I have ADD. Thats all I have to say.
Not mine.
Stonewall high was a dull sort of building, with tall unbroken red- brick walls and a flat roof. Harry couldn't help but to transpose the image of Hogwarts over it, to compare the endless grounds and the exquisite towers to the spiky yellow grass and flat roof before him.
"Harry?"
Ron, Hermione and Ginny were looking at him, waiting for him to take charge.
"Right," he said "Hermione, you go find the principle's office. I don't care if you have to confund him, just get him to order an evacuation. Get everyone to go home, we've got to get buses rolling out of here before the death eaters arrive, or they'll be trapped." Hermione sprinted off, "Ron, you stay here, wait for the DA, when they get here, we'll meet in the entrance hall. Ginny, you're with me, we've got to get those buses moving, and unless you know how to drive them we'll need teachers for that, so come on." He and Ginny sprinted off after Hermione, leaving Ron to wait for the rest.
Harry didn't stop until he reached the first classroom door. There he paused and wondered for a split second if there weren't a few members of Dudley's old gang in here.
With a deep breath and a confused look from Ginny, Harry burst through the door.
He was lucky. It was a Freshman class, none of them knew him. This, of course, posed other problems.
"Who the hell are you?" demanded a pudgy girl with a blank stare and far to much eye makeup. The promptness of her query suggested that she might not have been paying attention, and perhaps been staring around for something to draw attention away from her algebra.
"Young man-" started a woman with the most forgettable face Harry had ever seen, who stood before the chalkboard.
"You've got to evacuate!" Harry shouted at the teacher.
The teacher blinked.
"Young man-" she began again, still louder and in a tone that deplored of being interrupted mid sentence.
"Mame, the school is in danger" said Ginny, in a voice far calmer than Harry's had been.
"Whoever you are" said the teacher, not amused "get out of my-"
"I dunno Ms. Blanker" said a cocky looking boy with brown hair in the third row "maybe we should listen to them. You don't want us to be in danger do you?" the rest of the class laughed, and Harry realized this wasn't going to work.
He whipped out his wand.
CRACK! A sound like a gunshot split the air, the end of his wand smoking slightly. Every kid in the class had ducked under their chair.
"Are you crazy!" asked the same smart ass who'd spoken earlier.
"I said" said Harry calmly "get out of this bloody school. Or you will die. Ms. Blanker, if you would be so kind as to hurry your kids out to one of the buses. We'll also need you to drive one."Harry paused. "MOVE!"
Desks scraped as people sprinted for the door, just as Hermione's voice came on the intercom. "Um, the school is being forced to evacuate due to an expected, er, terrorist attack. Buses will take students home, and teachers will drive. Evacuation starts now and as quickly as possible please." The voice cut off.
Harry and Ginny were swept with the front of the crowd, some joking about a drill, others genuinely scared. As they turned the corner to the front doors, Harry found Ron, Luna, Neville, Dean, Seamus, Ernie, Susan, and Cho running toward him.
"Change of plans," yelled Ron as he reached him. "They're here!"
The color drained from Harry's face. The students were charging toward a slaughter. The death eaters wouldn't even have to enter the school. Their prey would come to them.
"Sonorous" muttered Harry, pointing to his throat and hoping this worked. "Stop!" he said, and his voice echoed through every corner of the hallway. The students stopped. "We are too late, and the er, terrorists are already here. Proceed to the gym and we will do our best to protect you. MOVE!" he yelled the last word, and his already loud voice deafened the crowd, and people scampered, looking genuinely scared now.
"Quietus" he muttered, and lunged back into the crowd. A short but rather burly man came out of the flow of panicked students, and caught him by the arm with a large and somewhat hairy hand.
"What the blood hell do ya think you're doing boy?" he said in a gruff voice that reminded Harry a bit of Uncle Vernon, "What is all this nonsense? Bit much for a practical joke, don't you think?" the last line, was not friendly. Just then a violet light flashed, and all the windows in the hall shattered.
"RUN" shouted Harry, but no one needed telling twice, not even the short burly teacher and soon everyone was holed up in the gym at the back of the school.
Hermione got there last, and as she swung the door closed, the DA busied themselves in sealing all the doors with permanent sticking charms so alohamora wouldn't work. Hermione did some charm to seal the broken windows, and Ginny too began to wave her wand and mutter words. When asked, she said they were charms Bill had taught her. But even as the protective charms went up, Harry knew they would never hold forever. He looked into the milling crowd of confused and scared students, of teachers trying to reach him and the rest, and knew that they were trapped like rats. They couldn't escape alive.
The teachers reached their little group a second after this thought had crossed his mind. "What is going on here!" Asked the short burly man Harry recognized from the hallway, shouting to be heard over the noise in the gym.
"Oh, that's quite simple," said Luna serenely, "We are being attacked by Death Eaters."
Harry grimaced. Trust Luna Lovegood to have no regard for the statute of secrecy.
"Luna!" hissed Hermione warningly.
"Well we have to tell them anyway" said Ron fairly, "What were we going to do, hand out blindfolds before we duel and say 'don't peek'?"
"I seem to have missed something." said a dark and pretty teacher with very frizzy hair, who also seemed to be supporting a graying man who had a loopy expression on his face. Harry assumed this was the principle and wondered what Hermione had done to him. "What in the name of the queen is a Death Eater?"
Harry became suddenly aware that the noise in the room had dimmed, and the people nearest were listening intently. With a lurch he noticed several people who had been in his class in primary school. And with jolts of surprise, a few of them recognized him.
"Potter?" exclaimed one, aghast, and gasps and whispers broke out through the crowd they were not the same excited whispers which filled any gathering of wizards which Harry attended, but the vicious whispers of harsh rumors spreading quickly.
"Don't you go to some correctional school" sneered a girl Harry vaguely remembered as being nosy. The whispers seemed to double.
"Whats going on Harry?" asked Dean in a whisper of his own, "How do all these muggles know you?"
"I went to primary school with some of them. I'm afraid I was rather unpopular." Most of the group looked shocked that the famous and brave Harry Potter could ever have been unpopular.
"Er, hate to interrupt," said the frizzy haired teacher short temperedly, "But would someone please explain to me why we are locked in a gymnasium, why those windows broke, what a death eater is and WHO THE BLOODY HELL YOU ARE!!"
As if in answer to her yell, a thump came from the door leading to the hall, followed by an awful sizzling sound and a loud scream. This did not help calm the nerves of the numerous occupants of the gym.
Harry turned from the door, which everyone seemed to be staring at as though it were about to burst into song, and addressed Hermione. "Could you explain to these people what's going on while I go ask Ginny what just happened?"
She nodded curtly and turned to the crowd, while Harry shuffled between a few DA members to reach Ginny, who had a wicked grin on her face.
"Something you learned from Bill?" asked Harry cheerfully.
"Fred and George actually" said Ginny, "Unfortunately that means the Death Eater we zapped will only be out for half an hour or so, 'cause nothing they design is meant to cause actual harm. But at least it will keep them away from the door and make it harder to break the protective spells on it."
"Brilliant Ginny!"
And her smile became just that much more pronounced as they turned to listen to Hermione address the muggles.
I'm supposed to be doing something that I'm not doing, so gotta go, bye.