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A Candle in the Dark.
Chapter 7: Diagon Alley and Return to Hogwarts.
Harry woke early, he saw Mrs Weasley standing over him, shaking him gently.
"Come on, Harry dear, time to get up." Harry sat up, Ron was already awake, he was sitting up looking at Harry, bleary eyed.
"Morning, mate."
"Morning" Harry said stifling a yawn. Harry looked at his watch. It read seven o'clock. Ron yawned loudly. Forcing himself to get up, Harry stumbled around getting some clothes on. He turned round to ask Ron why he wasn't getting up he saw that Ron had lay back down, turned over and had gone to sleep again. Harry laughed. He went over to Ron and poked him hard in the side,
"Oy, get up you lazy git!" When Ron didn't respond, Harry went to the other end of his bed and took hold of Ron's covers and with a ferocious tug pulled them off. Ron sat up quickly.
"What do you think you're doing?" he said angrily. Harry grinned at Ron's angry face,
"Trying to get you to get up!" Ron just grumbled, but got up anyway. After about ten minutes they were both ready. They went downstairs where there was the delicious smell of bacon frying. Harry and Ron sat down at the table and waited for the girls to come downstairs. Five minutes later the three girls arrived downstairs, all three of them blurry eyed and yawning widely.
"Morning beautiful" Harry said to Cho, standing up to give her to give her a kiss.
"Morning" she said. She sat down next to him and took a piece of toast off of his plate. Mrs Weasley came in carrying a huge platter piled high with sausage and bacon.
"We have to leave in about half an hour."
"How are we getting there?" Ron asked her.
"By floo." She disappeared back into the kitchen, they continued eating in silence
"This is my last year at Hogwarts" Cho said sadly. Harry reached over and gave her a quick hug.
"Just make it the best then."
"I can't, the best was last year when I kissed you for the first time." Harry kissed her passionately.
"What have we told you about the public displays?" said George seriously as he and Fred entered the room. Harry broke the kiss and just looked at him. Then he went back to kissing her even more passionately. Ron snorted at the way Harry had ignored George. Eventually, Harry and Cho broke apart.
"Why are you up this early?" asked Ginny
"We're coming as well," said Fred
"Why are you coming? You're not at Hogwarts anymore" asked Hermione
"We're going back to run the joke shop." Said George
"Why don't you just apparate?" asked Ginny
"We had to get up this early anyway, because we have to be there early to open up and everything, so we might as well just come with you." Explained George. Ten minutes later everyone was ready to go to Diagon Alley. They stood in front of the fireplace. Mrs Weasley sent them in one by one. When Mrs Weasley held the pot of floo powder out to him, Harry took a bit and threw it into the fire yelling,
"Diagon Alley" He felt himself spinning, he landed in a fireplace in one of the shops in Diagon Alley. He left the shop and saw, Ron, Hermione, Cho and Ginny already standing there.
"Where are Fred and George?" asked Harry, the twins had gone after Ron and Hermione.
"They've already gone to their shop," said Ron. Just then Mrs Weasley arrived.
"Right, what do people need to get?" she asked.
"I need a new set of robes." Said Harry.
"Just what's on my list." Said Cho. Hermione and Ginny nodded in agreement.
"I need to stock up on potions ingredients," said Ron
"Oh yeah, I need to do that as well." Said Harry.
"Harry, Ron, you go off and get the ingredients you need, give me your booklists, I'll go get them with the girls." Harry and Ron nodded, Mrs Weasley gave Ron some money, and they walked off. They reached the Apothecary. Ron went round gathering the things he needed. Harry tried to remember what he needed. Fellindas root, powdered hawksbay leaves and some more porcupine quills as well as some more of the basic ingredients. He went and paid and waited for Ron.
Ron walked up to him and looked at the shelves.
"Won't be a minute, mate, do you know where the diced basfeld stems are?"
"Yeah, down there, near the porcupine quills."
"Cheers, mate." Ron got the basfeld stems and went and paid.
"C'mon" said Harry as Ron finished paying. They walked out and headed to Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions.
"Harry!" Ron's voice broke through his thoughts.
"You haven't been listening to a word I've been saying, have you?" Ron said indignantly.
"Sorry" Harry mumbled, he had been thinking about Cho, and when they had kissed under the mistletoe. Ron looked at him curiously.
"You really love her don't you?"
"How did you know I was thinking about her?"
"You blushed when I interrupted your thoughts" Ron said simply.
"With all my heart" said Harry answering Ron's question.
"I know." They walked on in silence. When they reached Madam Malkin's Harry went in while Ron went to look at Quality Quidditch Supplies.
"Hogwarts robes, dear?" asked Madam Malkin.
