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Chapter 1 Dudley Demented

Harry is back at the Dursleys’ at Privet Drive, lying hidden below a window in the garden so he can hear the tv news. He sees Mrs. Figg passing by, frowning and muttering to herself.
Aunt Petunia tells Uncle Vernon that Dudley is at the Polkiss’. Harry knows that Dudley and his gang have been around vandalising the neighbourhood instead. He had seen them around in Little Whinging.
Listening to the news, there’s only unimportant events. Something about a Spanish strike, a helicopter crash, an actress’s divorce and something about Bungy the budgy who lives at the Five Feathers, reported by Mary Dorkins.
Sudenly there’s a loud crack, a cat streaks out from under a parked car, a shriek, a bellowed oath and the sound of breaking china, and Harry draws his wand.
Uncle Vernon is furious about Harry drawing his wand and acts like a car has backfired to “Mrs. Number Seven” on the opposite side of the street.
After a discussion with Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia Harry walks away. He thinks the cracking noise was someone Apparating or Disapparating. He’s disappointed that he heard very little news from Ron and Hermione, only receiving a box of Honeydukes chocolates from her.
He turns a corner into Magnolia Crescent, next into Magnolia Road and finally into the park. He’s thinking about the news, his dreams about Cedric and about long dark corridors.
While sitting in a swing, Dudley and his gang pass by. Dudley is heading home and Harry follows to go back too. At the end of Magnolia Road Harry sees Dudley parting with his friends Piers Polkiss and Gordon. Harry starts bickering with Dudley, asking him if he’s been been beating up ten-year-olds again. Harry knows Dudley did Mark Evans two nights ago.
They walk through Magnolia Crescent again and Wisteria Walk. While they are arguing, suddenly the air gets cold and the sky becomes pitch black. Dudley knocks Harry to the ground and runs away. Harry loses his wand. Next thing they are attacked by two Dementors.
Harry can’t find his wand, he uses the ¤ Lumos spell and his Wand tip lights up inches from his hand. He tries the ¤ Expecto Patronum but only a silver whisper of vapour comes out of his wand. He tries the Patronus Charm again but another whisp of smoke appears. A Dementor is closing in on him now and he hears laughter and a high pitched voice in his head. At the last moment he manages to finally conjure up his Patronus and drives off the Dementor attacking him and the one attacking Dudley.
Harry helps Dudley up and sees Mrs. Figg arriving. When he quickly puts away his wand, she orders him not to put it away in case there are more Dementors around and she seems to be furious with Mundungus Fletcher.

Chapter 2 A Peck of Owls

Mrs. Figg tells Harry that Mundungus Fletcher had left to see someone about a batch of Cauldrons that fell off the back of a broom and that it’s just lucky she put Mr. Tibbles on the case. She turns out to be a Squib. It was Mundungus Fletcher who disapparated from the front of Harry’s house. He has been following Harry.
They walk back home taking Dudley. While walking, Mrs. Figg tells Harry to keep his wand out, never minding the Statute of Secrecy now. This is exactly what Dumbledore was afraid of with the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery. She sees something on the end of the street but it’s just Mr. Prentice.
There’s a crack and Mundungus Fletcher appears by Apparation, holding an Invisibility Cloak. He should have been watching Harry when he left to buy stolen cauldrons. Fletcher says someone should tell Dumbledore and Mrs. Figg says ‘yes – they – have’ and that it better be him so he can tell why he wasn’t there to help. Then Fletcher Disapparates
They reach the Dursley’s house and Mrs. Figg leaves. Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon are furious.
At that moment an owl flies in bringing Harry a letter from the Ministry of Magic. The letter indicates Harry performed a Patronus Charm in a Muggle-inhabited area and in the presence of a Muggle. This is a breach of the Decree for the Restricion of Underage Wizardry and therefore he is expelled from Hogwarts. As Harry already has received an official warning for a previous offence under Section 13 of the International Confederation of Warlocks’ Statute of Secrecy, Harry will need to appear at a disciplinary hearing at the Ministry at nine on the twelfth of August. The letter is signed by Mafalda Hopkirk of the Improper Use of Magic Office.
Harry is about to run. There’s a crack in the kitchen and a barn owl appears bringing a letter from Mr. Weasley telling Harry to stay in the house and to not surrender his wand.
Uncle Vernon does not believe that Harry did nothing to Dudley. Harry tries to convince them it was Dementors. Aunt Petunia knows they guard Azkaban, as she had heard Harry’s parents talk about them.
Another owl from the Ministry to Harry arrives, telling Harry his wand will not be destroyed and the matter of expulsion will be decided at the hearing. One more owl flies in. It is from Sirius telling Harry not to leave the house.
Harry tells uncle Vernon that Voldemort is back. Uncle Vernon wants Harry out. He thinks that Marge was right in saying Harry should have been sent to an orphanage. Another owl flies in with a Howler for Aunt Petunia. It’s a letter saying “Remember my last, Petunia”. Aunt Petunia says Harry will stay.

Chapter 3 The Advance Guard

Harry sends owls to Sirius, Ron and Hermione with Hedwig, demanding to know what’s going on. He waits for days. Four days later, Uncle Vernon tells Harry they’re going out. Harry hears sounds coming from below. The lock on his bedroom door clicks and swings open. He goes out and downstairs he hears the voice of Moody and Lupin. Someone uses a Lumos to make some light. Harry meets everybody and is told they’re taking him to Headquarters. Besides Moody and Lupin, there are Nymphadora Tonks, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Elphias Doge, Dedalus Diggle, Emmeline Vance, Sturgis Podmore and Hestia Jones.
Tonks goes upstairs with Harry to get his stuff. Looking in a mirror she changes her hair colour while Harry looks at her over the top of “Quidditch Teams of Britain and Ireland”. She explains she’s a Metamorphmagus; she can change her appearance at will. She was born one. She got top marks in Concealment and Disguise during Auror training. Kingsley is also an auror. She only qualified a year ago and had nearly failed in Stealth and Tracking. Tonks uses a pack spell to pack Harry’s trunk and a Scourgify to clean Hedwig’s cage. She’s impressed with Harry’s Firebolt, as she only has a Comet Two Sixty. Next she uses a Locomotor trunk spell to take his trunk downstairs.
Moody has to Disillusion Harry before they leave. He seems to have become like a human chameleon, resembling invisibility. They mount their brooms when they see the first signal, a shower of bright red sparks among the stars, and fly off when they see the green second signal.
After a while they descent into a street. Moody uses a Put-Outer to make the street dark. They head down the streets. Moody shows Harry a piece of parchment stating the location where they arrived. It’s the Headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, found at number twelve Grimmauld Place, London.

Chapter 4 Number Twelve – Grimmauld Place

As Grimmauld Place appears, the group enters through the front door with a door knocker in the shape of a twisted Serpent.
Moody lifts the Disillusion Charm.
The house is a bit spooky. Mrs. Weasley welcomes Harry. She tells the group which brought Harry that ‘He’s just arrived, the meeting’s started’. Harry is not allowed to join the meeting which is only for members of the Order.
Mrs. Weasley joins the meeting after showing Harry to a door with a knob in the shape of a serpent. He enters and meets finally with Ron and Hermione.
They know what has happened to Harry in the last days. Harry is angry with them for not telling him any news. They explain to him that Dumbledore would not let them. Harry bursts out in fury and rages on, showing all his frustrations from the last years.
When Harry calms down Ron tells him that the house is the headquarters of the Order, a secret society for all people who fought against You-Know-Who last time. They don’t know if there’s any news about Voldemort. They are not allowed to meetings, although they managed to find out some information with the Extendable Ears which Fred and George invented. Some of the Order members have been working on recruiting more people, and others are standing guard over something. Harry says the last one must have been him.
Fred and George appear by Apparating. Next Ginny comes in and tells them that the Extendable Ears are not doing the trick. There’s an Imperturbable Charm on the kitchen door. Tonks told her how to find out. She’s been testing by flicking Dungbombs at it.
Fred tell them that it is Snape who is giving the Order a report. Ginny says that Bill also doesn’t like Snape. Bill has returned from Egypt and he’s meeting a lot with Fleur Delacour who has found a job at Gringotts. Charlie is in the Order too, but he’s still in Romania making contact with foreign wizards for the Order.
Percy turns out to have cut off all ties with his family. He had been promoted at the Ministry, even though he failed to see that there was something wrong with Crouch. He’s been made Junior Assistant to the Minister, Fudge.
Fudge has been trying to put down Dumbledore and the Order and deny any news about Voldemorts’ return. It turns out the Daily Prophet also has been portraying Harry as an attention-seeking liar. It wasn’t Skeeter, as she doesn’t work there anymore. Hermione thinks Fudge is behind it.
The meeting is over. Mrs. Weasley asks who threw the Dungbombs. She thought it might have been Kreacher, the House-elf.
They go to the hall. Tonks bumps into an umbrella stand and they hear a horrible screech. It comes from a person in a painting, and Sirius tells Harry the person screaming in the photo is his (Sirius’) mother.

Chapter 5 The Order of the Phoenix

Sirius explains that they have been trying to get the painting of his mother down, but they think she put a Permanent Sticking Charm on the back of the canvas. This house is Sirius’s parents house. He is the last Black left.
They go down and Harry meets there with Ron, Mrs. Weasley, Bill and Mr. Weasley. Tonks spoils a candle on a piece of parchment. Harry thinks the parchment showed some building plan. And also Moody, Lupin and Mundungus Fletcher are present.
Bill makes the scrolls of parchment vanish with a Evanesco.
Crookhanks sits on Sirius’s lap. Sirius says he’s been bored a long time. Wormtail probably must have told Voldemort he’s an Animagus so his disguise has been useless. He’s still wanted by the Ministry and can’t go out.
Mrs. Weasley tells Sirius there’s something trapped in the writing desk of the drawing room. It is probably a Boggart, and that the curtains are full of Doxys, and that they can take those out tomorrow.
Tonks is doing her Metamorphmagus routine to entertain Ginny and Hermione.
Mr. Weasley, Bill and Lupin have a discussion about Goblins, wondering whose side they will take. Bill has talked to Ragnok, and learned that they are still mad about the Bagman business.
Fred and George are listening to Mundungus telling how he fooled Will ,a Gargoyle, by selling him toads which Will himself stole from Warty Harris.
Sirius wants to tell Harry about the Order of the Phoenix. Ginny is sent away. Sirius tells them Voldemort is laying low, not wanting to draw attention to himself. The Order is working hard to prevent him from carrying out his plans. Dumbledore thinks Voldemort wants to build up an army of Death Eaters and a great variety of Dark creatures. Fudge seems to be trying to undermine their efforts because he does not want to believe Voldemort is back. Fudge also thinks Dumbledore wants his job, even though Dumbledore showed no interest after Millicent Bagnold retired. The Daily Prophet has been trying to discredit Dumbledore. He’s already been voted out of the Chairmanship of the International Confederation of Wizards and demoted from Chief Warlock on the Wizengamot, the Wizard High Court and they’re talking about taking away his Order of Merlin, First Class. Voldemort has other plans too; to get something he can only get by stealth. Like a weapon; something he didn’t have last time.
Then Mrs. Weasley stops the talk and sends the students to bed.

