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Chapter 1

It was 1:30 in the afternoon, Harry Potter peered around the corner, the coast was clear or at least it was for now. Harry was drawing a blank, what should he do? They would have to act now or soon it would be too late. It would be 40 or so of the DA against the 70 odd death eaters that had made their way into Hogwarts.

How could this of happened, they were supposed to be safe in Hogwarts it was the only safe place left that's why so many parents sent their kids here. But since Dumbledore died last year, it wasn't as safe as it could have been.

"Harry what should we do?" Hermione Granger the smartest witch of their year asked.

"I guess we have to split up, I need you to take group blue, Ron should be in charge of group yellow and I'll take group purple" earlier during the year they had decided to split the DA into three groups. Each group had an arrangement of students in different years and with different abilities, the groups were equal in how strong their powers were. "We'll come at them from different ways and meet up in the middle that way we can catch them off guard," whispered Harry. "Ok, ready, on the count of three, one two three."

The DA separated at the count of three. By now everyone in the DA knew each and every secret passageway in the school; they ended up coming at the death eaters from different directions and confusing them. But would a surprise attack help them when the odd were so great

Spells and curses flew every which way. Red, purple, yellow, and blue flashes flashed. Luna Lovegood was in Ron's group she was fighting next to him, when a killing curse flew their way. Ron was busy with fighting with a rather large Deatheater, he was facing the opposite way from the killing curse.

"Ron, Ron, LOOK OUT" Luna yelled trying to get his attention, but with no luck. She had to act fast and her instincts told her to push Ron out of the way. Luna ran into Ron in just enough time to get hit by the green curse herself. The flash of green light was absorbed by Luna's chest then as if time was slowed down she crumpled to the floor, and landed with a sickening thud.

Ron stumbled with the force of Luna running into him, confused he turned around to see Luna lying in a heap on the floor. 'Oh god, not Luna' was all Ron could think before he was hit with a stunning spell and fell to the floor next to her.

Meanwhile Harry's group was fairing much better when he realized that Ron was down and next in command Luna was down he called over the yellow group and took control of both. They managed to get about half of the Deatheaters down, he had taught the DA well. The older more experienced students were in front keeping the younger students safe. Finally the Order of the Phoenix arrived taking care of the rest of the Death Eaters.

Harry looked around at the wounded students. Other then Luna, and Ron, five more students were unconscious including Nevil, Ginny, and Hannah Abott and two other ravenclaw third years. Harry and Hermione levitated the unconscious students and brought them up to the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey shooed the uninjured students back to their common rooms.

Harry and Hermione were worried about everyone who got hurt. "Hermione I don't know how much more of this I can take, seven of us were injured, I have to kill him I have to"

"I know Harry you will, you're just not ready yet," Hermione answered " When you go against him you have to be able to finish him."

"When will I be ready, Its my fault I'm putting everyone in danger by just being here, when Ron gets better I have to leave."

"You cant leave, what with the war getting so bad there are so many more dangers for you outside, You need to finish your training and when you think you can go against Voldemort and win then you should leave, but only then" Hermione lectured "I don't want to hear any more of this its your fault were in danger, The DA chose this they want to fight with you, I chose this just as much as everyone else, as for the school its going to be just as safe with you or without you. It's probably safer with you, because you fight for us, you know the Order isn't as good as it was behind Dumbledore, they're slow, without you today, some of the students could have died."

" We don't know if any of the hurt students may even die yet, you know there is only so much Madam Pomfrey can do," Harry answered ignoring the first half of her speech.

"Yeah, but more could be hurt without you, so stop it," Hermione answered sharply.

Meanwhile in the Hospital wing Ron was starting to wake up. "Where am I? What happened to Luna?" When no one answered he looked around. The hospital wing was full of DA members in the bed next to him was Ginny and Nevil was next to her.

"What happened to Ginny?" Ron wondered out loud.

Soon Madam Pomfrey came in to check on him. "Are Luna and Ginny ok?' he asked

"Ginny is fine she just had a broken arm she'll be fine in a couple of hours, Luna on the other hand we're not sure, she was hit with a killing curse she should be dead, but she's not," Madam Pomfrey answered.

"She was hit with a killing curse; she took a killing curse for me, but why?" Ron thought out loud.

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