Chapter 15

D.A. Versus Slytherin.

The four were lounging around waiting for the other group leaders to arrive. They were up near the front of the hall were the teachers table is situated. Brooke was sitting on one of the table's ends; Ron was standing in front of her. She had her hands around his waist and they were whispering about something. Hermione had her head in a defence book and Harry was sitting on Gryffindor table, musing about something. Soon Neville, Lavender, Dean, Terry and Ginny arrived at the hall, plus James. Who Harry had asked to help in teaching his class.

"Okay guys. This week I've decided we'd all study the same thing. Were not supposed to fight in the halls, but if a Slytherin attacks them, they should be able to fight back." They nodded in agreement. "So I thought we'd teach them a leg locker curse, a full body bind, jelly legs, furnunculus curse, bat-bogey hex, basic shield, tickling curse, and experillamus." They all nodded again. "They are arriving at 5:20pm so we have 15 minutes to get organised. I'll go through each spell and you can go around correcting the spell and their technique. We'll try to get through as many as we can." They all agreed. "So I think the biggest ones they need to learn are a basic shield, experillamus and possibly two to three other spells. Now we need to disappear the tables and scatter some pillows so they don't hurt themselves to bad".

At 5:20pm the room was ready and the D.A. members were all inside. Not surprisingly Draco and his gang weren't anywhere to be seen. "Welcome, Welcome to our second D.A meeting. Sorry for the delay but I had yet another near death experience. Today we are all going to work together. I'm hoping to get through and master around 4 spells. Now spread yourselves out. Your other teachers will walk around and give you tips." Shouted Harry to his students.

They quickly spread themselves out and looked up at him expectantly. "Right. Now you all know how to do a jelly legs curse. You don't have to be good at it, just be able to cast it" They all nodded. "We are going to be learning how to make a basic shield. It will protect you from most jinxes and small spells. They incantation is Protego. Pro- tee-go. Cast successfully it should be blue and surround your whole body. Say the spell, have your wand pointing up and give your wrist a flick to cast it over your self"

Harry took out his wand and pointed it upwards. "I'll give you a demonstration, PROTEGO" said Harry giving his wand a small flick. There was a blue light and it surrounded Harry. "Now Hermione if you wouldn't mind" asked Harry. Hermione nodded "Jellious" said Hermione pointing her wand at him. The spell flew through the air, came into contact with Harry's shield and bounced back to Hermione, who stepped out of the way. The students applauded. "Thankyou, Thankyou. Now pair up. Take it in turns to try the shield." Harry watched them pair off and start practicing. His fellow teachers walked through the groups helping them. Harry saw a little red headed girl near him having trouble.

"What seems to be the problem?" asked Harry as he walked over to her. The girl looked up, "Oh. Umm… I can't seem to get it to work." Harry nodded "Ok let me see you do it." The girl nodded timidly and raised her wand. "Protego" whispered the girl, only slightly flicking her wand. A small light appeared but it than disappeared. "Ahh, I see your problem. Miss Julie…" Harry stopped as he tried to think of her name "Miss Julie Tyserst!" the girl nodded. "Good, now your problem is you have to say it louder, shout it if you need to. Also you're not flicking your wrist enough. Flick your hand so that your hand goes from being sideways to your palm facing you. Like a 45 degree turn. Now try again," said Harry kindly. Julie nodded an OK. "Protego" said Julie, flicking her hand 45 degrees.

A blue light came out and surrounded her. It stayed for a moment than disappeared. "Well done. Much better. Keep trying. Concentrate and say it louder and with more feeling" said Harry and walked away. He watched over the others, they were coming along nicely. 10 minutes later Harry stood before them. "Well done everyone. It seems that spell was quite easy for you. It will come in handy and I need you to keep practicing it in your spare time. I now want to move to experillamus. Point your wand at your target and concentrate on them being the target. You say ex-per-rill-a-mus. You should be able to knock away your opponents wand. Observe"

Harry turned to Brooke and rethought his action. She'd be able to get away and moved onto Ron. "Experillamus!" shouted Harry. Ron and his wand went flying backwards. Luckily Brooke cast a spell and stopped Ron crashing into the wall. "Sorry Ron. When you cast it, you will only be able to disarm them. I seem to make people be chucked backwards." The students laughed. "Very funny. Now partner up and get started."