Chapter 6 The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black

They have returned to their rooms. Ron throws some Owl Treats to Hedwig and Pigwidgeon. Harry, Ron, Fred and George discuss what they have heard. They wonder what the ‘weapon’ is and who’s got it. George says it’s not necessarily big, as ‘size is no guarantee of power’; like Ginny, who is smaller, and she has a mean Bat-Bogy Hex.
Next morning George wakes Harry. Mrs. Weasley needs help with the Doxys and there’s a nest of dead Puffskeins under the sofa. Hermione, Ginny and Fred will also help with cleaning out the doxys with Doxycide.
Sirius has been feeding Buckbeak who is kept in his mother’s bedroom. He checks the writing desk, peers through the keyhole and says he’s pretty sure it’s a Boggart.
Mrs. Weasley is consulting “Gilderoy Lockhart’s Guide to Household Pests” and they start cleaning out the curtains. Fred pockets a Doxy and quietly explains to Harry that they want to experiment with its venom for their Skiving Snackboxes, sweets which make you ill so you can get out of class. They already have Puking Pastilles, Fainting Fancies and Nosebleed Nougat. Mrs. Weasley says they’ll do the dusty cabinets beside the mantelpiece later. They contain daggers, claws, a coiled snakeskin, silver boxes inscribed in some language and an ornate crystal bottle full of what seems like blood.
Kreacher walks into the room, talking aloud as if nobody can hear him. Sirius asks what he’s doing and finds out Kreacher has been trying to steal stuff again to hide it before it gets thrown out. It was a tapestry he was after.
Sirius explains to Harry that the tapestry shows the family tree of The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black. He’s not on there anymore, as his mother blasted him off after he ran away from home and then stayed at Jame’s, Harry’s father’s house until he was seventeen. Then he got his own place with gold he got from his uncle Alphard, who has also been taken off the family-tree. Sirius Hated his family with their Pure-blood mania. The tree also shows his brother Regulus Black who died about fifteen years ago. He used to be a Death Eater. Sirius’s parents never were Death Eaters but were in favor of purification of the wizarding race, getting rid of Muggle-born and Mudbloods and having pure-bloods in charge. Regulus was killed by Voldemort or, more likely, on his orders. Sirius shows Phineas Nigellus on the tapestry, Sirius’ great-great-grandfather, who used to be Headmaster of Hogwarts. He also shows the names of Araminta Meliflua, cousin of his mother’s, Aunt Elladora, who started the family tradition of beheading old House-elves. Tonks is also related. She’s the daughter of his favorite cousin Andromeda who married with a Muggle-born named Ted Tonks. Andromeda is sister of Bellatrix and Narcissa, wife of Lucius Malfoy and mother of Draco. Sirius and Mrs. Weasley are also cousins by marriage and Mr. Weasley is something like his second cousin once removed. Harry also sees Bellatrix is married to Rodolphus Lestrange, both of them are in Azkaban, as well as Rodolphus’s brother Rabastan. Harry remembers having seen them in Dumbledore’s Pensieve.
Sirius doesn’t like the house because of his family, but it’s good for Headquarters since it’s Unplottable and Dumbledore also added his protection. Dumbledore is Secret-Keeper for the Order.
Later they clean out the cabinets. Sirius gets bitten by something containing Wartcap powder. He smashes something with many legs with a book called Nature’s Nobility: A Wizarding Genealogy. They also see an Order of Merlin First Class, which Sirius’s grandfather ‘won’.
Some days they continue ‘cleaning’ the house, throwing away Black family possessions. Tonks finds a Ghoul in an upstairs toilet.
Harry still sleeps badly, having dreams about corridors and locked doors. The next day will be Harry’s hearing.

Chapter 7 The Ministry of Magic

Harry wakes up early, ready to go to the hearing. Mrs. and Mr. Weasley, Sirius, Lupin and Tonks are waiting in the kitchen. Lupin asks Tonks what she was saying about Scrimgeour. He has been asking her and Kingsley funny questions.
Mr. Weasley tells Harry the hearing will be on his floor, in Amelia Bones’ office. She’s Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. They go to the underground station and take the train to the Ministry visitors’ entrance, an old red telephone box.
They descend into the ground and arrive at the Atrium of the Ministry. Harry sees a fountain with a group of golden statues of a wizard, a witch, a Centaur, a Goblin and a House-elf. A sign beside the pool, full of money, says that all proceeds from the Fountain of Magical Brethren will go to St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.
Harry has to leave his Wand with the security wizard called Eric.
Mr. Weasley talks to a wizard called Bob who’s holding a box with a fire breathing chicken. He says it looks like a breach of the Ban on Experimental Breeding.
They go into a lift. A lift voice calls the names of the departments on the various floors.

They leave at this floor. Mr. Weasley’s office is on the other side of the floor. Although they are still underground, the windows show sunlight. Magical Maintenance decides what weather they’ll get every day.
They pass Auror Headquarters. Harry sees Kingsley Shacklebolt. He and Mr. Weasley talk like they hardly know each other and Mr. Weasley prevents Harry from saying hello to Kingsley by stepping just in time on Harry’s foot. In Kingsley’s cubicle it appears he’s investigating Sirius.
The reach the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office where Mr. Weasley works in a small office. Kingsley gives Mr. Weasley a copy of The Quibbler to give to Sirius. A memo flies in, saying that a third regurgitating public toilet has been reported in Bethal Green. Mr. Weasley is told to investigate immediately.
Perkins has arrived. He tells Mr. Weasley they’ve changed the time and venue of Harry’s hearing and that it started five minutes ago in Courtroom Ten. They hurry to get to the hearing. They take the lift to the Atrium. On the way up a wizard called Bode steps in the lift and talks with Mr. Weasley. They get out of the lift, speed through a corridor, head left, go down a stairs and arrive at Courtroom Ten. Harry is sent in.

Chapter 8 The Hearing

Harry enters Courtroom Ten. He recognizes it, as he visited it inside Dumbledore’s Pensieve. Someone says he’s late. When Harry replies he didn’t know the time had changed, he gets answered that that is not the Wizengamot’s fault and he’s told to sit down in a chair in the front. Above him are about fifty people sitting in the benches. It’s Cornelius Fudge, addressing Harry. Percy is also there, taking notes. Fudge states the hearing, the twelfth of August, offenses committed under the Decree for the Restriction of Underage Sorcery and the International Statute of Secrecy. Interrogators are Cornelius Oswald Fudge, Minister of Magic, Amelia Susan Bones, Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, Dolores Jane Umbridge, Senior Undersecretary to the Minister and Percey Ignatius Weasley as Court Scribe.
Suddenly Harry hears ‘Witness for the Defense, Albus Percival Wulfrick Brian Dumbledore’ behind him, and looking back he sees him arriving. Dumbledore charms a chair and sits next to Harry.
Next Harry is charged with performing the Patronus Charm. Madam Bones is impressed he managed to produce a corporeal Patronus. Harry explains that he had to fight off Dementors but they don’t seem to want to believe him.
Dumbledore calls Mrs. Figg as a witness and she supports Harry’s story. Dumbledore continues to plea Harry’s case and the jury ends up clearing him of all charges.

Chapter 9 The Woes of Mrs. Weasley

Harry’s hearing is over. Dumbledore leaves abruptly. The Wizengamot also are leaving. Harry hurries to leave too and meets outside with Mr. Weasley. They see Fudge speaking with Lucius Malfoy.
They go back up with in lift and go back to Grimmauld Place. Everybody is relieved Harry has been cleared.
Harry’s Scar lights up in pain.
Sirius is looking very sad these days. They think he may have liked it if Harry had been expelled and could have lived with him.
They receive the new booklists for the coming year. Ron and Harry need only 2 new ones, The Standard Book of Spells (grade 5) by Miranda Goshawk and Defensive Magical Theory, by Wilbert Slinkhard. Ron finds out he’s become a Prefect, as well as Hermione who comes walking in. Mrs. Weasley is ecstatic. Ron may choose a present. He wants a new broom.
They start packing their trunks. Ron receives his new broom.
Everybody is at Grimmauld Place. Mrs. Weasley asks Moody to look to see what is in the writing desk upstairs. He confirms it’s a Boggart.
Bill and Mr. Weasley arrive with Mundungus Fletcher. Kingsley Shacklebolt, Tonks and Ginny are also present.
Sirius tells that in his year, neigher he nor James was prefect. It was Lupin.
Harry goes to Fred and George who are talking softly with Fletcher. They show him Dung got them Venomous Tentacula seeds which they need for the Skiving Snackboxes. Since it’s a Class C Non-Tradable Substance it was difficult to get. They get Dung to lower the price after commenting ‘his best joke was six Sickles for a bag of Knarl quills’
Mrs. Weasley goes up to deal with the Boggart.
Moody shows Harry an old picture of the original Order of the Phoenix, which he found when he was looking for his spare Invisibility cloak since Podmore didn’t return his best one. The picture shows Moody, Dumbledore, Dedalus Diggle, Marlene McKinnon who was killed two weeks after the photo was taken, Frank and Allice Longbottom, the parents of Neville. Also there’s Emmeline Vance, Lupin, Benjy Fenwick who also died, Edgar Bones brother of Amelia Bones, who also was killed. Furthermore Podmore, Caradoc Dearborn who vanished six weeks after the photo, Hagrid, Elphias Doge, Gideon Prewett and his brother Fabian who were also killed. Also there’s Dumbledore’s brother Aberforth, Dorcas Meadowes who was killed by Voldemort personally, Sirius, Wormtail and his father James and mother Lily.
Harry, feeling sad from seeing his parents, goes upstairs. He finds Mrs. Weasley all upset with the Boggart, shifting shape from a dead Ron to a Mr. Weasley to a dead Bill and so on. She’s trying the Riddikulus but it doesn’t work. Finally Lupin comes up and the Boggart vanishes in a puff of smoke. Mrs. Weasley has been extremely worried with all her family and the Order’s dealings.

Chapter 10 Luna Lovegood

Harry has troubled dreams about his parents, Mrs. Weasley, Ron and Hermione and about a corridor ending in a locked door. Ron wakes him. He, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Fred and George get ready to go to King’s Cross to take the Hogwarts Express. Moody prefers to wait till Podmore gets back, otherwise the guard will be one short to take Harry.
Sirius goes as Snuffles and together with Moody and Tonks, but without Podmore, they take Harry to Platform nine and three-quarters.
Harry says goodby and they get on the train. Fred and George go looking for Lee, Ron and Hermione to the prefect compartment, and Harry and Ginny go look for a compartment. They meet Neville and sit down in a compartment where Luna Lovegood is sitting. She’s very strange. Her wand is behind her ear. She is wearing a necklace of Butterbeer corks and reading a copy of the Quibbler upside down. She knows Harry but doesn’t know Neville. Ginny tells Luna who Neville is and Luna replies “Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure”.
Neville got a Mimbulus mimbletonia for his birthday. His Great Uncle Archie got it for him from Assyria. Neville tries to shows the defensive mechanism of the plant and it sprays all over Harry. At that moment Cho Chang comes in to say hi to Harry. Ginny cleans up with a Scourgify.
About an hour later Ron and Hermione turn up. They tell them that Draco is also a Prefect, as well as Pansy Parkinson from Slytherin. From Hufflepuff it’s Ernie Macmillan and Hanna Abbott and for Ravenclaw it’s Anthony Goldstein and Padma Patil.
Harry reads articles from Luna’s Quibbler. It has a story about Sirius’s escaping from Azkaban and says that according to Doris Purkiss it may not have been Sirius. She says Sirius is, in fact, Stubby Boardman, lead singer of The Hobgoblins.
Another article is about Fudge denying plans to take over Gringotts. There’s also an article about the Tutshill Tornados and one about a wizard claiming to have flown to the moon on a Cleansweep Six, and an article about ancient runes and a spell to make somebody’s ears turn into kumquats.
Draco enters with Crabbe and Goyle. Draco says he’ll be “dogging Harry’s footsteps”. They wonder if he knew Sirius was at King’s Cross.
They arrive at Hogwarts. Professor Grubbly-Plank is picking up first-years. The coaches to take them have strange horse-like creatures. Ron and Hermione don’t see them, but Luna does. They go into the coaches to the castle.

Chapter 11 The Sorting Hat’s New Song

Everybody goes to the castle and gathers in Great Hall. They see a new teacher at the staff table. Harry recognizes her as Umbridge, who works for Fudge, from his trial.
The Sorting Ceremony starts and the Sorting Hat sings his song, different from other years, calling for unity amongst the Houses and warning them. Nearly Headless Nick says the hat had given warnings before.
Professor McGonagall goes over the names, from Euan Abercrombie who goes into Gryffindor to Rose Zeller, who goes into Hufflepuff.
After dinner Dumbledore announces that Umbridge will be the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Umbridge then addresses the students. Most students find it dull, but Hermione, afterwards, explains the Ministry is interfering at Hogwarts.
Harry goes alone to Gryffindor Tower. He doesn’t know the password, but Neville arrives and gives the Fat Lady the password “Mimbulus mimbletonia”
Harry and Neville go up to the dormitory. Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnigan are already there. Seamus, who is putting his poster of the Kenmare Kestrels Quidditch team straight, tells Harry his mother didn’t want him to return to Hogwarts because of Harry and Dumbledore. She believes the stories in the Daily Prophet. They get into an argument.
Neville says his grandmother always knew Voldemort would be back and that if Dumbledore says so, it’s true.

Chapter 12 Professor Umbridge

Fred and George advertise for people to test their products. Hermione says Lavender also does not believe Harry and Dumbledore. At breakfast Angelina tells Harry she’s been made Quidditch Captain. George mentions they’ll have a hard year with OWL’s coming up. He remembers that last year Patricia Stimpson and Kenneth Towler had problems too, the latter having trouble because Fred put Bulbadox powder in his pajamas. They even think about not continuing next year; year of the NEWT’s.
During break, Cho comes up to Harry for a talk. Ron starts about her supporting the Tutshill Tornados and Cho leaves.
At Potions they have to make the Draught of Peace. Many mess up but Snape punishes Harry, with an Evanesco Snape vanishes Harry’s potion.
Next he has Divination from Professor Trelawney. They read from The Dream Oracle by Inigo Imago for dream interpretation.
Finally they have Defense Against the Dark Arts. Umbridge tells them they will learn theory from “Defensive Magical Theory”. Hermione asks about it and Umbridge explains there will be no actual practicing spells this year. Harry gets into an argument with Umbridge about whether Voldemort is back and as a result he gets a week detention and is sent to McGonagall.
McGonagall warns Harry to take it easy, since Umbridge will be reporting to the Ministry.

