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Life at Hogwarts gets harder and harder with every passing moment. Checking the kitchen didn't improve the situation whatsoever. It seems the elves have limited resources when it comes to food, but unlimited water from an underground spring, that being the only good news. So they had to start making rations for everyone. Just the necessary amount of food for each person, nothing more, nothing less. They will also have to find, as soon as possible, someone to take care of the crops they had available on the grounds to maintain the flow of fresh vegetables and fruits so they won't starve to death.

This morning, the breakfast contained a lot less food than it usually did so everyone is a bit surprised and they realize things aren't going great. Some tee, bread, butter and fried eggs are all they've received and compared to the full tables that Hogwarts usually offered this was nothing. The committee decided it's time to have a speech to fully explain the situation to all students.

The committee members aligned themselves in front of the staff table, in front of the whole school, this morning during breakfast. Almost everyone looked at them but they didn't bother paying the much needed attention. It's a good thing that everyone comes at breakfast at least.

"Uhm, could everyone listen up ,please?" Hermione pleaded, but everyone just kept talking totally ignoring her.

"Hey, listen up", Draco took control magically amplifying his voice in order to make himself heard over everyone else. Students went silent in an instant and starred at the committee members expectantly.

"Thank you, Draco. Now… as most of you know the teachers have selected the prefects to form a committee before leaving the school… Uhm… A committee that votes and takes decisions in the name of the students". Harry decided to give Hermione a break as she seemed quite nervous and continued the speech.

"We've received the other day a message from professor McGonnagall"

Everyone was really paying attention now, you could cut with a knife through the silence that engulfed the hall.

"It seems they won't come back for an undefined period of time and we have to manage on our own for the time being"

He made a small pause to let everyone digest the news and continued.

"We plan to place observation groups in the observation tower to survey the grounds. Also, we have found information about the wards and we will make use of it in order to continue keeping us safe. In another order of thoughts we will rationalize food from now on, as you've observed this morning, because we have limited resources when it comes to food. We've found out that crops are grown somewhere on the grounds so we will accept anyone that has some knowledge in the matter and wants to offer to take care of them. We will think of rewards for everyone that does extra work and helps around. Also if everyone could just not leave the Hogwarts security perimeter and not claim classrooms just like that, it would be great. Please talk with someone from the committee before doing anything like that. Leaving the castle is not allowed unless accepted by one of us."

"And who are you guys to order us?" someone from the hall screamed, most likely from the Slytherin table.

"We just want us all to be safe and sound when help arrives"

Someone else sat up and said:

"I don't really like the fact that we simply have to accept that the school is ruled by someone chosen just like that and not by vote. I propose we vote for the president ourselves and let the president decide who will be part of the committee. Don't you all agree?"

Almost everyone from the hall seemed to agree, exceptions being their closest friends. Hermione looked a bit hurt by the proposal but nodded and left her place at the center of the table, joining Harry's right side.

Ron sat up and walked in front of the students, touched his neck with his wand, to make himself heard, and spoke.

"I propose Harry for committee president" he said pointing his finger at his best friend and started walking back and forth in front of the committee. "There is no one else better at organizing and no one else who would be a better fit than him in the role of a leader. He defeated Voldemort, he broke out of Gringotts, he's the founder of Dumbledore's Army for gods sake and many other achievements that none of you can deny anymore, so, who's with me?" he said screaming really loud the last, part grabbing Harry's right hand and raising it in the air like he had already won.

"What the heck are you doing?", Harry whispered to his best friends.

"Trust me"

"Trying hard to do so"

The Gryffindor table sat up and started clapping, a sign of acceptance towards new president. The other tables followed their lead, even the Slytherins. The committee members clapped their hands also and pushed Harry forward in Hermione place, who was also clapping. The entire hall cheered when Harry took the president position, well everyone except the Slytherins.

The boy looked up and spotted the pink haired girl leaning against the hall doors, looking at him and clapping like the rest of the school, with a small reassuring smile on her face.

Was he really up to this? Everyone seem to think he would do just fine but will they actually listen to him? He was a bit too much like Dumbledore after all, always giving second chances.

But will I actually be able to fight for the greater good? To keep them safe?

The sun brilliantly lighted the hall and its lively inhabitants. The grounds are silent and everything seems peaceful, perhaps this could be the beginning of something beautiful.

A couple of duels took place today over nothing important like what classroom who to take and other strange reasons. People aren't very happy over the food rationalizing business either.

