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Chapter 15: "The reason"

Three weeks had passed and Malfoy was fully recovered from his attack. Hermione hadn't left his side in any moment.

"We'll begin our training today." Harry announced one morning, reading a note Sirius had sent him. "I'll go and tell Luna." He said and headed towards Ravenclaw's table.

"I wonder who will be training us?" Hermione wondered.

"Dunno, maybe Harry." Ron answered.

"Yeah, Potty is the new DADA teacher, he's perfect for that job..." Malfoy added.

"Potty is back Malfoy, so I think he would appreciate being called by his own name..." Harry said from behind Draco making him jump.

"Tut-tut, now, Potty, you don't want to lecture me, do you?"

"Oh God! Shut up you two!" Hermione said exasperated. "Anyway, do you know who is going to be our trainer, Harry?"

"Nope, neither Dumbledore nor Sirius told me anything." (A/N: I know that neither/nor is rather formal, but I couldn't find a better way to put it... SORRY!!!)

"It's weird, isn't it?" Luna said making all the people in the vicinity jump.

"Yeah... I'd bet anything that Harry is the trainer." Neville said timidly.

"How did you know?" Ron said with difficulty, as his mouth was full of food.

"Dumbledore called me too."

"Come again, Longbottom?" Draco asked surprised.

"Draco, be nice to him!" Hermione told him with a reprimanding look.

"Not now, Mione...Go on." He ordered Hermione and Neville. Even though he wasn't in Slytherin any more, he still had that cold demanding personality. Hermione felt so angry she left the table. Draco ran after her and grabbed her waist pulling her back to the table and whispering in her ear: "Sorry..." and kissing her in the cheek.

"Dumbledore called me... and offered me to be a member of Order."

"Nah! C'mon Neville, that's it, you're so funny!" Ron said patting him in the arm.

"Why is it so hard to believe I can be brave and do something useful?" Neville shouted standing up. "You've always been the brave kids everyone liked! He tortured my parents until they went nuts! Is it so hard to believe that I want revenge?"

"He's got a point..." Draco said beginning to eat.

"Thank y... what?" Neville said surprised.

"You've got a point; I heard that last year you did a pretty good job... I'm in the order for the same reason... Voldemort killed my parents. I know how you feel, Longbottom. Ginger doesn't get these kinds of things, you know... and Potty isn't any better..."

"You know what, Malfoy? You're so right, but let me tell you something... I was the one that saved your butt when you were almost killed by Parkinson, maybe Potty won't be there next time..." Harry told Malfoy angrily.

"I'm not saying that you're not brave, Harriet... I'm just saying that Longbottom here needs to have a bit of recognition for his work."

"Yeah, we're sorry Neville; we didn't mean that you weren't brave or anything. It's just that you surprised us; we thought we were the only new members. And as hard as it is for me to admit this, Malfoy is right... You proved us all wrong when we thought you didn't have the guts to face Voldemort." Ron apologized.

"Yeah, it's all right, Ron... as I was saying before you interrupted me..." Neville had gained a lot of confidence since the previous year's events. "I'd bet anything Harry is the new teacher... I'd like that. It would be cool to have something like the DA's again."(A/N: Dumbledore's Army meetings that Harry used to organize in his fifth year to stand up to Umbridge in a secret room.)

"What are the DAs?" Malfoy asked puzzled, he knew Harry had been caught for doing something fishy the previous year, but he didn't know exactly why.

"It was a secret organization to piss off Umbridge."

"Ahhh... ok, so that's why you were caught... I'm astonished, Potter... Good job..."

"We kicked your ass too, remember?" Ron said.

"Yeah... your sister's curse left a mark..." Draco said, rubbing his left cheek.

"I'm glad it did."

"Ouch!" Draco said rubbing his forehead now.

"What is it? Where does it hurt?" Hermione asked worried.

"My... my head... ouch!"

"I'll take you to the hospital wing! Let's go!" Hermione said taking his from the ribs and taking him towards the giant doors of the Great Hall. When they got out, he experienced a 'sudden full recovery'... He took Hermione from her waist.

