A/n: a quick note on this one… did you ever wonder what happened during the Battle of Hogwarts…outside Hogwarts? This is a little drabble I wrote that flips between several locations. Partially based on Thanfiction's series of events in Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness… so I guess you could say that this is a fanfiction of a fanfiction. Aidan, Ilyssa, and Ki ©me, Cecily ©Thanfiction, and all others © Jo Rowling. Plot ©me, with references to DAYD, © Thanfiction.
(Setting; a dingy dorm-room: metal bunk-bed, small vanity, bookshelf, desk with laptop computer. A radio on the nightstand is blaring alternative rock.)
"CAN YOU DANCE LIKE A HIPPOGRIFF, NA NA-*pfft* We interrupt this broadcast for an important announcement! Harry Potter, named Undesirable No. 1 by the British Ministry of Magic, HAS BEEN SIGHTED! Several witnesses report seeing Potter, along with accomplices Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley, flying away from Diagon Alley ON A DRAGON after the attempted robbery of the Lestrange vault at Gringotts National Wizarding Bank"
Aidan sat up quite abruptly. Harry Potter had been sighted? Awesome! Pushing aside her blanket, she swung herself off the top bunk and landed, catlike, on the floor. Then, tentatively, she reached out a hand and poked her dormmate, Ilyssa Thomas, in the face. Ilyssa woke immediately.
"Aidan, really? What time is it?"
"2a.m., but never mind that, Harry's been sighted! You'd best contact your cousin, didn't he say to tell him if we got any news?"
"Oh, all right," sighed Ilyssa, "I guess."
She got out of bed and grabbed her wand off the nightstand, where the radio was blaring Weird Sisters again.
"Expecto Patronum Mercurium."
A large, silver lioness burst out of the wand tip and turned to Ilyssa, its head tilted as if waiting for instructions.
"Dean, we have just received intelligence that Harry's been seen. Be ready for Neville's signal."
The lioness nodded slightly, then turned and leaped out the open window.
Aidan sighed.
"And now we wait."