Chapter 13 Detention with Dolores

Harry, Ron and Hermione return to the common room. Hermione again warns Fred and George, who are trying some stuff on a bunch of first-years, to stop.
In Charms they practice Summoning Charms and in Transfiguration Vanishing Spells which are much easier than Conjuring Spells.
In the afternoon they have Care of Magical Creatures with Professor Grubbly-Plank. They get to study Bowtruckles. Harry asks Grubbly-Plank about Hagrid, but she does not give an answer. Draco says that ‘maybe Hagrid got himself badly injured by messing with stuff that’s too big for him’. On their way to the greenhouses Luna tells him she believed Voldemort is back and that Harry fought and escaped from him. Some people laugh but Luna said that people also used to think that Blibbering Humdinger and the Crumple-Horned Snorkack didn’t exist. Ernie Macmillan says he also believes Harry.
Harry goes to Umbridge for detention. Harry has to write ‘I must not tell lies’ with a quill of hers which cuts the skin of his hand simultaneously. When returning late to the common room, Ron is still doing his homework.
Ron doesn’t tell why he’s so busy and seems sneaky. Lurking behind a statue of Lachlan the Lanky, he gives a great leap of surprise when he sees Harry and tries to hide his new Cleansweep Eleven behind his back. Then he confesses he’s practising for Keeper try-outs. Ron sees the marks on Harry’s hand from doing lines.
During try-outs, Harry is again in detention. While he’s writing lines, he’s watching the Quidditch pitch but it’s hard to see much. When Umbridge checks out his hand, he get’s a sudden seering pain in his Scar. He’s allowed to go.
Back in the common room, he finds out Ron is the new Keeper. Angelina tells Harry that Ron is not fabulous but was chosen over Vicky Frobisher and Geoffrey Hooper.
Harry talks with Hermione about the pain when Umbridge touched him. Hermione thinks that she’s not possesed by Voldemort and unlikely to be under influence of Imperius Curse. She advises Harry to talk to Dumbledore but Harry prefers to tell Sirius.

Chapter 14 Percy and Padfoot

Harry wakes up and writes a letter to Sirius. Next he sets out to the owlery. Nearly Headless Nick warns him that Peeves is planning a joke on the next person passing the bust of Paracelsus. During his walk, Mrs Norris passes by and disappears behind the statue of Wilfred the Wistful.
In the owlery he sends Hedwig away with the letter. When he watches her fly over the Forbidden Forest, he sees the strange horse-like creature rise out of the trees, circle around and plunge back into the trees.
Cho enters the owlery to send a birthday-present to her mother. Next Filch storms in, accusing Harry to have ordered Dungbombs. Cho sticks up for Harry
During breakfast Hermione reads in the Daily Prophet that Sirius has been spotted in London. They think that Lucius Malfoy may have spotted Sirius/Snuffles at Kings Kross. Another article says Sturgis Podmore has been arrested by watchwizard Eric Munch trying to break into a top security door at the Ministry of Magic. He has been sentenced to six months in Azkaban by the Wizengamot.
Hermione says they should work on the essay for Sprout and start on McGonagall’s Inanimatus Conjurus Spell before lunch instead of practising for Quidditch.
In the afternoon they go to Quidditch practice. Malfoy and other Slytherins are watching, trying to provoke them and making fun of them. Ron has a bad training session, accidently giving Katie a nosebleed. Fred, by mistake, gives Katie a Blood Blisterpod and they stop training when her nosebleed is too bad to continue.
In the evening Ron receives a letter from Percy, brought by Hermes. He advises Ron not to fraternize with Harry, Dumbledore and his supporters. He also says that that the Ministry will be taking steps at Hogwarts and he should watch out for tomorrows’ issue of the Daily Prophet.
Sirius’s head appears in the fireplace, using the Floo Network, to talk to Harry. They talk about his scar hurting, and about Umbridge. Lupin also does not like her, because she drafted a bit of anti-Werewolf legislation two years ago. Umbridge loathes part-humans. They tell him Umbridge does not let them train spells and Sirius explains Umbridge is afraid Dumbledore is building his own private army to take on the Ministry of Magic. Sirius says there’s no news from Hagrid yet.

Chapter 15 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor

The next issue of the Daily Prophet announces Umbridge will be the new Hogwarts High Inquisitor, monitoring Hogwarts educational system. Percy gave comments in an interview. Umbridge will be inspecting her fellow Professors. Wizengamot elders Griselda Marchbanks and Tiberius Ogden have resigned in protest.
During Potions they need to make a Strengthening Solution.
In Divination Professor Trelawney has her lesson inspected by Umbridge. Trelawney continues her lesson on prophetic dreams, students having to use “The Dream Oracle” again. Umbridge questions Trelawny about her history and classes. Trelawney confirms she’s the great-great-granddaughter of the celebrated Seer named Cassandra Trelawney. She asks Trelawney to predict something but Trelawney answers the Inner Eye does not See upon command. After a hesitation she does give a warning to Umbridge that “she’s in grave peril”.
The three have Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson next. Hermione has a discussion with Umbridge. Harry gets another week detention and Angelina is furious because he’ll miss Quidditch practices again.
During Transfiguration with Professor McGonagall there’s another inspection by Umbridge, as well as during Care of Magical Creatures with Professor Grubbly-Plank. Umbridge asks her if she knows where Hagrid is but she doesn’t. Grubbly-Plank says she intends to make the students familiar with the normal OWL topics, Unicorns, Nifflers, Porlocks and Kneazles and Crups and Knarls.
Harry’s hand is bleeding severely from detention. Hermione has some liquid containing Murtlap tentacles for healing. She suggests to create their own group to practice Defense Against the Dark Arts themselves. She also suggests Harry should be the teacher.

Chapter 16 The Hog’s Head

Hermione asks Harry again to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts.
In Hogsmeade they go to the Hog’s Head. There are not many people inside the bar, only a man at the bar with his head wrapped in dirty bandages, two figures in hoods at a table, and a witch with a black veil beside the fireplace. They order some Butterbeers.
Harry, Ron and Hermione sit at a table when the other students which Hermione invited arrive. The group consists of Neville, Dean, Lavender, Padma, Parvati, Cho, Cho’s friend Marietta, Susan Bones, Luna, Katie, Alicia, Angelina, Colin, Dennis, Ernie, Justin, Hanna, Anthony, Michael Corner, Terry, Ginny, Zacharias Smith, Fred, George and Lee.
Hermione tells them they should start practicing Defense because Voldemort is back. Harry talks with the others when asked about Cedric. Susan says her aunt is Amelia Bones of the ministry. They also talk about all the times Harry had his ‘adventures’. They all agree to take lessons from Harry. Hermione also tells them Umbridge is afraid Dumbledore wants the students trained as his own private army against the Ministry. Luna says it makes sense since, according to her, Fudge has his own private army of Heliopaths. Now all they need is some place to meet. Everybody signs their name on a parchment Hermione brought, hereby agreeing not to tell Umbridge.
The group leave. Neither Ron nor Hermione liked Zacherias, but Hermione says he overheard and the more people the better. Michael and his friends would not have come if he hadn’t been going out with Ginny. Ron instantly does not like Michael.
They walk through the streets. Hermione buys a new quill at Scrivenshaft’s Quill Shop.

Chapter 17 Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four

Harry and Ron walk downstairs, discussing a new Quidditch move called the Sloth Grip Roll when they see a group of people reading a large sign on the Gryffindor noticeboard. It’s a new Decree banning all type of student meetings without knowledge of the High Inquisitor, Umbridge. They wonder if she knows about their plans, and if one of the students might have told her. Hermione says that’s not possible, as she has put a jinx on the parchment they signed. They decide to go ahead with the plan anyway.
Angelina tells Harry and Ron that they will also need permission for the Quidditch team.
During History of Magic, Hedwig is at the window bringing a letter. Harry lets her in and finds out she’s hurt. Harry leaves class and goes to the staff-room to see Professor Grubbly-Plank. She looks at Hedwig and says she’s been attacked. Sometimes Thestrals go for birds but Hagrid’s got the Hogwarts Thestrals well-trained not to touch owls. Professor McGonagall warns Harry that ‘communication channels in and out of Hogwarts may be watched’. The letter is from Sirius, telling him to meet again at the fireplace. They wonder if the letter has been read and re-sealed by anybody.
Draco is bragging about Lucius Malfoy’s influence at the Ministry and how Slytherin already got Quidditch permission from Umbridge. He also makes fun of Mr. Weasley, and of Harry and says that it is only a matter of time before the Ministry sends him to a special ward of St. Mungo’s. At that moment Neville tries to get at Draco and has to be held back by Harry and Ron.
Potions class starts and Professor Snape has his class monitored by Umbridge. They continue working on the Strengthening Solution. Umbridge is interrogating Snape about him wanting the job of Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
Harry is going to Divination. Trelawney is very upset because she got bad results from her inspection.
Gryffindor didn’t get quidditch permission yet.
Fred and George are doing a showcase of their Skiving Snackboxes. They show a product producing a vomiting-reaction. Lee is using a Vanishing Spell to clear the vomit.
Sirius appears in the fireplace. He knows about their plans of practicing Defense Against the Dark Arts themselves. Mundungus told him. He was disguised as the woman in the Hog’s Head while keeping an eye on Harry. He also has been ordered by Mrs. Weasley to tell Ron not to participate and advise Harry and Hermione likewise. She could not say it herself, she’s on duty that evening. Sirius on the other hand thinks it’s an excellent idea. He suggests to use the secret passageway behind the big mirror on the fourth floor, but Harry says Fred and George told him it’s blocked. Sirius responds with a frown and says he’ll think about other options. Then he suddenly gets alarmed and disappears, the next moment they see Umbridge’s hand coming out of the fireplace, trying to grab anything or anybody she can get hold of.

Chapter 18 Dumbledore’s Army

During Charms Hermione says she suspects that Umbridge has been reading Harry’s mail, especially since Filch has accused Harry of ordering Dungbombs. She thinks Umbridge simply was looking for an excuse to get Harry’s mail. Hermione already masters the Silencing Charm. Ron, trying the Silencio can’t make it work, and both he and Harry get extra homework.
Angelina comes over to tell Harry she got permission for the Quidditch team.
Hermione is having doubts about starting Defense practice themselves, although Sirius was all for it. She thinks he may be getting frustrated about being locked in himself.
Despite the rain, there’s Quidditch practice. Fred and George even talk about how they should have find a way to skip practice, Fred says they shouldn’t have offered Angelina to buy some Puking Pastilles, as now she would know if they use them. George suggests trying the Fever Fudge instead. They use a ¤ Impervius to keep their glasses dry. Even then it’s difficult to stay on the broom in the rain, Harry has to do the Sloth Grip Roll at one moment because he almost falls. After an hour they give up and go inside. Harry’s Scar hurts again. Harry tells Ron he felt that Voldemort is angry, he wants something done and it’s not happening fast enough. Now he also remembered the two prior times, the first time Voldemort was feeling furious and the second time when Harry was in Umbridge’s office Voldemort was feeling happy.
Back in the Gryffindor room Harry has homework to do. He is reading about the uses of scurvy-grass, lovage and sneezewort. These plants are brain-inflaming, used in Confusing and Befuddlement Draughts. Harry doses off and dreams about the corridor again. Harry is woken by Dobby, bringing him back Hedwig. Dobby turns out to have taken all the clothes Hermione left for the House-elves lying around; some he took for Winky. Neither Winky, nor the other elves, care for the clothes. They find it insulting. Dobby says he heard Harry having a bad dream. He looks at Harry and says he wishes to help Harry, because Harry set him free. But Harry responds that Dobby can’t help him. Then after a moment Harry asks if Dobby knows a place big enough for twenty-eight people to practice Defense. Dobby tells Harry about the Room of Requirement, a place a person can only enter when they have real need of it. Sometimes it’s there and sometimes not, but when it appears it’s equipped for the seeker’s needs. He says Filch also knows about it. Dobby tells Harry how to find it.
Harry calls for a first Defense Against the Dark Arts meeting. They will meet at eight at night, opposite of the tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy.
In the evening, Harry uses the Marauder’s Map to check if it’s safe. They find the Room and enter. It has shelves with instruments, a Sneakoscope, Secrecy Sensors and Foe-Glass. It also has books like A Compendium of Common Curses and their Counter-Actions, The Dark Arts Outsmarted, Self-Defensive Spellwork and Jinxes for the Jinxed. They make Harry leader and give themselves the name Dumbledore’s Army, DA.
They start practicing, beginning with the Disarming Charm Expelliarmus. Harry partners with Neville. Fred and George pull a prank on Zacharias, making him mute so he can’t say spells. Ginny goes with Michael. Luna goes with Justin, Colin with Dennis. Cho practices with her friend Marietta. Marietta was forbidden to go by her mother who works at the Ministry. Luna tells her that her father (Mr Lovegood) is actively anti-Fudge and that Fudge claimed to have goblins assassinated, to have had poisons developed in the Department of Mysteries and something about the Umgubular Slashkilter.
They plan to practice again next wednesday.

