A/N: this chapter will be longer don't worry!!

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Ch 8

            At 7:45 Cho and Marietta started to head to the "Room of Requirement" and the whole time Cho had to keep shushing Marietta because she was trying so hard to just back out of doing it all-together.

            "Cho, I really don't think this is a good idea," said a very worried Marietta.

            "Oh its fine, whats the worst that could happen!"

            "lets see, WE'LL BE EXPELLED!"    

            "No, we wont, Dumbledore would never let that happen, now be quiet we're here"

            Cho opened the door and she was not the first one there, a lot of Gryffindors had already arrived, finally by 8:00 everyone was there.  Harry walked over to the door and locked it.

            "Well," said Harry, "This is the place we've found for practices, an you've---er---obviously found it okay—"

            "It's fantastic" blurted Cho, she was trying to impress Harry a little so he would notice her.

            "It's bizarre," said one of the Weasley twins, "We once hid form Filch in here, but it was just a broom cupboard then….."

            "Hey, Harry, what's this stuff?" asked Dean.

            "Dark Detectors," said Harry, "Basically they all show when Dark wizards or enemies are around, but you don't want to really on them too much, they can be fooled….."  Harry then turned and looked at everyone, "Well, I've been thinking about the sort of stuff we ought to do first and—er—…….What, Hermione?"

            "I think we ought to elect a leader," said Hermione.

            "Harry's leader," said Cho, god Hermione how dumb are you, or could you just not take being the one at the front speaking!

            "Yes, but I think we ought to vote on it properly," said Hermione, "It makes it formal and it gives him authority.  So== everyone who thinks Harry ought to be leader?"

            Everyone raised their hands.

            "Er—right thanks," said Harry, whose face looked a little pink, "And---what Hermione?"

            "I also think we ought to have a name," she said brightly, her hand still in the air, "It would promote a feeling of team spirit and unity, don't you think?"

            "Can we be the Anti-Umbridge League?" said Angelina hopefully.

            Marietta seemed to stiffen next to Cho.

            "Or the Ministry of Magic Are Morons Group?" suggested a Weasley twin.

            Marietta really was not enjoying this.

            "I was thinking," said Hermione, "more of a name that didn't tell everyone what we were up to, so we can refer to is safely outside meetings."

            "The Defense Association?" said Cho. "The D.A. for short, so nobody knows what were talking about?"

            "Yeah, the D.A.'s good," said Ginny Weasley, "only let's make it stand for Dumbledore's Army because that's the Ministry's worst fear isn't it?"

            The Defense Association was fine with me! Oh well at least I made up the D.A. part.

            "All in favor of the D.A.?" said Hermione bossily.

            Cho raised her hand half-heartedly, Marietta didn't vote at all.

            "That's majority---motion passed!" Hermione then took the piece of paper with all of their named on it and wrote DUMBLEDORE'S ARMY across the top in large letters.

            "Right," said Harry, "shall we get practicing then?  I was thinking, the first thing we should do is Expelliarmus, you know, the Disarming Charm.  I know it's pretty basic gut I've found it really useful—"

            "Oh please," said Zacharias Smith, rolling his eyes and folding his arms.  "I don't think Expelliarmus is exactly going to help us against You-Know-Who, do you?"

            "I've used it against him," said Harry quietly.  "It saved my life last June."

            Cho just stared at the floor, she didn't want to look at anyone.

            "But if you think it's beneath you, you can leave." Harry said.

            Nobody moved.

            "Okay," said Harry, "I reckon we should all divide into pairs and practice."

            Everyone got up and paired up, Cho was with Marietta.  They were disarming for a while and Marietta seemed to be enjoying herself a little.  Then Harry blew a whistle just to get everyone's attention and told them they were doing okay but they could do better.  Then everyone started disarming again.

            Cho was about to disarm Marietta when she saw Harry was approaching them

            "Oh no," said Cho rather wildly as he approached. "Expelliarmious! I mean, Expellimellius! I—oh, sorry Marietta!"

            Marietta's sleeve had caught on fire; her curly-haired friend extinguished it with her own wand and glared at Harry as if it was his fault.

            "You made me nervous, I was doing all right before then!" Oh my god!! Did I just say that out-loud! I need to start paying attention to what are my thoughts and what I say!

            "That was quite good," said Harry, but you could tell he was lying.

            Cho raised her eyebrows at him.

            "Well, no, it was lousy, but I know you can do it properly, I was watching from over there…."

            He was watching ME across the room!! ME!! Oh wait he's supposed to be watching everyone……darn…

            Marietta looked at Cho and Harry rather sourly and then she turned away.

            "Don't mind her," Cho muttered to Harry, "She doesn't' really want to be here, but I made her come with me.  Her parents have forbidden her to do anything that might upset Umbridge, you see – her mum works for the Ministry."

            "What about your parents?" asked Harry.

            "Well, they've forbidden me to get on the wrong side of Umbridge too," said Cho, she then in took a large breath and said, "But if they think I'm not going to fight You-Know-Who after what happened to Cedric—"Cho then broke off….Why did I have to bring up Cedric, now Harry will think the only boy I still care about is Cedric, GOD I AM SO STUPID SOMETIMES!!

            Then that Luna Lovegood girl butted in on their conversation, "Well, my father is very supportive of any anti-Ministry action!" she said proudly, "He's always saying he'd believe anything of Fudge, I mean, the number of goblins Fudge has had assassinated!  And of course he uses the Departments of Mysteries to develop terrible poisons, which he feeds secretly to anybody who disagrees with him,  and then there's his Umgubular Slashkilter—"

            "Don't ask," Harry muttered to Cho because she was about to ask Luna some questions, instead she just giggled.

             Then Hermione told Harry that it was already ten-past-nine and they were late, quickly he told everyone to clean up and that they would meet next Wednesday and that they all had to hurry because it was past cur-few. 

            Cho and Marietta hurried into the Ravenclaw common room and Cho then realized how exhausted she was, so she went up to her dorm and fell asleep immediately.

A/N: DONE FINALLY, SORRY THAT TOOK SO LONG! Now let me thank my newest reviewer…

Annie Rini Romanov: I tried to give her thoughts a little more this chapter…and ill try now more often! Thanks for the review!!