This has officially become the longes story i've ever written, exceeding Impossible Possibilities by one chapter. woohoo!

Anyway, I'd had a much better title for this chapter, but i can't remember it. Oh well...

Ron paced the room. Ginny was alive. His little sister was alive!

"Well, it's settled then. We have to go help them."

"Yes Ron, and we will." Hermione reasoned. "But we need to have a plan. We can't go alone…two of us against Voldemort's Death Eaters…It just won't work."

"Then what do you propose we do? Just wait around for the Order? I've just found out that my sister, who has supposedly been dead for the past year, is actually alive. I can't loose her again when I've only just found her."

"Ron's right." Kerri said softly after a moment. "Who knows how long it could take for Dumbledore to get my mother's letter? Besides, do you really want to depend on Dumbledore? It would have saved everyone so much trouble if he'd just told Harry about the prophesy ages ago."

"Wait, what prophesy?" Asked Ron, who had relied on Hermione for a basic summery of JK Rowling's books.

"The one from the Department of Mysteries." Kerri explained.

"The one about Harry and You-Know-Who?"

"Yeah. It basically said that one of them is going to have to kill the other. Turns out Dumbledore knew about it all along. If he had said something sooner then at least Harry could have been prepared. Anyway, it just seems to make more sense to take matters into our own hands. And we need to do it now."

Hermione sighed. "First of all, sorry Kerri, but whatever we decide, you're going to have to stay here. It is too dangerous, and you don't have magic to help you.:

"Yeah, yeah." Kerri mumbled, disappointed. "I just had to be a squib!"

"Secondly," Hermione continued, "Why don't we ask the DA for help? Everyone still has their fake Galleons…they'll find out right away, and we can tell them where to meet us."

"But what about the people who can't apparate?"

Hermione already knew the answer to Ron's question. "They can go by Portkey!" She reached into her pocket and dug out the magic coin. "I'll tell them to meet us at the joke shop. They can floo there and we'll apparate." With a tap of her wand, Hermione cast the Proten charm sending the message to the other members of the DA.

"Now what?" Asked Kerri.

"Now," Replied Ron, "We go save my sister."

Six classes were interrupted by sick students that morning. Professor McGonagall's first period transfiguration class (already missing three of their number) began with five students. By the time the class ended Seamus Finnegan, the only one not in the DA, was the only student remaining. In Professor Binn's class, a number of Ravenclaws merely stood up and walked out; the ghost that taught the class took absolutely no notice. In a little shop in Diagon Alley, the Weasley twins put up an "out to lunch" sign (despite the fact that it was still early morning), and prepared to greet their friends. Back at Hogwarts, Ernie Macmillion, the first to arrive in front of the Room of Requirement, paced the hall three times and watched as the door appeared. One by one everyone reached the secret room, where they each tossed a handful of Floo powder into the fireplace and called out their destination.

Upon arriving, the students found that the older members of the DA who had already graduated from Hogwarts were waiting for them. Within fifteen minutes after Hermione had sent her message via magic Galleon, the entire DA (minus Harry and Ginny) had gathered in the twins' store. They exchanged pleasantries and got down to business. Hermione and Ron gave their account of the entire situation. Well, Hermione explained; Ron just broke in every now and again to add some odd detail.

"Well," said George bluntly once the explanations ceased, "Who wants to save Harry and my sister?

While their friends prepared their rescue mission, Ginny was debating over what she should tell Harry. He was already wondering what Voldemort wanted with her; but how much should she tell him? In their current position, she reasoned, there was no danger in telling him everything. But how would Harry react to the truth? For years she'd had a pathetic school-girl crush on him. When she'd realized that he would never see her as anything other than Ron's helpless little sister, she had given up hope of ever starting a relationship with him. But all of that was different now; wasn't it? No longer was Ginny Weasley the same little girl who had been too weak to fight the parasite who'd controlled her for a large portion of her first year at Hogwarts. She'd spend most of the summer that had followed thinking over who she was, and she realized that she had no real reason to fear some of the nightmares that had haunted her since she was a child. Voldemort, for instance, no longer scared her all that much. The logical assumption would be to think that her experience would do the exact opposite, but she had seen into Tom Riddle's mind. She knew what drove this monster. She recognized the evil in him for what it truly was – weakness.

But that's all beside the point. Right now Ginny needed to decide how much she wanted Harry to know, if anything. Would his feelings for her be tainted by the knowledge that she had once been the same pathetic little girl who had followed him around like a lost puppy? On the other hand these past few weeks hadn't been for nothing. Harry and Ginny had been dating for a while and in that time she'd showed him who she really was- everything but her name- and he liked her. Talk about drama.

Are my characters mary-sueish??? 'cause someone said they were (at least at the beginning of the story). Of course my response was something along the lines of OH, THE HORROR AHHHHHH!!

Ahem, anyway,

Me- well thanks, uh, you!

Lily and James Potter- abt time! Lol. Hi! ::Waves::