Chapter 19 The Lion and the Serpent

The DA meetings are showing progress. Hermione gives everybody a fake Galleon to announce the date of the next meeting on the edge of the coins. All of them have a Protean Charm to mimic Harry’s coin so Harry can set the time. Everybody is stunned with a Charm that is NEWT level. Terry boot asks why she’s not in Ravenclaw because of her intelligence, but Hermione says the Sorting Hat considered that but it decided on Gryffindor in the end.
The first Quidditch match between Slytherin and Gryffindor is coming up. Slytherins are regularly attempting to put hexes on the Gryffindor players but Snape turns a deaf ear and when Alicia has huge eyebrows as a result of a hex, he says she must have attempted a Hair-thickening Charm and also refuses to believe fourteen eyewitnesses seeing Miles Bletchley hit her from behind with a jinx. Ron is playing unpredictably, sometimes bad, sometimes excellent. Once he made a save they compared to the Irish Keeper Barry Ryan against the Poland Chaser Ladislaw Zamojski. Ron is being harassed relentlessly by the Slytherins.
The morning of the game Ron looks like when he had put a Slug-vomiting Charm on himself. Angelina tells them Slytherin has two new Beaters, Crabbe and Goyle. They fly out to the pitch where the Slytherin team is already waiting. Montague is their new captain. The game starts, Lee doing the commenting as usual. The game is difficult for Angelina, Alicia and Katie. Warrington scores the first goal for Slytherin. Pucey scores the second. Suddenly Harry sees the Snitch and both he and Draco chase it. Harry catches it and a moment later is hit by a Bludger which Crabbe hit to him after he caught it. Crabbe is then reprimanded by Madam Hooch.
Malfoy starts making fun of Ron, Mrs. Weasley and Mr. Weasley and next Alicia, Angelina and Katie are needed to stop Fred from leaping at him while Harry holds George. Then Draco makes fun of Harry’s parents and the next moment Harry and George are in a fight. Madam Hooch stops it with a ¤ Impedimenta and Harry and George are send to McGonagall. While McGonagall is giving them detention, Umbridge comes in and shows a new Ministry Decree, giving her supreme power over punishments, sanctions and removal privileges of students. Harry, George, and even Fred, are banned for life to play Quidditch and their brooms are confiscated.
Ron comes in the common room much later, as he had been walking. Ron wants to quit the team but when he’s told about the lifetime bans he decides not to quit. Then Hermione tells them Hagrid is back.

Chapter 20 Hagrid’s Tale

Harry, Ron and Hermione go and see Hagrid, taking Harry’s Marauder’s Map and Invisibility Cloak. Hagrid’s face and hands are full of congealed blood, cuts and bruises. He slaps a piece of Dragon mean on his face for healing. Hagrid admits he has been away looking for the Giants. He just got back from his mission. He starts telling about the journey.
He went with Madam Maxime. Dumbledore told them where to look, but they had to take a detour to shake off someone from the Ministry tailing them. They went through France, Poland and Minsk, and finally arrived in the mountains and found the Giants.
In the morning, they went to see them. Dumbledore told them to bring the Gurg, the Giant chief named Karkus, a gift every day. The first gift they brought him was a branch of Gubraithian Fire and told him it is a gift from Albus Dumbledore with respectful greetings.
The next day they brought him a Goblin made battle helmet and they talk to him. Karkus heard of Dumbledore and the fact that he argued against the killing of the last Giants in Britain. He seemed interested in what Dumbledore had to say, as were some others who spoke a bit English.
That night there was a fight between the Giants, in the morning Karkus was dead and the new Gurg is Golgomath. When they went over to present a roll of dragon skin as a present, Hagrid was caught and Maxime had to rescue him using Conjunctivius Curses.
They spent a few days waiting in hiding. They found out Death Eaters were bringing Golgomath gifts.Hagrid had recognized Walden Macnair.
They look for Giants in hiding to see if they can find some who would consider taking their side. Macnair and the others were trying to find them. They find three Giants in hiding. Later some more come but then Golgomath’s lot raided the caves and after that these Giants didn’t want anything to do with them anymore.
Hermione asks Hagrid about his mother Fridwulfa, but Hagrid was told she died years ago.
Suddenly Umbridge knocks on the door and the three hide under the Invisibility Cloak. Hagrid meets with Umbridge for the first time. Umbridge seems to be looking for Harry Ron and Hermione. She saw footprints in the snow towards Hagrid’s cabin. She questions Hagrid thoroughly and asks why Hagrid went away. He answers that it was for health reasons and a change of scene. She asks ‘Mountain scenery?’. Harry suspects Umbridge knows where Hagrid has been. She finally leaves.
Hermione suggests to Hagrid to teach something acceptable, considering a coming inspection by Umbridge. Harry has something different and interesting in mind and much more impressive. He’s been bringing them on for years, and he reckons he’s got the only domestic herd of it in Britain. Hagrid is deaf to Hermione’s objections to teach something sensible.
Hermione uses an Obliteration Charm to leave no tracks in the snow on the way back.

Chapter 21 The Eye of the Snake

Hermione tries to convince Hagrid again to teach accepted material but Hagrid can not imagine ‘anybody rather studying Knarls than Chimaeras. He still does not want to tell what he’s keeping in the Forbidden Forest, it’s a surprise.
Hagrid has his first lesson. He takes the class into the Forbidden forest. After ten minutes they stop and Hagrid puts a half a cow on the ground. Harry sees great black winged horses emerging from the darkness. Most people appear not to see them. Only two other people, a Slytherin boy and Neville see them too. Hagrid explains they are Thestrals. Hermione explains only people who have seen death can see Thestrals.
Professor Umbridge arrives for an inspection. Hagrid explains the students they started with one male and five femail Thestrals. Tenebrus is the name of the first born in the Forest. Umbridge deliberately makes Hagrid’s inspection awfull. Neville tells Umbridge he saw his grandfather die.
Christmas is coming and Harry is invited to spend it at the Weasleys. At the last DA meeting Dobby has decorated the room. Harry quickly pulls down a mistletoe when Luna points it out and she says that was good thinking because they’re often infested with Nargles. Angelina tells them Harry, Fred and George have been replaced for the Quidditch team. Ginny is the new Seeker and the new Beaters are Andrew Kirke and Jack Sloper. Everybody in DA is making progress. After the meeting is over, Harry remains alone with Cho, she’s crying about Cedric.
Half an hour later Harry returns to the common room, Hermione is writing a letter, Ron is doing homework. Hermione asks and Harry confirms that he and Cho kissed. Hermione knows about Cho crying all the time these days. She mentions the letter is to Viktor.
Harry goes to sleep and he dreams. While dreaming, the dream changes and he feels his body smooth, powerfull and flexible. He’s gliding between metal bars across the floor. He sees strange vibrant colours in the dark. He turns his head and goes into a corridor. First it seems empty but then he sees a man sitting on the floor, his outline gleaming in the dark. He wants to bite the man but has more important work to do. The man moves, a silver Cloak falls from his legs as the man jumps to his feet, drawing a wand. Then he rears high and strikes three times, the man yells in pain and falls silent.
Harry wakes up, his Scar in agony. Ron is standing over him looking frightened. Harry manages to say that Mr Weasley is attacked and seriously hurt by a huge Snake. Neville goes for help. McGonagall arrives and Harry tells her what happened.

Chapter 22 St Mungo’s Hospital

McGonagall takes Harry and Ron to Dumbledore’s office. They hear voices coming from the room. They enter. Harry tells Dumbledore what happened. Dubledore does not look at Harry but asks how he saw it. Harry says he saw from the Snake’s perspective, through its eyes. Dumbledore calls two of the Headmasters in the pictures on the walls, Dilys and Everard, he tells Everard to raise the alarm and both move out of their pictures. Harry now understands who had been talking when they had knocked on the door. Dumbledore tells them the Headmasters can go to other places where their pictures hang. Then he sends Fawkes away to send a warning. Next he takes a silver instrument and tips it with his wand. It makes clinking noises and green smoke comes out of it, then a serpents head forms and Dumbledore talks with it. The head dives in two and then Dumbledore makes it go away.
Everard retuns to his portrait. He yelled for someone to check. They found Mr Weasley covered in blood. He says he ran along to Elfrida Cragg’s portrait to get a good view. Moments later Dilys returns and tells Mr Weasley was taken to St Mungo’s Hospital. McGonagall is send to wake the other Weasley children. She asks about Mrs Weasley but Dumbledore answers that that will be a job for Fawkes after he’s finished keeping a lookout for anybody approaching.
Dumbledore takes an old blackened kettle and performs a ¤ Portus on it. He calls one of the other Headmasters called Phineas wearing Slytherin colours of green and silver, and tells him to go to his other portrait to deliver a message. Phineas complaints he’s too tired but Headmaster Armando Dippet says they are honour-bound to give service to the present Headmaster. Phineas is send to tell Sirius that Mr Weasley is hurt and Harry and the Weasleys will be arriving shortly. Harry recognises Phineas’s voice from the picture in the bedroom in Sirius’ house.
Ginny, George and Fred come in with Professor McGonagall and all will be send to Grimmauld Place. There is a flash of flame and Fawkes leaves a single golden feather, it’s Fawkes’s warning. Professor Umbridge must know they are out or their beds. They take the old kettle which Dumbledore charmed into a Portkey and when Dumbledore looks at Harry, Harry suddenly feels an intense hate for Dumbledore while his Scar burns white-hot.
The next moment the portkey takes them away to Grimmauld Place and they arrive in the basement kitchen. Sirius askes what happened and Harry tells again, only not that he was watching from inside the snake because Fred, George and Ginny might think something of it. Fred, George an Ginny want to go to St Mungo’s immediately but Sirius convinces them that’s not wise and they wait for Mrs Weasley to get there. Fawkes drops by a scroll of parchment accompanied by a tail feather. It’s from Mrs Weasley, sying Mr Weasly is still alive and she’s going to St Mungo’s, they need to stay there and she’ll send news.
After hours of waiting, Mrs Weasley arrives and she tells them he’ll be all right. They’ll go there later, Bill is with him now.
Harry tells sirius about the dream and about the flash of hate he felt for Dumbledore just before they transported by portkey.
In the morning they go to St Mungo’s, accompanied by Tonks and Moody. Tonks is interested in Harry’s vision, asking him if he has any Seer blood in his family. The entrance is at a department store called Purge & Dowse Ltd. They enter into a crowded reception area. It’s full of witches and wizards, some having strange symptoms like a witch with steam coming from her mouth, a warlock clanging like a bell when he moves. Healers are walking all around.
They enter the queue for Enquiries. Harry sees a portrait of Dilys Derwent, the Headmistress he saw in Dumbledore’s office. At the desk he sees the different departments, Artefact Accidents on the ground floor, Creature-Induced Injuries on the first, Magical Bugs on second, Potion and Plant Poisoning on third, Spell Damage on fourth and Visitors’ Tearoom / Hospital Shop on fifth.
On the front of the queue an old stooped wizard with a hearing trumpet is there to see Broderick Bode and next a wizard with his daughter who has sprouted wings, they are sent to the fourth floor. They’re next and send to the first floor, Dai Llewellyn Ward. They arrive at the ward and see that Healer-in-Charge is Hippocrates Smethwyck and Trainee Healer is Augustus Pye.
In the ward Harry sees a portrait with written by it Urquhart Rackharrow. It says he’s the inventor of the Entrail-expelling Curse. There’s only three patients. Mr Weasley says he’s fine, only the bleeding does not want to stop so he can’t leave yet, it seems that there was some unusual kind of poison in the snake’s fangs that keeps the wound open. He has to keep taking a Blood-Replenishing Potion.
One of the two other patients, a wizard, has been bitten by a Werewolf. The other one, a witch, does not want to tell what bit her, so they think it must have been something she was handling illegally. He also says he’s been reading in the Daily Prophet that Willy Widdershins was arrested, he turned out to be behind the regurgitating toilets. They found him when one of his jinxes backfired and he was unconsious. Widdershin came off the charge, possibly ‘gold changed hands’. Now he’s been caught trying to sell biting doorknobs to Muggles, two Muggles are in St Mungo’s at that moment.
They are send out of the room to let in Tonks and Moody, but they overhear some part of the conversation with Extendable Ears, they’re worried about the connection Harry and Voldemort have and if Harry is a risk or at risk.

