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The first defense meeting was now starting; Chris stood in the back and studied everyone as they walked in. Harry had found this room thanks to a house elf that he knew, Chris laughed inwardly as he remembered that conversation.

Hermione was studying Harry as he worked on an essay, "Harry are you sure this is a good idea? Dobby hasn't always had your best interests at mind."

Chris glanced up from his own essay, a nasty one from Snape, "Who is Dobby?"

"A house elf that I helped free about two years ago." Harry had answered after reassuring Hermione that Dobby meant well this time and it was pain free.

"Why did you have to free an elf? They are already free; I had one as a nanny when I was little." Chris looked at them confused. As far as he was aware all elves did whatever they pleased, the nanny had turned his parents down at first. She came back when the Titians attacked and Aunt Paige died, she figured she was needed when the Sisters Three became the Sisters Two.

"Here the elves are imprisoned by wizarding families and used as slaves, they aren't even allowed to wear real clothes." Hermione said, she hated the whole idea of slavery of the elves and now saw that Chris might be an asset for S.P.E.W.

"Well that's not right, they don't deserve that life, if you tried to tell my nanny to wear rags she would curse you or something." Chris was incredulous, he had never met an elf that was enslaved and their magic was so great he was surprised that wizards were able to control them.

Hermione hadn't replied just looked at him with a gleam in her eye.

Chris came back to the present when Hermione called order to the meeting and then bothered Harry with naming him leader and demanding a name for the group.

Chris smiled as Ginny came up with Dumbledore's Army, it fit with what they were doing and it was the Ministry's worst fear. Chris then frowned as he noticed the three houses represented all sat together, there was no intermingling.

Chris stood up as Harry was about to announce their first spell for the day, "Harry sorry to interrupt, but first look around."

Everyone looked around searching for the problem that had Chris all flustered.

"What is it?" an Asian girl from Ravenclaw asked looking at him.

"You people are completely separated based on your Houses, you sit together and talk to each other and sometimes don't get along. If this organization is going to work, if the D.A. is going to survive you have to come together. I may be on the outside Chris Halliwell of Gryffindor but here I need to be and should be Chris of the D.A., that's what needs to happen."

Chris glanced around and saw Ginny and a few others nodding, but some didn't look convinced.

"We aren't here just so that later we leave each other alone and ignore them because they aren't in our house. Embrace differences and come together, show her that she can't separate you and turn you guys against each other. You need to help each other outside this room as well; do you think this is really what the founders had in mind for the four houses? If you see someone in trouble with a teacher or other student help them, be someone you can tell other people, your future kids about with pride. Think, the hat placed you in your House based on some characteristics but I see all of them here today.

Gryffindor- you all have bravery, you show that by being here and fighting against her.

Hufflepuff- loyalty to the school and the ideals that it really holds and the tenacity to hold out, you are all showing this.

Ravenclaw- the wit for the name and agreeing that it works and the cleverness in realizing that this needs to be done, not just for scores on a test but for survival."

Chris paused and saw that now everyone was listening and for the most part agreeing, this next part however might put them off.

"And Slytherin, yes Slytherin." He said as some people looked repulsed,

"Having the cunning to do this in secret and the audacity to do it right under the Umbitch's nose."

Chris pulled off the robe and tie that proved him a Gryffindor and placed them on a coat rack that appeared there as he thought about it.

"I'm a member of the D.A. and I leave my problems with other houses at the door."

Chris sat down to thunderous applause as the D.A. for that's what they were now, stood and applauded him.

Harry was smiling and took off his own robe and tie and hung them next to Chris's, the rest of the group followed until you couldn't tell what House anyone belonged to because all they wore was a white shirt and black pants or skirt.

Harry stood before them and spoke once again, "Alright we are going to get started again. The first spell is Expelliarmus but some of you will be working with Chris on some Wicca ideas he has. So I'm going to count off one and two and the twos are going to Chris."

Some people didn't agree with this idea and were shooting Chris looks, like you aren't the Boy-Who-Lived why should I listen to you.

Chris just grinned back at them, his blue-green eyes flashing in the light, he couldn't wait until they saw what he had planned.

Chris took his group of about 12 over to the corner where he had a cauldron set up; he saw several confused looks pass among the people.

Neville looked at Chris and asked the question everyone was thinking, "What are we doing."

"We are making vanquishing potions!" Chris looked really excited and then his face fell when he saw no one understood what he meant.

"They are potions that make bad guys go boom." He said slowly looking at everyone. Everyone instantly got that look of the light bulb going off and smiled.

"So how do we do it?" Ginny asked studying the ingredients laid out in front of them.