Hermione proposed to Harry to teach some classes but they haven't decided yet on that, it will take a lot of planning and the students will have to be united for this to work, but it was true that they couldn't lose all their magic knowledge with their generation.

Half of the day already passed when Harry began to make his rows in the dungeons.

He had been walking for just a few minutes, thinking of the best choices for everyone, when he saw her. What is she doing here? Harry asked himself after spotting the pink haired girl taking a left on one of the corridors of the dungeons.

Isn't that they way to the Slytherin Common Room? I wanted to invite her to a walk outside the castle so might as well follow her around a bit.

Harry followed her till the entrance to the Slytherin Common Room.

"What the...". The door to the Slytherin Common Room is held open for the girl to pass by no other than Draco Malfoy. Both have a very serious look on their faces and none of them observe Harry starring at them from far away.

What is she doing with him? Harry starred at the now closed door for what seemed to be hours. From all the guys in the world, why him?

He smiled looking a bit crazy. Hmm I must've just been kidding myself into thinking that someone like her would even look at me. But choosing Draco Malfoy from all people? I must cool off, the castle grounds right? Looks like I'll be enjoying the view by myself. Nothing new.

Harry walked slowly out of the dungeons. The mystery girl watched him leave and sighed: "I'm sure he hates me right now. It seems you're going to have to return that favor, Draco."

"I already hate you"

Harry decided to walk with Ron to the Black Lake.

"How's everything going?"

"Well, Harry, they're really starting to piss me off. People still claim rooms as their own without asking anyone else, they also duel over them… ", it's a good fact that we have that limit on them then, Harry thought, "Girls move with their boyfriends and such… Some have even tried breaking into the kitchen so I've put some guards there, didn't have time to ask you about it"

"I see. The situation is slowly going out of control"

"And the Slytherins aren't any help at all, they're trying to turn us against each other"

"Hmm.. that's so slytherinish of them"

I can't believe I'm doing this, thought Draco while walking towards the Black Lake.

"Hey, Potter"

He slowly looked to his left to see the person he hated most, none other than Draco Malfoy in person.

"What do you want, Malfoy?" asked Ron seeing that Harry is completely silent.

"Please talk with me in private before I change my mind"

Ron looked at Harry worryingly.

"Be right back, mate. Got to kick some ass" Harry said whispering the last part.

"No, don't worry about it, I have to go back to talk to Hermione anyway. See ya and… take care". Ron said giving a suspicious stare to Draco.

When Ron achieved a respectable distance, Harry asked "So?"

"Well you saw a certain someone entering the Slytherin common room earlier today, didn't you?"

"I don't have any idea what you're talking about"

"Supposedly you did see a certain someone entering our common room… that someone is so worried about you that made me to tell you what's all about. Well, I am sick Potter"

"What? Sick?"

"First of all I'm sick of you". Brat. "And secondly I have a very rare disease that requires monthly treatment which right now I can't get from my medic, obviously, and without it… I would most certainly die in a not very pleasant manner"

"And what does this have to do with her?"

"Our common friend seems to have a lot of knowledge in the magic medical field. She saw me feel pretty bad yesterday and even recognized the symptoms and offered to help, you can imagine I couldn't refuse"

"So you aren't…"

"She's too devoted to you Potter. And she's so perfect I can't believe she's talking with me or that she looks at you"

"Thanks, I think"

"No problem. See you around, Potter, and by the way some people are sick and others injured from duels and there's no one to take care of them, they complained to me for hours with this"

"I think Cho has some medical training also, she could…"

"I don't really care, you're the president, deal with it" and with that Draco left, heading to Hogwarts. Gray storm clouds gather above the grounds, blinding the sun.

The boy looked up at the darkening sky.

"If everyone would just cooperate and listen to the committee we could rebuild our world and perhaps even fight off the muggles at some point. All of us can be happy"

A drop of water hit his forehead forcing him to close his eyes. After that, the rain started pouring endlessly. Lightnings and thunders ruled the sky. Harry ran back to the castle, wet to the skin.

So she wasn't doing anything with him, just helping him out? And now she has advanced medical training also? Perhaps she should be in charge of the Hospital wing for now and train some other students into the art of healing to take her place, Harry thought, as always for the greater good.

We should be able to coexist and live peacefully, even with the Slytherins.

Suddenly a strange feeling overwhelmed him, which could only means that someone is trying to penetrate the wards, and the silver coin started burning a hole through his pants. He took it out and read the message "Muggles are trying to get in".

He ran till the observation tower and found Hermione, Ron, the pink haired girl and the observation group all looking towards Hogsmeads direction.

