"Beasts! Sluts! Filthy, sinful spawn! Half-breeds, freaks, uglies, get out of here at once! How dare you defile my ancestral home—"
"All right, get inside first!"
Sirius looked helplessly at Tonks, who kept apologizing, then reached out and laboriously pulled the curtains shut, cutting off the old woman's shrieks.
"What exactly happened?"
Kingsley appeared at the entrance hall and looked curiously at Sirius at the end of the corridor.
"I spoke with Harry yesterday and came to think that some things... Anyway, get inside first. Nearly everyone is here!" Sirius nodded toward the entrance to the sitting room.
After they entered, they cast a spell on the wooden door to prevent anyone from overhearing the coming conversation.
"You didn't notify Severus?"
Professor McGonagall looked at the closed wooden door and raised her eyebrows slightly. Most of the Order of the Phoenix had arrived, but Snape was absent.
"I don't think he's trustworthy, and it's better if he doesn't know." Sirius sat down and shrugged. "All right, forget Sniv—Snape for now. Let's discuss why I urgently called you all here today. It's about Harry!"
The Order members fell silent and all looked at Sirius, waiting for him to continue.
Sirius took out a bottle of medicine, put a pill into his mouth, and swallowed it before slowly saying, "Harry contacted me yesterday. He told me he's still having the same recurring dream, and he thinks it's a conspiracy."
"A dream, a conspiracy?"
Everyone was baffled. Only a few of them knew about the nightmares.
"Harry has been having the same dream since last summer. He dreams of a corridor, and he also dreamed that Arthur was bitten by a venomous snake."
As he spoke, Sirius nodded at Arthur. "So Dumbledore had Sniv—Snape teach him Occlumency."
Sirius fell silent for a moment,