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Chapter 6: Memories of the DA and some of its more Erratic Members
Umbridge's classes were as boring as ever, but the DA made up for it, big time. Meetings were memorable and all of the students dwelled on the funnier or most triumphant moments during their more tedious lessons. Harry felt that he was doing quite well as a teacher.
There was a time during a DA meeting when they were practicing Disarming. Dennis Creevey was extremely enthusiastic, but not amazingly good at aiming. He hit a heavy textbook, which leapt off the shelf…and landed on Seamus Finnegan's head, knocking him out.
"Oh! I'm sorry! He'll be okay, won't he Harry? Will he? Huh?"
"Yeah, sure he'll be fine." But Harry was actually not that sure. Hermione, luckily, sprang forward and was able to revive him, with a neat stream of ice water from her wand.
"Ahh!"
"Well, we know he's awake," Hermione said cheerfully.
Seamus just looked irritated and went back to Disarming Dean, with whom he was practicing.
Another time, Neville accidentally said the wrong incantation and ended up giving Ginny some fangs, which she was not particularly pleased about. Luckily, Hermione could easily solve that issue.
Ginny did not speak to Neville for the rest of the meeting.
Colin Creevey once produced a very good Reductor curse, but ended up reducing Padma Patil's favorite bracelet to dust and singeing her hair, that Hermione could not fix.
Luna Lovegood did not seem to be improving on her Jelly-Legs Jinx, but after three meetings, she caused Ron to wobble around the room at top speed. Hermione, again, solved this problem, but Ron was completely unsteady for the next hour, which showed how good Luna's jinx had been.
Ernie Macmillan had a tendency to do some extremely unnecessary flourishing with his wand, which flew out of his hand one meeting, hitting Dean very hard in his rear end. Dean was not happy when he found a long, blue line there, later on.
However erratic or unpredictable some of the DA members were, Harry was extremely impressed with them one day when they performed some of the most amazing Defense magic he'd ever seen, and as a group.
At the end of Harry's fifth year, some DA members had seen Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle attack Harry in the Hogwarts Express and fought back with some amazing skill, turning the three into things that looked like slugs.
As Harry walked down the hallway out of the Room of Requirement after a DA meeting one day, Pansy Parkinson, Crabbe, Goyle, Blaise Zabini, and Theodore Nott jumped out at him, preparing to hex him. Unfortunately for them, Harry had taught more members a wider variety of curses, hexes, spells, and jinxes. And the members were filing out of the room from behind Harry. Realizing what was about to happen, the DA utilized everything they had learned in the meetings, save the Sectumsempra curse. Cries of, "Furnunculus!" "Expelliarmus!" "Stupefy!" and other incantations filled the air. Luna even produced a very good, but unnecessary Patronus.
If it was possible, the four Slytherins looked even worse than Crabbe and Goyle had when attacked by the DA in fifth year. The DA members just left them there and carried on, not caring who or what found them. After all, they were only hexing in self-defense, right?
Some DA members (including Ginny, Luna, and the Creeveys) surreptitiously hit Umbridge with a Jelly-Legs jinx. Umbridge was not very skilled in the Defense area; so she wobbled around for a day, to the delight of the school, save her favorite Slytherins.
However, one tragic day, Dumbledore left the school in search of something that had to do with Horcruxes. So Umbridge sat herself in her office and called herself headmistress. Again. This was another audacious attempt to hurt Dumbledore as headmaster. The teachers were appalled; what would they do now?
But Umbridge would have no idea as to what was coming,…