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Chapter 5

The surprise attack

Harry woke up in the morning to the roaring of Mrs.Weasley "GET UP! YOU'RE GONNA BE LATE FOR THE TRAIN. EVERYBODY COME DOWN HERE. NOW!"

Harry sat up and noticed that Ron was still asleep.

"Ron." Harry shook him a little. "Ron, get up."

"What?" Ron mumbled, half asleep, "Can't a guy get some sleep around here?"

"No." Hermione had just come in. "Ron, honey, you really do need to get up unless you want your mum to be yelling at you again."

"Okay." Ron mumbled, getting out of bed. He opened his trunk and took out some muggle clothes to change into.

"How'd you do that?" asked Harry in amazement. "You're practically the only one that he would actually listen to."

Hermione smiled devilishly, and said "I have my ways" before leaving the room.

After Harry and Ron got dressed, they went down to get breakfast. They had just poured some coffee into their cups when Mrs.Weasley took them away.

"Mum. I was drinking that."

"No time, we have to get you to Kings Cross on time. Now hurry up and pack your trunk and bring it downstairs."

"But—"

"NOW!"

"Okay, okay."

Harry and Ron had no choice but to go back upstairs and drag their trunks down the stairs again.

When they started going back downstairs, when-

--crack—

The twins Apparated right before them. "Here, let us help you with those."

"No thanks, we can manage them on our own—

Locomotor Trunk

The two trunks rose up in the air and began going down the stairs, gaining speed every second. At the end of the stairs, they were met by a surprised Sirius, already wearing his disguise. He barely had time to get out of the way before the trunks landed right at the spot that he was standing a moment ago.

"YOU IDIOTS!" yelled Mrs.Weasley. "YOU COULD HAVE DONE HIM SERIOUS DAMAGE. DO YOU EVER THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING BEFORE YOU DO IT?"

"Molly, it's okay. I didn't even get a scratch." Said Sirius, wiping himself off and looking a little shaken.

"JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN DO MAGIC NOW DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU NEED TO KILL PEOPLE!"

"Molly, it's okay. They just didn't know what they were thinking. Besides, no harm done, right?"

"But something could have happened. They could have injured you with those trunks."

"But they didn't. So come on molly, get in the car, I'll round up the rest of them."

"Okay, fine." Mrs.Weasley said and went to wait in the car.

Sirius grinned up at Harry. "Get down here. Lupin, Tonks, Kingsley, Arthur, and Mad-Eye should be here any minute now."

"Why are they coming with us?"

"You still need your guards to protect you in case something happens. And they are—

"Already here." Growled a voice. It was Mad-Eye with Lupin, Kingsley, Arthur and Tonks.

"Wotcher, Harry." Said Tonks.

"Hello Harry. Ron. Fred. George. Hermione.Susan." Said Lupin.

"Does everybody have all their stuff?"

"I think so." Chorused Harry, Hermione, Susan, Ginny and Ron.

"Come on, get in the car."

"Who provided the cars?" Harry asked Sirius.

"The ministry. They gave me and Dumbledore a full apology and let us borrow the cars."
The ride to Platform 9 ¾ was uneventful except for the fact that Harry accidentally stepped on Crookshank's tail, making Crookshanks go wild. By the time that they got to the platform, everybody had scratches on their arms and legs.

"Come now, Harry, Susan, you go first, Hermione and Ron, you go next. Then the rest of us will go."

Once everybody went through the brick wall, they found themselves facing a train called the Hogwarts Express. The boarding whistle was blown.

"All right, get on now."

"Don't forget to be careful and don't wonder the school corridors at night."

"But most important of all, have fun and try to get as many detentions as possible. You can pull a prank on the Slytherins. If you want some ideas, Harry, you know what to do." Sirius said, grinning.

"Sirius." Said Mrs.Weasley. "They need to lay low, not try to attract attention."

Sirius shrugged. "They do need to have some fun this year. What good is boarding school if you can't pull pranks?"

"Sirius!"

"Oh, all right, behave yourself and don't get in trouble." Sirius winked at the five of them.

After exchanging many goodbyes, the gang got onto the train and found an empty compartment.

"Uh, Ron and I need to go to the prefects meeting. We'll be back in about 15 minutes." Said Hermione.

