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Chapter 21-

"You know, Harry, Cho is standing over there all by her lonesome." Rose pointed out. "What better time then now to go ask her out?"

Harry looked at her skeptically. "For your information, I was thinking the same thing."

He stood there staring at Cho. "Then whats the problem?" Rose asked.

Harry shuffled his feet, "I'm just wondering how to go about it." Rose rolled her eyes and walked away from the crowd and over to Cho. "What in the world is she doing." Harry said in a panic. He tried to hide himself behind Ron, and looked over towards the two.

"Whats the big idea?" Ron said.

"Rose is talking to Cho." Ron looked towards the two girls and back at Harry.

"Arent you supposed to be asking her out?" Ron lifted his eyebrow at him.

"Yeah well, she decided to take matters into her own hands." He saw the two girls talking and laughing and he wondered what they could be talking about. Then he saw Rose walking back towards them. "What was that all about?"

"She likes roses and chocolate. Send her some with a note asking her to meet you somewhere." Rose said.

"What?" Harry looked at her confusedly. "You didnt tell her that I was going to ask her out?"

"No, I simply asked her some questions about how to go about asking her out." Rose smiled. "I didnt tell her who exactly wants to, but I'm sure she knows its you." she winked at him and he blushed. "I think she's excited about it."

"Really?" He asked.

"Yep, I think she's finally healing." Rose explained.

"Listen up students." It was Professor Flitwicks turn with the group and they were learning the Confundus spell. "Its time to test our spells out on this garden gnome."

Mr. and Mrs. Weasley had arrived at the castle that morning and were staying to help train the children. They stopped by their garden before they came and gathered some gnomes on Dumbledores request.

"This should be fun." Ron grinned. "Those little parasites are gonna get it for all the years of pain they caused me."

"No kiddin." Said Harry, Rose, and Ginny.

"Now get ready, I'm going to let them loose and I'm going to leave you to gather them up." He counted to three before letting them loose.

"You know, I could think of soo many better spells to use then Cunfundus." Hermione said while shooting one. The gnome stood in one spot looking very confused.

"Well at least they dont run when you use this." Ron said. "Those little guys are quick." A few minutes later everyone had successfully confused their gnome and had them back in the cage.

"Well done." Professor Flitwick congradulated. "Very well done." They had a while before they had to switch stations so they all practiced other spells.

"Expecto Petronum." Roses doe burst out of her wand and strutted back and forth in front of her. "How many Dementors do you think he'll have?"

"Plenty." Harry said. "Expecto Petronum." His stag went and trotted in circles around Roses doe. "You know its kinda neat having the same Patronus as dad."

"Yeah same here." Then out of nowhere another doe came and walked around with the other two.

"Hey." Draco said in greeting. "Like the new look?" Rose looked at him with wide eyes.

"Thats amazing, Draco." Rose exclaimed.

"Well I did get some help from Professor Snape." He said with a grin.

Rose looked over where Snape was looking very peeved with a sixth year Hufflepuff. Rose chuckled at the scene and walked over to Draco and planted a kiss on his cheek. "The ferret was really cute though." She teased.

"Yeah well, I dont want my Patronus to be outdoing me." He said cockily.

"Of course not." Rose said sarcastically.

After two more hours of DADA all the students were dismissed to have lunch. "You know what? I cant wait anymore." Harry said looking very frustrated. "I'm going over there." He got up to leave and Rose grabbed him by the sleave.

"Orchideous." Roses burst out of the end of her wand and she handed them to Harry. "Go get her tiger."

Harry smiled at her in thanx and walked over to the Ravenclaw table.

"Could you scoot down a little bit?" Rose asked Draco.

"How come?" He asked.

"Because I believe someone new is going to be joining us today." Draco looked behind him and saw Harry handing roses to Cho.

"Aww, I see." He grinned. "Its about time." He gave Rose a kiss.

When Harry came back to sit down Rose winked at Draco when she saw Cho following him. When he sit down Rose elbowed him in the ribs playfully and he smiled at her. "Welcome to the Griffindor table." Ginny greeted.

"Thank you, Ginny." Cho looked around the table with a smile. "I was wondering when he was gonna ask me." She leaned over and kissed him on the cheek.

Then they were interrupted by Dumbledore who had walked up to the podium. "May I please have your attention, I just wanted to inform you of some recent events having to do with the Dark Lord." He said sadly. "As you know the attacks on the muggles have become more and more over the past month." Many of the students nodded sadly.

"I believe these attacks will stop in two days time." He said.

Rose stood and looked to the podium. "How can you know?" She asked.

"I received a letter from Voldemort himself." Many of the students stared at him in horror. "He plans on attacking the school."

"When did you get this letter?" Hermione shouted.

Dumbledore looked even more sad then before. "I got it the same day the last of the prisoners arrived." The room was completely silent.

"Why didnt you tell us?" It was Harrys turn to stand.

"You all had enough on your plates at the time." Dumbledore said. "None of you were ready to hear that. Not after such a tragedy."

