Already Harry and Dawn, Hermione and Ron found 6 kids each from each house (except Slytherin) that would like to join the club. The twenty-ninth of December was here and Harry now had to figure out how they were going to get 36 students into the Room of Requirement without being suspicious.
"You should have thought of that before you started this club." Stephanie said rudely, scribbling down some notes from a text.
Ron glared at her, "Why don't you help instead of commenting on our bad organization skills?"
"Okay." Steph smiled. "What exactly in organization do you need help with?" she said mockingly.
"Stop it you two." Harry said.
"We should tell the students to go in groups of two or three's." Dawn said.
"But we should set times for them to come." Hermione added.
"There, you don't have bad organization skills." Steph said trying to console Ron in a sarcastic way. "That's a great idea, Hermione, Dawn. I'll help with spreading the news if you'd like." she smiled, now not trying to be sarcastic.
"I was thinking on bewitching paper aeroplanes to go to the students," Hermione said. "you can help write the notes with Dawn."
"Sure, that sounds great. But won't flying peices of paper be kind of conspicuous." Steph asked a bit confused.
"Not if they're small." Ron said.
"True." Harry agreed.
"Exactly. I'm an expert at making small paper airplanes, I used them in high school, they aren't conspicuous at all. The teachers in Sunnydale didn't notice." Dawn said.
*
Stephanie was walking with Ginny to the Room of Requirement trying not to be conspicuous.
"I forget, is there a password or something?"
"Nope, we just have to think on what we want at the landing." she said.
"Oh! So you sure this is a study group? I don't want to think something else you know."
"It's for Defense Against the Dark Arts." Ginny said now pacing the landing.
"Really? Cool, but none of us is having trouble..." Steph turned around to a door that wasn't there before. "Okay...."
Ginny opened the door and quickly ushered Steph in. There was ten other students including Hermione, Harry, and Ron in the room with lots more room to spare. Ginny sat on one of the empty cushions, Steph's head went to one side in awe.
Hermione came up to Stephanie, "You mind if I talk to you in private?" she asked.
Steph looked at her and nodded yes, she was taken to a corner and asked if she would like to come on her vamp days. Steph said she wasn't too sure if it was safe enough, plus she didn't want anyone else to know.
Once all the new club members were sitting on a cushion, Harry, Dawn, and Hermione explained their exact plan:
"This club is to give us more insight in the dark arts, the stuff Professor Rosenberg isn't telling us" Harry said.
"We have a few students here who know enough about the dark arts to guide us through: Dawn, Draco, Stephanie, myself, and Harry." Hermione said.
"Now this is a secret club, no other students, professors, or parents are allowed to know about this. There is a number of reasons which we'll list," Dawn warned. "One: some are here because of personal revenge, this club is to protect them and help them understand what they will be up against. Two: we are already being taught by a very good professor on the dark arts and people may not understand. Three: not everyone will approve of this. Four: we are students and no one will take us seriously."
Harry nodded his approval, "So if anyone who can't handle these rules, follow Ron out the door."
No one moved.
"Good, now let's go through a couple of issues." Hermione got a out a piece of parchment. "We need a club name, a code, a good time schedule for everyone, and subjects we may be interested in covering."
"Code?" a Ravenclaw girl asked.
"A code name, like if we were talking about Snape in his class we'd call him guppy." Stephanie spoke up. "For instance: have you seen the guppy lately, he's worse than usual." she smiled. "Did you think I was talking about Snape?"
"No.." the girl said.
"Right." Harry agreed. "So any ideas?"
"Shouldn't we find a name for the club first?" Cho asked.
"True." Dawn said.
"How 'bout Daring Doers?" a boy in the second year offered.
Dawn looked at everyone, "Uh..."
"DARE?" asked another student.
"What's that suppose to stand for?" Cho asked irritably.
"Dark Arts Refusal Era." they explained.
"Not bad." Hermione wrote it down as a possibility.
"Hey what about, HAV: Hogwarts Against Voldey." Ginny offered.
"Isn't that a bit weak for you Ginny?" Ron asked, knowing her sister could think of better names.
"That's a bit too touchy, Ginny." Hermione said.
"ADA: Against Dark Arts." a girl in year four asked.
"Dumbledore's Alliance, DA." Neville said.
"The Last Alliance." someone said.
Hermione was scribbling all the possible club names.
