Attention: Everyone in the room, you can thank the quick update to this chapter to Siriusly Luvs Harry Potter! She's the one that pressured me into updating asap. And once again, I go along with peer pressure. I need to go into counceling or—something. So here it is! Please review!

Chapter Four

"I knew you'd come! I knew it, Harry!" Were the first words spoken in the room, breaking the silence. Neville was even more dorky looking than Lindsey had ever imagined from the books, though the cuts and bruises all over his face did look painful, his robes especially ratty.

"Neville—what the—how—?" Harry stuttered, looking from his friend to the tunnel behind him as if he had never seen a portrait hole, they were pretty common at Hogwarts, or so she'd read.

Neville ignored Harry completely and beamed, hugging Hermione and Ron as tightly as he possibly could in his condition. It was only then that he turned back to Harry. "I knew you'd come! Kept telling Seamus it was a matter of time!"

"Neville, what's happened to you?"

"What? This? This is nothiiing. Seamus is worse. You'll see. Shall we get going then? Oh, Ab, there might be a couple more people on the way," he said, turning to Aberforth, not even noticing Lindsey was in the room, which wasn't surprising, seeing as she had backed away when Neville had entered the room.

"Couple more? What d'you mean, a couple more, Longbottom? There's a curfew and a Caterwaulling Charm on the whole village!"

"I know, that's why they'll be Apparating directly into the bar," Neville spoke simply. "Just send them down the passage when they get here, will you? Thank's a lot," he turned from Aberforth abruptly and turned to Hermione, holding out his hand to help her climb onto the mandelpiece and into the tunnel. Ron followed behind her and Neville after him, leaving Harry, Aberforth, and Lindsey in the room.

"I don't know how to thank you. You've saved our lives twice."

"Look after 'em, then. I might not be able to save 'em a third time," Aberforth sighed, a twinge of sadness in his voice.

Harry looked over at Lindsey, then back to Aberforth. "Can you watch her until when—if I get back?" He asked hopefully, climbing onto the mantelpiece.

Aberforth opened his mouth to say something but Lindsey interrupted, stepping forward.

"Not a damn chance in hell I'm staying here, Potter," she spoke up, glaring at him. "I might not be a witch or have a wand or anything but I can bloody well take care of myself. I know what happens in this story, you don't," she reminded herself, not realizing at all that she had a faint English accent as she spoke.

Harry opened his mouth in protest but Lindsey cut him off.

"No, I'm coming with you, that's that," she grumbled, climbing onto the mantelpiece. Harry sighed after a minute in defeat, reaching into his pocket. "I took this wand from a Snatcher. It probably wont do any good in the hands of a muggle but It'll have to do," he turned and walked in through the portrait hole.

Lindsey followed him, hiding in the shadows as the Trio and Neville spoke.

"How long's this been here? It isn't on the Marauder's Map, is it, Harry? I thought there were only seven passages in and out of school?" Ron asked as they started their way down the tunnel.

"They sealed off all of those before the start of the year," Neville sighed. "There's no chance of getting through any of them now, not with curses over the entrances and Death Eaters and dementors waiting at the exits. Never mind that stuff...Is it true? Did you break into Gringotts? Did you escape on a dragon? It's everywhere, everyone's talking about it, Terry Boot got beaten up by Carrow for yelling about it in the Great Hall at dinner!" Neville smiled wide, as if it were the coolest thing.

"Yeah, it's true."

Neville laughed. "What did you do with the dragon?"

"Released it into the wild," Ron spoke up. "Hermione was all for keeping it as a pet-"

"Don't exaggerate, Ron—"

"But what have you been doing? People have been saying you've just been on the run, Harry, but I don't think so. I think you've been up to something."

"You're right, but tell us about Hogwarts, Neville, we haven't heard anything."

Lindsey bit her lip as she got lost in the conversation, it was just like the book, with a few minor details that Rowling missed, such as Hermione and Ron hand in hand.

Lindsey zoned out, twirling the wand between her fingers. She didn't want to hear about Voldemort's version of Hogwarts. She didn't like that Amycus and Alecto Carrow were here, teaching and disciplining. She didn't like how they used the Cruciatus Curse on students, having students practice it on their classmates.

It was right after Neville had ended explaining how they had sent Death Eater's to his Gram's house that they arrived in the Room of Requirement. Lindsey looked around, wide eyed as she saw the characters she had been dreaming about for year from her all time favorite book.

I'm sorry, but I decided to be mean and make this a short chapter, I was going to do the whole "Harry's back! Let's go kill all the Death Eaters!" thing. But I decided, after spending an hour on this, I was going to leave the RoR for the next chapter. Please, please, please, PLEASE review! I love you!