Chapter 10: The Order of the Phoenix (it's been used, I know!! Lol)
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Whenever dawn turns to dark
And all the dreams sing their song
In the daylight forever
To You I Belong.
- To You I Belong by B*Witched
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James and Lily apparated to Hogsmeade and made their way up to Hogwarts a half hour before the meeting to speak with Dumbledore about Lily joining. They came into Dumbledore's office, and when Dumbledore saw Lily and James enter his office, hand in hand, he smiled.
"I see that things are back to the way they were when you were Head Boy and Girl two years ago." They both smiled.
"And Lily I'm guessing you're here to join the Order, am I right?"
"Yes. I am." Dumbledore was about to speak when Lily beat him to it.
"I'm going to stay here in England, and stay in the wizarding world, and I'm prepared to fight to keep the good in this world." Dumbledore nodded and was about to speak again, but again, Lily got there first.
"Also sir, I'm planning on taking the Auror tests that I was educated for while I was at school, and become an Auror." Dumbledore waited, smiled, and said,
"Anything else?"
"No." Dumbledore nodded and extracted a piece parchment from his desk that only he could open and view the contents inside, unless he wished for someone else to find out what the drawer contained. The parchment was legal looking, a contract, that would bind the party's name at the bottom to the oath they would take. Dumbledore handed the paper to Lily for her to sign. She sat down in a chair and read over the text. It contained the types of things she would be agreeing to, rules to abide by, and other necessary things. She printed her name in spots, and at the bottom where there was a line that read underneath, party's full signature, she signed, Lily Elizabeth Evans. She slid the paper over to James, where he was to sign the line that read, witness. He signed his name in his messy scrawl, James Michael Potter. James handed the contract back to Dumbledore who filed it, and handed Lily another piece of paper. It had a list of people on it, all the members of the Order. Lily held her quill above the paper, and glanced up at Dumbledore. As if reading her thoughts, he said,
"A record of the members. So if something happens, to me or somebody, and someone other than me needs to contact the members, there is an incantation to send summons to everyone." Lily again signed, Lily Elizabeth Evans on the parchment. Dumbledore took the parchment, the contract, and put them in a magical file in his desk. As soon as he did, Order members started arriving one by one, occasionally two or three would come at a time. Lily was introduced to some of them, many of them she already knew. James sat beside her, telling Lily who each person was.
"That's Emmeline Vance, great aspect of the Department of Mysteries (A/N: I have no idea about these people's jobs, just guessing), Sturgis Podmore, a very sneaky man, I'm not sure what he does, you've heard of Mad-Eye haven't you?"
"Yeah, he's an Auror, isn't he? Isn't he like really paranoid?"
"Paranoid's an understatement when referring to Mad-Eye. But yeah, I heard that he's thinking of retiring soon, he's been in the business for years."
"I can see that." Lily said, noticing the scars on Moody's face.
"And you of course know the Longbottoms." James said as Frank and Alice came into Dumbledore's office. Alice spotted her friend right away and came over to say hi, while her husband talked with some other Order members.
"Lils, you joined the Order?"
"Yeah, just a few minutes ago."
"That's great, we can always use more people, especially ones like you." Lily smiled at the compliment, and Alice turned her attention to James.
"So, Mr. Potter, I've been hearing tales."
"Oh really? What about?"
"What's this I hear about you, Lily and the Astronomy Tower last night?" James grinned.
"Where'd you hear that?" James said in mock innocence.
"It is not possible for your best friend to keep a secret." James' grin widened.
"I don't know where Sirius is coming up with these tales. You should never believe anything he says."
"Normally I wouldn't, but then see, one of your other friends told me the same tale. Now, if I can't believe Remus, then who do I believe? He has never told me a lie."
"I think they're just imagining things, Alice, I wouldn't pay attention to those two." They both laughed.
"Well, all I have to say, is it's about time." Lily smiled and brought her attention back to the door, watching for more people. Alice went to find Frank, and James went back to telling Lily who everyone was.
"And, you know those two." James said as Sirius and Remus came through the door. Lily sighed.
"Yeah, unfortunately." James beckoned his friends over with his finger. When they came within earshot, James said,
"Moony, Padfoot, what's this I hear about you telling tales?" Remus and Sirius had almost identical looks on their faces that they had to look innocent, but everyone knows a Marauder is never innocent. Sirius said innocently,
"Haven't been telling any tales, Prongs, what are you talking about?" Remus agreed, and said,
"Nope, haven't told anyone about anything."
"This is pointless James, they're never going admit that they told Alice not matter how long you play this game, it could go on for hours." She glanced at the door and saw a certain greasy haired, former classmate of hers walk through the door. Her expression turned cold, remembering all the times he called her a Mudblood.
"What's Snape doing here?" Sirius said,
"Snivellus? He's posing as an Order member and Potions teacher. He really should be kissing the hem of his master's robes."
"He's a Death Eater? Then why is he here?" Remus scowled at Snape and said,
"He's claimed to have reformed. Dumbledore believes him, so do most of the rest of the Order members, but we know better."
"Ran into him yesterday, if McGonagall hadn't been there to interfere, he wouldn't be here right now, he'd be lying in St. Mungo's nursing some injury that God knows I'd have given him."
"What'd he do this time?"
"Called Lily a Mudblood whore." James, Sirius and Remus all glared at Snape, who just happened to glance up and return the glare. Lily closed her eyes, telling herself not to get angry. James saw this and placed a comforting arm around her shoulders, pulling her close. As soon as everyone had arrived who was supposed to, (all but five had shown up) the meeting started. Dumbledore said a few words, and many people gave reports, James gave Auror reports on the tracking of potential Death Eaters, along with other Aurors. The meeting lasted for two hours, finally ending close to 9:30. Everyone slowly left, in bigger groups this time, some going home, others going to the Three Broomsticks or to Hog's Head for drinks with one another and catch up on events that had happened since they had seen each other last. James, Lily, Sirius, Remus, Alice, Frank, and some of their other classmates from school all sat crowded around a table at the Three Broomsticks, various drinks around the table, one in front of each witch or wizard. They laughed about a lot of things, felt sad about Isabelle, and talked about other things, one of the main topics being the rekindled relationship between James Potter and Lily Evans. Since all good things must come to an end, the get together between old school friends came to a close. Everyone went their separate ways, and at the door of the pub, James asked Lily,
"You going back to Remus' house to sleep, or are you coming home with me?"
"Would I sleep?"
"That depends." Lily smiled.
"Then I think I'll go home with you, Mr. Potter."
A/N: Here's another chapter for y'all. Please review; thanks to all of you who have reviewed already, I love y'all. Keep it up; I love reading what you all have to say about my story.
You know what I was thinking when writing this chapter? If Wormtail was in the Order, and Snape was the spy for the Order, and they were both Death Eaters, then why didn't they ever know that each was a traitor??? In my chapter, I just put that it is just a lucky coincidence that they are never at the same Order meeting.
Anyways, just something to ponder about…
Husker-fan-2006
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