Author's Notes: Yes, friends, it's been awhile. But to make up for it, I'm giving you two chapters for the price of one!

Actually, this is an extremely short chapter, so I felt bad and decided to at least put up two extremely short chapters.

Thanks to everyone who's still reading!

Welcome to the FU, Uncalled For, theoneunderthebed (who shall be acknowledged as an official shirtless!Bill and Charlie fangirl in Omelet of Desire), Purplereader, and Queen of Zan (I enjoyed your poem)!

Wednesday, 4 October

7:24 p.m.

I finally figured out a way to keep anyone from blabbing to Umbridge about the meeting this weekend! It was actually something Ron said at dinner that gave me the idea. I'm not sure how it came up, but Harry was talking about the night the Order came to get him at the Dursley's to bring him to Grimmauld Place. He had never really told us about it when he first arrived at Headquarters, on account of him being furious with us and all. Ron was finding the whole thing very funny for some reason.

"Then Moody said that I could be a Death Eater imposter, so he made Lupin ask me something only I would know," Harry was saying.

Ron hooted with laughter. "Can you imagine, a Death Eater spy posing as you and living with your relatives? He'd probably curse Dudley within the first week and beg You-Know-Who for a re-assignment."

Harry grinned a bit. "Yeah, I guess it is kind of funny now. But I almost had a heart attack when I saw all those strange people standing downstairs. I thought they were burglars."

Ron snorted. "Yeah, Hermione thought we were Death Eaters when we came to get her - "

I felt my cheeks turning pink and kicked him under the table. "Ron!" I hissed.

"What?" Ron said irritably.

"Dumbledore…he made us swear an oath, remember?" I said in a low voice. Dumbledore didn't actually say anything about keeping secrets from Harry after he was away from the Dursley's, and in fact he said nothing at all about hiding how I had arrived at Grimmauld Place, but my paranoia that night was rather embarrassing, so…

Ron rolled his eyes. "That was only to get us not to blab to Harry in letters. It's not like he made us sign a contract swearing us to secrecy forever or anything."

Something clicked in my brain. Ideas started racing through my mind. It couldn't be that hard to do…of course, it wouldn't be as powerful as Dumbledore's magic…and no one would suspect what it really was…

"Hermione? Hello, Hermione?" Harry said, waving his hand in front of my face. I snapped back to reality.

"Ron, you're brilliant!" I exclaimed, jumping out of my seat.

"I am?" Ron said, confused. He looked at me carefully and then suddenly frowned. "Oh great, that's the same look she had on her face when she thought up spew," he said wryly.

"It's not that, this is important," I said, hurriedly gathering my things.

Ron put on a look of mock astonishment. "More important than spew?" he gasped.

I rolled my eyes at him.

"Hey, where are you going?" Harry asked as I started hurrying out of the Great Hall.

"Library!" I called over my shoulder.

"But of course," I heard Ron say sarcastically. Why is he so mean sometimes? I wish I hadn't called him 'brilliant'…maybe 'inadvertently brilliant'…

I won't make everyone swear an oath like Dumbledore did; I don't even think I'm going to tell everyone what I'm going to do. I'm just going to charm a piece of parchment – I found a good spell in the library; not too strong, but it should make anyone with a big mouth apparent immediately – and tell everyone to sign their name on it, just so we have a list of who attended the meeting and who's going to take lessons from Harry. Hopefully no one will object or ask questions.

When Ron and Harry found me later in the common room they pestered me with questions, but I didn't tell them what I'd been working on. Harry doesn't realize how many people are coming, or that some of them could possibly go to Umbridge, and it could make him nervous or make him reconsider the meeting. Ron would probably just think it's a bit too much. I just avoided their questions and eventually they got bored and stopped asking. Amazing how they do that.

I really hope everything goes well on Saturday.