A/N: Merry Christmas everyone! I want to wish you all a merry Christmas and as a special Christmas treat I am giving you this chapter and a one shot what if side story. (Side story submitted separately.)

Brothers

Chapter 36: Planning

Harry, Draco, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny were working on the most difficult project they had ever taken on. Organizing the Chaos that the DA was made up of this year. The year before it had been easy. There were maybe 30 people in the whole thing and it was meant to be a secret. This year though, was the challenge. There were something like double even triple the amount of students; all at different skill levels, and with the Headmasters permission it was all being monitored.

This caused the problem they were now faced with. It was hard enough teaching people close to your age how to defend themselves without them having to either fall behind or repeat what they have learned. Thus, the dilemma they were now suffering.

"What if we had different levels of the DA?" Ginny suggested.

"Or we could have the more experienced ones teach the newer ones." Hermione said as they sat in their little meeting.

"But then, the more advanced ones wouldn't be learning anything new. They come to learn, not teach." Ron argued.

Draco was quickly scribbling on a piece of parchment while alternating looking up at the group then back to the parchment again.

Harry looked over to see what his brother was doing and Draco handed him the paper. It was a plan for the DA laid out simply.

"This is great Draco. If we combine Ginny and Hermione's ideas, we can really do something here. Ok everyone how does this sound. We divide the DA into three groups. One group can consist of the first through third years. They can begin to learn the basic defensive spells they need like shield spells and disarming. The second group can be fourth year to sixth year students who haven't already had a year with the DA. This can help us start to teach them more difficult spells and get them caught up with this years DA members. The last group, we can have all seventh years, older members of the DA and just really skilled individuals learning new, more complex spells as well as maybe getting a bit of training from Tonks. This can also be the group that helps us teach the other two so the work won't become overwhelming for us." Harry tried to explain and elaborate what his brother had written.

Hermione seemed to agree with this and they immediately began to take the names from the registry like book and group the people into the three categories. A different type of token was made for each group so that they could call meetings at any time. Just as they were about to go up to bed for the night, Harry remembered his bet with Draco.

"Hey Ginny can I talk to you a second?" he asked the red haired girl.

Ginny looked confused but nodded telling Hermione to go on to bed. Draco dragged Ron up the stairs trying to distract him from the conversation by asking if he was up for a quick game of chess.

Harry looked nervous at the floor. "You know that there is this ball on Friday and I was- er that is, I was wondering if you would go as – uh –my er- date."

Ginny stared at the now red young man for a moment before throwing her arms around his neck in happiness. "Of coarse I will Harry. Of coarse I will." She let go of her rather brief hug and skipped up the stairs.

Harry stood stunned for a moment before smiling and heading up the stairs to tell his now doomed sibling of his fate. Draco hurried into the dormitories with Ron from where they sat eavesdropping at the top of the stairs. He may be doomed to spend the whole ball catering to one of the Dumbledore twins or some other poor unfortunate soul Harry picked for him but it was worth it for Harry to be happy.

A/N: I know this is incredibly short but I can't help it. It's that or you wait longer. I hope to update soon. I shall try for all my readers. Merry Christmas!