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So, apparently, the last chapter wasn't boring! Well, according to my reviewers, anyway. Thanks: MarianneP, rowellylovesgryffindor, Sam, the Anon, Misery and Phantom!

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Ok… so this chapter skips forward to about half way through the second week of the OWLs… 'Cept for a little bit at the beginning…

Also, for, I'm going on the idea that Madam Pomfrey sleeps in a sort of side room connected to the Hospital Wing.

Chapter 16: Awake All Night

After the NEWTs, Mia felt oddly lighter. She locked all of her books away in her trunk and shoved it under her bed. She then spent the entire weekend in bed- trying to catch up on all the sleep she'd lost.

During the two weeks that the OWLs were taking place, she tried to keep out of the common room as much as possible- so the fifth years could revise in peace. She even stopped a couple of second years entering once, saying "you'll be hoping someone'll do it for you when you're revising."

Wednesday night, she was woken up by a BANG. Her eyes opened slowly and she blinked a few times. Her eyes flicked around in the darkness for a second before she sat up, yawning. A few minutes later, there were several more bangs and crashes, and she reached out, tapping the Gloww Ball. Angelina and Alicia were still asleep. There was another, louder bang, and she slipped out of bed, walking towards the window.

She could see some light, and shadows flickered on the ground. She pressed her face to the glass, trying to see more, but she couldn't. Another crash. She ran out of the dormitory and down the stairs into the common room, where several other people were huddled around a window.

"What's happening?" she asked, joining the crowd.

"Dunno," Ginny said, shrugging.

"Oh, well that's very helpful."

Several more people came down stairs- including Angelina and Alicia. "We thought you'd been kidnapped or something," Alicia joked. Soon, pretty much everyone in Gryffindor was crowded around the window.

A shadow stretched into the light, and they all saw Umbridge striding across the grounds.

"What's she doing out there?" Mia sneered. A few minutes later, a group of people followed her, a couple of them carrying a body. Several people gasped.

"What happened to McGonagall?" Colin Creevey asked.

"Is she unconscious?" his brother, Dennis, asked.

"She might've been Stunned," Ginny suggested.

"Or maybe Hagrid knocked her out cold," a third year said.

"Don't be stupid, Hagrid wouldn't do that!" Mia told him.

A few minutes later, Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnegan burst into the common room. Everyone around the window whipped round and flooded towards them.

"What happened?"

"Did you see?"

"What was Umbridge doing?" all the questions were jumbled together. Dean and Seamus started to tell them the story. "So, first, right, the doors opened and Umbridge came out, yeah?" Dean said.

"And she was surrounded by all these people, probably Aurors!" Seamus piped up.

"Yeah, and Hagrid come out and they started shooting spells everywhere!"

"But they all bounced off him!"

"And everyone was yelling all sorts of things!"

The other fifth years came back as Dean and Seamus were telling the story. Finally, Harry, Ron and Hermione came through the portrait hole.

"But why sack Hagrid now?" Angelina asked, "It's not like Trelawney; he's been teaching much better than usual this year!"

"Umbridge hates part-humans," Hermione muttered, sitting down in a chair next to Mia, "She was always going to try and get Hagrid out."

"She'd have sacked him anyway; he was too close to Dumbledore," Dean said.

"That's true," Harry sighed.

"I just hope Professor McGonagall's all right," said Lavender Brown.

"They carried her back up to the castle, we watched through the window," said Colin, "She didn't look very well."

"She looked more then 'unwell'!" Mia said, "She was bloody unconscious!"

"Madam Pomfrey will sort her out," Alicia stated, "she's never failed yet."

"I reckon she'll end up being sent to St Mungo's," Mia said, "Four Stunners at… how old is she? Well, four Stunners at any age's pretty bad."

The next day, Mia, Angelina, Alicia and Katie were wandering around the grounds.

"I can't believe Hagrid isn't here anymore… who's going to teach me Care of Magical Creatures?" Katie complained. Mia shrugged.

"They'll probably get that Grubbly-Plank woman in again," she said. As she said this, they walked past Hagrid's Hut. The lights were off and it had that empty, cold feeling. They turned around and went back up to the castle.

That evening, Mia was coming back from the library (she'd been returning some books she'd been using to revise for the NEWTs, and accidentally locked them in her trunk with all her other books), and was heading back towards the common room.

"Oh, I wouldn't go that way if I were you," Nearly Headless Nick came drifting towards her. She blinked for a second.

"Why?"

"Apparently, somebody's let off some Garrotting Gas," Nick informed her, "very horrible stuff… Filch is furious, storming around the school trying to find the culprit…" he drifted away again, leaving Mia standing there.