"Harry's Army, HA." Draco smirked from a corner.
Everyone looked at him. "Okay," Dawn said. "We have four ideas, we should vote before it won't be a fair vote."
"DARE?" Hermione said, 13 people raised their hand. "ADA?" 4 raised their hand. "DA?" 8 raised their hand. "HA?" 11 raised their hand.
"Why don't we just name ourselves Dare?" asked a student.
"I think the meaning is stupid."
"I like Harry's Army, but HA sounds weird."
"Harry?" Dawn turned to him.
"I am flattered, but I think we should stick with Dare."
Everyone murmured that they agreed with him.
At the end of the meeting everyone agreed the club was called DARE, the code for the Room of Requirement was "study", and they were meeting on Sunday and Wednesday nights.
*
It was now very late but Harry decided to go and visit Sirius in the secret passage way. Upon reaching his destination he found there was no sign of Sirius anywhere. He ran up the passage way, checking his map, and back down the passage way, finding nothing. A feeling of forboding and fear came to Harry making him shiver.
Climbing through the witch's head he scrambled up to the Gryffindor tower, the first person he thought to tell was Dawn and ran up the girls stairs. Not getting very far he landed on the ground, and cursed himself for being so stupid. Running up to the boy's dormitories with heavy breathing he woke Ron with a jolt.
"Sirius, he's gone!" Harry panted.
Ron looked up groggily, then opened his eyes wide. "How?" was the only word that came out of his mouth.
(A.N.: Finally I got to this stupid part... so proud of myself)
*
By morning's light, Dawn, Hermione, and Ginny sat in horror as Harry and Ron explained that they lost Sirius and found no sign of him what-so-ever.
"Maybe Dumbledore has something to do with this, like he thought is wasn't safe." Hermione said.
"Sirius would have told me if that was the case."
"Maybe he went for a night walk as Snuffles..." Dawn said, thinking no one would stay in that passage way for very long. "We should check if he's back."
"I didn't see him on the map --"
"We should check just in case." Ginny said gently.
"Alright, I'll grab my cloak."
They checked high and low, in the passage, castle, and on the grounds. They found nothing and were very discouraged.
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AN: I wanted this longer but couldn't get anywhere so it's stopping here for the end of this chapter. I'll make my others longer to make up for this one. Hope you enjoyed this so far.
"You should have thought of that before you started this club." Stephanie said rudely, scribbling down some notes from a text.
Ron glared at her, "Why don't you help instead of commenting on our bad organization skills?"
"Okay." Steph smiled. "What exactly in organization do you need help with?" she said mockingly.
"Stop it you two." Harry said.
"We should tell the students to go in groups of two or three's." Dawn said.
"But we should set times for them to come." Hermione added.
"There, you don't have bad organization skills." Steph said trying to console Ron in a sarcastic way. "That's a great idea, Hermione, Dawn. I'll help with spreading the news if you'd like." she smiled, now not trying to be sarcastic.
"I was thinking on bewitching paper aeroplanes to go to the students," Hermione said. "you can help write the notes with Dawn."
"Sure, that sounds great. But won't flying peices of paper be kind of conspicuous." Steph asked a bit confused.
"Not if they're small." Ron said.
"True." Harry agreed.
"Exactly. I'm an expert at making small paper airplanes, I used them in high school, they aren't conspicuous at all. The teachers in Sunnydale didn't notice." Dawn said.
*
Stephanie was walking with Ginny to the Room of Requirement trying not to be conspicuous.
"I forget, is there a password or something?"
"Nope, we just have to think on what we want at the landing." she said.
"Oh! So you sure this is a study group? I don't want to think something else you know."
"It's for Defense Against the Dark Arts." Ginny said now pacing the landing.
"Really? Cool, but none of us is having trouble..." Steph turned around to a door that wasn't there before. "Okay...."
Ginny opened the door and quickly ushered Steph in. There was ten other students including Hermione, Harry, and Ron in the room with lots more room to spare. Ginny sat on one of the empty cushions, Steph's head went to one side in awe.
Hermione came up to Stephanie, "You mind if I talk to you in private?" she asked.
Steph looked at her and nodded yes, she was taken to a corner and asked if she would like to come on her vamp days. Steph said she wasn't too sure if it was safe enough, plus she didn't want anyone else to know.
