Harry Potter and the Students of the School of the Sphinx
By Angelina Johnson
Chapter 10
The First Answer
The news of the Spinnets deaths had hit Harry and his friends hard. They had realized that the war was starting, and with it would come the attacks on innocent people, but they had not quite been ready for people they knew to be attacke.d Harry remembered just a few months ago, seeing Alicia smiling and laughing with Katie Bell and Angelina Johnson, seeing her play Quidditch, and study. He remembered her and George over the summer, when George had brought her to Grimmauld place. It was hard to think that the cheerful young girl was now dead at the hands of Voldemort.
Harry and his friends had been doing the best to push the unpleasantness from their minds-they wanted to at least try and enjoy themselves at school, but it was hard with Voldemort attacking at such a rapid rate. It had seemed like he had just destroyed the School of the Sphinx, and now he had killed the Spinnets and who knows how many others.
Hermione seemed the most affected. Ginny and Harry had found this just a little strange, on account of Hermione hadn't known Alicia very well at all. Harry had been on the Gryffindor Quidditch team with her for five years, and Ron and Ginny had talked to her often because of George, but Hermione had only spoken to Alicia a couple of times.
Hermione's strange reaction had only posed more questions for Harry. He knew that Hermione was doing something top secret, and he was wondering if this perhaps had something to do with her extreme reaction to Voldemort's latest attack.
Harry had no time to dwell on this, however, because he had planned a meeting of the D.A. for tonight. It could no longer meet in the Room of Requirement, since this was were the Sphinx house now was, but Harry had gotten permission from Dumbledore to continue the club, and the meetings were now to be held in the Great Hall. Many of the members from last year were still involved, including (to Harry's surprise) Cho Chang, and there were also some new members, including Alex Evans. She was the only person from the School of the Sphinx who Harry had asked to join, but she had promised that she would bring along some others who she thought would be interested.
"Voldemort attacked our school, or have you forgotten? I think some of them will be very interested in this D.A. of yours," Alex had told him.
Dumbledore had allowed them to be unsupervised as long as nothing got out of hand-the first sign of anything going wrong, though, and Dumbledore said that he would have to find an advisor for the group.
Harry went down to the Great Hall just before eight, and he was surprised to find that it was already very crowded. True to her word, Alex had brought at least four or five people from the School of the Sphinx. She smiled at Harry and Ron as they walked in.
"All right, it's good to see all of you here," he said as he scanned the crowd, trying to find Hermione. She wasn't there.
"I know that I taught you a lot of things last year, but since we have new members and many of you probably forgot things over the summer, so I suppose we should start by reviewing a little bit. Can anyone tell me some of the things we went over last year?" Harry asked. He wasn't used to conducting the meetings on his own. Where in the devil was Hermione?
Cho Chang's hand shot up, and she answered, "Disarming."
"The Patronus Charm," Ginny said.
"Stunning spells," Neville added. A few other people added to the list, and it grew longer. Finally, Harry silenced them.
"Tonight we'll start easy-we'll go over disarming, leg-lockers, and body binds. We won't spend much time on them, because most of you have already learned them," Harry said, and they proceeded. The meeting went well. Ron helped him pay attention to the students that seemed to be struggling (there were only a couple), but Ron always seemed to end up helping Alex. This was strange to Harry, since Alex appeared to be doing all of the spells perfectly, and he had heard from her instructors that she was great at all kinds of magic. Then again, with the way that Ron looked at Alex, he wasn't surprised after all.
After an hour and a half, Harry dismissed them, promising them that there would be another meeting very soon. Harry tried to find Ginny in the throng of people leaving, but instead he was stopped by Cho Chang.
"Harry, can I talk to you?" she asked him quietly. Harry nodded nervously. It wasn't the same kind of excited nervousness that he had felt in the past, it was more of an awkward nervousness.
"Look, I just wanted to apologize for the way I acted last year. Some of the things I said and did, they were, well, out of line," Cho said. She looked up at him through her large eyes.
"Er, that's all right, last year wasn't exactly the best for me. I mean, things still aren't great, you know, but I sort of have my temper more under control and such, and there's less pressure since I don't have O.W.L.'s this year. Plus, Umbridge is gone, so that's a plus," Harry said. He realized that he must sound pretty stupid, but he didn't care anymore.
"Oh, well, that must be a relief, I'm sure," Cho said.
