"What the hell is this place?"
After the three of them reviewed each other for a while, Harry, who calmed down a little, finally asked Ron and Hermione this question.
"Order of the Phoenix." Ron answered without hesitation.
"What is the Order of the Phoenix—"
"This is a secret society," Hermione explained. "It was originally created by Dumbledore, and they were all the people who fought against the mysterious man last time. The current leader... is Maka."
"Maka... Yes! Maka..." Harry stopped walking back and forth, thought for a moment and then said, "Who is in there? It sounds like there are quite a few people!"
"We've seen about twenty of them," Ron said, "but there's definitely more than that."
"Then what?" Harry rubbed his face, trying to calm himself down, "Where is Voldemort now? Why did he send dementors to attack me? Are others okay?"
"No, in fact, the number of recent attacks has suddenly decreased." Hermione shook her head, her long, messy hair swaying around like a bundle of dry seaweed.
Ron also whispered: "As for the mysterious man... After the audio-visual meeting, he never appeared again, and the activities of the Death Eaters seem to be much more secretive... "
"Do you all know so clearly?" Harry asked strangely, "But it seems that you are not allowed to participate in... uh, the meeting of the Order of the Phoenix?"
"Yes! Most adults don't allow it -" Hermione nodded, "But Maka didn't hide it from us... At least, he wouldn't stop us from reading the Order of the Phoenix's action report. When I took the initiative to ask for some details, , he will also explain it to me."
"Of course! We still can't get in during the meeting..." Ron spread his hands, but then leaned down and said mysteriously, "But we can also know a little bit."
"how do you know?"
"Fred and George invented retractable ears, you know?" Ron said. "That little thing really works."
"Telescopic..."
"Yes, retractable ears!" Ron waved, gesturing for Harry to come closer, "But we'd better use them less, because mom found out - she was really angry!"
"It's just that even if you hear something, it actually doesn't mean much!" Hermione didn't seem to like the prop very much. She waved her hand and said, "Many tasks have action reports from Maka, which are better than what was said at the meeting. It’s much more detailed.”
"... Just like recently, the most important task is to attract more suitable people to join the Order of the Phoenix." Hermione added.
"There are still some people standing guard," Ron said. "Guard duty and stuff like that... you know."
"Guard duty?" Harry thought for a moment and said suddenly, "Oh, you mean... protecting me?"
"I think...yeah, that's right."
Ron looked at Harry's reluctant face and didn't know what to say to comfort him.
Harry put away the annoyance that was about to boil again, and continued to pace around the room.
"So... what have you two been doing lately?" he asked. "You said in your letter that you have been very busy."
"It's very busy!" Hermione said hurriedly, "This house has been empty for many years, and a lot of messy things have multiplied and multiplied everywhere..."
"Sisters Ron, Maka, and Leni Lena and I, and Miss Witte also came here some time ago - we did a thorough cleaning of this house together, and it was only recently that it was almost completed..."
Hermione counted the number of people on her fingers, and finally said in a more serious tone: "Maka is always lazy and won't listen to me! We are almost exhausted, and he still sneaks away from time to time. It's really... oops!"
"Pah! Pah!"
With two piercing explosions, the space was slightly distorted, and Ron's two twin brothers, Fred and George, suddenly appeared in the center of the room.
The little owl and the piglet squawked even more panicked. It swooped over and stopped on the top of the wardrobe with Hedwig.
"You're doing this again!" Hermione turned around in shock and shouted at the Weasley twins.
…
"... Now that the situation has been determined, it will be much easier to deal with it. Regarding this matter, we don't need to do anything for the time being. We can just wait for them to reveal themselves."
The original reception room has now become the meeting room and command room of the Order of the Phoenix. After listening to Snape's secret report, Maka spoke calmly while flipping through the information report.
"But, when they reveal themselves... is this reliable?" Tonks, who was sitting aside, asked with a puzzled look on her face, "Why don't we take the initiative?"
Maka smiled, pointed to the event records on the table and said: "First of all, Voldemort is obviously planning to play it safe this time. He is reducing the irregular harassment, and instead -"
When Hua was halfway through speaking, Maka suddenly stopped talking and glanced at the closed door.
"Fred, George, today's meeting is a bit special. You should put that thing away first!"
