A/N: Yepppp I have Chaptre dix up. Haha I need to stop with the French. But, oui, Chapter 10 is up! Yay I'm doing good with this story, don't you think? That's why I like summer, I have time. Haha. So enjoy && R+R!

Chapter 10

"Ron. Ron, wake up. Rooooooon," Mel was whispering to Ron, trying to wake him up in Defense Against the Dark Arts. "Come on, Ron." She shook him gently, and then sighed. "All right, but don't expect me to join you in-"

"Mrs. Righ, Mr. Weasley, would you care to inform us what's so important that you have to be talking in my class?" the teacher snapped. Mel shook her head and nudged Ron in the ribs so he shook his head too.

"Maybe you two would like to join me for detention after classes today?" the teacher asked. Mel grimaced. She had a feeling this was coming. She turned to Ron. "See what you made me do?" she hissed, but she wasn't mad. On the contrary, she was actually glad because then she wouldn't have to deal with Justin following her into the library like he had all week.

Catching his eye across the classroom, she knew what Justin was going to do. Mel pulled out her wand under the table and stunned him before he could. Nobody noticed, mostly because they thought Mel would stun them too.

There was a sudden commotion outside the classroom. The professor opened the door and grabbed a very flustered and anxious looking prefect and asked what had happened. Teachers were running up and down the hallway ushering students away from the doorways.

"D- d- death e- e- eaters are a- a- attacking, s- sir," the prefect said before running up the stairs. There were a lot of gasps and a few screams from inside the classroom. Harry, Ron and Hermione were already pulling out their wands and heading for the door, Hermione practically dragging Mel with them.

"What's going on?" Mel called up to Harry, who was running towards the door. A teacher grabbed him firmly by his arm but he wriggled out of their grasp. Hermione made a noise as she ducked a spell that was thrown at them. Suddenly she reached out and grabbed Harry's arm. He turned to look at her.

"Harry, going out there is exactly what they want. They'll kill you if you give them the chance. Harry…" Hermione paused because she looked like she was going to cry. Ron put his arm around her in a sort of half hug.

"Harry, she's right," Mel piped up from the back of the group. She jumped as she felt a hand on her shoulder and turned to see Justin. For once she was grateful. "Come on!" he shouted as they ran up the stairs. Seconds later a curse or something hit the doors they were at with enough force to shake them.

Swearing under her breath, Mel slipped and fell, nearly losing her wand. Jumping up, she called to Justin, "Don't we have protective spells against this?" Justin merely shrugged but Harry made a small noise that made Mel stop. She could've kicked herself for being so insensitive.

"Let's find Ginny," Harry said before anyone else could speak. It took them about five minutes to find Ginny, in which time two windows had shattered in front of them, one spitting glass into Ron and Hermione's faces.

"Bloody hell, Malfoy get out of here!" Mel nearly screamed at her relative. He had gotten in front of them to block their way out of the library but moved when he saw her wand. As some of the last people, they made it to the Great Hall and sat huddled in the corner.

Mel and Justin had disappeared, supposedly going to talk stuff out. Harry turned to Ron, Ginny and Hermione. Ron had a huge gash above his left eyebrow that was gushing blood and Hermione had a wide cut on her cheek. Ginny was clutching her right arm to her chest and from the funny angle it was at, Harry knew it was broken.

He himself, though, had managed to get out practically unscathed, just a small cut on the palm of his hand from falling after the window broke. Madame Pomfrey, who had been tending to the other students, now scurried over to them in a fuss. She muttered a few things that were somewhat cursing them for being so irresponsible, but you could tell she was grateful they weren't injured worse than they were.

Harry left the group for a moment and tried to find Professor McGonagall but she wasn't in sight, so he had to settle for Professor Slughorn. Not that he was much help when Harry asked him what was happening. The only information he got was what he already knew: the death eaters were freely attacking Hogwarts because the protection spells Dumbledore had placed upon them broke when he died. And, of course, they wanted Harry.

Another window broke outside in the corridor and Professor McGonagall entered in a flurry of glass and water. She made her way to Harry, Ron, Ginny and Hermione. Mel had just joined them again. "Come with me," she instructed and for once she sounded incredibly frightened.

A/N: I have no idea where I'm going with this, it just seemed like fun to have a random Death Eater attack. So yeah, please enjoy and R+R, mmkay? kthnx XD