Chapter 6: D. A.
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Harry woke up in the morning, feeling dizzy. The Occlumency lesson was still replaying itself in his head. He sat up, and saw that Ron was still asleep. Deciding not to wake him up, Harry proceeded to the great hall for breakfast.
Hermione was already there, reading runes- a complete guide for NEWT as she ate her toast. Luna was staring into space and Ginny was playing with her orange juice. Jacky was talking to Parvati and Angie was eating heartily. Harry leaned over her shoulder and was about to advise her to eat less, when he remembered what Lishia said, and changed his mind. "Eat more fats. Fats can get rid of fats"
Angie looked up at him. "Did Lishia tell you that?"
Harry nodded childishly, grinning, and went to sit beside Hermione. After a while, he found that seat rather boring, for Hermione did not supply much conversation. He went over to Ginny and expressed, in a low voice, his excitement for the coming DA session.
Just as he was finishing his bacon, Lishia and Ron came down together, apparently very reluctant. They sat down and ate their breakfast sleepily. Harry almost laughed at the sight. They looked so comical, in fact, he thought, if some were to replay Ron's life and how he related to people, they'd die of laughter.
Harry suddenly appreciated Ron as his friend. Ron was always behind him, supporting him. And in the end, when they quarrelled, never failed to make up. He was glad that Ron was a prefect again. He seemed much happier under those sleepy eyes.
Now everything seemed much happier. He forgot the visions, and remembered the success of the tryouts. How wonderful, he thought. Lishia and Jacky made an excellent team as beaters. They had the skill, but needed to work on the strength. That was no problem, of course. Angie made an excellent chaser, so did Ginny. Ron was the best. Apparently he had practised in front of his siblings who acted as spectators. Now he was much more used to public viewing, and his confidence improved.
Somehow, harry thought, his happiness was due to the coming DA. Hermione had volunteered to teach the first session. She had said she needed to give everyone a means of communication, and that required some teaching. Harry was more than willing, of course. He decided that now, inter-house unity was very important, and had an idea that he should let every one in the DA give suggestions and maybe teach. Ron had said it would lighten Harry's workload. The only drawback, of course, was slytherin. He wondered how they were going to cooperate with each other when Draco existed.
Almost as if his mind was being read, Draco came up to the griffindor table. This time, however, there was no Crabbe or Goyle or pansy, just Draco. He walked past harry without saying anything, and went straight to Angie. Harry's eyes widened. Something was definitely wrong. He said something in a low voice to Angie, who got up and followed him out of the great hall. Harry found the time when Draco was staring at Angie rather related to this.
Ron leaned over and said," if I'm not wrong, I think malfoy likes Angie. " Harry agreed. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::
The first period was defence against the dark arts. They continued with they day before's lesson. Throughout it, however, the teacher kept knocking over stuff and apologising. He really seemed familiar, but harry could not put his finger on it. Hermione was always looking thoughtfully at him, as though she knew something. But when asked, she said nothing, and went back to her work.
However, harry noticed that malfoy was sitting next to Angie, who openly displayed her fondness for him. Lishia and Jacky were looking on, clearly amused. Since pansy Parkinson was not taking the NEWT defence against the dark arts class, Draco seemed more at ease, and appeared cool and confident before Angie. Ron whispered to harry that Draco was putting on a very good act. Just then, the professor swooped down on them, and declared five points taken for speaking in class. Hermione looked at them reproachfully and then shut up for the rest of the class.
The lesson ended, and professor Grene said, "I would like to see Mr potter and Weasley, and miss granger. Can all of you leave quickly? Harry, Ron and Hermione exchanged looks. Harry saw Draco smirking at him as he left the classroom, with Angie by his side. Lishia and Jacky were tailing them, giggling. The classroom quickly emptied itself, kal being the last to leave.
They walked slowly up to the front, wondering what they did wrong.
"Well, harry, Ron and Hermione, nice to see you again!" the professor beamed. To his surprise, he put on a pined expression that harry found very familiar, and within two seconds, Tonks was standing in front of them.
"oh," said Hermione, clearly relieved. "I thought something had happened to you."
"Like my disguise?" Tonks asked knocking over an inkbottle.
Ron agreed.
"Oh well, you three better run along now, you have your next class to go to. "
They cleared off, proceeding to hagrid's hut for their first care of magical creatures lesson. There weren't many people. For once, malfoy wasn't there. Pansy wasn't either. However, Neville, the six scholars and Ernie Macmillan were there, chatting among themselves. Soon, Hannah and lavender came, followed by Parvati.
Hagrid came out of his hut, beaming.