"Please" replied Harry. He waited while she measured him. Ten minutes later he was ready to go. He paid and walked out of the shop.
"Potter!" spat a voice behind him. Harry turned round calmly and saw Draco Malfoy standing there with Crabbe, Goyle, Theodore Nott and a group of people Harry didn't know, but he guessed they were Slytherins.
"Oh, it's you," said Harry before turning his back on them. Harry felt something brush past him.
"Don't you dare turn your back on me, Potter!" Malfoy had his wand out and had it pointed at Harry. Harry's wand rose as well. Malfoy sneered.
"Think you can take us on alone?"
"He isn't alone" Harry turned round and saw Ron, Dean and Seamus standing there, wands out. Harry saw Neville move away from his grandmother and he too joined them with his wand out. His grandmother stood there watching, Harry couldn't see any emotion on her face.
"Oh look, boys, Potters little friends have come to save him" said Malfoy, his voice filled with sarcasm.
"You're the one that needs saving, Malfoy" Said Harry.
"How's your precious Godfather, Potter? Sneered Malfoy. By now a considerable crowed had gathered round watching.
"How's your precious father, Malfoy?" Harry sneered back.
"Free now." said Malfoy.
"Not for long, and everyone still knows that he's a scumbag and, you know what they say, like father like son."
"Watch it Potter" said Malfoy, hate in his voice
"No." said Harry shortly. Malfoy sent a curse at Harry. With reflexes born of quidditch training, Harry had a shield charm up a millisecond after Malfoy sent the curse at him. The curse bounced off the shield charm and hit Malfoy on the arm, a large gash appearing there. Malfoy let out a yell; Nott raised his wand and pointed it at Harry. He opened his mouth to send out a curse but Neville was faster.
"Petrificus Totalus" yelled Neville sending the body binding curse at Nott. Nott fell down, with a look of intense surprise on his face. Seamus, Ron and Dean sent hexes and curses at the other Slytherins. By then the Slytherins had recovered and sent spells of their own back but Harry had taught the DA well. Harry, Ron, Seamus, Dean and Neville all had shield charms up. Two minutes later it was over. Not one of the Gryffindors had been touched.
"Good bit of duelling that," Said a voice beside Harry. Moody was standing their looking at Harry and the others with pride, "Very impressive. You taught them well, Potter, I presume these are some of the DA?" Harry nodded.
"You all might want to consider careers as Aurors." Said Moody before moving off into the crowd. Neville's grandmother came up to get Neville, as they walked off Harry heard Neville's grandmother say,
"Maybe you do have some of your fathers talent."
Harry saw Mrs Weasley and the girls come out of Flourish and Blotts.
"Not a word to them." He said to Ron. Seamus and Dean had gone off to finish their shopping.
"Have you got everything?" asked Mrs Weasley. Harry and Ron nodded.
"Excellent" said Mrs Weasley. They headed to the Leaky Cauldron. Ron hung back, indicating Harry to do so at the same time.
"What was Moody doing here?" asked Ron.
"Probably making sure we're alright, remember I have to have some of the Order guarding me." Ron nodded, then grinned.
"That was seriously cool." Harry smiled.
"Yeah." They ran to catch up with the others. They all entered the Leaky Cauldron and sat down at an empty table in the corner. After they had ordered drinks Mrs Weasley turned to them.
"Right, has everyone got everything they need?" There were nods all round the table.
"Good," said Mrs Weasley, "We have to leave tomorrow, the ministry is sending a couple of cars. Get a good nights sleep tonight, we have to be up early tomorrow." They finished their drinks and left. They walked back to the fireplace that they had come through. Mrs Weasley gave each of them a bit of floo powder. Harry walked up to the fireplace after Ron and threw his floo powder in. Ten seconds later he was back in the dining room at Twelve Grimmauld Place.
"Go upstairs and pack, we need to be ready to leave immediately tomorrow." Said Mrs Weasley as soon as she came through the fireplace. They all climbed upstairs, Cho stopped Harry just as he was going into his room.
"What happened in Diagon Alley?" she asked.
"Nothing" said Harry innocently.
"There was a crowd around you that was just moving away as we came out, crowds don't happen for no reason." Harry grinned at her.
"I forgot that you were in Ravenclaw, I should have known better than to try and hide something from you." Cho laughed,
"Yes, you should have," her face became serious again, "now, what happened?"
"Malfoy and a bunch of other people who I didn't know but I think they're in Slytherin, picked a fight with me, Ron, Dean, Seamus and Neville came and helped, we ended up having a fight, we cursed all of them, but none of us were touched.
"Oh, are you sure you're ok?"
"Like I said, none of us were hit by their spells."
