A/N: I know I followed a different process than in the book. : ( lol I just kind of turned out that way… Haha and I put me In it. I think I am going to get rid of the whole Cho and Harry kiss thing… I don't like Cho… I have no clue why not. I just don't. It's kind of like me hating Ron, I just don't like Ron. Yeah, I know I have a long Ginny pov later on in this chapter, but I needed something to make the chapter long enough to post lol : Pit strays from Dramione a little but it's just fluff :P enjoy... Oh and Taylor is kind of me in a way, i wanted to put me in it, i put my friend Cherokee in it too only i put fake last names lol :P
Chapter nineteen: Dumbledore's Army.
"Wow this place is… Different." Harry said to Hermione as they walked into the Hogs Head.
We couldn't exactly hold the meeting at the Three Broomsticks now could we?" She asked. "It was here or the clearing in front of the shrieking shack. Would you want to stand out in the snow?" She asked.
"I guess not." He said looking at Ron.
"Who all did you say was coming 'Mione?" Ron asked as he sat down.
"Well Taylor and Cherokee are coming and then there are a few Ravenclaws, Hufflepuffs and a lot of Gryffindors." She told them quietly. "Oh and I am going to give them a copy of the journals to them once they sign the list , I already have Taylor and Cherokee signed up, so I gave them theirs this morning."
"What if they tattle on us?" Ron said sounding like a five year old.
"They won't, but if they did they would turn purple and pimples will break out all over their faces." She told him smiling. "That way everyone will know who told and know that they can't be trusted."
"You really thought this out Hermione." Ron said in amazement.
"Hello." A voice said from behind them and they turned around. Several people made their way into the pub; this group was made up of Taylor, Cherokee, Parvati, Padma, Seamus, Neville, Ginny, Dean, Lavender, Luna and a Hufflepuff girl name Candice.
"Hi," Hermione said, "I am so glad you could make it." She said and then she began talking to the group about what would happen and how they would communicate and handed them their books and instructions on how to use them.
Just as the firs group was laving another group consisting of Cho, Marietta, Katie Bell, Alicia Spinnett, Angelina Johnson, Dennis and Collin Creevey, Fred, George and three Hufflepuff boys. And Hermione told them the same things she had told the other group. There were two more groups after that and they had a good amount of members for the group that they now called Dumbledore's Army.
They felt good about their numbers and their cause. They couldn't wait to get started but their only problem was finding a location.
It was Neville who found a place to meet, he had managed to find one accidentally a week after that first meeting. He had found it while walking through the seventh floor corridor while trying to think of a place to hold the meetings.
When he told Hermione, Ron and Harry about the room of wishes as he called it Hermione had said. "Oh my Riddle Neville you found the Room of Requirements! It will be so perfect!"
"Yeah, Neville, It is such a better place than we thought up." Ron said. We were planning on using The Chamber of Secrets." Ron said to the boy and they all laughed.
"That's actually a good idea considering it's full of spiders and a dead basilisk." Neville said making Ron freeze mid laugh. He really didn't like spiders.
"We should hold the first meeting in a few days; get a good start on this." Hermione said. "I know it's breaking the Decree, but we have purpose."
"Wow Hermione breaking the rules? And I thought she was a prefect." Ron said snickering.
"Like I said our cause is good." She said covering her tracks. We really should let them know she said pulling out her book and her quill. Just as she was about to write something she realized she had a message for Draco.
D: Hermia, you need to be careful. Umbridge is keeping a really close eye on you and your friends.
Mi: And how do you know this Drake?
D: I'm part of her little squad, remember, she has been telling us to spy on all of you, you need to be careful. Promise me you will.
Mi: Okay I promise to be careful. And thank you.
D: It's no problem.
Mi: I have to go, I love you.
D: Love you too.
Hermione didn't see Harry reading over her shoulder or the smile on his face, he really did seem to approve of Hermione and Draco's relationship, for the moment that is.
