What's up? I'm back :) haha; Well if you haven't heard my trip to Washington was great! My class all went together, and their seriously the best class ever, we're all like family and they always make everything fun :). In this story Draco has a crush on Cody's sister Ellie, not that Slytherin Pansy (ugh). He deserves way better, don't ya think? Note: Do you peoples think I should make Ginny manipulative with Harry and Hermione, you know messin things up. Or should she be supportive of them? Anyway please read and review! –SR7
(P.S. Note: I really do know a Cody, Seth, David, Darrick, and Ellie in real life so I thought it would be fun to use them in my story. Their pretty awesome people :). )
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There was a chime in the distance, but Harry didn't know where it was coming from. He tightened his eyes together more to see if it was just apart of his dream, but the chime got louder. He slit his eyes open, sunshine was flowing through the windowpanes, most people who were hanging out in the common room the night before was still there only more sprawled out and sleepy looking. Hermione was still curled up with her book, and she was still leaning on Harry's shoulder. Harry smiled; Hermione did look cute when she slept. Harry looked up again an owl was sitting outside the window tapping on the glass. "Well that explains the noise." Harry complained getting up. He went over to the window and let the brown barn owl in. He had a letter tied to his ankle addressed to Harry. So Harry opened up the dirty piece of parchment and read it.
Dear Harry,
Hey! It's Snuffles can you believe it? Well I want to know how your doing at Duraflame, I've met Headmaster Heffner once while I was traveling and I thought he was a bit of a nut job, but that's just my opinion. So Dumbledore told me about how you and our new friend Draco are going to be the leaders of the Hogwarts operation. Well I wanted to send my congrats and a warning. This job is hard and I want you to watch your back. Not everyone at Duraflame is trustworthy especially Brody Hawk. Back in Azkaban he came to visit one of the other prisoners who might I add was a Death Eater, he's a dangerous man Harry so watch your back as well as your friends. Whoops! I probably said too much in a letter, well if you have any questions please contact me via flame…
-Snuffles
Harry put down the letter and took a deep breath; apparently Hawk was definitely someone to look out for. Harry wondered how Sirius had been in contact with Dumbledore so he grabbed a spare piece of parchment in the room and started writing his reply back to Sirius.
Harry was about to tie his letter back onto the owl when he heard some shuffling behind him. "Who was that?" Hermione asked quietly.
Harry turned in his seat so he was facing the sleepy looking girl who had a blanket wrapped around her. "Snuffles. He sent me a letter asking how we are doing in Duraflame so far, and gave me a warning about professor Hawk. Apparently he's in league with some Death Eaters."
Hermione bowed her head down. "So no matter where we go, there is always someone out to get us, right?" Harry looked at Hermione her face was pale and lifeless, she looked like she was going through a war, and she was being defeated in it. Harry motioned Hermione to come and sit on his lap. Hermione shuffled over and sat then laid her head against his shoulder. Harry wrapped his arms around her protectively.
"Yes 'Mione there will always be someone out to get us, sadly, but we need to keep strong and fight this battle till our heart gives out. Okay?" He instructed stroking her arm.
"I trust you Harry, but you can't fight this war alone, you need help. I will be there for you as well as Draco, and all our loyal friends. Please let us help." Hermione pleaded hugging Harry.
"Of course 'Mione, that's also the point of the team Dumbledore wants me and Draco to create. Strong, valuable people who are capable of defeating any Dark lord Voldemort, or any other capable being. If you still want to would you please be part of the team?" Harry asked hopefully.
Hermione chuckled. "Of course Harry, always."
Harry smiled; this team is already starting out good. Harry and Hermione stayed sitting and looking at the sunrise for another couple minutes when they heard the rest of their friends get up.
They saw Draco fall out of the chair he was laying on. "Bloody chair!" Harry and Hermione laughed as they both got up and helped Draco up. Draco looked confused. "Did we all fall asleep down here last night?"
Harry looked around. "Yeah I guess we did, weird that we all did. I would have thought someone would have gone back up to the dormitories."
Draco also looked around scrunching his eyes up. "Oh well. Harry we need to put together a team, today. Any ideas who? I mean we already have us of course, Hermione, Cody, and the Weasley twins, but we still need a number of other people, who we can trust. So we need to think about this thoroughly and carefully."
"Well said Draco." Harry said patting his back. "We can start after breakfast. We need a meeting place though, somewhere nobody can find us."
"Yes." Hermione said thoughtfully biting her lip. "Also somewhere we can practice defensive spells, and to plan our next moves."
The trio put their heads down to think about a place, but of course what help would that be since they didn't know the school that well. "Cody…"
"What was that Harry?" Hermione asked looking up at the boy who just spoke.