Ron and Hermione left.

"I betcha that they'll be back in an hour." Said Ginny, smirking.

Harry sighed heavily. "You're probably right"

They sat there for a few minutes in silence. The train gained speed and they began moving. Ginny was reading a magazine, Susan was studying from a book and Harry was looking out the window. Then suddenly, the train stopped so fast, that Harry and Susan fell out of their seats. Everything went dark.

"What's going on?" asked Ginny who was the only one that didn't fall out of her seat.

Lumos (A/N: I don't know how to spell it)

Harry and Susan took out their wands and did the same.

Harry looked out the window and gasped.

"What? What did you see?" asked Susan.

"You don't wanna know."

Just then different colored sparks and spells were shot in their direction.

"Get down." Said Harry, forcing both Ginny and Susan on all fours.

"What the hell is going on?" Susan whispered urgently.

"Death Eaters and Dementors."

Ginny gasped and Susan became paler.

"They're outside and I think that they want to take over Hogwarts Express."

"But they couldn't. They wouldn't." said Ginny, trembling.

"I think that if they really want to, they could." Said Susan. "That is what they did in Brazil with all those muggles. They captured a train and then blew it to pieces. My-my aunt Louise was on that train. She died."

"Oh, I'm so sorry." Gasped Ginny.

"She-she was my favorite aunt and she—

Susan was cut off by the intercom above.

"STAY DOWN ON THE FLOOR. DON'T GET OUT OF YOUR COMPARTMENT UNTILL WE ARRIVE AT HOGWARTS. I REPEAT, STAY DOWN ON THE FLOOR AND DON'T GET OUT OF YOUR COMPARTMENT."

Suddenly the train lunged ahead. Harry, Susan and Ginny were thrown to the side against the moving train. The spells continued to be shot at the train, one hit the window of Harry's compartment and it shattered, but the Death Eaters and Dementors slowly fell behind. In less than 15 minutes, they were already arriving at Hogwarts. Once they were there, everyone was in a hurry to get out.

Just as they stepped off the train, Hermione and Ron joined them.

"Harry, oh my god, the death eaters, they wanted to take over the train. And the Dementors tried to get on the train, but the door had a charm on it so they couldn't get through. We were at the front and we heard them. There was so many of them, I thought that we were all going to die. Oh." Hermione flung herself on Ron's shoulder and started crying.

"Its okay, it's okay." Ron stroked her hair.

"We better get to the castle, the feast is about to begin." Said Harry.

"Well, it was an interesting day back? Right?" Ginny said uncertainly.

Nobody answered and the five of them went up to the castle.

"Potter, Weasley, Ms.Calsier, come with me." Called Professor McGonagall.

What did I do now? Wondered Harry. It must have shown on his face because the next thing that Professor McGonagall was:

"Now Potter, there is no need to look so worried. I just need a word with you."

They followed her to an empty classroom.

"Now. Potter, Weasley, I will not be giving you Potions classes as I said in your letter since the new Potions Professor has lowered the grade to Acceptable so you can be in the class. Ms.Calsier, for as long as you're staying here, you will be in the Gryffindor House. Okay? Now, one more thing."

She took five miniature hourglasses and gave them to them. The two extras she gave to Ron.

"These are Time Turners, one for each Potter, Weasley, Ms.Calsier, Ms.Granger and Ms.Weasley. Give one to all these people. They are going to be for emergencies only. Like if something very important has come up, you can turn back and go to Dumbledore or me to tell about it. But remember, no fooling around with it. And if you will turn back time, remember, you must not be seen. Ask Ms.Granger about it. She will know. That's all so you may go back to the Great Hall." The three walked out of the room and entered the Great Hall.

"I can't believe it?" exclaimed Ron. "We have our own Time Turners. Isn't it cool?"

"Yeah," said Harry. "But it's for emergencies only so we can't play around with it."

"Oh quit being such a party pooper." Said Susan playfully.

Harry laughed and Ron scowled. They walked in silence for a minute.

"Susan." Said Harry.

"Yeah."

"How come McGonagall said that for as long as you're staying here, you will be in Gryffindor?"