"Yeah, it is," he said, trying to steer the conversation in a different direction, possibly a direction that would end it all together. Harry did not want to be here, talking to Cho, he wanted to be anywhere but here. He wished that he were with Ginny right now, or talking to Sirius, or anywhere, with anyone but Cho.
"Harry, I just want you to know, that, well, I still like you, and I know I've made mistakes, but I think that we should try again," Cho said. She looked at him pleadingly.
"Er, well, that's nice of you and all, and I really like you as a person, but, well, I... There's sort of someone else. Sorry," he said. Cho stared at him.
"Oh. Oh, okay, I understand. Is it your precious Hermione?" she asked mockingly.
"No," Harry said, glaring at her. She was acting oddly again, jealous and bitter, the same way that she had last year. This was the reason that they had broken up, but Harry found that he really didn't care. His mind had not changed about her, and he couldn't understand why in the world her feelings would have changed about him.
"I'll see you at the next meeting, then," Cho said and she stormed out, slamming the Great Hall doors open and stomping away.
Ginny walked in the doors that were still open from Cho's angry exit.
"I heard everything with the Extendable Ears. I'm nosy, I know, but I couldn't resist," Ginny said.
"That's okay, I don't mind that you heard. I wasn't quite sure what that was going to be about, and I don't know why she changed her mind, or what made her think I had changed mine," Harry said.
"Yeah, I hear there's someone else," Ginny said teasingly. Harry grinned at her.
"Yeah, I heard that too," Harry said, and she burst out laughing. Harry laughed with her, but as he laughed he pulled her close to him. She laughed into his chest, and then finally when she was done laughing, she leaned up and kissed him. It was a quick kiss, but it was enough to make Harry feel like there was an explosion inside of him. He had discovered that he rather liked that feeling, just as he rather liked Ginny. He leaned down and kissed her longer this time. They broke apart again, each gasping for air, both laughing again. Ginny was red, and Harry was sure that he was too. Whether it was from laughing or because they were blushing, he wasn't sure. Their lips had just met again when the Great Hall door pushed open, and a redheaded figure walked in.
"Bloody hell, what's going on?" Ron asked. Harry and Ginny jumped apart guiltily, but they both knew that they had been caught in the act, and there was no way around this one.
"Er, nothing," Ginny said. She was definitely blushing now, and she was redder than Harry had ever seen her before. He felt his own cheeks burning as well.
"Don't worry, I'm not mad. I actually suspected something like this. Hermione said that I was being silly. For once, I was actually right," Ron said.
"You mean you're really not mad?" Harry asked.
"Nope. I figured some idiot has to go with Ginny, and I'd just as soon that idiot be you," Ron said.
"That's not how I expected you to react at all," Ginny said.
"I surprised myself," Ron said.
"Then that makes three of us," Harry said.
"I think it's bloody brilliant, to be honest," Ron said. Ginny stared at him, still not believing that he was taking this so well.
"Come on, let's go, we need to find out what's going on with Hermione. She wasn't even at the meeting-not that I mind, she would have been teasing me the whole time," Ron said.
"About what? Alex?" Harry asked. Ron grinned.
"Well, yeah. I mean, it's pretty obvious that I like her, I mean, even Hagrid could tell," Ron said.
"Yeah, you're right about that," Ginny said.
"So, anyways, we need to find her. Maybe now she'll answer some of our questions," Ron said. The three of them trudged back up to the Common Room. When they got there, Hermione was nowhere to be found, so they sat in three empty chairs and waited.
And waited.
And waited.
The Common Room was already empty when Hermione appeared through the portrait hole. She was stumbling slightly, and she looked very tired. She staggered over, and slumped into a chair near Harry. Then she buried her face in her hands.
"Hermione, what's wrong?" Harry asked. She shook her head.
"Hermione, you have to tell us what you've been doing. First you miss the D.A. meeting, and then you show up well past midnight. You look exhausted, or drained or something, and you seem really upset about something. We're your friends, Hermione, we need to know what's up," Ron said. Hermione peeked at them through her fingers.
"Fine? You want to know what I've been doing? You want to know why I've been missing meetings, and why my grades are slipping? You want to know why I'm so tired, why I'm drained, and why I always come in so late? Fine, I'll tell you," Hermione said angrily, her hands now in her lap.
