""Harry Potter and the Orb of Reawakening""

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Chapter 2-Return to Grimmauld Place::

The purple bus has stopped itself in front of Number 12, Grimmauld Place. Harry got off the bus quickly and went inside. He stared into the familiar kitchen, where Mad-Eye Moody, Remus Lupin, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Professors McGonagall, Snape, and Dumbledore were talking to each other. The conversation paused as they noted Harry's entrance.

"Ah, Harry." Dumbledore got up from his seat and approached Harry, who dropped his trunk and Hedwig's cage on the floor, and ran upstairs and locked himself in Sirius's room.

Dumbledore sat back down and McGonagall spoke, "The loss of Black had hit him quite hard, hasn't it?"

"Minerva, you must understand, Sirius was the closest thing to a parent that Harry ever had." Dumbledore said in a bare whisper. "Which is why, Severus," he turned to Snape, "that I must ask you and your Slytherins not to give Harry a hard time this year. You do understand his feelings don't you?"

"Oh, I understand all right, the way that he was desperate to get help, even under the nose of that Umbridge woman. 'He's got Padfoot! He's got Padfoot at the place where it's hidden!!' You should've seen his expression, made me forget my hate towards James temporarily.

"I see that you're using his first name a lot more, Professor Snape." Tonks came in with the other four, who were all busy drying themselves, since it was raining quiet hard this night.

"Well, Nymphadora?" Dumbledore asked simply.

"Dead, both his uncle and his cousin, I've no idea where his aunt went though." Tonks replied.

"I do." Dumbledore said. "The loss of her husband and son was too devastation, plus she completely lost it under the presence of wizards and witches. However, I've sent her to St. Mungo's to calm her down." He lowered his half-moon spectacles, "The next step is to go to Diagon Alley, I believe we don't want Fred and George to be in danger."

"I'll go get them." Mrs. Weasley volunteered and Disapparated with a pop.

"Mr. Weasley, Miss Granger, would you be so kind and talk to Harry? He'd need some comfort." Dumbledore said quietly. Ron and Hermione nodded and headed up stairs where they met Ginny.

"Is Harry here?" She squealed excitedly.

"Go away, Ginny." Ron said and shoved her aside.

"Fine!" Ginny said angrily and stomped back to her room.

Ron and Hermione knocked on Sirius's door, "Harry?" Hermione said. "Harry, will you please open the door?"

Harry ignored his friends and buried his face in Sirius's pillow, trying to pick up his godfather's scent..., there was none. "Harry?" Hermione said again.

"Leave me alone!" Harry yelled.

"Harry, you leave us with no choice!" Ron shouted. "Aloha-" He stopped half-way through the spell; Lupin had came upstairs and laid his hand on Ron's shoulders.

"Give him sometime," Lupin whispered, though loud enough to be heard by Harry. "The two of you should go to your rooms as well, the Order is having another meeting."

"Fine..," Ron muttered as he departed with Hermione. Lupin started to leave, and smiled weakly at the closed door of Sirius's bedroom.

Curiosity hit Harry, the Order is having another meeting, what could it be about this time? Determined, Harry got up from Sirius's bed, searched through his trunk for his cloak, and snuck out of the room. Members of Order were entering the dining room, surprisingly, Harry saw Fred and George among them. Looks like they've finally been allowed in the Order. However, it sure wasn't surprising to see various people complimenting them on giving Dolores Umbridge some lesson last year. As carefully as he could, Harry followed the wizards and witches into the room and sat down in a corner.

"Well," Dumbledore said after every had settled down. "It seems like the Ministry has finally believed the fact that Lord Voldemort have returned." People cheered. "And I would also like to add that thanks to a several of my students, many of the Death Eaters have been arrested, including Lucius Malfoy." Mr. Weasley practically leaped from his seat at this.

