"Can I call you Tori? You know Tori, I'm a great friend."
"I don't get it, why are you being nice to me?"
"Maybe I don't want to see you friendless."
When Victoria Silvers, who comes from a long line of Slytherins, is sorted into Gryffindor her life...
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Harry took a deep breath and asked "Where's Voldemort?" Another shudder from Tori. "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 or anything—"
"That's because there haven't been any funny deaths yet," Sirius said, "Not as far as we know, anyway... And we know quite a lot."
"More than he thinks we do, anyway," Lupin added. Tori wanted to jump in and ask if her family had been spotted doing anything but bit her tongue.
"How come he's stopped killing people?" Harry asked. Everyone knew Voldemort had murdered more than once in the last year alone.
"Because he doesn't want to draw attention to himself," Sirius shrugged as if it was no big deal. "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.
"You weren't supposed to survive!" Sirius told him. "Nobody apart from his Death Eaters was supposed to know he'd come back. But you survived to bear witness."
Nobody apart from his Death Eaters. Nobody apart from Tori's father and Avalon.
"And the very last person he wanted to be alerted to his return the moment he got back was Dumbledore," Lupin said. "And you made sure Dumbledore knew at once."
"How has that helped?" Harry asked.
"Are you kidding?'' Bill asked incredulously. "Dumbledore was the only one You-Know-Who was ever scared of!"
"Thanks to you, Dumbledore was able to recall the Order of the Phoenix about an hour after Voldemort returned," Sirius continued.
"So, what's the Order been doing?" Harry asked, looking around at them all.
"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 what everyone was thinking."
"Dumbledore's got a shrewd idea," Lupin replied. ''And Dumbledore's shrewd ideas normally turn out to be accurate."
''So what does Dumbledore reckon he's planning?"
''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, his faithful Death Eaters, a great variety of Dark creatures. You heard him planning to recruit the giants; well, they'll be just one of the groups he's after. He's certainly not going to try and take on the Ministry of Magic with only a dozen Death Eaters."
Tori went pale causing Fred to place a hand on her shoulder to stead her upright. "Are you alright?" He whispered, but Tori waved him off.
"So you're trying to stop him getting more followers?"
