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Chapter 14- Lessons with Snape and Moody

The rest of the day passed by quickly for Harry after he had asked Professor McGonagall to teach him to become an animagus. In charms, Professor Flitwick spoke about his expectations for his sixth year class and the rest of the lesson had been about reviewing charms they had learned the previous year. For homework , Professor Flitwick had asked the class to write about a charm they would be studying next for homework. In herbology, they studied gillyweed and Professor Sprout asked the class to write a two foot essay on gillyweed for homework. It was after herbology that Harry was cornered by three Slytherins- Daphne Greengrass, Blaise Zabini and Millicent Bulstrode.

"Hi Harry," Daphne Greengrass said politely.

"Erm.. hi," Harry said as he made his way to leave but Millicent Bulstrode blocked his path.

"We heard you have some defense club and we want to join," Blaise Zabini said.

Harry was stunned upon hearing this. "You..want to join?" he asked.

"Yeah, not all Slytherins are Death Eaters in training," Daphne said angrily.

"Daphne calm down," Blaise said. "We know that you have had unpleasant encounters with some Slytherins namely Draco Malfoy, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle," she said looking thoughtful before continuing "I hope that you will consider letting us join," Blaise said.

"I have no problem with you three joining," Harry said.

"You don't?" Daphne and Blaise asked, stunned.

"I really could care less about which house your in. All that matters is that you either support Voldemort or you don't. Since you seem to be against Voldemort, you can join," Harry said.

"Thank you Harry," Daphne said giving him a kiss on the cheek.

"Yeah thanks Harry," Blaise said, kissing his other cheek while Millicent grunted.

Harry then went back toward Gryffindor tower. 'So much has happened today- Voldemort asks me to become a Death Eater, I may learn to be an animagus and three female Slytherins corner me and ask if they can join the D.A.' Harry thought. 'Wait till Ron finds out that three females corner me. He'll be extremely upset,' Harry thought as he reached the portrait of Sir Cadogan, who bowed. Harry stopped, unsure of what he had seen.

"Good afternoon, sir," Sir Cadogan said bowing deeply.

"I don't want to be rude but why did you bow?" Harry asked.

"You sir, are the heir of Gryffindor are you not?" Sir Cadogan said.

"Yeah but I don't want everyone to know especially my enemies," Harry replied.

"Ah, hiding your hand," Sir Cadogan said. "Smart tactic which is highly successful," Sir Cadogan said as his pony came into the picture. "Sir, I have a matter to deal with on the fifth floor so I bid you good day," Sir Cadogan said, bowing again before leaving.

Harry then went up to the portrait of the fat lady and realized that he still did not have the password. When the fat lady saw Harry, she smiled and swung open. "You know that I'm Gryffindor's heir?" Harry asked and the fat lady nodded in reply.

That night Harry did his homework with the assistance of Hermione. Hermione was now more willing to help her boyfriend with homework especially since that meant more time to kiss for them.

"Hermione, several things happened to me today," Harry said.

"Oh? What happened to you Harry?" Hermione asked.

"Well I got cornered by three Slytherins today," Harry said.

"Did you report them Harry?" Hermione asked, moving closer to him.

"Hermione, relax. It wasn't the three who you think it is. Instead, Daphne Greengrass, Blaise Zabini and Millicent Bulstrode asked me if they could join the D.A.," Harry said.

"What did you tell them?" Hermione asked.

"I said they could join since it seemed that they are against Voldemort and that's all I care about," Harry said.

"Oh Harry, I'm so proud of you," Hermione said.

At around eleven o clock, Harry had finished all his homework and he went up to sleep. Harry had told Ron about his run-in with the Slytherins before and Ron was shocked at first but Harry and Hermione had convinced him otherwise. Harry reached his bed and promptly fell asleep after changing into his pajamas.

Harry was outside a dance club in muggle London. He was having another vision where he was in Lord Voldemort's body. Voldemort had over a dozen Death Eaters with him and they were hell bent on killing the people inside the club. Voldemort and his supporter walked to the entrance where a huge, muscular man was standing and several people were on line.

"What's your name?" the man asked Voldemort and his Death Eaters.

"My name is Lord Voldemort, useless muggle," Voldemort said, drawing his wand and aiming at the muggle man in front of him. "Your life ends here. AVADA KEDAVRA," Voldemort said, killing the man. Meanwhile his Death Eaters had killed the people standing on line and they entered the club where over two hundred people were inside dancing or drinking.

"Kill them all," Voldemort hissed and his Death Eaters then shot killing spells at everyone. Within ten minutes, all the people inside the club were dead. Voldemort surveyed the scene in front of him with a grim smile before speaking again "come my loyal Death Eaters, our work is done here." Voldemort and his Death Eaters then stepped outside and shot the Dark Mark high into the sky before apparating back.

Harry woke up in a cold sweat in his bed and his scar burning in pain. He just had another vision where he had seen Lord Voldemort kill over two hundred muggles at a dance club in London. 'Damn it. That's another two hundred plus innocent civilians killed in this damn war by that fucking asshole,' Harry thought. Sighing, Harry turned to look at his alarm clock. It was six in the morning. Harry knew he wouldn't be getting any more sleep so he woke up, showered and brushed his teeth. After he was done with all that, Harry then went to sit downstairs.

Harry just sat staring into the fireplace when he heard someone come down from the girl's dormitories. Harry saw it was Hermione and she had just gotten up. "Hey Hermione," Harry said.