"Hey! I thought your head hurt!"

"Mmm... I was faking it..." He said looking at her like a child that has just misbehaved.

"Why did you do that? I got really worried, you know?"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry... I just wanted to show you something... without Potter and Weasley watching and interrupting..."

"What is so important?"

"This..." He said showing Hermione two gorgeous golden rings.

"They are beautiful!"

"They belonged to my mother, now I want you to have them."

"I have a better idea..." She said smiling and examining one of them.

"And what is that?"

"Why don't I wear one, and you wear the other?"

"As you wish mademoiselle. They are also supposed to have a special feature, but I can't find what it is..." He said. Hermione simply smiled at him. "And you already know what it is... right?"

"Yeah, they are called locators. They are very rare and valuable..."

"How do they work?"

"Easy. When one of the holders of the ring wants to see the person who has the other ring, he has to say 'Locate aparo' and he will appear in the place the other person is."

"Then you'll have me behind your back all the time..." He said still not letting go of her and kissing her.

"I wouldn't mind..."

"I guess I'll be spending a lot of time in the library..." He said as an afterthought.

"Why?" She asked taken aback.

"Isn't that your favourite place to be in?"

"You love to piss me off, don't you?"

"Yessss... I love to see you mad..."

Meanwhile in the Great Hall, Ginny had sat next to Ron and was now eating as fast as she could. She didn't want to be noticed.

"Hi there!" Hermione said as she entered the Great Hall again with Draco.

"Didn't you have a headache?" Harry asked suspiciously.

"They come and go..." He said looking at Hermione.

"Yeah, sure, like that mark on Mione's (A/N: this is a nick name for Hermione, like Herms or Hermy... because it's easier and faster to write... :P) neck... it comes and goes..." Ginny said suddenly. Hermione blushed and hid the mark with some of her hair.

"Anyway" Hermione said trying to change the subject quickly. "What time will they meet us?"

"Midnight." Harry answered.

"Ah... you too..." Ginny said disappointedly, she knew Harry was going to be there, but she somehow hoped they wouldn't call him.

"Don't tell me Dumbledore called you too!" Ron asked.

"Yes, and for your information..."

"Anyway" Harry interrupted trying to avoid one of their usual fights. "We have to meet at midnight; we will meet outside my room, the ones that are in the common rooms will wait us outside the Fat Lady's portrait and Luna will have to wait with Ron and me in our room."

"Luna will be in our room until midnight?" Ron asked.

"Yes, I suggested it, and I have to do some things in my office for some of my classes. So you'll have to stay with her."

Luna didn't seem to have heard anything of what Harry and Ron were saying.

"Did you understand, Luna?" Harry asked politely.

"Yeah, I'll have to spend time with Ronald and then Sirius will pick us up from your room, right?" Luna answered.

"Yeah" He said smiling. "I have to go now because I have a class to deliver. I'll see you around! Gin, try not to be late!"

Ginny looked at him in surprise.

"What?" He said seeing her face.

"I just thought you were still mad at me... that's all..."

"Can we speak outside, please? Take your things with you; we'll go to the classroom."

They went outside of the Great Hall and as they did so, everyone looked at them.

"Look, the fact that we're not dating anymore doesn't mean I don't want to be your friend."

"I thought you were still mad about that episode in your class..." She said.

"I got mad at first, I'm not going to congratulate you for you attitude."

"I know that, but I thought you were still mad, that's all." She interrupted.

"As I told you, I was mad at first, but then I wondered how I would have reacted if you had been the one leaving me... but as I told you before, I'm not mad, the fact that we're not going out anymore doesn't mean I don't love you or anything. I'm going to tell you the truth, I still love you, I think you're a great girl and I love being your friend, but that's all. You're one of the best friends I could've found in here... even if at first you used to run away from me..." He said and they both laughed. He hugged her. "I know you'll find someone who will love you and deserve you much more than I do..." He said this thinking about one person... he knew someone who really liked Ginny, but didn't have the courage to tell her... (A/N: MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA the evil writer is speaking... I'm NOT going to tell you who the person is!!! MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ok, I'm done... KEEP READING! Hehe...)

