Jamie sat in the Chamber on one of the new couches they had installed. Hearing Neville's disbelief at the number of clubs in on the secret, he realized that not many had figured out who did what behind the headmaster's back.
Then again, not many had sniper and later counter-espionage training like he did. And Occulmency training was one of the first things Flitwick taught them once they got to see the really good stuff in the club. At the very least everyone who worked in the Chamber had learned Gai's little trick to avoid the Sharingan from Naruto.
Surprisingly, neither Snape nor Dumbledore had realized the trick to avoid having their mind read. Since Naruto was a highly popular series, practically every Otaku had either read it or heard about it. Treating legilmency as the Sharingan with Yamanaka techniques thrown in had been a brilliant move on the Charm teacher's part.
Salazar got hooked on it once Jamie explained what a shinobi was, and was currently on book 29, where Shippuden officially started. Apparently the shinobi lifestyle appealed to him greatly.
"Alright kiddies, today I am going to explain our affiliate clubs, or those with members who agree with us and help us out occasionally."
"What brought this on?" asked Flitwick.
"Neville's surprise at the fact that certain members of the art club learned to draw maps from word of mouth," said Jamie.
"Carry on," said Flitwick.
Jamie was currently dressed as Iruka, including the hair style.
"To start with, we have the Otaku and Drama clubs. Now who among us is aware of the Drama clubs secondary objective? Anyone?"
Paul raised his hand.
"Spies and infiltrators. They give the art club descriptions for the maps," he said.
"Correct," said Jamie, making a note of this on the board. Under Otaku was their role in a fight, namely that of spell research and middle line attackers. Drama had spies, infiltration, and assassination under theirs. Under art club was maps and cartography.
As Jamie wrote out the various clubs and the few that were affiliated with the Otaku, even loosely, the others began to see a pattern emerge. Should all the groups ally together, they could take out Voldemort and his Death Eaters in a month, if not two. The issue was finding a way to get the message out.
"And now for our second agenda today. We need someone to restart the Announcers and Radio club. As amusing as Lee's biased commentary is, we need a communication's group for the others. We might be able to wrangle Lee in as the Communication's Officer if we bring the Twins in on this," said Jamie seriously.
"Question! What brought all this on?" yelled Jenny from the back.
"Finding those two horcruxes made me realize that Voldemort (one of the first thing he did as Club President was break that flinching habit of theirs) is most likely going to show up again, and we'll need to be ready. And let's not forget Dumbledore and his lax attitude towards progress. If he had gotten his head out of his ass sooner, Fudge would have been kicked out and we might have had a half-blood for Minister by now. We're still children, and we need to enjoy it while we can, but that doesn't mean we can't also prepare just in case the worst happens and he returns," said Jamie.
"I agree with him. By linking the clubs, we might actually be able to change things around here," said Flitwick.
No one asked what he meant by that, as they all knew the headaches he had to deal with for being part goblin. Because of his heritage, Flitwick and those adept at money-management were the financial officers of the group. Charlie had already made a vault specifically for them to use, and had left quite a large fortune inside for his grandson to use for his club.
It was how Jamie had paid for those rare plants.
"Now, who wants me to do a basic overview on how each club contributes to the whole?" asked Jamie. Flitwick had given him twenty points for figuring it out with no help from him. He had been around to meet the Otaku club founder after all, and her...unique...view of the world.
Quite a few hands shot up, they wanted to know who else was in on their group, but wasn't in it.
"At the top of the pack with the majority of those in on our secret is the Otaku club, followed by at least half of the Drama club. As a matter of fact the new cosplay shop that's about to open up is actually owned and run by former Otaku and Drama members and sponsored by the founder of the club. Next is the Charms club, as several of you already know and are apart of. Charms is labeled under the defender and front line attacker grouping in a fight, as we all know Flitwick has been training them well. Some, however, were too steeped in pure blood belief to bring into our secret.
"The fourth club is the Art and what little of the music group that trusts Flitwick. The art club takes the descriptions off the Drama club and makes maps and guides for us. The music group is currently disorganized, but if we get a club for announcers going it should collect into a fairly decent communications team. Next is the small science club, most of which is in cahoots with us, but is too small to make any real change to society. It's full of muggleborns and those raised in the normal society until they reach the school. They're the ones in charge of educating some of our pureblood friends in technology, and most of them have been able to manufacture a magically-run radio set to communicate. I've heard they're responsible for the microphone Lee uses in the quidditch games. We also have a few in the Chess club who have managed to become adept at moving people around like chess pieces in a fight.
"Last but not least is the Quidditch club, and those not on the teams are our final line of defense and aerial support. Some are on our side, but most of them are clueless lions who just want to act like jocks, no offense to our Gryffindor members," said Jamie.
"None taken Jamie!" shouted Emily with good humor. She was a year above him.
"I have worked out a decent graph showing how each club I've talked about works with the others, and what their role would be in a military situation like a restart of the Blood Wars."
"What are the Blood Wars?" asked Paul, confused by the term. Judging by the looks on the others, he wasn't the only one.
"Sorry, that's just the term I've come up with for the whole 'purge the mudblood' mentality Voldemort had. I thought Blood Wars was an appropriate name for the years he spent terrorizing Europe," said Jamie sheepishly.
"Actually, that is the most accurate name I've ever heard for the war. I think it's worth trying to get the Ministry to add it to the history books," said Flitwick with a look in his eye that they recognized as him considering something interesting.
There was a saying that for some reason wizards had never heard...those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. For some reason the Ministry had banned teaching the 'Blood Wars' in Hogwarts, mostly because they feared the parents who lived through it would come down on them. Even Dumbledore supported this silly idea, as he feared that it would upset the children.