Chapter 23 Christmas on the Closed Ward

Harry is back at Grimmauld Place. Mrs. Weasley is worried about him. He thinks he’s the weapon Voldemort is after; a way to spy on the Order of the Phoenix.
Phineas Nigellus appears in his frame and talks to Harry, who wants to run away. He brings a message from Dumbledore, telling him to stay where he is. He has another dream about the corridor, it gets clearer every time he dreams about it.
It’s Christmas. Hermione has come back from skiing holiday and talks to Harry. She came on the Knight Bus. He also talks with Ron and Ginny. Ginny tells Harry he’s not being possessed, she knows what it’s like from experience.
For Christmas presents Harry gets a Broom Compass and a homework planner. From Sirius and Lupin he got books titled Practical Defensive Magic and its Use Against the Dark Arts. Sirius seems more happy then ever. From Hagrid he got a magically protected wallet with fangs, from Tonks a model of a Firebolt, from Ron Every Flavor Beans, from Mr. and Mrs. Weasley the usual hand-knitted jumper and some pies and from Dobby, a painting.
Fred and George Apparate and tell them their mother is crying because Percy sent back his gift.
Harry gave Hermione a book called New Theory of Numerology. Hermione also has a present for Kreacher and they go to his bedroom to leave it there. In Kreachers bedroom they see pictures among who one of Bellatrix Lestrange, the glass mended with Spellotape. Nobody has seen Kreacher lately.
They go by car to St. Mungo’s and wait in line at the reception, Bill joins them. Somebody in front of the line is sent to the fourth floor to Spell Damage. Next they go to Mr. Weasley. He asks if anybody has seen Healer Smethwyck.
They have a discussion about Mr. Weasley trying stitches to close his wound, a muggle remedy, after Trainee Healer Augustus Pye suggested it.
All but Mrs. Weasley go up to the tearoom on the fifth floor. Some Healer in a painting is bugging Ron that he’s got spattergroit.
On the Spell Damage floor they see Professor Lockhart and a Healer [named Miriam Strout] ‘invites’ them to visit him. The Healer leads them into the Janus Thickey Ward by unlocking the door with a Alohomora. They go along. The Healer tells them it’s their long-term resident ward, they have been making improvement with Mr Bode who seems to be regaining the power of speech though not speaking any language they recognis.e Lockhart talks about his fanmail from Gladys Gudgeon. In a bed opposite they see a wizard called Broderick mumbling to himself who receives a potted plant as christmas present. Two beds further a woman called Agnes is covered in fur.
Harry sees Neville and his grandmother. They meet with them both but Neville seems embarrassed. His grandmother says Neville should be proud of his father Frank and mother Alice.
When they leave Harry tells the others it was Bellatrix Lestrange who used the Cruciatus Curse on Neville’s parents untill they lost their minds.

Chapter 24 Occlumency

Kreacher turns up again, he seems to have been lurking in the attic and looks in a better mood then before. Sirius spends more and more time upstairs with Buckbeak.
At Grimmauld Place Harry is called to talk to Professor Snape in the kitchen. Sirius is also waiting sitting at the table. Harry is told that Dumbledore want him to learn Occlumency, an obscure branch of magical defense against external penetration. To Harry’s regret Snape will be teaching him. Even Sirius asks why Dumbledore can’t teach Harry but Dumbledore left the task to Snape. Sirius and Snape get into an argument and almost end up fighting but then the Weasley family walk in. Mr Weasley is completely cured.
The next day they take the Knight Bus and are escorted by Tonks and Lupin. Sirius gives Harry a package saying it contains ‘a way of letting him know if Snape’s giving him a hard time’. The Knight bus is full of people. They pay Stan the conductor. Stan tells Harry that he and Ernie don’t believe the stories about Harry. The ride is very bumpy and Ron complains. Stan says he got a tip to have them skip the queue, right after they let off Madam Marsh, who’s not feeling well, at a small pub. They fly through Hogsmeade and arrive finally at Hogwarts. They say goodby to Tonks and Lupin. Tonks tells Harry to do well at Ocllumency, Snape is a superb Occlumens.
Harry talks to Cho and he makes a date for Valentine’s Day.
Entering Snape’s office, he sees Dumbledore’s Pensieve on the desk. Snape tells Harry he needs to learn Occlumency to protect himself from Voldemort. Voldemort is highly skilled at Legilimency, the ability to extract feelings and memories from another person’s mind. They are safe now since time and space matter in magic, Voldemort is at a considerable distance and the walls and grounds of Hogwarts are guarded by many ancient spells and charms to ensure the bodily and mental safety of everybody. Only the curse that failed to kill Harry seems to make the connection between Harry and Voldemort an exception. Snape tells Harry that Voldemort realised Harry was there when Voldemort was possessing the snake and Harry saw events through its eyes.
Snape puts some of his memories in the Pensieve.
Next Snape uses a Legilimens to enter Harry’s mind, and Harry relives all kind of memories. Snape can see all of them, among them the Sorting Hat telling Harry he would do great in Slytherin, the time that Hermione was in the Hospital wing and covered with black hair, the time that a hundred Dementors were closing in on him beside the lake. Harry manages to break the mind-invasion when the memory of Cho and the mistletoe come up. Snape is rubbing his wrist which shows an angry weal, like a scorch mark. He asks if Harry meant to produce a Stinging Hex, but Harry apparently did it without being aware. Snape tells Harry to repell him with his brain and not need to resort to his wand.
They trie again and this time memories flash by of a great black dragon, his parents waving at him from an enchanted mirror and of Cedric Diggory lying dead on the ground.
Anoter time they try and now he remembers Mr Weasley leading him through a corridor and Harry suddenly he knows and he’s down on the floor again. He realises the corridor he’s been dreaming about is a corridor in the Ministry leading to the Department of Mysteries. He asks Snape what’s in the Department but Snape sends him away.
Harry finds Ron and Hermione in the Library and tells them about the corridor in the Ministry.
Back in the common room, Fred and George are selling a new item, Headless Hats, which use some kind of Invisibility Spell to make their heads disappear.
Harry goes up to his room. When he enters, he hears a maniacal laughter ringing in his ears and feels an extatic happiness. Harry has blacked out. When it’s over he tells Ron that Voldemort was feeling happy, something he has hoped for has happened.

Chapter 25 The Beetle at Bay

They find out why Voldemort was so happy. The next morning Daily Prophet has an article about ten Death Eaters who escaped from Azkaban. It shows the names and crimes they had been convicted for. Among them Antonin Dolohov who was convicted for the murder of Gideon and Fabian Prewett, Augustus Rookwood who was convicted for leaking Ministry secrets to Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange who was convicted for the torture and permanent incapitation of Frank and Allice Longbottom. The Ministry had announced the breakout last night, Cornelius Fudge the Minister said he thinks it’s related to Sirius Black’s escape last year, presuming Sirius was their outside help.
The newspaper also contains an article about Broderick Bode who was found dead in his bed at St Mungo’s, strangled by a pot plant. Healer Miriam Strout who was in charge of the ward has been suspended. The article also stated the pot plant was a cutting of Devil’s Snare. Hermione thinks Bode was murdered intentionally. She suddenly has some insight and leaves to send a letter to someone.
Hagrid is on probation.
Word spreads around about the Death Eaters escape. Susan Bones, whose uncle, aunt and cousins all had died at the hands of some of them, tells Harry during Herbology while they work on Screechsnap seedlings that she now had a good idea what it felt like to be him. It seems the whole school now starts to think differently about Harry.
Umbridge announces another decree which states teachers can not give students non-subject related. Lee Jordan ‘uses’ it to argue with Umbridge she can’t tell Fred and George off for playing Exploding Snap in the back of the class. He gets the same punishment Harry got and Harry recommends him essence of Murtlap.
All Divination and Care of Magical Creatures classes are now inspected by Umbridge, either Hagrid or Trelawney likely will get sacked. Trelawney increasingly hysterical talks get regularly interrupted with questions about Ornithomancy and Heptomology. Hagrid is also not doing well in teaching his classes when Umbridge is inspecting.
In DA everybody is improving, Neville made more progress then anybody, working relentlessly on every new jinx and counter-curse that Harry thought them. He was improving so fast that he was the second one after Hermione to master the Shield Charm that Harry teaches them at some point.
Harry’s scar is irritating almost nonstop and dreaming of the corridor every day.
On Valentine’s Day Harry after Hermione receives a letter, she asks him to meet her in the Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade at three. He meets with Cho. They talk about Quidditch, and Oliver Wood. Cho thought he got taken by Pride of Portree but Harry says it was Puddlemere United.
At Dervish and Banges they see a poster announcing rewards to tips leading to recapture of escaped Death Eaters. They both think it’s strange that there are no Dementors all around, like the time that Sirius escaped.
Next they go to Madam Puddifoot’s which is full of couples. Madam Puddifoot brings them drinks. Harry asks Cho to come with him in the afternoon to meet Hermione and Cho suddenly turns more distant. Cho starts to talk about Cedric but Harry does not want to talk about him. Cho becomes all upset and leaves.
Harry goes to the Three Broomsticks. He sees Hagrid who start to talk some hardly understandable stuff about family and all. He meets early with Hermione who is sitting at a table with Luna and Rita Skeeter. Hermione thinks it’s a good idea for Harry to now publicly tell his story about Voldemort’s return, the Death Eaters he saw and everything. The Prophet will certainly not print it but Luna’s father (Mr Lovegood) is the editor of the Quibbler and he’ll publish it. Harry tells his story.

Chapter 26 Seen and Unforeseen

Luna doesn’t know when the next issue of the Quibbler will come out, her father (Mr Lovegood) has been expecting an article about Crumple-Horned Snorkacks.
Hermione explains Harry what ‘went wrong’ with their date and how he should have had more tact.
Ron and Ginny tell that Quidditch practices are not going well. Hermione, looking up to find her copy of Spellman’s Syllabary, says Quidditch is creating bad feelings and tension between the houses.
At the Quidditch match they lose by ten points when Ginny finally catches the snitch under Hufflepuff Seeker Summerby’s nose.
Harry dreams about a black door and almost opens it when he’s woken by Ron making a snore
Harry receives many letters, his interview has been published in the Quibbler. Luna says it came out yesterday. Some letters are positive, other are not so friendly. One particular reader recommends ‘a good course of Shock Spells’. Umbridge comes over to their table and Harry tells her he gave an interview. By midmorning there’s a new decree prohibiting all students from having the Quibbler in possession.
In the next days all students have read the article and public opinion about Harry is positive again. Also Cho and Seamus make up with Harry. Draco, Crabbe and Goyle are talking in the library with a boy called Theodore Nott when harry is looking for the book he needed on Partial Vanishment. Harry named all their fathers as Death Eaters.
Luna says the Quibbler sold so many copies, her father had to reprint.
At night Harry dreams again, seeing through the eyes of Voldemort. A man called Rookwood asks for forgiveness. Voldemort seems to have been badly advised. Avery had told Voldemort Bode would be able to remove it. Rookwood says Bode could never have taken it and would have known he could not, that’s why he fought Malfoy’s Imperius Curse so hard. Voldemort has Avery sent in. Voldemort turns toward a mirror and Harry wakes up when he sees Voldemort’s reflection in the mirror.
When going back to sleep his Scar lights up in pain again, Harry knows that somewhere Avery is being punished.
Hermione figures Bode must have been murdered because of this. When he tried to remove the ‘thing’ something happened to him which made his brain go all funny and he could not talk sensible. But in St Mungo’s he started to recover and they couldn’t risk him getting better and telling everybody. Hermione figures that Malfoy probably got Sturgis Podmore with the Imperius Curse too. And now Rookwood has told Voldemort how to get what he wants to obtain.
Harry has Occlumency lesson again. Snape asks him about the memory of his dream about a man kneeling in a dark room. Snape wonders how Harry feels about having dreams about Voldemort. They practice more, Snape uses the Legilimens to enter Harry’s mind, Harry uses a Protego to defend himself. At that moment he sees memories belonging to Snape. Snape forces Harry out of his mind, Harry staggers backward toward some shelves. Snape uses a Reparo to repair the fallen jars. Harry had used a Shield Charm. They try again and now Harry sees himself hurtling along the corridor toward the Department of Mysteries, opening the black door and getting into a black-walled and black-floored circular room lit with blue-flamed candles and more doors around him. Snape breaks the connection and asks Harry to explain himself. Then they hear a woman scream and Snape gazes at the ceiling. They go to see what it was.
It is Professor Trelawney. It turns out Umbridge has sacked her. Trelawney is hysterical. Professor McGonagall tries to calm her down. Next Dumbledore enters, he had been out in the grounds, and tells Umbridge that Trelawney may be sacked but she does not have to leave Hogwarts. Flitwick helps with a Locomotor trunk to get Trelawney and her luggage up to her room again. Dumbledore also found a new Divination teacher, and next the Centaur Harry recognizes as Firenze walks in.