"Once You-Know-Who is defeated, or my parents will decide to go back to Brazil, I'll stay here, but afterwards, I'm going to move back. I didn't move here to live permanently."

"Oh."

Harry wasn't happy about this. When he finally seemed to find the girl that he really liked, she would be moving away from him, this year or the next. They entered the Great Hall and found out that Dumbledore was about to make a speech. They quickly sat down by Hermione and Ginny, and listened.

Ron noticed that Harry looked sort of sad but he didn't say anything. He gave Hermione one time turner and Ginny the other and explained about it in a whisper.

"Welcome to Hogwarts. A new year begins now. As you all know, on your way here, Hogwarts express was attacked by Death Eaters. Luckily, you escaped them. But for those of you that are afraid that they would try and attack you here, at Hogwarts, (a lot of people were), not to be afraid. Nobody can harm you as long as you're on Hogwarts grounds. If you want to know exactly why, read Hogwarts, a History. Also, please welcome two new Professors who will join us this year. Please give a round of applause for Professor Solpo, your Defense against the Dark Arts teacher.

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A tall pretty witch stood up and bowed. She looked no older than 22.

"Also please welcome Professor Koljinky, your new Potions Master and new head of Slytherin.

Nobody clapped for him; everybody stared at the weird little man. The Slytherins seemed really angry since he was going to be their Head.

"And now, enough of speeches, time for food." Food magically appeared on the four House Tables. Soon everybody was eating, joking and laughing or chatting and gossiping about the attack.

Harry put some food on his plate and started eating. After everybody was done, the tables wiped themselves magically clean.

In the Hall, hagrid caught up with them, "Hey. I didn' see you. How's life treatin' ya?"

"Fine." Answered Harry.

"Yeah, well, I'm still teaching Magical Creatures, so if you want to, you know, take the class, you can."

"Thanks Hagrid. We definitely will."

"Bye Hagrid." Called Hermione.

"See ya tomorrow." Said Ron.

"Who is he?" asked Susan.

"He's the gamekeeper and the Professor for Care of Magical Creatures." Harry answered Susan's question.

"Great."

The Gryffindors, all sleepy, went up to their dormitory.

"Everybody, listen up. The new password is "Bloomingdale."

"Oh no." said Neville. "I won't be able to remember the password, again."

The portrait opened and all the Gryffindors got in. The girls went up to their Dormitory and the boys went up to theirs.

Harry changed into his pj's and fell asleep the minute his head touched the pillow.
Meanwhile in the girls Dormitory
"Oh you are just going to love it here!" exclaimed Hermione to Susan. "It's going to be so fun."

"Doing what? Studying?" said Lavender rudely.

"No." said Hermione slowly. "I decided to change my schedule for this year. Instead of always studying, I'll be spending more time hanging out with people."

"Like who, Ron?" Said Lavender with a scorn.

While nobody said anything, Hermione looked at Lavender. "Are you jealous or something? Do you like Ron?"

When Lavender didn't answer, Parvati said "Of course she does. She's liked him for like ever."

"Oh, I never knew."

"No I don't. I like Dean instead of that redheaded, hot tempered guy."

"Hey. Don't call him that."

"OK, we believe you." Said Ginny.

"Yeah, of course we do." Put in Susan.

"Sure." Said Hermione softly. She had never known that Lavender had a crush on Ron. Maybe I should tell him, she thought. But the again, what he doesn't know won't hurt him.

"Like I'm supposed to believe that." Lavender said, getting into bed and pulling her hangings shut.

"Don't worry, she'll come around." Said Parvati encouragely to Hermione. "She's just suffered a severe disappointment."

"So," Ginny said brightly, "Did any of you get that brand new perfume Saralyn? It smells so good."

"But it's so expensive." Put in Hermione. "I mean, it's like 50 Galleons for one bottle. You have to be very rich to afford it."

"Who was talking about buying it? What if it was sent to you by some unknown owl without a letter or even a note?" Said Ginny smugly.

"Oh, my god, Ginny, you have a secret admirer." Gasped Susan.

"Well, come on, tell us about it" urged Hermione.

"Okay, well, the owl arrived one morning carrying a package. It wasn't familiar but it was very ugly. As soon as I untied the package, it flew away. There was a note but it just said to the hot cutie Ginny Weasley. It didn't say from whom though. And that's the end."

