How many of you blindly do what he says with all the devotion and effort you can muster? Because, like it or not, that's exactly what the death eaters do. I'll be off, now, I hope you all at least think on what I've said. Good day to you."
Harry left via the fireplace and left several order members thinking on his words, in truth they thought that Dumbledore was a bit too focused on Potter and not as focused on you-know-who.
"I have an announcement to make" Sirius stood, Remus stood alongside him. "Me and my good friend, Remus, have decided to quit the order."
"Yes, the order is not helping at all" Remus added "Dumbledore is hiding too much information and he is definitely not the leader we want nor the leader that any of us need right now. I'm pretty confident in my guess, and I am quite sure that Dumbledore has not told any of you about the prophecy yet, has he?" Remus asked knowingly.
"What prophecy?" One member asked
"The one we had to guard last year" Moody answered
"Yes, it's between Harry and Voldemort" Sirius added "apparently it says that Harry is the only one who can defeat Voldemort. Dumbledore, in his infinite wisdom, decided to guard it instead of telling Harry it or have Harry remove it and place it with a fake copy and destroy it. Face it guys, I know you all see Dumbledore as the reincarnation of Merlin but he is more of a problem at this point."
"Yes" Remus nodded "Harry is ridiculously powerful, especially for his age, he has beaten both Dumbledore and Voldemort in duels and he has had more impact against the death eaters on his own then we have had in the years that we have worked for Dumbledore. Me and Padfoot have decided that we will no longer support Dumbledore, from now on, all of our support goes to Harry."
"Me as well" Moody said "Potter has been saying what I've been saying for years, we need to go on the offensive and take the fight to them if we want any chance at defeating them. Dumbledore is too focused on his grand plans. Potter has the right idea, he is allowed to kill and he makes great use of the fact"
"I'm in too" Tonks piped in "but I don't know how much help we will be, Harry is the only one allowed to actually kill here."
"True" Shacklebolt agreed "but we can help him with information and other ways. Needless to say, I am also in."
The other members of the order agreed, some took some convincing, some more than others but one by one they were all coming around, at the end of it the order was broken up. Sirius had even suggested writing a letter to send Dumbledore that would be covered in prank charms.
"No" Remus stopped him "you are not sending a letter to Dumbledore"
"But Moony..." Sirus whined
"No" Remus said firmly "you are not sending a letter with prank charms...not when you can send a howler"
"Brilliant Moony!" Sirius exclaimed "you always were the best marauder"
"Was he?" McGonagall raised an eyebrow "I was always under the impression that Mr Lupin was the most behaved of you four"
"It's not that I'm the 'nice one', I was just the only one smart enough not to get caught" Remus smirked. McGonagall looked furious, for a brief second before a small smile made its way onto her lips.
The second day after the Christmas holidays had finished, Albus sat at dinner, plotting as he ate. Wondering what he could do about Harry, he couldn't lock him up thanks to him being above the law. A fact that angered Dumbledore greatly, he was Albus Dumbledore and if anyone should be above the law because of magic then it should be him. His only hope was to make the arrogant brat see reason and join him.
Maybe he could get his old friend to give him some advice, he has been helpful over the years.
He was interrupted from his musings by an owl that dropped by and delivered a red letter, the letter rose into the air and that was when he realised that it was a howler, but he didn't understand why. Molly Weasley was the only one he knew who still used them, mostly because the woman can do nothing but shout when she's angry and she would not let distance be a factor that would stop her. The students also looked with intrigue.
"Albus Dumbledore" Sirius's voice echoed throughout the silent hall, despite being of a normal tone of voice "on behalf of myself and the rest of the order, I would like to say that you are a colossal prat who should just retire and let those with a brain run the school and fight the war"
The entire hall was silent, the students all smiled. Many of them, mostly Slytherin's, never liked Dumbledore. Those who did, grew out of doing so by Harry Potter. They saw what he had suffered because of those muggles and Dumbledore's decision to put him there, it was becoming painfully clear that Dumbledore was trying to control Potter and make him another one of his puppets. Even the first years had heard all about him and those who hadn't decided to ask the older students about it.
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