Chapter 18
The meeting
“Harry your back!” Emma shouted when Harry reappeared in the living.
“yeh sorry about that, fawkes does that a lot” he said hugging her.
“whats the matter?” she asked, lifting her head out of his chest.
“Dumbledore wanted to see me, hes made me the leador of the order of the pheonix” he told her as he kissed mara who had entered the room when she heard him.
“wow, that’s brilliant, have you got any plans?” she asked.
“yeh…how are you, are you comfortable, I’ll make you a room up” harry said smiling.
“I can stay?” she asked.
“of course, unless you don’t want to” he asked crestfallen.
“I’d love to” she jumped up and rugby tackled him to the sofa and hugged him.
“tell me everything about you” she told him, as she snuggled up to him.
For the next few hours he told her everything, his life with the dursleys, to Hogwarts and Ginny.
“I cant wait to meet her!” she said giggling and looked at him.
“oh, swap rumors about me,well what ever she says, I don’t snore or take up all the bed, that’s her.” He said reflecting.
“so have you proposed yet?” she asked bouncing up and down.
“I’m going to at christmas” he said smiling, she rugby tackled him again.
“when are you going to tell people about me?” she asked seriously.
“well Ginny knows, she can’t wait to meet you, I wonder why and I don’t know at the weekend at the order meeting.” He said to her.
“yeh sure” she replied.
“so wheres matthew?” he asked.
“he’s left us alone, okay now I will tell you all about me” she said smiling.
In not much time she had told Harry that she had travelled the world, she spoke fluent fench and spanish and had no boyfriends, this pleased harry, she also told him that she was only at the normal magic level and couldn’t do the finger clicking stuff as she called it.
“Do you want a drink?” he asked.
“yeh please” she said nodding her head. He clicked his fingers and two bottles of firewhisky appeared.
“show off” she muttered.
“hey mara, you want to try some?” he asked. She nodded her head eagerly and took a sip and smiled radiantly she grabbed the bottle and drank more.
“Hey! Mommy will kill me if you get drunk!” he said picking her up and swinging her around as she squealed.
They continued to talk for most of the afternoon stopping only for Harry to take mara to bed when she crashed out on the sofa with leo under her arm.
“I love the lion!” Emma said.
“I bought it for her, she can’t sleep without it” he told emma as they tucked her in.
“aww, that’s so sweet” she said hugging harry.
They held each other for several minutes in silence until emma spoke up.
“I’m so gald we’re together, I waited years for you to hold me and I never want to leave” she said.
“me too, I feel like a big brother, somebody to protect, I’m glad you came, you have made me so happy” he told her kissin gher forehead.
“I’m tired harry, I’m going to bed” she said
“okay, I’ll go and work out for a bit” he led her to her room and then went to the gym.
*
The next few days passed quickly, Harry and Emma talked a lot and played with mara most of the time, finally the day of the meeting arrived.
“slippy get the door” harry said groggily, on the sofa with mara on his chest again.
“morning Harry” Hermione said picking mara up to allow Harry to get up, he did so and welcomed his guests.
“Harry darling, you shouldn’t let mara sleep on top of you, she won’t stop” Molly said hugging him.
“I don’t , I put her to bed and when I wake up she’s there” he said smiling “wheres Ginny?”
“upstairs” Ron told him, he knew she was looking for emma.
‘how come your only waking up know?” Ron asked.
“because its morning’ harry said rubbing his eyes.
“but its eleven o’clock” hermione said laughing.
“yeh, which theres still another hour of sleep left” he said “you want some breakfast?” he asked to mara who had woken up and was looking for Harry, she saw him and lifted her arms for him.
“yeh, I’m hungry” she said as Harry carried her out of the room.
“|I wonder why shes obssesed with his chest?” Ron said.
“well I suspect, when harry saved her, she was clung to his chest, so she feels safe and protected there and I also thinks she stops Harry having nightmares so he doesn’t stop and he likes it really” Hermione told them.
“you are brilliant, you know that” ron said, hermione blushed.
“whens everybody getting here for?” Harry asked re-entering the room, with mara in his arm and leo in the other.
“about twelve” Molly said.
“cool”
The hour passed without much happening, Ron was told on several occasionsthat he could tour the house after the meeting and that if he was a good boy he could play quidditch after.
The order members slowly began to arriveand they were all sonn seated at the large table in the dining room, harry stood up and the table silenced looking at him with interest.
“thankyou- Dumbledore” harry spat out “has decided that is should take over as leader-“
“Brilliant” said tonks “the war will be over soon!” she said smiling.
