A/N: I'm sorry for the wait. I moved to another country this week which somehow delayed my updating lol.

Chapter 4

Ginny returned to the common room that night in a grumpy mood. She had thought that it would be impossible that Muggle Studies would be any worse than Defence Against the Dark Arts. She had even been right, for they had at least learned no spells that would harm non-wizards, but apart from that it has been just another round of sickness. Charms with Professor Flitwick had been the light of the day. She had not seen Neville at lunch and had wondered if he was somewhere working on their meeting place problem. She hoped he was doing so and that he was not in any trouble already.

That this was apparently not the case did she see, when she caught sight of him in the common room. He was sitting near the fire, a smile on his face. He waved her over, and Ginny dropped into an armchair opposite of him.

"You seem in a good mood," she said. "You didn't have Defence Against the Dark Arts, did you?"

Neville shook his head. "No, I didn't. But Muggle Studies. It can't be any worse-"

"Oh, it can," Ginny returned. At this moment, Seamus sat down in the next armchair, wearing the same smile as Neville.

"Neville has a plan," he said pleased and Ginny looked from him to Neville.

"So what's your plan?" she demanded.

Neville leaned forward a bit, Seamus and Ginny mimicking his movement so that their heads were closer together. It was not likely that any Gryffindor would overhear anything, or rather that any of them would overhear anything and go and tell somebody, but it was better safe than sorry, although Ginny did not want to use the Muffliato spell again.

"It's the Room of Requirement, isn't it?" Neville whispered. Seamus nodded, but Ginny frowned slightly, wondering what Neville was thinking about. "And we require that we can meet there and are not found." He smiled. "So we'll just have to tell the room that."

"You're right," Ginny said. "When the DA met so Harry could teach us, the room had all those books and pillows and other stuff that would come into use. It gives you what you need." She looked into the fire for a moment. "I wonder if it also keeps things out you do not want. Like Snape. Or the Crowells," she added.

"Let's go and try," Neville suggested.

"Neville!"

"You said you wanted us to do something quickly," he told her.

Ginny nodded earnestly. "Okay, let's go." She stood up and the other two followed her. They made their way out of the room and as far as Ginny could see nobody was paying special attention to them. They climbed out through the Portrait hole and once the entrance had shut the Fat Lady was calling after them. "Don't stay out too late," she said, hiding a yawn behind her hand. Ginny glanced back had her while Neville and Seamus led the way. They were lucky to not meet any teachers on their way, until they finally arrived at the floor with the tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy.

"Okay, let's try," Neville said. "Seamus, do you volunteer?"

"For what?" the other boy asked a little suspiciously.

"To be kept out. We'll ask the room to give us a place where we can meet and you can't find us. If it works, it will work with Snape as well," Neville explained.

"Neville, you're brilliant," Ginny said, grinning slightly.

A small blush crept on Neville's face. "Well, I though a bit about it. And we don't know yet if it's going to work…"

"Well, let's try," Seamus brought them back to the task at hand. "I'll go down the corridor and come back in a minute and see if I can find you." Ginny and Neville nodded and Seamus walked off down the dimly lit corridor. Ginny and Neville started pacing up and down, remembering what Harry had told them about the way the room worked.

We need a place where we can meet and Seamus can't find us, Ginny thought, feeling a bit weird to tell the room to keep their fellow Gryffindor out. She stopped pacing and looked at the wall. A small door had appeared and Neville stepped forward to open it.

They saw a small room with a couple of armchairs, a small wooden table standing in the middle. Neville walked into the room and Ginny followed, shutting the door behind her. They sat down and Ginny noticed that the armchairs were just as cosy as those in the Gryffindor common room.

"So how long are we going to wait?" Ginny asked.

Neville shrugged. "Dunno. I don't want to keep Seamus too long out there."

Ginny nodded, looking around the small room. "It's not very big, is it? I guess it would be bigger if we met with more people." They sat in silence for a minute, before Ginny stood up and opened the door to the corridor again. She was Seamus touching the wall a few steps down the hallway.

"Seamus," she called him and he looked into her direction.

"Oh, there you are," he said gladly. "I've been searching the whole wall for a door, but didn't find one." He walked up to her, looking at the wooden frame in that she was standing. "Now I can see it," he said.

"So it's working," Neville called from inside the room, standing up to join Ginny and Seamus outside.

"Are we going to call for a meeting now?" Seamus asked eagerly, looking from Ginny to Neville.

"It's late…" the other boy said slowly, while they were wandering down the corridor. They were just about to turn around a corner when Ginny who was walking a little ahead of them, grabbed their robes and pulled them back from the corner with her.

"Run, it's Snape," she breathed and Seamus and Neville hurried after her, Neville getting ahead of her quickly, pulling open a door that appeared in the wall. Ginny and Seamus dashed inside the room and Neville jumped in as well, closing the door hastily.

Ginny looked around in the room. It was the same it had been before when they had wanted it to keep Seamus out. "You told it to hide us from Snape, didn't you?" she asked Neville who had sunk down on an armchair.

"Yeah," he replied, glancing worriedly at the door though.

"So what was Snape doing here?" Seamus asked. "You're sure it was him?" he added.

Ginny nodded. "No idea what he was doing here, but he's the headmaster, he can wander around the castle whenever he wants." She put her hand into a bag of her robes and pulled out a golden coin after a moment. She tipped it with her wand, muttering a spell. "DA meeting tomorrow night," she said to her two friends. "Let's hope a lot of people turn up."

TBC