The Potter Alliance

Chapter 7

Chapter 7

When Harry awoke the next day he was very anxious. However not quite as anxious as his godfather who hadn't rested a minute. Thankfully not many Order members were around that morning, so most didn't see the nervous tendencies of Harry, Sirius, or Remus, throughout the morning, though Ron and Hermione were starting to catch on to the fact that something was up. Hermione noticed that Harry had a big smile on his face and asked him with a snippy tone, "Another letter from Susan, Harry?"

Forgetting about his faux girlfriend for a second Harry looked confused, but then said, "Oh no. Why do you ask?"

Ron grumbled as he sat down at his late breakfast, "Because you look like you just won the Cup over there mate. Stop smiling so bloody big."

The half hearted comment by his best mate made Harry smile cheekily at the two unamused Gryffindors, "Oh cheer up, it's going to be a good day."

Ron in a fake cherry tone said, "Oh yeah mate, it will be great. More sitting around the house doing nothing, but exploding snap, and reading."

Hermione gave the boy a nasty look, "And what may I ask is wrong with reading?"

Ron held his hands up in surrender, "Nothing at all. I was just saying it's not my cup of tea for a great day that smiles over there is talking about."

"I don't think you are going to be sitting around all day here Ron, I think you should be ready for anything." Harry said with a wink.

Before the two could question the boy Harry looked at the clock, and knew it was time. As if on cue he heard an explosion go off upstairs, and knew the plan was going into motion. With a quick draw of his wand he faked a panicked expression, and went straight for the stairs, with everyone in the kitchen behind him. As he ran past Sirius under the invisibility cloak he gave a little prayer that everything today would go over well.

When they arrived at the top floor there was a small fire started, and a stench that could make a skunk blush was in the air. Mrs. Weasley immediately set out to blame Fred and George, but when they wouldn't fess up to it, no one believed them. The mess took a bit to clean up, and every available wand to do it. However when they were done, Harry slipped out of the room, and prayed that no one was going to be downstairs when he got there.

Making it into the kitchen however he saw the back of a man he really did not have an interest in seeing. The old bat was wearing his usual black cloak, and was clearly already annoyed. Harry quickly checked the time to see it was already almost 12:30, and knew he had to get out, and change before he could appear before the court.

Deciding whether to stun the man or not, the decision was made for him when an owl flew to the window and was impatiently waiting for the man to retrieve the mail. When he did this Harry made a casual walk into the kitchen and into the floo, Snape didn't realize what he was doing until it was too late. A red spell flew towards him, but by the time it approached him he was already whirling across the country to the Ministry of Magic.

When he slid out of the floo he was in a large familiar atrium that he had first stepped into a few months before. Looking into the sea of unknown faces, he saw one familiar one that had a pretty smile, and long red hair, that was clearly searching for someone familiar as well. Hoping to be the one the girl was looking for he quickly set out to approach her, "Susan!"

The girl's eyes darted straight to the sound of his voice and she exclaimed, "Harry!"

The girl quickly embraced the boy, clearly happy to have a familiar face to be with and said, "I ordered some robes with the money you left me with the other night, and I had some change left over."