“thankyou tonks, well she’s right” Harry said.
“what makes you think you can do it so quickly?” an auror asked.
“have you not seen him idiot, he is amazing, the death eaters are scared of him, he beat vol-voldermort in a duel” she said rapidly.
“thankyou tonks- that is a reason, not the reason I shall be telling you, Voldermort is immortal” he said simply. The room gasped except Ron, Hermione and Ginny who had returned and was sitting next to him.
“what do you mean, why cant you kill him?’ Moody asked.
“oh I can, but firstly open three people in this room know what I am about to tell you…voldermort created seven horcruxes” the room was silent most people didn’t know what they were so harry elaborated.
“voldermort split his soul into seven pieces, which means if he dies, he can use another part of his sould to bring him back to life” Harry informed them, many of them gasped.
“are some already destroyed?” Moody asked.
“yes, I destroyed one in my second year unknowingly, and I killed his snake. Dumbledore destroyed slytherins ring, that gave him his dead hand” harry said.
“you’ve only got three out of seven?” Moody barked.
“…the night Dumbledore died, we were looking for another one, it turned out to be a fake, after using my own research I have found the correct one and are working working on its destruction” He sais tacking the locket out of his robe holding it by its chain to everyone.
“what about the other three?” Lupin asked.
“three? No two, one piece remains inside him, that is the piece I have to kill, as for the other two, I know what they are but I don’t know where but I have suspicions” harry said to them.
“and?” lupin said.
“Helga Hufflepuffs cup but I don’t know where…the other I believe…is my scar” the women around the table gasped. “if so, I shall need to be killed, that’s just the way it is” he said looking at them, Ginnys head was bowed he had already told her his suspicions.
“and how will you find out, it could take years” Lupin said.
“exactly…that is why I shall be allowing myself to be captured by Voldermort-“
“No Harry!” Ginny screamed, he hadn’t told her this. Harry ignored her and carrierd on.
“once inside, I will be able to use legilimens to find out, if he doesn’t know what was is, then I presume my scar” he told them.
“Harry you cant even do legilimens” Remus said, hoping he couldn’t.
“I can for instance, Ginny- Okay not going to repeat that, Ron- yes I’m nearly done, the house elevs will make you some food and I can assure you there are no clothes belonging to Ginny in my room I’ve already moved them” Tonks laughed. “Molly- I won’t be killed I have felix felicities running through my veins, Tonks- yes your right green doesn’t suit you stick with pink, yeh that’s better anyway remus prefers it that way. Remus- what would my parents say, I don’t know but this has to be done” Harry said the whole time wit his eyes closed, Ron was blushing as were a couple of other people.
“Harry that was exceptional” Severus said smiling. “Can you do legilimens?” he asked.
“try it all of you, point your wands a me and say legilimens” they all did so, Harry could feel a slight pushing so he put up a mental shiel wall like at the wedding, the people who were pushing the hardest were pushed back wards.
“exceptional, you have to do it harry” snape said smiling.
“yes I will, but I will have six weeks training first, and then you will take me saying you caught me, you may have to torture me in front of him” harry finished.
“no…I can’t…no…fine” he said angriliy.
“and our final point- well its not really a point, oh well, thers somebody I would like you all to meet, after sixteen years we are finally reunited, I knew nothing about her, professor evans has raised her entire life but I’m looking after her know” he opend the door and pulled the girl in by the hand. “my sister” he said putting an arm around her shoulder. Molly screamed.
“Bloody Hell!” Ron said falling from his chair as did Remus.
“it’s a female Harry!” Fred shouted causing laughter.
“oh darling, ignore them, come on I’ll introduce you to everyone” Molly said recovering, smiling at emma who had her head buried in Harrys chest and her arms around him.
“Do you want to go?” he asked her, she shook her head and Harry led her to the table sitting her down. Ginny got up to let Harry sit down then sat on his lap and kissed him.
“I’ve missed you” she said resting her forehead against his.
“I’ve missed you to, can you stay tomorrows Sunday?” he asked.
“sure…hows mara, she behaving, you haven’t been on a broom have you” she said sternly.
“shes fine, she loves auntie emma and no we haven’t been flying” he said smiling.
“Erm Potter, this is a meeting not a reunion” Moody said, harry looked up and saw everyone watching them, Molly was beaming at them and harry blushed.
“yes well, the meetings over unless anybody has something to say, if not you can go, I have things to do” he told everyone.