"That's good," said Cho. They went into their separate rooms.
"Where've you been?" asked Ron as soon as Harry got into his room.
"Talking to Cho." Harry bent over his trunk and started packing it. One hour later they were finished. They walked downstairs and went into the dining room. Mrs Weasley was just bringing out dinner. Lupin, Tonks and Moody were sitting at the table with the girls and Fred and George.
"Hello boys." Said Lupin.
"Hello, Moony." Said Harry.
"Hi, Remus" said Ron. Mrs Weasley came and sat down and started dishing out food.
"Moody told me about your fight in Diagon Alley!" Tonks said eagerly.
"Uh oh" said Ron quickly. Mrs Weasley put the serving spoon down slowly.
"What fight?"
"Malfoy and a bunch of other people saw Harry coming out of a shop and Malfoy tried to curse Harry but missed when Harry turned around to walk away." Ron explained to Mrs Weasley what happened. Fred and George looked impressed.
"Wicked!" said Fred.
"Wish we'd been there, always wanted to curse that git Malfoy into oblivion!" said George enviously. Harry couldn't help but give a small smile.
"BE QUIET YOU TWO!" Mrs Weasley bellowed at them, she turned on Harry and Ron.
"WHAT WERE YOU TWO THINKING? FIGHTING IN THE MIDDLE OF DIAGON ALLEY!"
"We didn't start it, Malfoy did! He tried to curse Harry first!" said Ron
"Mum, He's Lucius' son! Harry put his dad in Azkaban! If Harry had walked away then Malfoy would've cursed him from behind." Mrs Weasley didn't want to admit but Ginny was right.
"She's right you know, Molly, Harry had to fight back." Said Lupin.
"Ok, I admit it, still I wish that it hadn't happened at all."
"It will happen, it's going to happen all this year," said Harry, "Malfoy hates me even more now, every opportunity he gets he'll try and curse me."
"Lets just drop this subject and eat, they have to be up early." Said Lupin. When Mrs Weasley wasn't looking Tonks mouthed 'sorry' to Harry. Harry grinned and leaned to his left where Ginny was sitting to talk to her.
"Thanks, I think you've just saved mine and Ron's lives." Ginny laughed quietly.
"No problem." When dinner finished Mrs Weasley told them to go up to bed. They all walked upstairs. Harry went into his room with Ron.
"It was worth it, though" Ron said to Harry as they were getting changed.
"What was?"
"Cursing Malfoy, it was worth getting shouted at."
"Yeah." Ron gave a sudden laugh.
"Did you see Nott's face when Neville cursed him?" he asked Harry.
"Oh yeah, it was so funny." Harry crawled into bed. Ron looked thoughtful for a minute.
"Neville's getting quite good at fighting." He said.
"He is, isn't he." Ron grinned at Harry.
"Just goes to show, doesn't it?"
"Shows what?"
"What you did for us and were able to teach us in the DA" Harry grinned, unable to think of a response to that.
"It was great though, the fight in Diagon Alley, I really enjoyed it."
"Me too, but I get the feeling there will be plenty more."
"Hopefully, goodnight mate." Said Ron.
"Night." Harry turned over and went to sleep.
It felt like he had only been to sleep for a few minutes before Mrs Weasley was shaking him awake.
"Come on Harry, dear." After making sure that he was awake she moved over to Ron's bed to wake him up. Ron sat up yawning loudly.
"Morning" Harry said to him.
"Morning, sleep well?"
"It didn't feel like I had been to sleep."
"That's how I feel." They both struggled out of bed and got dressed. They went downstairs. Everyone else was sitting at the table looking very tired. They ate their breakfast in silence and half an hour later they were all ready to go.
The front door opened and in walked Tonks, Moody, Lupin, Kingsley and Mr Weasley.
"Right," barked Moody when everyone was standing by the front door, "what is going to is the ministry is sending four cars, Kingsley and Tonks will be in the first one. Molly, Ginny, Hermione and Miss Chang will be in the second one, Harry, Ron and Lupin will be in the third and Arthur and I will be in the fourth. Any questions? No? Good." Five minutes later the sound of cars stopping in front of the house could be heard.
"Let's go then." They walked out and into the cars they were to travel to Kings Cross in. Five minutes later they began to move. Harry put his head back against the seat and went straight to sleep. Lupin woke Harry up just as they were arriving at Kings Cross. The driver pulled up in front of the entrance and they all got out and unloaded their trunks. They got some trolleys and wheeled them into the station. In ones and twos they crossed through the barrier onto platform nine and three quarters. The time was ten to eleven.
"Bye, Mrs Weasley, thanks for everything." Harry said to her.