The girl murmured a silent apology to Harry and he nodded his head proving that the situation had been resolved.

Far in the distance around ten people could be seen. Using magic they managed to have a closer look. They were all equipped with guns and some strange pair of glasses. And they're undoubtedly shooting in the shield.

"I think those glasses allow them to see the wards" the pink haired girl commented.

"But we can still assume the camouflage is working and they don't actually know where here and that this is a school" said Harry.

"Possible, they should only see ruins"

Some of the bullets seem to pass through the wards, they're using special ammunition aren't they? Harry said to himself.

"We have to go and stop them. We can't allow them to live either because they will tell others about this place if they haven't done it already" Ron said.

"You… you want to kill them?", Hermione asked giving a really scared and almost crying look to her boyfriend.

"We don't have a choice in this matter, Hermione"

"But, there must be another way"

"Who's coming with me?"

Harry, Ron, Draco, the mystery girl and the observation group were selected as the ones to greet their guests.

"Tell me again how did I get here?" Draco said while walking with the others on the road to Hogsmead.

"Shut up already, you twat" a girl from the observation group commented.

"Bitch"

"What did you say?"

"Oh.. nothing"

"I thought so"

Harry and Ron are laughing in front of the group because of Draco's charm.

"He's a real lady killer, isn't he?"

"Indeed. We're almost there, this would normally be an easy job, but… their special weapons might possibly get through any protection charm you know. Also we cannot afford any mistakes or to leave any of them… alive" said Harry.

"We could take a prisoner", said the girl next to him.

"If you manage to stun one of them, then we will interrogate him later. Aim to kill, they will certainly do so. Protect each other and good luck"

When they reached the border of the wards they managed to see the muggles and once their personal shields were up the bullets that went through the wards stopped into those shields. It was no trouble for them to take them out at that point. Draco did most of the killing, the others just stunned or severely injured them. They stunned a 40 years old man wearing the military uniform in order to find more information from him later on.

"Were do you plan to detain him?" Draco said now walking between the dead bodies.

"For now we will put him in a magically protected room in the dungeons" answered Ron.

"Let's float him to the castle and get the hell out of here. Draco, do you think you can get rid of these bodies? I think it's better if other muggles that come here not to find them"

"Uhm… sure. But don't think you can order me around now Potter"

"I think we should redo the muggle repelling charms when we get back to the castle" the pink haired girl suggested. "If those are strong enough it should even make them think they got orders to go back to base or other fake scenarios"

"We'll do that as soon as possible. Let's head back to the castle, I'm sure the others are worried"

They walked back to the castle, happy that no one got hurt. Harry touched the golden coin with his wand, to send the message "Everything is alright" as he's sure Hermione is dyeing of worry.

"You know, if the wards wouldn't have been there we would've been in deep trouble", Ron commented worried.

"I know… ", Harry whispered. They would indeed be in danger if the wards would fail to work or if someone would go outside the protected area.

The rest of the evening has been pretty uneventful.

Back at Hogwarts the pink haired girl invites Harry again to join her in her private apartment, promising a good night.

"So, what do you think?", she said pointing at a table between the couch and the fireplace where she placed two bottles of firewhisky on.

"You want us to get drunk?", he asked.

"Want us to feel happy and have fun, Harry"

The next morning they were sleeping with their heads on the carpet and their legs up on the couch, cheeks red, her hair spread across the floor around her and both bottles emptied to the last drop and thrown in different corners of the room. Harry dressed with a blue T-Shirt and trousers, she in some sexy white short pants and no levees white blouse.

"Uh… what the..." said Harry rubbing his forehead slowly. The golden coin is vibrating and glowing besides his head. Must've fallen at some point during the night.

He picked it up slowly and read the message "Meet me in the GH, Ron"

"Hey, are you ok?" he whispered to the girl besides him.

"Yeah, my head hurts a bit"

Harry laughed. "Been there, done that. Listen, I have to go meet Ron at the Great Hall. Want to come?"

"There hasn't been a morning in which you haven't been called. Give me five minutes"

"Ok, I'll be waiting here. Sorry!"

"No problem"

"So, where's the fire, Ron?"

"Well, I think it would be best if we implement the core power hierarchy you and Hermione have discussed about. She told me about it yesterday"

"Ron, no! Didn't Hermione give you enough reasons not to implement the system?"

"You are too trusting, Harry, and it's a mistake to think everyone will be kept alive if things go like they do right now. It's for their own good"

"Alright, Ron, I'll think about it, but my answer for now is definitely no"

"Please do think about it, ok? Thanks"

Harry spent some of the day supervising the crops now managed by a few students from the sixth year. They should be able to eat some fresh vegetables from their own production soon. Afterwards he decided to interrogate the muggle they had caught they day before.