"What did the owl look like?"

"It was an eagle with brown f—

Parvati let out a gasp of surprise.

"What is it?" said Hermione.

"Oh, you're better off not knowing."

"Come on, tell us."

"Well..."

"Please?"

"Oh all right. That owl, or actually nasty eagle, belongs to that ass, Draco Malfoy."

Ginny dropped the glass of water that she was holding.

"How do you know?"

"There's only one owl that looks that horrible."

"Who's Draco Malfoy?" asked Susan blankly.

"He's this horrible Slytherin that acts like a bitch. He detests the Weasley family, I know that's for sure." Said Parvati.

"Hmm...It seems that Malfoy fancies you." Said Hermione, thinking.

"Um, I better go lay down or I might vomit at the thought of that." Said Ginny, turning green.

Everybody laughed.

"We might as well all go to sleep." Said Susan.

"Yeah, well night."

"See you tomorrow."

The girls exchanged good nights and went to sleep.
The next morning the classes started. In the Great Hall, Professor McGonagall handed out the schedules to all the Gryffindors.

"If you want to go to some other classes, feel free to go even if you don't have a book. However, the classes listed you must attend." Said McGonagall briskly. Harry looked at his schedule. His first class was Transfiguration.

"What's your first class?" asked Ron.

"Transfiguration." Answered Harry.

"Same here." Said Susan.

"And here." Said Hermione.

"Okay then, let's go."

They finished up their breakfast and were about to exit the Great Hall when Ginny rushed in front of them and said, "Hermione, Susan, can I talk to you two? It's very important."

Exchanging looks with Susan, Hermione said, "Okay. Guys, can you wait for a second?"

The boys nodded.

"Thanks."

Ginny led them to an empty classroom as though not to be overheard.

"What happened?" asked Susan urgently.

"I-I Malfoy said hi to me in the hallway and complimented my hair and makeup. And I completely lost my mind and said you don't look so bad yourself back to him. And before I had time to react, he-he pinned me to the wall and kissed me. Can you believe that? Eww! I just ran away." Ginny said this at top speed.

"Well, he can't be that bad of a boy." Susan said reasonably. "He might be nice, Ginny; you should go for him, while he's still available."

Both Ginny and Hermione looked at Susan as though she was crazy.

"You've never seen him, have you?" Hermione said

"Obviously not." Susan said.

"Well, don't worry, Ginny. Just try to act normal around him and pretend nothing happened. Ignore the old jerk." Hermione said.

"He sure likes to kiss you. Did anybody see you?"

"I don't think so or it would have been all around the school. I guess I will just ignore him. Come on, we'll be late for our first class. And please don't tell anybody about this."

"You have our word."

The three girls headed out of the classroom and met the boys.

"Well, what was it about, Ginny?" asked Ron.

"I'm not telling you."

"But I'm your brother."

"It's- it's a girl thing."

And with that Ginny left

"What did she want?" Harry asked Susan.

"I can't tell you. It's her business."

"Hermione." Ron said hopefully. "You know that we never keep secrets from each other? What did Ginny need to talk to you about that were so important?"

Hermione just shook her head.

"I'm her brother, I deserve to know."

Hermione didn't say anything.

Seeing that they wouldn't be able to get out a single word from the girls, Ron just sighed and they went to Transfiguration.

Unfortunately, they had Transfiguration with the Slytherins this year and Malfoy was in this class. He kept turning around and smirking at them in an annoying way.

What the hell is he smirking about? Ron wrote on a piece of paper and pushed it towards Hermione. Hermione read it and put a finger to her lips. This is getting way to annoying, thought Ron. My own girlfriend won't tell me what's going on with my sister and my enemy.

Hermione wrote a note to Susan, pointing at Malfoy. Susan looked grossed out and wrote back on the paper, "no wonder Ginny looked so green yesterday". Both of them giggled.

Harry threw a look at Susan, saying, "What is going on?" she didn't answer, just pointed to the teacher, symbolizing that he should listen.

After the class, Harry asked, "Is there something wrong with Malfoy. Why was he looking at us with madden superioty. What does he know that we don't?"