"You're really going to tell us?" Ron asked in disbelief.
"Yes, I suppose so. I mean, you'll bug me until I tell you anyways," she said.
"Well, what is it, then?" Ginny asked.
"I've been helping McGonagall and a few of the other teachers that are in the Order. They need someone who can focus their magic in order to watch Voldemort. They think that if they can keep a close enough eye on him and his Death Eaters, then maybe they can prevent some of his attacks. That's how the Blakes knew that Voldemort was after them, because I've been watching them. I mean, we have Snape and a few other spies inside of his Death Eaters, but Voldemort doesn't tell them all of his biggest plans because he knows that they are connected to Dumbledore. He trusts them with some things, but not with all things. Anyways, I've been seeing through some of the Death Eaters, because I have more strength than most of the teachers. They're not as young as they used to be, after all, and this spell, in order to be the most effective it's possible for it to be, needs someone like me, with a lot of power and energy. So that's what I've been doing, and oh, Harry, it's so tiring, and I feel like I'm failing all of these people! I saved the Blakes, but because of me the Spinnets are dead, and oh, Harry, it's just too much, and he has worse things planned, he's got something horrible planned, but no one knows what it is, none of his Death Eaters even! Harry, it's so frightening, and I don't understand how you can deal with so much pressure! It's too much for me, I can't do it!" Hermione said.
"You've been seeing Voldemort and hearing his plans?" Harry asked in disbelief.
"Yes, but oh, oh, it's horrible," Hermione said. She looked close to tears.
"Then don't do it anymore, Hermione! Tell McGonagall that you can't take it," Ron said.
"That would be so selfish of me, though! These people need me. If I don't look at all of Voldemort's plans, then so many more people will suffer! My suffering doesn't matter, as long as I'm helping other people," Hermione said. Ron stared at her. She seemed so determined, even though she was exhausted and drained.
"Well, in that case I'd say that you need some sleep," Ginny said.
"Yes, we'll talk more some other time. Right now you need rest," Harry agreed.
"Is there any way that we can help? Maybe take some of the responsibility off of you?" Ron asked.
"Oh, Ron, that's so sweet of you to offer, but I have to do this alone," Hermione replied as Ginny helped her up to her dorm.
"That's heavy stuff, that is," Ron said.
"Yeah, I can't believe she's doing all of that on her own. I don't know that I'd be able to handle that," Harry said.
"Oh, shut up, of course you would be able to handle it, who are you kidding?" Ron asked.
"I dunno, Ron, that takes a powerful witch to do something like that. You heard Hermione, there's no way for us to help, she has to do it on her own. I'm sure she knew we would want to help once we found out, you can bet that she asked the teachers, and obviously they said no," Harry said.
"Yeah, I guess you're right about that. Hermione has been going out of her way to make sure that you aren't left out of things since you blew up at us last summer," Ron said.
"That's ridiculous, she knows I didn't mean any of that," Harry said.
"Liar. You know that you meant every word." Just then, Ginny came back down.
"She really was exhausted, she's already sleeping like a baby," Ginny said.
"That was fast," Ron said.
"Yeah, but before she fell asleep, she was muttering something. I think she said 'the one will come. She will be of veela and demon, and she will be the sibling of a monster. She will be the one pure thing in a family of unclean. However, the monster will corrupt her, and the pure one will be deflowered by the lion before the coming of age. He will take down all of her barriers, and she will be weak and vulnerable. Her brother, angry by her happiness, will seek to destroy her happiness and her reputation. The monster will force her to become what he is, and she will harm one of the others. The lion will force her to leave their midst, and she will go to form another school. She will teach all kinds of creatures, and because of her downfall, a monster will rise. She allows the serpent, the monster, to live on, and a new, greater monster will come.' I think that's some sort of prophecy or something," Ginny said.
"It is," Ron said, looking alarmed.
"It's the one about Mary Slytherin. Has nothing to do with us," Harry said, remembering it.
"Yeah, that's not all. She said, 'they live again, they live in us. It is only a matter of time before they show themselves. The time will come, and all.... All will be lost.' Weird, huh?" Ginny said. She had not been there when Hermione had told them about Mary Slytherin.
"They live again?" Harry asked.
"Bloody hell, I'd say that we're going to have a problem," Ron said.
"I don't understand it, but it doesn't sound too good, does it?" Ginny asked.
