Over The Edge

The Order Of The Pheonix

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I do not own any of these characters nor the Harry Potter universe. They all belong to JK Rowling.
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Harry looked at the words a few more times then handed the paper back to Moody.

"What do I do now?"  He asked, a bit confused.

"You say what you read boy" moody said sounding a bit exasperated.

Harry took a deep breath and said
"Number 12 Grimmauld Place."

He looked on in disbelief as Number 11 and Number 13 Grimmauld Place started shaking and moving apart to reveal a grim greyish black coloured building between them. The lights shook and things rattled all around but the Muggles didn't seem to notice. There must be some sort of magic on the place then thought Harry.

They started walking towards the door of the house and Harry followed. As soon as he got inside he was ambushed in a large tight hug from Ms Weasley.

"Oh Harry dear you've made it thank goodness I was getting worried. Now the order is still in a meeting so why don't you go up to find the others. Second floor, Second door on the left now dear Ron and Hermione will explain everything"

Harry, not knowing exactly what to think about all this, followed Ms Weasleys instructions and climbed the stairs. No sooner had he gotten to the top then he was greeted by Hermione's lightening fast beat hug.

He stumbled a bit but regained his balance as Hermione called "Harry! Ron, Ron Harry's here! He's here!"

She let go of Harry looking a bit guilty at the perplexed expression on his face.

"Hey mate" Ron said coming out of the room and leaning on the door frame smiling. 

"What is this place?" Harry asked. Almost immediately the smile dropped of of Ron's face and Hermione looked down guiltily.

"Uh you should come in and and sit down" Ron said moving into the room.

"So this is Headquarters for the Order Of The Phoenix. It's a group of witches and wizards Dumbledore has gathered to help defeat You Know Who." he said hesitantly.

Hermione must have caught the look crossing Harry's face because she quickly said "we're sorry we didn't tell you about it. Dumbledore forbid us to say anything in case someone intercept something"

Harry was getting more and more angry by the second. First, he gets in trouble for saving his no good cousin, and then he's best friends kept secrets from him?

"How long has this been happening" he said in a low voice.

Hermione looked about ready to cry, and Ron looked very guilty indeed.

"The whole summer."  Ron said so quietly it could have been a whisper.

"THE WHOLE SUMMER?!" Harry thundered. "HOW COULD YOU NOT TELL ME SOMETHING THIS BIG ALL SUMMER!!!!"

"Dumbledore made us promise not to tell..." Hermione faltered. Harry looked absolutely murderous.

"Your supposed to be my friends"
Harry intoned in an almost venomous voice, before walking out the room and thundering down the stairs to the door of the kitchens where the meeting was being held.

He burst into the room just as they were cleaning up.

"I want to join"

Sirius was the first to speak. "Of course you would want to join Harry. And I feel you have the right to know some things. But you aren't old enough to join the Order just yet. I will tell you what you need to know a little later."

Harry calmed a bit. He'd get to know things. Sirius always knew what to do.

The other adults looked incredibly surprised and several tried to object but Sirius would just put up his hand and they would stop.

"Harry. The order thinks that there's something out there that Voldemort is looking for. Something he didn't have last time. We're not sure what it is but we think it's in the ministry." He explained. "Unfortunately that's all I can tell you right now Harry." He said with a sad smile.

Harry was smart enough to know that he wasn't going to be able to get anything else out of him so he left it.

He needed to apologize to Ron and Hermione anyways.