Chapter 11: The Results
"What are we going to do to him?" Ginny inquired as they climbed the sloping lawns to the front doors of the castle.
"Nothing." Demon said when they reached the steps. Ginny looked at her curiously. "You see all we have to do is whisper a bit when they're around and ask him a few times. Ultimately he'll get tired of waiting for something to happen that he'll just tell us anyways."
"That's brilliant." Ginny grinned. They walked to the Gryffindor common room quietly. Walking up the stairs to the girl's dormitory they ran into Hermione.
"Oh hello. I was looking for you." Hermione said to Demon. "We'll have to find somewhere private to talk."
"Lets go to my dorm it should be empty." Demon said leading them up the stairs. They walked into Demon's dorm to indeed find it empty. Hermione and Ginny plopped into Demons bed after closing the door. Ginny emptied Demon's school things onto her bed as Demon sorted then all into her trunk and on her desk. "What do you need?" Demon asked clearing off her bed.
"Well after your little bout with Professor Umbridge," Hermione began, "we, and by we I mean Harry, Ron, Fred, George, and Ginny have been wondering if maybe you want to join a club of ours. We are aware that Umbridge has put a ban on certain clubs and so only the members of this club know about it. See we are being taught defensive magic by Harry who has escaped Voldemort many times and… and we."
"I'm in." Demon said cutting her off mid sentence. "I love the idea. Who thought of it?"
"Well, I did. I understand if maybe you want to take a minute to think about this." Hermione began.
"Ha, not really. It's a brilliant idea and even better because Umbridge will hate the idea of it. Where do I sign up?" Demon said taking a seat at the end of her bed.
"Right here actually." Said Hermione pulling a piece of parchment out of her pocket. At the top it read Dumbledore's Army and several names from different houses were signed all the way down. Demon added her name at the bottom of the list and took a galleon from Hermione. When it was handed to her Hermione explained how it worked.
Walking out of the dormitory they found that the stairs had turned into a stone slide. "Obviously one of the boys was trying to get up here." Hermione said.
Grinning Demon ran at it and went down headfirst landing in a heap at the bottom in the common room. Ginny came down next landing on to of Demon and Hermione slid down last landing gracefully on her but and stood up. Demon and Ginny however were still rolling on the floor laughing hysterically.
"Hey what are you lot laughing at?" Fred asked as he and George approached the two. By now Hermione had left rolling her eyes at them and the rest of the common room was staring at them.
"Oh nothing." Demon said sweetly pulling Ginny to her feet. "That slide was fun they should do that everyday, you know, just to make sure people are awake."
"Right." Said George looking at Demon like she sprouted a second head. "This just came for you. We were going to take it to you until the stairs started freaking out." He finished handing her a role of parchment. The four of them sat down in chairs placed around a nearby table.
"What is it?" Demon asked.
"Probably your test results." Fred said playing with a candy.
"Oh shit I forgot about that." Demon murmured opening it up. The page listed all the tests she had done that week. There was an O next to Charms, Transfiguration, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Potions and Ancient Runes; and E next to Arithmancy, Astrology and Divination; and an A next to History of Magic.
"O is for Outstanding and E is for Exceeds Expectations." George said preempting Demons question as he and Fred read over her shoulder. "Bloody hell, you're as smart as Hermione."
"Yeah," Ginny agreed, "you can help me with potions." She added after snatching the page from her brother.
"OH!" Demon shouted getting more looks from everyone in the room.
"What?" The three said in unison.
"I just had a great idea." Demon said pulling Ginny closer to whisper in her ear. "Where can I get some rope?" Her eyes never leaving the twins.
"Come on I'll show you." Ginny said as they got up to leave.
"Hey where are you two going?" The twins asked in unison.
"Oh um… the uh… library. Yeah the library." Demon said as the twins eyed her suspiciously. "I just thought of a book that could help Ginny." And with that they ran out of the portrait hole.