At the next D.A meeting, everyone wanted to keep doing the patronus charm, but Neville insisted that they try something else because the members seemed to have already master the patronus charm. This lesson was about hexes. Ginny taught this lesson, for she was very good at hexes.
Ginny showed them everything from Abigo to Zerocso. When they all memorized some of them, they were ready to duel. This reminded Neville, Ginny, and Luna of the days of Dumbledore's Army first started, but Harry, Ron, and Hermione are gone leaving them to take over. Neville, Ginny, and Luna knew that they would be proud.
Neville and Ginny were the first to demonstrate how to do the duel.
"Stupefy!" Ginny shouted and pointed her wand towards Neville.
"Ennervate!" Neville yells before the spell can hit him.
"Locomortor Mortis!" Ginny says. The spell hits Neville and causes his legs to lock together. He immediately falls to the ground. Ginny walks over to Neville and whispers, ""Sorry," Neville" he just nods while Ginny performs the counter curse. Everyone started clapping while Ginny and Neville bowed.
The next day after the D.A meeting, the Gryffindor's kept coming up to Neville and Ginny in the common room for advice on how to do certain spells. Ginny, and Neville would help them study and practice. One girl was interested in Ginny's love life with Harry.
"You said you met him when you were eleven, right?" she asked. Ginny nodded and she continued. "Did you like him for him or for him being The Boy – Who – Lived?" Ginny answered her questions, but was starting to get annoyed. Later, she found out that the girl asking her, was Rita Skeeter's niece, Laura Skeeter. She figured it ran in the family.
The Ravenclaw's in the D.A would do the same thing to Luna. Luna would often go off into another conversation about Nargles or Crumple - Horned Snorkacks. They didn't really believe her, though, except for one girl. She reminded Luna a lot of herself. The girl had long curly brown hair and gray eyes. She often would tell Luna about her mother's discoveries on Burgle – Snappers or Jinkles. Luna was very interested in what she had to say. She even wrote to her dad telling him to write an article in the Quibbler on Gamfles, tiny animals that live in hairbrushes.