"Bye, dear, have a good year." As everyone was saying his or her goodbyes Lupin moved over to Harry.
"Bye, Harry, take care of yourself." Harry grinned.
"You too, Moony."
"Come on, Harry!" yelled Ron from the train.
"Keep in touch" said Lupin.
"Will do." Said Harry. He ran and jumped onto the train. He, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Cho went to the carriage at the very end. Harry sat down and Cho sat next to him, Ron, Hermione and Ginny sat opposite him. They spent most of the journey talking.
The doors of the compartment slid open. Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle were standing there.
"Potty, Two weasels, a mudblood and CHANG!" Malfoy said, surprised to see Cho there, "What are you doing here?"
"Sitting down, waiting for the train to get to Hogwarts." Cho said calmly. Malfoy's face resumed its normal malicious smirk.
"If you choose to hang around rubbish like that lot, well that's your decision, but it will rub off on you." Harry and Ron sprang to their feet.
"I advise you to get lost or we will curse you to hell and back like in Diagon Alley." Said Harry menacingly his wand pointing at Malfoy. Ginny and Cho stood up with their wands out as well. Seeing that he was outnumbered Malfoy had no option but to leave.
"C'mon" he muttered to Crabbe and Goyle resentfully. Half an hour later the Hogwarts express pulled into Hogsmeade station.
"Firs' years! Firs' years over here!" came the familiar voice of Hagrid.
"Hello Hagrid." said Harry.
"Alrigh', Harry?" said Hagrid.
"Not too bad, you?" replied Harry.
"Very well." Said Hagrid.
They headed to the carriages pulled by the thestrals. Harry, Ron, Ginny, Hermione and Cho all got into one.
The carriages pulled them up to the school entrance. They got down and walked into the entrance hall. It was packed with students; gradually they made their way into the Great Hall. They walked towards the Gryffindor table and came to the point where Cho had to turn left to get to the Ravenclaw table.
"See you, Harry," said Cho.
"See you," They moved towards each other and kissed. The whole of the Great Hall fell silent, all eyes were on Harry and Cho. When Harry and Cho broke apart they became aware of the silence. They both blushed furiously and moved towards their house tables. Harry saw Cho sit down with a group of her friends and they all leaned in, no doubt to ask what was going on.
Harry sat down next to Ron.
"Harry!" Ron said sounding shocked
"What is it?"
"Look who it is!" Harry looked up at the top table where Ron was pointing. Sitting there was none other than Moody.
"He didn't tell me he was working here!" said Ron
"Me neither." After the sorting, Harry didn't listen to the song; Dumbledore stood up to make a speech. When his speech had finished the tables filled with food. Everyone took some food and began eating.
Dean Thomas leant over the table to talk to Harry.
"What's going on with Cho?" all other conversations stopped as people waited to hear what Harry's answer was. Harry grinned
"What it looks like, she's my girlfriend." Ron smirked at Harry.
"Took them long enough though."
"Shut up you." Harry said. Seamus, Dean and Neville looked at Harry impressed and jealous at the same time.
"You're so lucky, this is Cho Chang we're talking about, one of the prettiest girls in the school!" Said Neville enviously.
"Yeah, well, we all knew they liked each other so it isn't that much of a surprise" said Ron. They finished their meal ten minutes later. Dumbledore stood up.
"Now that we have all eaten, I do believe that it is time for bed." The Great Hall filled with even more noise as people stood up and left. Harry, Ron and Hermione walked over to the Ravenclaw table.
"Hi" said Cho. Harry leaned in and planted a kiss on her cheek. Several people near them slowed down, virtually to a stop to listen to Harry and Cho. Ron glowered at them and they resentfully sped up. They all walked out of the Great Hall.
"Harry!" Hearing someone call his name Harry turned round. Dean, Neville and Seamus were running towards him.
"Harry, when's the next DA meeting?" said Seamus, Dean and Neville were nodding their heads vigorously.
"What?" asked Harry puzzled.
"When's the next DA meeting?" Seamus repeated.
"We don't need the DA anymore, we have a decent Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher." Said Harry.
"It was useful. We actually learned how to fight with you, not just cast the spells."
"Have you still got your coins?" Harry asked. Everyone took their coins out of their pockets.
"Ok, tomorrow night, same time, same place." Harry took his coin out of his pocket. He pressed his wand to it and changed the numbers. All around the school the DA members felt their pockets burn. They took out their coins and checked the numbers. They smiled, the DA was back.
A/N Hope that chapter wasn't too bad. Next chapter out in a couple of days hopefully. Please review to let me know what you think. Thanks to LogicalRaven for the reviews. Thanks to all my other reviewers. Keep reading, 'cos I'll keep writing!