Hermione almost jumped with fright. She then saw Harry. "Oh Harry, what are you doing up at this hour?" she asked him.

"I couldn't sleep," Harry said.

"Would you like to talk about it?" Hermione asked.

Harry told Hermione about the vision he had where Lord Voldemort killed all those innocent civilians in a dance club. Hermione listened to him and hugged him tightly when he finished.

"Harry, you should go tell Dumbledore," Hermione said.

"I will tell him later on," Harry answered.

Hermione sighed and nodded in agreement. She moved closer to Harry and started to kiss him. Harry kissed her back and soon her hands were moving around Harry's body. Hermione then reached a certain spot near Harry's waist and gave a little squeeze causing Harry's eyes to widen in surprise. They continued kissing until it was time for breakfast. Harry lifted Hermione with his arms and took her downstairs to the Great Hall for breakfast.

"Today's our first lesson with Moody, Hermione," Harry whispered into her ear.

"I know. I wonder what we will be learning in his class," Hermione whispered back.

"At least it's better than that hag Umbridge," Harry said, reaching the Great Hall and putting Hermione down gently then hearing a voice he did not want to hear.

"Well, well Potter and the mudblood," Draco Malfoy said.

"Fuck off Malfoy," Harry said.

"Language Potter," Malfoy said. "Today's the first potions class. Are you going to be there Potter?" Malfoy asked with a smirk on his face.

"Of course I'll be there Malfoy," Harry replied.

With a sneer, Malfoy walked toward the Slytherin table. Harry and Hermione went to the Gryffindor table and took a seat as the owls started to fly in. Hermione received the Daily Prophet and gasped when she saw the headline. Harry turned to look and he remembered his dream/vision last night.

OVER TWO HUNDRED MUGGLES KILLED IN LONDON DANCE CLUB, MINISTRY TRAINS MORE AURORS
by Andrew Thompson

Last night, in what has been his largest attack ever, You-Know-Who attacked a dance club in London and killed over two hundred people. Before this attack, You-Know-Who had been attacking several families and the most people he had killed before this was five. Minister of magic Arthur Weasley urged the wizarding community to stay vigilant as the Ministry prepares to train more aurors for the fight against Voldemort. So far, France has offered a hundred aurors and Germany has offered forty. Other countries such as Spain, Portugal, Russia and the United States have offered help, but no aurors have arrived yet.

A question the wizarding community is why did Voldemort become so bold and attack the dance club? It is a question we may never be able to answer as the wizarding community prepares for the upcoming battle with Voldemort.

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The article came with a picture of the Dark Mark outside a club in London. Reactions across the Great Hall varied. Some were scared, some were thoughtful and some like Malfoy, were delighted at the slaughter that had occurred yesterday. The professors had grave looks on their faces and were reading the Daily Prophet with their brow bent in concentration.

Sighing, Harry and Hermione went toward the dungeons where potions classes were held with Snape. Ron didn't have to take potions and he was now escorting Lavender up to divination. When they reached the dungeons, there was several students outside the classroom, none from Gryffindor (other than him and Hermione), Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw but most students were from Slytherin. Professor Snape then came from around the corner and let everyone into the classroom.

"You are now in advanced potions," Professor Snape said. "I don't know how some of you got in," Snape said, looking at Harry, "but you are here nonetheless. This is not an easy class and I expect all the students to work as hard as they can," Snape said. "Before we do anything, I will partner you up with someone outside of your house as Dumbledore wants to improve inter-house relations," Snape said.

Harry found himself paired with Daphne Greengrass from Slytherin who smiled at him. Harry gave Daphne a small wave, glad he was with a Slytherin whom he was friendly with. Harry saw Hermione paired with Millicent Bulstrode, Terry Boot paired with Draco Malfoy, Ernie Macmillan paired with Crabbe and Justin Finch-Finley paired with Goyle.

"Today we will be making the draught of thought," Snape said, waving his wand at the blackboard. "You have until the bell, directions are on the board and ingredients are in the closet. Begin," Snape said.

Harry was determined to get things right in potions this year. He would just ignore Snape this year and not take any of Snape's nonsense. Harry started to work on the potion as Snape walked around.

"Excellent work Potter," Snape said, causing most of the class to look up surprised. Snape then continued around the classroom and took points off from all houses except for Slytherin, as usual. The bell rang and the students put samples on Snape's desk.

"For homework, please write a three foot essay on the draught of thought," Snape said, walking around before continuing. "It will be due when we have our next class."

Most of the students in advanced potions then went to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom ready for a lesson with Moody. The entire class had walked in and took seats before they heard a clanking from outside, indicating that Moody had arrived. Moody walked into the class and then walked up to his desk.

"Right laddies, Dumbledore wants you to practice wandless magic," Moody said, his fake eye traveling in all directions. "Has anyone here ever done wandless magic?" Moody asked.

Harry raised his hand along with almost half the class. Harry looked around to see that Neville had raised his hand and was stunned.

"All right," Moody said while looking around the room. "Place your wands on the desk in front of you and try to summon it," Moody said.

Harry placed his wand on the desk in front of him. He saw Hermione, who was sitting next to him do the same. 'Well here goes nothing,' Harry thought.

"Accio wand," Harry said, and to his surprise the wand landed in his hand.

"Wow, congratulations Harry," Hermione said, beaming at him.

By the end of the lesson, only Harry had been the only one able to summon his wand. Moody was delighted and gave twenty points to Gryffindor.

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