Jamie had other ideas, and had already asked his grandfather to look up Auror and police reports of the time period so they could hopefully dissuade some of the Slytherins from joining the Death Eaters once the war restarted, as he fully believed it would.
The only issue was getting it together in a cohesive pattern enough to make it into a history book. Charlie had a lead on who could write it...namely the founder of the Otaku club. He knew Jamie was eager to meet her, even if she was nuts.
"Another year has gone! And now, the points need their final awarding! Slytherin is in the bottom, with 525 points. Gryffindor is barely above them with 540. Ravenclaw, in second place is at 650. Finally we have our new House Cup recipients, Hufflepuff, with 675 points!" said Dumbledore grandly. Inwardly he was frowning...very rarely did any house other than Slytherin or Ravenclaw manage to keep Snape off their case long enough to beat the snake house.
What he didn't know was that Jamie had promised to give him sanctuary on the base in the event that the war restarted. A safe haven away from Dumbledore and Voldemort both, and all he had to do was the same thing he did for Pomprey...make medical potions once a month. The rest he could use for his own research.
Considering how annoying Dumbledore could be at the best of times and how callously Voldemort treated his inner circle...there was little chance Snape wouldn't chose to hide on the base. He was a natural born Slytherin after all, and he could tell who the winner of this unofficial three-way would end should Voldemort reappear.
Badly, for everyone but the Veterans and those stupid enough to cross the Otaku club. Snape had the...pleasure...of meeting the founder, and the girl had been absolutely insane as she kept comparing him to a muggle actor named 'Alan Rickman'*, whoever that was. She also kept hitting on him, an act that he had always felt somewhat uncomfortable with.
Jamie let out an unmanly squeal when he heard who his grandfather had tracked down for him. The former Ravenclaw witch who created the Otaku club and had graduated with full honors once they got her head out of the books had come to the base!
Suddenly there was a shushin-like effect, only with cherry blossom petals and sparkles.
"Yes I am that awesome!" said a bushy-haired brunette with her hair in a pony tail, old wire glasses and dressed like Anko Mitarashi, thankfully with a bra underneath.
"Sakura-sama!" said Jamie.
Because of how many enemies she had made of Voldemort's inner circle (Lucius couldn't even say her name without many, many swear words between it and usually an insult) she went by her pen name online in the normal world. The only time she used her real name was with her fellow Otaku, but most of the time they called her by the first part of her pen name.
Sakura cackled as she ruffled his hair.
"So I hear from a certain bird eye that you need help introducing the last magical war without alerting the headmaster."
Jamie nodded as he outlined his plan to the insane authoress. She had gotten into writing shortly after leaving school, and was currently the best selling fiction writer among her Ravenclaw set. Before they got to work, he did have to ask about the name she mentioned.
"You didn't know? Charlie Potter was known as Hawk-Eye because he never missed a target with his rifle and his animagus form is a red-tailed hawk, according to another magical who served with him during WWII. Of course he's still a bit rusty since he forgot about magic for ten years, but from what I heard he's back in the swing of things," said Sakura amused.
She researched things that interested her, so when Charlie asked her for help she looked into him by asking some of the old dogs that had worked with him in the past.
While she had a good memory, it only applied to things that interested her. Her primary school teachers had despaired of ever getting her out of those blasted books.
Jamie walked behind her, star-struck. Truly, she was an Otaku queen...
As Sakura set up her precious laptop, she chatted with the cheerful Jamie. It was actually one of the rare times he dropped all his military training and acted like the teenager he was. Charlie had even dropped in on the two and had left grinning. Jamie was on his way to his first crush, how cute!
"So they're actually turning Twilight and Luna into humans?" said Jamie. They were discussing the soon-to-be-released MLP movie, Equestria Girls.
Personally he was a bigger fan of the chaotic Earth mare Pinkie Pie than Twilight.
"Yup. And I heard that the songs are supposed to be suuuuper addictive! I found this rare promo of one of them, want to hear it?"
"Yeah!"
She grinned as it started to play. Within seconds he was hooked on the song, which was quite catchy.
"Suddenly I have the perfect idea for our Halloween performance!" said Jamie grinning.
"I hear the movie comes out next month. Want to go see a viewing of it? You can bring a few friends if you want!"
"Yeah!"
Neville took one look at the dance and when he heard the song he knew. This was going to be Jamie's Halloween suggestion.
"You know it's going to be a hassle getting that choreographed to just eight people right?" he sighed.
"Why eight?" asked Paul.
"I know how his mind works, we share a dorm after all. Knowing him, he'll have eight people, two from each house. A boy and a girl from each house, and he'll choose by their voice," said Neville.
Jamie nodded with a grin. Neville had been his best friend since Jamie revealed that his grandfather had healed his parents.
That was probably why Charlie had asked Augusta to teach Jamie how to interact with the stuffy purebloods, as he was so out of touch with them that it wasn't even funny anymore.
Living as a muggle for nearly twenty years had irrevocably rewritten his belief systems. He had learned alongside Jamie how to use technology, and the Otaku club had long since found a way around the issue of electronics and magic not being good bedfellows.
The main issue was that those same electronics had trouble adapting to a fully magical environment where it was impossible to find plug-ins.
They currently had some of the more tech-savvy muggleborns trying to adapt a device not unlike a lightning rod to absorb magic and redirect it to the devices.
*For those of you who have never watched the movies, Alan Rickman is the actor who played Snape. He has also played Marvin, the depressed robot in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the sheriff of Nottingham from the version of Robin Hood that also had Sean Connery as the king, and the fake Spock in Galaxy Quest with Tim Allen as the main character.