"Cody. He knows this school probably better than anyone. He sure has explored it enough times. He for sure would know if there was any secret rooms in this castle." Harry said pushing Draco out of the way and walking up to Cody's sleeping form. "Cody! Wake up!"
"Hmm?" Cody mumbled yawning.
"Cody we need a favor."
"Is it that important that you woke me up at 8:00 in the morning on a Sunday?" Growled Cody sitting up from the hard floor he was lying on.
Harry and Draco rolled their eyes then Harry spoke. "Yes of course it is, now I need you to tell us if there is any secret rooms in the castle that no one knows about, probably even somewhere where Heffner doesn't even know about."
Cody looked up to the trio like they were crazy. "Of course there is, this is Duraflame after all. But I can't tell you what or where it is right now, way to dangerous, but I can show you after breakfast. Does this have anything to do with the team that you guys need to put together by any chance?" He asked expectantly.
The trio looked at each other then Hermione turned back to Cody who looked both confused and tired. "Yes it does, and its kind of important so we need to do this fast."
"Alright, let's head down to eat then we can go." Cody said getting up and dusting off his robes and leading the group down to the Dinner Hall.
Half way to the Hall Cody spoke after a few minutes silence. "You know I've never met anyone quite like you guys before, its, its… pretty cool! I mean I've met some pretty famous people in my life time, but- OOF!" Cody gasped after the trio pushed him behind a corner. "What the heck was that for?" demanded Cody whispering.
"Shhhh!" Hermione and Draco hissed putting their fingers to their lips. "Listen." Hermione said indicating the faint voices around the corner, it was Gavin and Ron.
"I have to say Gavin I wasn't expecting this from you." Ron said sighing.
"Yeah well people change, and plans change." Gavin insisted.
"I thought you were going to help me, but I guess I was wrong. You really are a bloody bastard." Ron spat.
"Hey! Watch your mouth Weasley! You never know where it might end up!" Gavin spat back pushing Ron.
"Stay away from me and my friends, your not trustworthy anymore."
"I wouldn't count on it Weasleby." Gavin then swept passed Ron towards the Dinner Hall.
The trio plus Cody exchanged looks. This was something serious and Ron got himself in the middle of it all. "We have to help him." Hermione pleaded.
Draco and Harry exchanged looks with each other then Harry spoke so Draco didn't have to. "We agree 'Mione. Ron has gotten himself into some deep water, and he is our friend so we have to help him." Hermione beamed at Harry, but Draco rolled his eyes.
"I still don't like that red headed demon."
"Well to bad Draco, we want to help him so live with it!" Hermione snapped and then rounded the corner towards Ron. "Ron! What was that about?" she asked as the rest of the group followed behind her.
Ron's head snapped up at the unexpected visitors. "Um- the uh- what? I don't know what you're talking about." Ron stammered suspiciously.
"Spill it Weasley, we heard the whole thing, so don't try to lie to us." Draco told Ron rolling his eyes.
"Fine!" spat Ron. "Gavin turned against me for evil and I'm really bummed about it because he is powerful, smart, and just plain good at pretty much everything. I tried to get together a group of followers to help me take down whoever destroyed Hogwarts, because I thought if I was the one to take down the mastermind people would recognize me as a hero not just the youngest male Weasley who is a huge prat." Ron said hanging down his head in shame.
Harry felt a little sorry for Ron because of his lack of achievements so he walked up to the sulking new Cortez and took his shoulder into his grip. "Ron, it is not your job to take down this thing, it's the ministry's, plus you don't want all this unnecessary fame. Trust me on this one, you don't. And if your that bothered that you haven't done anything then how 'bout you join our team to vanquish the evil mastermind who destroyed our school. But only if we can trust you, can we trust you?"
Ron looked up and smiled at Harry. "Yeah mate, you can. And I promise to never betray you or walk out on you again." Ron was about to take out his wand to vow on it when the group stopped him.
"Whoa there, I don't think you want to do that, but you couldn't anyway since McGonagall put a block on your magic for the rest of this week and next." Harry said chuckling at the shocked face of Ron.
"That-explains-so-much…" Ron said in awe.
"Come on guys we should head down to breakfast." Hermione urged the men.
"Yeah she's right, lets go." Draco said jogging towards the Hall, everybody laughed.
Harry was about to take a swig of pumpkin juice when he thought of something. "Hermione? Did you find anything in that book you were trying to read last night?"
Hermione looked up at Harry who was across from her at the Apache table. Hermione slightly looked around her then leaned in towards Harry and spoke in a quiet whisper. "Yes, but can I tell you about it later?" Harry nodded his head, and then Hermione went back to eating her bacon in an odd silence.
