A/N: Thanks so much for your reviews Rory and Potter Reader.

Preparations

The week after Ron had his vision passed in a blur of activity. The trios morning runs continued as to did the afternoon lessons where they were sometimes joined by order members who were preparing for the attack. Unlike the first day however all four of them worked together with only one of the aurors teaching. It was usually either Kingsley or Moody who took the sessions as Tonk's had returned to work. What surprised the group most was the similarities between Moody's teaching habits and those of Barty Crouches when he was being Moody at Hogwart's. The group worked hard and was progressing at a strong pace. Mostly Harry and Ron paired up for the sessions as Ginny could use the extra help that Hermione could provide. Tensions between the trio and Ginny were strained at best. Ginny had taken it personally when the three of them were allowed to go to order meetings and she wasn't, things got even worse when they wouldn't discuss the things that they found out with her.

The day after the trio's first order meeting the four of them were sitting around the table eating their lunch when Ginny bought up the topic of the meeting "So what happened at the meeting guys?" the three all shared a look, not only weren't they meant to tell anyone about the meetings but they didn't want to. For one Harry didn't want anyone at school to know about the prophecy and while he knew that he could trust Ginny he just felt that it would create way too many problems for her to know and for another they didn't really want to talk about Ron's vision as it was a taboo subject. Hermione answered being the most diplomatic of the three "You know we can't tell you, we would if we could." Ginny started to go the Weasley red, not a good sign as far as the other three were concerned "Don't you remember how it felt to be left out, last summer we weren't allowed to know anything and Dumbledore was adamant about keeping us all out of the loop. What has changed now?" luckily for the trio Molly came in to see what all of the shouting was about but unlucky for Ginny when Molly worked out what was happening. "Virginia Weasley, you are too young to know about what happens at the meetings. If I catch you questioning Ron, Hermione or Harry again I don't know what I'll do….. Wait yes I'll take your wand for the week" Ginny gasped but that threat was too much for her to take "I am not a child. I'm only a year younger than Ron but even so I am much more mature than he'll ever be. And Hermione is only a few months older than me, if I'm too young so are they." The trio shot Ginny dirty looks, it was one thing to try and get info out of them but to try and stop them was another matter. Molly also looked at her daughter, she was right about one thing, they were too young for the order but Dumbledore had insisted that it was time for them to be involved. "Ginny, I am going to ignore what you have just said and put it down to having been cooped up here for so long but if you ever talk to me like that again you will be in deep trouble my dear." And with that she left the room.

The meeting that occurred that night was all that the trio believed it would be. There were questions that questioned the validity of Dumbledore's sources. Most people in the order who weren't apart of it the last time couldn't believe that Voldemort would begin his attacks in such an open and horrifying manner but Dumbledore was quick to point out that Voldemort's return had already been announced so his next goal would be to create fear among the population again and that one of the best ways to do that would be by attacking at a large public event. Viktor Krum's reaction was not really what Harry and Ron were expecting "So I catch the snitch and then the dementors come in and then death eaters start to attack. Would you like me to ask the team if they could help with the fighting." Dumbledore vetoed the idea and went on to explain that he had been in a meeting with Fudge earlier that day and how Fudge was going to inform all of the players of the danger and to ask for their help himself. The rest of the meeting passed quickly, it was organised which order members would go to the match unluckily for the Weasley's Bill, Fleur and Arthur were meant to be accompanying the order along with Moody and Lupin. Tonks was going but as part of the auror contingent and many other members had also made plans to attend. It was Kingsley's job to stay at home and guard the kids as Fudge still believed him to be living at Privet Drive with Harry. Moody offered the lessons that they were giving for the kids to any members who felt they needed a brush up on their skills. Dumbledore proceeded to close the meeting.