Garrotting Gas? She thought. She looked down the corridor, then looked behind her, then started to walk in the exact direction Nick had warned her not to go. She got as far as the corridor with Umbridge office on, and there was still no sign of the Garrotting Gas. She stopped outside of Umbridge's office when she heard the sound of something falling on the ground. The door flung open and Mia's jaw fell open.

Ron, Ginny, Neville and Luna were standing in the doorway. Ron's lips was bleeding, Ginny had some scratches on her cheeks, Neville had a black eye and Luna had a few bruises on her arm. On the floor behind them were several Slytherins, lying either unconscious or unable to move.

"What. The. Hell?" Mia asked.

"Why are you down here?" Ron demanded.

"Going to the common room!" Mia said, "now what the hell happened here?"

"We'll explain in a sec," Ginny said, closing the door. They made their way down the corridor.

"Well?" Ginny, Luna, Neville and Ron looked at each other.

"Well…" Ron said. Ginny rolled her eyes.

"Harry saw something… Sirius getting tortured by You-Know-Who at the Ministry," she told Mia quietly, "we were trying to help him… only we got caught, and then Hermione took Harry and Umbridge somewhere… and then we escaped so now we're going to go find them." Mia just stared at her for a second.

"Ok…" she said, as everything processed.

"Only… I'm not sure what we're going to do once everyone realises we're gone," Ginny said.

"Oh, I hadn't thought of that!" Neville said.

"Good thing I did, then."

"I'll do that," Mia said suddenly.

"Huh?"

"I'll find some reason for you lot not being here. I'm good at this sorta thing." Ginny bit her lip, and then she nodded.

"Ok… when we get back… um…" they walked into the Entrance Hall.

"I'll wait in the common room. Come get me when you're back." Ginny nodded again.

"Right… see you later then, and thanks!" Ginny, Neville, Luna and Ron walked away. Mia stood there for a minute, and then ran back up to the common room. When she got there, Angelina and Alicia were sitting by the fire.

"Hey, Mia," Angelina said as she sunk into a chair beside them.

"Alright?"

"Did you get the books back to Madam Pince?"

"Barely…" Mia replied, "I think she almost killed me when I said I'd brought them back late."

A couple of hours later, Angelina went to bed, shortly followed by Alicia. "You coming, Mia?"

"Oh, um… yeah, I'll be there in a minute…" well, if a minute meant 'whenever Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Luna and Ginny get back'. About an hour later, Mia snuck upstairs (grateful to see Angelina and Alicia were asleep) and picked up Medicine Magic: a Guide to the World of Magical Medicine, and went back downstairs. She flicked through the pages quickly, automatically skimming over some of the spells and potions she knew by heart. She picked out small differences between the versions in her book, and the ones Snape had taught her. She realized with a small twinge that she had written down the Medicine Magic version of an antidote in her NEWT exam. She licked her lips, wondering weather it would make a difference.

A couple more hours passed. The common room was empty except for her. The fire had died and the only light in the room came from her wand. A few stars dotted the sky outside the window. She kept glancing at her watch. She wondered how long it would take to get Sirius. Would they have to fight? Were they injured? She started to get worried.

The stars started to disappear. Mia slammed Medicine Magic shut and threw it down on the chair, striding out through the portrait hole. "Hm? Oh! What are you doing out of bed?" the Fat Lady shouted. Mia started walking faster and faster, until she was running down the corridors, the heels of her shoes clicking on the floor.

She stopped in the Entrance Hall, and licked her lips. She didn't know why she'd just run through the entire castle. Maybe she thought if she went somewhere, Harry, Ginny and everyone would be there. Or maybe the further she went, the faster time would go. She tried to push the doors open, but they were locked. She groaned, and started fiddling with her necklace. She pushed against the door again and nothing happen. She pulled out her wand. "Alohomora," she muttered, then shoved the doors. Again. Nothing happened. Again.

She didn't really want to go back up to Gryffindor Tower, so she walked over to the stairs and sat down on one. Mrs Weasley would be so upset if something happened to Ron or Ginny, or Harry or Hermione. Maybe she should've stopped them from going. She knew that Neville lived with his Grandmother… what would she do if something happened to him? And what about Luna's parents? What would they do?

She started to doze off. She was slumped against the wall, her legs out in front of her. Her eyes were slowly closing…

BANG! She flew up onto her feet, leapt from the stairs and held her wand out in front of her.