After breakfast Cody took Harry, Hermione, and Draco up into an empty corridor then spoke to them quietly and softly. "Are you ready for this?" The group nodded like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Alright follow me, and don't speak. You have to be quiet." Cody made sure no one was going to speak then he went over to a window that had no glass in it, just wide open air. Cody took out his wand and said "pro agravis!" Suddenly the big empty window started to swirl in the inside then it stopped to leave the same scene they were looking at before, the ocean. "Alright walk in now." Cody said taking Hermione's hand and helping her up to the windows ledge.
"What?" She squeaked. "Won't I fall right out the window?"
Cody chuckled. "No, don't worry. This is an enchanted window when you put the 'pro agravis' spell on it. Trust me just walk through the window and believe me, you won't fall to your death, you'll end up somewhere much better than the rocky hill below." Cody smiled a reassuring smile then Hermione took a deep breath and walked in, then she vanished.
Harry was holding his breath the whole time. "Wh-what just happened?" he asked confused. "Where'd she go?"
But Cody didn't answer he just lifted the paralyzed Draco up onto the ledge and pushed him in. Draco vanished as well. "Okay Chosen One, your next." Cody prodded slapping Harry's back.
Harry gulped then looked back at Cody who was shooing him in. Harry looked back to the window and took a step, then he felt a tug, and then he hit the cold hard ground on his hands and knees. Harry looked up; he landed in a big room that was filled with plants and trees that had magical things growing off of it. There was over a hundred cushions filled everywhere in the room as well as books, then there was a big tree house in one of the larger tree's that had lights glowing out of it, the whole scene was so colorful and magical.
Harry rubbed his head, thinking he was dreaming it, but the Draco came out of the tree house. "Come on mate, you have to see this!"
"He's right dude, its pretty cool." Cody said behind Harry slapping his back making Harry jump.
"Cody! What is this place?" Harry asked Cody as they made their way to the ladder that led up to the tree house.
"It's a secret place, only me, David, Seth, and Darrick know about it, but of course now you guys do. It's a great place to just hang out, or hold secret meetings." Cody hinted. "Since we don't have a lot of use for it, I thought maybe you guys could use it as your H.Q. this would be fine right?" Cody wondered unsure.
The duo stepped into the house, a big round table was in the middle of the room filled with seats, all around the room was pictures of famous war heroes, and in a corner was a chest that had a huge padlock on it. Harry turned to Cody. "Yes Cody this would be perfect, and what is in that chest right there?" Harry asked pointing to the mysterious chest.
Cody folded his arms. "I don't know me and the guys have tried opening it, even tried using alohomora it didn't work either. So we're guessing something pretty important is in there that someone doesn't want anyone to know about."
Hermione looked thoughtfully at the chest. "Hermione, what are you thinking about?" Draco asked walking up to her.
Hermione looked up at him. "Oh, I'm sorry I just was thinking how it seems like there would be another way to open it. It can't be permanently locked, there is no spell that can do it, but there are some old unknown spells that nobody uses anymore that might work. I would have to go look them up though since, I haven't learned them yet."
"Your brilliant 'Mione." Harry said in awe.
Hermione smiled. "Thank you Harry."
"Okay now that we have a meeting place, we need people so how about we get Fred, George, and Ron and bring them over so we can discuss new recruits." Draco suggested taking a seat.
"Good idea Draco, okay how about you and Cody go get Fred and George, and me and Harry can go get Ron. Deal?" Hermione asked putting her hand in front of her.
The rest of the guys got the message and put their hands onto each other. "Deal!"
"Great! Well let's go!" Hermione bossed as she shooed them all out of the tree and back into the window that showed this time the inside of the hallway.
Cody and Draco found the twins in the Apache common room in a secluded corner talking about business, but when the two blonde headed boys came up and told them what they were doing, they happily left their work and followed the duo back to the secret room. Harry and Hermione found Ron in the Dinner Hall stuffing his face with leftovers, so they had to force drag him out of the room just to tell them what they were doing.
Once everyone was finally in the tree house, which the Weasley's were totally in awe over especially the twins, they finally got down to business. "…So I think that Cho would be a great recruit who's with me?" Cody asked raising his hand, but slowly lowered it when nobody else agreed.
"Sorry mate, but Cho is dead weight, we don't need that on a serious team. Just because she's pretty doesn't mean she's useful." Draco said not caring how harsh he sounded.
"Yeah, he's right mate, sorry, but she's pretty useless. Anyway, I think Neville would be a great recruit, he's loyal, he's gotten a whole lot braver, and he's an expert at herbology which could be very useful." Harry said raising his hand.
"I agree Harry." Hermione said writing Neville's name down on the list. "Great! Who else?"
"How about Blaise?" Draco asked.
"Blaise? Isn't he and his family close to the Death Eaters?" Harry asked cautiously.
"He used to be, but when Voldemort tortured his mum in July, he came to our side ready to get some Voldemort guts spilled." Draco stated smiling at all the disgusted faces around him. "Trust me he would be a great recruit, powerful, quick, great with reflexes. I say we use him."
