First Battle

Strangely after Sirius became part of the staff, the six had gotten more work than the other students. Many of the times, the teachers gave them a look of pity, even Snape. And Professor Trelawney was now not just predicting death to Harry, but to Ron, Seamus, Parvati, and Lavender every minute she had time to say and Trelawney said it so much that even Lavender and Parvati were getting annoyed but Divination.

DADA was no different, they were all learning about curses that were not even known to Hermione which very much displeased her. Then, if the situation could not have gotten worse, they had OWLs in less than a month, and if you were with Hermione during this, it would be as if it were to happen tomorrow.

Days past, the only thing keeping the six alive is that knowing the one they love loved back. For them, they could ask for nothing more.

"Harry, come on, we have to practice our Apparition and it is going to be in the OWLs!" Hermione almost shrieked. She poked him in his tummy with her wand, knowing his ticklish spots

Harry just groaned and continued with his sleep with a gigantic grin on his face. Hermione smiled at his cute and peaceful face, and then Harry quickly pulled Hermione with him to the sofa and they fell asleep through the good feeling within them.

Up in the boys' dorm, Ron and Parvati were sitting together talking about their future life together. "But I want three children!" Parvati pouted knowing Ron would weaken. "It would extend the Weasly family farther and I know your mother would like that." She said with a grin. Ron always wanted to impress his mum in some way and this gave more reasoning to Parvati's side.

"But how would we take care of them, I would most likely be on the job most of the time, and I do not want our children to hate their father!" Ron repeated what he said before.

"Ron, you know I want this because I. Love. You." She said stopping at each syllable Ron smiled they kissed. "Fine, but you can only use that line twice a year." Ron said with a big smile which melted Parvati's heart.

Lavender and Seamus had been working extra hard on the crystal balls. They spent hours trying to find out the result of the battle, but all they saw were green light and the six dodging curses that came from everywhere. It seemed to be a room filled with mirrors and the Avada Kedavra curses were bouncing of them. No matter how hard they tried, they could not see the future for them after the battle. This worried both of them. Finally, they grew tired of watching the crystal ball and gave a staring contest which satisfied each other and they began to melt each other and kissed.

BOOM! People were screaming outside of Hogwarts grounds. The only village near Hogwarts was Hogsmeade. The explosion shook up Harry and the gang. "Students please be calm, would the students Harry Potter, Ron Weasly, Seamus Finnigan, Hermione Granger, Lavender Brown, and Parvati Patil please come to my office." Professor Dumbledore's voice came from nowhere and in fact it probably was heard in their heads. Harry led them to Dumbledore's office since he was the only one who has been there.

"Please, sit down," Dumbledore gestured as six chairs appeared out of nowhere. "I am pretty sure you all heard the explosion from Hogsmeade." They nodded. "Well, rumors spread quite quickly, it seems that Voldemort has stricken there, there is about Twenty-five dark marks hanging over Hogsmeade. I do believe Sirius has told you about the prophecy, we are not sure if you are strong enough yet, but first, we need to extract blood from Mr. Potter here."

"What!" Harry half screamed, he had always been terrified of needles and since the Dursleys hardly brought him to the doctor, he never had the chance to fight his fear. Hermione whispered some soothing words in his ear and clamed him a little. "H-how mu-much blood?" he managed to choke out.

"Not much thanks to magic, we will take out a little so we can give the protection that is in you and Voldemort, if we do not do this, all the spells sent from the other five shall have no effect, also with the protection on all of you, the death eaters shall be quite insignificant." Dumbledore beamed. Harry was not keen to do this, but nodded along with it.

They have been given permission from the Ministry to use magic outside of the school even through the underage law as long as they stop the murders in Hogsmeade. They decided to take the underground passage from the one- eyed witch statue and surprise them from there on.

When they got to the Huneydukes cellar, it was jammed pack with people. Since the population of the cellar was over fifty, they were not noticed. They saw at least five death eaters there and Seamus decided to trust Dumbledore instead of his fear and stood up. Four hexes shot at him and Lavender screamed. Seamus closed his eyes and nothing happened. The last death eater who didn't shoot a hex stood there astounded. They hexes that shot from the others were bounced back to the creators. The last death eater screamed out of sight and the people around them cheered.