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A Candle in the Dark.
Chapter 7: Diagon Alley and Return to Hogwarts.
Harry woke early, he saw Mrs Weasley standing over him, shaking him gently.
"Come on, Harry dear, time to get up." Harry sat up, Ron was already awake, he was sitting up looking at Harry, bleary eyed.
"Morning, mate."
"Morning" Harry said stifling a yawn. Harry looked at his watch. It read seven o'clock. Ron yawned loudly. Forcing himself to get up, Harry stumbled around getting some clothes on. He turned round to ask Ron why he wasn't getting up he saw that Ron had lay back down, turned over and had gone to sleep again. Harry laughed. He went over to Ron and poked him hard in the side,
"Oy, get up you lazy git!" When Ron didn't respond, Harry went to the other end of his bed and took hold of Ron's covers and with a ferocious tug pulled them off. Ron sat up quickly.
"What do you think you're doing?" he said angrily. Harry grinned at Ron's angry face,
"Trying to get you to get up!" Ron just grumbled, but got up anyway. After about ten minutes they were both ready. They went downstairs where there was the delicious smell of bacon frying. Harry and Ron sat down at the table and waited for the girls to come downstairs. Five minutes later the three girls arrived downstairs, all three of them blurry eyed and yawning widely.
"Morning beautiful" Harry said to Cho, standing up to give her to give her a kiss.
"Morning" she said. She sat down next to him and took a piece of toast off of his plate. Mrs Weasley came in carrying a huge platter piled high with sausage and bacon.
"We have to leave in about half an hour."
"How are we getting there?" Ron asked her.
"By floo." She disappeared back into the kitchen, they continued eating in silence
"This is my last year at Hogwarts" Cho said sadly. Harry reached over and gave her a quick hug.
"Just make it the best then."
"I can't, the best was last year when I kissed you for the first time." Harry kissed her passionately.
"What have we told you about the public displays?" said George seriously as he and Fred entered the room. Harry broke the kiss and just looked at him. Then he went back to kissing her even more passionately. Ron snorted at the way Harry had ignored George. Eventually, Harry and Cho broke apart.
"Why are you up this early?" asked Ginny
"We're coming as well," said Fred
"Why are you coming? You're not at Hogwarts anymore" asked Hermione
"We're going back to run the joke shop." Said George
"Why don't you just apparate?" asked Ginny
"We had to get up this early anyway, because we have to be there early to open up and everything, so we might as well just come with you." Explained George. Ten minutes later everyone was ready to go to Diagon Alley. They stood in front of the fireplace. Mrs Weasley sent them in one by one. When Mrs Weasley held the pot of floo powder out to him, Harry took a bit and threw it into the fire yelling,
"Diagon Alley" He felt himself spinning, he landed in a fireplace in one of the shops in Diagon Alley. He left the shop and saw, Ron, Hermione, Cho and Ginny already standing there.
"Where are Fred and George?" asked Harry, the twins had gone after Ron and Hermione.
"They've already gone to their shop," said Ron. Just then Mrs Weasley arrived.
"Right, what do people need to get?" she asked.
"I need a new set of robes." Said Harry.
"Just what's on my list." Said Cho. Hermione and Ginny nodded in agreement.
"I need to stock up on potions ingredients," said Ron
"Oh yeah, I need to do that as well." Said Harry.
"Harry, Ron, you go off and get the ingredients you need, give me your booklists, I'll go get them with the girls." Harry and Ron nodded, Mrs Weasley gave Ron some money, and they walked off. They reached the Apothecary. Ron went round gathering the things he needed. Harry tried to remember what he needed. Fellindas root, powdered hawksbay leaves and some more porcupine quills as well as some more of the basic ingredients. He went and paid and waited for Ron.
Ron walked up to him and looked at the shelves.
"Won't be a minute, mate, do you know where the diced basfeld stems are?"
"Yeah, down there, near the porcupine quills."
"Cheers, mate." Ron got the basfeld stems and went and paid.
"C'mon" said Harry as Ron finished paying. They walked out and headed to Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions.
"Harry!" Ron's voice broke through his thoughts.
"You haven't been listening to a word I've been saying, have you?" Ron said indignantly.
"Sorry" Harry mumbled, he had been thinking about Cho, and when they had kissed under the mistletoe. Ron looked at him curiously.
"You really love her don't you?"
"How did you know I was thinking about her?"
"You blushed when I interrupted your thoughts" Ron said simply.
"With all my heart" said Harry answering Ron's question.
"I know." They walked on in silence. When they reached Madam Malkin's Harry went in while Ron went to look at Quality Quidditch Supplies.
"Hogwarts robes, dear?" asked Madam Malkin.
