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A/N: the notice I replaced with this chapter was mainly to see what the general thoughts were on femblaise, and while it is my story, meaning that I can do what I like in it, I don't want to do something that the majority of my readers will not like/enjoy.
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Chapter 18: Ambush.
A week after the first prank was pulled (the 10th), Harry got Hermione to organise a meeting with Rita Skeeter in order to arrange releasing the information about the Lily and James survival foundation to the public, the article was released three days later, on the 20th of September, and stated what was happening about the portkeys and the conditions for their use/dispensation plus a little bit of information about the fund.
Over the next few weeks, everyone fell into a routine, of lessons, DA once a week (although the background healers and the fire teams soon took to studying together for homework, research for the DA or looking up something that the may find useful – healing spells and potions/curses, hexes and jinxes respectfully), Quidditch for the players once the house teams started practicing.
There were also Occlumency lessons for Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville and Luna, animagus training for the combat/combat healers in the DA, while the intelligence section was under construction – Hermione, Rose and Blaise began collecting favours off people that they helped out for homework, then using those favours to find out information/rumours (that were then to be investigated, secretly of course, as to whether or not they are true) about the JR death eaters in the school, things that could be used as blackmail material.
If enough blackmail material was found, they would then isolate that specific individual and, well, blackmail them into helping, betraying the dark order's information/finding out about death eater identities, home locations and/or plans.
If the blackmail attempt failed, then the JR DE was obliviated and more information was collected for another attempt.
The plans were originally met with outrage from Hermione, and enthusiasm from the two Slytherins, once Hermione was told that she only had to participate in the initial stages of the operation, she calmed down drastically.
Unfortunately, they had come up with virtually no leads in the few weeks that they had been working.
The decision had been made to find a…headquarters of sorts for the DA after a discussion between the main members of the group (Ron – combat, Hermione – combat healers, Hannah – background healers, Padma – research, Blaise – intelligence and Harry – leader), so on the 30th of October, they started to search the school for an abandoned classroom, that was big enough, and had an attached office.
After a few hours, they came to the final possibility; the only room in an isolated corridor, with an attached office that only had one entrance into it – through the room.
They soon spotted that there was a shadowy alcove opposite the door where they could hide a disillusioned person very well. In the classroom itself, they found that there were plenty of desks that could be transfigured into some of the necessary equipment.
Once they had all agreed upon the office, they decided that the location of the intelligence section would be known only to Harry, Blaise and Rose (they had decided on one of the previous offices they visited to be the home for it).
They agreed that the office should become a control centre, or war room as Ron pointed out that once they had completed half of their ideas, they would be able to fight a war from this one room.
The plans were simple in basis, but difficult to pull off, the first thing they needed was to create a super sized version of the improved marauders map in the centre of the circular office.
The map was to be built into the table, with a piece of parchment next to it like the one for the medical section, but just the names, so Ron could call the people back one at a time if they were in danger. The door was going to be split in half horizontally, so that the top half of the door was opened separately to the bottom half, allowing someone to hide behind the bottom half for protection during a fight.
The classroom was to be turned into a makeshift medical wing; desks to be transfigured into beds and shelves, the two cupboards that used to house teaching materials, were to be magically re-enforced so that the healing potions kept inside were not harmed, while on the wall was going to be several parchments that detailed every one in the DA' life signs, magical levels/injuries, etc.
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Harry had taken to watching people over the last couple of weeks, and soon noticed a slight change of behaviour in Malfoy, he seemed to become slightly withdrawn and thought full, as though trying to think up some plan.
On Halloween, he discovered what it was that Malfoy had been planning.
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Rose had been having a good day for once, she had done well in all of her classes, and finally got a decent lead on a possible…'informant', she was on her way to getting conformation on the lead when she ran into Malfoy.
Literally.
Once she picked herself up from where she landed after bouncing off of Malfoys chest, she was taken aback by him coming up to her and wrapping his arm around her waist, acting for all the world as if they were a couple.
For a few moments, she was on the verge of panic as she realised that there where no other people in the corridor.
Then she pushed him off her, and asked in a voice that sounded a lot calmer than she was, "What the hell are you doing?"
"What do you think? I am claiming you as mine." He said arrogantly.
"What the F£££££g hell do you mean by that?" she hissed.
"That I want you to be my future wife. I like a woman with fight in her…it's more fun breaking her in." he said with a smirk as he slowly advanced on her.
Then suddenly, he stopped, smirked, and turned around, saying over his shoulder. "Of course, I'll have put your brother in his place first."
Then he vanished round the corner.
Rose stood there for a minute, staring after Malfoy in disgust, before she realised what he was going to try and do.
