Laws of love: Chapter 10: Hogwart's main Army

"Were done already?" Harry asked, slightly surprised at the abrupt ending of lethal dangers.

Tonks smiled a wide smiled and nodded her head eagerly. "Good job, you guys are both in as fourth."

"Who are first, second and third?"

"Well come along and see, I'll take you two to the revitalization room, Hermione looks like she could use a pepper-up potion." Tonks said, indicating at the bright red door next to her.

Harry nodded and carried Hermione to the door, he waited till Tonks opened it before entering.

Ron, Luna and Ernie looked up from their personal beds and all cracked a grin, "Look who the cat dragged in." Ron laughed, then adding in a more serious tone, "Is Hermione okay?"

Harry nodded, "She'll be fine, how about you?"

"Alright I guess. This wall kept on shooting "vain-popping" spells at me that I never got the time to heal, only when I ran away, bumping blindly into walls did they start healing … and I broke my nose when I got attacked by something that looked like a cross-breed between one of Hagrid's Skrewts and a Dragon." Ron explained jubilantly.

"Yes, Parvati got attacked by one of those too." Harry said as an after thought, remembering the rhyme she said before literally crawling out of a wall.

"They are nasty little buggers; shoot fire from almost every body part imaginable, have stingers lined up their backs and have sharp claws." Ron said, showing Harry is sliced and burned arm.

Harry was just about to tell Ron about all the stuff he had gone through, but Madam Pompfrey appeared, "The school year hasn't even started yet and I'm already treating my usuals," she muttered impatiently.

"Good after - what time is it actually?" Harry asked Ron, who looked at his watch of which the glass was broken and the pointers were bent, "7 p.m"

"Evening," Harry finished towards Madam Pompfrey who smiled wearily back, "How about you put Ms. Granger down so I can take look at her?"

Harry carefully laid Hermione on the nearby bed and stepped back, giving Madam Pompfrey some space to examine her.

"Hmm, bruised wrist, twisted ankle…some marks from what I presume was strangling rope and slight suffocation." She stated as she ran across Hermione's list of injuries.

Harry turned to the other three while Madam Pompfrey got busy to healing Hermione.

"So which one of you was first?" he asked conversationally.

"Me!" Luna said happily, bouncing up once from her bed.

"And I was second." Ernie added, "Making me third," finished Ron proudly, "Took some lucky turns I suppose." He said in a matter of explanation.

They continued talking about all the risks they faced when Harry noticed a large billboard on the other wall with moving labelled dots. Harry stood up and walked over to it. He examined the wall, the first dot was named, "Dean Thomas – Level 5)

"Hey," Harry alleged in amazement, "Here we can see what's going on, oh, there is Lavender and Ginny,"

Luna and Ernie got up and joined him, Ron had drifted off.

They examined the board, Ernie occasionally making comments about who was in the lead (Hanna Abbot and George Weasley).

Two hours passed, Ron and Hermione were both fast asleep, and George, Hanna, Lavender, Ginny and Angelina Johnson had made it up to the revitalization/chill room.

Harry, George, Ginny and Angelina were discussing Quidditch techniques while Ernie, Luna, Hanna and Lavender were playing exploding snaps.

Another hour passed and the amount of people who had managed to make it to the end were (In order of arrival) Luna Lovegood, Ernie Macmillan, Ron Weasley, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Hanna Abbott, George Weasley, Angelina Johnson, Ginny Weasly, Lavender Brown, Parvati Patil, Fred Weasley, Dean Thomas, Katie Bell, Seamus Finnegan, Justin Flinch-Fletchly, Neville Longbottom, Alicia Spinet, Cho Chang, Eloise Midgeon, Michael Corner and Padma Patil.

The other contestants had shot up emergency sparks and were saved by aurors or Hogwarts teachers.

The room was rather crowded so every one was relieved when Tonks came and announced that they should accompany her to the hall.

Ron was awake by this time and wanted to carry Hermione this time, shoving Harry away when Harry was just about to pick her up.

Harry smirked as he watched them walk away, "He is SO in love with her," Ginny whispered into his ear, Harry turned to look at her and instead of answering her; he leaned down and kissed her.

Hand in hand they followed the group into a hall that had large comfortable couches placed in it.

Harry and Ginny joined Ron who was now prodding Hermione urgently in the shoulder to wake her up.

"Oh let me," Ginny said, leaning over to Hermione's ear and whispering something Harry couldn't hear in it, almost instantly Hermione's head shot up and started scanning the hall way until her eyes landed on Ron and muttered angrily to Ginny, "Liar."

"Hey Ron," a sugar sweet voice from behind them said, causing all of them to shift around in their seats to see who said it.

"Uhm, hi Lavender." Ron said, turning almost instantly away from her.

Harry let out a snort at the sight of Lavender's astonished face and said in a cheery undertone, "Buh-Bye LovaGirl!"

Lavender narrowed her eyes dangerously at him before stomping away to a couch where Parvati and Seamus were sitting, who shooed her away since they wanted to be left alone, so resignedly Lavender plopped down between Neville and Eloise with an angry face.

Ginny high-fived Harry and snuggled herself against his chest.

"Attention, Attention." Dumbledore's warm, likable voice boomed through the hall.

All the chattering stopped, and all eyes were focused on their head master.

"I dare say that you are all wondering what in bollocks name you're doing here, so I'll explain it to you all. But before that I must announce that all of your parents or guardian's have given consent so not to worry." Dumbledore started, "And now onto business. This maze that I've developed was to separate the brave, talented, logical, intelligent, quick actioned, strategic and strong of will-powered from the weak. It is cruel to say that the ones who aren't in attendance are weak, but that is simply the way it is. I've done this however, to ensure that the people here are the most suitable for my army."

The last words caused and excited mutter to fly around the hall.

"As you all know, Lord Voldemort is at his strongest again. He is seeking alliances between the darkest kinds. So worried that I was, over what will happen if he is to attack Hogwarts, of which I'm sure he won't, but just in case I've decided to make a small army of talented young people to assist the main army of Hogwarts."

"The main army of Hogwarts?" Ernie asked loudly.

"Well Mr. Macmillan; the main army of Hogwarts consists of: Teachers, Selective aurors, Ghosts, Mere people, Centaurs, Unicorns, House elves and now…you."

"That's quite an army," Fred said, "But George and I are not much use to you since we aren't in school any more."

"That, Mr. Weasley is where you are wrong. Because I have reinstated you and your brother to the school to finish your last year at Hogwarts. This I not only do because I need you at Hogwarts but also to ease your poor mother's nerves. So please, put the joke shop on hold for one more year."

"One-more-year-in-school-to-ease-our-mother's-nerves?" George and Fred gasped, clearly affronted.

"Yes." Dumbledore answered simply.

"Oh no!" They both moaned, winning laughs and snorts from the others.