"Please" replied Harry. He waited while she measured him. Ten minutes later he was ready to go. He paid and walked out of the shop.
"Potter!" spat a voice behind him. Harry turned round calmly and saw Draco Malfoy standing there with Crabbe, Goyle, Theodore Nott and a group of people Harry didn't know, but he guessed they were Slytherins.
"Oh, it's you," said Harry before turning his back on them. Harry felt something brush past him.
"Don't you dare turn your back on me, Potter!" Malfoy had his wand out and had it pointed at Harry. Harry's wand rose as well. Malfoy sneered.
"Think you can take us on alone?"
"He isn't alone" Harry turned round and saw Ron, Dean and Seamus standing there, wands out. Harry saw Neville move away from his grandmother and he too joined them with his wand out. His grandmother stood there watching, Harry couldn't see any emotion on her face.
"Oh look, boys, Potters little friends have come to save him" said Malfoy, his voice filled with sarcasm.
"You're the one that needs saving, Malfoy" Said Harry.
"How's your precious Godfather, Potter? Sneered Malfoy. By now a considerable crowed had gathered round watching.
"How's your precious father, Malfoy?" Harry sneered back.
"Free now." said Malfoy.
"Not for long, and everyone still knows that he's a scumbag and, you know what they say, like father like son."
"Watch it Potter" said Malfoy, hate in his voice
"No." said Harry shortly. Malfoy sent a curse at Harry. With reflexes born of quidditch training, Harry had a shield charm up a millisecond after Malfoy sent the curse at him. The curse bounced off the shield charm and hit Malfoy on the arm, a large gash appearing there. Malfoy let out a yell; Nott raised his wand and pointed it at Harry. He opened his mouth to send out a curse but Neville was faster.
"Petrificus Totalus" yelled Neville sending the body binding curse at Nott. Nott fell down, with a look of intense surprise on his face. Seamus, Ron and Dean sent hexes and curses at the other Slytherins. By then the Slytherins had recovered and sent spells of their own back but Harry had taught the DA well. Harry, Ron, Seamus, Dean and Neville all had shield charms up. Two minutes later it was over. Not one of the Gryffindors had been touched.
"Good bit of duelling that," Said a voice beside Harry. Moody was standing their looking at Harry and the others with pride, "Very impressive. You taught them well, Potter, I presume these are some of the DA?" Harry nodded.
"You all might want to consider careers as Aurors." Said Moody before moving off into the crowd. Neville's grandmother came up to get Neville, as they walked off Harry heard Neville's grandmother say,
"Maybe you do have some of your fathers talent."
Harry saw Mrs Weasley and the girls come out of Flourish and Blotts.
"Not a word to them." He said to Ron. Seamus and Dean had gone off to finish their shopping.
"Have you got everything?" asked Mrs Weasley. Harry and Ron nodded.
"Excellent" said Mrs Weasley. They headed to the Leaky Cauldron. Ron hung back, indicating Harry to do so at the same time.
"What was Moody doing here?" asked Ron.
"Probably making sure we're alright, remember I have to have some of the Order guarding me." Ron nodded, then grinned.
"That was seriously cool." Harry smiled.
"Yeah." They ran to catch up with the others. They all entered the Leaky Cauldron and sat down at an empty table in the corner. After they had ordered drinks Mrs Weasley turned to them.
"Right, has everyone got everything they need?" There were nods all round the table.
"Good," said Mrs Weasley, "We have to leave tomorrow, the ministry is sending a couple of cars. Get a good nights sleep tonight, we have to be up early tomorrow." They finished their drinks and left. They walked back to the fireplace that they had come through. Mrs Weasley gave each of them a bit of floo powder. Harry walked up to the fireplace after Ron and threw his floo powder in. Ten seconds later he was back in the dining room at Twelve Grimmauld Place.
"Go upstairs and pack, we need to be ready to leave immediately tomorrow." Said Mrs Weasley as soon as she came through the fireplace. They all climbed upstairs, Cho stopped Harry just as he was going into his room.
"What happened in Diagon Alley?" she asked.
"Nothing" said Harry innocently.
"There was a crowd around you that was just moving away as we came out, crowds don't happen for no reason." Harry grinned at her.
"I forgot that you were in Ravenclaw, I should have known better than to try and hide something from you." Cho laughed,
"Yes, you should have," her face became serious again, "now, what happened?"
"Malfoy and a bunch of other people who I didn't know but I think they're in Slytherin, picked a fight with me, Ron, Dean, Seamus and Neville came and helped, we ended up having a fight, we cursed all of them, but none of us were touched.
"Oh, are you sure you're ok?"
"Like I said, none of us were hit by their spells."
