"One Girl Revolution" Superchick This is Ginny set in her Sixth year. Enjoy and don't forget to review!
I wear a disguise
I'm just your average jane
The super doesn't stand for model
But that doesn't mean I'm plain
If all you see is how I look
You miss the superchick within
And I christen you titanic underestimate and swim
I've got the rifle gonna be myself
"What is the matter with you?"
"Have you gone insane?"
"Do you have a death wish?"
"That was crazy!"
"You can't stop them!"
All the reprimands floated around the room, unchallenged and accepted. They were mostly right, the action had been crazy, but they'd been necessary. The last comment is what had caught my attention. I couldn't stop them? The Carrow's wanted to brain wash us into believing muggle borns were scum and we were supposed to just let her? I couldn't just sit by and let her talk like that. One of my best friends was a muggle born-and Harry was almost one. There was no way I could just sit idly by. I was a Gryffindor, I was prone to acts of unthinking (which really is another way of saying stupid/naive) bravery.
It was one of the things I was best at-being unthinkingly brave. Probably because I had six older brothers, I was never scared to fight. There really wasn't all that much I was scared of, but letting the Carrow's completely take over, that scared me. So I had spoken up, I'd let the spirit of my older twin brother take me over and I had spoken up. I'd been crucioed on account of it and I was still feeling weak from the attack.
"I was not crazy, I just wanted to shut her up."
"Well you certainly achieved that." Colin said from the corner, snorting as he tried to suppress his laughter. I stuck my tongue out at him before flipping my hair back. Neville leaned back in the chair he was sitting in and turned his gaze from the fire for the first time. He'd been extremely quiet all night, every other Gryffindor had made their opinion very known. Seamus, Lavender, and Jack were with me, everyone else thought I was mental.
"So, what do you think?" I asked, forcing his opinion from him. I wanted to know what he thought. He was the only one here that had fought at the ministry, and the astronomy tower last semester. He was the only one other than me that had fought at all actually.
"I think it was crazy, but necessary." He said simply, shrugging. "The real question is what are we going to do about it? You had the right idea, the wrong method, but the right idea."
"Yeah, if they crucio just for questioning something, we're in for a heap a trouble this year." Seamus said from his spot on the couch next to me.
"We can't let them go on unchecked though!" I said, fisting my hands. "They can't just take over like this, we have to do something."
"Of course," Neville said quickly, cutting me off before anyone else could say anything. "We need to stop them, but not like that. Think smaller, less obvious."
"You mean like Fred and George?" I asked, a grin quirking my lips.
"Yeah, make things difficult for them, but don't let them know who is doing it. We can't let everyone get crucioed just because we didn't play it smart."
"We need to get the other houses in on this." I said quickly, I had a feeling I knew where this was going.
"Yeah," Neville said, meeting my eyes for the first time. He had changed over the summer, he wasn't slouching anymore and he had a determined look in his eyes that I had never seen before.
"Are you talking about reforming the DA?" Seamus asked, his voice excited.
Neville nodded his head. A grin lifted my lips and I let my excitement show. We were doing it, we were finally fighting back.
I'll be everything that I want to be
I am confidence in insecurity
I am a voice yet waiting to be heard
I'll shoot the shot, bang, that you hear round the world
And I'm a one girl revolution
"Quick! That was the alarm, someone trigger the alarm!" I tried to keep the panic out of my voice, but it didn't work. Neville was keeping guard at the other window, and Luna was opening the safe. We only had a few moments before they would be here, I didn't know who had done it, but it couldn't be good for us.
"I'm in!" Luna called, her voice calm and still holding the dreamy quality that she never seemed to lose. "Hold on just a moment and we can-GAH!" she screeched, and I looked over just in time to see her jerking her hand away from the safe, a look of pain on her face. Merlin, had I really been that stupid? We didn't have time for this sort of oversight!
"You're not a Gryffindor!" I called, running across the room and to the safe. She stepped back, clutching her hand to her chest as she went to my spot. I reached into the dark safe and grabbed on to the handle of the sword. It was unnaturally cold to the touch, and the rubies on the hilt made it somewhat uncomfortable to hold. I pulled it out of the safe and felt my stomach knot in distaste as I looked at it. The last time I had seen this sword was when Harry slayed the Basilisk, it always made me uncomfortable to think of what I had done.
I pushed the unneeded emotions aside and clutched the sword to my chest. "We've got it!" I called. Neville nodded his head and sent a signal to the students waiting on the ground, letting them know that we would be coming down in a few moments.
