* Hi! I hope you guys enjoy my next installment of GWatDH! I was really excited to update again so soon and I hope you guys are too!
~ Ginny *
The feast was over and everyone in the great hall stood up to leave, still thinking about the night's events. After the feast, Professor McGonagall stood up and addressed the entire hall, explaining how there have been new teachers assigned and how the classes and such were to change. The newest teachers included Professors Carrow. The brother Amycus was teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts and his sister Alecto was assigned to Muggle Studies.
Also, Professor Umbridge's decree for unauthorized student organizations was yet again put into action (Ginny was sure that it was to avoid the students' rebelling against the new teachers and rules). Neville and Ginny whispered up and down the bench as McGonagall was talking and decided to speak to Luna about restarting the DA, for real.
The largest change by far was when Professor McGonagall announced that she was stepping down as headmistress and that Professor Snape was to take over from now on. When this was announced, every Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff stood up in rage and let out cries of defiance. It was clear by that point that it was going to be a very unsettling year for the school and the students there.
Before she realized it, Ginny found she had walked to the tower with the rest of the Gryffindors and that the prefect had opened the entrance. She walked in and found that the Common Room was one of the only parts of Hogwarts that hadn't been changed. Neville caught up to Ginny when she was about halfway across the Common Room, on her way to the dormitories.
"Ginny, wait!" Neville said as he grabbed her arm to prevent her from going to much farther.
"Hey, Neville. What's up?"
Neville released her arm and used his hand to block his mouth as he whispered into her ear "I talked to Luna on our way to our Common Rooms and we decided to meet near the Room of Requirement at midnight tonight. We'll have to be careful but we have to have a meeting and decide what to do."
"I'll be there. Wait for me down here and we can go to the Room together." Ginny whispered back. Neville nodded once, turned, and made his way up to the boys' dormitory to await midnight, when the rebelling would begin.
Ginny turned and made her way up to the girls' dormitories. She was tired so she figured she'd sleep for a while and try to wake up before midnight so she would get some sleep and avoid being late for the meeting. She opened the door and saw her bed waiting, as inviting as usual. She sat down, took off her shoes and set her alarm clock for 11:30 so she could wake up in time. Then, she closed the curtains around her bed, laid back, and waited for sleep to overcome her, which it soon did.
She awoke with a jolt to the buzzing of her alarm. She turned it off quickly to avoid waking up the other girls in her dormitory. Putting her trainers back on and making sure she had her wand, Ginny opened the door slowly and made her way downstairs to meet Neville. When she got there he hadn't come down yet, so she on the couch in front of the fireplace.
There was a slight fall chill in the air and the glowing warmth of the fire melted it away, leaving nothing but a contented feeling, that made her break from reality and drift off into her thoughts. How were Harry, Ron, and Hermione? Were they okay? Would they contact her or her family soon? Deep down she thought she knew the answers to the questions. Of course they were okay. If anything major had happened, they were caught or something, it would be in the papers and since it hadn't they must be okay. Though she would always check her post to see if there was anything from them, she knew it was too dangerous for them to contact her, putting herself, her family and the three of them in danger. After Dumbledore's funeral she knew how Harry felt about putting her in danger, so she had to rule that out as well.
Her thoughts drifted back to that day. The day it had finally ended and she knew the war was for real and had to be fought. The day she knew that there would be no future until they had passed this barrier. She had constantly thought about how it could've gone differently and how everything could have stayed the same, they could have stayed together. She still didn't care if her put her in danger, she still thought that being with him was worth it.
Her musings were interrupted by the soft calling of her name. She turned around and saw Neville walking towards where she was sitting.
"Ready to go?" he asked.
"Of course," she replied with a blazing look in her eyes. "Let's go."
Ginny and Neville walked in silence to the Room of Requirement, keeping to the shadows and keeping their ears strained for any kind of noise. If they did come across anyone, Ginny remembered a few passages and hiding spots that Harry had showed her from the Marauder's Map.
After about ten minutes of tense slinking through the corridors, they came to the wall that they knew to hide the entrance to the Room of Requirement. Ginny closed her eyes and paced back and forth in front of the wall thinking, I need a place to meet Luna, I need a place to meet Luna, I need a place to meet Luna.
