Chapter 7.- Intruders in the Hogwarts Express.

Harry and Hermione arrived to the Leaky Cauldron a few minutes before dinner, Herman and Emma had offered to drive them both there; insisting to the teens they had their approval for their relationship, and that if they ever needed help, they weren't alone.

"Harry! Hermione!" Molly Weasley greeted them with a hug. "We were waiting for you to arrive. What took you so long?"

"I insisted that we should go first to visit my parents." Hermione explained. "And we got carried away."

"So, you already went to visit your future parents-in-law." Fred said with a smirk.

George laughed.

The twins noticed Ron was approaching the couple from behind, wanting to surprise them, but before he could Hermione and Harry turned around.

"Hello Ron!" they both chimed with a smile.

"You!" Ron yelled at his brothers. "You told him!"

"No." Fred and George shook their head, and maybe for the first time in their lives, they looked sincere.

"They didn't need to Ron." Hermione said with a smile.

"We knew exactly where you were." Harry added.

"How?" Ron asked.

"Himitsudesu." Hermione replied with an 'innocent' smile.

"What?" this time Ron, along with the twins got confused.

"Sorry, it slipped." Hermione said. "It's a secret."

"I'm sure now Ron believes you pass too much time with us Hermy-chan." Sakura said with a grin as she and her friends joined the rest.

"Is that a bad thing?" she asked, again with her 'innocent-yet-playful' smile.

"What I believe is that Harry-kun isn't the only one getting too much influence from Eriol-kun." Tomoyo said grinning. "You too are picking some of his traits Hermy-chan."

"Well, what can we do about it?" Shaoran asked. "It's the only thing they're learning from that old-grump."

"Hey!" Eriol yelled. "More respect my cu…"

"Eriol…" Tomoyo, Sakura and Hermione murmured under their breath.

Cute little descendant. Eriol finished in their minds.

Harry was the only one that couldn't hear him, but knew him well enough to imagine what he had said.

"Did I miss something?" Ron asked confused.

'My dear friend, you've missed many things.' Harry thought.

Even without reading his mind, his girlfriend could guess what his thoughts were.

"Don't worry Harry." Hermione whispered in his ear. "One day he'll know."

Harry just nodded.

.---.

The following morning Ron woke up around nine o'clock, ready to wake up Harry; great was his surprise when he noticed his friend wasn't in bed. Once outside he knocked on the door, Ginny opened.

"Good morning Ron." Ginny said.

"Good morning Ginny. Is Hermione inside?" Ron asked.

"No." Ginny shook her head. "She woke up before me, I wasn't awake yet when she left."

"Strange." Ron murmured. "Even if I do believe Hermione to be an early person, Harry had never been one. Still a few months ago, in Hogwarts, you needed a siren to wake him up."

"Seems he has changed." Ginny commented. "Just like Hermione."

"Yes, they have both changed, too much I believe." Ron murmured.

.---.

Minutes later Ron and Ginny went to get their breakfast, there the twins and their parents were already waiting for them.

"Mom, have you seen Harry and Hermione?" Ron asked.

"No." Molly shook her head.

"They left early morning." The bartender told them. "Said they were going for an early walk, would return…"

The man was interrupted just when the door opened, and the voices and laughs of a group of teenagers could be heard.

"It was so funny!" Naoko was laughing her head off.

"Bloody brilliant!" Hermione added laughing just the same way.

"Hey! Quit it." Eriol complained. "It's me you're making fun of."

"I don't see why we should quit laughing." Sakura said, laughing too.

Eriol turned to his girlfriend, expecting her aid, but it was useless.

"I'm sorry Eriol-kun." Tomoyo said with false guilty. "But you have to admit you looked quite…amusing."

"¿Amusing?" Shaoran asked sarcastically. "It was plain hilarious!"

They all laughed again, Eriol too.

"I didn't know Li had that kind of humor." Ginny commented.

