With a lot of persuasion from Hermione Ron had finally thought that maybe Slytherins in D.A wouldn't be too bad although he was still not exactly overjoyed at the prospect but as he pointed out at least it wasn't Malfoy.
"Although it may have been fun do you think I could of turned Malfoy into a ferret again?" Hermione rolled her eyes in reply but Ron was grinning as he always did when he remembered the image.
The three of them were in the Gryfindor common room by the fire with Ron and Hermione curled up on the sofa and Harry in the opposite armchair. 'So we agreed we vote on it?" Harry asked.
Hermione yawned sleepily "suppose but there's really not much point, cause unless we can come up with another reason other than 'They're Slytherins and we don't like them' Dumbledore will insist they're allowed to join inter house relations and all that."
Harry nodded "Yeah I already thought of that, when me and Luna were talking about it."
Hermione scowled "you talked to her before you talked to us?" Ron looked uncomfortable and his grip on Hermione tightened ever so slightly as if he expected to have to restrain her.
But Harry just laughed "Yeah cause it was Luna who told me remember this afternoon's word in private well that's why, she rightly guessed that it wouldn't be liked that much."
Hermione blushed and mumbled something incoherent and she felt Ron chuckle behind her his chest rising and falling behind her back and her embarrassment increased, "Sorry".
"Well I'll see you too tomorrow" Harry leaned forward and kissed Hermione on the cheek and patted Ron on the shoulder.
"Night mate" Ron replied and Hermione said "Good night Harry and sorry again, it's just…" Her sentence was left unanswered. Harry nodded and smiled 'I know, I know' he stifled a yawn and turned to climb the stairs.
"Well I don't know" Ron said clearly perplexed.
" I sometimes think we leave him out Ron, and he needs us now I don't want him to go to others with information that affects him, we're his best friends, he can always rely on us I wanted him to know that." She explained.
Ron was always startled at how Harry understood them both so much better than the other did. Ron grinned mischievously "you mean something like this…" He kissed her softly "could come between the three of us" He kissed her again. She grinned.
"Something like that" She stood up. "Time for bed"
Ron smirked "Oh really?"
She hit him playfully and he caught her arms and pulled her close to him. She smiled "really and your room…" She leant in and with the lapse in concentration pulled away "is over there."
She smiled and went to walk up to the head girl's room the same way Harry had walked "Night Ron" she called.
"Yeah night darling" he muttered grumpily and turned to walk to the boys dormitory.
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"Quiet please" Harry shouted over the crowd of people. "Sonorous" He pointed to his throat "Quiet please!" His voice boomed and his voice returned to normal as he produced the counter affect. "Thank you"
"Right you will all have one vote, I would like to remind you that no-one has come up with a reason other than the fact we dislike Slytherins remember Dumbledore's words 'We are as strong as we are united as weak as we are divided.' I want you all to vote in favour of allowing the Slytherins to become part of the D.A, the more of us there are the more likely it is that Hogwarts will be a safer place in the future."
Everyone turned and began to fill through the room and cast their vote a scoreboard on the opposite wall kept the tally of the results. It was close too close. With the thirty members of D.A 12 had voted against and 12 had voted for so far. But as all the votes were collected and as he placed his last vote it was decided 14 votes to 16 to let the Slytherins to join.
"Okay well that's the results. There will be four new members from Slytherin two from both year six and the fifth. They are to be treated like any other member. We are here to protect others and ourselves from Voldemort that has not changed. Well the meeting is now over." The room emptied steadily apart from the members that Harry trusted immensely and they went to meet the Slytherins.
Neville, Ginny, Luna, Ron, Hermione and himself walked towards the great hall where they had arranged to meet them. As they turned they came face to face with three boys and one girl. The girl had brown hair and blue eyes. Harry had never seen her before. She looked at Hermione with an appraising look and then turned her attention to the others. She turned her head back and met Harry. "Potter as you are here I presume we are allowed to join. "
Ron raised his eyebrows and looked at Neville who was scowling. Harry just nodded. "Watch it Longbottom if the wind changes your face will stay like that." She put her head to one side "However it may be an improvement."
Neville's scowl deepened and Hermione and Ginny looked extremely annoyed. Hermione stepped forward "you are in no position to question anyone's looks."
"I disagree and you are?" She asked. She had seemed to have elected herself lead speaker the other three boys just looked bored as if they had expected this.
"Hermione Granger…" She seemed both angry and annoyed that this girl didn't know of her brains or the fact she was head girl "and you are?"
"Persephone …" She replied.
"Persephone what?"
"That's none of your business." Harry quickly got in between the two. "I'm Harry." He extended his hand.
"Oh shut up Persephone you might like the sound of your own voice but we don't" one of the boys suddenly interjected.
"I'm Paris" he gestured to Persephone "Her twin brother".
"Persephone and Paris?" Ginny asked amused "Cute".
Paris just smiled at her, which made Ginny uneasy "Ahh you're a Weasley are you not?"
Ron turned red with anger. Paris just looked at him coolly "no need to get so upset it was just a simple question. "
Ginny looked straight back at him "Yes that's right but people call me Ginny well my friends anyway."
Paris extended his hand "Nice to meet you Ginny."
Ginny looked at Harry who had long since withdrawn his hand smiled and nodded once for encouragement.
She shook his hand. "Yeah same to you."
Persephone cut in again " these two are from fifth year, Damon" she gestured to a small boy who looked squarely at Harry "and Matthew". He was much taller than Damon and his eyebrows knitted together to form almost one eyebrow, which gave him the appearance he was constantly scowling. They both nodded their heads once.
"Well let's get this done. Right you will all be given a coin which will show the time and date of the next meeting. I am the secret keeper so you can not betray us and if you do go reporting to any of Voldemort's little friends I assure you this contract you sign will make you regret it deeply." He handed them a quill and they each signed their names on the piece of paper. Hermione tried to glance the last name of Persephone and Paris but they had not used it to sign the piece of paper. Harry glared at Hermione who blushed and suddenly found the floor very interesting. He handed them all a coin and after a few more seconds they all left.
"Well what do you think?" Neville asked. Harry shrugged. Secretly he was just as unnerved by the girl, Persephone, as Ginny seemed to be about Paris. Ron blustered " Well they're the usual aren't they? Arrogant and think they're God's gift." He was still annoyed at the reference to his little sister being a Weasley yet he couldn't quite understand why he was so angry maybe its because Ginny didn't seem to mind he had to be angry for both of them.
Hermione ventured " Their last names Harry why won't they tell us?"
Harry had been puzzled by the same thing " I don't know, Mionie I just don't."
"Ron's right they're just the same old Slytherins" Neville enthused. Ron smiled at the support but Ginny and Harry weren't smiling far from it. The two new recruits had awoken something deep within them. Luna caught up to Harry and Ginny "I don't agree, there's more to them than meets the eye Harry," She whispered.