"That's good," said Cho. They went into their separate rooms.
"Where've you been?" asked Ron as soon as Harry got into his room.
"Talking to Cho." Harry bent over his trunk and started packing it. One hour later they were finished. They walked downstairs and went into the dining room. Mrs Weasley was just bringing out dinner. Lupin, Tonks and Moody were sitting at the table with the girls and Fred and George.
"Hello boys." Said Lupin.
"Hello, Moony." Said Harry.
"Hi, Remus" said Ron. Mrs Weasley came and sat down and started dishing out food.
"Moody told me about your fight in Diagon Alley!" Tonks said eagerly.
"Uh oh" said Ron quickly. Mrs Weasley put the serving spoon down slowly.
"What fight?"
"Malfoy and a bunch of other people saw Harry coming out of a shop and Malfoy tried to curse Harry but missed when Harry turned around to walk away." Ron explained to Mrs Weasley what happened. Fred and George looked impressed.
"Wicked!" said Fred.
"Wish we'd been there, always wanted to curse that git Malfoy into oblivion!" said George enviously. Harry couldn't help but give a small smile.
"BE QUIET YOU TWO!" Mrs Weasley bellowed at them, she turned on Harry and Ron.
"WHAT WERE YOU TWO THINKING? FIGHTING IN THE MIDDLE OF DIAGON ALLEY!"
"We didn't start it, Malfoy did! He tried to curse Harry first!" said Ron
"Mum, He's Lucius' son! Harry put his dad in Azkaban! If Harry had walked away then Malfoy would've cursed him from behind." Mrs Weasley didn't want to admit but Ginny was right.
"She's right you know, Molly, Harry had to fight back." Said Lupin.
"Ok, I admit it, still I wish that it hadn't happened at all."
"It will happen, it's going to happen all this year," said Harry, "Malfoy hates me even more now, every opportunity he gets he'll try and curse me."
"Lets just drop this subject and eat, they have to be up early." Said Lupin. When Mrs Weasley wasn't looking Tonks mouthed 'sorry' to Harry. Harry grinned and leaned to his left where Ginny was sitting to talk to her.
"Thanks, I think you've just saved mine and Ron's lives." Ginny laughed quietly.
"No problem." When dinner finished Mrs Weasley told them to go up to bed. They all walked upstairs. Harry went into his room with Ron.
"It was worth it, though" Ron said to Harry as they were getting changed.
"What was?"
"Cursing Malfoy, it was worth getting shouted at."
"Yeah." Ron gave a sudden laugh.
"Did you see Nott's face when Neville cursed him?" he asked Harry.
"Oh yeah, it was so funny." Harry crawled into bed. Ron looked thoughtful for a minute.
"Neville's getting quite good at fighting." He said.
"He is, isn't he." Ron grinned at Harry.
"Just goes to show, doesn't it?"
"Shows what?"
"What you did for us and were able to teach us in the DA" Harry grinned, unable to think of a response to that.
"It was great though, the fight in Diagon Alley, I really enjoyed it."
"Me too, but I get the feeling there will be plenty more."
"Hopefully, goodnight mate." Said Ron.
"Night." Harry turned over and went to sleep.
It felt like he had only been to sleep for a few minutes before Mrs Weasley was shaking him awake.
"Come on Harry, dear." After making sure that he was awake she moved over to Ron's bed to wake him up. Ron sat up yawning loudly.
"Morning" Harry said to him.
"Morning, sleep well?"
"It didn't feel like I had been to sleep."
"That's how I feel." They both struggled out of bed and got dressed. They went downstairs. Everyone else was sitting at the table looking very tired. They ate their breakfast in silence and half an hour later they were all ready to go.
The front door opened and in walked Tonks, Moody, Lupin, Kingsley and Mr Weasley.
"Right," barked Moody when everyone was standing by the front door, "what is going to is the ministry is sending four cars, Kingsley and Tonks will be in the first one. Molly, Ginny, Hermione and Miss Chang will be in the second one, Harry, Ron and Lupin will be in the third and Arthur and I will be in the fourth. Any questions? No? Good." Five minutes later the sound of cars stopping in front of the house could be heard.
"Let's go then." They walked out and into the cars they were to travel to Kings Cross in. Five minutes later they began to move. Harry put his head back against the seat and went straight to sleep. Lupin woke Harry up just as they were arriving at Kings Cross. The driver pulled up in front of the entrance and they all got out and unloaded their trunks. They got some trolleys and wheeled them into the station. In ones and twos they crossed through the barrier onto platform nine and three quarters. The time was ten to eleven.
"Bye, Mrs Weasley, thanks for everything." Harry said to her.