She opened her eyes just as Neville did and saw that the door was there. She walked forward to pull it open and walked inside. She found it had transformed into a small room that resembled their Common Room. It was made of bright blue, bronze, crimson, and gold hangings from the ceiling and color-coordinated furniture as well. There were vast windows on the walls that gave a breathtaking view of the surrounding grounds and mountains. Ginny glanced around and saw Luna sitting on a small bench with a Quibbler and looking around the ceiling with her Spectrespecs.
"Hi, Luna!" she called across the room toward her friend.
"Hello, Ginny. Neville." Luna responded, looking at them with a beaming smile. The two Gryffindors began to walk forward when Luna called out
"OH! Be careful! A Nargle is sleeping there on the floor in front of you! Don't step on him or he'll bite your ankle. Nargle bites are some of the worst Wizarding wounds to try to mend...."
Ginny pointedly walked around the space in front of her until she came to Luna. Just as she thought she wanted a place to sit near her, a chair popped into existence in the secluded corner, along with one for Neville.
"Alright," said Ginny, taking a quill, ink, parchment, and a large atlas from a bookshelf next to the fireplace and brought it back to her seat. She put the bottle of ink on a small side table next to her, put the parchment on the atlas, and dipped the quill in the ink. "Now we need ideas for things to do. Do you think we should restart the DA?"
For the next few hours, the three friends thought of different ways to interfere in the school-year. In the end they come up with their best , their best idea that could be done tonight was to write on the walls. They had brainstormed a few spells to use and decided that Diffindo would be their best choice.
The three went over their plan multiple times to ensure that they all understood it and then left the Room of Requirement to start the rebelling. The corridors were just as dark as when they had gotten there which made for the best cover to avoid detection.
"Right here," Ginny whispered as she came to the wall in the Entrance Hall. The other two nodded as she whispered "Diffindo!" and carved the message into the wall.
Once she was done, Luna said her goodbye and departed towards the Ravenclaw Common Room as Ginny and Neville went to the Gryffindor's. The walk was silent and on-edge. They knew that if anyone caught them, the rule-breaking could be pinned on them since they were found walking from the scene of the crime, so they were very relieved to come to the portrait hole.
The fat lady wasn't pleased to be woken, but she grudgingly let them in after they remembered the password. They entered the Common Room to see the dim Common Room a little brighter as the morning approached closer and closer.
"Good night, Neville. Good work!" Ginny said, and turned to walk tot he dormitories.
"'Night Ginny."
The dormitory had gained some light by the time Ginny had changed and was in bed. She stared at the light as it lit the room and eventually started moving across the floor. Her thoughts enveloped her as she laid there, staring blankly at the floor.
Would Harry want this? Me, Luna, and Neville risking ourselves just to defy the Death Eaters? We have no idea what our punishment would be if one of the Carrows or Snape caught us. We have to do our part to fight, though. We can't give in easily.
Ginny was so engrossed in her thoughts, she didn't realize when her friend Abbie woke up in the bed next to her.
"Hey, Ginny. What's up? Are you okay?"
Ginny looked over and saw her friend next to her.
"'Morning Abbie. I'm fine... just thinking..."
"What about?" she questioned. "Ohhh, about him?"
Ever since Ginny had gone out with Harry last year, her friends wouldn't let her live it down. They were always joking about him and everything about how they had gone out.
"That's personal, Abbie, but yes, I was."
"Oooooh,"
"Oh, shut up."
Ginny threw a pillow across the gap between the two beds and hit Abbie in the face.
"Hmm, fine!" she said, feigning anger. "I am going to get up and get ready for classes instead of dreaming about my ex-boyfriend..." Abbie winked and threw the pillow back at Ginny.
"Fine, but I'm not very excited about classes. I wonder what they'll be like now...."
* I hope you guys enjoyed. I'm planning on Ginny having both DADA and MS that day so you can see how the Carrows' are as teachers. MORE REVIEWS= MORE CHAPTERS!! I love the feedback and constructive criticism because it helps me grow as a writer and make you guys happier!!! Thanks :) *