Two days after the second meeting was held Snape felt his arm burn violently. He quickly wrapped up the potion he was working on and informed Dumbledore that he had been summoned. With that he made his way to place where he could apparate to meet Voldemort. He arrived and made his way into Voldemort's meeting room. He walked into the room and made his way over to Voldemort and dropped to his knees. "Good afternoon My Lord, I hope that you are well?" Voldemort looked down at the cowering Snape "Yes I am well Severus. Rise" Snape stood and made his way to his place in the circle never once turning his back on Voldemort. As more people entered the room and performed the same procedure Snape made sure that his mind was clear. He didn't want Voldemort knowing that he knew about the attack or about his loyalties.

Finally everyone had appeared that had been summoned and Voldemort opened the meeting. "I have a major treat for all of you." The looks of excitement that could be seen around the circle disgusted Snape but he kept his face passive as Voldemort continued "I have gained the dementors alliance to help in my fight to eradicate mudbloods and half-bloods." There was lots of murmuring among the members who were not incarcerated in Azakaban at the time of the revolt. "Crucio" he pointed his wand at one of the newer recruits who was being particularly noisy in his praises of Voldemort "I did not give any of you permission to speak. Now that wasn't your treat. I have decided that we will hold an attack on the upcoming quidditch match between England and Bulgaria." This time there was absolute silence but you could feel the excitement in the air. In line with Voldemort's mood swings he once again shouted the infamous incantation "Crucio" this time at the person next to Snape. "Well don't you have anything to say fools?" All of a sudden the mutterings started again and the blubbering idiot Crabbe senior stepped forward "Thank you for this opportunity My Lord. It has been a long time since I have been able to torture anyone." Voldemort smiled an eerie smile that was both frightening and disgusting. "As soon as the snitch is caught the dementors will immediately enter the field. After a couple of minutes when chaos has been created, that is when you will emerge from the crowd. Lucius will be leading the attack as I will not be going. If there is any questions ask Lucius. Dismissed" And with that they all left the room excluding Voldemort and Pettigrew. This is how all meetings went. Voldemort seemed to tire of them easily and then dismiss them. Everything that needed to be discussed was done away from Voldemort, he didn't bother himself with the details. Snape was informed by Lucius that he would be part of the cohort going and he was to buy a ticket for the game. Snape disapparated away to inform Dumbledore that Ron's vision was correct.

Upon Snape's report Dumbledore decided that another meeting wasn't necessary instead he decided that he would give the trio their first invisibility lesson that night. The rest of the day passed quickly for all. Dumbledore informed the trio that he would see them in the drawing room after tea and they all hurried to finish their meal and made their way to the drawing room where they could talk while they waited for Dumbledore. Unfortunately for them Dumbledore didn't feel the same sense of urgency and they found themselves waiting for him for a good 20 minutes. When Dumbledore finally entered the room he made some small talk with the three of them and finally got down to business. Dumbledore explained to the three of them that the reason why most people couldn't become invisible was because they didn't connect with their inner magic. He explained that initially they would spend a lot of time meditating until they could feel like they had connected with their magic.

Dumbledore made it clear that it could take up to months before they were able to connect with their magic enough to manipulate it and then months after to progress to become invisible. He also explained to Ron and Harry that it could help with Ron's visions and Harry's occlumency. At the mention of occlumency Harry's face turned dangerously red but he didn't say anything. However Dumbledore picked up on his dissatisfaction and went on to explain that he would be having occlumency lessons with him rather than Professor Snape when he returned to school. Harry's face returned to its normal colour. He was quite pleased that he would be able to work with Dumbledore rather than Snape. Dumbledore then proceeded to take them through some guided meditation. Ron, even with the soothing influence of Ares managed about 5 minutes of meditation before he was making amazing saves on his broom during imaginary quidditch matches. Harry managed about 10 minutes before he started to wonder about other things, namely Sirius. Hermione however was the worst of all. No longer than a minute had passed before her mind started wondering about the theoretical concepts behind such a phenomenon and then surprisingly her thoughts wondered to the red haired boy who lay next to her. She was amazed at how he had changed. Looking after Ares had certainly matured him both physically and emotionally. Ron was certainly not the lanky boy of his past but then after watching him carry Ares sometimes Hermione could understand where his muscles had come from. It wasn't long until Dumbledore put a close to the meditation session and once again reiterated that it would take time before they would be ready. He also told them that he was much older when he was taught. Dumbledore asked if they had started working on any lesson plans for their club before leaving when they told them that they hadn't really thought too much about it yet.

