Part Two : Seamus... don't.
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Warning : Bad Grammar, Un-beta-ed, English not my native.
Midnight
Seamus looks at the empty corridor warily. Behind him, few late night students follow his lead silently. He can't help but wonder if Harry penchant for trouble was getting into him. He snort at the thought and stop when reach the destination. He looks back at the students and gives them nods. Three of the Ravenclaw students broke from the line and runs toward their designation spot. After making sure the three of them hide properly, Seamus turn at the Hufflepuff second Years muggle students. The duo looks back at him with determination and mischief in their eyes.
"Make sure you attract lots of them," he whispers at them.
"Yes, sir," the duo cheekily whispers back.
"Be careful," they nods and runs toward the corridor, Seamus look at their retreating back and wonder if they going to get expel after this mess. After all none of them is Golden Trio.
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... Oh well, Carpe Diem
Few hours earlier...
After finish doing his homework, Seamus decide to get some snack before heading to bed. Waving goodbye to his friend, he get out from the common room and carefully navigate the corridor using the map to the kitchen. He could ask house elves to bring the food but he needs to stretch his legs. He enters the kitchen and raises his eyebrows at the occupant inside. There were three Sixth Years Ravenclaw, two Third Years Hufflepuff, one Second Years Slytherin and the Creevey brothers. He simply nods at them and sits at the vacated spot by Dennis. He looks at the lone Slytherin,
"What's your name?" he asks the girl.
"Aiden Lars," the girl said softly.
"Seamus Finnigan," Aiden eyes suddenly widen and shinning with admiration at him.
"The pyro guy," she said breathlessly causing his face to turn red. He can hear the Creevey brothers' chuckle at him while the Ravenclaw only snorts at him. The Hufflepuffs only look confuse at them.
"Do I want to know what they tell you about me?" he asks warily. For the first time in his life, he finally understood how Harry feels. Aiden blush harder while poking the food in front of her nervously. He decides not to press her for the sake of his sanity and turn to his food.
Seamus and the rest of the students spent their time in the kitchen eating and chatting comfortably when suddenly Air Raid Siren burst out from his pocket. All of them look at each other in shocks before he remember it was from the map. He quickly pulls it out and nods at the Creevey brothers and two of Ravenclaws for clear the table. He spreads open the map and with a swish of wand, the siren went silent. In the air, the chatters from all the maps holding begin to appear.
"Colin, Dennis watches the chatter," he said urgently while his eyes looking over the maps, the three Ravenclaws had joined him looking for anything that causes the alarm trips. The Hufflepuffs and Slytherin look at them terrified. It took them a few minutes when they locate the trouble.
The Room of Requirement.
Seamus let out strings of curses that make the three Ravenclaws look at him sharply which he ignores. They watch as the red dots start to filling out from the room.
"Seamus...," calls Colin hesitantly. He looks at him when he point at the chatter.
Where are you Pyro? - RW
Still in the kitchen. What with the nickname... - SF
You don't like it? It suits you; by the way did you see those bastard names? - RW
I recognize some of them. They're Death Eaters – NL
How the hell they manage to break in, using ROR no less! -SF
Who wants to bet it was Malfoy fault - HP
I already contact THEM, let's hope they arrive here faster - HG
Hope Madam Pince won't mad at me - GW
Before any of them could reply, loud screams echo in the hallways that can be hear in the kitchen, Seamus and the Creevey brothers shiver at the sound. After overcome her shyness last year, Ginny Weasley can be quite vicious when she fight.
I'm going to kill her! - RW
Anyway, stay where you are and guard the door! Curse them if they try to get into the Common Room. Remember the spells that we teach you! - HG
Why are you in the library? - NL
Finding a way to summon a Satan - GW
Way to go girl! - SB
Where are you? - SF
En-route to Hogwarts with additional backup. You do realize that we can't apparate INSIDE the Hogwarts? - RL
Seamus ignores the rest of the chatter when one of the Ravenclaws grabs his arm and point at the map. Quickly his face became ashen. A group of five Death Eaters are slowly getting closer to the kitchen. While the possibility for them to enter the kitchen is low, it still gives the dreaded feeling in his stomach. For once he can't help but lament at the loss of the rest of his flash bombs. Apparently someone hear their little discussion at Ministry and inform his mother which result the rest of the bombs being confiscate and his dad sleep in the couch for month.
He walks away from the table and around the kitchen, a part of him wish to stay put and wait until the help come. Another part of him, the one that he never realizes exist until last year, wish to go outside and once again he mourns the loss of his awesome Christmas gift.
"Well?," the Ravenclaws suddenly appear in front of him with arms cross at her chest. What's her name again? Ahh... right, Jenny.
"Well what?,"
"Are we going to stay here or we going to ambush them?,"
"Why did you ask me?,"
"Because among us, you're the only one who had experience in this," Seamus going to replied back when his eyes caught something behind Jenny. He ignores her question and walk toward the thing he see. Flours… lots of flours. He humms while tapping his hand at the sack of flour. He distantly remembers the stories from one of Dad minions something about the barn, 'flour', cigarette, a couple of chickens and horses. And how they end up spend a month in the hospital. He grins and pats the sack fondly.