(All DA Members)
She wrote knowing that it would only go to the DA members.
Mi: Attention all DA members, our first meeting will be Thursday in the Room of Requirements. The room of Requirements is located on the seventh floor, it may look like just a blank wall but it isn't, you must walk by it three times while saying in your head that you need a place to practice DADA. Someone will be standing to the side just to be sure that everyone gets in safely, Oh and please don't all come at once we don't want any suspicion. The meeting will start at eight o'clock sharp.
*Luna*: I will be there Mi.
LavLav: Me too.
Midnightstar: Wouldn't miss it for the world, even if I am a slytherin. So will Cherokee.
D: I would come but that would look weird to tell the truth, tell me again why I get these notices?
Mi: Because D, you should know any ways, just don't let our secret slip.
D: I wouldn't dream of telling. Any secrets. *wink wink*
LavLav: Now I am curious! What secrets I love secrets!
Parvati: Me too.
Ronil Waslib: I doubt she will tell you, I haven't gotten it out of her yet.
D: And you won't Mr. Weasley.
Candi: This is interesting.
Mi: This isn't even on subject Lol. But you are right Candice.
Bri: Hermione, D, what are these 'secrets I want to know.
Marietta: Me also.
Cho: Count me in for that.
Harry: What if I said I knew? Then what?
D: I would call you a liar, how would you know, you haven't the slightest idea who I am.
Mi: I have to agree with D, Harry.
Ginny Alice: I KNOW! Haha I feel so in the loop! HI 'D'.
Mi, D, Harry, Ron: Why Ginny Alice?
Ginny Alice: I like that name, it sounds better than Ginevra Molly.
Mi: That's true Gin, oh and I know that you know, so does Luna. Harry I doubt you know.
Harry: What if I did.
Mi: You wouldn't be talking to me, or being so nice to D.
Harry: Okay whatever helps you sleep at night
LavLav: Tell me tell me tell me!
Mi: No good bye! (Mi and D have signed off.)
Collin: Yay meeting.
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The first meeting went better than planned and with out any complications, Though Fred had somehow managed to turn George into a spider, and George chased Ron around the room.
Harry had been happy to have a chance to talk to Cho, but Ginny was upset by that.
"Hermione, I'm no Cho. He will always like her." Ginny said crying as they stood in the hall. "It's not fair!" Ginny said loudly.
"Ginny it will be okay, I bet that if they ever went out on a date it would be their last, I bet she is only interested because he knows what happened to Cedric." Hermione told her friend.
"Maybe your right, but in the end he will never love me. I'm a Weasley; I'm like a sister to him." She cried even more.
"Remember what Draco said?" Ginny nodded. "He is a smart person Ginny, if you date other people, he will come around. I promise."
"If you're wrong, I get to tell you secret. Deal?" Ginny asked smiling.
"Deal." Hermione said, hoping desperately that she wasn't wrong
OoOo Ginny oOoO
What in the name of Merlin is up with all of this damn Mistletoe!" Ron shouted in the hall one morning when he got stuck under some of Dumbledore's magical mistletoe with Pansy. Neither of them were happy. The mistletoe didn't bother the younger students the spell only worked on fifth year students and up, though occasionally a younger student would get stuck.
"OH RON HAS TO KISS PANSY!" One kid screamed in laughter.
"It's not funny!" Pansy said loudly. "I do not want to kiss him!" She had tears running down her cheeks.
"Just get it over with Pans. It's just one kiss." Astoria Greengrass said to her friend. Every one laughed when they finally did, and even harder when Pansy ran away screaming.
On the other side of the school students were enjoying the scene before them. Snape and Umbridge had been trapped under the mistletoe and were stuck their all day because Umbridge refuse, it was even more hilarious than it should have been. To Hermione, Ginny Ron and Harry it was horrible to watch, old teachers kissing, gross.