"I'd have to agree," Harry said sadly.
By Angelina Johnson
Chapter 10
The First Answer
The news of the Spinnets deaths had hit Harry and his friends hard. They had realized that the war was starting, and with it would come the attacks on innocent people, but they had not quite been ready for people they knew to be attacke.d Harry remembered just a few months ago, seeing Alicia smiling and laughing with Katie Bell and Angelina Johnson, seeing her play Quidditch, and study. He remembered her and George over the summer, when George had brought her to Grimmauld place. It was hard to think that the cheerful young girl was now dead at the hands of Voldemort.
Harry and his friends had been doing the best to push the unpleasantness from their minds-they wanted to at least try and enjoy themselves at school, but it was hard with Voldemort attacking at such a rapid rate. It had seemed like he had just destroyed the School of the Sphinx, and now he had killed the Spinnets and who knows how many others.
Hermione seemed the most affected. Ginny and Harry had found this just a little strange, on account of Hermione hadn't known Alicia very well at all. Harry had been on the Gryffindor Quidditch team with her for five years, and Ron and Ginny had talked to her often because of George, but Hermione had only spoken to Alicia a couple of times.
Hermione's strange reaction had only posed more questions for Harry. He knew that Hermione was doing something top secret, and he was wondering if this perhaps had something to do with her extreme reaction to Voldemort's latest attack.
Harry had no time to dwell on this, however, because he had planned a meeting of the D.A. for tonight. It could no longer meet in the Room of Requirement, since this was were the Sphinx house now was, but Harry had gotten permission from Dumbledore to continue the club, and the meetings were now to be held in the Great Hall. Many of the members from last year were still involved, including (to Harry's surprise) Cho Chang, and there were also some new members, including Alex Evans. She was the only person from the School of the Sphinx who Harry had asked to join, but she had promised that she would bring along some others who she thought would be interested.
"Voldemort attacked our school, or have you forgotten? I think some of them will be very interested in this D.A. of yours," Alex had told him.
Dumbledore had allowed them to be unsupervised as long as nothing got out of hand-the first sign of anything going wrong, though, and Dumbledore said that he would have to find an advisor for the group.
Harry went down to the Great Hall just before eight, and he was surprised to find that it was already very crowded. True to her word, Alex had brought at least four or five people from the School of the Sphinx. She smiled at Harry and Ron as they walked in.
"All right, it's good to see all of you here," he said as he scanned the crowd, trying to find Hermione. She wasn't there.
"I know that I taught you a lot of things last year, but since we have new members and many of you probably forgot things over the summer, so I suppose we should start by reviewing a little bit. Can anyone tell me some of the things we went over last year?" Harry asked. He wasn't used to conducting the meetings on his own. Where in the devil was Hermione?
Cho Chang's hand shot up, and she answered, "Disarming."
"The Patronus Charm," Ginny said.
"Stunning spells," Neville added. A few other people added to the list, and it grew longer. Finally, Harry silenced them.
"Tonight we'll start easy-we'll go over disarming, leg-lockers, and body binds. We won't spend much time on them, because most of you have already learned them," Harry said, and they proceeded. The meeting went well. Ron helped him pay attention to the students that seemed to be struggling (there were only a couple), but Ron always seemed to end up helping Alex. This was strange to Harry, since Alex appeared to be doing all of the spells perfectly, and he had heard from her instructors that she was great at all kinds of magic. Then again, with the way that Ron looked at Alex, he wasn't surprised after all.
After an hour and a half, Harry dismissed them, promising them that there would be another meeting very soon. Harry tried to find Ginny in the throng of people leaving, but instead he was stopped by Cho Chang.
"Harry, can I talk to you?" she asked him quietly. Harry nodded nervously. It wasn't the same kind of excited nervousness that he had felt in the past, it was more of an awkward nervousness.
"Look, I just wanted to apologize for the way I acted last year. Some of the things I said and did, they were, well, out of line," Cho said. She looked up at him through her large eyes.
"Er, that's all right, last year wasn't exactly the best for me. I mean, things still aren't great, you know, but I sort of have my temper more under control and such, and there's less pressure since I don't have O.W.L.'s this year. Plus, Umbridge is gone, so that's a plus," Harry said. He realized that he must sound pretty stupid, but he didn't care anymore.
"Oh, well, that must be a relief, I'm sure," Cho said.
