Harry flicked his wand at himself, placing a muffling charm on himself to silence his breathing, his footsteps, and the rustle of his clothing. Seeing his plan, the others quickly did the same. The group swiftly moved through the hallway before Harry wrote a few runes in the air, warding the hallway to alert them when people came close. Luna levitated herself up to the ceiling after tying her hair back, giggling silently with a mischievous glint in her eye. Daphne disillusioned herself, and Neville tossed several seeds out onto the floor before twirling his wand to force them to grow at a quickened rate. The seeds burst open into large trees, and Harry quickly levitated himself up into the thick branches and foliage.

"Here they come," Harry whispered, feeling the wards alert him of an group of students. Ginny, Hermione, Colin, and Cormac McLaggen burst from around the corner. Why they chose to group up, Harry had no idea. But what he did know was that they were definitely not using constant vigilence.

"Aguamenti, Glacium!" Luna suddenly burst out, shocking the group below them as they suddenly slipped about on the newly formed ice. Harry slashed his wand through the air, stunning Colin before he could do anything. Hermione quickly sprung into action, waving her wand in a complex movement.

"Calor undae!" she exclaimed, thawing out the ice as Ginny quickly cast a homenum revelio. Harry hopped down as he felt the spell reveal him. Daphne stepped out a spell already firing from her wand as Hermione quickly shielded. "Not so great now are you, Potter?" she hissed gleefully, a stunner speeding towards him. Harry neatly stepped out of the way, his green eyes narrowing in on his target.

Harry quickly cast a tripping jinx at Cormac, who was attempted to sneak up on Luna, who was now on the ground. Cormac fell with a huff as Neville stopped waving his wand around in a complicated motion, bringing the trees to life. "I don't know what's with you Granger, but you weren't like this before, just stop!" Harry pleaded as he dodged several other hexes. Hermione growled, and started putting more power behind her curses. "Diffindo!"

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Daphne spun out of the way of a bat-bogey hex, courtesy of Ginny. "You stole him from me, slut!" the Weasley girl growled, her fiery hair whipping around wildly as she jabbed her wand at Daphne. Daphne side-stepped the reducto, twirling her wand.

"Avis! Stupefy." Daphne said calmly, catching Ginny off guard. Ginny fell, eyes closing to hide the anger that simmered in her.

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Neville gazed at Cormac coldly. He had heard the stories about what he has threatened to do with the Gryffindor girls. He suddenly flicked his wand at the boy, muttering a transfiguration spell. Cormac blocked the spell with a laugh. "Is that all Longbottom? Say, I think that Luna looks cute today. Maybe I'll claim her after I'm done with you guys." he licked his lips, laughing. Neville felt anger flare in his soul, burning him. His back straightened, and he bared his teeth in a snarl.

"Do not speak of Luna like that you bastard!" Neville roared, slashing his wand as he snarled, "Ardere!" Flames exploded from the wand, scorching the ground as Cormac hastily put up a shield. Neville's wand spun around and his eyes glared at the ashen face of Cormac. Luna stepped forward and whispered her thanks into Neville's ear as he stood protectively in front of her, as a brother would.

"Neville, it's ok." Luna whispered, wincing at the heat the flames caused. She quickly doused the flames with conjured water, causing smoke to billow into Cormac's face, blinding him.

"No it's not ok Luna! He spoke as if you're some slut that should be grateful that he wants you! Stupefy!" Nevile growled, hitting Cormac dead in the face with the spell. He breathed out slowly, feeling the rage subside. He ruffled Luna's hair with a smile. "Let's go watch Harry demolish Granger." Luna giggled and skipped away.

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Harry raised his arms, and the animated trees spread their branches to surround Hermione, sidestepping the cutting curse. "That was dangerous, it could have killed me." Harry said coldly, and Hermione just sneered at him. He quickly conjured a few stones and transfigured them into stone warriors that slowly began to advance on his opponent. Neville, Daphne, and Luna walked back into the clearing with their opponents levitating behind them. Harry then summoned some of the tree branches to help bind Hermione. Hermione quickly cast multiple reductos, only to find that Harry wasn't playing around any longer, and had charmed the warriors and branches unbreakable.

"Goodnight Granger." he muttered as the stone warrior dealt a heavy blow to the back of her head, knocking her out.

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"And in third place we have...The Silent Bells!" Harry declared as Katie Bell and her group walked up to receive their prize. Katie glared at him for the nickname as he snickered. Her team would pick off teams one by one using a warding scheme that would knock out anyone not keyed into the scheme, and just hung out in a hallway. Unfortunately, the team in second place had someone who was taking the new Warding class, and had dismantled the ward before taking them down. The girls didn't go down without a fight however, and had left a few presents on the other team faces.

"What's the prize Headmaster?" Katie teased as Harry rolled his eyes. The young Headmaster flicked his wand to reveal dueling robes, each one charmed to resize itself and block minor spells and curses. Katie squealed happily, putting the robe on immediately and snuggled into it feeling the temperature charm on it. Her group grinned and took theirs, but with much less excitement. Harry smiled, and waved the group off the stage.

"Next in second place we have...The Sunglasses!" Harry announced, snickering as Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott, Michael Corner, and Roger Davis walked up, all wearing sunglasses. Blaise rolled his eyes at the name, but smirked nonetheless. "You each get a small box of free pranking items from Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes." Harry grinned, summoning the boxes as their eyes lit up at the idea of pranking their housemates.

"Thanks Potter." Theodore said, glancing back before finally walking off the stage with the box under his arm. Harry smiled again before turning back to the crowd of students.

"Now, although my group won, we decided it was a bit unfair as we have went through extensive training because we are the Dragon Council, and because I'm the Headmaster. So instead in first place we have a group of four that was a guest group...a group that wasn't even noticed until your group was the group who saw them...I present to you, the Weasley twins, Angelina Johnson, and Alicia Spinnet!" Harry roared as the students screamed in excitement. The group laughed as they walked up to receive their prize.

"Now, as you have all graduated, I was unsure what to offer you. But then a thought came to me. I offer you guys the chance to return for a year, and receive special training with the Dragon Council. And if you accept, we have another thing to offer you, but it will only happen if you join." Harry said, grinning as the Gryffindors screamed at the group of four to accept the offer.

"I dunno Gred..."

"I thought I was done with school Forge."

"But we're getting our chance to finally tell Mum that we got our NEWTS." Gred argued, and Forge thought for a bit.

"And most of our customers come from here, and our ideas too..." Forge continued as the two turned to face Harry again.

"We accept." they said, getting loud cheers from the school. Angelina and Alicia glanced at each other, as they had gotten jobs.

"Alright, we accept, but if you help me play for pro." Angelina said, getting a wide grin from Harry. Alicia sighed and said,

"Well in that case, I also accept your offer. Now, what's the second offer?" she asked. Harry glanced at the other Council members before turning back to face the group.

"We would like to officially offer you a place here on the Dragon Council."