"Harry!" Ginny called running after Harry once she caught up with him after dinner, "you left this in the great hall." She said handing him his wand; he hadn't even noticed it was missing.
"Oh, thank you Ginny." He said putting his rand into his inside pocket. "Do you want to walk up to the common room with me?" He asked politely.
"Sure, I guess it wouldn't hurt any thing." She said and they began to walk up the remainder of the stairs.
"So when are we going to have the next DA meeting?" She asked.
"Two weeks before Christmas." He told her when the reached the portrait.
"Oh that's cool, I can't wait, you will be an awesome teacher." She said looking up at him. He was at least a foot taller than she was. "Well, I will see you later." She said turning around and walking into the common room.
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As time went by at Hogwarts, more and more decrees began to be issued. A lot of the decrees were ignored and no one ever knew.
The mistletoe continued to entertain students as their classmates were caught under it. No one person was picked more than once, to Ron's relief.
It wasn't until a week before the next meeting that Hermione got caught under the mistletoe with Draco. They had bumped into each other in the crowded third floor corridor. They were glad that they had got stuck under it with each other but they were embarrassed, no one really knew about the two of them so they started insulting each other.
"Look what you have done now you stupid mudblood." He shouted and Ginny who was standing a few feet away flinched. She had never heard him call her that.
"I'm not a mudblood!" She shouted. "My Mum is a witch! And I would rather do anything than kiss a Ferret like you!"
"Merlin, Let's just get this over with." He said and his lips quickly covered hers. For a moment she thought she wouldn't be able to pull her lips away from his. They hadn't kissed in a long time. She heard people whistling and giggling when they didn't stop kissing soon enough but she felt his lips leave hers and he stomped away almost and she copied him.
"Wow, you two should be actors." Ginny whispered to Hermione as they walked back to the common room.
"You have told me this before, Ginny." Hermione laughed.
"Ron won't be happy." Ginny said.
"And why would he care?" she asked.
"Because he loves you Hermione." Ginny said laughing.
"Well it's unrequited.
OoOo Ginny and Harry oOoO
The last DA meeting of the semester arrived quickly, and Harry taught everyone how to cast a Patronus. A lot of people weren't able to produce on but quite a few people were able to.
Hermione had been able to cast one and it had been a otter, Ginny's was a horse, Ron's was a dog, Neville's was a lion, Taylor's was a bear, Cherokee's a cat, Marietta's a goat, Luna had a rabbit and the twins both had a fox as their Patronus. He was surprised to see that many patronesses. He had expected about two.
As every one was clearing out of the room, Harry noticed that someone was standing at the back of the large closet like room, by the message board next to the large Mahogany book case. She was looking out of the big window out at the grounds.
As he walked over to the girl he realized it was Ginny.
She stood there crying, she felt hopeless sometimes, she wanted desperately for Harry to like her as she had liked him for five years.
"Ginny are you okay?" she heard Harry ask from behind her and she spun around quickly.
"Yeah, I'm fine Harry. I just needed a moment." She said wiping the tears from under her eyes.
"I don't buy that, so tell me what's wrong." He said smiling at her and she felt her heart melt with an aching sensation then she sighed in defeat.
"Have you ever liked someone so much that it hurt?" She asked.
"Yes." He said not knowing where the conversation was going. She froze when she heard that one word she wanted to cry even more, she knew that he really liked Cho.
"Have you ever felt what it's like to watch that person like someone that's not you?" She asked.
"Yes."
"Harry, I have liked the same person for years now and I think I might even love him, but he likes someone else, I have to watch the way he looks at her when she is around and suffer as I know that he will never look at me that way." She said hearing her voice become thick. She just knew she was going to cry again. "It hurts so much, and I can't tell him how much I hate his guts for making me feel this way, because honestly I wouldn't mean it." She said as tears rolled down her cheeks.
"Ginny don't say that he doesn't like you." Harry said as he went to hug her, it only made her cry more. "You don't know that for sure."
