Chapter 36

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

May 31, 12:33 P.M.

It was the weekend before exams at Hogwarts, and everyone was feeling the pressure. Wally wasn't sure who was getting the worst of it, the Seventh Years who had to take N.E.W.T.s, Hermione who had all her classes at the same time, or he himself for having to go through exams at two different schools.

Harry and Ron weren't helping when they found Hermione's exam schedule and began asking if she wrote down her exam schedule correctly since it had her taking two exams at once.

"What?" she asked taking it. "Of course I have."

"Is there any point in asking how you're going to sit for two exams at once?" asked Harry.

"No," she said shifting through her bag. "Have any of you seen my copy of Numerology and Gramatica?"

"Oh, yeah, I borrowed it for a bit of bedtime reading," Ron mumbled quietly.

Hermione didn't seem to hear him and kept digging through her stuff.

Wally raised an eyebrow and gave his cousin a puzzled look. "You actually read something like that willingly?"

Ron nodded. "Like I said, bedtime reading, its so boring it puts me right to sleep."

Wally rolled his eyes. 'I should have known.'

Just then Harry's pet owl, Hedwig, flew through the window with a letter. Harry took the letter, opened it and said, "It's from Hagrid. Buckeak's appeal- it's set for the sixth."

"That's the day we finish our exams," said Hermione, who was glaring at Ron for insulting her book.

"And they're coming up here to do it," said Harry still reading. "But it's at the same time as our exams so Wally still can't testify."

Wally scowled. "Dang it!"

Harry's attention was still on the letter. "Someone from the Ministry of Magic is coming and-" he paused and his eyes widened, "-and an executioner."

Hermione stopped glaring at Ron and looked startled. "They're bringing an executioner to the appeal! But that sounds as though they've already decided!"

"Yeah, it does," said Wally solemnly.

"They can't!" Ron snarled. "I've spent ages reading up on stuff for him; they can't just ignore it all!"

Wally glared at his cousin for once again forgetting that he helped with the research too.

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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

June 6, 6:06 P.M.

Exam week at Hogwarts was as almost as brutal as Fred and George said it would be.

He didn't have too much to worry about as far as his exams at Gotham Academy went, since he, Dick, Artemis, Barbra, and a friend of Artemis' that he'd been introduced to named Bette, had spent several afternoons together studying. For him those exams were a snap. Hogwarts exams on the other hand-

In the Transfiguration exam they had to turn a teapot into a tortoise. Wally's love for speed was his downfall in this as it transferred to his tortoise, which ended up being faster than a usual tortoise and ran around the classroom. It was also still as red as the teapot had been.

Charms exam had them performing Cheering Charms on each other. That wasn't so bad because since that was the class they had missed on Hermione's début as Jinx. Hermione had been distraught over missing the class and made Wally help her practice it, so he had that spell down cold. It was more than he could say for Harry, who's spell caused Ron to burst into hysterical laughter that for a second made Wally think he'd been doused with Joker Venom.

The Care of Magical Creatures exam was a breeze, mostly because Hagrid was too preoccupied with the up coming appeal. They were each given a flobberworm and were told that to pass it still had to be alive at the end of the exam. Since flobberworms survive best when you don't mess with them it was easy. The only one who didn't pass was one of Blondie's cronies, who accidentally stepped on his.

The Potions exam was also a piece of cake for Wally. His Confusion Concoction came out perfectly, and he had the pleasure of watching Snape's face pucker up as he was once again forced to give him a high grade.

The Astronomy, History of Magic, and Herbology exams were a challenge, but Wally was confident that he had passed.

The Defense Against the Dark Arts exam was trickier. Mr. Lupin explained that their exam was an obstacle course where the had to wade through a pool of grindylows, navigate around a bunch of Red Caps, go through a marsh and avoid a hinkypunk, then face another boggart.

Wally was a bit nervous about that last part. While waiting for his turn he spent the majority of his time trying to come up with a way to turn his vision of everyone being dead because he failed into something funny. He was still wracking his brain when he opened the trunk that contained the boggart. He was once again in the Alien Mothership surrounded by the bodies of everyone he cared about and even a few of the people he didn't care for. He did his best to beat it, he really did. He tried to imagine everyone standing up and saying something like 'Gotcha' or 'Made You Look' as he cast the spell that Mr. Lupin said would fight off the boggart.