"Nothing. Nothing at all." Said Hermione very quickly, which was a mistake.

Ron looked at Hermione suspiciously, "We'll find out what's going on, one way or the other. But it will just be easier if you tell us."

"You'll have to find out the hard way." Said Hermione.

"Well, fine, just don't tell us anything, ok? So we won't tell you nothin'."

"Ron, it's not your business."

"Yes it is. She's my sister and she—

"Deserves to have some privacy." Susan finished for him.

"Lets get to lunch." Said Harry.

The rest of the day was a blur.

When they were back in the common room, they five some tried to get started on the humongus pile of homework that they were given.

"Hey Harry." Said Susan.

"Yeah."

"Did you post the time for the tryouts on the board yet?"

"Nope. I forgot. I might as well do it now."

The rest of the three gave Harry weird looks.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you. I'm captain of the Quidditch team. We need three more Chasers and maybe two beaters too."

"When is it going to be?" asked Ginny.

"This Friday."

"I thought that you already had two beaters." Said Hermione, frowning.

"They decided to quit the team because they got tired of being beaters."

"Oh."

Harry got out a piece of parchment, muttered a spell and started writing with his wand about the Quidditch tryouts. When he was done, he posted it on the board.

They didn't manage to finish all their homework in the evening so they gave up on it and went to sleep.
The next day they had two new teachers for Potions and Defense against the dark arts.

The first lesson was potions with the Slytherins. It turned out to be a pretty good lesson. Professor Koljinky didn't favor the Slitherins after all. He was actually nice and didn't bully Neville when he made the cauldron explode. But he did give them lots of homework.

After the lesson
"Well, it might be possible that we will actually like Potions with this new teacher" said Ron.

"Maybe." Harry shrugged.

They went to defense against the dark arts. The witch that was teaching was very smart, but instead of taking notes, all the boys stared at her beauty as she went on about curses. They did actually see what the curses did to you when she enlarged and hexed a butterfly. She also gave them an essay that they had to turn in by next Tuesday.

"Look at how much homework we already have." Ron complained, "We will never finish all of it in time."

"That's another weekend down the drain that's filled with homework." Said Harry.

"I hate to say it, but I agree." Said Susan.

"Nonsense. If you work fast, you'll get it all done." Said Hermione.

"Well, then help us get it done."

"Maybe."

The bell rang. As a result, Ron and Harry went to this class for training of Aurors, while Susan went to herbology and Hermione went to arithmacy.

The Auror class was interesting, but at the end, they were given even more homework.

By the time they were done in the evening, it was once again time to go to sleep.

In the girls' dormitory, Ginny was telling Hermione about the recent move that Malfoy tried to make on her.

"I was walking to herbology, when somebody grabbed my hand and forced me to go in the janitor's closet. It was Malfoy. He had bought me another present, but this time, it was this really cute toy bear and a pair of earrings. And he asked me out."

"Well, did you take it?" asked Susan

"Yes." And she showed them the bear and the earrings.

"Even if he is not exactly a good person, he does really like you. What did you do?"

"I just said thank you for the gift and that I will go out with you and got out of the closet"

"Let me guess, he wanted more." Said Hermione, grinning.

"Yep. We kissed."

"So what are you going to do now? Are you going to go out with him?" asked Susan.

"I will go out with him because, well, I sort of like him."

Hermione gasped. "But what about Krum?"

"Broke up with him a week ago. The long distance relationship wasn't working out."

"Well, if you're sure..." said Hermione.

"Yes, I have a feeling that he's changed."

"But it's just a feeling."

"But all the same, I will go out with him." Ginny remained persistent.

Susan grinned. "Just make sure your brother doesn't find out. He'll kill Malfoy alive and yell at you."

"Oh, but..." said Hermione.

"But nothing. I'm not changing my mind."

"Okay, fine, have a good date. Where are you going anyway?"

"He said on a broom ride on Saturday night."

"Sounds romantic."

"Whatever."

After a little bit of giggly conversation, the girls went to sleep.
A/N: Do you like it? You better cause it took me two days straight to type this up. Now, the next chapter won't be posted until I have 15 reviews or more. That's right, need four more reviews in order to post the next chapter. Peace.