Just so you know, the guys are in 6th grade at the moment, as one reviewer pointed out, I have not included many factors such as Percy being at the ministry when they are in grade 5, so I will try and improve this from this chapter on. Sorry!

Harry, Ron and Hermione made their way down to the awaiting feast in no particular hurry. As they climbed out of the portrait hole, Harry stopped and turned back.

"I'll be back in a second guys!" He called behind him as he climbed the steps two at a time on the way up to his dormitory. As he turned the corner into the room in which he slept each night, he saw the rather weak figure of Neville, sitting in the corner of his bed, with his back facing towards Harry. He was looking down at a piece of paper and as Harry silently moved closer, he saw with silent shock that it was a picture of Neville's parents before they were so ruthlessly tortured. Not knowing what to do, Harry silently backed out of the room and purposely made a lot of noise when re-entering in order to warn Neville and give him time to put away the picture.

"Oh, hey Neville." Said Harry, pretending not to notice how red Neville's eyes were

"Hi Harry." Replied Neville, obviously embarrassed that he had been crying

"Are you coming to the feast?" Asked Harry sitting down

"I'm not that hungry."

"Come on Neville, I'm not going to let you sit all alone in our dorm at the end of exams when we could be having a delicious meal supplied by the house elves." Said Harry, attempting to make Neville smile

"Okay." Neville got up, grinning

"Took your time." Said Ron as they met him and Hermione outside the fat lady.

Hermione beckoned the three boys and they all accompanied each other down to the great hall which was glittering before their eyes.

As they looked around, they saw that not very many of the Hogwarts students had remained for the Christmas holidays this year, only 17 including them.

Harry was surprised to see that many of the DA had remained behind and saw Cho, Luna, Angelina, Fred, George, Ginny and Dean. He also saw three other Hufflepuffs and three Ravenclaws that he did not recognise. Not seeing Draco or any other slytherins raised Harry's spirits enormously and he couldn't help grinning at the members as he sat down to eat, each of them smiling back in turn.

After they had played many games of exploding snap, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville all went to bed full and content. Harry pulled the covers to his chin and fell into his first dreamless sleep for months. When he woke, he saw that it was still dark and with a glance at the clock realised he had only slept 2 hours. Neville and Ron both seemed to be awake and they all exchanged confused looks.

"Why are you guys up?" They asked in unison

"I dunno I just woke up." Said Harry

"Me too."

" Same," Ron stood and looked out the window

"I'm going to see what's going on."

The three of them dressed and made their way downstairs and found to their surprise that all of the Gryffindors were awake. Hermione walked up to them and answered their unasked question

" I don't know what is going on."

"But how could everyone just wake up like that?" asked Ginny, joining them

"The only thing I could think of was in Hogwarts, a History. The castle has a bewitchment placed on it so that it wakes up all inhabitants when…"

"When what?" Asked Ron\

" When terrible danger is approaching."

This is only my third story so please review, thanks. I'll update soon