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POV: Lee

Lee Jordan sat by himself in the Great Hall watching people coming and going. Ron Weasley, Gryffindor's new Quidditch Keeper came in and hurried over to the Gryffindor table.

"Hi, Lee" said Ron cheerfully before going to sit with his friend, Neville Longbottom.

"Looks like their practice went well" thought Lee. "The rest of them should be here soon". He bent over his plate and swallowed a few mouthfuls of steak and mashed potato. When he looked up, two of the Gryffindor Chasers, Angelina Johnson and her best friend, Alicia Spinnet, were walking towards the Gryffindor table. The third Chaser, Katie Bell didn't appear to have come in yet.

"How was practice?" asked Lee casually as Angelina and Alicia walked past him.

"Don't ask" said Alicia. Angelina was doing up her shoelace and didn't appear to have heard Lee's question.

"Don't ask what?" she said standing up again.

"Er how your Quidditch practice went" said Lee nervously.

"Don't ask" Angelina repeated.

"Why?" said Lee curiously "It can't…"

"It was terrible, Jordan" said Angelina snappishly "And no, I don't want to go out with you"

Angelina walked off to sit near some third years further up the table closely followed by Alicia, who was obviously trying not to laugh.

"Now you have to admit that was better than the last time you asked her" said a mock condescending voice.

Lee jumped. He had been so busy staring at Angelina that he hadn't noticed his best friends, Fred and George Weasley had sat down on either side of him and were eating at top speed.

"Depends which way you look at it" George contradicted Fred. "Last time he at least managed to get the question out"

"Fair point" said Fred. "And what was Angelina's answer the last time you asked her to go out with you?"

"Let me think" said George "Oh yes, I believe it was' he imitated Angelina's voice 'Ask me that again and I'll kill you, Jordan"

Lee had been trying, unsuccessfully, to convince Angelina to go out with him for several years. The last time he had asked her was, unfortunately, about two minutes after Angelina had found out that Harry had received a weeks worth of detentions from Professor Umbridge, their new, and completely useless, Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, and would, subsequently be unable to attend Gryffindor's Keeper tryouts.

"Hurry up and eat" hissed Fred nudging Lee in the ribs. "We want to talk to you"

"I'm listening" said Lee.

"Not here" hissed George glancing up and down the table.

Thinking that whatever Fred and George had to tell him had something to do with the joke shop they were planning to open after they left school, Lee swallowed a few more mouthfuls of his steak and followed the twins out of the Great Hall.

"What?" he asked when Fred had dragged him into an empty classroom.

"Ron's just told us, Harry's teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts" said

George.

"You mean that Umbridge is leaving?" asked Lee hopefully.

"No such luck" said Fred bitterly "But everyone who knows that the Ministry are morons will be able to have real lessons"

"I've always thought that Cornelius Fudge was a bit of an idiot" said Lee. "He just seems to surround himself with people who do whatever he tells them"

"That explains how that stinking traitor got a job in his office" said Fred, his voice full of venom.

Lee knew that Fred was referring to the third Weasley brother, Percy. Fred and George often flew into towering tempers at the mention of his name. Wanting to avoid this, Lee went on with what he had been saying.

"Then Fudge bothers Dumbledore every day asking him how to do everything. And now, when he really needs Dumbledore's advice, Fudge is telling everyone that Dumbledore's mental"

"And they're stupid enough to believe him" said George in a hollow voice.

"I reckon most of the people at the ministry are idiots" said Lee "Not your dad, of course" he added quickly.

"A lot of people at the ministry reckon dad's a bit odd because he likes Muggles" said George.

"But at least he's smart enough to believe Dumbledore" said Fred.

"My dad doesn't really like Fudge either said Lee "But I'm not sure whose side he's on. Anyway, tell me about these Defence lessons that Harry's giving"

"Ron just said that Harry's going to be giving defence lessons and we should go along to the Hogs Head when we have our first Hogsmeade visit. You'll be in it won't you?"

"Who else is in it?" asked Lee.

"As far as we know, aside from us, Ron, Hermione, Angelina, Alicia and Katie" said Fred "And Harry obviously"

"Well you can count me in" said Lee.

"Good" said George "Just don't say anything about it to anyone, especially Umbridge.

"I won't" promised Lee getting up to walk out of the room.

"Oi, Lee, wait a sec" called Fred.

"What?" asked Lee turning around.

"Are you doing this because you want to learn Defence Against the Dark Arts? Or are you just doing it because Angelina is?"

Lee thought for a moment.

"Both" he said.