Chapter 27 The Centaur and the Sneak

Harry and Ron have their first Divination class by Firenze. Firenze greets Harry and says it was foretold they meet again, all other students are in awe. Firenze tells them his herd banned him from the Forbidden Forest because he agreed to work for Dumbledore. They look at the stars like with astrology. Firenze reveals the stars tell that in the past decade wizardkind was living through a calm between wars, Mars suggesting that the fight must break out again soon.
After class Firenze asks Harry to tell Hagrid that his attempt is not working and he would do better to abandon it.
OWLs are drawing nearer. Hannah Abbot is the first to receive a Calming Draught from Madam Pomfrey.
DA meetings keep Harry from getting miserable. They are practicing the Patronus Charm. During practice Dobby comes to warn them that Umbridge is coming. They all flee.
Harry is tackled by a Trip Jinx by Draco. Umbridge arrives and sends Draco and Pansy to look for the others.
Umbridge takes Harry to Dumbledore. In his office McGonagall and Fudge are also waiting. Kingsley Shacklebolt and another tough-looking wizard are positioned like guards by the door and Percy is sitting holding a quill and parchment.
After seeing Dumbledore give a hint, Harry replies to Fudge he does not know why he’s there. When Fudge looks at Umbridge, Harry sees Dumbledore give the carpet the tiniest of nods and the shadow of a wink. Harry keeps pleading innocence.
Next Umbridge goes to fetch their informant. She comes back with Marietta. Umbridge mentions that Marietta’s mother, Madam Edgecombe works at the Ministry at the Department of Magical Transportation at the Floo Network office, she has been helping them to police the Hogwarts fires. Marietta raises her head and her face is horribly disfigured by purple pustules and form the word ‘SNEAK’. Marietta told Umbridge about the DA and the Room of Requirement. Since Marietta saw herself in the mirror she refuses to tell anything more.
Umbridge also mentions they have a testimony from Willy Widdershins that Harry met with the other students in the Hog’s Head to plan it. McGonagall accuses them that that’s why he was not prosecuted for the regurgitating toilets.
Dumbledore argues that that was before the decree on student societies was in effect, so Harry is innocent. Harry thinks he hears a rustle and Kingsley whispering, also it looked like something brushed his side. Marietta now denies there have been meetings after the decree.
Umbridge gets angry at Marietta and starts shaking her. Dumbledore and Kingsley tell her to control herself.
Then Umbridge shows the list Pansy found in the Room of Requirement, all the DA names are on it.
Dumbledore takes all the blame. He tells them he won’t come quietly and has no intention to be send to Azkaban. Fudge looks at Kingsley and the other guard. Dumbledore warns the other Auror, Dawlish, not to use force. Fudge orders Dawlish and Shacklebolt to take Dumbledore.
After some hectic events, Harry is on the floor, McGonagall had forced him and Marietta down. Fudge, Dawlish, Shacklebolt and Umbridge lay motionless on the floor. Fawkes flies around. Dumbledore explains Shacklebolt had modified Marietta’s memory during the interrogation.
Dumbledore leaves, he says he’s not going in hiding though. Dumbledore again tells Harry he must study Occlumency as hard as he can, he will understand why soon enough. When Dumbledore touches Harry, he feels his scar in pain and a sudden hate and anger towards him. Next thing Dumbledore and Fawkes disappear.

Chapter 28 Snape’s Worst Memory

The next day there’s an announcement stating Umbridge has replaced Dumbledore. Draco tells them he’s member of the Inquisitorial Squad and takes points of Gryffindor House. Fred and George tell them that Montague also wanted to dock points but they threw him in the Vanishing Cabinet. They don’t care anymore about getting in trouble and plan to do some mayhem.
Filch tells Harry that Umbridge wants to see him. Harry is brought to her office. Umbridge offers Harry something to drink but Harry is suspicious and pretends to drink. Umbridge asks him where Dumbledore and Sirius are but Harry says he doesn’t know. Umbridge believes him but warns him that all communications are watched, except for her own fireplace. Next thing, there’s a loud BOOM.
Downstairs someone seemed to have set of an enormous crate of enchanted fireworks, probably it was Fred and George. Umbridge tries a ¤ Stupefy to stun a fireworks rocket but it only makes it worse, exploding with tremendous force. All over the castle there’s fireworks and classes are completely disturbed for the rest of the day.
At night in the common room Fred and George tell them they used all of their Weasley’s Wildfire Whiz-bangs and are taking orders for their new products, among which a Basic Blaze Box and a Deflagration Deluxe. Harry drowses into sleep and has his corridor dream again. He goes through the circular room and opens a door and entering a long rectangular room full of an odd mechanical clicking and flecks of light on the walls. He goes on to the end of the room and opens a door. He enters a dimly lit Hall high and wide as a church, containing rows of shelves with dusty spunn-glass spheres. There’s something in this room he really wants badly, his Scar is hurting. Next thing, he’s woken up by a fireworks.
The next day when Harry goes to his Occlumency lesson, he meets with Cho and they have an argument. Arriving in his office, Snape is putting some of his memories into the Pensieve. Before they start Draco rushes in, calling Snape because Umbridge needs his help, Montague has been found. Snape leaves with Draco. Harry’s attention falls on the Pensieve and he looks into it seeing one of Snape’s memories.
In the memory they have OWLs. Harry sees his father James Potter and Sirius and some girl eyeing hopefully at Sirius. He also sees Lupin and Pettigrew. Flitwick tells the students time is up and to put down their quills, he specifically tells someone called Stebbins to put it down too. James is playing with a golden Snitch. James seems to be full of himself. James and Sirius pick on Snape. With a ¤ Expelliarmus James disarms Snape and with a Impedimenta he freezes him. With a ¤ Scourgify he ‘washes Snape’s mouth’ but then Harry’s mother Lily Evans appears and tells them to leave Snape alone. Snape recovers and hits James with a jinx. James charms Snape upside down but lets him go when Lily tells him to. Snape goes for his wand again but Sirius uses a ¤ Petrificus Totalus to freeze Snape again. James seems to be very conceited and arrogant.
Next thing, Harry is out of the memory. Snape is back in the office. Harry is sent away and told not to come in his office ever again.

Chapter 29 Careers Advice

Harry feels bad about the way he saw his father. In the library Harry tells Ginny he’d like to talk to Sirius.
There’s an anouncement and all fifth-years will meet with their Head of House. Harry, Ron and Hermione look at posibilities in some flyers. Gringotts is looking for Curse Breakers. Fred and George heard from Ginny that Harry wants to talk to Sirius and suggest to do it in Umbridge’s office after creating some diversion.
Harry sees Hagrid coming limping out of the forest going to his cabin.
Snape ignores Harry completely, for the better since now he manages to concoct an Invigoration Draught easily.
Harry goes to his career meeting with McGonagall. Umbridge is also there. Harry tells McGonagall he has been considering becoming an Auror. She says that it’s difficult, you need at least five NEWTs. He’ll need to take at least Defense Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Charms and Potions. McGonagall and Umbridge get into an argument and next Harry may go.
In the afternoon Harry he enters the office of Umbridge using Sirius’s knife and under his Invisibility cloak. Using Floo Powder he enters with hishead and goes through the Floo Network to Grimmauld Place. He sees Lupin who goes to fetch Sirius who has gone upstairs to look for Kreacher. He talks to them about what he saw in the Pensieve. Both tell him that James and Sirius were a bit of idiots and arrogant when they were fifteen but they changed after that. Harry tells them that Snape won’t teach Occlumency anymore. They say Harry has to tell Snape he’s not to stop giving lessons, there’s nothing so important as Harry learning Occlumency. Harry hears footsteps and goes away.
Filch comes in and Harry just in time hides under his cloak. Filch is looking for an Approval for Whipping, finds it and leaves. Harry leaves too.
Fred and George converted an corridor of the Gregory the Smarmy statue into a swamp. Umbridge is about to punish them when they summon their brooms with an ¤ Accio brooms and fly off leaving Hogwarts. Before they leave anybody who wants to buy a Portable Swamp can come to Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes in Diagon Alley.

Chapter 30 Grawp

Fred and George’s leaving becomes something of a legend. Peeves causes more trouble then he ever had before. Someone put a Niffler in Umbridge’s office. Ron and Hermione wonder how Fred and George managed to buy a premises and Harry explains he gave them his Triwizard winnings.
Hermione urges Harry to take Occlumency lessons again. Ron had heard him dreaming. Harry had the same dream again, passing through the corridor, the circular room, the room fullof clinging and inside the cavernous room full of shelves with spheres, towards row number ninety-seven, turned left and then woke up.
Last Quidditch match for Gryffindor has arrived, it’s against Ravenclaw. During the game, Harry and Hermione are called by Hagrid to go with him. He takes them into the Forbidden forest. He’s armed. He tells them that the Centaurs are livid with Firenze and that they almost kicked him to death, Hagrid had to save him.
Hagrid shows them a Giant tied up with some ropes. He has been trying to teach him manners and English. It’s his half-brother called Grawp. Hagrid wants Harry, Ron and Hermione to take care of him in case he gets fired. Hagrid wakes Grawp up and shows him Harry and Hermione.
They go back and encounter the Centaurs. A centaur called Magorian tells Hagrid he knows he’s not welcome. Harry also sees Bane. Hagrid argues with Magorian. Magorian says this time Hagrid can leave since he’s acompanied by his young. Bane mentions Harry and Hermione are not Hagrid’s children but students. Anyhow they are send to leave by Magorian since slaughter of fouls is a crime.
They get back to the castle and find out the Quidditch match is over, Gryffindor won.

Chapter 31 OWLs

Harry and Hermione tell Ron about Grawp.
OWLs are getting close. Harry hears Draco bragging that his father is close to the Wizarding Examinations Authority. Neville does not think it’s true because Griselda Marchbanks is a friend of his grandmother and she never mentioned the Malfoys.
In the meanwhile, a big black-market trade in aids to concentration is growing. Ron is tempted by Baruffio’s Brain Elixer. But Hermione stops him and says it doesn’t work; nor does Dingle’s Powdered Dragon Claw. They are fake.
McGonagall gives people their OWL examination tables. She mentions strict Anti-Cheating spells, banning of Auto-Answer Quills, Remembralls, Detachable Cribbing Cuffs and Self-correcting Ink.
First exam on monday is Charms. Harry tests Hermione. Hermione accidentally hits Harry in the nose with Achievements in Charming. Parvati and Lavender practice a Locomotion Charm.
During dinner they see the examiners arrive. Professor Marchbanks asks Umbridge where Dumbledore is. She mentions she examined Dumbledore personally in Transfiguration and Charms when he did NEWTs.
After Charms theory exam, students are called in alphabetically for practical exam. Hermione goes together with Goldstein, Goyle and Daphne Greengrass. After a while it’s Harry’s turn who is examined by Professor Tofty. Harry needs to do some Levitation Charm, a Colour Change Charm and a Growth Charm.
The day after is the Transfiguration exam and next is Herbology.
Then Harry has Defense Against the Dark Arts exam. Professor Tofty heard from his friend Tiberius Ogden that Harry can conjure a Patronus with the Patronus Charm. Harry shows it with a Expecto Patronum. Hermione still has an Ancient Runes exam.
Again someone put a Niffler in Umbridge’s office.
Harry’s exam in Potions goes well. In the Care of Magical Creatures exam Harry has to identify a Knarl, demonstrate how to handle a Bowtruckle, feed and clean a Fire Crab and choose a diet for a sick Unicorn.
Divination does not go to well. Astronomy theory exam went well enough. In the evening Harry has the practical exam. During the exam Harry sees five or six shadows moving over the lawn. He hears a distant knock and a dog barking. He sees Hagrid open the door and six people enter. Harry hears a roar. Then a loud BANG. Harry sees the six people trying to stun Hagrid. Harry hears Hagrid say the name of one of them. It is Dawlish, which Harry knows is one Fudge’s Aurors. Another one is Umbridge. A Stunning spell catches Fang. Then they see Professor McGonagall speed over to the scene. She’s caught by four Stunners at the same time and blown off her feet. Hagrid runs away with Fang.
It turns out it was Lee who had been putting Nifflers in Umbridge’s office.
During his final exam, History of Magic, Harry, while staring at Parvati’s back, wishes he could only perform a little Legilimency to know the answer on a question. While closing his eyes and burying his face in his hands, the answer comes to him. He drowses off in thought.
He is walking along the corridor again, through the circular room, the long rectangular room full of an odd mechanical clicking. Through the cathedral-sized Hall full of shelves with glass spheres, reaching number ninety-seven and turning left. At the end of two rows he sees someone on the floor. It’s Sirius and he hears Voldemort performing a ¤ Crucio on him and ordering him to take it for him.
Harry wakes up with his Scar on fire.