Some large, hulking object staggered into the Hall. As they drew closer, Mia saw it was Remus Lupin, who was carrying and unconscious Luna, Neville, who had blood all over his face, Ginny, being supported by Neville, and a man who was carrying Hermione over his shoulder and had Ron leaning on him. The sky outside was getting lighter, and Mia wondered exactly how long it had been since she'd found them in Umbridge's office.

"Mia!" Ron yelled. He staggered forward and almost toppled on top of her. She caught him- barley- and pushed him back up onto his feet. She saw deep gouges on his arms and over his chest, and he was only just standing by himself.

"What the hell happened?" she asked. Ron sank to the floor as Lupin, Neville and the other man reached them, still supporting the girls.

"You're still awake," Ginny breathed. Lupin looked over her once as Neville helped Ginny sit down by Ron.

"Mia," Lupin said, "I think you should go and wake Madam Pomfrey and tell her several students have been injured," Mia nodded and set off, but stopped when Lupin added, "do not tell anyone where you are going."

"Got it," She dashed off, running up to the Hospital Wing. When she got there, she slammed the doors open and bashed her fist against the door to Madam Pomfrey's room. Her fist almost collided with Madam Pomfrey's face as she opened the door, puffy eyed with a dazed expression.

"Yes?"

"There are some students down in the Entrance Hall who are seriously injured!" Mia said, very quickly. It took Madam Pomfrey a moment to realise what Mia had said, but when she did, she stood up a little straighter.

"Well, take me to them!"

A few minutes later, Mia skidded to a stop in the Entrance Hall. Hermione had been laid down next to Ron, but Luna seemed to have woken up, and was now sitting crossed-legged next to Ginny, staring off into space. Ron was looking over his arms and Neville kept prodding his nose tenderly. Lupin and the other man were conversing quietly a few metres away.

"Oh dear, what's happened?" Madam Pomfrey asked, hurrying over to the people on the floor. She didn't wait for an answer, and instead, helped Ron up. "You need to get to the Hospital Wing right away. Right, what's wrong with you?" she asked Ginny.

Mia walked over to Lupin and the other man.

"Yes, Williamson, that's exactly what happened-" Lupin broke off as he saw Mia approach.

"What happened?" she asked him. Luna was now holding Ginny still as Madam Pomfrey fixed her ankle so she could walk.

"Firstly," Lupin said, "I'd like to know what you were doing hanging around in the Entrance Hall at this time." Neville had lifted Hermione over his shoulder. Mia sighed.

"I told Ginny that I'd cover for them if anyone found out they were gone," she explained, "I said I'd wait in the common room, and I was in there for hours! So I came down here… I think I was down here for hours as well." Luna and Ginny were now helping Ron stand up. "Now what happened? And where's Harry?"

"I expect Harry's with Dumbledore-"

"Dumbledore?" Mia cut him off.

"Yes. I thought you wanted to know what happened?" Lupin asked.

"Right… carry on." The others were now making their way gingerly up to the Hospital Wing. Lupin explained what had happened once the Order had gotten to the Ministry. He told her about the fight between them and the Death Eaters and how Sirius Black had been killed by Bellatrix Lestrange. How Harry had gone after her, and how Dumbledore had turned up. They started making their way to the Hospital Wing. Williamson walked silently behind him. When they reached the Hospital Wing, they saw Neville's nose had been fixed, and he was now mopping the blood off his face with a damp cloth, Hermione and Ron (who had fallen asleep) had been put into beds, Ginny was sitting in a chair and Luna was being looked over by Madam Pomfrey. Mia went over and sat next in a chair next to Hermione's bed.

"Well, I think it would be best if we left. Good night," Lupin said. He and Williamson left as Madam Pomfrey declared that Luna was fine.

"So… what really happened?" Mia asked quietly. Neville, Luna and Ginny told her about the Department of Mysteries, and how Sirius wasn't there, and then the Prophecy and the Death Eaters. After that, they were all silent for a very long time.

Until Harry came sprinting into the room. Neville shot out of his seat and Ginny looked up at him lazily. "Are you ok, Harry?" Luna asked. He just looked at them all.

"Yeah, I'm fine," he answered, a little too quickly.

"Are you sure?" Ginny asked.

"Yeah." He fell onto an empty bed.

They all stayed in the Hospital Wing for a very long time, not talking or doing anything. Just sitting- or sleeping- there. The only movement was when Ron shifted slightly in his sleep…

Um… ok… so had about fifty variations of this chapter… but this one seemed to work best…

Ok, the next chapter will be the last one… but I've been thinking about doing one set during Half Blood Prince… I even have the basic outlines of a couple of chapters written! So… would you like to read it?

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