Friday 8:10 am
"Definitely fool proof," Sen said looking at the notes and drawings they'd made. Ron nodded in agreement.
"All we need to do now is get the materials, gather up the power, and set it up," she said spreading several pages out in the grass of Firenze's class room.
"Have you talked to anyone else about it yet?" Ron asked then said, "I think we can get that in Hogsmeade."
"Good," Sen said, "And I think its been mentioned. We can't blame them for not doing much in helping, I mean Harry and Ginny are you know, and we know what that's like, same thing with Hermione and Draco- um, except they're, not like Harry and Ginny, I mean, like talking stuff over, the dungeons you know."
Ron nodded, "Yeah I know. I'll talk to them about it at breakfast."
"Okay," Sen said, "So I'll get this stuff and you can get all the other things, and we can meet again Saturday afternoon, is that long enough to find all the right things, do you think?"
"It should," Ron said and started gathering things up. Sen stood up and put the papers back into a folder which she put behind the log that had become the main place in the classroom of their studies.
8:23 am
Harry kissed Ginny softly as they headed for breakfast together putting an arm around her. His thoughts had been on Voldemort before. The teachers were investigated what he'd been doing while in the various body's of students. It was steadily getting worse. There wasn't much anyone could do to stop him from taking over people one at a time, except for the individual's will. The teachers were worried he was using a abandoned or secret room to prepare spell's of sorts or gather power, but as of yet, they'd found nothing.
The hallways were abandoned, this being the time where all the early risers had already gone to breakfast and the late risers weren't up yet. He couldn't help but wonder though if anyone already knew about he and Ginny, even though they hadn't said anything. He did feel guilty about not telling his friends, but Ginny told him Ron wouldn't like it, that they should rather ease the idea on them, or wait til nearer to the end of the year.
Ginny glanced up at him and asked, "How are you feeling?"
"Good," Harry answered then added, "Worried, about Voldemort."
Ginny nodded, "Ron and Sen have been working really hard on that. I think they've found a lot of good stuff. Ron mentioned them making a spell, but I don't know if they've finished anything yet."
"I can't help but feel a simple spell won't stop him," Harry said, stating his thoughts.
"I don't think its just a simple spell. I think its very complex," Ginny added, "You're the one who'll get him in the end, but we'll all be there, backing you up."
The clatter of breakfast noises drifted up the hallway and Harry stepped slightly to the side, walking next to Ginny now, instead of against her with their arms entwined around each other. Ron and Sen, along with Hermione, were already at the table. Harry sat down across from them with Ginny and started filling the plate that appeared in front of him.
"Worried about or match today?" Ron asked Harry, "We're against Ravenclaw."
Harry widened his eyes, "I completely forgot."
Ron grinned then said, "Been busy?"
Harry shrugged.
"You guys are going to have to meet my parents also," Hermione said as she finished up the last bit of food on her plate. Ron nodded, in the middle of putting a piece of sausage into his mouth.
"They already met Draco," she continued then paused to take a drink.
"Are they staying the rest of the year?" Ginny asked and Hermione nodded.
"I think that's really good," Ginny continued with a smile.
"The spell is almost done," Sen announced, "Ron and I are just going to get the materials, then the rest is just setting it up and practicing it, until the right time comes."
"Really?" Harry asked a slight note of nervousness in it.
"Don't worry, its foolproof," Sen assured him, catching that note.
"Ah," Harry said and bit his lip then started eating his food, worried not so much about the spells, but about confronting Voldemort.
5:50 pm
"Going against Ravenclaw then?" Hermione asked as she, Harry, Ron, Ginny and Sen walked towards the Quidditch field.
Ron nodded then glanced at Harry and said, "We should hurry and get changed. Game starts in ten minutes."
"It doesn't take ten minutes to walk to the locker rooms, they're right there," Hermione said then asked Harry suddenly, "Weren't you going out with Cho for a little bit, she's still on the Ravenclaw team isn't she?"