Once all the new club members were sitting on a cushion, Harry, Dawn, and Hermione explained their exact plan:
"This club is to give us more insight in the dark arts, the stuff Professor Rosenberg isn't telling us" Harry said.
"We have a few students here who know enough about the dark arts to guide us through: Dawn, Draco, Stephanie, myself, and Harry." Hermione said.
"Now this is a secret club, no other students, professors, or parents are allowed to know about this. There is a number of reasons which we'll list," Dawn warned. "One: some are here because of personal revenge, this club is to protect them and help them understand what they will be up against. Two: we are already being taught by a very good professor on the dark arts and people may not understand. Three: not everyone will approve of this. Four: we are students and no one will take us seriously."
Harry nodded his approval, "So if anyone who can't handle these rules, follow Ron out the door."
No one moved.
"Good, now let's go through a couple of issues." Hermione got a out a piece of parchment. "We need a club name, a code, a good time schedule for everyone, and subjects we may be interested in covering."
"Code?" a Ravenclaw girl asked.
"A code name, like if we were talking about Snape in his class we'd call him guppy." Stephanie spoke up. "For instance: have you seen the guppy lately, he's worse than usual." she smiled. "Did you think I was talking about Snape?"
"No.." the girl said.
"Right." Harry agreed. "So any ideas?"
"Shouldn't we find a name for the club first?" Cho asked.
"True." Dawn said.
"How 'bout Daring Doers?" a boy in the second year offered.
Dawn looked at everyone, "Uh..."
"DARE?" asked another student.
"What's that suppose to stand for?" Cho asked irritably.
"Dark Arts Refusal Era." they explained.
"Not bad." Hermione wrote it down as a possibility.
"Hey what about, HAV: Hogwarts Against Voldey." Ginny offered.
"Isn't that a bit weak for you Ginny?" Ron asked, knowing her sister could think of better names.
"That's a bit too touchy, Ginny." Hermione said.
"ADA: Against Dark Arts." a girl in year four asked.
"Dumbledore's Alliance, DA." Neville said.
"The Last Alliance." someone said.
Hermione was scribbling all the possible club names.
"Harry's Army, HA." Draco smirked from a corner.
Everyone looked at him. "Okay," Dawn said. "We have four ideas, we should vote before it won't be a fair vote."
"DARE?" Hermione said, 13 people raised their hand. "ADA?" 4 raised their hand. "DA?" 8 raised their hand. "HA?" 11 raised their hand.
"Why don't we just name ourselves Dare?" asked a student.
"I think the meaning is stupid."
"I like Harry's Army, but HA sounds weird."
"Harry?" Dawn turned to him.
"I am flattered, but I think we should stick with Dare."
Everyone murmured that they agreed with him.
At the end of the meeting everyone agreed the club was called DARE, the code for the Room of Requirement was "study", and they were meeting on Sunday and Wednesday nights.
*
It was now very late but Harry decided to go and visit Sirius in the secret passage way. Upon reaching his destination he found there was no sign of Sirius anywhere. He ran up the passage way, checking his map, and back down the passage way, finding nothing. A feeling of forboding and fear came to Harry making him shiver.
Climbing through the witch's head he scrambled up to the Gryffindor tower, the first person he thought to tell was Dawn and ran up the girls stairs. Not getting very far he landed on the ground, and cursed himself for being so stupid. Running up to the boy's dormitories with heavy breathing he woke Ron with a jolt.
"Sirius, he's gone!" Harry panted.
Ron looked up groggily, then opened his eyes wide. "How?" was the only word that came out of his mouth.
(A.N.: Finally I got to this stupid part... so proud of myself)
*
By morning's light, Dawn, Hermione, and Ginny sat in horror as Harry and Ron explained that they lost Sirius and found no sign of him what-so-ever.
"Maybe Dumbledore has something to do with this, like he thought is wasn't safe." Hermione said.
"Sirius would have told me if that was the case."
"Maybe he went for a night walk as Snuffles..." Dawn said, thinking no one would stay in that passage way for very long. "We should check if he's back."
"I didn't see him on the map --"
"We should check just in case." Ginny said gently.
"Alright, I'll grab my cloak."
They checked high and low, in the passage, castle, and on the grounds. They found nothing and were very discouraged.
~
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AN: I wanted this longer but couldn't get anywhere so it's stopping here for the end of this chapter. I'll make my others longer to make up for this one. Hope you enjoyed this so far.