Hey, everybody. Sorry this is up later than I expected, but I've got things to do. Anyway, here's the chapter!
"Are you sure that you're all right, Neville?" Remus asked that night in the common room. Neville was applying a watery cloth to his scarred cheek.
"Don't worry, Remus," Neville gave him a reassuring smile. "I'm fine. I'm just worried for James." His expression turned dark.
Carrow had insisted James remain tied up for the rest of class, and then got some willing Slytherins to torture him. Then Carrow had kept him after class. He still hadn't shown up, and it had been over an hour.
"He'll be fine," Sirius said from his place in front of the fire. "James is strong; he can handle whatever Carrow gives him."
As if on cue, James walked through the portrait hole. He looked weary and tired, and was sporting quite a few burns on his arms. His face had a slash mark identical to Neville's.
"James!" The other three boys got up and quickly helped him over to the fire. James still hadn't spoken, and he looked quite ill.
"Are you all right?" Neville asked concernedly. James could only nod.
"Damn, James," Sirius said, running his hands through his dark hair. "This is my entire fault. I was the one who was insulting Carrow, not you."
"It's not your fault, Sirius," Remus assured him. "It's Carrow's, and You-Know-Who's." Remus's expression suddenly became darker, showing more of his wolf side.
"Your absolutely right, Remus," Neville said as he sat up. "In fact, I think it's about time we did something about this awful treatment." His eyes glinted in anticipation as he said his next sentence. "It's time for another meeting of Dumbledore's Army."
(Should I end it here? Nah…)
"We will not stand for this any longer!" Ginny yelled. It was Friday night, only three days after that fateful Dark Arts class, that the meeting finally took place. Ginny and Neville were giving a rallying speech.
"It's time to make a statement!" Neville yelled, much to the member's delight by their cheering.
"It's time to do something big," Ginny said a steely look on her face.
And so it was.
"All right," Sirius whispered his wand out. It was about ten minutes later, around eleven o'clock, that the members of the DA had left the Room of Requirement to do their job. What is their job, you ask? Well, let's figure that out.
"You guys ready?" James said, still a bit hoarsely. It had been three days since the Dark Arts incident, and yet he still hadn't fully recovered. It was as if Carrow and his Slytherin cronies had inflicted some deadly disease upon him, one that made him less happy, more, well, serious. (A/N: No pun intended)
"Ready," Remus grinned.
The three of them took out their wands, and pointed them at the wall, one on the fourth floor, right next to the Muggle Studies classroom.
"Grafiemn," They whispered together moving their wands in a fluid motion. As in the writing on the wall back in Harry's second year, red words appeared on the walls, only not in blood.
Dumbledore's Army Lives
"This is going to drive Snape mad," Sirius shivered in anticipation. If possible, his hatred for Severus Snape had grown even worse in their visit to the future.
"Yeah, yeah," Remus said, not really paying attention. He checked his watch. "Hey, guys, time to go back to the common room."
"Not yet, Moony," Sirius smiled, flipping his wand around in his fingers. "Check the Map first."
James slipped the map out of his pocket.
"I Solemnly Swear that I am up to no Good," he said quietly, as so not to attract teachers.
The black ink dots spread out around the page as the three boys huddled around it.
"Alecto Carrow is coming this way," Remus said, exchanging a frantic glance with James. "We better get out of here."
"Let's go."
Too short, wasn't it? I know, I know, but I am trying to make them longer. This one was probably a little shorter, but only because I wanted to get it posted sooner. The next one will definitely be longer, though.
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