dursleys. 'Where are we going? The Burrow?' Harry asked hopefully.
'Not The Burrow, no,' said Remus, motioning Harry and Kitty towards the kitchen; the little knot of wizards followed, all still eyeing them curiously. 'Too risky. We've set up Headquarters somewhere un-detectable. It's taken a while...' Lupin introduced the violet haired woman as Nymphadora Tonks, the tall bald black wizard as Kingsley Shacklebolt, the wheezy voiced wizard as Elphias Doge, a tiny little wizard in a top hat as Dedalus Diggle, a stately looking witch as Emmeline Vance, a square jawed wizard with straw coloured hair as Sturgis Podmore and a pink cheeked witch as Hestia Jones.
'Look'-Harry turned back to Remus-'what's going on, we haven't heard anything from anyone, what's Vol-?'
'We're not discussing anything here, it's too risky,' said Moody, turning his normal eye on Harry.
'How're we getting-wherever we're going?' Harry asked.
'Brooms,' said Remus, as Kitty groaned. 'Only way. You're too young to apparate, they'll be watching the Floo Network and it's more than our life's worth to set up an unauthorised Portkey.'
Harry and Kitty went upstairs and came out ten minutes later, with their school trunk. Harry was holding Hedwig's empty cage, and Kitty was clutching her pet cat, Xim. When they came down, Moody put Disillusionment Charms on them, and stepped outside into the lawn.
'Clear night,' grunted Moody, his magical eye scanning the heavens. 'Could've done with a bit more cloud cover. Right, you,' he barked at Harry, 'we're going to be flying in close formation. Tonks'll be right in front of you, keep close on her tail. Lupin'll be covering you from below. I'm going to be behind you. The rest'll be circling us. We don't break ranks for anything, got me? If one of us is killed-'
'Is that likely?' Kitty asked apprehensively, but Moody ignored her.
'-the others keep flying, don't stop, don't break ranks. If they take out all of us and you both survive, the rear guard are standing by to take over; keep flying east and they'll join you.'
'Mount your brooms, that's the first signal!' said Remus sharply, pointing into the sky. Far, far above them, a shower of bright red sparks had flared among the stars. Harry got onto his firebolt, and then helped Kitty onto it, in front of him. 'Second signal, let's go!' said Remus loudly as more sparks, green this time, exploded high above them. Harry kicked off hard from the ground.
The night air was freezing Kitty's face, as she tried to grip onto the handle, and not look down. 'Bearing south!' shouted Mad-Eye. 'Town ahead!'They soared right to avoid passing directly over the glittering spiderweb of lights below.
'Bear southeast and keep climbing, there's some low cloud ahead we can lose ourselves in!' called Moody.'We're not going through clouds!' shouted Tonks angrily, 'we'll get soaked, Mad-Eye!' Kitty was glad to hear Tonks say this; her hands were becoming numb on the broomstick. She wished she had thought to put on a coat; she was starting to shiver. They altered their course every now and then according to Mad-Eye's instructions.
After about an hour, Remus shouted at them to descend. Harry followed Tonks into a dive. 'Here we go!' called Tonks, and a few seconds later she had landed. Harry touched down right behind her and dismounted on a patch of unkempt grass in the middle of a small square. "Where are we?" said Kitty.
"In a minute," said Remus. Moody got a cigarette lighter from his cloak, and clicked it. The nearest streetlamp went out. He clicked it repeatedly, until all the lamps had gone out, and the street was dark.
'Here,' Moody muttered, thrusting a piece of parchment towards Harry's Disillusioned hand and holding his lit wand close to it, so as to illuminate the writing. 'Read quickly and memorize.'
Harry and Kitty looked down at the piece of paper. The narrow handwriting was vaguely familiar. It said:
The Headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix may be found at number twelve, Grimmauld Place, London.
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