The days were flying passed, to quick for any one to tell. All of them were studying really hard. All of them got tons of Homework. Harry was still No 1 in Potions and DADA. Transfigation Hermione was first but he was a close second. Ron was now left far behind, but he was really putting on an effort to catch up (maybe his girlfriend was having a effect on him). Even Neville was studying. He of course dominated Herbology. All of them were a group now and they were almost inseparable. Gryffindors were now fast becoming a power that challenges the Ravenclaws intellectually and yet had the courage to wake a sleeping dragon. Luna used to meet them and sit with them every time they were out of the common room and not in classroom. Ginny used to meet them whenever they were in the common room. Things were quite outside still. Dumbledore used to fill Harry about what went on during the meetings now that he was at Hogwarts.

In Potion Harry had covered a few complex potions like the Nightmare's Mistress, its antidote. The night after that potion Harry had suffered all night because he had been the test subject of his potion. Snape had poisoned all of them in the class with, irrespective of house. The antidotes were given to all of them at breakfast the next day. In Poison and antidotes he had learned to counter most snake venoms. Human Transfigation they had started the study of the Human Body. Magical Creatures covered a few venomous species of animals. Charms was the class where Harry and Hermione shared their top spot. They had learnt invisibility and mild mind control charms. Harry Auror Dueling class that was taken by Mad Eye was fun. Harry learnt many things about the mistakes he made when he had fought the Deatheaters before.

The Quidditch season was also approaching soon. Harry was back as seeker. Ginny was one of the chasers. With her were Colin and Dennis Creevly who really good. Seamus and a seventh year by the name of David were their beaters. Ron was of course the keeper. He had scheduled practice on Wednesday and Friday evenings. He also like Wood, would come up with complicated moves and try to explain then with diagrams and also successfully managed to charm the team to peaceful slumber.

During one of his Occlumency classes with Dumbledore, the old man had brought the topic of the DA. "So Harry", Albus said, "Now you just need practice in Occlumency and I have no fear of Voldemort possessing or giving you any bad thoughts. Even in Legilimens you should be able to perform it on any one who cannot block their mind. You need to practice. Maybe you can practice it like the DA gave you for DADA last year. Now DA was a good idea, you know. And it did have the right ideas. I am thinking that it should be stated again. What do you think?"

Harry replied, "Well sir, It did help a lot of people. But only because there was no competent professor at that time. Now we have one of the best to teach us DADA so the need does not exist any more."

The old man nodded gravely "Well that is partly true. The DA does not only teach DADA but it also gives people the courage and confidence. Look what it did to Neville. That is one of the most obvious cases of course. I believe that it helped every person who choose to attend. It also existed without the usual competitiveness that the houses usually cause. That meant that there was a ease in which everybody learnt."

Harry said, "Yes that is true. May be Remus or Snape or Moody can take it."

Dumbledore said, "I don't think that is in the spirit of the DA. A student must take. If an adult will take it then it will be like class."

"Sir. I will not take it."

"Why not?"

"No. It is not right. I made them get the feeling that they will be able to defeat the Deatheaters last year. Ron and Hermione almost lost their lives. Neville was put under the Cruciatus Curse. And Sirius Died. All part of my stupidity."

"Harry you must understand this. There are leaders and followers. As long as there is good there is always evil. Both are sides of the same coin. I confronted Grindelwald and defeated. You will do that to Voldemort. It has been so for ages not. and this will continue long after we are gone. Both Grindelwald and Voldemort have people who help him. I had my force of people to help me against Grindelwald. The Order of Phoenix was there for me when I fought. It will be here when you fight Voldemort. No one can fight evil all alone. You think that I was able to fight Grindelwald and all his forces all by my self or that you will be able to fight Voldemort all by yourself."

Harry said "But They are just children. Why drag them into all of this. They don't have to do what I have to."