Sadly he didn't know to many details. He actually thought they were some kind of mutants with special powers.

But the silver coin called him before getting to the end of the conversation. The message was: "Students left Hogwarts without permission"

"Merlin, what's wrong with these people" he said to himself while running to the castle's main entrance where he found all the male members of the committee, Hermione and the pink haired girl, all wand ready.

"Let's go after them, then", Harry said.

"Understood"

"They're already at the border of the wards, we'll have to pace up in order to get at them in due time"

"Why have they left Hogwarts anyway?" asked Harry.

"They told someone they're going to take food from Hogsmead to fill up our stocks", Ron answered.

"Fools"

"And… they've convinced Cho Chang to go with them, Potter" said Draco.

"WHAT?"

"Yes, that is true. I guess they're just trying to help but they're putting their lives in great danger", said Hermione.

"Run faster", Harry ordered.

Screams could be heard from somewhere in front of them and gun shoots echoed till Hogwarts.

The scene before them was similar to a horror movie. Most of the students had bullet wounds on their arms or legs and were hiding behind barrels, inside shops or other places. There were two military cars at the end of Hogsmead and seven men approaching the hurt students with weapons in their hands.

The town itself seems to be already burned down, probably from the rockets. No building goes higher than 1 meter now.

The new comers took out a few of the muggles before also going into hiding. They checked fast the students closest to them to make sure they won't bleed to death. It seemed that everyone was quite good, considering the situation they were in. Now they just had to get out of there safely and preferably alive.

Harry was the only one with his limit removed so he made the most damage. And at some point him and Draco ran directly to the muggles throwing Bombarda spells at them. This killed all of them and took care of their cars in the same time.

But two of the military men had taken two grenades and got their pins out ready to throw them before they were killed. And when the students approached the scene, the death bodies relaxed and the grenades went off in a huge explosion that rendered all of them unconscious.

"Ahh…". Harry woke up a few minutes later and looked up to see Cho Chang full of blood half a meter away from him with a hand stretched towards his and a terrified, crying looks on her face. Most likely in an attempt to reach safety she dragged herself across the ground, desperately trying to touch him. There's pool of blood around her and a trail of blood from the place she fell after the explosion to where she's now. She's cold dead.

"I... I…"

"Harry…" one of the boys from the rogues group called.

Harry looked up, his green eyes darkening, giving him a fierce look, a crazy look.

"I convinced her to come… I'm sorry… I am the only one responsible for her death"

"Yes you are…"

"I'm really sorry, I won't…"

"That's all you have to say? You're sorry? Nothing you have to say can bring her back. Because of you she is DEAD. She only wanted to help and now she's dead" and with that Harry ran to him and punched him in the face so hard that he scratched his fingers.

The injured one sat on the ground, conscious and knowing that he deserved that punch and much more, he deserved to be dead instead of Cho.

Harry seemed ready to go to the boy and hit him with his leg.

"Harry, that's enough, there's nothing we can do about it now", Ron said holding him back from finishing what he started.

Harry stopped moving, and stood in the middle of Hogsmead, with the sunset behind him, shocked of what repercussions his actions in the past few days had lead to. He thought and thought for what seemed to be infinity. Yes, now he knew what he had to do.

Everyone's scattered around him, stunned, looking with scared eyes at him, not able to believe what just happened. Cho dead, Harry losing it, all of them injured, all of this happening in a couple of minutes.

"Harry?", Hermione said in a low voice, stepping a bit closer.

"He snapped", Draco thought.

"Maybe this will kick some sense into him", Ron also thought.

Harry relaxed his chin touching his chest, tears flowing down his face. Everyone thought the worst part was over, but then

"It's time to make order at Hogwarts"

Harry walked slowly with his friends following two meters behind, scared of what it was to come and carrying their wounded.

The pink haired girl took Harry's hand and he led them to what was to become their new kingdom, the wind flowing freely through their capes and hair, making them flow in an unnatural way behind them.

Hogwarts looked very calm seen from the distance in the warm, orange light of the sunset.

"And now, you will become king", said the pink haired girl.

"And you will be my princess, Claire. My sweet Claire, I'm sorry for what I will become"

Harry looked to Dumbledore's white marble tomb that was now visible from the path they were following to get back to the castle.

"For the greater good", Harry said.

And so Hogwarts accepted it's new headmaster.