When the three of them were in bed Hermione wanted to talk about the session that they had with Dumbledore, she was disappointed that it was going to take so long. Each of the boys agreed. Hermione then started to make chitchat. The boys knew that there was something on her mind, Hermione just wasn't a chit chat sort of person, especially when they were in bed. Normally they just said goodnight to each other and fell asleep. Harry decided that he would make the first move and see what Hermione had on her mind, "Hermione is there something that you want to tell us? Ask us?" Harry asked. Hermione looked startled at the rapid change of topics but answered anyway "Well now that you have mentioned it Harry, there is. I was thinking maybe we should start trying to become animagus as well." Both boys looked shocked at her suggestion. They already had so much on their plate. Dumbledore obviously wanted lesson plans and such for the D.A., they had the defence lessons, invisibility training and Ron had to look after Ares and Hermione wanted to add Animagus training to it as well. Harry answered when it became obvious that Ron wasn't going to "Hermione, we are awfully busy already and according to Sirius it takes ages to become an animagus." Hermione had obviously anticipated this question as she didn't waste a second in answering "Well you're right Sirius did say that it took them awhile to do it, but he also mentioned that Wormtail was a major reason why it took so long." Both Harry and Ron scowled at the mention of the rat animagus but Hermione took no notice and continued "We also have the advantage over the mauraders as they hadn't done much high power magic and we certainly have. I have found some books already and it looks easy enough. And we do have plenty of time to study it, Dumbledore is only giving us lessons whenever he has a spare moment so most of our evenings are free and we could always use the mornings. The boys both nodded. Once Hermione got an idea into her head it was very hard to stop her. They both told her that it was a good idea and that they would talk more about it later and they all went to sleep.

The next days training session proved to be the most interesting yet. Moody had managed to get another Boggart and he was planning on using it for order members who wanted to practise with dementor look alikes before the attack was held. Ron, Hermione and Harry were playing around with it, they knew from 3rd year that it would change forms whenever a new person stepped in front of it and being the teenagers that they were they decided that they would each have a turn stepping in front of it to see if their fears had changed from when they were younger. Harry stepped forward first, he was pretty sure that things wouldn't have changed and he would still be afraid of the dementors and he was right the boggart saw him and immediately shifted forms to take the shape and feel of the dementor. The plan was for Ron to go next, he made his way in front of the dementor and was surprised to see Hermione staring back at him. He couldn't believe it, he certainly didn't feel the same horrifying tightening of his chest when he saw Hermione that he did when he saw a spider. Hermione screamed when she saw herself staring back at Ron and Harry fell back into the chair, he was just as shocked as both of them. Hermione decided to brave what stood before her, she pushed Ron aside and then the boggart had suddenly taken the shape of Luna Lovegood. Both Ron and Harry laughed out loud. it was extremely funny that what Hermione was most afraid of was a young woman who's naivety was well known among people who knew her. Hermione didn't laugh when she saw Luna looking back at her, instead she wanted to cry. Hermione knew why she most feared Luna. She had many of the qualities that she herself strived for. She was independent, brave, loyal and smart but most of all she feared Luna because she had a crush on Ron. Ginny had informed her last year of Luna's crush on Ron and now it was coming back to haunt her. Finally she made her way forward to shut the boggart back into the cupboard where Moody was keeping it. Hermione then turned to Ron and shouted "Your worst fear is me?" Ron didn't know how to answer. Like Hermione he knew where the fear came from. Ron was afraid that Hermione could never love him as he did her so he said nothing. Hermione started to shout again when it became clear that Ron wasn't going to say anything "If I'm so horrible why do you hang around me?" and without waiting for a reply she stormed off. Hermione joined them again after 10 minutes but she did not talk to either boy for the rest of the day, not even when she got into bed with them.

