A/N- A lot of this chapter's dialogue is taken almost directly from the book because nobody does it better then J.K Rowling. I own nothing in this chapter 'cept well, the ideas but I would love to own the following song. Sorry about the slow updates, but I am a lazy, lazy person by nature. It took me a year to convince myself that writing this story was worth my time. I swear that could be a disease, Chronic Laziness Disorder. That and I also suffer from a lack of brain filtering so I can't stop talking. And now…*realizes that I'm still talking* On with the story.

We're smiling but we're close to tears

Even after all these years

We just now got the feeling that we're meeting

For the first time

For the First Time—The Script

"What the hell?" Christian blurted. Above them, Rose waved to the eager crowd who was going crazy; their last hope for victory had arrived.

"Where are we?" Rose asked, her forehead wrinkling in confusion

"Room of Requirement, of course!" said Neville. "Surpassed itself, hasn't it? The Carrows were chasing me, and I knew I had just one chance for a hideout: I managed to get through the door and this is what I found! Well, it wasn't exactly like this when I arrived, it was loads smaller, there was only one hammock and just Gryffindor hangings. But it's expanded as more and more of the D.A. have arrived."

"It's a proper hideout, as long as one of us stays in here, they can't get at us, the door won't open. It's all down to Neville. He really gets this room. You've got to ask for exactly what you need – like, "I don't want any Carrow supporters to be able to get in' – and it'll do it for you! You've just got to make sure you close the loopholes. Neville's the man!" Said Irish boy, Seamus.

"It's quite straightforward, really," said Neville modestly. "I'd been in here about a day and a half, and getting really hungry, and wishing I could get something to eat, and that's when the passage to Hog's Head opened up. I went through it and met Aberforth. He's been providing us with food, because for some reason, that's the one thing the room doesn't really do."

"Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration," said the red haired boy.

"Tell us what you've been up to, though," said Ernie. "There've been so many rumors; we've been trying to keep up with you on Potterwatch." He pointed at the wireless. "You didn't break into Gringotts?"

Lissa turned to Christian. He shrugged.

"They did!" said Neville. "And the dragon's true too!"

There was a smattering of applause and a few whoops; Rose took a bow.

"Dragon? Damn, Rose has been busy." Adrian whistled lowly, impressed.

"What were you after?" asked Seamus eagerly. Rose smiled brightly.

*"Fame, Glory. Remember, I'm an attention seeking little git." Christian didn't get the joke but the crowd around him defiantly did as they broke out into laughter. As the crowd began to talk amongst themselves, Rose seemed to zone out with that blank look Christian recognized. He'd seen it before when she's attempted to reach Lissa's mind. Suddenly Neville nudged her and she seemed to spring back to life.

"What are we going to do, then, Harry?" asked Seamus. "What's the plan?"

"Plan?" repeated Rose. She smiled again. "You know me, Seamus. When have I ever had a plan?"

The boy acknowledged her comment with a nod and then broke out into a smile. "So what's the crazy wild scheme you will come up with at the last moment?"

"We – we can't tell you. We've got to do it – alone." Rose said, her forehead crinkling.

"Why? We can help you. We're his army," said Neville. "Dumbledore's Army. We were all in it together, we've been keeping it going while you three have been off on your own –"

"It hasn't exactly been a picnic, mate," said Ron.

"I never said it had, but I don't see why you can't trust us. Everyone in this room's been fighting and they've been driven in here because the Carrows were hunting them down. Everyone in here's proven they're loyal to Dumbledore – loyal to you."

"Look Neville, I never said weren't going down without a fight." Rose said her eyes blazing. "I am not going to stand aside as Voldemort ruins the only home I've ever known."

Lissa felt a stab of pain. Rose's home was at the court, with Dimitri and Christian and Adrian and her. What had driven Rose so far away she no longer considered her home with Lissa? Speaking of which, hadn't Neville called Rose Potter? What other secrets had Rose been hiding?

"if you're going to get anywhere in this place, you're going to need a disguise. The Carrows have death eaters posted anywhere. Outside here, you're not safe." Neville was telling Rose.

"Oh, because I was so safe before," said Rose with a laugh. She frowned, "I see your point though."