"Me neither." Ron added.

That was right, their two friends had suddenly turned to other friends whom they knew nothing about; and slowly, they were beginning to not know about their friends either.

Hermione and Harry could notice Ron's and Ginny's attitude, and could also guess the reason; but even then there was nothing they could do about it.

"Harry…" Hermione whispered.

She noticed her boyfriend was more affected than her by the situation.

"I don't like hiding things to them Hermy." Harry murmured. "Especially to Ron. He has been my best-friend since the moment I boarded the Hogwarts Express for the first time."

"Technically we aren't lying." Hermy tried to console him. "We're just not telling him the full truth, just the half."

"There aren't 'half-truths' Hermy." Harry said sadly. "I remember when I didn't understand your strange attitudes, how much it pained me that you didn't trust me as you trusted Sakura and company. And now we're doing him, and the rest, the same."

Hermione hugged him not knowing what else to do.

And meanwhile Sakura, Shaoran, Naoko, Tomoyo and Eriol were looking at each other.

"This is hard on Harry-kun." Sakura murmured.

"It's understandable." Shaoran said. "He doesn't like lying to his friends, like we do."

"It's different." Eriol argued. "Most of us have been in this since we were little, we know we hide our true powers for the welfare of those who surround us. But with Hermione-san and Harry-san it's different, they had never kept this kind of secrets from other friends, specially not from someone as close to them as Ron."

"But we know, and they too that it is for the good of all." Tomoyo said.

"Still, sometimes that usually doesn't make it any easier." Naoko commented.

They knew it was harder for her than for the other four, being the last of them to discover her magic, it had taken her some time to understand she needed to hide that power from all her non-magical friends, like Chiharu, Yamazaki, Rika, etc.

"Still." Tomoyo murmured seriously. "I believe Ron-san will be finding out sooner than we ourselves imagine."

Even if she wasn't usually one to make predictions, she wasn't the only one who believed that.

.---.

The rest of the week went by the same way. Sakura, Shaoran, Tomoyo, Eriol, Naoko, Harry and Hermione would wake up early morning and go train, then return in time to take a bath and get some breakfast. The rest of the day they would be doing different things; Harry and Hermione some times on their own, others along with Ginny, Ron and the rest of the Weasley family; Sakura and the rest would split into couples(those times Naoko would stay behind), or would go all the five to look around.

The last day there in Diagon Alley Hermione was getting her things packed when suddenly she felt something strange. Without giving any explanation to Ginny for her strange behavior she left what she was doing and ran outside, where she almost crashed into Harry who was just exiting his and Ron's room.

"You felt it?" Hermione asked.

"You too?" Harry replied.

They both nodded and ran downstairs. In the entrance of Diagon Alley they could see Naoko standing, wearing just her nightgown, and holding the urn tightly in her hands.

"Nao…" Harry was about to yell at her but Hermione stopped him.

"Don't do it." She murmured.

"Why?" Harry asked.

"She looks strange, I want to know why." Hermione explained.

"She's saying something." Harry murmured.

"Daughters of the earth, princesses of voice, chosen to keep the magic balanced." Naoko was chanting in a low voice. "I pledge you allegiance." She dropped to her knees, and then touched the floor with her hands (still holding the urn), and then with her forehead. "I am your faithful servant, my ladies: Rose Midori, Rose Tsubame. Order and I shall obey. My life is yours to rule, my body and magic serves to nothing but your purposes, my soul searches non-stop for you, my rightful Mistresses."

There was a brief light and suddenly Hermione and Harry saw something really strange: right before Naoko two women were standing, dressed in elegant robes: one purple, one dark red-almost black; they both had dark hair, and their eyes were of indescribable colors. Each of them extended a hand, white bare hands touched Naoko's head lightly. And when they raised their hands again each had a glowing bracelet around the wrist.