The old man looked at the boy. They shared a lot in common, especially weaknesses "Harry. Don't make the same mistakes that I have. Learn from them. I gave more importance to the fact that you were or are a child look where we stand now. They will be dragged into this fight even if you like it or not. Hermione is a Muggle Born Witch. Ron and Neville stand against Voldemort. They are already old enough to bear some of what you already shoulder. They have seen enough to do that. They have been through enough to do that. Harry in your second year, Did a 16 year old Tom Riddle think twice before possessing Ginny. She was so young at that time. This entire world is like a chessboard. The leaders move the pieces. If you will not stand up and move then, they will fall when the opponent start to move." There were a few minutes of silence before Dumbledore spoke again, "Think of what I have said. There is no need to do something today or tomorrow. Get your thought organized."

One day during the end of September, Neville had walked in with to ask Ginny if she would not mind lending Luna, her Astronomy book. The Ravenclaws had hidden her books again and she had an assignment to complete. Harry had then pulled Hermione and Ron out of a Broom closet and together with Neville and Ginny stormed into the Ravenclaw common room. (The prefects know the passwords of different houses) At the sight of 5 angry Gryffindors in the common room, half of the students tried to leave, only to be stopped by Harry.

Harry had turned to them and said "Who ever took Luna's things will return them now. If they don't I will take this matter up with Dumbledore and then things may get worse. Do it now and everything will be forgiven and forgotten."

Cho Chang now Head girl walked up to Harry and said, "This is the Ravenclaw common room and you Gryffindors will leave now. Or it will not be good for you."

Harry looked at her and said, "You are Head girl and such kind of peaty bullying is going on in your own house. If you are the head girl solve this real problem first."

Cho turned to the assembled class and started to "Now what you did was very wrong. And…." Neither did was she serious nor did she make a show of it. Harry however was busy probing all the students head. Legilimens had its advantages. Harry then strode forward toward a seventh year girl and looked her in the eye. The entire assembly now had focused on them. Harry used all the height that he had put during this summer vacation and seems to tower over this girl.

He merely said "Hi."

The girl said "I will get her stuff from the hiding place now."

After gryffindors left for their common room and rest of the students swore not to taunt Luna, Harry had left a room full of trembling Ravenclaws with Luna stood in the middle of her dormitory smiling. All the students had apologized to her for calling her names and doing bad things to her. For the first time in her life she knew what it meant to have friends.

That even had created quite a stir in the student. The normal taunting Slytherins also stayed clear of any member of the group. Harry of course was given detention with Snape for this incident. It was meant as a show. If it was not with Snape everyone would have sniffed the rat in all of this.

His classes were filled with many projects and homework. Ron proved to be a slave runner as a captain. The only person he would not hound was Harry. Now it was the Thursday from the second week of October. This weekend was a Hogmeades Weekend. Ron and Hermione were a now a well known pair. Luna and Neville had started dating after the incident. The students had their spirits high. As they assembled for breakfast, Harry was looking forward to his charms class. He had prepared for the charms that were to be taught today. At breakfast he noted that Dumbledore had a twinkle in his eye. Just as all the students leave to their classes He rose to address all of them. "As you all know Halloween is approaching fast. We will be having the Halloween Ball to celebrate it. It will be a costume ball. That will be all. Now off to class."

All of a sudden all the girls turned giggly and stealing glances at the boys. Ron and Neville would not have a problem they both had girlfriends. Hermione and Luna came over to the boys as they made their way to the charms classrooms to discuss what costumes to where.

Hermione chirped, "We have to discuss which costume to wear to the ball." Luna nodded earnestly, Ginny also joined them. Ron said, "I have always wanted to dress up as a knight."

Hermione said "NO! That is so medieval. Out of style. I have decided that we must go as House Elves with clothes. It will serve our cause."

Ron said, "Hermione, There is no why I am coming as a House Elf." Hermione was starting to interrupt when Ron said, "Wait till I complete. The House Elfs must first understand the difference between freedom and enslavement. Then we have a cause. If we do this then we will be making a mockery of ourselves and it will only make the house elfs to afraid to approach us if they do what freedom. Look what happened because of the hats last time. Poor Dobby had to clean up all gryffindor all by himself."