"Yes I do Harry! I'm ugly compared to her." She screamed.
"Ginny." Harry said making her look at him. "You are not ugly; you are probably the prettiest girl in this school…" He was cut off by her sobs.
"No I'm not!" She screamed knowing good and well that he didn't know what the words had done to her, "There is Cho, and she is a hundred times prettier than me! And then there is Francesca Dubois!"
At that moment she saw realization strike in his eyes, he knew. "Ginny, Cho is nothing compared to you, you are so prettier than her." He said looking into her brown eyes. Her heart almost stopped.
"And yet you like her more than me." She said taking a big risk. They didn't see the Mistletoe that had begun to grow above their heads.
"Ginny…" He started.
"No don't, what ever you are about to say is just going to make things worse on me." She cried as he looked up and she soon did the same thing, they both saw the mistletoe.
"I bet it's full of Nargles." He said.
Ginny laughed, "Nargles' really Harry. How much time have you been spending around Luna?" She asked looking at him.
"Apparently a lot." He said before leaning in to kiss her. Ginny found herself kissing Harry back and she thought she was dreaming, she never thought that this day would come and that Harry would ever kiss her, but then they were under the mistletoe. Did he really want to kiss her?
He pulled away for air after a few moments but then they were kissing again and she realized the answer to her question. He had actually wanted to kiss her.
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Hermione woke up as Ginny was coming back into the common room; she had fallen asleep on the couch looking at the fire.
The first thing she noticed about Ginny was that the girl was smiling from ear to ear. "Someone is happy." Hermione said laughing as Ginny walked to sit on the couch next to her.
"Yes and Her name is Ginevra Molly Weasley." Ginny said as Harry walked into the common room and looked at Ginny, they both smiled at each other before Harry continued up to his dormitory.
"What was that?" Hermione asked with a grin.
"I don't even know where to begin…" Ginny said and then launched into her tale.
A few hours later.
Hermione was woken up again, but this time my McGonagall. She was rushed into the Dumbledore's office along with Harry and the Weasley's. No one knew exactly what was going on, except that it involved Mr. Weasley.
"Make sure Arthur is found by the right people." Dumbledore told one portrait and then turned to another, "Go to your portrait in Grimmauld place ant let the Weasley's know that Arthur is seriously injured and that their children and Hermione are coming, Harry as well once he gets back."
"Yes sir the portrait said."
Hermione and Ginny sat side by side on the couch and a portrait of the previous headmaster stared at them in shock until Hermione finally asked "Um can we help you with something?"
"Great Merlin the two of you look like him." The girls exchanged looks of confusion, as did several other people.
"Like who?" Ginny asked.
"Albus," The portrait said, "Do you not see what I see?"
"I have no clue. I see a Weasley and A Holloway." He said in confusion.
"Holloway!" The man said. "Great Scott! Amethyst Holloway's Daughter! I remember her, she went to school here."
"No she didn't." Hermione spoke up, "She went to Beauxbatons." Hermione said in confusion.
"Ah, she did, for one year." The man said.
"What do you see Armando?" Dumbledore asked as Harry was taken to the dungeons.
"Well I see their father, in the female form of course." The man said.
"Wait, you said their father, they aren't sisters." Ron said in confusion.
"Oh did I say father?" He asked
"Yes you did." Hermione told him.
"Well obviously I meant fathers. You look so much like your fathers.
"That's not weird at all." Both twins said at once.
"Oh the portkey is about to leave." Dumbledore said. "Hurry up; we don't want it to show up with out you." He said ushering all of them over to the sneaker that was glowing metallic blue. Hermione latched her hand onto the shoe and a few moments later she was hurtling through a blue vortex.
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A/N: I changed the ending five times… What do you think… I really didn't have much time to edit… Im so sorry for that. Well you know what to do next… Please Review… They are my motivation. ~Taylor (Slytherin at heart)