It didn't work quite like he planned as the bodies rose up and became zombie like as they rasped "April Fools!" He ended up falling backwards out of the trunk feeling thoroughly freaked out.

After getting back up he stormed into the castle and refused to talk about it to anyone, though he did see Harry and Mr. Lupin shared a knowing look.

His last exam was that he and Hermione had their Arithmancy exam while Harry and Ron had Divination.

When he and Hermione got back to the Gryffindor common room afterward they found a letter waiting for them. In shaky hand writing the letter said-

'Lost appeal. They're going to execute at sunset.

Nothing you can do. Don't come down. I don't want

you to see it.

Hagrid

Wally began vibrating in rage. "This can't be legal, how could they do this?"

Ron arrived before Hermione could reply with Harry following soon after. Once Harry read the letter he said, "We've got to go. He can't just sit there on his own waiting for the executioner!"

"Sunset, though," said Ron. "We'd never be allowed… 'specially you, Harry…"

Wally frowned. "I could run us out, but with all the trips we might get seen."

Harry shook his head. "If we only had the Invisibility Cloak…"

"Where is it?" asked Hermione.

Harry told them about when he had snuck into Hogsmeade despite Hermione and Wally's warnings not to. It turns out that despite going there in the Invisibility Cloak he'd been spotted by Blondie and had to leave it in the passageway in order to avoid being caught with it. Which was smart since Snape caught him just after he left the passageway. And how afterward he had also lost his Marauder's Map to Mr. Lupin.

"… If Snape sees me anywhere near there again, I'm in serious trouble," he concluded.

"That's true," said Hermione looking over at Wally. "If he sees you…"

Wally caught on to what she was saying. He grinned and said, "To quote my Uncle, I'll be back in a flash."

He heard the Golden Trio groan as he zipped out of the common room and back to the one-eyed-witch statue. Remembering how Harry had opened it the first time he slipped into the passageway and grabbed the Invisibility Cloak that he found tucked into a corner. He then raced back to the common room, just in time to hear Ron say, "Does Mr. Allen really say that?"

"Yup," said Wally coming to a stop behind him and making them all jump. "It drives us all nuts. And Ron, he told you to call him Uncle Barry."

Wally then handed over the Invisibility Cloak to Harry, and they all made plans to go see Hagrid after dinner.

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However after dinner Wally got a call through his comm. as he and the others were sneaking away. The voice on the other end said, "Suit up in stealth mode, and meet us on the outskirts of the forest by Hagrid's hut. Bring Aqualad and Zatanna, and do not be seen."

Wally was completely confused by the instructions, but decided to trust them. He shot an apologetic look at the other three. "Guys, it looks like something has come up, could you tell Hagrid I'm sorry for not being able to testify for me."

Ron looked scandalized. "Now! Can't it wait?"

Wally shook his head. "No, I really don't think so. It sounded pretty urgent."

Harry and Ron began to look angry with him, but Hermione reminded them about how his missions often saved the world and that was more important. That calmed them down, but Ron muttered, "It'd better be bloody well important."

Wally gave his cousin one last apologetic smile then quickly portkeyed to the Cave, and called in Kaldur and Zatanna. After explaining the situation to them, they suited up and portkeyed back to Hogwarts and snuck over to the meeting place.

A few minutes after they got there they heard the approaching footsteps of the people who had called Kid Flash.

He turned to them and said, "I sure hope you have a good reason for doing this, because quite frankly, I'm lost."

From behind the trees stepped Harry and Hermione, both looking much more ragged than they did ten minutes ago.

"Believe me Wally," said Harry seriously. "We are really going to need heroes for this."

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A/N sorry for the cliffhanger I know they're evil. I figured it'd be too complicated to have Wally go to the Shrieking Shack with the others, plus he might have to reveal his powers, so I thought it'd be better to do things this way. What that way is, you'll find out soon.

A Thank-You to AriLivesnotDylan for suggesting I add in zombies. Sorry I didn't give them a bigger part but I really hate zombies.

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