Chapter 32 Out of the Fire

Professor Tofty wants to take Harry to the Hospital Wing. Harry says it’s not necessary. Next he hurries to see Professor McGonagall but Madam Pomfrey tells Harry she’s been transferred to St. Mungo’s. Then he goes to find Hermione and Ron. Harry tells them Voldemort’s got Sirius inside the Ministry. Hermione thinks it’s rather fishy and wonders if Voldemort is trying to get Harry inside the Department of Mysteries.
Ginny and Luna walk in. They set up a way of distracting the Slytherins Inquisitorial Squad and Umbridge to sneak into her office to check if Sirius is at home. Harry goes to fetch Sirius’s knife and the Invisibility cloak. On his way someone tells him that a end-exam celebration will be held and that Harold Dingle reckons he can sell them some Firewhisky but Harry hardly hears it.
Harry and Hermione enter Umbridge’s office and using Floo Powder Harry enters with his head and goes through the Floo Network to Grimmauld Place. Only Kreacher is there who has nasty injuries to both hands, which are heavily bandaged. Kreacher walks away, saying he is going to chat with his mistress. Harry asks him if Sirius went to the Department of Mysteries and Kreacher answers that Master will not come back from the Department.
Next thing, Harry is caught by Umbridge. She had Stealth Sensoring Spells placed al around her doorway. Hermione is held tight by Millicent Bullstrode. Harry also notices Malfoy and outside Ron, Ginny, Luna and Neville are held by several Slytherins, among them Crabbe and Warrington.
Umbridge sends Malfoy to get Professor Snape. When he arrives, Umbridge asks for another bottle of Veritaserum but Snape tells her he gave his last bottle to interrogate Harry. When Snape is sent away, Harry shouts out that ‘He’s got Padfoot at the place where it’s hidden’. Snape answers that when he wants to hear nonsense he’ll give him a Babbling Beverage.
Umbridge decides she’ll use a Cruciatus Curse to make Harry talk. She mentions it was her who sent the Dementors after Harry last summer; adding what Fudge doesn’t know doesn’t hurt. The moment Umbridge wants to perform the curse Hermione intervenes and tells Umbridge they will tell her. Hermione lies, saying that Harry tried to talk to Dumbledore to tell him ‘the weapon is ready’. Umbridge takes Harry and Hermione to be shown the weapon.

Chapter 33 Fight and Flight

Hermione leading, she, Harry and Umbridge go out of the castle into the Forbidden Forest. They walk a long time.
Suddenly about fifty Centaurs appear. Magorian asks who Umbridge is and what they are doing in the forest. Umbridge offends the Centaurs and binds Magorian with a ¤ Incarcerous. Next thing all the Centaurs storm at Umbridge. Harry sees the red lightflash of a Stunning Spell, and then she is overpowered and taken away. Ronan says Harry and Hermione should not be harmed because they are foals, but other Centaurs don’t agree.
At that moment Grawp appears and seems to be looking for Hagrid. He recognizes Hermione and keeps saying he wants Hagrid. When he makes a grab, the Centaurs shoot arrows at him. Harry and Hermione manage to get away.
Then Ginny, Luna, Ron and Neville appear. They had managed to escape from the Slytherin’s Inquisitorial Squad. They used Stunning spells, a Disarming Charm. Neville used a Impediment Jinx and Ginny got Malfoy with a Bat-Bogy Hex.
Then they take some Thestrals to fly to the Ministry.

Chapter 34 The Department of Mysteries

Harry, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, Ron and Neville fly on the Thestrals and arrive at the Ministry to rescue Sirius.
The Ministry is completely empty. They pass the fountain in the Atrium and the desk where normally the watchwizard is, and enter the elevator to level nine, the Department of Mysteries. Next they go through a black door and down the corridor. Like in his dream they go through the door on the end of the corridor into a large circular completely black room.
Neville closes the door and for a moment they only see the bunches of shivering blue flames on the walls and their own reflections. The circular wall is rotating. The try one of the doors and enter a long rectangular room with an enormous tank of green liquid with pearly-white objects in it. Luna guesses they are Aquavirius Maggots, but Hermione says they are brains. Ron sees more doors in the room but Harry thinks it’s wiser to go back and try another door in the circular room.
With a Flagrate Hermione marks the door before shutting it.
They try another door and enter a rectangular room (D*C*) with a great stone pit with stone benches all around the room like an amphitheater. On the bottom is a stone Archway hung with a black veil which is fluttering slightly. Harry hears faint whispering, murmuring noises coming from the other side of the veil. Luna hears them too. Hermione reminds Harry, who’s transfixed on the archway, that they need to look for Sirius.
In the circular room they try a new door but it’s locked. Hermione tries a ¤ Alohomora but the door won’t open. Harry tries Sirius’s knife but the door stays shut and the knife is melted. Luna says “You know what could be in there?” but Hermione answers that it’s no doubt something blibbering. The wall spins and stops again.
Harry tries another door and he recognizes it as the right one. They enter a room with dancing diamond-sparkling light. There are clocks gleaming from every surface. The source of light is a towering crystal bell jar at the far end of the room. Inside the crystal they see a tiny jewel-bright egg which opens and a hummingbird emerges, flies up and regresses back, born back into the egg. They continue and Harry recognizes the door they need to go through.
When they enter they find the place, the church size Hall with shelves covered in small dusty glass orbs. Each orb has a yellowing label underneath it. Some have a weird glow, while others are dull and dark. They look for row ninety-seven and find it. At the end of the row there’s no Sirius.
Ron shows Harry one of the orbs with Harry’s name on it. The label reads:

Hermione and Neville warn Harry not to touch it but he still takes the orb. Then they hear a voice telling Harry to turn around slowly and give it to him.

Chapter 35 Beyond the Veil

In the Hall with the spheres Harry, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, Ron and Neville are eye to eye with Lucius Malfoy and a dozen Death Eaters. Malfoy is ordering Harry to give the Prophecy to him.
Among the Death Eaters is Bellatrix Lestrange who tries to get the Prophecy with a ¤ Accio but Harry manages to hold it using a Protego. Malfoy tells her to back off and Harry figures out they want the glass sphere unharmed.
Bellatrix threatens to hurt Ginny. Harry responds he’ll smash the Prophecy first and then asks why Voldemort wants it. Bellatrix gets furious with Harry daring to speak Voldemorts name and tries to put a Stupefy on Harry but Malfoy deflects it. The spell hits a shelf and several orbs are shattered. They see two figures, white as ghosts, unfurl themselves and begin to speak. Some of what they hear is ‘... at the solstice will come a new …’ , which the figure of an old bearded man says and, ‘... and none will come after, ...’from the figure of a young woman. The figures then melt into thin air.
Harry has an idea and warns Hermione
Malfoy asks if Dumbledore never told Harry that the reason he bears his Scar is hidden in the bowels of the Department of Mysteries. Voldemort tried to lure him here so Harry could retrieve the Prophecy. Only those about whom Prophecies are made can retrieve them. The Prophecy is about Harry and Voldemort. It would not have been smart to get it himself since the Ministry conveniently has been ignoring his return. Apparently he failed trying to have Sturgis Podmore and Broderick Bode take it.
Next thing Harry calls for his friends and the five of them shout a Reducto to explode the shelves opposite to them. Hundreds of spheres burst apart.
They start to run. Ron, Ginny and Luna sprint past him, Harry is caught by the shoulder but Hermione uses a ¤ Stupefy to free him. They run again and get back into the room of the bell jar. Hermione shuts it with a Colloportus. Ron, Ginny and Luna went the wrong way. They hear Malfoy telling Nott to leave someone with injuries, and Jugson to come back because they need to organize. He tells Bellatrix and Rodolphus to take the left, Crabbe and Rabastan to the right, Jugson and Dolohov the door straight ahead, Macnair and Avery through some other way, Rookwood another, and Mulciber to go with him.
Harry, Hermione and Neville head towards the circular room. Someone uses a Alohomora to open the door that Hermione blocked and then two Death Eaters draw nearer.
Harry hits one of them in the legs with a ¤ Stupefy. The other is halfway through a Avada on Hermione when Harry topples him and they fall together to the ground. Neville casts a Expelliarmus in their direction and both Harry’s and the Death Eaters wand flew out of their hands. Neville casts a Stupefy but misses the Death Eater, the spell hits a cabinet with hour-glasses. It falls apart on the ground, springs back up on the wall, fully mended, then falls down again and shatters.
Next before the Death Eater can do a Stupefy, Hermione hits him with the same spell. He falls to the ground and his head sinks through the surface of the bell jar. Hermione uses an Accio to give Harry back his wand. They see the Death Eaters head shrinking inside the bell jar until it’s a baby’s head and back to normal. And before he pulls himself together it shrinks to babyhood again.
They hear a crash and a scream and head towards the black hallway again. Two more Death Eaters come at them from that direction. They veer left into a small dark cluttered office and shut the door. Before Hermione can finish a Colloportus to lock the door the two Death Eaters burst in and both of them stop Harry, Hermione and Neville with a Impedimenta. One of the Death Eaters calls for the others but Hermione shuts him up with a Silencio. Harry freezes the other Death Eater with a Petrificus Totalus. The other hits Hermione wordlessly with a spell. A purple flame hits Hermione in the chest. She goes to the ground and lies motionless. Neville gets up but the dumb struck Death Eater kicks through Neville’s Wand. It splits in two and into his face. The Death Eater takes off his mask and Harry sees it’s Dolohov. When the baby-faced Death Eater comes in, Harry hits Dolohov with a Petrificus Totalus. Hermione is still alive. Neville takes Hermione’s wand. His broken wand used to be his father’s.
Harry checks the room with the sparkling lights again. He sees the shattering and repairing cabinet again and suspects it contained Time-Turners. They go into the circular room. Neville takes Hermione. The marks have faded from the doors. Before Harry chooses a new door, Ron, Ginny and Luna enter. Ron is giggling and Ginny’s ankle is broken. They were chased by four Death Eaters in a room full of planets. When one of the Death Eaters grabbed Ginny’s foot, Luna used a Reductor curse.
When they are about to enter a new door, three Death Eaters arrive, led by Bellatrix Lestrange. A Stunning Spell shoots around the room. They get through a door just in time and Harry shuts it with a Colloportus. They are back in the Brain Room. While they are busy locking the doors, five Death Eaters enter. Ron casts a Accio brain and one of the brains burst from the tank to Ron. Its tentacles wrap around Ron. Harry tries to get it off using a Diffindo but the tentacles don’t break. A Death Eater stuns Ginny. Neville tries to stun them but with his broken nose he can’t manage to say the stunning spell correct. A Death Eater tries to stun Neville but misses. More of silver lights like arrows are sent to Harry and Neville but miss.
Harry starts to run, trying to lure the Death Eaters away from the others. He goes into the room from where the Death Eaters had come. Harry falls down stone steps and lands down in the Archway room (D*C*). Harry sees the five Death Eaters from the Brain Room descend toward him, while many more emerge through other doorways. Harry climbs backward onto the dais of the archway. The Death Eaters halt and gaze at him. Dolohov is bleeding from the Body-Bind Curse. Neville catches up to help but is caught. Bellatrix performs a Crucio on Neville to make Harry hand over the Prophecy. Harry gives up and is about to hand it to Malfoy.
At that moment Kingsley, Tonks, Moody, Sirius and Lupin storm in, Tonks sending a Stunning Spell at Malfoy. The members of the Order rain spells down upon the Death Eaters.
Harry is grabbed by a Death Eater. Neville pokes Hermione’s wand into the Death Eater’s eye. Harry hits him with a Stupefy. His mask comes off, revealing that it is Macnair.
Harry sees Moody’s eye on the ground, Moody is lying on his side and bleeding from the head. Moody’s attacker, Dolohov, hits Neville with a Tarantallegra. He then tries the same spell he used on Hermione now on Harry, but Harry blocks with the Shield Charm Protego. Dolohov tries to get the Prophecy with an Accio but at the same moment Sirius rams Dolohov. Both then get into a Duel.
Harry freezes Dolohov with a Petrificus Totalus. A green light narrowly misses Sirius.
Harry wants to take Neville and get out but he’s caught by Malfoy. Harry throws the Prophecy to Neville. Malfoy points his wand at Neville but Harry stops Malfoy with a Impedimenta.
Harry helps Neville up the steps to get out. Neville puts the Prophecy in a pocket. Neville’s robe tears, the Prophecy falls out, one of Neville’s floundering feet kicks it away and smashes it on the step beneath them. Harry sees a pearly white figure rise in the air. In all the noise of crashes and screams they can’t hear a word of the prophecy.
Suddenly Dumbledore shows up. One of the Death Eaters tries to flee but Dumbledore simply pulls him back with a spell. Now only Sirius and Bellatrix are still battling. Sirius is hit with jet of light and he falls through the veil hanging from the arch. He seems to have just fallen through but did not reappear on the other side. Harry wants to go to the curtain to pull him back out but Lupin holds him back and says there’s nothing Harry can do. It’s too late, he’s gone.