Maka's words suddenly made Mrs. Weasley angry again, and he had to wave his hand at Mrs. Weasley to signal her not to be busy reprimanding the restless twin brothers.
"Ahem, let me continue..." Maka cleared her throat and continued, "Actually, to put it bluntly, no organization is monolithic. Even the Order of the Phoenix, hasn't it happened like Peter Pettigrew?"
"This time Voldemort intends to use wisdom to create a situation that is beneficial to him. This is not a bad thing for us." He explained, "Since he chose to use the rules of the wizarding world to do things, no matter what Whatever he does means that he will also be bound by the rules—"
Having said this, Maka knocked on the table and looked around for another week before saying emphatically: "Moreover, whether it is recruiting members or negotiating with other forces, we all need time, not to mention..."
He looked at the Weasleys and said, "... Percy, we can't just leave it alone, can we?"
"Don't worry about that bastard! I'll just treat it as-" "Arthur!"
Upon hearing Percy's name, Mr. Weasley immediately trembled with anger, and Mrs. Weasley's eyes turned red again. Tonks couldn't help but glare at Maka when she saw this, and then hurried over to comfort Mrs. Weasley.
In fact, Maka didn't want to mention it.
But there are some things that cannot be treated as if they never happened if you don’t mention them. On the contrary, you must always bring them up and put them in front of everyone, so as to avoid future regrets caused by people’s deliberate avoidance for a moment.
"Okay, so... do you have any questions?"
Maka said, then looked at everyone present, and after finding that no one raised any objections, she said loudly: "In that case, today's meeting ends here! Sirius, I will go to your room to get a new report tomorrow morning … Everyone, get ready and let’s eat!”
After that, he saw Snape was about to leave silently, and suddenly stopped him.
"Professor Snape!" Maka said, "Are you really not going to stay for dinner?"
"No need." Snape didn't even turn his head and raised his legs to go out.
"Oops! Wait, professor!" Maka hurriedly chased after him, "Professor, since you don't want to stay for dinner, then just come with me!"
"What?" Snape frowned.
"A woman came back from Kingsley before. She said she wanted to see you... Why don't you go and have a look?" Maka pointed to the stairs upstairs.
"Woman?" Snape frowned even more tightly, "Who?"
"She said her name was Tia, that she was from the United States and graduated from Ilvermorny." Maka shrugged.
"America?" Snape thought for a moment, then shook his head, "No impression."
"Then go and take a look?"
Taking a slightly impatient Snape upstairs, Maka knocked on the bedroom door.
"Who, who's there?"
A slight voice came from the room, and it sounded a little trembling.
"It's me - McClane," Maka said, "Don't you want to see Professor Snape? I brought him..."
Before Maka finished speaking, there was a sound of thumping footsteps inside, and then the bedroom door was opened a crack, and a black eye looked out from behind the crack.
When she saw Snape, the door was finally opened. Tia suddenly stepped out of the door and looked at Snape's face blankly.
Snape looked at Tia up and down doubtfully, his brows furrowed and tightened, and a sense of irritation gradually appeared on his face.
"Who are you? Why are you looking for me?" He really didn't seem to know Tia, and he didn't seem to have any good impression of this woman.
However, Tia remained silent under Snape's questioning. She just kept looking at Snape's face, as if something on Snape's face was catching her attention.
"I'm asking you a question!"
Seeing Tia staring at him like this, he seemed to be even more impatient, and raised his voice and said coldly.
"No... you... I..." Tia was startled by him, opened her mouth, and became incoherent.
"Miss Tia," Maka had to remind her, "didn't you see Professor Snape now? Calm down, no one here will bully you, you can speak slowly... Do you want to see Professor Snape? What's up?"
Maka was also confused when Kingsley brought her back.
I heard she had been wandering around Little Whinging and was said to have gotten lost. But on the day she approached Harry to ask for directions, a dementor happened to appear, which looked suspicious no matter what.
Coupled with her cowardly and weird personality, it is really difficult not to doubt her.
For such a strange woman who suddenly appeared, Maka had no choice but to keep her under her nose so that she could pay attention to her behavior at any time.
However, the more she observed, the more doubtful Maka became—what on earth was this woman here for
"...What do you want from Professor Snape?" Maka asked again in a softer tone.
"No, I don't know..."
Tia's answer made Maka roll her eyes.