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Harry was on his way to lunch, rounding a corner, he stopped when he realised what he was seeing in front of him.
Glancing around, he saw that the situation was the same in all directions.
Harry Potter was surrounded by Slytherins, up ahead, was Crabbe and Goyle, behind him was Pansy Parkinson and Daphne Greengrass, who didn't appear to want to be there.
To his left, down the corridor he had just left, was Theodore Nott and Sophie Moon, and to his right was a solid wall.
Harry quickly drew his wand, his back to the wall, facing Nott and Moon, he snapped his head round to face Crabbe and Goyle when he heard footsteps, he watched as the figure rounded the corner, dashing his hopes as he saw who it was.
Malfoy.
He had just reached his guards when another figure ran round the corner, panic on her face.
Rose.
"What's wrong?" Harry asked telepathically.
"He wants to 'put you in your place' because he wants to force me to be his…his…" she finished, unable to continue.
Harry had only just got her reply, when he was yanked off his feet and left to dangle upside down, as if a rope had been tied around his ankle and was then used to lift him up like some weird muggle trap.
Harry was shocked; he wasn't expecting silent spells from the group.
In his shock he dropped his wand.
"Well, well, well, the great Harry Potter is downed by me. The dark lord will be pleased, and reward me well…I wonder what your sister will be like in bed."
Harry made eye contact with Malfoy, and slipped into his mind with Legilimancy, sifting through his surface thoughts, he located the one he needed, one word floated through his mind, telling him what the spell was.
"Rose, it's the 'levicorpus' spell, cancel it, you need a wand, so I can't." he projected to her.
Rose seemingly nodded to herself as she drew her wand, pointing it at Harry; she mumbled the counter-curse, causing Harry to drop to the ground unceremoniously.
As she cast the counter, Goyle, proving he has more brains than he let on, grunted the stupefy spell at her, hitting her square in the chest.
Leaping to his feet with his previously dropped wand in his hand, Malfoy took one look at his face before knowing he was in trouble.
"What was that about my sister?"
"She'll be mine, my reward for your capture."
"I'm afraid I'm gonna have to disappoint you there, you see, I'm not captured am I?" he said as he took a step towards Malfoy, and incidentally, out of Nott and Moons firing arc, while silently summoning his Lionheart amulet that he had accidentally left on his bed side table.
Moments later, he caught the amulet in his left hand and slipped it around his neck.
Malfoy simply raised his wand and tried disarming him.
Harry just watched it coming…then going as it bounced off the shield generated by the amulet.
Moments later, Malfoy was on his back six feet further away from Harry than he was, while his wand was sitting at Harry's feet.
Then hell broke loose, spells were launched at Harry, spells that were too powerful or complex for the amulet to block were deflected, dodged or parried before they were launched (Legilimancy was a wonderful tool).
Harry only launched a few spells back, which were bounced off the Slytherins shields.
Taking the offensive, Harry charged at Crabbe and Goyle, blasting Goyle off his feet with an 'Expeliarmus' and stunning a still wandless Malfoy, he sent an almost inaudible 'enervate' at Rose, before concentrating on Crabbe.
Launching several bludgeoning hexes at him, followed by a stunner, and Crabbe was out.
Looking around while dodging a hex from Pansy Parkinson, he noticed that Daphne Greengrass was stood back a bit, looking as if she was trying to decide something.
Nott and Moon had just come round the corner, and were about to start flinging spells.
Rose was up and ready to fight, having just stunned Goyle.
Four on two, good odds.
'Make that three on three', he thought as Daphne Greengrass took another step back, pointed her wand at Parkinson and spoke up, what shocked Harry was that it was telepathically. "Potter, if I help you, can you protect me?"
"Of course I can." He directed back at her.
"Good. Besides, it'll be good to be around a fellow Telepath." He heard back off her.
Opening the communication lines up to include Rose, while deciding to wonder how she knew he was a telepath later, Harry quickly sent the thought: "Stunners on three."
"One."
"Two."
"Three."
In that moment, three voices spoke one word in perfect unison. "Stupefy!"
Parkinson went down, since she didn't see it coming, Moon Blocked and began to duel with Rose, while Notts shield collapsed under the power of Harry's stunner.
Of course, there was only enough power left in it to leave him dazed, allowing the second stunner, launched at an almost impossible speed, to take him down.
While Rose was duelling Nott, Daphne moved up behind him, before pressing her wand against the back of his neck.
"Give it up Nott, you can't win." She said in an icy tone, while plucking his wand from his hand.
"Just the person I was looking for as well." Rose stated.
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