"good ter see yeh," he said," we're doin NEWT this year, so please pay attention. Ok. We're gonna revise what we did last year. So.eh, who can tel me about thestrals?"
Only Hermione, Lishia and Angie raised their hands. Hagrid, curious to find out the standard of the new scholars, picked Lishia.
Lishia was apparently not very comfortable under everyone's gaze. " er." she said in a hesitant way," they have an amazing sense of direction, can fly with heavy loads too. " she paused, apparently unsure of what to say next. "erm.and only people who has seen another person die can see them. "
"good," beamed Hagrid," yeh got twenty points"
Lishia beamed, but looked a bit flustered. Apparently, she had told him, that in the previous year, whenever she stood up to answer questions or makes a statement, the whole class would break into applause at every sentence. That made her quite irritated and embarrassed. Now that not a single person made to clap, she would probably feel quite normal again, after she adjusts, of course.
Jacky and Angie were grinning at Lishia, who looked indignant.
The lesson continued, with the same few people raising their hands only. After a while, Hagrid resorted to picking students to answer. In the end, harry estimated that griffindor earned two hundred points. Not bad for a single lesson.
Next, they had ancient runes, which harry and Ron need not attend. They went to the library to do some homework. As harry reread the first part of his potions essay, he noticed Ron, diligently examining his charms homework. Ron seemed so much happier and more hardworking now that he was a prefect. He recalled that when they were in their first year, Ron had seen himself as head boy in the mirror of erised. He wondered if Ron would really be one.
Harry looked back down and found that he misspelled a word, and proceeded to correct it. After which, he continued his essay. He found it exceedingly hard to compromise with snape's requirements.
Looking up, he saw Luna walking dreamily towards them, almost as if she did it by mistake. Ron spotted her too. "what are you doing here?"
"I thought I might tell you that I'm still in the DA," she said in a low voice. "my father is fully supporting it, and I assure I will do my best. "
harry was taken aback. Luna had never spoken like that before. "Are you alright?" he asked.
"yeah," she replied with a sigh, "my favourite cousin died in voldermort's hands. I just." she gave up and walked away. Harry wondered how many more people were affected by voldermort. He never expected Luna would have a relative killed by him too. His thoughts turned to Jacky, Angie and Lishia. Were their relatives killed too? Was that what made them such good scholars? How about their guy counterparts? They too? Harry tried to clear his mind. That's why so many people feared his name. Probably every household has been affected. Now that voldermort was truly back.
"harry, are you listening? " came Ron's voice. "its break now."
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harry ate his lunch silently, thinking of the upcoming DA. He vowed to train the members until they were better than death eaters. Only, he wondered if he was himself better than death eaters. Well I shall be, he vowed again. I shall be.
History was next. Harry and Ron didn't have to attend that that too. Now that is was NEWT studying year, everything seemed more relaxed. However, Hermione had reminded him that the free time was for them to study. They were older, and supposed to be more mature, that's why they were left alone. Harry found that her words had a great impact. If he wanted to be an auror, he would have to work harder that before. Ron, who did not disclose his secret ambition to harry also seemed to think that work was far more important too. They went to the lakeside to study and revise homework.
The rest of the day passed uneventfully. Except for Jacky and Lishia expressing how interesting it was to have a ghost as a teacher, and Ginny screaming when Angie ticked her, dinner was very boring. At ten minutes before eight, harry, Ron, Hermione, Lishia, Angie, Jacky and Ginny made their way up to the room of requirement.
"cool," said Lishia and Jacky together when the door emerged. The stepped in. it was much bigger that before. And harry thought it was due to more students joining, since the whole school had been interrogated.
They examined the room in awe. Lishia and Hermione promptly sat down on huge squashy armchairs and began reading books from the vast wide shelves.
Soon, people began filing in. the past DA members were all present, including Cho, but Marietta was not there. Soon, the place filled up. There were about fifty people there. Most of them he knew, but forgot their names. There were a few from slytherin too, though he did not know them.
Harry stood up, excitement burning in his chest. Everyone shushed.
"erm, hie. I'm harry. " everyone was staring intently at him. "as we all know, we are here to study defensive skills. However, you all must note that this is a life-risking club to join. We are, officially, an anti voldermort society. "
at the mention of the name, most people made shocked reactions.
"actually, I believe that to overcome our fear of him, we have to learn to use his name. Fear of the name increases fear of the thing itself. " said harry more confidently. "this time, however, unity is very important, and therefore, we should be more open to each other. I would be glad when you give your suggestions. For today, Hermione here," he gestured towards her "will be teaching us how to communicate."