"Hurry, their coming!" Luna called. I turned towards her in alarm and felt my heart stop as the door opened behind her. A dark figure stepped into the room, and I let out a scream, not from fright, it was our signal. Neville slammed the window shut and we both stepped forward with our wands raised.
"What have we here?" Snape asked, his greasy black eyebrow raised as he looked down at us.
He punished us by letting the Carrows decide what to do with us. Everyone else got away, so Luna, Neville and I were the only ones caught. We were all purebloods, so they weren't able to hurt us to terribly or there would have been an uprising. I never thought I'd be so happy for my stupid blood status.
We had to spend a night out in the forbidden forest, wandless and alone. That doesn't really sound all that bad, but when you take into account that it was a full moon, and there are about five hundred huge spiders, that live there, it is not a pleasant, or easy place to survive.
Some people see the revolution but most only see the girl
I can lose my hard earned freedom if my fear defines my world
I declare my independence from the critics and their stones
I can find my revolution I can learn to stand alone...
It was easter holiday now, and I was headed home for it for the first time in my life. I'd never left Hogwarts for it before, but now I was excited for the break. Hogwarts wasn't a school anymore, it was a brainwashing institute that enjoyed torturing kids. It had been a really hard semester, and we all knew how it was going to end.
A war was coming, and we were aware what that would mean. We'd have to fight, and we were having to learn how to by ourselves. Luna hadn't come back after the Christmas break, she had been kidnapped right off the train. We hadn't heard a word from her. Other children had been taken to azkban as leverage against outspoken parents.
I didn't know what this holiday would entail, but I knew it would be awkward. I was planning on explaining our plan to my parent. About the fact that we were all preparing for a last stand at the end of the year. Once we graduated there would be no going on, we'd have to fight then or be picked off later. If we fought together we stood a better chance of taking more of them out. Together we could probably take Snape down, and maybe the Carrows with him. They knew the basics of what we had planned, but they didn't know the finer details.
The train pulled into the station and I bid my friends goodbye. It wouldn't be long till we saw each other again, just four days, but we really couldn't be sure we'd see each other again.
Mum and dad ushered me away quickly, a clear panic written on their faces. We apparated home, and I was shocked to see everything was packed up.
"What's going on?"
"We're going to Aunt Muriel's, she's under a fidiuls charm." Dad told me as mum ran upstairs to grab something. She was back down a moment later and she grabbed onto me. Before I could object she'd apparated us all over to aunt Muriel's.
Fred, George, and Aunt Muriel were already there. They rushed out (Fred and George) and grabbed me in a firm hug. I held onto them just as tightly, a huge sense of relief washing over me as I held onto them.
"What's going on exactly?" I asked as I let go. Mum and dad had rushed into the house already.
"We're being followed-" Fred started.
"yeah, ministry's been pressuring dad."
"Kingsley got caught by a bunch of death eaters-"
"They've been coming down on all the order members."
"Dad got a tip that we would be next, so he rounded the family up."
"What about the shop?" I asked, managing to keep up with their back and forth conversation with no effort. A frown crossed both their faces and I felt my heart clench. Not their shop, that was the one thing they loved, why would the death eaters attack it?
"Destroyed," Fred said quietly.
"The ministry raided it." George explained as they both led me inside.
"We can't stay long, Lee needs our help with Potterwatch." He continued, glancing at the kitchen with a wary air. Mum and dad didn't approve of Potter watch, they felt it was too dangerous. Not like the twins cared, that was why they were doing it. They wanted to make a difference, just like me. It apparantley ran in the family.
I said hi to Aunt Muriel and then rushed to my room. I pulled the galleon that had become my lifeline this year and typed out a quick message to Neville.
Can't come back, M & D took us to safe house. Call me when revolution starts. –GW
Now all I would have to do is wait.
And I'm a one girl revolution
I'm a one girl revolution
I'm a one girl revolution
And I'm a one girl revolution
The battle came sooner than I expected, and went by faster than I thought it could. The whole thing is mostly a blur. I reacted on instinct, and barely made it. I fought beside my friends and watched them fall, unable to help them, unable to stop the death eaters that were attacking everyone.
I watched my brother get crushed by a wall and nearly die, and I watched my boyfriend, my love of six years, die and be brought before us like some prize bull. I watched my mother fight the most evil death eater of all times, and saw her kill her. I saw my hero and love rise from the dead and kill the darkest wizard of all time.
I don't know how many people told me we couldn't do it, that Voldemort was unbeatable, that the war was lost. That we were just a 'teenage gang' that couldn't do anything to defeat him. They were wrong, each and everyone of them were wrong. We fought against Voldemort, and the leader of that teenage gang was the one who killed him.
Never tell me what I can't do.