"Yeah, it is," he said, trying to steer the conversation in a different direction, possibly a direction that would end it all together. Harry did not want to be here, talking to Cho, he wanted to be anywhere but here. He wished that he were with Ginny right now, or talking to Sirius, or anywhere, with anyone but Cho.
"Harry, I just want you to know, that, well, I still like you, and I know I've made mistakes, but I think that we should try again," Cho said. She looked at him pleadingly.
"Er, well, that's nice of you and all, and I really like you as a person, but, well, I... There's sort of someone else. Sorry," he said. Cho stared at him.
"Oh. Oh, okay, I understand. Is it your precious Hermione?" she asked mockingly.
"No," Harry said, glaring at her. She was acting oddly again, jealous and bitter, the same way that she had last year. This was the reason that they had broken up, but Harry found that he really didn't care. His mind had not changed about her, and he couldn't understand why in the world her feelings would have changed about him.
"I'll see you at the next meeting, then," Cho said and she stormed out, slamming the Great Hall doors open and stomping away.
Ginny walked in the doors that were still open from Cho's angry exit.
"I heard everything with the Extendable Ears. I'm nosy, I know, but I couldn't resist," Ginny said.
"That's okay, I don't mind that you heard. I wasn't quite sure what that was going to be about, and I don't know why she changed her mind, or what made her think I had changed mine," Harry said.
"Yeah, I hear there's someone else," Ginny said teasingly. Harry grinned at her.
"Yeah, I heard that too," Harry said, and she burst out laughing. Harry laughed with her, but as he laughed he pulled her close to him. She laughed into his chest, and then finally when she was done laughing, she leaned up and kissed him. It was a quick kiss, but it was enough to make Harry feel like there was an explosion inside of him. He had discovered that he rather liked that feeling, just as he rather liked Ginny. He leaned down and kissed her longer this time. They broke apart again, each gasping for air, both laughing again. Ginny was red, and Harry was sure that he was too. Whether it was from laughing or because they were blushing, he wasn't sure. Their lips had just met again when the Great Hall door pushed open, and a redheaded figure walked in.
"Bloody hell, what's going on?" Ron asked. Harry and Ginny jumped apart guiltily, but they both knew that they had been caught in the act, and there was no way around this one.
"Er, nothing," Ginny said. She was definitely blushing now, and she was redder than Harry had ever seen her before. He felt his own cheeks burning as well.
"Don't worry, I'm not mad. I actually suspected something like this. Hermione said that I was being silly. For once, I was actually right," Ron said.
"You mean you're really not mad?" Harry asked.
"Nope. I figured some idiot has to go with Ginny, and I'd just as soon that idiot be you," Ron said.
"That's not how I expected you to react at all," Ginny said.
"I surprised myself," Ron said.
"Then that makes three of us," Harry said.
"I think it's bloody brilliant, to be honest," Ron said. Ginny stared at him, still not believing that he was taking this so well.
"Come on, let's go, we need to find out what's going on with Hermione. She wasn't even at the meeting-not that I mind, she would have been teasing me the whole time," Ron said.
"About what? Alex?" Harry asked. Ron grinned.
"Well, yeah. I mean, it's pretty obvious that I like her, I mean, even Hagrid could tell," Ron said.
"Yeah, you're right about that," Ginny said.
"So, anyways, we need to find her. Maybe now she'll answer some of our questions," Ron said. The three of them trudged back up to the Common Room. When they got there, Hermione was nowhere to be found, so they sat in three empty chairs and waited.
And waited.
And waited.
The Common Room was already empty when Hermione appeared through the portrait hole. She was stumbling slightly, and she looked very tired. She staggered over, and slumped into a chair near Harry. Then she buried her face in her hands.
"Hermione, what's wrong?" Harry asked. She shook her head.
"Hermione, you have to tell us what you've been doing. First you miss the D.A. meeting, and then you show up well past midnight. You look exhausted, or drained or something, and you seem really upset about something. We're your friends, Hermione, we need to know what's up," Ron said. Hermione peeked at them through her fingers.
"Fine? You want to know what I've been doing? You want to know why I've been missing meetings, and why my grades are slipping? You want to know why I'm so tired, why I'm drained, and why I always come in so late? Fine, I'll tell you," Hermione said angrily, her hands now in her lap.
"You're really going to tell us?" Ron asked in disbelief.