And just then the women seemed to turn to look at them, delicate features adorned their faces, a voice could be heard as their eyes shined:

…Rose Midori…Rose Tsubame…

.---.

Hermione blinked, a bit disoriented.

"Hermione, are you ok?" Ginny asked her from a side.

Hermione blinked twice, as if confused all over again.

"Hermione?" Ginny insisted.

"I'm fine Ginny." Hermione lied. "Don't worry."

And meanwhile, one question ran through her mind: 'How did I get here?'

Had it all been nothing but a hallucination? The feeling in her magical senses, finding Harry feeling the same, running outside, seeing Naoko in some strange trance, murmuring some strange words and kneeling to some unknown women, and then two women appearing out of thin air and touching her. It was the last thing she could remember, along with a word that rang repeatedly through her mind: Rose…

"Hermione!" Ginny called her from the door. "Mom says we're going to eat dinner now."

"Coming." Hermione closed her trunk immediately and ran downstairs.

.---.

The teens arrived running to the Hogwarts Express. The train was already almost full, and they had a hard time finding an empty compartment. In the end they did find an empty compartment, where they all fit.

"I would have never imagined all seven of us fitting in one compartment." Ron commented.

The rest just smiled as Sakura discreetly returned the Big Card to her pack.

Tomoyo sighed as she gazed through the window.

"Oh Tomoyo, what happens to you?" Hermione asked.

"Isn't it obvious?" Harry asked her in a low voice.

It was then that she remembered that Eriol wasn't with them, as a professor he had to be in another compartment, giving instructions to the new prefects.

Don't worry Tomoyo. You'll soon be with him again. Hermione sent her thoughts.

You're right Hermy-chan, arigato. Tomoyo replied.

Hermione knew enough Japanese to understand the Japanese girl was thanking her.

.---.

The trip went by silently. There was a moment when Tomoyo suddenly stood up.

"Excuse me, I need to go to the restroom." Tomoyo said as she left the compartment.

But she wasn't going to the bathroom, instead she walked by the alley, avoiding the prefects who where now checking the students. She finally reached the first wagon, and entered the Prefects' Compartment, where a pair of arms immediately surrounded her.

"Eriol…" Tomoyo whispered.

In all response Eriol took her face between his hands and kissed her passionately.

"Eriol, no." Tomoyo broke the kiss after a while. "The students could find us here."

"They have to check up all the train, it'll take them a while to be back." Eriol replied kissing her again. "Come on hime, I know you miss me just as much as I miss you, let us have this moment together."

Tomoyo didn't comply any longer, she captured his lips with hers and kissed him deeply.

.---.

Sakura smiled when she felt Tomoyo's aura shinning happily.

"Don't you think Tomoyo is taking too long in the restroom?" Ron asked.

"Maybe it is crowded and she has to wait." Sakura lied. "Don't worry."

Ron believed the lie, and Sakura's attitude was enough for the rest to understand what was truly happening with the Enchantress.

Suddenly Hermione felt goosebumps down her spine.

"Are you okay?" Harry asked noticing her uneasiness.

Hermione imagined that as she had been practicing her Sorcerer-abilities longer than her boyfriend she was more sensible to the signals.

Another goosebump and Hermione got nervous.

Sakura, do you feel it? Hermione asked.

Hai. Sakura replied.

Just then the Express stopped.

"What's happening?" Ron asked, confused.

"What could have made the train stop?" Naoko asked.

"Last time this happened Dementors got on board." Harry remembered.

"I'm afraid the event is about to repeat itself." Shaoran murmured.

"What!" Ron got nervous, he definitely didn't like the Dementors.

"Harry-kun, do the kids from the D.A. know how to conjure a Patronus?" Sakura asked.

"Yes they do." Harry nodded.

"If you have a way to communicate with them and warn them do it now." Sakura said getting to the door of the compartment.

"Where are you doing?" Ron asked.

