Call it what you want {Theodore Nott}

chapter thirty-five

"Where is he?" Harry asked wasting no time. "What's he doing? I've been trying to watch the muggle news, and there hasn't been anything that looks like him yet, no funny deaths of anything."

"That's because there haven't been any funny deaths yet," said Sirius, "not as far as we know, anyway...and we know quite a lot."

"More than he thinks we do, anyway." Said Lupin.

"How comes he's stopped killing people?" Harry asked.

"He doesn't want to draw attention to himself." Amy answered him emotionlessly.

Sirius nodded to her, indicating that she was correct, "it would be dangerous for him. His comeback didn't come off quite the way he wanted it to, you see. He messed it up."

"Or rather, you messed it up for him." Said Lupin with a satisfied smile. "How?" Harry asked, perplexed.

God this boy is totally clueless.

"You weren't supposed to survive!" Said Sirius. "Nobody apart from his death eaters were meant to know."

Amy heart dropped realising that included her father.

"You survived to bear witness." He added

"And the very last person he wanted alerted to his trying the moment he got back was Dumbledore," said Lupin. "And you made sure he knew at once and he was able to recall the Order of the Phoenix about an hour after his return."

"What's the Order been doing?" Amy butted in.

"Working as hard as we can to make sure Voldemort can't carry out his plans." Said Sirius.

"How'd you know what his plans are?" Harry asked quickly.
"Dumbledores got a shrewd idea," said Lupin, "and Dumbledores shrewd ideas normally turn out to be accurate."

"And what are these ideas?" Amy asked not sounding too convinced which she was sure didn't go unnoticed.

"Well, firstly, he wants to build up his army again," said Sirius. "In the old days he had huge numbers at his command: witches and wizards he'd bullied or bewitched into following him."

Amy silently prayed that this was by some miracle the way her father got involved, but she highly doubted it.

"So you're trying to stop him getting more followers?" Harry asked.
"We're doing our best," said Lupin.

"How?" Amy asked, becoming impatient.
"Well, the main thing is to try and convince as many people as possible that You-Know-Who really has returned, to put them on their guard" said Bill. "It's proving tricky though."

"Why?" Harry questioned.
"Because of the Ministry's attitude," said Tonks. "You saw Fudge after he came back, Harry. Well, he hasn't shifted his position at all. He's absolutely refusing to believe it's happened."

This news angered the blonde. How can you be in denial about something so dangerous? She never really liked politics.

"But why?" Said Harry desperately. "Why's he being so stupid?"

"I'd say stupid is an understatement." Amy mumbled but it turns out most people heard.

"If Dumbledore -"

"Ah, well you've put your finger on the problem." Said Mr Weasley with a wry smile." Dumbledore"

"Fudge is frightened of him, you see," said Tonks sadly.