15 minutes later Chris held the last ingredient over the cauldron and was telling everyone to back off as this could get dangerous. He threw the bay leaf into the pot and ducked down as the potion exploded.

"YES! It worked, haha, that's what is supposed to happen if the potion you made is successful." Chris did a little victory dance and cheered.

"You mean that you weren't sure it would work?" Neville asked looking at the still smoking potion in alarm.

"I made it up on the spot, but it was a garden variety vanquishing potion so I was pretty sure it would work." Chris explained. "Anyone remember what I put in it?" Chris frowned as he racked his own brain but he honestly couldn't remember.

Everyone just stared at him.

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Chris pulled on his pjs as he got ready for bed later that night.

"I think it went really well," he said as he crawled in a punched his pillow into shape.

"I agree, it went really well and people were satisfied." Harry grinned as he remembered what Cho said to him about making her nervous.

Ron snorted but grinned as well, he had disarmed Hermione and he felt like the king of Hogwarts for it.

Chris was smiling as he fell asleep but that soon changed.

Chris was happy, it was his 14th birthday and Mom had promised pancakes for breakfast. He ran past Wyatt's room and pounded on the door yelling for him to get up; Wyatt had been closed off from everyone for months and it worried Chris. He ran into the kitchen and grinned at his mother, Piper Halliwell was the most beautiful woman to him at that moment.

"Morning Mom!" he said as he grabbed a chair at the island.

"Morning Peanut, Happy Birthday what are you going to do today?"

"Mommm," Chris whined it was a Tuesday in November what else was he doing. "School duh. Skateboarding and soccer later before the family dinner." Here Chris quieted as he remembered that Mel wouldn't be there tonight.

"Alright, where's your brother? He needs to eat before school starts."

"I'll get him." Chris pushed his chair in and went to get his brother, he was on the stairs when he heard the scream from the kitchen.

"MOM!!!" Chris ran down the stairs and back into the kitchen long enough to see a demon shimmer out and his mother fall to the ground with three knives stuck in her back.

"MOM! No please hang on, Dad will come he has to you are hurt and he will feel it." Chris gathered his mother into his arms and tried to stop the bleeding.

"WYATT!!" he screamed when his father failed to appear, but Wyatt never came and Piper Pepper Halliwell breathed her last in her son's arms.

"I love you Peanut." She panted out.

"No please Mom, I need you. DAD! MOM is DYING!!!" Leo never responded to his son. Chris looked down again and saw his mother die.

Leo Wyatt was never called Dad by any of his children again.

Chris opened his eyes and found he wasn't in his bed at Hogwarts but on a street in San Francisco.

"Where am I? How did I get here?" Chris panicked; he had just relived his worst memory and was a little freaked.

"Calm down little brother, I brought you here in your dreams to talk." Wyatt walked forward and took stock of his little brother. Chris was too skinny for him and entirely too wary of him as well.

Chris was also taking stock of his big brother who used to be his idol. Black clothes and long hair, his mother would be reaching for the scissors if she was here right now.

"What do you want to talk about Wy?" Chris asked nervously as Wyatt advanced.

"How was your dream little brother?" Wyatt smiled evilly.

"Did you do that?" Chris demanded.

"No that was what I call a kick in the teeth by fate. It is November 6th isn't it? I thought so, every year on your birthday you probably will have to relive it. So Happy Birthday Peanut." Wyatt smirked but that fell as Chris lunged at him.

"You aren't allowed to say that name, you didn't come, you let her DIE!!" Chris screamed at him and attempted to hit his brother but was flung off by Wyatt's magic.

"Joining me and my army, to help me become the most powerful person, to conquer death, and have no one say no to us again."

"Wyatt I told you no 6 months ago when you asked, I said no. My answer hasn't changed so you can go to hell." Chris said from where he was sitting on the ground.

Wyatt's face hardened as what he considered his closest family member abandoned him. "You won't get anywhere without me, you aren't my brother anymore. You are another traitor and if you ever set foot in my city again you will die." Wyatt turned to leave but Chris had to get the last word.

"Wyatt, I will never stop fighting you and trying to stop you from self destructing. Oh and by the way, Mel's still alive." And with that Chris broke the connection between him and his brother and woke up for real in his bed at Hogwarts. He never saw that Wyatt was not surprised to hear about his sister being alive.

Chris sat up and realized his shirt was soaked with sweat, his face wet with tears, and his head pounding.

He looked over at the clock and saw it was 4:30 in the morning on his 16th birthday; his birthday was off to a great start, he hated his birthday.

Chris put his head in his hands and waited for dawn to come.

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