The night before the attack another quick meeting was held. It really wasn't necessary for the trio to attend but they were still too paranoid about missing out on something that they attended anyway. All that happened was that everybody confirmed where they would be sitting for the duration of the match and which death eaters were planning on being there. At the end of the meeting everybody wished each other good luck and promised to meet back here once everything had been taken care of back at the quidditch pitch. All occupants of Dumbledore's house woke early the next day and breakfast was a relatively quiet affair. Before they all knew it, it was time for all of them to leave. Ginny cried as her father left as she had been told that an attack was going to be held, Molly tried her best not to cry as well but proved unsuccessful as she embraced Bill. Out of all people in the house Kingsley Shacklebolt handled it the worst. The trio decided that he really wasn't meant to be a spectator and that next time the order should really find a way to allow him to fight. The trio, the twins and Ginny tried to find the game on the Wizarding network but Molly must have worked out what they were doing and quickly ushered them out of the drawing room. Kingsley ended up deciding that the best way to deal with the waiting was activity and had soon gathered the trio up and told them to get ready to go for the run that they had missed from earlier that morning. Harry, Ron and Hermione changed into the appropriate attire and made their way to the front door. Kingsley was waiting there for them and he set off without saying a word. It wasn't long before he had set a pace that left them all gasping for air and soon Hermione shouted at him to slow down. Kingsley either didn't hear the request or chose to ignore it because he didn't slow down at all. Hermione once again shouted at him to slow down and once again Kingsley didn't.

Finally Harry and Ron decided to take action, they could tell that Hermione couldn't take much more, she was struggling for breath and she had turned a pale colour. "Stop" they both shouted together. Kingsley whipped his head around, he obviously hadn't heard Hermione's earlier calls to slow down because he looked appalled at the sight of her. She had sat down on the ground and was trying unsuccessfully to get her breathing under control. She decided that she was going to need some help as she had once had an asthma attack like this when she was little. She started to write ASTHMA on the ground next to her and then she started to point to the ground as there was no way in which Hermione would have been able to talk. Kingsley worked out what Hermione was getting at, luckily as an auror he had quite a bit of medi-wizard training and he pointed his wand at Hermione and spoke quietly "Bronchial broaden." He waited a second and then spoke again "Oxygenate" Hermione's lungs had inflated with air and once again she could breathe. It took another 5 minutes though before she could talk properly during which time Kingsley monitored her closely, it wasn't good form to lose the people that you were meant to be guarding because you had made them run to fast. Hermione spoke "Thanks, can we go home now." Harry and Ron let out a sigh of relief, they had been incredibly worried about her. Kingsley nodded and the boys slowly helped Hermione to their feet.

Harry, Hermione, Ron and Kingsley were shocked to find that quite a few order members were waiting for them when they returned, all of the Weasley's, as well as Fleur, Moody and Moony were there much to the relief of the returning party. They promptly started asking questions as they showed Hermione over to a chair but they received no replies except that they would tell their stories when all of the order members returned. Bill and Fleur sat together absorbed in the sight of each other. Obviously they were very much in love and were feeling much closer after being so close to death and destruction. Over the next hour more and more order members dropped in and Fred, George and Ginny were asked to leave the kitchen as the debrief meeting would start soon. For a change Ginny left quietly but there was nothing quiet about Fred and George's departure. They put forth every argument they possibly could and the trio had to admit they had a point but it wasn't their place to invite them to join the order or the meeting. The last order members to return were Snape and Dumbledore and they arrived simultaneously and the meeting was called to order. What the trio heard saddened them. Approximately 40 people had received a death eater kiss but this wasn't a bad statistic considering the number of dementors that were present at the game. The number of people that died though was a different story. Even with a large number of order members and the full auror division present 20 people had been murdered with the avada kedava curse and approximately 100 people had been put under the cruciatus curse. Only 10 death eaters had been captured and the order was disappointed to hear that it was only new recruits that really couldn't tell them anything. On a happier note none of the order members had received injuries but a lot of the newer members were having trouble coping with what they had seen. Dumbledore had managed to recruit a psycho-medi witch to the order and she made herself available to all members that felt that they needed counselling. When the meeting ended the trio excused themselves and made their way up to the privacy of their room.