"Finnigan," Jenny with a growl. He turns and looks at her. His grins widen while looking at them.
"Good news, we're going to fight them. Bad news, we're going to break so many rules to the point we going to spend the rest of the years doing detention," all the students look at him as he insane until Aiden spoke.
"That's mean we're going to outdo the Golden Trio, right?" Seamus face getting hurt with his grins but he nods at her. "Well then, I'm in," she said while grinning at him. The rest follow up after Aiden declaration.
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Seamus plans quite simple, if you ask him. Looking at the map, he asks the Ravenclaws how good are they with Levitating Spell. The looks they give to him like he insulting their mother, father, siblings, their dog, relatives and their unborn child before saying that yes, they're expert on that spell.
"Where the house elves?," he ask.
"Oh... we ask them to hide," one of the Hufflepuff said. Seamus only blinks at them before shrugs. Who knew what Hufflepuff thinks?
"I need someone to help me..."
"I want to help!," said Aiden suddenly. Seamus opens his mouth before close back. He waves his fingers ask her to follow him. Aiden smile brightly and bounce towards him. He can't help but grimace at that. Both of them approach the pantry and he quickly grabs the necessary items and hand them over her.
"Oohh... I know this. This is brilliant!,"
"You knew about this?,"
"Yes,"
"How?,"
"Gramps was WWII vet and IRA member, here you should add this, this and this one," Seamus whistle at that.
"Nicee...," look like he found his own minions.
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"We need... bait," two hands rise immediately. The Hufflepuff students.
"We volunteer as tribute,"
"They must be the new trouble makers...," the Ravenclaws sighs while the Creevey brothers grin at him.
"Here, both of you can use this to distract them," Collin hand them the Weasley Wheezey Product at the two of them. Who take it reverently and whispering with each other quietly, he ignores whatever plan they going to make.
Present time...
Seamus once again checks the entire plan and the rest of his newly minted minion before look at Aiden who hide behind the pillar in front of him. She grins at him before move back into the shadow. A few second later, he hears WhizzBang explode follows by multiple voice cursing and running footsteps. He watch with amusement when the two Hufflepuffs sprints pass him, giving a thumb ups and continue their merry way. And also he pretends not to hear the creepy laugh coming out from their mouth. He turns back at the Ravenclaws who give him what-did-you-do look. He replied back with a shrugs and signals them to get ready.
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His plans actually quite simple and complex at the same time. Seamus once again ask the Ravenclaws if they can multi task in casting the spell, this time the look they give to him less severe than before. This time it looks like they accuse him for kicking their puppies. He then proceeds to explain his plan to all of them. The Creeveys and Aiden Lars grinning widely, the Hufflepuffs once again whisper excitedly (and once again he ignore their whispers), while the Ravenclaws look at him like he was insane.
Well... who knows, maybe he was.
If anyone asks, he is going to blame Harry.
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At the sounds of heavy footsteps follow by the low quality curses (his dad friends are more creative), Seamus silently raises his hand while his eyes look at the map intently. When the Death Eaters move into his trap, he quickly pulls down his hand and yell.
'NOW!,' the Ravenclaws quickly release the hundred of floating sack of flours and cast a cutting curses toward them. The sacks immediately burst. At the same time, Seamus and Aiden in position with their wand toward the flour, in chorus they yelled...
"INCENDIO!"
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While the plan was to disorient Death Eaters with explosions was simple, Seamus unfortunately forgot to add certain important thing in his plan. Like the flours, to preserve its quality, the house elves use the stasis spell on it. To avoid any critter from damage it, a spell had been cast. In fact, the whole kitchen was saturate with magic, and these sacks of flour absorb it. Now, add the spell from the Ravenclaws and another two from Seamus and Aiden.
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KA-BOOOMM!
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All of them grab the pillar tightly with their jaws hanging open while the earth shattering explosion continues.
Well... Seamus actually cackling evilly while Aiden look with pure admiration at the scene. Colin Creevey keeps his hand busy capturing the picture non-stop while his brother enjoys the scene.
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Meanwhile at Astronomy Tower... where heart wrenching event supposed to happen.
Harry let out long expletive words loud enough for Dumbledore and Snape almost having whiplash to look at him. Of course none of the occupant in the room has anytime to reply back as they were busy to balance themselves.
"Wh... what the bloody hell is that?," Bellatrix yell loudly between the explosion. Snape seems to reply something but Harry ignores it because at the moment he was looking at Dumbledore hand. The sleeves had been pulling down to his elbow from the recent quake revealing the true extent of the burnt. Harry may not be genius like Hermione, but even he can deduce it was fatal to Dumbledore just by looking at it.
"Kill him! Now!"
"Severus... please...,"
In a span of millisecond, a horrible revelation down in his mind. Harry watch with wide eyes, frozen in horror as a green light hit Dumbledore and he fall out of the Astronomy Tower.