Hermione thought about what he has said for a moment and then agreed, "I do have such a intelligent boyfriend." and gave him a kiss on his cheek. Luna and Neville had decided to come as Trees but the group felt that they all find dresses to match all the members. The bells started to ring and they all rushed to their respective call rooms, before Ginny could make up her courage to ask Harry out for the ball. At charms the Flitwick announced that they were going to study the Solidity Charm. He said, "Hi, Today we are going to study the Solidity Charm. This can be cast on oneself and on others, as were as objects. What this does is, it allows us to pass through solid objects. In front of you are the iron nail and a glass ball. What you have to do is cast the incantation on the nail and make it pass through the glass ball. The trick is that if not done right then you will shatter the glass ball. The incantation is Res Penetro. Watch the movement as I cast it on this nail."

After the demo, they all started with their own work. Harry and Hermione were eager to beat each other at achieving the results first. Harry cast the charm on the glass orb. Then he took his iron nail and started to slowly push it thought the ball. He amazed that he was able to get the point of the nail into the ball. As he pushed more of the nail into the ball he could feel the resistance increase. He could feel the glass resist it. He knew his glass would shatter if he would go any further, so he slowly pulled out his nail. Hermione was also doing the same. This was much more difficult than it seemed.

Neville succeeded is shattering his orb. Ron's had a broken into 2 pieces. So had most of the class. Harry and Hermione were the only two to have an intact orb. The wards around the orb prevented them from getting hurt. Slowly as time progressed they seem to be getting the hang of this. There was sweat tricking from the forehead of the young boy. By the end of the class he had managed to get the complete nail into the orb but if he tried to leave it there. The orb would crumple like fine dust. Hermione had better luck. Her orb remained whole but it expelled the nail out at an astonishing speed.

This was the first time that Harry and Hermione has been unable to accomplish a task set on them, of course for Hermione this was the first time ever. Both these two flashed with determination in their eyes as they headed toward the Library. There was another hour for lunch. Ron and Neville followed these two to the library. Later at the Potions, they had the most unusual class. The usually students from a house tend to stick together. Snape allowed this. Today however, the moment the classroom was full. Snape gave them all a look and them growled, "Girls that side and Boys to this side." as soon as they were sorted out. He turned to the girls and said "I will have NO GIGGLING, NO SNICKRING, NO WHISPERING. Is that that understood." No one had ever seen Snape so furious. The he turned to face them all. Today the boys and the girls are going to be doing different potions. The girls are going to be doing the Impotency potion and the boys are going to be doing the Sterilizing Potion. Then we make mild love potions. This sent the girls giggling. Snape turned to face them, "10 points from all of you." Pansy moved in front to speak the potions master but by the look on his face, not a word came out of her mouth. All the boys had large smiles on their face. With a wave of his wand, Snape put the instructions for the potions on the board. After they had completed the first potions (which did not take long) Snape went to check each potions. Then he should them how to conjure vials out of thin air and asked them to take a potion out of Harry or Draco's potions because it was the best out of the entire lot. The girls took their potion out of Hermione's.

Then he had them make the second potion. This time he patrolled the dungeon, with the most unexplainable expression on his face. Love potions he had to teach them LOVE POTIONS. Dumbledore had finally lost it. LOST IT. But he had to admit it; all of them were going to be brewing much stronger Love potion antidotes. If Dumbledore thought that Voldemort was going to use love to get to Potter there would not be a better way to block against it. Dumbledore knew the boy well. Now this was his weakest area.

Soon the girls and the boys had pink color potions simmering over their cauldrons. Of these potions, they had been granted permission to take samples of. Harry again clinched the top spot and Draco and Hermione retained second.

