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"So what are you two really up to?" I asked George as we sat down to eat breakfast.
"I'm not going to spoil the surprise." He said winking, I just smiled. I felt someone poke my side, I turned and saw it was Harry, he nodded to the table to where the professors sat. It was completely empty except for Snape, McGonagall, and Umbridge.
"I wonder where everyone else is." I said frowning at its emptiness, it started feeling even more less like Hogwarts.
"Probably trying to stay as far away from her after what happened with Trelawney and now that Dumbledore is gone." He said, his face turned so sad, it was as if everyone at the table heard us whispering to each other and looked at us sadly too.
"Lunch can't come soon enough." I mumbled to George. We all made our ways to class soon after. I walked into class with Harry, Ron, and Hermione. My heard pounded in my head in fear of our class today. I sat beside Harry and took a deep breath.
"What do you think she'll make us do?" I heard someone behind me ask. No one replied we were all too scared to. She entered with her usual toad faced smile and looked down at us all.
"Let's open our books to the last chapter and take notes shall we." She said clapping ay us as if we were her servants and she just asked to fetch her some tea. We all slowly took out our books and set them down without a sound on our desks. I watched as she slowly descended the stairs eyeing anyone that didn't follow directions. I took out my quill and parchment as her eyes landed on me. The sound of quills scratching parchment filled the air the entire hour. When class ended she stopped us from leaving.
"As you all know by now Dumbledore has abandoned his post, and I have taken his responsibility as my own. So if you have any concerns about a student or professor you can come to me." She said. Ron and I had to hold Harry still from doing something.
"That evil old gargoyle." Hermione said when we were out of earshot of the classroom.
"Careful Granger that's our new Head you're talking about." Malfoy said. No one responded, we just kept walking to Divination, while Hermione headed to Ancient Runes. Malfoy and his friends followed closely behind us in case we said something else and get us in trouble.
"Can you believe she's still trying to get rid of the professors." I whispered to the boys.
"Do you think she'll hire new people, you know from the Ministry, if she starts sacking people?" Ron asked. We stopped at the group of kids waiting to go into class.
"Maybe." I frowned. The door opened and we all entered Firenze's classroom. No one really paid attention to the lesson.
"He should be more worried than anyone about being sacked." Ron said.
"Well of course Ron, but he can't very well stop teaching to panic." I said as we waited for Hermione's class to leave for lunch. Everyone filed out whispering to each other, Hermione came out looking angry.
"What's happened?" Harry asked her.
"She started rambling about how Umbridge was right. I told her she was wrong and that Umbridge was abusing her power." She said storming off towards the Great Hall.
"Your professor?" I asked her shocked.
"Yes." Hermione said through her teeth.
"What happened then?" Ron asked her.
"She told me I was a child and knew nothing." Hermione said as we entered the Great Hall, Harry and I glanced at each other, our faces fighting laughter.
"You." A gravelly voice said behind us, a hand landed on Harry's shoulder.
"Headmistress wants to see you." Filch said.
"I didn't do it." Harry said quickly. I closed my eyes and sighed.
"Guilty conscience, eh?" Filch said dragging Harry out of the Great Hall.
"Wait what's he done?" I asked Filch, running after them.
"Go sit down silly girl." He spat. I stopped at the entrance and watched Filch drag Harry away. I went to sit back down now as irritated as Hermione. Twenty minutes went by when there was a loud bang from above the Great Hall. Harry, Fred, and George walked in then, laughing.
"What did you do?" I asked the twins.
"Set off our fireworks. You should have seen her trying to get rid of them." George said sitting down.
"It was excellent." Harry said.
"What did Umbridge want?" Hermione asked Harry.
"To find out where Sirius and Dumbledore are." He said shrugging. The news about the fireworks were all anyone could talk about for the rest of the day, the constant crash and bang kept the topic alive. McGonagall kept yelling at everyone for not focusing on the lesson in the end we had mounds of homework to finish by the next lesson.
"She's as mad as the troll." Ron said as he threw his school bag on the ground in the Gryffindor common room.
"It's Fred and George's fault really." Hermione said writing on her scroll of parchment.
"Now how exactly is that their fault?" A soft but angry voice said from behind the group. Hermione turned quickly to shoot back an answer, but froze when she saw who it was. Charlotte, Fred's girlfriend, was standing there tall and poised, her hands on her hips, her jaw set, and her eyes were blazing.
"What 'cat got your tongue'?" She smirked at the purring Crookshanks on Hermione's lap. No one really knew what to say, she'd never really talked to them before, she had her own friends to talk to or Fred. I watched her smiling as she stared Hermione down, defending Fred for no reason, except because she could.
"No it hasn't! It's not directly 'their' fault, but if they hadn't set the fireworks off then we wouldn't have gotten in trouble for not paying attention." Hermione said, finding her voice again.
"Sounds to me that you lot should have tried harder to ignore them. It's also been brought to my attention that if they hadn't set of the fireworks Harry would have spilled some dirty little secrets. So before you go accusing my boyfriend and his brother of something that you children did, I suggest you think before you speak little girl." Charlotte spat. She turned sharply and started to walk away.