"Yes, I suppose so. I mean, you'll bug me until I tell you anyways," she said.
"Well, what is it, then?" Ginny asked.
"I've been helping McGonagall and a few of the other teachers that are in the Order. They need someone who can focus their magic in order to watch Voldemort. They think that if they can keep a close enough eye on him and his Death Eaters, then maybe they can prevent some of his attacks. That's how the Blakes knew that Voldemort was after them, because I've been watching them. I mean, we have Snape and a few other spies inside of his Death Eaters, but Voldemort doesn't tell them all of his biggest plans because he knows that they are connected to Dumbledore. He trusts them with some things, but not with all things. Anyways, I've been seeing through some of the Death Eaters, because I have more strength than most of the teachers. They're not as young as they used to be, after all, and this spell, in order to be the most effective it's possible for it to be, needs someone like me, with a lot of power and energy. So that's what I've been doing, and oh, Harry, it's so tiring, and I feel like I'm failing all of these people! I saved the Blakes, but because of me the Spinnets are dead, and oh, Harry, it's just too much, and he has worse things planned, he's got something horrible planned, but no one knows what it is, none of his Death Eaters even! Harry, it's so frightening, and I don't understand how you can deal with so much pressure! It's too much for me, I can't do it!" Hermione said.
"You've been seeing Voldemort and hearing his plans?" Harry asked in disbelief.
"Yes, but oh, oh, it's horrible," Hermione said. She looked close to tears.
"Then don't do it anymore, Hermione! Tell McGonagall that you can't take it," Ron said.
"That would be so selfish of me, though! These people need me. If I don't look at all of Voldemort's plans, then so many more people will suffer! My suffering doesn't matter, as long as I'm helping other people," Hermione said. Ron stared at her. She seemed so determined, even though she was exhausted and drained.
"Well, in that case I'd say that you need some sleep," Ginny said.
"Yes, we'll talk more some other time. Right now you need rest," Harry agreed.
"Is there any way that we can help? Maybe take some of the responsibility off of you?" Ron asked.
"Oh, Ron, that's so sweet of you to offer, but I have to do this alone," Hermione replied as Ginny helped her up to her dorm.
"That's heavy stuff, that is," Ron said.
"Yeah, I can't believe she's doing all of that on her own. I don't know that I'd be able to handle that," Harry said.
"Oh, shut up, of course you would be able to handle it, who are you kidding?" Ron asked.
"I dunno, Ron, that takes a powerful witch to do something like that. You heard Hermione, there's no way for us to help, she has to do it on her own. I'm sure she knew we would want to help once we found out, you can bet that she asked the teachers, and obviously they said no," Harry said.
"Yeah, I guess you're right about that. Hermione has been going out of her way to make sure that you aren't left out of things since you blew up at us last summer," Ron said.
"That's ridiculous, she knows I didn't mean any of that," Harry said.
"Liar. You know that you meant every word." Just then, Ginny came back down.
"She really was exhausted, she's already sleeping like a baby," Ginny said.
"That was fast," Ron said.
"Yeah, but before she fell asleep, she was muttering something. I think she said 'the one will come. She will be of veela and demon, and she will be the sibling of a monster. She will be the one pure thing in a family of unclean. However, the monster will corrupt her, and the pure one will be deflowered by the lion before the coming of age. He will take down all of her barriers, and she will be weak and vulnerable. Her brother, angry by her happiness, will seek to destroy her happiness and her reputation. The monster will force her to become what he is, and she will harm one of the others. The lion will force her to leave their midst, and she will go to form another school. She will teach all kinds of creatures, and because of her downfall, a monster will rise. She allows the serpent, the monster, to live on, and a new, greater monster will come.' I think that's some sort of prophecy or something," Ginny said.
"It is," Ron said, looking alarmed.
"It's the one about Mary Slytherin. Has nothing to do with us," Harry said, remembering it.
"Yeah, that's not all. She said, 'they live again, they live in us. It is only a matter of time before they show themselves. The time will come, and all.... All will be lost.' Weird, huh?" Ginny said. She had not been there when Hermione had told them about Mary Slytherin.
"They live again?" Harry asked.
"Bloody hell, I'd say that we're going to have a problem," Ron said.
"I don't understand it, but it doesn't sound too good, does it?" Ginny asked.
"I'd have to agree," Harry said sadly.