Hermione stood up, flushed. "erm hi. I was thinking, you know, the galleons, they may be confused with real money, so.erm. I was thinking maybe photographs this time. Each of you will have a photo frame. Insert your own photographs of whoever you like. I have charmed the photo frames such that when given the command, will change the photograph into sort of a screen, where we can view each other to speak to. Or if at the moment, this is not possible, another charm can be used to allow writing to be read by the intended recipient on his or her own photo frame. If filch turns out our pockets or bags, a photo frame will not be suspicious, right?" she glanced around nervously.
Everyone seemed to agree. They took a photo frame each, and were taught the spells that came with it.
Some were quicker than the others, but, as harry thought, it was more of the willingness to go against voldermort. Soon, all of them were done, and there was a bit more time left.
Harry made a speech. "erm, I believe you people take this DA very seriously. And therefore I believe you will try to do your best. what do you think of having a sort of assignment later on? So that we can split into groups, you know, make it easier to go for missions."
"we're going on missions?" someone asked.
"well, yeah, if need be. We're now much more serious right?" said harry" so please practice hard. Perhaps you people could spend this extra bit of time getting to know your fellow DA members. Ill leave the lessons to the next session."
With that, people started buzzing. Some got up, and sat next to some people sitting down. They all started chatting, laughing. Harry was starting to see that they would bond well. Speaking of bonding, he thought, where was Cho? His eyes scanned the people. There she was, sitting and talking to Adrian. He wondered if he should go over. He heard Ron's voice in his head. No. it would hurt his pride if he did. Harry settled himself next to a brown curly-haired first year boy, and started speaking to him.
Time was soon up, and everyone dispersed back to his or her dormitories. Harry felt rather satisfied. It was a success. Next week, he would start on different enchantments.
Back in the dormitory, Lishia was singing as she did her homework. Jacky soon joined in and so did Angie.
Harry did not know what to make of them. They were a bit mad, he thought. No, not mad, weird. He struggled to find the word. He soon gave up though, and concentrated on his charms homework. He soon completed it and went up to bed, savouring on his success at the DA. He soon fell asleep, dreaming of sessions after sessions, and the success.
A/N: This was done long long long ago but we didn't have the time to edit it. Exams are coming. And we just found a very interesting site. Hehe. So yeah. Not much time. And Keep your reviews coming!!! ^________________^
Disclaimer: All the following characters belong to J.K.Rowling and we own none of them. We are not making any money out of this.
Harry woke up in the morning, feeling dizzy. The Occlumency lesson was still replaying itself in his head. He sat up, and saw that Ron was still asleep. Deciding not to wake him up, Harry proceeded to the great hall for breakfast.
Hermione was already there, reading runes- a complete guide for NEWT as she ate her toast. Luna was staring into space and Ginny was playing with her orange juice. Jacky was talking to Parvati and Angie was eating heartily. Harry leaned over her shoulder and was about to advise her to eat less, when he remembered what Lishia said, and changed his mind. "Eat more fats. Fats can get rid of fats"
Angie looked up at him. "Did Lishia tell you that?"
Harry nodded childishly, grinning, and went to sit beside Hermione. After a while, he found that seat rather boring, for Hermione did not supply much conversation. He went over to Ginny and expressed, in a low voice, his excitement for the coming DA session.
Just as he was finishing his bacon, Lishia and Ron came down together, apparently very reluctant. They sat down and ate their breakfast sleepily. Harry almost laughed at the sight. They looked so comical, in fact, he thought, if some were to replay Ron's life and how he related to people, they'd die of laughter.
Harry suddenly appreciated Ron as his friend. Ron was always behind him, supporting him. And in the end, when they quarrelled, never failed to make up. He was glad that Ron was a prefect again. He seemed much happier under those sleepy eyes.
Now everything seemed much happier. He forgot the visions, and remembered the success of the tryouts. How wonderful, he thought. Lishia and Jacky made an excellent team as beaters. They had the skill, but needed to work on the strength. That was no problem, of course. Angie made an excellent chaser, so did Ginny. Ron was the best. Apparently he had practised in front of his siblings who acted as spectators. Now he was much more used to public viewing, and his confidence improved.
Somehow, harry thought, his happiness was due to the coming DA. Hermione had volunteered to teach the first session. She had said she needed to give everyone a means of communication, and that required some teaching. Harry was more than willing, of course. He decided that now, inter-house unity was very important, and had an idea that he should let every one in the DA give suggestions and maybe teach. Ron had said it would lighten Harry's workload. The only drawback, of course, was slytherin. He wondered how they were going to cooperate with each other when Draco existed.