They headed to Harry's classroom because the bell was about to ring.

It was just another normal day at Hogwarts... well Hogwarts is not what you'd call normal... a normal day with people handling wands and shooting spells to each other... but for Harry and the others this was a special day, the day they'd begin their training as active members of the Order of the Phoenix.

At midnight Sirius was knocking on Harry's office door, but Harry didn't answer. Sirius got really worried because no sound could be heard from the other side of the door.

"Harry! Harry! Are you in there?" He called, but again there was no answer... 'I guess I'll have to use Allohomora...' He thought and shouted "Allohomora!"

"What?" Harry said waking up suddenly. He had fallen asleep.

"God, Harry! I thought something had happened to you!"

"I'm... I'm sorry" Harry said yawning. "I'm so tired..."

"I know, I know. Let's go, the others must be waiting for us." Sirius said and they left the room together. They went to look for the others and at half past one they were all ready.

"Who is training us?" Hermione asked. She and Draco were holding hands. Malfoy had that stupid smile Harry had had when he was dating Ginny.

"Didn't they tell you?" Sirius answered.

"Er... no... that's why I'm asking." Hermione said sarcastically.

"All right, all right, now don't you get angry with me, but if Dumbledore didn't tell you, I won't be the one to do so..."

"Why?"

"Sorry, Hermione, but if Dumbledore didn't tell you he must have his reasons."

"Bummer, I really want to know..." Ron said.

"Draco! Say something!" Hermione told Draco facing him. He just smiled and kissed her.

"You're becoming as arrogant as me, you know?" They all laughed, but something made them jump. Luna let out a shriek and fainted.

"Luna! Luna! Wake up!" Ron said holding her in his arms.

She suddenly woke up... her eyes were the size of two tennis balls...

"What happened?" Ron asked her.

"He who is not desired will return." She said in a harsh voice. "The war is about to begin. He whom you hated will unite you and you shall trust him completely. Blood will be spread among the entire magical world. Violent battles will be fought by those of courage and bravery. The fighter that holds truth in his heart will be the one to survive. One of the warriors must die so the scale is even. Followers will return..." And with this, she fainted again before the astonished and shocked looks of the others.

"We have to take her to the hospital wing." Hermione said.

When they were on their way Luna woke up.

"I'm sorry." She said yawning (A/N: I say yawning because when you get the evil eye from a person you usually end up yawning, it's like a way to expel bad things from your body that were taken from another one. This relates to Luna in the way that she is making a prediction that is about another person and it demands a great effort from her. She is also predicting something evil, something really wicked... it may come true or not... I'll just say that Dumbledore said in Order of the Phoenix: "Divination is a very inaccurate branch of magic, its truth is relative" (these are not the exact words, but this is what he meant.))

"I must have fallen asleep" Luna continued.

"No, you didn..." Harry started saying, but Sirius made him shut up with one look. He didn't want Luna to know exactly what she had said without speaking to Dumbledore first.

To their surprise, Dumbledore was already in the hospital wing when they arrived.

"Professor... but... but how did you know?" Ron asked amazed, still carrying Luna in his arms. Professor Dumbledore just smiled at him and winked.

"Professor, may I have a word with you?" Sirius asked.

"It's not necessary, Sirius. I already know what happened. I think it's time for me to tell you why you were chosen, Luna."

"Let's go kids, let's leave them alone..." Sirius said.

"No, Sirius, it's all right. They have to know too." Dumbledore said and then turned to Luna. "The reason why you were chosen is that you are one of the rare true Seers there are in the world. What happened to you back there is that you made a prediction. A real and terrible prediction at the same time..."

"It said the same as the one Trelawney did..." Harry said.

"That's were you're wrong, Harry, the one Trelawney did, wasn't exactly the same. Yes, the concept was the same, but no prediction is the same as other; they are all different, though some times slightly, still different." He looked at Luna for a moment. "I think it's time to begin our training."