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Chapter 12: Defying the Ministry

~ GINNY ~

Ginny and Amy hadn't spoken to each other since their small fight in the Common Room.

It was now October and their first Hogsmeade trip was coming up. Ginny had been trying to spend as much time as she could with Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Amy before Amy would leave the room. Hermione would always ask Ginny what was going on, but her response was always, "I'll tell you later." Hermione was getting pretty annoyed of the answer and didn't bother asking anymore. Fred was also avoiding Ginny. She could only imagine what Amy had told him about their fight, and she hoped Amy hadn't told her brother about Tom Riddle's Diary. George was the only one that really spoke to her nowadays; besides Michael.

One night, Ginny, from the top of the girl's stairs, saw that Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Amy were the only ones in the Common Room. She walked down and walked over to them. Harry and Ron occupied one couch while Amy and Hermione occupied the other. Ginny went to take a seat next to Hermione and Amy got up to leave, but Hermione stopped her before she could walk away.

"Hello, Ginny. How are you?" Hermione's voice was wavering a bit. But Ginny could tell she was being sincere. "I'm fine, Hermione. How are all of you?"

Harry and Ron both mumbled a short 'good,' but no response came from Amy's direction. "Actually, Ginny, we were just talking about something important. I suppose we can tell you now, you were going to find out anyway." Hermione smiled at Ginny. She lowered her voice to a whisper, "We're thinking of starting a secret club. One to defy Umbridge so that we can learn how to defend ourselves properly. Harry would be the leader, of course. He has had some — personal — experience with fighting against the Dark Arts —"

"Give it a rest, Hermione. I already told you, no one is going to want to be taught by me. Have you heard the rumors going around about me? Everyone thinks I've gone mad!"

"We don't think that, Harry." Ginny reassured him, "We would love for you to teach us how to defend ourselves. Fred and George, too probably. A lot of the Gryffindors, Ravenclaws, and Hufflepuffs will probably want to join as well."

"Not to be rude, Ginny, but no they wouldn't. Most of the school has been avoiding me ever since — ever since the Triwizard Tournament. When I got Cedric Diggory killed." Harry stood up and walked over to the window. Ginny had never heard Harry talk about what happened that night in the maze, but nonetheless, she believed him. She always would.

Ginny walked over to where Harry was standing. "Harry," she put her hand on his shoulder, "We believe you. My family believes you, and so does the Order. What the hell does it matter if not everyone in the school believes you or not? Your friends do."

"And the Ministry? What about them, Ginny, do they believe me?" Harry was now almost yelling at her. Ginny could see that Harry wasn't mad at her, but at everyone, that did not believe him. Including the Ministry, Umbridge, and some of the other students at Hogwarts. "But that's the point, isn't it? Of this whole club idea? It's supposed to represent defying Umbridge and defying the Ministry. To prove them wrong. To show them that there is something out there that we need to defend ourselves against. We can't just sit back and do nothing, Harry. We need you."

"Dammit, Ginny," Harry looked her in the eye, "When do we start?"

Ginny hugged him, but quickly let go, remembering that there were other people in the room.

"Oh, thank you, Harry!" Hermione ran over and pulled him into a long hug. Ron soon joined the hug, leaving Ginny and Amy alone to the side.

"Amy, I — "

"Don't worry, Ginny," said Amy, without looking at Ginny, "I'm not mad at you."

"Really? Are you sure about that, because you haven't said one word to me since that night until right now? If you weren't mad at me I'm pretty sure you would have said something already. But whether you are mad or not, I don't give a crap. I'm going to apologize anyways."

Amy looked up at Ginny. Ginny could see that in Amy's eyes, she was still mad. "Look, Amy. I know I should have told you about this a lot earlier on, and I'm sorry. But you already know that I'm sorry. I've already told you. So please tell me how I can make this up to you, Amy. When I first learned about the real you, I was only six years old. I didn't know what to do with that information anyway. I didn't know if you knew, so I wasn't gonna say anything —"

"But you could've said something when I told you and your brothers about it. You could've told me that you already knew. But you didn't. And here we are — five years later — and you only told me last week. I'm gonna need some time to process everything first. I know you're sorry, and so am I. I'm sorry that I won't be talking to you for a while; because you're my best friend. And I trusted you. Goodnight, Ginny." Amy walked away, but in the opposite direction from the stairs. Amy walked out the portrait, and out of the Common Room.

"Where did Amy go?" Ron walked over to Ginny. "She just wanted to go for a walk. She'll be back soon."

"But it's after curfew!" Hermione said from the other side of the room, "And isn't she supposed to be staying with Harry? She's the person that's supposed to be watching over him and keep him safe —"

"Save it, Hermione. I think Harry'll be fine one night without Amy's 24-hour supervision."

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On the morning of their first Hogsmeade trip, Ginny put on her coat, her headband and walked down to the Common Room from the girl's dormitories. She made her way over to a group of students that consisted of Harry, Ron, Hermione, Amy, Fred, and George. Immediately, Amy and Fred said that they were leaving early for Hogsmeade, and left. Harry, Ron, and Hermione left soon after and told Ginny and George to go to the Hog's Head in Hogsmeade when they got there. That's where the meeting for the secret club was going to be since not many people go there.

