Here's is the last chapter of "New Member of the Order", a bittersweet moment for both you and me.
After the chapter is an author's note that I'd like you all to read!
Now onto the chapter!
Chapter 29
Danny drifted through the air fazing through countless walls and windows. Students below looked in confusion trying to find the source of the whooshing noise from above. He didn't look at them just looking straight ahead, invisible and intangible going through the school to his destination. He was a whisper in the wind through Hogwarts.
The ghost teen appeared in Dumbledore's office, seemingly out of nowhere. Dumbledore didn't even look surprised from his desk; he just nodded his head to Danny before getting up from his chair.
"I see your back." Dumbledore said calmly. The professor gazed down at the halfa with his half-moon spectacles sparkling in the light of the office.
"Yeah, sorry about that. I panicked and flew off without thinking things through. It was childish." Danny explained.
Dumbledore nodded his head. "Everyone has those moments Danny, it's only human. And you're still a kid Danny."
The old headmaster took a few steps towards Danny before he stopped himself in front of the teen, gazing down at him.
"I hope the last few hours have levelled your head."
"Few hours?" Danny asked confused.
'Wait, Clockwork must have made our conversion occur faster than usual.' Danny realized in his mind.
"Yeah I guess I lost track of time" Danny quickly recovered.
Dumbledore looked at Danny with a deceptively knowing eye.
'He must know I'm lying through my teeth.' Danny thought.
Just as Danny thought the old wizard would call out Danny's bluff, he just nodded his head. "Danny I must tell just how unfortunate it was for you to transform in front of the ministry. I tried to stop the publication on the Daily Prophet but they wouldn't listen."
Danny nodded his head. "It's alright Dumbledore. I appreciate the effort."
"Is my family safe? As well as my friends?"
Dumbledore nodded. "They're all put under the best spells that I could offer. They're safe."
Danny breathed a sigh of relief with the news. His family and friends were safe, and having one of the most powerful wizards in the world tell him was reassuring.
"Thank you Dumbledore, for everything." Danny said as apologetically as possible.
"No Danny, it's me who has to thank you. You've sacrificed much to be here. And your sacrifice last night cannot be repaid." Dumbledore said shaking Danny's hand.
Danny shook back his hand feeling numb as he had his arm being shook. The teen then started to float up in the air towards the ceiling, just as he was going to turn intangible when Dumbledore spoke up from down below.
"Danny, you must be prepared to be meeting the ministry. Everyone at the ministry will want to see you. It took a lot for me to have you get treatment down here in Hogwarts instead of 's. Eventually I won't be able to stop them from meeting you forever. Just be prepared."
A sick feeling came to his stomach at the prospect of having to meet all of them. All the questions they would ask? And even the things they'd accuse him as.
'Maybe they'd be like the guys in white, wanting to get rid of me.' Danny thought in fear.
Dumbledore sensed this on setting fear coming from Danny and quickly quelled it. "Don't worry Danny; I'll be there when they meet you. And try to stay in your tower for the next few days."
Danny nodded and flew through the ceiling of the large headmaster's office and into the sky.
The ghostly teen soon drifted through the medical ward's wall. He saw that most of them were gone. Hermione was reading from a book quietly by herself while Ron sat in his bed sleeping loudly snoring with a powerful chorus of snorts and heavy breathing. Meanwhile Ginny sat in her bed sleeping soundlessly curled in the blankets content.
As Danny landed on the floor with a light tap, Hermione lowered her book to see the source of the sound. She smiled instantly at the sight of Danny.
"You came back." Hermione said happily, her arms rising for a hug.
Danny wordlessly transformed into his human half and walked down towards Hermione, circling his arms around her back returning her hug. He squeezed reassuring into Hermione's back as the two stayed interlocked with each other, both not saying a word in fear of ruining the moment. Eventually the two separated.
"I thought you left." Hermione whispered.
Hermione looked down at the bed refusing to look up at Danny's ice blue eyes.
"Hey, I'm not leaving until this war is over" Danny said, while he raised Hermione's chin until the two of them stared into each other's eyes. "Count on it."
Hermione blushed as she shook her head out of Danny's grasp.
"Where did you go?" Hermione asked curiously.
Danny smiled. "I went to see an old friend. Someone I thought that could help me fix my identity crisis."
Hermione stared at Danny confused. "And did they help?"
Danny nodded. "He helped me in a different way than I expected."
"So everyone still knows about you?" Hermione asked.
"Yes." Danny stated deadpanned. He had to accept the fact that the magical world now knew of what he was. That anyone could single him out on the street and know what he could do. It was a scary prospect but now was the time to accept it.
Hermione held Danny's hand, as a way to try and reassure the young halfa. "Everything is going to be fine Danny. Whatever happens we'll be there."
Danny nodded. "It's a new beginning for me. It's just going to be hard to get used to it."
The two were silent refusing to say a word. Ron's snoring was all that could be heard in the background as the two couldn't think of anything to say.
Danny then sat on the side of the bed and pointed to the book on the side. He suddenly became brave enough to break the silence.
"So what are you reading?"
Days passed and Danny took Dumbledore's advice by staying low in the tower. He relaxed most of the time reading his books and trying to move as little as possible with his wounds healing rapidly. Though he would sometimes visit some the wizards that he knew, which only included Harry, Ron and Hermione. Ron and Hermione would welcome the company with open arms while Harry seemed reclusive around Danny.
This was understandable with Harry's recent loss.
Last night was the final feast meaning today would be the day that all the students would leave back to their homes for the summer. All of them would broad the Hogwarts express by the end of the morning and leave off in the distance, all returning to their families.
Danny floated high in the air watching as the first people started to leave for the train. As the halfa watched from the top of the tower he noticed all the teens hanging out with each other socializing and goofing around their friends.
The ghost teen frowned as he watched the groups continue to walk down the road as he looked at all of them his mind went to Sam and Tucker. He thought of all the time he spent with them before nearly a year ago, the ghost hunting, their help with his school work and all the burger runs to the nasty burger.
Man did he miss the nasty sauce at the moment. He smacked his lips and tried to remember the taste but it just couldn't come to him. It seemed too have been too long since he'd eaten one of those burgers.
Then his mind thought of the image of his friend Sam and all of her feminine features and charm. His heart beat went more rapid as he thought of the kiss she had given him as well as what she told him when he last visited Amity Park.
He felt very indifferent of it. He liked Sam but he wasn't sure if he liked in the same way that she liked him. But then again he was the one who started the kiss. 'So does that mean that I love her back?' Danny questioned to himself, desperate to look inside his mind to find an answer. But it just wouldn't come to him.
His life before being taken to England felt like a whole different life too him. Though the constant reminder of that life came up when one of his old ghostly foes would attack just like old times in Amity Park.
'It's been months since that attack from Spectra and Bertrand.' Danny realized. 'There must be more coming, maybe Vlad is planning his next move.'
Danny then laid down on the roof his arms placed on the back of his neck his body spread out. He took in the sun's rays on his pale skin thinking of the grave future in front of him.
Voldemort was now common knowledge meaning he'll be more public with his terror and evil, with an army slowly being grown. Vlad is planning and plotting somewhere in the states trying to find him, meanwhile Danny still has a price on his head in the ghost zone. And the ministry wanted to see him, which could be either a good or bad thing.
But he would face all of these challenges whether he wanted too or not. He has power that makes him more extraordinary than most people and felt a responsibility to use this power to the better of humanity.
Clockwork was right. The future ahead of him is going to be hard, and he'll fight through it just like he's done since his fatal accident in the ghost portal.
And so ends the last chapter of 'New Member of the Order.'
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