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"Yea, I like the DA, only let's make it stand for Dumbledore's Army, because that's the thing the Ministry fears most."
Hogwarts had changed.
Before their seventh year, the students had never been forced to come to school, though they all did anyway. Before their seventh year, it didn't matter what kind of blood you had. Before their seventh year, they hadn't been forced to take certain classes, or had the Cruciatus Curse fired at them in detention, or worse, were told to perform it themselves.
Before their seventh year, Seamus Finnegan and Neville Longbottom had shared a dormitory with three other boys, who were now all on the run from worse dangers.
So it was when they were in their seventh and final year at Hogwarts that they decided to take action.
Platform 9 ¾ seemed less crowded that usual. Neville automatically looked around for people he knew. He managed to spot Seamus, Lavander Brown, and the Patil twins from his year. Ginny Weasley was also standing there, looking very alone. Neville realized that it was one of the first times he'd ever seen Ginny without at least one of her brothers.
Neville said goodbye to his Gran. ("Take care of yourself, Neville! Things are changing!") and walked over to Ginny, who was standing next to Luna Lovegood. "Hello, Ginny. Hello, Luna." Neville said when he was within hearing distance. Ginny jumped. Luna merely glanced around dreamily and smiled at him.
When he was standing right beside Ginny, Neville asked, "Where's Ron? And Harry and Hermione?"
Ginny looked downcast and frustrated. "I'll tell you on the train." She said just as the scarlet engine was pulling into the station.
As Neville loaded his belongings on the train, he noticed several more people were missing. Draco Malifoy, for one, though Neville was happy to be rid of him. Two other Slytherins in his year were gone, and a few Hufflepuffs who Neville knew were muggle-born.
Neville found a compartment with Luna, Ginny, and Seamus. "Hello, Seamus." Neville said, sitting down next to his fellow Gryffendor. He glanced around the room, double-checking, "Where's Dean?"
Seamus' usually red face became pale and he looked both sad and disgusted. "He couldn't come. He couldn't prove he was related to a wizard."
"But I thought his dad was a wizard." Ginny said. Neville glanced at her, remembering that she was an ex-girlfriend of Dean's.
Seamus looked even more disgusted. "Yeah, but his dad ran out on him and his mum when he was a kid. So he had to choose between running or Azkaban."
Neville felt a stone drop into his stomach. He touched Seamus' shoulder, "I guess it's just us then." He knew that Seamus must be worried about his best friend and didn't know how to help him. He turned to Ginny. "So, where are they?"
"From what I gathered, their doing...something...to try to kill You-Know-Who." Ginny's voice was low and bitter. Neville sensed that she wanted to be with her brother and Harry. Probably, mostly Harry.
Luna spoke up, her voice still dreamy, "Well, it looks like we're the ones doing the DA this year."
They all stared at her. Ginny finished the thought. "Yeah...now that we have Death Eaters in charge of Hogwarts we're going to need it." She grinned at Luna, who smiled back. Neville thought that he missed something. He didn't understand girls at all.
The sky darkened but rain didn't come. The four of them were joined by different people throughout the day. Ernie McMillan, Hannah Abbot, Collin and Dennis Creevy, and more people from the old DA all with the same idea they'd had.
"So when are we meeting?" Ernie asked. "I still have my galleon." He produced it from his pocket. Others drew their own fake coins out. They all seemed to be looking at Neville, Ginny, and Luna. Neville gulped. He didn't like being a leader.
Luckily, Ginny answered for him. "I think we should see how bad it's going to be, but we should definetly have a meeting before this Friday. We have to see how many members we've lost."
Neville realized she was right. It had been two years since the original DA. People had graduated, and more hadn't come back because they were muggle-born. Everyone agreed with Ginny's plan and left with promises to tell the other DA members.
Neville turned to Seamus and they both fell into the old conversation about Quidditch. It was nice to talk about something that didn't have to do with You-Know-Who. Luna took out the latest copy of The Quibbler and read it, humming absently to "Weasley is Our King." Ginny pulled out a package of Exploding Snap and started building an enormous tower.
For four hours, nobody mentioned the fact that Snape was now headmaster, or they that they had Death Eaters teaching them classes, or that their friends were now missing. They spent the four hours pretending that it was a year ago, and Dumbledore was still alive, and things still made sense.
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