"To get Tomoyo back before the Dementors attack her." Shaoran made up a lie fast. And then he added in Hermione's mind: We need to make sure the Dementors aren't here to cover up something worse.

Ok. Hermione replied. Take care.

Once Sakura, Shaoran and Naoko were gone Hermione took out a false galleon.

"What are you gonna do?" Ron asked.

"The same thing we do when we call the D.A. members for a meeting, just that this time it is to warn them." Hermione said as she did some spells. "I believe Dementors aren't the only ones invading this train."

.---.

And just as Hermione, Shaoran and Sakura suspected, D.E. had boarded the Hogwarts Express along with the Dementors. They were planning on using the Dementors as a distraction while they had their fun killing a few students.

Meawhile some of the D.A. members split into groups to occupy as much of the Hogwarts Express as they could before the D.E. noticed them.

Tomoyo and Eriol had noticed what was happening and decided to cut short their romantic reunion to fight off the intruders.

Sakura, Shaoran and Naoko too were with the wands in hand, ready to fight.

And just as the D.E. got in their places, believing they would give the students the scare of their lives, they didn't count on what was waiting for them behind the compartment doors.

It was as if time had slowed down. The D.E. used spells to throw the compartment doors opened, some of the Dementors reached in, then the D.E. raised their wands to attack and…

…All Dementors and D.E. were thrown back into the hallways' walls. While students stood with their wands raised aiming to the D.E.

That was the fastest and strangest battle anyone could have ever witnessed. In less than five minutes cloaked men and strange creatures were fleeing from the Hogwarts Express, as the students known as D.A. members laughed their heads off. The D.E. and Dementors who hadn't managed their escapade were sent to Azkaban by Eriol.

Sakura, Shaoran, Tomoyo, Naoko and Eriol took care of the strongest D.E. using a bit of their Sorcerer powers.

Once the battle was over the Express continued the trip and the D.A. members exited the compartments, celebrating in the hallways, happy.

"Is everyone okay?" Harry, Ron and Hermione asked as they walked around.

"Yes!" they all answered happily.

"Harry, that was wonderful!" one of the students commented.

"You saw their faces?" another asked. "I can swear you they weren't expecting us to fight them off."

"They underestimated us." Ginny said with a smile.

"Another victory to Dumbledore's Army!" many of them yelled.

"Yay!" the cheering was deafening.

The celebration was general and it lasted for about half an hour more, when they reached their destiny, and even went on until they reached Hogwarts.

They were happy, they had been able to defeat the evil again.

But what will happen when the D.E. get ready for a revenge and strike again? How many times will the D.A. be able to defeat them?


I'm back! I'm so happy to be back. I hope you're happy too.

Ok, two topics to talk about. First of all: in one review someone mentioned the Horcruxes, I won't be using those, because this fic is a sequel of "The Hope Spell" a Harry Potter crossover with Card Captor Sakura that doesn't take in consideration what happens in the Sixth Book: "The Half-Blood Prince". So, the Horcruxes aren't gonna be in this one. I'm working in a fic of Harry Potter, called "The Seventh Miracle", it's the seventh year, following the books up to the Sixth Book. Second thing: I've noticed that at the beginning I had more reviewers, more people seemed to be interested in my fic, you know it saddens to see so few people interested in this story, and the sadness scares my muse away, and she takes my inspiration with her so it takes longer for me to write a new chapter. So, what I mean to say is: leave me more reviews and I'll be happier, my muse too, and I'll get the chapters ready sooner.

One more thing, I know you probably got confused by a certain scene that was written in this chapter (a scene that involves Naoko, Harry and Hermione), you may write your theories in your reviews or wait to see what happens.

And, I'm still expecting your votes on if Draco and Severus get on the good or the evil side. Up to now Draco is going to good side, 3 votes against one (I believe that was the total), Severus…no one seems to truly care as there is a tie one to one.

Please vote! Leave reviews! And expect the next chapter soon!

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