For the next 15 minutes they worked on the disarming spell before Harry stood before them once more. "Good try. Most of you have got the hang of it and all of you still need to perfect it. We are now going onto a full body bind. This is pretty useful and Hermione here used it on Neville in our first year. We were sneaking out to go get the philosopher's stone. Neville had every right to stop us since we were breaking the rules." The class laughed. "The incantation is Per-trif-icus To-tal-us. Simply point your wand and it should work. You should all be able to master this one quite quickly. I'll give you roughly 10 minutes to practice it. Naturally I'll give a demonstration. It requires two people and pillows." Harry used his wand to slide a pillow behind Hermione. "Pertrificus Totalus" cried Harry. The spell hit her and she fell down onto the pillow. "To revive the person simply say finite Incantium," said Harry pointing his wand at Hermione. She gingerly got off the floor. "Thanks Harry"

15 minutes later Harry was before them and he was smiling broadly. "Absolutely fantastic! You all got that one. I'm very proud. I decide to give you an extra 5 minutes than I said I would. For the next 40 minutes I want you to practice Jelly legs- its pronounced Jell-ii-ous, like Jealous. I also want you to practice the Furnunculus curse pronounced Fur-nun-cue-lus. Than I want you to get in to groups of three when you're ready. Two of you will face off against the other person. One of you will cast Jelly legs, and the other will cast Furnunculus at the person. It's supposed to make the person sprout feelers on their face. To change them back use Finite Incantium. You may start!"

So for the next 40 minutes Harry watched with a look of amusement as the class cast jelly legs and furnunculus curses at each other. It was even more amusing when his fellow teachers got hit with the spells. When they began to get into groups of three, it became even more hilarious. As Harry watched he realised that not everyone that was hit sprouted feelers. Because of people's different abilities to cast the spells, they had mixed results. Some got feelers, some had vines come out their ears, some got moss covered faces and some got boils. Interesting thought Harry.

Ha! You call this interesting. I've been hit by Jelly legs, like 5 times. Than some kid got me with jelly legs and than another kid got me with furnunculus in the leg and my leg was covered in a mixture of feelers and moss. This is ridiculous dear brother of mine! Thought Brooke as she interrupted Harry's thoughts. Harry laughed in his head and that made Brooke even angrier. Finally Harry stood up "Alright class. That was most extraordinary. The different results were very entertaining. It seems your different abilities at the spells change the outcome. We have 15 minutes left. You can rest and go get a drink," said Harry pointing to a table against the wall that suddenly was covered in drinks.

His friends came over to him and they were having a conversation about what to teach next week. Neville and Ginny were discussing combining 1st and 2nd year students when something caught Harry's attention. He saw a flash of green near the entrance door. Than he saw Malfoy's distinct blonde hair. "What's that git up to?" whispered Harry. "Huh?" asked the others, who apparently seemed to have heard him. Harry nodded towards the doors. They watched as Draco Malfoy was peering at them every now and than from the corridor. Harry used a spell to be able to see through the wall but the people on the other side couldn't see them. Behind Draco were Crabbe, Goyle, Pansy and a large group of 5th, 6th and 7th year students Harry didn't know.

"They're planning on attacking us aren't they " said Brooke seeming to know what he had done. "Yes I know," said Harry. "What do we do?" asked Hermione hysterically. "Easy Hermione, We just taught the students shields and some easy spells. Slytherin won't be standing for long. AND if they students can't handle them, I know the last year D.A members and us up here can handle them. I especially know I can." Said Harry. The others nodded. Harry had noticed some other students looking suspiciously at the doors to the great hall.