They all sat back down in defeat. He was right, none of it would have even registered.

"Now I just want everyone to understand that you do have the choice to return home before then. I will not make you stay and fight." He flashed his bright blue eyes around the room. "I will not be having any first, second or third years involved though. You all are too young and inexpirienced." There were many shouts of anger from the crowd. "Please, now that you know, you should all take the day off to do what you need to, to be ready." Dumbledore sat back down and everyone in the room began chattering.

"I cant believe this." Hermione said.

"I'm going to kill him." Rose said and everyone turned their gaze to her.

"Rose, I dont think it would be a good idea to go into this fight hell bent on revenge." Harry said. "You'll just make yourself more vulnerable."

"I know that Harry." Rose glared at him. "And I also know that he thinks I'm dead, which gives us an advantage. I have a plan."

She shared her plan with the rest of the table and everyone agreed that it was indeed a great plan. "We should tell Dumbledore." Hermione said.

"Yeah, but we can do that tomorrow. Today is our last day to relax." Rose said. "Plus I kinda have something planned."

"Really, and what is that?" Harry asked.

"Well if you really want to know you will come with me to the lake at sunset." Rose said. "All of you can come if you want." She looked around the table at all of her friends.

"We'll be there." Harry promised.

"Great, I have to go get ready so I'll see you later." She waved to them before disappearing out the door.

Everyone was waiting for Rose to show up at the lake. Harry couldnt help but remember Fred. The day they jumped in the leaves and rolled down the hill. That was a great day. 'I wish it would never have ended.' He thought.

"Hey guys." Rose stood behind them with all the teachers and many more students.

"Wow, whats going on?" Harry said confused at all the people that were there.

"Well I didnt really plan this for today but given the circumstances..." Rose brought something from behind her back. "Professor McGonagall and Professor Dumbledore helped me make them, along with a few other people." She held up a bunch of colored rocks.

"What are they?" Ron asked.

Rose gave each of them a rock and explained. "Its to remember those who arent with us." They all looked at her shocked.

"How does this work?" Ginny said running her fingers across the smooth surface of her red rock.

"All you have to do is think of your favorite memory with the person of your choice." She smiled at each of them. "Then you toss it into the water."

"You should go first." Hermione said to her. "Its only fair since you made them."

"I think family should go first." Rose argued. She walked up to Dennis Creevy and put a purple rock in his palm and covered it with her own hand. "You should do the honors." Dennis nodded his head and when Rose removed her hand he looked down at the rock and after a second it began glowing. "Its ready." She smiled as he ran his thumb over it before tossing it into the water. A giant bubble rose out of the water where it hand landed and a scene was playing inside of it.

A young blonde haired boy was opening a present, he tore the paper off and opened up the cardboard and then his face lit up as he stuck his hand in and brought out a camera the size of his head. "That was his first one." Dennis said with a tear running down his smiling face.

She walked up to George and handed him a blue stone and watched the stone glow as his rock join Dennis's in the lake. The bubble came up and everyone saw the two boys playing a prank on their older brother Percy. They both were sitting at the long table at the borrow watching the older sibling drink his tea while reading the newspaper, then all of a sudden his hair turned a bright lime green and the two sat at the table trying not to laugh. They failed miserably and were rolling on the floor while Percy sat there in confusion. Rose gave him a big hug and couldnt help but laugh herself.

Then she walked over to Parvati and handed her a yellow stone. She held the rock in her fist and brought it up to her lips and kissed it before throwing it in with the other two. The bubble came up and the two girls were sitting in the hospital wing with Madam Pomphrey. Neither of the girls were injured, and they seemed to be in an engaging conversation with the short tempered Mediwitch. "We were getting lessons from her. We were both going to work at St. Mungos." Rose remembered Padma telling her the same thing the day she died.

She handed the rest of the rocks out to random people making sure that Mr. and Mrs. Weasley got one before she turned toward the lake. "On three." The crowd silently agreed with her. "One..." Many of the rocks began to glow. "Two..." Everyone closed their eyes and brought back their arms ready to throw. "Three!" She yelled and threw her white rock as far as she could. The colored projectiles were beautiful when they soared overhead in the sunlight. Just like a rainbow, only more colors.

She watched hers closely and when it came up she saw herself sitting in the arms of Fred while watching the sunset. She looked around and saw many other memories with Fred. One had him and George playing Quidditch, another had the twins at a party playing wizards chess with Ron. Then she saw one that brought tears to her eyes. Mrs. Weasley was holding the twins in the hospital the day they were born. They looked soo innocent and happy.

Rose wiped her eyes and felt in her pocket for another rock that she was saving. It was a golden color and she went over to Harry. "We should throw this one together."

Harry nodded his head and Rose split the rock in half. She whispered in his ear before handing the half to him and after a few seconds they counted to three and tossed the halves in. They watched as two bubbles came up out of the water and combined to form an image of their parents just smiling at them. "We're gonna make them proud." Harry said. Rose took Harry in a hug and whispered in his ear.

"We already have."

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