Harry considered this. "Only if he really is on our side. And didn't he get sorted into the Serra house or something?"
Draco shook his head in disappointment. "Yeah… I have no idea why though probably because of his loyalty, and his curiosity to try new things."
Before anyone could speak Hermione spoke up. "I like it Draco, I believe Blaise would be a great new recruit, but only if you 100% trust him." Draco nodded his head, so Hermione added Blaise's name to their list. "Okay, how about Ginny?"
All the Weasley's nodded their heads in agreement. "Trust us you do not want to get our sister angry, talk about World War III." Fred said a little scared.
"Alright then, I guess that was a no brainer." Hermione sighed adding her name to the list.
The meeting went on for another hour, and they managed to get some perfect people to their team. They are…
Neville
Blaise
Ginny
Seth
David
Darrick
Luna
Ellie
Seamus
Dean
Lavender
Parvati
"Great! So 18 people in all right?" questioned Draco who was never great at math.
Hermione laughed. "Right Draco, so should we round everybody up first, or should we continue this meeting without them?"
Hermione looked around the table, expecting an answer. After a couple seconds of no one talking she finally spoke. "Okay then, since no one is participating in this conversation, I say we split up and get the people, then lead them back here, okay?"
"Okay." Everybody else said.
" 'Kay then, Fred and George you're a team and you will be getting, Neville, Seamus, and Dean." The twins nodded in understanding then raced out the door, down the ladder, and towards the window. "Great… so um, Harry and Draco you will be a team and you will get Lavender, Parvati, Ellie, and Blaise."
Draco beamed. "You got it Hermione, we'll be back." He shouted running towards the door.
"Okay then Ron and Cody you will be with me, and we will get everyone else, kay?" Hermione asked the boys. Harry heard a murmur of agreement just before Draco pushed him out of the window into the hall.
"Easy Draco!" Harry yelled as he fell face first onto the cobblestone.
"Sorry mate, but to be fair I did give you a heads up. You were just to busy listening to Hermione to notice me." Draco reminded Harry smirking.
Harry punched Draco in the arm then they set out to get the girls plus Blaise. The duo was lucky, all their assigned girls and dude were in the library either studying or goofing off. So Harry and Draco each approached them, and told them their plan, luckily each one was ecstatic about it and gladly followed them back to H.Q. where they also found Fred and George with their people. Hermione's group hadn't returned yet, but it wasn't a long wait till they did.
Everyone sat down at the meeting table inside the tree house, and then Harry and Draco got the meeting started. "Order! Order in the court!" Draco yelled shutting up all the giddy people who were astounded by the mysterious secret room and the magic all around it. "Finally!" huffed Draco relaxing in his seat. "You may start Potter."
Harry ignored Draco calling him 'Potter' and just began the meeting. "So you all know why you're here right?" There was a murmur of agreements in the audience. "Good, and everyone is 100% sure they're in on this I presume." Everybody nodded. "Okay, so I think we should come up with a name, something that we can communicate with each other on that nobody else would know."
Hermione sat up straighter when she heard this. "That's brilliant Harry! We should take suggestions. Okay I'll go first how about the… H.D.T. standing for the Harry and Draco team." Hermione suggested, not getting a lot of votes on it. "Fine then what do you people want?"
A list of names went off. Ginny suggested the D.A. (Dumbledore's army), but Hermione shot it down when she said that it technically wasn't Dumbledore's, it was Harry and Draco's.
"H.F. (Hogwarts Forever)!"
"P.a.M. (Potter and Malfoy)!"
"G.S.A (Gryffindor, Slytherin, and Apache)!"
"H.A." Harry and Hermione said at once. They looked at each other and blushed turning away. This of course got the attention of Malfoy who smirked.
The rest of the group was confused. "What does H.A. stand for?" Asked a very confused Ron.
Harry spoke since Hermione became quiet and refused to talk. "H.A., its similar to Ginny's idea of the D.A., but H.A. stands for 'Hogwarts Army' since that's what we are with the exception of Cody, Seth, David, Darrick, and Ellie. It's what we're fighting for right now so it just fits. Don't you think?" He asked the group who were nodding their heads in agreement.
"I like it! All right raise your right hand if you're on board with Harry and Hermione's idea!" George yelled to the group raising his hand. Everybody raised their hands.
Harry smiled at this. "Great for now on we are Hogwarts Army."
Draco yelled. "For Hogwarts Army!" and put his hand in front of him indicating everyone do the same. Everyone did, and repeated after Draco.
"For Hogwarts Army!"
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There you go! So how was that? Good right? Well I want to know what you think, so please review! I still want to know if I should make Ginny manipulative so there is a poll on my profile page you can vote on, or you can just review and tell me… either way works. Thanks! –SR7