Almost as if his mind was being read, Draco came up to the griffindor table. This time, however, there was no Crabbe or Goyle or pansy, just Draco. He walked past harry without saying anything, and went straight to Angie. Harry's eyes widened. Something was definitely wrong. He said something in a low voice to Angie, who got up and followed him out of the great hall. Harry found the time when Draco was staring at Angie rather related to this.
Ron leaned over and said," if I'm not wrong, I think malfoy likes Angie. " Harry agreed. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::
The first period was defence against the dark arts. They continued with they day before's lesson. Throughout it, however, the teacher kept knocking over stuff and apologising. He really seemed familiar, but harry could not put his finger on it. Hermione was always looking thoughtfully at him, as though she knew something. But when asked, she said nothing, and went back to her work.
However, harry noticed that malfoy was sitting next to Angie, who openly displayed her fondness for him. Lishia and Jacky were looking on, clearly amused. Since pansy Parkinson was not taking the NEWT defence against the dark arts class, Draco seemed more at ease, and appeared cool and confident before Angie. Ron whispered to harry that Draco was putting on a very good act. Just then, the professor swooped down on them, and declared five points taken for speaking in class. Hermione looked at them reproachfully and then shut up for the rest of the class.
The lesson ended, and professor Grene said, "I would like to see Mr potter and Weasley, and miss granger. Can all of you leave quickly? Harry, Ron and Hermione exchanged looks. Harry saw Draco smirking at him as he left the classroom, with Angie by his side. Lishia and Jacky were tailing them, giggling. The classroom quickly emptied itself, kal being the last to leave.
They walked slowly up to the front, wondering what they did wrong.
"Well, harry, Ron and Hermione, nice to see you again!" the professor beamed. To his surprise, he put on a pined expression that harry found very familiar, and within two seconds, Tonks was standing in front of them.
"oh," said Hermione, clearly relieved. "I thought something had happened to you."
"Like my disguise?" Tonks asked knocking over an inkbottle.
Ron agreed.
"Oh well, you three better run along now, you have your next class to go to. "
They cleared off, proceeding to hagrid's hut for their first care of magical creatures lesson. There weren't many people. For once, malfoy wasn't there. Pansy wasn't either. However, Neville, the six scholars and Ernie Macmillan were there, chatting among themselves. Soon, Hannah and lavender came, followed by Parvati.
Hagrid came out of his hut, beaming.
"good ter see yeh," he said," we're doin NEWT this year, so please pay attention. Ok. We're gonna revise what we did last year. So.eh, who can tel me about thestrals?"
Only Hermione, Lishia and Angie raised their hands. Hagrid, curious to find out the standard of the new scholars, picked Lishia.
Lishia was apparently not very comfortable under everyone's gaze. " er." she said in a hesitant way," they have an amazing sense of direction, can fly with heavy loads too. " she paused, apparently unsure of what to say next. "erm.and only people who has seen another person die can see them. "
"good," beamed Hagrid," yeh got twenty points"
Lishia beamed, but looked a bit flustered. Apparently, she had told him, that in the previous year, whenever she stood up to answer questions or makes a statement, the whole class would break into applause at every sentence. That made her quite irritated and embarrassed. Now that not a single person made to clap, she would probably feel quite normal again, after she adjusts, of course.
Jacky and Angie were grinning at Lishia, who looked indignant.
The lesson continued, with the same few people raising their hands only. After a while, Hagrid resorted to picking students to answer. In the end, harry estimated that griffindor earned two hundred points. Not bad for a single lesson.
Next, they had ancient runes, which harry and Ron need not attend. They went to the library to do some homework. As harry reread the first part of his potions essay, he noticed Ron, diligently examining his charms homework. Ron seemed so much happier and more hardworking now that he was a prefect. He recalled that when they were in their first year, Ron had seen himself as head boy in the mirror of erised. He wondered if Ron would really be one.
Harry looked back down and found that he misspelled a word, and proceeded to correct it. After which, he continued his essay. He found it exceedingly hard to compromise with snape's requirements.
Looking up, he saw Luna walking dreamily towards them, almost as if she did it by mistake. Ron spotted her too. "what are you doing here?"
"I thought I might tell you that I'm still in the DA," she said in a low voice. "my father is fully supporting it, and I assure I will do my best. "
harry was taken aback. Luna had never spoken like that before. "Are you alright?" he asked.
"yeah," she replied with a sigh, "my favourite cousin died in voldermort's hands. I just." she gave up and walked away. Harry wondered how many more people were affected by voldermort. He never expected Luna would have a relative killed by him too. His thoughts turned to Jacky, Angie and Lishia. Were their relatives killed too? Was that what made them such good scholars? How about their guy counterparts? They too? Harry tried to clear his mind. That's why so many people feared his name. Probably every household has been affected. Now that voldermort was truly back.