Chapter 36 The Only One He Ever Feared

Harry can’t believe Sirius is gone. Lupin tells him ‘He can’t come back, because he’s d—-’ There’s still some battling going on.
Dumbledore has immobilized the remaining Death Eaters in the middle of the room. Moody is trying to revive Tonks. Kingsley is going after Bellatrix. Lupin lifts Neville’s hex with a Finite.
Kingsley is hit by a spell and Bellatrix runs away. Dumbledore aims a spell at her but she deflects it.
Harry goes after her through the room with the brains. She casts a spell over a shoulder and the tank rises in the air and tips. Harry avoids them by sending them back up in the air with a Wingardium Leviosa. Ron, Ginny and Luna seem to be all right. Harry follows Belatrix. She has gone through the circular room back into the corridor to the lifts. The door closes when Harry is in the circular room and the walls spin. Harry shouts aloud asking where the exit is, and a door right behind him flies open. He goes through the corridor into the lift and into the Atrium.
Bellatrix is almost at the end of the hall at the telephone lift and aims a spell at Harry. Harry ducks behind the Fountain of Magical Brethren. Harry is utterly enraged and casts a Crucio on her but it has little effect. Bellatrix asks if Harry never used an Unforgivable Curse before; telling him you have to mean them. She also tries to hit Harry with a Crucio but misses and hits the head of the fountain wizard statue, which falls to the ground. Harry aims a ¤ Stupefy at her but she counters it with a Protego.
Bellatrix gives Harry one last chance to hand over the Prophecy to save his life but Harry tells her it’s gone. Pain shoots across his Scar. Voldemort knows and he won’t be happy with Bellatrix. Bellatrix refuses to believe and tries to Accio the prophecy but in vain.
Voldemort appears in the middle of the hall. He tries to put the Avada Kedavra on Harry but is saved by the headless golden statue of the wizard in the fountain which has sprung alive. It leaps between Harry and Voldemort and the spell glances off its chest. Dumbledore has come.
Voldemort sends another jet of green light at Dumbledore. Dumbledore turns and is gone in a whirling of his cloak. He reappears behind Voldemort and waves the other statues to life with his wand. The statue of the witch pins Bellatrix to the floor. The goblin and the house-elf run to the fireplaces and the centaur gallops at Voldemort, who vanishes and reappears beside the pool. The headless statue moves Harry away from the fight.
Voldemort tries another killing curse at Dumbledore but misses. Dumbledore flicks his wand and creates an enormous spell. Voldemort is forced to conjure a shining silver shield out of thin air to deflect it. Voldemort states that Dumbledore is not trying to kill him. Dumbledore answers that there are other ways of destroying a man; that merely taking Voldemort’s life would not satisfy him. Voldemort says there’s nothing worse then death, but Dumbledore says he’s quite wrong. Dumbledore keeps approaching Voldemort lightly without any sign of fear or worry whatsoever.
A new jet of green light from Voldemort is interfered by the centaur, who blasts in pieces. Dumbledore conjures a long thin flame from his wand and it wraps itself around Voldemort, shield and all. Then Voldemort turns the flame into a Serpent and turns back on Dumbledore. Voldemort vanishes. The moment he reappears above the pool, there’s a burst of flame in midair and Fawkes swallows a jet of green light by Voldemort. Dumbledore makes the snake vanish in a whisp of dark smoke and next the water in the pool rises up and covers Voldemort like a cocoon of molten glass.
Voldemort disappears and the water falls down. Dumbledore tells Harry to stay where he is. He now looks frightened.
Suddenly his scar bursts open in pain beyond imagining. He’s ‘fused together with the creature with red eyes, bound by pain’. When the creature speaks, it uses Harry’s mouth. It tells Dumbledore to kill him, saying ‘If death is nothing, Dumbledore, kill the boy …’ Harry thinks “let the pain to stop, to let him kill us; end it … death is nothing compared to this … and I’ll see Sirius again”. And when his heart fills with emotion, the bond loosens and the pain is gone.
Harry is all right. The Atrium is full of people
The statues of the goblin and the house-elf are leading Cornelius Fudge. A man called Williamson tells Fudge he saw Voldemort grabbing a woman and Disapparating. Fudge saw it too. Dumbledore tells Fudge and the Aurors that downstairs are more Death Eaters contained in the Death Chamber bound by an Anti-Disapparation Jinx. Fudge sends Dawlish and Williamson to check it out.
Dumbledore will explain everything to Fudge as soon as he has sent Harry back.
With a Portus Dumbledore turns the head of the wizard statue into a Portkey to send him back to Hogwarts. He orders Fudge to remove Umbridge from Hogwarts and to stop the Aurors searching for Hagrid.
Dumbledore looks at his watch with twelve hands and tells Fudge he can spare half an hour. Then he tells Harry he’ll see him in half an hour and Harry is sent back with the Portkey.

Chapter 37 The Lost Prophecy

Harry is back in Dumbledore’s office. He keeps thinking it’s his fault Sirius is dead. Phineas Nigellus asks Harry why he’s in Dumbledore’s office. The other Headmasters wake up and Harry wants to leave but the office is locked.
Dumbledore arrives through the fireplace and puts Fawkes back on its tray of soft ashes. Dumbledore tells him all the other students are all right.
Harry is angry at himself and Dumbledore. Dumbledore tells Harry pain is part of being human and Harry gets furious, trashing silver instruments and saying that then he doesn’t want to be human; he’s had enough. Harry wants to leave but Dumbledore does not let him. Dumbledore says Harry is not nearly as angry with him as he ought to be. Dumbledore considers it his fault that Sirius died. Not completely responsible. Sirius was brave, clever and energetic, but not someone to sit safe at home. Nevertheless Harry should never have had to believe Sirius was in danger. That’s what Dumbledore should have made sure of.
Dumbledore starts to explain about Harry’s Scar and his mental connection with Voldemort. Because he suspected a two-way influence, he told Snape to teach Harry Occlumency. He could not do it himself, risking Voldemort using Harry to spy on him. He even felt a shadow of Voldemort stir behind Harry’s eyes on the rare occasions they had close contact the past year. By keeping Harry at a distance he had been trying to protect him.
The night Mr. Weasley was attacked, Voldemort realized he could use Harry to trick him into getting the Prophecy he has been desperate to hear ever since he regained his body.
Harry feels guilty. Dumbledore tells him Kreacher lied to Harry when he checked for Sirius. After Sirius told Kreacher to ‘get out’ he took it literally and went to Narcissa Malfoy.
Snape also checked on Sirius after Harry’s cryptic warning. The Order has other methods of communicating. When Harry didn’t come back from the Forest, he alerted the Order members who went to the Ministry at once. Snape requested Sirius stay at Grimmauld Place and he went to the Forest to search for Harry. Sirius however went to the Ministry too and instructed Kreacher to tell Dumbledore where they had gone. Kreacher had told Narcissa that Sirius cares most about you and that Harry considered him a mixture of father and brother. Kreacher injured Buckbeak to keep Sirius out of the way the moment Harry would check in Grimmauld Place. Dumbledore is good in Legilimency and knew whether Kreacher was lying or not. He ‘persuaded’ him to tell the full story. Although Kreacher did bad things, he has been made the way he is by his family.
Harry argues with Dumbledore about Snape but Dumbledore has convincing explanations for Harry’s doubts.
Dumbledore explains why Harry had to grow up at the Dursleys. He was protected there by an ancient magic. The fact that Harry’s mother died to save him gave him a protection that flows in his veins. Harry is protected by his mother’s blood. Dumbledore left him with her sister and only remaining relative Petunia. By taking Harry in, Petunia sealed the charm Dumbledore had placed upon Harry. The bond of blood became the strongest shield Dumbledore could give Harry. It was Dumbledore who sent the Howler last year to remind Petunia.
Five years ago Harry survived an encounter with Voldemort. At that time Dumbledore could not tell Harry why Voldemort wants to kill Harry. In the second year, he survived an encounter again. In the fourth year another time. Then Dumbledore should have told Harry everythihg but he still cared too much about Harry’s happiness to put another burden on him.
Now Dumbledore does. He tells Harry Voldemort wants to kill Harry because of a prophecy made shortly after his birth. Voldemort knew it had been made but not its full contents. He wants it. He wants the knowledge of how to destroy Harry.
Harry says the prophecy is smashed, but Dumbledore responds that what has smashed is only a record, kept by the Department of Mysteries. Dumbledore reveals that he was the one to whom the prophecy was made. He can recall it perfectly.
It was sixteen years ago, when in the Hog’s Head he was seeing an applicant for the post of Divination teacher.
Dumbledore takes his Pensieve and with his wand prods it. A figure rises, it’s Sybill Trelawney and Harry hears the prophecy;:

`The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches. born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies . and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not . and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives . the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies .’

Then he tells Harry that at that time it could have been him or Neville. The official record of the prophecy was re-labelled by the keeper of the Hall of Prophecy after Voldemort’s attack on Harry as a child. After Harry got his scar it made Harry the person about whom the prophecy was made. Dumbledore could have chosen a pure-blood, Neville, but chose Harry, a half-blood. Harry escaped Voldemort four times so far.
Voldemort acted at once because the eavesdropper in the Hog’s Head only heard the first two lines. He did not know there might be danger; Harry has power the Dark Lord knows not. Harry says he doesn’t.
Dumbledore tells him that in the Department of Mysteries there is a room that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force more wonderful and terrible than death, than human intelligence, then the forces of nature. It’s also the most mysterious. This power Harry possesses in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all. This power took Harry to save Sirius, and saved him from possession by Voldemort because he could not bear to reside in a body full of the force he detests.
The end of the prophecy means that one of them, either Harry or Voldemort, has to kill the other.

Chapter 38 The Second War Begins

The Sunday Prophet announces the return of Voldemort. Fudge has confirmed it. He also tells that there has been a mass revolt of the Dementors of Azkaban. Dumbledore is reinstated as Headmaster and member of the International Confederation of Wizards and Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot.
Harry and Hermione are visiting Ron in the Hospital wing. Ginny and Neville have nearly recovered and Luna came with them. Ron is recovering from the brain tentacles. Madam Pomfrey gave him Dr. Ubbly’s Oblivious Unction.
Luna’s father (Mr Lovegood) sold the article of Harry’s interview, Luna and her father will go to Sweden and see if they can catch a Crumple-Horned Snorkack.
Flitwick got rid of Fred and George’s swamp but left a tiny patch as a kind of momentum.
Umbridge is lying in a bed at the opposite side. Dumbledore rescued her from the forest. Umbridge is in shock.
Harry goes to see Hagrid. On his way he encounters Draco, Crabbe and Goyle. They argue and before they can hex each other Snape emerges from a staircase. He wants to take housepoints but Gryffindor has none. Then Professor McGonagall arrives and gives Harry and his friends fifty points each.
Then he’s sent away and goes to Hagrid. Hagrid had been hiding. He wants to find a lady-friend for Grawp.
The last day of school has arrived. When packing his trunk he notices the package Sirius once given him. It contains a small square mirror. On the back Sirius wrote that it is a two-way mirror and he’s got the other one. By saying his name in it they can talk to each other. He used to use it a lot with James. Harry tries it but it doesn’t work. Sirius won’t appear.
Harry goes to look for Nearly Headless Nick. Nick has been expecting him. It happens sometimes when somebody suffers a loss. Harry asks about ghosts and people who died coming back. Nick tells him not everyone can come back as a ghost; only wizards. Nick says Sirius won’t. Some wizards can leave an imprint of themselves upon the earth but very few wizards choose that path. Nick was afraid of death and chose to stay; he’s neither here nor there. At the Department of Mysteries they study this matter.
Harry sees Luna. Ginny told her Sirius was his godfather. Harry remembers Luna can see Thestrals and asks who she saw die. Luna says she saw her mother die. She liked to experiment and one of her spells went wrong. She says she still has her dad and that it’s not as if she’ll never see her Mother again. Luna refers to the Archway and the voices behind the veil.
Harry goes back with the Hogwarts Express next day. Draco, Crabbe and Goyle have been waiting to attack Harry but they unfortunately tried to ambush him in a compartment full of DA members. They end up looking like three gigantic slugs.
In the train Harry hears that Cho is seeing Michael Corner. Ginny now is seeing Dean.
At King’s Cross Moody, Tonks, Lupin, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley and Fred and George are waiting. Also the Dursleys are waiting. The Order members tell the Dursleys that they will make certain they are not mistreating Harry.

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