Ch 31 Harry's Findings

Hermione woke up extra early on Sunday, thinking that she would get to the building site early. She was still half asleep as she descended the stairs into the common room. She didn't expect to see Harry, in the cloths he'd been wearing the night before, sitting at a table surrounded by parchment, holding 'Hogwarts: a History' in one hand, and a quill in the other.

"Morning Harry" Hermione yawned "You been up all night?"

"I just figured this out, and much as I hate to admit it I learned about it in 'Hogwarts: A History'." Harry said the last part doing his best impersonation of Hermione.

"What is it?" she asked, ignoring the joke.

"Are you familiar with the Goblin siege of 1492?" Harry asked.

"Where the Goblins camped on the lawns and killed anyone who left the castle? Then promptly left three days later?" Hermione asked, knowing full-well that she was right.

"That's the one. Are you familiar with their camp?" he asked.

"They built a couple of underground chambers, right?"

"They did" Harry replied "According to their records they build 9 chambers, only 8 were found. Until now, I've been up all nigh and I found the 9th."

"You want to use this chamber rather than build one, don't you?"

"You bet I do!" Harry replied "This saves us time, and you know how good at building Goblins are."

"Plus they enchant their dwellings anyway, Harry this could work." Hermione went deep into thought, pondering how this would affect their plans. Harry meanwhile was rechecking his calculations.

"Would you double check this?" Harry asked after several minutes of silence.

Hermione took Harry's chair and sat down to check his calculations. Referring to Hogwarts a history and even summoning some books of her own from her dorm.

"Morning Hermione." Ginny greeted as she came down the stairs "you're up early"

"Uh" was all Hermione said, she was obviously too deep into what she was doing to care about pleasantries.

Ginny was used to this so she hopped over a couch to wait for Hermione to be finished.

"Uff" The couch said, as Ginny looked down it turned out not to be the couch but rather Harry that she'd landing on.

"Sorry Harry!" Ginny said, getting off him "What are you doing here?"

"I was having a nice nap" he replied, rubbing his chest where she'd landed on him.

"You know, I thought the couch was a little lumpy" Ginny said, a devilish grin appearing on her face.

"You're a little cheeky this morning!" Harry replied.

"Quiet" Hermione muttered under her breath, loudly enough that they could hear.

"May I escort you to breakfast my cheeky-dear?" Harry asked, a playful grin adorning his face as he offered his arm.

"You may" Ginny said, taking his arm and allowing him to lead her through the portrait hole.

"Kids" Hermione muttered.

Students were just starting to trickle into the great hall as Harry and Ginny left, heading to the Room of Requirement to meet the other DA members.

When they arrived the gathered members were having a nice breakfast of bacon and eggs.

"Where'd you get that?" Harry asked.

"We mentioned that we were hungry and it appeared" Luna Lovegood said, before returning her focus to her egg.

"We've changed the plan; we're now just going to be enchanting a room, not building it." Harry told everyone "Follow me"

Harry led them down to the grounds, explaining the new plan to them. He led them behind a patch of trees. Hermione was there along with a very sleepy Ron.

"So how do we find this underground room?" Dean asked.

"Let's just blast the ground until we find it!" Ron declared, pointing his wand at the ground.

"No!" Hermione ordered "Allow me? Inshendumio!"

A small bit of earth fell away before their eyes, revealing a staircase, into a dark tunnel. Everyone present turned to Harry. 'It's always me isn't it' Harry thought to himself. He took out his wand and proceeded down the dark stairway. As he reached the bottom, however, the room was flooded with light and Harry had to avert his eyes.

When he looked back he saw a chamber about the size of a Hogwarts classroom. The walls, ceiling and floor were made of identical stone slabs. The walls were lined with candles spaced equally around the rectangular room.

Ginny joined Harry in the room. She paused to take in the room.

"Wow" was all she said.

Hermione led the rest of the DA into the chamber and gave instructions about the charms they were going to be using on the chamber. They set to work and put a first layer charm over the whole area.

It was mid-afternoon before they stopped, and they all trudged slowly out of the chamber. They were exhausted and dirty but they had made progress.

Hermione sealed the opening and came to talk to Harry.

"I used a simple charm to seal the chamber" Hermione told Harry "to get back in just wave your wand and say "Impenetrable"

"If I can get in just by saying that, doesn't that make it penetrable?" Harry asked.

"Don't quit your day job Harry" Ginny recommended, walking over "comedy's not for you"

"We did good work today" Hermione commented.

"We did" Ginny agreed "But this will take some time to finish"

"It will" Hermione confirmed.

"Well, it's an excuse to get out of homework Ron said as he walked up.

"Kidding!" he clarified upon seeing the nasty look he was getting from Hermione.

"God, I don't know how you to can stand dating each other." Ginny commented.

"I like it" Ron said, kissing Hermione who wrapped her arms around him.

"Get a chamber" Ginny said.

"Maybe their trying to lead by example" Harry suggested.

"We could try" Ginny told him, and they did.

A/N: 3 chapters, bo ya! What do ya think? Too much fluff? Oh well… Hey, I know you're reading but not reviewing! Come on, it takes 3 seconds. Please…