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Harmless?
Chapter 2
"Luna! Are you ready to go?" Ginny asked me while I was gathering up my things from the compartment. We were to share a carriage with Neville, Harry, Ron and Hermione.
"Almost!" I said as I picked up my last thing, a chocolate frog card with Dumbledore's picture on it. "Alright, I'm done. Lets go."
We bolted out of the compartment, onto the platform and into the carriage, where we were instantly greeted by everybody saying; "You're late. We were going to leave without you if you weren't here soon."
I knew they were just messing around, but my heart sank when I heard it come from Ron's mouth. I laughed it off by saying back, "Oh, and if you left me here, the only way to get to the castle would be to hitch a ride in one of the boats or with the Slytherins. I'm sure that Hagrid would find a Thestral that I could fly back. I don't want to be stuck with either of those two groups." 'And I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't want to be stuck with me either,' I added in my head.
After I had gotten settled across from Ron, the carriage lurched forward and was off towards the castle. We spent the time in the carriage joking around and talking about what pranks Fred and George had told us to pull on the Slytherins. My favourite by far was sneaking into the Slytherin's common room, changing all of the green and silver in there to red and gold and then changing all of the Slytherin fifth, sixth and seventh years to being members of the opposite sex. That would be hilarious. Hermione, who had loosened up a lot since last year, said she would look up the spell to see if we could perform it without any lasting side effects.
We reached the castle and saw Professor McGonogall standing on the steps that led to the entrance hall with her usual expression on her face, the one of utmost severity.
"Mr. Potter, Ms. Granger, Ms. Weasley, Mr. Weasley, Mr. Longbottom and Ms. Lovegood! If you lot would please come with me, we have matters to discuss in my office," she said, making all of us exceptionally nervous. I was the only one who hadn't gotten in trouble with her before, so I was practically shaking visibly.
We all followed her up to her office, passing the great hall. I was jealous of everyone in there. They got to go to the sorting and hear Dumbledore's speech. This was the first sorting that I'd miss in the five years I'd been at Hogwarts.
When we reached her office, there were six armchairs on one side of her desk, so we each took one. We were all anxious to hear what McGonogall had to say.
"This year," she said as she sat down on the other side of the desk, "The six of you will be inducted into the Order of the Phoenix. Why, you may ask, is beyond me. Not a single one of you is of age, but Dumbledore did request it. We have spoken to each of your parents, and all, with the exception of Molly, agreed and thought that it would be a wonderful thing for the lot of you to do. Arthur has agreed to let you use magic outside of school. Professor Flitwick shall be teaching you to apparate, but you can only do that outside of the country and within Hogsmeade. Also, all of you will be taking sixth year classes, even though Luna and Ginny are only in their fifth. The two of you will still be studying for OWLs. Hopefully, this will not get in the way of your studies." She handed us each a piece of parchment with 'Official Member of the Order of the Phoenix' written on it and a small gold pin with the letters 'OotP' engraved onto it.
After putting these items into our pockets, the six of us departed and went down to dinner. Filch was just taking away the three legged stool when Dumbledore stood and said, "There is a time to share words of wisdom, but it is not now. Tuck in!"
I went and sat at my own table with the other Ravenclaws while the rest of my friends went and sat at the Gryfindor table. It wasn't fair. I was all alone while the rest were constantly together.
For some reason, I wound up sitting next to Cho Chang. I loathed that girl with a passion. She was mean to Harry. She used him. Everyone except Harry knew that. I shook my head to wipe out all of my thoughts. I settled down and ate until the table was completely clear of food. It was time for Dumbledore's speech.
"Ahem," Dumbledore stood up and cleared his throat. "Well, it is once again the start of a new school year. We have one new staff member to greet. This year, our Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher will be Nymphadora Tonks." Tonks stood up and waved. Today she had auburn hair, emerald green eyes and a smile that would melt anyone's heart. Some of the students gasped. Not a single one of them was expecting a female; so, they definitely weren't ready for an attractive one. Dumbledore continued, "Well, now that's out of the way, I can get to the interesting news. You will be excited to know that fifth years and up get to go to Hogsmeade every weekend. The forbidden forest is still of course, forbidden. Our older students still need reminding of that for some odd reason." His eyes twinkled and lingered on Harry and Ron. "I believe that is all for the present time. Good night. Be prepared for classes bright and early tomorrow morning!"
With that, he released us. I wandered off in the direction of the Ravenclaw common room. God! I was so not ready for classes tomorrow. Classes with Ron, nonetheless. What did I get myself into?
A/N: Chapter two is finally up. God, it took forever. Reviews wanted!!!!!