On the next morning Emily woke up early. She got up immediately and went to the bathroom to get ready. Then she went down into the living room, where her father was already waiting. She got into the fire place with a few difficulties and took a handful of floopowder. Then she said loud and clearly: "Diagon Alley." To travel with floopowder wasn't new to her, because she knew it her whole childhood. Shortly after she had arrived at the Leaky Cauldron Snape already followed her through the fire place and stepped out with her onto her beloved Diagon Alley. She loved everything here: the crush of people, who crowded through the street from shop to shop, the crammed shopwindows, the well-lit and sometimes even mysterious shops and the big snow-white Gringotts Bank, which overtopped all the other stores. Father and daughter interfered into the crowd and finally reached Flourish & Blotts. Inside the shop was the same big crowd as outside on the street. People were pushing eachouther through the rows so they could get to the books, but when Hogwarts students sighted Snape, they quickly searched the length. At the end of the aisle Emily saw a classmate and also a very good friend of her.
"Hey Lynn!", Emily greeted her.
Lynn came to her and they huged eachother. Because they haven't seen for so long they talked for a while, Snape went a few rows further and let the girls alone.
"And have you wrote a lot of letters to Harry?", asked Lynn winking.
Emily was getting red and stuttered: "Er...well...yes..."
Lynn laughed and said: "I have to go now. We'll see on the first of September on the train. Bye!"
"Bye!"
After Emily and Snape bought the books they went to the pharmacy to buy potion ingrediants.
They strolled through Diagon Alley to Florean Fortescue's Icecream saloon. Emily sighted a sign in front of a shop that said:
FIREBOLTMINIATURES 5 GALLEONS!!
"Dad! Lead on! I have to get something and then I'll come after you!" And with these words she already had turned away and was gone into the shop. In that store, they had a lot of different things: Quidditchrosettes, miniatures of brooms, around flying books and Filibusters Firework. She even thought that she saw a little figure with a black cloak and round glasses. Over the counter she saw the fireboltminiatures and bought one. It fitted perfect with the rest of Harry's birthday present. She had bought him a book about brooms and with that she wanted to give him the model of his own broom.
Her father already sat at a table at Florean Fortescue's as she arrived.
"What have you bought?", he asked.
"A birthday present for Harry.", she said quickly.
Snape snorted and looked out of the window.
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At home Emily tucked away her shopping and wrapped Harry's present.
Before she got to bed she red a bit in her book.
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On the next mornig Emily woke up earlier than usual and she just wanted to enter the bathroom as her father came along and wanted to enter too.
"Ladies first."
"No, you go first. I need more time."
One hour later they stood outside on the street of Spinner's End with Emily's big trunk . Snape streched out his arm and Emily grapped it tightly and in the other hand Snape held the trunk. They would get to London by side-by-side apparating, Emily hated it, even though she did not do it very often. She was glad when it was over and she could breathe again.
They had to walk a few streets to Grimmauldplace, because they had landed in a side road, so they could be sure that no muggle saw them.
When they stepped into the kitchen of Grimmauldplace No. 12 Sirius called with a played friendly voice: "Hellooooo Snievellus!", and laughed.
Emily hardly covered a laugh as a cough. Snape looked at Sirius with a deadly glance and walked back into the entrance hall and Emily followed him. Suddenly they heard a rumble upstairs and Ron and Hermione came hurrying down the stairs. Hermione immediately ran to Emily and pulled her into an embrace and said: "I missed you sooo much! How are you?" "Until a minute ago still good, because nobody crushed me.", Emily said with laughter. Ron hugged her too and then hauled her trunk up the stairs. Emily said good bye to her father with a hug. Then she and Hermione got up the stairs too.
"Hasn't Harry arrived yet??" "No, he'll arrive in the evening.", Hemione said, smiling. They sat down on the bed and talked for hours about their holidays, the events of the last term and the Daily Prophet.
When it already became dark outside and the street lamps were lighten the door opened and Harry entered.
Hermione jumped and hugged him too as she did with Emily before, but Harry seemed as though he didn't like it very much. Hermione let go of him, stepped back and looked at him, worried.
"Where are we?", he just asked.
"At the headquaters of the Order of the phoenix.", Hermione said immediately.
"What's the Order of the phoenix?"
"It's a secret community of wizards and witches, who fight against Voldemort!", Emily tried to explain.
"Dumbledore already founded it in the first war against him!", Hermione supplemented.
"And you couldn't have wrote that in a letter to me, could you? Emily, I asked you if you knew something!"
Emily answered in a low voice: "I wanted to write to you-"
"So why haven't you?§ Harry was getting angrier every second. Now Ron said something for the first time: "We all wanted to write to you, but-"
"But WHAT?"
Hermione looked sadly at him and said, almost pleadingly: "Dumbledore let us swear that we won't tell you anything!"
"BUT WHY? I WAS ON THIS GRAVEYARD LAST TERM AND IT WAS ME WHO SAW VOLDEMORT RETURN AND FOUGHT HIM!! NOT DUMBLEDORE OR YOU! I HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW EVERYTHING!"
"Harry we know that!", Hermione said and tried to calm him down. He sat down on the bed, breathing hard and looked around in the room. It was very dark and dusty.
The two beds were made of dark wood and the wallpaper already solved. The big wardrobe was black too. On one wall hung a picture with a golden frame, but on the picture itself he couldn't see anything. It was just a piece of black canvas. The whole house was very gloomy and looked like it belonged to an old pureblood family. Harry always imagined Draco Malfoy's house like this. Suddenly there was a loud BANG and Fred an George Weasley stood in the middle of the room.
"Hey! Do you want to listen to what the Order's talking about?", asked George. So they all went outside and Harry was just asking himself how they are going to do that as Fred pulled out something skin-coloured and rubbery. He pulled it through the door crack and suddenly they could here the clear voices of the Order members as though they were standing right beside them. Harry recognised a familiar, icy voice and said surprised: "Snape is a member of the Order?" Emily threw a nasty look at him. "Sorry.", he murmured. Suddenly they saw the door handle move. Fred took the string and all of them hurried back into the room. Minutes later Mrs. Weasley stood in the door way and told them to come down into the kitchen for dinner.
The kitchen was full and loud. A few members of the Order stayed fot dinner. After they had finished they all went back into their rooms. Emily slept together in a room with Hermione and Ginny and the three of them talked until past midnight.
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