It was Saturday; Harry had approached Ginny to come with him but as friends. They now waited at the Great Hall for the last member of the group. Luna came running from the direction of her common room. As they all made their way to their way to the waiting carriages, Ginny brought up the question "We are a group and we should all chouse a dress that shows us all as a group. But what do we dress as?" All the others agreed to the general idea. Ron immediately said "Ya. The Medieval era. Two of us as King and Queen. Two of us Knight and his Lady and then a Fool and a Maid. It would be perfect." The girls in the group immediately went up against this saying it was a common idea and they deserver better. All the others reluctantly agreed.

As soon as they were at the village, they made a straight line to one of shops that sold costumes. Soon they were out all with satisfied smiles. They made their way to through Hogsmeade until Harry had his interview to Chandra Patil. Soon they were making their way to the back to the castle. Soon it was the night of the Halloween ball. The castle was decorated to its usual splendor. The group had helped Hagrid and Gwarp bring in all the massive pumpkins.

~~~ Draco's POV

'So Golden Boy was not down yet. I had thought of so many nice little things to tell him. May be he does not have the ball the come.'

Just then a group of 6 people walked in. There were all dressed as angels. They seemed so real and they were actually floating.

All of them had real wings, with white long feathers on them. It was HARRY POTTER & GANG (Hermione, Luna, Ginny, Ron, Neville & Harry) This set of a series of OOOHs and AAAHs through out the Great Hall that had been converted into the dance floor.

'Leave it to Potter and his chums to spoil a evening'

~~~~~~ End Of POV

Soon the music was playing. The Ghost Orchestra was superb and the entire school was out there dancing. Every now and then the students had to make way for Hagrid who used to be waltzing with one of the school teachers. Harry and Ginny floated freely over the dance floor looking every bit elegant. The remaining both the pairs were also dancing.

The menu system was the same like the Yule ball in the 4th year, but had a lot of pumpkin based foods on them. Since Luna and Neville, Hermione and Ron had occupied tables for couples only, Ginny pulled Harry into one as well. As they sat there the inevitable happened. Draco Malfoy paid a visit. "Well what do we have here? Scarface and Gold Digger bitch. The entire family well never change. Just digging for gold, just like her brothers. Where is that gold digger now? Seems like he found another mine." The gathered Slytherins were shacking with laughter. Harry rose so sharply that the entire Slytherin group took a few steps back. The rest of the gang were making their way up to the table, but Dumbledore was even faster. The Headmaster asked "Something wrong here?" Harry said "No Sir." The Slytherins made an exit, to afraid to go any further under the watchful eye of the headmaster.

Harry also lost all the mood to enjoy the ball any more and exited the Great Hall. Ginny asked the others not to follow him. She found him in the deserted Gryffindor common room staring into the fire. She sat next to him by the fire. "Harry, those were just stupid words from a person who wants to hurt."

"I know. I don't even listen to what he has to say to me. But he crosses the line when he says anything about my friends."

She just sat there looking into the fire resting her head on his shoulder. Why does this boy want to carry the load of the world all by himself? After some time Harry turned to see if Ginny had gone to sleep. He was mesmerized by what he saw. The way the light from the fire played on her face, added with the flame hair, those big white wings behind her. She was an angel. Just then Ginny turned and looked into those deep green eyes. Both of them did not even know when they started the kiss. When realization kicked in, both sprang apart. The just sat there looking into each other's eyes trying to understand what had just happened. Then both of the ventured closer and Harry wrapped a hand around her waist and pulled her into his lap.

A few kisses later both of them made their way to their respective dorms. As Harry lay on his bed, for the first time he felt complete.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

cadet-wolf

Muhahahaha

A.M.bookworm247 (I always thought Harry and Ginny make a good couple)

Bubblelicous*Bubblegum

BferBear

Potter Reader

noraseyes

Alex20

ohmygosh()

Thanks, all of you. I have tried to reduce the spelling mistakes. Sorry for being late with the next chapter. Was onsite implementing software that I have developed for my company.

Please review

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~