Lavender continued crying, but now for joy. When a couple of girls kissed Seamus on the cheek as a thank you, he tears evaporated in her anger and jealousy. "Alright, people, please, we have a mission in hand, would you kindly leave Mr. Finnigan alone." Lavender yelled. A couple of girls behind her sighed Seamus's last name 'Finnigan". Within minutes, the six left to the ground floor of Huneydukes where they were roughly greeted by twenty death eaters. All of the death eaters within the area shouted the killing curse which were they were bounced off of the six. The remaining death eaters and the reinforcements came in and learned from the earlier death eater's mistakes. They decided to grab and pin the six till their Dark Lord came.

Luckily, the death eaters did not have weapons the Harry and gang had daggers. They slashed at every death eater that came close, within half an hour, the attacking death eaters were either dead, wounded, or ran away. After the battle, the gang fell down unconsciously without a word.

"Harry?" Dumbledore was staring at him, his eyes gave a twinkle. Harry finally woken and the others followed in suit. Their stomachs groaned in starvation, and they all had the same question in mind.

"Did we miss dinner?" Ron asked, okay maybe not ALL of them. They laughed and Parvati gave him a playful slap on his arm.

"No Mr. Weasly, it is going to start in a few minutes or so, today we are having a feast to our small battle." They listened uneasily to the last words. "Yes, this is a small battle compared to the ones you shall face in the future, and now I am sure you all have the same question on your mind."

"Yea, what are we going to have for dinner?" Ron interrupted. They laughed again, Ron was really helpful when people are down, they thought.

"See for yourself later Mr. Weasly, for now, I am sure the rest are wondering how you got here." Ron blushed was quickly cooled down with Parvati's kiss. "You just fell down exhausted, nothing more so there is no curse upon you. Now if you excuse me, the feast shall begin soon." He left without another word and left Madam Pomfrey to tend the students. In no time, the group left the beds and went to the great hall.

The feast was great, the special was roast turkey. Everybody had a good share. Soon small clinks were heard and everybody faced Dumbledore who used the old spoon and glass technique. "Ah, yes, congratulations and thank you to Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Lavender Brown, Parvati Patil, Ron Weasly, and Seamus Finnigan. For their bravery, strength and integrity I award Gryffindor 100 points each. The Gryffindors cheered, as the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs clapped enthusiastically and the Slytherins sneered in anger.

Once Dumbledore's speech was over, the tables filled with the famous muggle dessert, New York Cheesecake (A/n: Sooooo good, I highly recommend to try it). The ending ended with a bang of Filibuster Fireworks which Fred and George provided. Once the conversations were over, the students left for their dorms groggily for a good nights sleep. "Good night" the group said in unison and went to hit the sack. (A/n: American way of saying going to bed)

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The OWLs started the next week, to Hermione's surprise (A/n: no duh) it was fairly easy. She went rite past the tests as if she was skimming through it. At the end of the day, Hermione and Harry was the only Fifth year who was not groaning in headaches since Harry studied with her.

The Gryffindor common room was once again filled with conversations and kisses. All the one seated sofas were taken by couples who were dating. The couples who were not sitting at sofas were either in the library or outside playing. And since Harry and Hermione were going out, they were one of the few couples in the library. "Harry, you can hang around with your other friends if you want, I know this is boring you." It pained Hermione to say it but she did not want Harry to die of boredom. "It's ok Hermione, I enjoy every minute with you." She smiled and kissed him. A couple of second year girls giggled at the sight.

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Sorry for the long wait, I couldn't think of what to write, If you think I have the story planned out you are dead wrong, I make it up as I go. Well, I just hope you review *_*. Bye for now, oh BTW if you were wondering, The reasons they did not get scars like the time Voldemort used the Avada Kedavra on Harry, is that the death eaters are weaker than Voldemort so their curses have less effect.