Dumbledore’s Army By DrT 1 Table of Contense Dumbledore’s Army................................................................................................................... 1 Chapter 01 .............................................................................................................................. 3 Chapter 02 ............................................................................................................................ 12 Chapter 03 ............................................................................................................................ 22 Chapter 04 ............................................................................................................................ 33 Chapter 05 ............................................................................................................................ 44 Chapter 06 ............................................................................................................................ 51 Chapter 07 ............................................................................................................................ 59 Chapter 08 ............................................................................................................................ 67 Chapter 09 ............................................................................................................................ 74 Chapter 10 ............................................................................................................................ 83 Chapter 11 ............................................................................................................................ 92 Chapter 12 .......................................................................................................................... 101 Chapter 13 .......................................................................................................................... 110 Chapter 14 .......................................................................................................................... 119 Chapter 15 .......................................................................................................................... 129 Chapter 16 .......................................................................................................................... 138 Chapter 17 .......................................................................................................................... 147 Chapter 18 .......................................................................................................................... 156 Chapter 19 .......................................................................................................................... 170 Chapter 20 .......................................................................................................................... 179 Chapter 21 .......................................................................................................................... 187 Chapter 22 .......................................................................................................................... 194 Chapter 23 .......................................................................................................................... 221 Chapter 24 .......................................................................................................................... 232 Chapter 25 .......................................................................................................................... 240 Chapter 26 .......................................................................................................................... 249 Chapter 27 .......................................................................................................................... 257 Chapter 28 .......................................................................................................................... 266 Chapter 29 .......................................................................................................................... 276 Chapter 30 .......................................................................................................................... 284 Epilogue ............................................................................................................................. 293 2 Chapter 01 Monday July 22, 1996 Harry Potter looked at the grandfather clock in the up-stairs hallway and sighed. 12:25 In thirty-five minutes or so, the magical chimes Dumbledore had installed would sound and Harry would have to talk to someone. He was not overjoyed by the prospect. Less than a week after he arrived back at Privet Drive, Uncle Vernon had locked him in the cupboard again. Around midnight, Mad-Eye Moody had swept into the house and had scared all three Dursleys. The up-shot was, nearly every afternoon at 1:00 someone would visit Harry. The good part about this set-up was that all the Dursleys were out of the house every day between 1:00 and 4:00, and the visits were usually over by 1:40. The bad part of the situation was the 20 to 40 minutes he had to spend talking to people. The first two weeks of the summer, Harry had been continuously depressed, no matter how that term might be defined. Harry had glanced at letters from Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, Remus, the twins, and even Neville, and then had tossed them away without answering. He had glanced at his O.W.L. results, allowed himself a mild feeling of pleasure, and then repressed it. He sent one copy-quill note to his friends telling them he had done well, but little else. Harry was not totally non-functional, even if he slept from 10:00 at night until 9:00 in the morning, fighting through the nightmares. Being depressed, Harry had decided, at least allowed him to rest. N.E.W.T. classes would not be approved until late August, so Harry had no summer work. In the late mornings, he caught up on his Muggle reading (from the local library -- it had been his request to borrow books that had caused Vernon Dursley to go into a rage), mostly mysteries, science fiction, and some non-fiction. He had now even started in on Tolkien. After his visitor left, Harry would go into the basement to use the equipment Uncle Vernon had rented for Dudley to train with over the summer. Harry would hit the heavy bag, jog on the tread mill for an hour, and use whatever time might be left to weight train and hit the bag again before showering. Harry was working out hard; he knew he would have to be in good shape for the next few years. Harry had also decided hitting the bag, working out his frustrations, was what had kept him from slipping from a mild depression into something worse. He refused to admit that the visitors helped as well. He was still depressed, but not to the extent he had been. No, as far as Harry would admit, the visitors were necessary evils; necessary to keep Uncle Vernon in-line and everyone out of the house for at least three hours. The worst visitors were strangers or near-strangers, members of the Order of the Phoenix who treated Harry as a hero. Harry knew they meant well, but they were hard to take, and he usually had to prod them to get them to leave after 40 minutes or so. He had hoped Moody or 3 Tonks would stop by, so that Harry could ask them about Auror training, but so far they hadn't. Despite everything, Harry still hoped to train as an Auror. The hardest visits had been with Remus Lupin. Remus had visited four times over the past two weeks. The first two times had been very strained indeed. Neither really wanted to get into their feelings about the late Sirius Black. Remus' third visit had occurred after Dumbledore's one and only visit. Harry had to admit to himself that he had behaved very badly towards Dumbledore, and the only letter he had written that summer, other than a request for more information on the N.E.W.T. classes and the note to his friends about his O.W.L. results, had been a letter of apology to Dumbledore. When Remus had shown up the next day, Harry had finally let his anger and grief out, which triggered Remus' as well. Both had needed the catharsis; neither mentioned it in the last meeting. Instead, Remus had gone over Sirius' will. As it had been attested to before his conviction, it still stood. Since Sirius had never married, and James Potter was dead, nearly all of the Black family fortune went to his cousin Andromeda (Tonks' mother) or Harry. Harry also found out that there was a Potter Trust, slightly smaller than his share of the Black Trust, which he would gain income from once he reached 17, and which he would control at age 21. And so, slowly, Harry had partially recovered from the series of traumas that had hit him since the Third Task at the end of the his Fourth year. He had even recovered enough to start sketching a form letter to his friends, apologizing for not writing sooner. As the clock ticked closer to 1:00, Harry thought about three of his correspondents: Hermione Granger; Luna Lovegood; and Ginny Weasley. In very different ways, Ginny and Luna were both good friends, although of course not as close to him as Hermione was. And they were all, he admitted to himself, attractive girls. After the fiasco with Cho the previous spring, Harry had not been sure he wanted to risk being more than friends with any girl any time soon. Harry had realized by the end of the term that he needed his friends, and Ginny and Luna, along