George, being the kind older brother that he is, walked Ginny to Hogsmeade. She was originally going to walk there with Michael. They had planned to meet in the Great Hall for breakfast, and then walk to Hogsmeade together for the meeting. But he was already gone when she went to the Great Hall. She could hear George muttering to himself about different ways to hex Michael for that, but she would probably beat him to it.

They walked into the Hog's Head and sat down. Harry, Ron, and Hermione were standing at the front of the room. Amy, Fred, Neville, Dean, and Luna were close to the front along with Ginny and George. The lot of them seemed to be the most excited about the meeting. Ginny looked around for Michael and saw him sitting in the back with some of his friends from Ravenclaw. For someone clever enough to be in Ravenclaw, you'd think he'd know better than to ditch me, Ginny thought to herself, right before the meeting began.

Hermione spoke the most. She talked about how we need a "proper teacher" to defend ourselves. There were a few people that weren't very fond of this idea. Zacharias Smith and Seamus Finnigan were the two that seemed to disapprove the most. Ginny wasn't even sure why Seamus showed up, he had disagreed with Harry about You-Know-Who being back since the very beginning.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione had everyone who was interested in the club sing a piece of parchment. The list was as follows:

Harry Potter

Hermione Granger

Ron Weasley

George Weasley

Fred Weasley

Amy Pond

Ginny Weasley

Lee Jordan

Neville Longbottom

Luna Lovegood

Parvati Patil

Lavender Brown

Cho Chang

Marietta Edgecombe

Ernie Macmillan

Dean Thomas

Justin Finch

Colin Creevey

Dennis Creevey

Terry Boot

Angelina Johnson

Michael Corner

Susan Bones

Katie Bell

Hannah Abbott

Anthony Goldstein

Padma Patil

Zach Smith

Alicia Spinnet

Hermione had handed out galleons to everyone and told them that the time, date, and place of the next meeting would appear on them once they had decided on it. Harry would change it on his, and it would appear on the others.

Seamus refused to sign the list and left. He had gotten mad at Dean for signing as well. Dean ran after him after he signed. Everyone soon began to filter out of the Hog's Head, leaving only Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Fred, Amy, and George.

"Clever idea with the galleons, Hermione," Ginny put an arm around her friend, "Umbridge will never be able to make an 'educational decree' about not being able to carry around money."

"Thanks, Ginny. I guess I'm becoming pretty good at breaking the rules."

"You say that like it's a good thing! What happened to the prefect, Hermione Granger?" They walked out together laughing.

"Maybe you've rubbed off on me a bit, Gin. After all, I do believe I have been spending way too much time with you."

"It's not my fault you decided to be my friend."

"I guess not. Come on, let's go the Three Broom Sticks."

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Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Fred, Amy, George, and Neville were sitting in the Gryffindor Common Room together. Amy and Ginny hadn't exactly made up, but they were now able to tolerate being in the same room with one another. Just then, they heard a POP! They all jumped up from their seats when a small house-elf appeared in front of them.

"Dobby?! What are you doing here?" Harry approached him.

"Only doing what Mister Potter asked Dobby to do! Dobby has found a place! A place for your meetings!"

"You have? Where, Dobby?" Hermione stepped toward the house-elf.

"The Come-and-Go Room, of course!"

"The what?"

"The Come-and-Go Room! The Room of Requirement!"

"I've heard about that. It only appears for someone if they really need it. That's perfect for this! Thank you so much, Dobby!" Hermione pulled the elf into a tight hug.

"Anything for Mister Potter and his friends!"

"Dobby," Harry started, "can you tell me where the Room is?"

"Of course! Follow Dobby!" Dobby ran out of the Common Room, and Harry had to run fast to follow him.

Eventually, Harry returned back to the Common Room, only to lead the rest of the group back outside to show them the Room of Requirement.

They stood in front of a blank wall, and Ginny wondered if they were going to have to run through it like on Platform 9 ¾. But before anyone could say anything, a door appeared within the wall. All eight of the Gryffindor students walked through the door, only to reveal a large empty room. There was enough room in there to fit all the members of the club.

"It's perfect. It's as if Hogwarts wants us to fight back." Ron looked around the room.

"Harry, take out your map." Hermione walked over to him.

"What?"

"Take out the Marauder's Map."

Harry pulled what looked like a blank piece of parchment out of him back pocket.

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," Hermione whispered to the parchment. From the corner of her eye, Ginny could see Fred and George looking very surprised that Hermione had uttered those words.

After looking at the map for a few moments, Hermione had looked up at everyone, smiling. "This is perfect! This room doesn't show up anywhere on the map! Even if Umbridge found a way to get a hold of your map, Harry, she wouldn't be able to find us!" Hermione pointed her wand at the parchment, "Mischief managed."