When they entered the room they sat quietly thinking about what they learnt. Finally Hermione spoke "I can't believe all of that destruction could occur when we already knew about it." Harry nodded but Ron didn't react. Ron was reliving the vision he had and he could only imagine what it was like in real life. Ares voice cut into his thoughts though "You can't dwell on it Ron, you did everything that you could.  You probably helped save countless others today by helping the order." Ron didn't even try and understand what Ares was saying and found himself saying aloud "I didn't I could have gone there and helped." Ron and Hermione were startled. Ron certainly hadn't been listening to their conversation. Hermione asked carefully "What was that Ron?" Ron was embarrassed, he hadn't realised that he had talked aloud. "It's nothing Hermione" Hermione didn't look convinced and she shared a look with Harry.

Ares realised that Harry and Hermione were going to help Ron so he stayed uncharacteristically quiet. Harry started to speak "It's not nothing Ron, now what is it?" Ron once again shook his head and then Hermione whipped out her wand, "Tell us Ron before I hex you." Ron stole a look at her, she was going to go through with it, he could tell. He took a deep breath "I was remembering the vision that I had, I remembered how all of the little kids kept screaming when they were put under the cruciatus curse and then Ares butted his sneaky little nose into my head and told me that I couldn't have done anything else to help. What you heard was my reply to him." Both Harry and Hermione looked sheepishly at him. Ron hadn't told them anything about what he had seen in his vision, they certainly didn't expect graphic details about young children under the cruciatus curse. Harry who was feeling the same sort of guilt and helplessness was the one to respond to Ron's statement "Ares is right, you couldn't have done anything you have to learn to let go of the guilt. I'm still learning, I was feeling incredibly guilty when they were explaining about what the death eaters had done but I'm trying to tell myself that I can't change everything and that I can only do my best, eventually my time is going to come to kill Voldemort but until then I  can't keep feeling guilty and neither can you. This all Voldemort's fault not yours or mine."

It wasn't long before Molly called them down for tea. Tea turned out to be a joyous occasion despite the earlier days events. They relived Viktor's catch of the snitch and Mundungus thanked Ron for letting him in on the outcome of the match. Apparently he had made a rather large wager on it and he was reaping the rewards with a nice full bag of galleons. Once dinner had finished Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Tonk's, the twins, Bill, Fleur and Viktor passed the night by playing stupid little kid games. When it was time to go to bed Hermione gave a heartfelt goodbye to Viktor who was due to return home now that his quidditch game had been played. Ron was lucky that Harry and Ares were on hand to stop him from doing something really stupid when Hermione placed a small kiss on Viktor's face. Viktor who didn't really know the depth to which Ron was jealous of him made his way over to Harry and Ron to say his goodbyes to them also. Unfortunately for all involved Ron managed to finally say exactly what he was thinking. Viktor stood before Ron his hand extended just like it was when he had arrived. "I will see you soon Ron" Ron took his hand in a strong grip and started to squeeze "If I was to see you at the doors of hell, then it would be too soon." With that said Ron walked away leaving a very confused Viktor, an embarrassed Harry and an extremely angry Hermione. "What was that?" he asked the other two, Harry went to explain that he was having a hard time referring to his visions but Hermione got in before him "Ron's jealous of you?" Viktor nodded, jealousy was one thing that he understood.