Chapter 3
We Can't Be Too Careful
"…Little Potty without his Hogwarts pals to back him up!"
"Well we'll have to fix that won't we?"--
Stupefy!
His capture flew backwards and cracked on of the bed-posts on Harry's four-poster. Harry looked out at who had saved him… it was Ron! Harry looked at him incredulously. "How did you-? I thought you were-?"
Ron grinned and lowered his wand. "He missed me by this much," he indicated the space between his index and middle finger. "I figured I should pretend to be hit so nothing worse would happen.
"Well… Wow, Ron! That is the smartest thing you've done in about 3 months. He, he!" Harry looked at Ron as he got red with anger, and smiled with pride. He came over looking as if he was a tomato that was being tickled and pinched at the same time. Both happy and angry.
"We need to gather some people… get them into the Room of Requirement. We need to have a discussion." said Harry. He looked at Ron who was now looking puzzled.
"And by some people you must mean…" asked Ron to Harry with an even more puzzled face.
"Everyone in the Room when you, me, and Hermione came." Harry answered, already almost out the door.
"Right… where to?" asked Ron as Harry was on his way down the steps to the common room.
"The Room, of course. Tell them to think 'The DA's Meeting Room' and they should be in alright." said Harry over his shoulder on his way to the portrait of the fat lady. When he turned around. He had forgotten about Dean and Seamus!! He ran straight back up stairs to Ron who had obviously figured Harry would return if anything to check on his friends. He went over to Dean and Seamus in turn and muttered Evigilo and awoke them from the unconsciousness that Harry's assailant had put them into.
"What happened, Harry. I was just resting from the battle and next thing I knew… I saw a man… Him!" Seamus exclaimed pointing at the unconscious man. "And then, everythin' went black. Like someone turned off the lights or somethin'. And after that… was… well, now!" he finished, rubbing his head in a blind confusion. His eyes squinted looking down at the floor, he started to mutter to himself.
"Ron, get these to the meeting place once they've regained some sense. I'll round up anyone I see on the way, don't go looking for people cause I may have gotten them… If anyone's missing when we all meet up, then we can send people out for 'em. But we can't be too easy going now. There could be more of this lot," he pointed to the collapsed Death Eater on his four-(three)-poster. "Be careful out there." He finished and walked out