To the well-organized mind,
Professor... you are dying...
Death is but the next great adventure:
That please; it is a beg asking him not to kill you...
Filled with fun, majesty, and a bit of mischief.
Or asking him to kill you...?
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Gryffindor Common Room
Neville grabs hold the chair while Ron hugs Hermione tightly and both of them leaning on the wall for support. The older students try to calm the younger one with minimal success. The windows keep cracking and repair itself. After a few minute later, the quake stops along with the sound of explosion. Ron, Hermione and Neville looks at each other, only one word in their mind.
SEAMUS!
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Library
Ginny whistle in amazement while Luna absently nods, agree with Ginny assessment.
"We have to thanks Seamus for the timing,"
"True...,"
"We should get out of here or Madame Pince going to kill us,"
"We can blame them," both of them look at the unconscious Death Eaters. The quake had caused some of the heavy tome to fall down... on the heads of Death Eaters.
"Yeah... You're right, we can blame them,"
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At the Entrance
The Order stop and stare at the explosion with horror until they hears laughs and footsteps towards them. All of them ready their wands and falter when two students from Hufflepuffs appear in front of them. It took a while to get an a direct answer from the duo but by the time they finish, Sirius was laughing while Remus muttering something about 'different generation', Kingsley only shook his head (he still remember the fiasco at Ministry of Magic) while other look confuse.
Expect for Mad Eye, no one realize the dangerous gleam in his eye. The duo didn't tell the Order who the mastermind but anyone who involved in last year security nightmare know who he is.
Seamus Finnigan.
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It took a while for the explosion and dust to settle, Seamus furiously blinking his eyes to clear his eyes before give up. When sounds of hacking, groans and cursing intermingle with each other, he peers out from the pillar and dimly saw a figures lying and twitching on the floor. A soft whistle (actually, it's quite loud) make him turn toward the source and saw Aiden who point back at the scene.
"WHAT?,"
"THE CORRIDOR! NOT EVEN A CRACK AT THE WALL!" at her word, Seamus turn back and squints his eyes before he himself let out a long whistle.
"Bloody hell! That's so cool. I wonder how much it takes to really collapse them,"
"I hope you will not proceed that thought of yours, Mr. Finnigan," a familiar stern female voice float from his back.
The cavalry had arrived.
Dammmnn...
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Aftermath... after Dumbledore funeral, Room of Requirements.
The member of DA watch with amusement as Hermione been yelling at Seamus for a while now. The dust explosion didn't manage to kill any Death Eaters (they barely had time to cast the shield to avoid gruesome death) but still manage to earn various degree of burns, hearing loss and temporary blindness (which can be heal easily), the further ones lost their eyebrows and hairs, hearing loss and temporary blindness for staring straight into the explosion. Luckily for Seamus side, they only had trouble with their hearing and being half blind for a while. The Creevey brothers now had an impressive collection of the explosion pictures. The Hufflepuff duo status raise almost surpass the Weasley Twin overnight. The Ravenclaws now fully convince that Gryffindor Bravery is nothing but a cover up for their insanity.
And for the little Slytherin...
"I don't know what to say about this little development," muse Ron. Harry snort at that.
"We should count ourselves lucky if Hogwarts still standing by the end of next year," said Neville, a few student who overheard the conversation nods their heads.
"Neeevvvviiilllleee... you just have to said it don't you," Harry said desperately. Neville look at him in confuse before smile sheepishly.
"Sorry...?," both Harry and Ron snort at that. The three of them turn back at the scene before look beside Seamus, the first year Slytherin, Aiden Lars stand beside him. The three of them can see clearly on her face the admiring and worship look at Seamus. Harry mumbles something incoherently causing both of them look at him.
"What? We can't hear you," said Ron.
"I said, I ask them about the explosion, the flour might be Seamus idea, but the extra ingredient was her ideas. Her reason? To cause a maximum impact," Harry points at the duo that looks proudly at their achievement. Ron and Neville face quickly become white as ghost.
"We're soo screw... there's two of them," said Ron in despair.
Dear Dad,
Remember the stories you told me, about the barn, flour, cigarette, chicken and horse? Well... I don't have barn, cigarette, chicken and horse. But I do have flours, lot of flours and magic.
IT WAS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!
Love,
Seamus
p/s : Mom probably going to faint or having the heart attack if she hears about this, can you cover for me?
p/s/s : I got a minion, I'll introduce they to you later.
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Dear Son,
You're officially grounded for the rest of the summer. Unofficially,
I'M SOO PROUD OF YOU!
Love,
Dad
p/s : Sorry can't help you there, I got kick out from the house. I'm at the base right now. I want a full story when you get back.
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Dear Idiot Husband and Idiot Son,
ENOUGH BOTH OFF YOU!
Love,
Mom
p/s : You still get kick out the house, husband and you still get grounded, dear son.
In the end, much to their relive, none of them are expel from Hogwarts. But they did end up with detention, lots of detention until the last day of school.
What every student didn't know, Seamus detention had been supervise by...
Mad Eye Moody.
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Merlin help us all.
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