"However," Dumbledore continued, "Voldemort is not yet giving up. according to Severus, Voldemort is making plans to steal the Orb of Reawakening." A few people muttered amongst themselves and Snape stood up.

"I have just returned from probing a few escaped Death Eaters' minds. It seems like that the Dark Lord is indeed making plans to steal the Orb of Reawakening." Snape said. "And I am afraid it is not to a good cause, according to my information, he is planning on reviving the Dark Lord Grindewald."

Another member of the Order stood up to speak as Snape sat back down. "The Orb of Reawakening is an object kept by the Ministry. Basically it revives a deceased person, but requires the sacrifice of another living person."

"And how does it work, Adam?" Lupin interrupted.

"Well," the man named Adam continued. "I believe the Sacrificer have to hold the Orb in his or her hands and say the name of the person loud and clear, and the two people will just exchange their Live. However, there is a special rule established, the Revived will not be allowed to use the Orb. So if Grindewald was revived, someone else will need to revive You-Know-Who."

"Which is why," Dumbledore interrupted. "That we must not tell Harry of the existence of the Orb, we do not want him to do anything stupid." Harry saw Moody's magical eye staring at the corner that he's in, and Moody smirked, but didn't say anything.

"Where is this Orb hidden right now, Dumbledore?" Moody asked loudly.

It was Adam who answered, "We do not know, but it is taken to a remote location by the Department of Mysteries, so we would need people to search for it. And here is the plan..."

If I get my hands on that Orb, I can get Sirius back..., I can get Sirius back..., I can get Sirius back..., Harry was too absorbed in his own thoughts that he didn't realize the meeting was over until Dumbledore spoke.

"Harry, are you still there?" Dumbledore asked tentatively.

Harry chose to remain silent, Moody came into the room and looked around. "Yeah, he's there, alright..., in that corner right there." He pointed one scarred finger at the corner.

"Thank you, Alastor. Now if you don't mind, I would like to have a word with Mr. Potter, alone." Moody left and shut the door behind him. "If you don't mind, Harry, I would like to talk without the Invisibility Cloak."

Rather reluctantly, Harry took off the cloak and looked at Dumbledore, who smiled at him. "Pretty clever of you. Now, did you hear everything that we talked about this evening, or rather, morning." This was true, as the sun was slowly rising.

Harry nodded. Dumbledore sighed. "Then you know what I am about to ask you to do."

Harry nodded again, "You want me to stay put and not go looking for the Orb of Reawakening."

Dumbledore smiled, "That is what I would've usually had you do, but this time, it's different." Harry had a puzzled expression. Dumbledore continued, "You may look for clues of the Orb if you like, we can't trust the Ministry completely yet, however, you may not take any actions on getting the Orb. Do you understand?"

Harry scoffed, but nodded. Dumbledore laid a hand on Harry's head, "You've grown, Harry." There was a paused, "Now is there anything you would like to talk to me about?"

Harry shook his head, stopped, and nodded. "I..., before Dudley and Uncle Vernon were killed, I...."

"You've dreamt their deaths before it happened?" Dumbledore supplied. Harry nodded. Dumbledore sighed, "I was afraid of this."

"Excuse me, sir?" Harry interrupted. "If I can dream what's about to happen before it happens, would that make it a good thing? I mean, then we can counteract Voldemort's plan before he actually initiate them."

"That is true, Harry," Dumbledore said. "However, it also means that the connection between you and Voldemort is getting stronger. It would only be a matter of time before he uses your mind to find out what I am up to. Which is why you must practice Occlumency more than ever, understand? I'll give you private lessons once we return to Hogwarts. But, oh Heaven, what is that smell? It would seem to me that Mrs. Weasley had made breakfast, let's go."

Harry followed Dumbledore out of the room and joined in the other in breakfast. Ron and Hermione stared in bewilderment as they saw Harry coming out of the meeting room. Seeing their expressions, Harry gave them a "I'll-tell-you-everything-later" wink.

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