"Oh her," Ron said grinning, "Harry dumped her."
"I did not!" Harry retorted indignant then said a bit more sheepishly, "Actually, I kind of did, but I wouldn't really use the term dumped. We kind of drifted away, we weren't really meant for each other at all."
"Drifted away, pft," Ron said, "More like one day Cho is being all wimpy and trotting after you, then the next day she's moping around without you, looking all betrayed and stuff."
"She only liked me because she wanted me to replace Cedric or something and thought we could like, I don't know, confide in each other. Since the first person I'd go and confide in would be the girlfriend of a guy who got killed in the whole mess," Harry said sarcastically as though he'd really wanted to say that for a long time.
"Well," Hermione said then added as Harry and Ron entered the locker rooms, "Good luck, win this game for us."
"Shall we go find a seat?" Sen asked speaking up for the first time.
"Did you know about all this?" Hermione asked.
"I hardly even know who Cho is, I really only got to know Harry when I got to know Draco which was only around a month ago so.."
"I think finding a seat is going to be hard," Ginny said and Hermione and Sen followed her gaze to the stands which were almost full.
"I knew we should have come earlier," she said and continued walking then added, "We can always ask some people to move around."
The game started out fairly even with Ravenclaw leading only slight by ten points. The snitch was no where to be seen, only having been spotted once before getting away. The light was fading as two hours into the game with the score of 40 to 130, Ravenclaw in the lead. If the game went on much longer Ravenclaw could win, doubtless of who caught the snitch.
Suddenly a loud shout went up as Harry dived for the a small glimmery spot of gold up near the top of the stands. Harry turned his firebolt around and swerved after it, it moved quickly going around behind the stands but in a moment Harry came back around holding the snitch in his hand. The Ravenclaw's seeker on her old Silver65 didn't have a chance.
The three girls clambered down from the stands to go congratulate Harry and Ron. Though Ron's luck had been awful in guarding the goal post's they'd still won the game. Sweaty, dirty, and happy Harry and Ron went back into the locker rooms while Hermione and Sen headed back up the castle. Ginny said she'd wait for Harry and Ron then meet them in the Great Hall.
Hoping to catch a chance to talk to Draco, Hermione told Sen that she'd come back to the Great Hall in a little bit. In one of the main hallways she leaned against the wall waiting for Draco to walk by on the way back to the common room or on the way to the Great Hall. She spied him after a moment talking to another Slytherin with short black hair and a casual expression on his face.
"Hermione!" he yelled and Hermione stepped out walking next to him as they headed down the hallway.
"This is Cameo," Draco said and Hermione smiled at him uncertainly.
"Greetings padiwan," he said. Hermione glanced at Draco who shrugged.
"Ever seen Star Wars?" he asked with a grin, "It's a muggle movie."
Hermione shook her head then said, "I have heard of it though. A lot of boys who went to my elementary school had seen it. I think my dad has a few of the old figures also. Was that a quote?"
Cameo nodded then started to turn off down another hallway, "I'm going to the library, see you later baby and you too man."
"Baby?" Hermione asked stopping as other students disappeared off to various common rooms and other places.
Draco grinned then said, "He says 'sweet' also."
"New friend?" she asked and Draco nodded.
"Seems way better than Crabbe and Goyle," Hermione told him and Draco laughed.
"They didn't even realize I was back until like 3 days later!" he told her, "Only hung out with them because our parents were friends. All dead now I suppose."
Hermione noticed a slight shadow pass over his face, then he said, "You know, a lot of the death eaters down there were probably innocent wizards under the imperius curse."
Hermione nodded, "A lot of people died, but we can't change that. We and the other prisoners survived though, not all was lost."
She leaned over and kissed him softly and he responded, his lips meeting hers as they brought their arms about each other, closing their eyes, finding peace and love in each other's presence.
Suddenly Hermione heard a slight cough and turned to see Harry followed by Ron, Ginny, and Sen.
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