Rose walked over to the mirror and stared at her reflection. She glanced back at Harry and raised an eyebrow. Then something amazing happened. The long brown hair shrunk a couple inches and turned blond. A few seconds later, pink highlights ran down a few strands. The button nose, so like Mia's, grew long and slightly pointier. Her mouth grew wider and she shrunk a few inches. She turned to face the crowd and Lissa blinked. Staring back at her was an exact copy (minus the pink highlights) of Camille Conta. The lookalike smiled.

"Now let's get started, shall we?" she said in Rose's voice.

Adrian opened his mouth trying to make a coherent sound but all that came out was a disjoined humming sound. Christian seemed to be doing the same thing. While Rose began barking orders to everyone, the mpd (A/N-Moroi plus Dhampirs, I would have said Moroi and Dhampirs but that would have made the acronym MAD and I thought that might offend some people) just stood there trying connect this image to the Rose they had known for most of their life.

Rose was still up there. They seemed to be having some conversation about a diadem. Then she and the others stood up and left with the rest of the D.A. following her.


In another part of the castle….10 minutes ago…

Death was inevitable. Rose knew that, she had seen too much death to not consider the possibility that she might die today. Even so, she never imagined it like this. Had Dumbledore ever hinted at this? Had every word out of that old man's mouth been a lie? Snape's love for Lily was no surprise, she had seen that his worst memory. She resembled her mother too much for him to ever come to like her. They even had similar names; Lily had named her daughter after a flower like the rest of her family. But if she was destined to die, why hadn't she been allowed to earlier. Could Cedric have been saved? Rose guessed she'd never know. She sighed heavily and took a few steps in the direction of the forbidden forest. She'd been running from her destiny for far too long.


Fast-forward 10 minutes…

"Well…that was unexpected." Adrian said. Lissa snorted through her tears.

"Ya' think? We finally find Rose and it turns out she's the leader of some magical rebellion and she has freaky magical powers. Why didn't she ever tell me any of this?" Christian sighed and put his arms around her shoulders.

"To be fair, it's not exactly something that comes up in the conversation," He pointed out.

"I know but still, I'm supposed to be her best friend. How could she hide something as huge as this from me?" Lissa asked. A sudden uproar interrupted Christian's answer. Adrian's head snapped up.

"We'd better go check out what that is. If it's an invading army, at least we can blend in with the crowd." He said. Everyone else had no objections so they trooped outside and followed the flow of people to the great hall. When he got there, his mouth fell open in shock. Standing there face to face with the ugliest man Christian had ever seen was…Rose.


"-though love did not stop him falling from the tower and breaking like and old waxwork? Love, which did not prevent me stamping out your Mudblood mother like a cockroach?" Snakeface was saying.

Rose paused then snorted.

"Man, do you need to get laid!" An uproar of laughter followed this proclamation. Voldemort sneered.

"Enough jokes! If it is not love that will save you this time," said Voldemort, "you must believe that you have magic that I do not, or else a weapon more powerful than mine?"

"I believe both," Rose stated. Beside Christian, Lissa shifted.

"I don't get it. What's going on?" She asked. Dimitri turned to face her but Adrian beat her to the punch.

"I think, I'm not sure, that Rose is facing off with the bad guy here." He said. Mia rolled her eyes.

"Thank you for that, Captain Obvious." She glanced back up to the front where Rose and Voldemort were still talking while Adrian grinned at her. Suddenly, there was a great uproar and Christian looked up to see Rose standing with two wands in her hand as everyone rushed towards her. The Snakeface was nowhere to be seen. Christian felt a rush of relief followed by a feeling of foreboding. While he contemplated this, Rose made her disappearance for the second time that day. Being the only one who noticed this, Dimitri vanished soon after.


Ooooh! Big confrontation comming up! I promise that Rose and Dimitri will talk in the next chapter. I can't promise that they'll make up becuase Rose is just too mad at him and too guarded for that to happen. And besides, what kind of story would that be anyway. Like I said earlier, there will be no more updates for two weeks so don't yell at me when your story alerts stop. It took me all night to bring you this chapter so you should be thankful I didn't leave you at that cliffie. That would have really suck although I'm not sure that this is much better. See ya!