Shadow Phoenix

@ Dark Dragen, yuiop, April, azphxbird, firelordeg & GhostwriterMO: Thank you for your reviews.

@ Ghostwriter: Yes, the Quality of the last two books was way less, than the fist (nearly) five. (The part were Sirius dies not included.) Too many of my favorite HP Characters dieing, is the main reason for me to do this fanfic. I promise neither Tonks nor Remus will die. (Maybe they'll get hurt... but they'll survive.) The old meddler will survive too, but loose an arm.

C18: St.Mungo's


Mad Eye and Tonks escorted them to the Hospital, using the subway.

The entrance of the Hospital was disguised as the dusty, ugly display of a closed department store in the middle of a shopping mile.

Harry could see the spells on it to keep muggles from giving it or people in front of it much attention.

The Display itself was half an illusion and half a magical barrier.


Tonks placed herself before the illusion of a very ugly, chipped dummy on the other side of the 'glass'.

“Wotcher,”, she said. “we're here to see Arthur Weasly.”

Harry saw the barrier vanish, as the illusion gave a nod and beckoned with its jointed finger.

They stepped through the illusion and found themselves in a crowded reception area.

Harry saw a floor guide, stating:


ARTEFACKT ACCIDENTS....................................... Ground floor

CREATUR-INDUCED INJURIES.............................. First floor

MAGICAL BUGS........................................................ Second floor

POTION AND PLANT POISONING.......................... Third floor

SPELL DAMAGE….................................................... Fourth floor

VISITORS TEAROOM / HOSPITAL SHOP................Fifth floor

IF YOU ARE UNSURE WHERE TO GO, INCAPABLE OF NORMAL SPEECH OR UNABLE TO REMEMBER WHY YOU ARE HERE, OUR WELCOMEWITCH WILL BE PLEASED TO HELP.


Molly lead them to Arthur's ward on the first floor.

Mad Eye and Tonks stayed outside, claiming Arthur wouldn't want too many visitors at once.

Mr. Weasly greeted them happily, he seemed to be perfectly fine, except for the bandages and having to drink some Blood Replenishing Potion every hour.

He refused to answer Fred and Georges questions about were he was when he got attacked, but he told them about the mysterious black phoenix, who according to the healers saved his live.

When he was done, Harry draw his wand and created a privacy sphere around them, before he transformed into his animagus form and back.

Harry waited, until he finally stopped thanking him (he had to wait rather long), before he vanished the sphere and all the students were sent out, so Mad Eye, Tonks and Molly could talk about order business with Arthur.


In front of the door, the twins rummaged in their pockets for Extendable Ears and handed them around.

Harry hesitated to take one.

“Go on, Harry. You saved dad's life. If anyone's got the right to eavesdrop on him, it's you.”

Harry took it and inserted the end of the ribbon into his ear.

They heard them talking about Voldemort's snake having been on lookout for him there and Harry being able to see things from inside You Know Who's snake and Mad Eye said, that there was a possibility of You Know Who possessing him.

Harry pulled the Extendable Ear out of his own.

The others were staring fearful at him.

Harry handed the Extendable Ear back to Fred.


“Does someone of you really think, I'd let myself being possessed by anyone? Think twice! I might not be able to stop his impressions from pouring into me, whenever his feelings are unusual strong, but I've already sealed my mind, emotions and all memories after my eleventh birthday, to prevent him or anybody else except me, from accessing them. The connection we share is a part of him, he accidentally left me when he failed to kill me the first time.”

Harry pointed at his scar.

“I'm not really a parselmount myself. This is one of his abilities. I'm just able to access it because of our connection. I've seen the part of him inside me once. It's a wretched, miserable, pathetic excuse for a broken part of a rotten soul. Mine is whole and stronger than you can imagine! As is my magic! You really think he could be able to possess me with some sorry piece of shit?”

Harry was clearly furious, power streaming out of him like water out of a broken dam.

“I'll go, rest.”, he growled low, turning away from them and in a flash of black fire, he was gone.

“Holy shit!”, Ron said, before Mad Eye ripped the door open.

“Where's Harry gone?”

“Back to Sirius.”, Hermione answered him.

“Why.”

“He got very angry about your idea of V-V-Voldemort (everyone else flinched) possessing him.”, she said, pulling the string of the Extendable Ear out of her ear. “He told us it was impossible for V-V... dammit, Tom Riddle to possess him and explained why. Something about sealing his mind, emotions and a good part of his memory inside him, so only he could access them. He said he just couldn't stop images coming from Tom to pour into his mind, whenever Tom has strong emotions. And that he could access some of Tom's abilities like parseltongue. Then he said, he would go, rest and vanished.”

Moody signed.

“You shouldn't have eavesdropped on us...”

“You shouldn't keep such important information from us!”, Hermione said. “It's only fair, isn't it? You try to keep things secret, you shouldn't and we try to find out, what you try to keep from us.”


“Don't argue with her.”, Ron whispered into his ear, before Moody could say anything. “If you get her and Ginny any more furious you might see their animagi forms sooner than anyone would want. Believe me, these two big cats can, if furious, be more dangerous than a bunch of Death Eaters. Since their first transformation they've become very short tempered.”

“Besides,...”, Fred started.

“...with this eye of yours,...”, George continued.

“...you should know,...”

“...if we're eavesdropping.”

“Aren't you the one...”

“...who's always preaching...”

“...about constant vigilance?”

Mad Eye murmured something about not underestimate them again, while he got back into the room to tell Molly and Tonks they had to get back now.

*********

When they came back, Sirius told them, Harry had appeared beside him and gone into his room immediately and asked, what made him that angry.

Mad Eye and Tonks got to Harry's room, but found it empty but for his trunk, which Moody's magical eye couldn't look into.

They opened it, but it seemed to be an ordinary trunk, until Ron took pity on them, closed and reopened the trunk, to show them the enlarged space, where Harry sat, meditating on his throne.

Nosily Tonks got in, but found out, she couldn't open the doors on the wall behind Harry, while Moody went back to Sirius.

Exited instead of annoyed, Trunks examined the throne and the showcase with Harry's pensives beside it.

She tried to open the showcase, but neighter her spells nor smashing hard objects against it worked.

“You know... an Auror should be able to get through the spells I put on it. They weren't that strong.”, Harry mentioned, after watching her for ten minutes.

(He can't meditate if a witch tries to break in the showcase right beside him, can he?)


The female Auror finally gave up.

“I've never been good at that stuff. I'm a Metamorphmagus. That's why I became an Auror even though I suck at recognising and breaking charms...”

“Well... The pensives you tried to get to contain copies of one of my memories.”, Harry said.

Then he opened the showcase and gave Tonks one of the pensives.

“A Christmas present for the Order. Though, I advice you to not review it, unless you don't mind getting nightmares.”

(Tonks got nightmares, as every other member of the order. But... he warned them...)