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Hermione pulled out her eagle feather quill and dipped it in the jar of ink. She balanced the piece or parchment on her crossed legs and wrote down the names of the friends in the train compartment. Harry leaned over and admired her neat, sophisticated handwriting. She wrote two columns: Specialty and Tasks. Her gaze lifted from the paper and stared expectantly and the person sitting across from her, Neville.
"So, Neville, what to you consider to be your strongest subject?" she asked smiling.
"Herbology," he mumbled.
"Neville you shouldn't be ashamed that you're good at Herbology, be proud," piped up Ginny supportively.
"Ok, so Neville for Herbology. Ok, so your tasks will be to study plants for use in Potions. You will also need to know common plants that can be used for food and other purposes," she wrote these things in their respective columns.
"So, Ginny, what do you want to do? There's Transfiguration, Charms, and Potions."
"What about Defense Against the Darks Arts?" she asked.
"Well," Hermione replied evasively, "I thought Harry should get that position since he's the best one at it." She gave him a fleeting smile, which he returned gratefully. She also scribbled his name down next to 'Defense Against the Dark Arts.' "So Ginny, what do you want to do?"
"I guess I'll take Charms," she said almost with a defeated air.
"Ok, well, you'll have jobs like mastering the complex charms. You'll need to know the Amarius Charm, the Mass-Apparition Charm, and the Fidelus Charm."
"Uh, how am I supposed to learn all those, I'm a fifth year?"
"Don't worry, I'll help you."
Hermione's gaze shifted Ron. Ron seeing her gaze answered quickly, "I'm no good at Transfiguration or Potions. I'm hopeless."
"Ronald!" said Luna, springing from the bench she was sitting on with Harry and Hermione, and sitting dangerously close to Ron. "You are not hopeless! I'm pretty good at Transfiguration, you and I can do it together." She gently placed her soft, hand on his freckly one. Both Harry and Hermione's eyebrows rose when Ron did not snatch his hand away. Instead, he smiled and flushed furiously.
"Ok, I guess," he conceded. Luna let go of his hand and made her way back to her seat, the red tint in her cheeks never vanishing.
"So that leaves Harry," she smiled briefly, "for Defense Against the Dark Arts and me for Potions," she said as she scribed these things in her notes. "Harry, you'll be working on mastering defensive spells and learning about dark creatures. And I'll work on the really useful Potions like Felix Felicis, and the Strengthening Solution. We'll need all the advantages we can get because you know Voldemort will have a barrel of every illegal potion."
"This sounds like school to me," Ron mumbled. The train began to slow down and the three girls left the room while the boys changed and the guys waited outside for while the ladies switched to Muggle attire.
"Hey, wait. We didn't name ourselves. Any suggestions?" asked Luna. Eyes roamed the compartment. The eyes invariably landed on Harry. The Boy Who Lived racked his brain until his thoughts settled on that fateful day in Hog's Head Bar last year.
"Dumbledore's Army," Harry replied boldly. A resolute feeling infected the group meaning that that was the ideal name. They would pay tribute to the man who had taught them all so much and had given of himself so much that he died helping others. Hermione wrote this on top of her master list and then tapped the paper with her wand, melting away the ink. No wandering eye, for the member's of Dumbledore's Army, could see this list.
A/N: Thanks for the reviews, I wish I had more (HINT, HINT!). Special thanks to Orangecrush who has willingly agrred to review, despite her shipping preferences.