"Now hold on a minute. Now Hermione isn't completely wrong here, nor is she even close to being right, but that doesn't mean you have to lash out at her. You didn't see me lashing out did you?" I called to her. She stopped and turned slowly back to me.
"You! You've been dating George for mere hours." She laughed.
"But I've been his friend longer than you've been with Fred. Now me, I'll defend anyone and anything when I feel necessary, but that didn't need defending, that was just a person letting off steam. It was amusing at first, but your finish there, needs a bit of work. So let's try that again; first apologize for being rude to Hermione." I said with a smile on my face. Charlotte looked dumbfounded, she stared at me confused at first but then her eyes flashed to Hermione's face.
"I'm sorry for lashing out at you." Her words ran true and she turned back to me expectantly.
"Now Hermione, apologize for blaming Fred and George for our classes lack of attention." I said turning away from Charlotte's gaze and onto Hermione's shocked expression, it took her a moment to realize I was speaking to her and gave me the same look Charlotte had before. When she grasped that I was serious she sighed and mumbled an apology.
"Good enough. Now can we all go back to figuring out how to destroy the dark forces at play here? Thank you." I said sitting down and starting on my homework. I heard Charlotte's heels click away and quills start scratching parchment soon after. A foot hit mine from under the table, I looked up to Harry smiling triumphantly at me, I just rolled my eyes and went back to work, when it was time for supper everyone slowly made their way to the Great Hall. I sat beside Harry and George and stared at my food, nearly everyone did at the Gryffindor table. I looked around and saw that a few kids from Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw weren't eating as well. We all knew our doomed fate tonight.
"Eat love." George whispered to me,
"I can't, I feel like I'm going to be sick." I moaned.
"Now don't do that, no one wants to see your sick, while they're eating." George smiled.
"Fine I'll throw up at the Slytherin table." I smiled back.
"Now there's the Amelia I fell in love with." George whispered in my ear, then placing a kiss on my cheek. I felt my face grow hot and I ducked my face before anyone could see.
"Hem hem." Umbridge said calling everyone to attention. She stood up from the headmasters chair and walked to the owl podium, she grinned her toad like smile at the hushed crowd.
"As you all are aware, your headmaster is gone. I'm sorry to say that due to certain circumstances," she glared at our group at the end of the Gryffindor table, "your headmaster felt as if we was no longer fit to be running this school." Angry buzzing filled the Great Hall.
"No Harry, that's just what she wants." I said gripping his arm; his skin was burning hot with anger.
"Hem hem. Now our Minister of Magic has placed me as the new headmistress until further notice. Off you go then." She smiled, the tables cleared and everyone got up to leave.
"Oh and one more thing, I will need every member of the DA to stay behind." She stated over the newly made conversations from the students around the Great Hall, she held up the parchment Hermione had enchanted with everyone's names on it. Those a part of the DA sat down in their spots and stared at the table trying to ignored the confused looks everyone gave them as they passed by. Once everyone was finally gone Umbridge walked down the from the teachers table and to the middle of the room.
"Stand." She said raising her hands in an upwards motion. We all slowly rose from our seats and the tables moved to the edge of the room. Umbridge flicked her wand and rows of desks appeared.
"Sit." She smiled. Everyone sat at a desk and stared at the pen sitting beside the paper.
"Don't make a sound." Someone whispered, though it was loud enough for the group to hear.
"Quiet!" Umbridge shouted. I never once looked at her as my pen scratched the paper and carved into my skin. I just counted the seconds as they went by. I looked up once only when I head a soft cry in the middle of the torture. It was Charlotte, tears soaked her face as she clenched her fist that was dripping scarlet.
"Be strong." I breathed, hoping she would hear me. I went back to my paper. I must obey the rules. I must obey the rules. I must obey the rules. I must-
"Stop, that's enough for tonight you may leave." She grinned. Everyone nearly ran out of the Great Hall. Cho Chang pushed past me to her friends Marietta, she seemed to have caked on a ton of makeup to hide something on her forehead, but it was still noticeable, SNEAK. Everyone whispered it as they walked by her.
"You've got a lot of nerve being here right now." I said glaring at Marietta.
"Don't speak to her like that." Cho said facing me.
"I'll very well speak to her in away way I like." I said stepping closer to Cho.
"No you won't." Cho growled.
"She's a traitor and apparently a sneak." I said smirking at Marietta, she hid her face.
"It wasn't her fault. And what Hermione did was terrible." Cho spat, glaring at Hermione.
"What she did was tell everyone what Marietta truly is. She didn't have to join the group, but you made her just so you could flirt with Harry." I said smiling now.
"It was a waste of time anyway, apparently someone beat me to him." She said smirking now. I lunged for her but many arms caught me and held me back.
"Good of your friends to stop you from making a mistake. Someone could have gotten really hurt." Cho smiled.
"That person was and still might be you if you don't leave no." Ginny said to Cho. Cho rolled her eyes and walked away with Marietta. Once she was gone, Fred, Harry, Ron, and George let me go. They were all short of breath.
"How can someone so tiny, be so strong." Ron said gasping for air.
A/N: It's been a while since I've been able to post. I just got a new computer after breaking my old one, accidently. I hope you liked it, I've hand written many more chapters so hopefully I'll update soon. R&R! :)