Fighting Someone Else's War

Note: This chapter is based on… well her point of view of things. Now just to make sure you're not mixed up here's what happened so far: Harry's in his sixth year, which makes her a year younger OK? You'll also notice that in the story I jumped a few days ahead. It's just too exciting, can't wait to write the end. Good, now on to the story.

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Chapter Four - Point of View

She watched them train almost daily. Every morning at 5 a.m. the whole group of volunteering Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws would do there exercise and training until lunch then continue after that until 9 o'clock at night. All this was under the watchful eye of Ryan Andrews, the universe explorer. Honestly, she didn't believe any of the trash that Dumbledore had told them at the Great Hall evenings before. She was a fifth-year Ravenclaw and knew better then that.

Kelly O'Toole had blonde, golden hair that travelled to her waist and crystal blue eyes. She was the most beautiful in her class, maybe in her whole year but that didn't reflect her personality. She was a prefect and that meant she held great responsibilities that was easily handled by her. However, when someone really ticked her off the last thing they would see was the end point of her wand… like a Venus fly trap luring in its prey… Well almost, she wasn't that bad. She was a kind hearted person when you really got to know her and it was surprising to the whole Ravenclaw fifth-years that the famous Harry Potter didn't like her… she didn't care.

Kelly knew, unlike the other Ravenclaw girls, never to meddle in with someone else's business. She learned to give them their space and in return they will do the same. However her space was violated when she decided to take her usual bath in the Girl's Prefect's Bathroom. She was about to enter the pool when the door slammed open and entered a soldier. At first he didn't realise that she was there because he was too busy checking his own equipment only until he was done did he see her. The took locked eyes for a moment before he realise where he was and left hastily.

But all that was a few days ago. Now Ryan was like a normal person you would see every day. It occurred to her that Ryan was dressed in desert camouflage and she talked to him, briefly, on changing his uniform. He said: 'Look, I would if I could but I don't have green camouflage on hand.' With that Kelly cast a spell and changed his desert uniform to green. It would be during their brief talking did a sudden feeling hit her in the stomach. She began to… well she didn't want to say love, no, more like… wanting to be friends or… Well they were both the same, almost, they were both muggles.

She kept watching the soldier do his duties. She watched him treat everyone harshly turning them into someone new. Kelly watched shocked as he tripped a fifth-year Gryffindor by the name of Ginny Weasley telling her to get up faster. He did that ten more times until she could get up before he could knock her down. Ryan was impressed but not quite enough. He then told the whole group to get down and try to get up without using their hands to help. It took them over five seconds, three seconds too much. Ryan said: 'When someone's shooting at you, whether it's a spell or some crap, you have to get up quick. You have one hand on your wand and the other for guard so that leaves you using your legs only. I want you to get up without the aid of your hands in less than two seconds!'

The Ravenclaw watched him take guard duty when everyone went inside. He was so different. When everyone ate he stayed outside to take guard. He was told by the Headmaster that Death Eater activities had been increasing since the Tri-Wizard Tournament that had taken place two years ago and it would be easy to enter Hogwarts since Hagrid had taken guard on the east side. Aside from guard duty he would clean his weapon every day as though it was something special to him. He would disassemble it and clean and then disassemble and assemble with his eyes closed. Another thing that separated his lifestyle with everyone was that he trained day and night striving to become better than everyone else. They say Harry Potter was the one who was going to defeat Voldemort but now she wasn't so sure. For one thing Kelly, as a muggle, knew for a fact that his weapon was more lethal than a wand and that the speed of a bullet was faster then that of the Killing Curse.

Kelly watched him that afternoon as he entered the Great Hall. His flak vest covered his new green camouflage fatigues and helmet and she noticed that he seemed to look her way most of time… or was that her imagination? Whatever it was he never ate when everyone else did and he wasn't much of a public speaker. Just the other day he was talking to everyone in the Great Hall and everyone had to cram up front to hear what he had to say because he was… well shy maybe? That she was going to find out when he left the Great Hall.

Just as usual she saw him enter to make his normal reports on Death Eater activities to Dumbledore. 'It's still cold.' She wished that he didn't talk in the military sense of way, in code and all. After three minutes he left and Kelly followed him. She followed him until they were outside in front of the school.

'What's up soldier boy?' she asked.

'Huh?' he said realising that he wasn't alone. 'Nothing going on. Just the same as usual… quiet and all. I guess they see how I'm training this new batch of future soldiers and are too scared to come here huh? Anyway why didn't you volunteer for the new army? Not the soldier type? No matter, you could do well with the intel division I'm setting up. Hermione's with them.'

'I'll think about it,' she said. Obviously Hermione would be leading their intelligence division, she probably gave Ryan the idea. Probably can't handle the training, Kelly thought. It wasn't that she hated Hermione but sometimes the older girl would be damn annoying, but other than that Hermione seemed like a nice person.

'Say Ryan, how 'bout we go on a little mission?' she asked not really thinking.

'What?' he asked surprised. 'Listen O'Toole, I think you should rethink what you just said and stay behind. Because if anyone's going on a mission it's me and only me!'

She didn't care if Ryan called her by her last name. 'C'mon! Just check the forest that's all. It's not like a whole pack of Death Eaters are in there.' There was an awkward silence but in the end they both burst out laughing. Death Eaters in the Forbidden Forest? Hagrid would have sent Fang chasing them all away by now. 'Please?'

She watched as he thought about it. Kelly knew that he would give up and say 'yes', the answer was already made up and the only reason that was holding him back was to stall time. In the end he gave in as she planned and Ryan said, 'Fine let's go but remember this: stay close and if anything happens get out of the forest.'

Kelly went back to her dorm to grab equipment of her own. She brought a backpack filled with maps, potions and other stuff and her weapon: the wand. Ryan asked her to double check just to make sure although he said that to burn off more time but in the end: 'Alright let's go but don't forget.'

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Author's Note: OK so Kelly's beginning to like Ryan and whole new plot develops and blah, blah, blah… Well all that can happen later because the next chapter, I swear, will be the best of them all so far… I think. I'd also like to thank the people that reviewed (what a little group, review please!):

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