"Bye, dear, have a good year." As everyone was saying his or her goodbyes Lupin moved over to Harry.
"Bye, Harry, take care of yourself." Harry grinned.
"You too, Moony."
"Come on, Harry!" yelled Ron from the train.
"Keep in touch" said Lupin.
"Will do." Said Harry. He ran and jumped onto the train. He, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Cho went to the carriage at the very end. Harry sat down and Cho sat next to him, Ron, Hermione and Ginny sat opposite him. They spent most of the journey talking.
The doors of the compartment slid open. Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle were standing there.
"Potty, Two weasels, a mudblood and CHANG!" Malfoy said, surprised to see Cho there, "What are you doing here?"
"Sitting down, waiting for the train to get to Hogwarts." Cho said calmly. Malfoy's face resumed its normal malicious smirk.
"If you choose to hang around rubbish like that lot, well that's your decision, but it will rub off on you." Harry and Ron sprang to their feet.
"I advise you to get lost or we will curse you to hell and back like in Diagon Alley." Said Harry menacingly his wand pointing at Malfoy. Ginny and Cho stood up with their wands out as well. Seeing that he was outnumbered Malfoy had no option but to leave.
"C'mon" he muttered to Crabbe and Goyle resentfully. Half an hour later the Hogwarts express pulled into Hogsmeade station.
"Firs' years! Firs' years over here!" came the familiar voice of Hagrid.
"Hello Hagrid." said Harry.
"Alrigh', Harry?" said Hagrid.
"Not too bad, you?" replied Harry.
"Very well." Said Hagrid.
They headed to the carriages pulled by the thestrals. Harry, Ron, Ginny, Hermione and Cho all got into one.
The carriages pulled them up to the school entrance. They got down and walked into the entrance hall. It was packed with students; gradually they made their way into the Great Hall. They walked towards the Gryffindor table and came to the point where Cho had to turn left to get to the Ravenclaw table.
"See you, Harry," said Cho.
"See you," They moved towards each other and kissed. The whole of the Great Hall fell silent, all eyes were on Harry and Cho. When Harry and Cho broke apart they became aware of the silence. They both blushed furiously and moved towards their house tables. Harry saw Cho sit down with a group of her friends and they all leaned in, no doubt to ask what was going on.
Harry sat down next to Ron.
"Harry!" Ron said sounding shocked
"What is it?"
"Look who it is!" Harry looked up at the top table where Ron was pointing. Sitting there was none other than Moody.
"He didn't tell me he was working here!" said Ron
"Me neither." After the sorting, Harry didn't listen to the song; Dumbledore stood up to make a speech. When his speech had finished the tables filled with food. Everyone took some food and began eating.
Dean Thomas leant over the table to talk to Harry.
"What's going on with Cho?" all other conversations stopped as people waited to hear what Harry's answer was. Harry grinned
"What it looks like, she's my girlfriend." Ron smirked at Harry.
"Took them long enough though."
"Shut up you." Harry said. Seamus, Dean and Neville looked at Harry impressed and jealous at the same time.
"You're so lucky, this is Cho Chang we're talking about, one of the prettiest girls in the school!" Said Neville enviously.
"Yeah, well, we all knew they liked each other so it isn't that much of a surprise" said Ron. They finished their meal ten minutes later. Dumbledore stood up.
"Now that we have all eaten, I do believe that it is time for bed." The Great Hall filled with even more noise as people stood up and left. Harry, Ron and Hermione walked over to the Ravenclaw table.
"Hi" said Cho. Harry leaned in and planted a kiss on her cheek. Several people near them slowed down, virtually to a stop to listen to Harry and Cho. Ron glowered at them and they resentfully sped up. They all walked out of the Great Hall.
"Harry!" Hearing someone call his name Harry turned round. Dean, Neville and Seamus were running towards him.
"Harry, when's the next DA meeting?" said Seamus, Dean and Neville were nodding their heads vigorously.
"What?" asked Harry puzzled.
"When's the next DA meeting?" Seamus repeated.
"We don't need the DA anymore, we have a decent Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher." Said Harry.
"It was useful. We actually learned how to fight with you, not just cast the spells."
"Have you still got your coins?" Harry asked. Everyone took their coins out of their pockets.
"Ok, tomorrow night, same time, same place." Harry took his coin out of his pocket. He pressed his wand to it and changed the numbers. All around the school the DA members felt their pockets burn. They took out their coins and checked the numbers. They smiled, the DA was back.
A/N Hope that chapter wasn't too bad. Next chapter out in a couple of days hopefully. Please review to let me know what you think. Thanks to LogicalRaven for the reviews. Thanks to all my other reviewers. Keep reading, 'cos I'll keep writing!
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