Suddenly Draco jumped into the doorway shooting of a stunner. "PROTEGO" shouted most of the students in the hall. Harry and Brooke didn't move. Harry stood and watched as the Slytherins came rushing in. They were shouting stunners, leg lockers, blasting spells. The D.A. members paired of in two's and three's. Harry watched in amusement as his students kept up their shields. "Protego comradious" muttered Harry "Just in case" he mumbled as his wand glowed and than his own shields covered his students. None of them noticed being given extra protection. Harry watched as Draco made his was over to them. He was shouting of hell curses, fire spells and the worst thing- CRUCIO. Harry felt his blood boil. Luckily it didn't hurt his students because of his extra shield.

Harry hadn't covered himself or Brooke who had blocked his shield. Brooke jumped in front of Draco and he sneered at her. Harry ran to her as Draco shouted "CRUCIO" Harry reached Brooke in time and pushed her out of the way. Harry was hit by the spell and he fell to the ground, his wand lay a pretty big distance away. It wasn't as bad as the other Crucio's he'd felt he thought. "STUPEFY," screamed Harry ignoring the pain. Draco's eyes widened as he was hit by Harry's spell. Harry had just preformed wandless magic.

Harry shakily stood up. He looked around and most Slytherins were down. "I've had enough," croaked Harry. Harry directed his fingers in different directions and stunned the remaining Slytherin's. "How did you do that?" screeched Hermione. Harry looked up to see everyone staring at him. "I don't know. Hey you guys did pretty well. Interesting facial features they have." Harry smiled shakily as he took another look around. "You need to sit down," said Brooke, helping him to a seat. "I can't believe he used Crucio on people. How come only you got affected when he used it. When he used it on others it just dissolved." Whispered Hermione. "Because I put extra protection shields on everyone except myself and Brooke- who refused" coughed Harry. "I'm sorry. If I had let you than you wouldn't be like this," said Brooke.

Harry laughed, "That's not true. I still would have. I'd have forgotten about the shield and I would have done it because you're my sister" croaked Harry. "Put the Slytherins in a pile and tie them up. Then check on our side" said Harry. They nodded and left except for Brooke who opted to stay. When they had the Slytherins tied up they started on helping anyone injured. They had got hurt before Harry put up his shield around them and it didn't protect them from being hit, kicked and slammed into the floor.

"WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON HERE?" screeched someone from the doorway. Harry looked up to see Professor McGonagall, Dumbledore, the other teachers and all the students behind them. "Oh hi professor. You see after our session in here, these Slytherins ambushed us" said Brooke gesturing towards the students tied up in the centre of the room. "They were fighting us and they were even using an unforgivable" Harry heard students behind the teachers gasp. The ones inside knew that and were more angry than shocked. Brooke continued "They all had shields but Harry gave the D.A. members extra shields so they wouldn't get badly hurt and than.." Brooke stopped and took a breath.

"Than I tried to stop Draco Malfoy. I didn't have a shield because I refused Harry's and than he used Crucio against me. Harry pushed me out of the way and got hit himself. He didn't have a shield either. Than he was somehow able to stun Malfoy through the pain. Afterwards he stunned the remained Slytherin's standing and he ended up like this," cried Brooke. She was pointing at Harry now "Draco hurt him and he has to pay. They all have to pay," she cried. Harry put an arm around her "I'm fine! Really. Worse Crucio's than that has hit me. Draco's was weak because he doesn't have enough power. When you've had Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange cast Crucio's on you, a spell like his has no real comparison. It hurt but it wasn't that bad" said Harry.

The whole Hall was quite with stunned realisation at what Harry had endured. "Well it seems they'll need punishment," said the Headmaster. He had a hard glint in his eyes. He was very angry. "Finite Incantium" said Dumbledore. "You have some explaining to do," shouted Dumbledore at his students. Everyone drew in a breath. Dumbledore was very angry.