"harry, are you listening? " came Ron's voice. "its break now."
....................................
harry ate his lunch silently, thinking of the upcoming DA. He vowed to train the members until they were better than death eaters. Only, he wondered if he was himself better than death eaters. Well I shall be, he vowed again. I shall be.
History was next. Harry and Ron didn't have to attend that that too. Now that is was NEWT studying year, everything seemed more relaxed. However, Hermione had reminded him that the free time was for them to study. They were older, and supposed to be more mature, that's why they were left alone. Harry found that her words had a great impact. If he wanted to be an auror, he would have to work harder that before. Ron, who did not disclose his secret ambition to harry also seemed to think that work was far more important too. They went to the lakeside to study and revise homework.
The rest of the day passed uneventfully. Except for Jacky and Lishia expressing how interesting it was to have a ghost as a teacher, and Ginny screaming when Angie ticked her, dinner was very boring. At ten minutes before eight, harry, Ron, Hermione, Lishia, Angie, Jacky and Ginny made their way up to the room of requirement.
"cool," said Lishia and Jacky together when the door emerged. The stepped in. it was much bigger that before. And harry thought it was due to more students joining, since the whole school had been interrogated.
They examined the room in awe. Lishia and Hermione promptly sat down on huge squashy armchairs and began reading books from the vast wide shelves.
Soon, people began filing in. the past DA members were all present, including Cho, but Marietta was not there. Soon, the place filled up. There were about fifty people there. Most of them he knew, but forgot their names. There were a few from slytherin too, though he did not know them.
Harry stood up, excitement burning in his chest. Everyone shushed.
"erm, hie. I'm harry. " everyone was staring intently at him. "as we all know, we are here to study defensive skills. However, you all must note that this is a life-risking club to join. We are, officially, an anti voldermort society. "
at the mention of the name, most people made shocked reactions.
"actually, I believe that to overcome our fear of him, we have to learn to use his name. Fear of the name increases fear of the thing itself. " said harry more confidently. "this time, however, unity is very important, and therefore, we should be more open to each other. I would be glad when you give your suggestions. For today, Hermione here," he gestured towards her "will be teaching us how to communicate."
Hermione stood up, flushed. "erm hi. I was thinking, you know, the galleons, they may be confused with real money, so.erm. I was thinking maybe photographs this time. Each of you will have a photo frame. Insert your own photographs of whoever you like. I have charmed the photo frames such that when given the command, will change the photograph into sort of a screen, where we can view each other to speak to. Or if at the moment, this is not possible, another charm can be used to allow writing to be read by the intended recipient on his or her own photo frame. If filch turns out our pockets or bags, a photo frame will not be suspicious, right?" she glanced around nervously.
Everyone seemed to agree. They took a photo frame each, and were taught the spells that came with it.
Some were quicker than the others, but, as harry thought, it was more of the willingness to go against voldermort. Soon, all of them were done, and there was a bit more time left.
Harry made a speech. "erm, I believe you people take this DA very seriously. And therefore I believe you will try to do your best. what do you think of having a sort of assignment later on? So that we can split into groups, you know, make it easier to go for missions."
"we're going on missions?" someone asked.
"well, yeah, if need be. We're now much more serious right?" said harry" so please practice hard. Perhaps you people could spend this extra bit of time getting to know your fellow DA members. Ill leave the lessons to the next session."
With that, people started buzzing. Some got up, and sat next to some people sitting down. They all started chatting, laughing. Harry was starting to see that they would bond well. Speaking of bonding, he thought, where was Cho? His eyes scanned the people. There she was, sitting and talking to Adrian. He wondered if he should go over. He heard Ron's voice in his head. No. it would hurt his pride if he did. Harry settled himself next to a brown curly-haired first year boy, and started speaking to him.
Time was soon up, and everyone dispersed back to his or her dormitories. Harry felt rather satisfied. It was a success. Next week, he would start on different enchantments.
Back in the dormitory, Lishia was singing as she did her homework. Jacky soon joined in and so did Angie.
Harry did not know what to make of them. They were a bit mad, he thought. No, not mad, weird. He struggled to find the word. He soon gave up though, and concentrated on his charms homework. He soon completed it and went up to bed, savouring on his success at the DA. He soon fell asleep, dreaming of sessions after sessions, and the success.
A/N: This was done long long long ago but we didn't have the time to edit it. Exams are coming. And we just found a very interesting site. Hehe. So yeah. Not much time. And Keep your reviews coming!!! ^________________^
