A/N: Well, here is the second chapter. For some reason, this story is easier to write than my Naruto/Dragon Ball one, but don't worry I haven't given up!
DISCLAIMER: DON'T OWN NOTHIN'!
Preparing to Escape
"How are we leaving Harry?" Neville asked seriously.
"Yeah, there are still a lot of us even if you don't count the seventh years," Seamus pointed out. "Not to mention how me mam will react when she thinks I ran away with a nutter...Even if you were telling the truth."
"It can't be anywhere as bad as how my mum will react!" Ron said nervously.
"Ron, me mam is Irish! How do you think she'll react?" Seamus retorted and everyone had to feel a bit of sympathy.
"You don't have to come you know," Dean pointed out.
"And, miss out on making sure I survive? No way!"
"What are you so anxious about Harry?" Ron asked as he watched his best friend pace back and forth.
"Just thinking how we're going to escape...I think we should go at night..." Harry muttered.
"With how high security is around here?" Ron asked in disbelief. "Fat chance that'll work."
"We'll just disillusion ourselves," Harry said seriously.
"Do you even know the Disillusionment Charm?" Dean asked.
"Well no, but you forgot that we have someone who probably does..." Harry told them with a smirk.
"Hermione," all of the boys said at once.
"Right, but we need a way to communicate and I'm not sure how..." Harry trailed off as he winced when he remembered the gift Sirius gave him.
"Harry?" Ron asked nervously.
"S...Sirius gave me a way...I was too stupid to open it...He could've lived if I just..." Harry mumbled and Ron winced at the mention of his name.
"Sirius?" Seamus asked. "As in Sirius Black? Why would you accept anything from that dirty rotten traitorous Death Eater?"
Ron sucked in a deep breath as he literally crawled under his bed in safety. "How. Dare. You?" Harry whispered angrily as the room began to crackle with barely contained magical energy. "HOW DARE YOU SPEAK ABOUT SIRIUS LIKE THAT?"
"Harry? Wha—"
"YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HIM!" Harry continued to shout as he cut off Dean. "HE WAS MY GODFATHER AND HE DIED FOR ME! WHAT RIGHT DO YOU HAVE TO TALK ABOUT HIM LIKE THAT?"
"I-I didn't know!" Seamus tried to cry out but Harry continued to ignore him.
"I KNEW SINCE THIRD YEAR THAT HE WAS INNOCENT AND IT WAS THAT DAMN RAT'S FAULT THAT MY PARENTS DIED! BUT, WOULD THE SO CALLED MINISTER LISTEN TO ME? NO! AND, NOW SIRIUS HAD TO LIVE A HORRIBLE UNDESERVED LIFE BEFORE HE DIED FOR ME!"
"He was your godfather?" Neville whispered in shock remembering how distraught Harry looked when Sirius Black fell through the arch. He couldn't understand why Harry looked like his life just ended until now.
"YES, SIRIUS BLACK WAS MY GODFATHER! HE BROKE OUT OF AZKABAN TO SAVE ME! ME!" Harry fell to his knees crying...It was such a shock to Neville, Dean and Seamus as they never believed that Harry could cry. "Why'd you have to go Sirius...Why...?"
"Because you'd do the same for him," Ron whispered as he took a seat on the floor next to Harry. "Because you meant the world to him...Sirius loved you mate and he'd hate to see you sad like this. He was a Marauder after all and I doubt the Marauders wanted you to feel sad like this. Cheer up mate...I think Sirius would prefer to see you laugh, don't you?"
"You know Ron, it seems you do have more emotional range than a teaspoon," Harry said as he wiped his eyes.
"Don't tell Hermione," Ron said with a grin. "She'd have a bloody heart attack...after she gets over the shock of being wrong."
Ron and Harry laughed together and laughed harder at the confused look of their dorm mates. "Thanks Ron," Harry said with a watery smile.
"No problem mate." Ron grinned wider. "Now if you'll excuse me I believe it's dinner time..."
Once his stomach roared in agreement, the fifth year boys couldn't help but laugh. "Coming Harry?" Neville asked at the door.
"In a second, Nev," Harry assured and Neville nodded.
Once alone, Harry allowed his remaining tears to silently flow as he sat in a cramped fetal position...A position he had learned to form quite well thanks to his years in the Dursleys cupboard. 'Ron's right...Sirius wouldn't want this for me. I'm not guilty and neither is Sirius. It's Bellatrix and Voldemort's fault he's gone and I'll make sure they'll pay! I—we—need to train as much as we can if we hope to stand a chance. It's time to get ready...'
With a shuddering breath, Harry stood up and stretched before he opened the trunk and pulled out the broken pieces to the mirror he received from Sirius as well as the Marauder's Map. "I solemnly swear I'm up to no good," Harry murmured and tapped the wand.
Luckily, Hermione was still in the Common Room, so quickly he wiped the map and headed down. There was Hermione on her favorite spot in front of the fireplace reading a book. "Why aren't you at dinner, Hermione?" Harry asked and she jumped.
"Don't do that, Harry!" Hermione scolded as she clutched her heart. "Now what did you want?"
"Why aren't you at dinner?" Harry reiterated.
"Dinner...?" Hermione asked as she looked at her watch in surprise. "It's that time already?"
"What were you reading that got you so caught up?"
"I was trying to find something to help us communicate," Hermione admitted with a sigh. "There are a few good ideas, but none of them are subtle enough..."
"Well...will this work?" Harry asked holding out the broken mirror piece and Hermione looked at it with a raised eyebrow. "S-Sirius gave it to me at Christmas, but I never opened it—" his voice cracked "—it lets you communicate with the other mirror."
"That's brilliant!" Hermione exclaimed looking at the mirror with fascination. "Yes, this could work quite well...I'll have to modify it to work on multiple mirrors, but it should work!"
"Great!" Harry cheered enthusiastically. "By the way Hermione, do you happen to know the Disillusionment Charm? We could really use that charm to escape."
Unfortunately Hermione shook her head. "Sorry Harry, but I don't," Hermione explained and Harry didn't know whether to sigh in disappointment or gape in astonishment. "I think Su Li from Ravenclaw does though..."
"How would you know?" Harry asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Caught her once during my prefect patrols...She forgot that the charm didn't stop her from being solid," Hermione explained and Harry grinned as he remembered how he nearly learned that the hard way the first time he used his invisibility cloak.
"What was she disillusioned for?" Harry asked.
"She was trying to prank the prefects on duty." Hermione giggled. "Guess she bit off more than she could chew...Really bad luck for her that I can recognize the sign of someone going around invisibly. Why do you need to know the charm anyway?"
"That's how we're going to escape...Tomorrow's the day before we leave, so we're going tomorrow night," Harry informed her and she released an audible gulp.
"So...We're really doing it, huh?"
"Did you think we weren't?"
"No...But, it's strange to think about it," Hermione admitted. "I've never been very rebellious, but I'm finding myself turning against authority more and more this year. Its times like this that I just can't help but wonder what the bushy haired, bucktoothed eleven year old Hermione Granger would say about my attitude."
Harry laughed loudly at that. "She'd probably die of shock," Harry teased and Hermione huffed. "She'd jump off the Astronomy Tower though if she found out about your crush on Ron..."
"I don't know what you're talking about, Harry," Hermione denied instantly with a bright brush. "Ron and I are just friends!"
"Sure, sure," Harry said dismissively. "So...off to dinner?"
"Yes please," Hermione agreed happily changing topics.
At midnight Harry quietly took out his old invisibility cloak and the Maruader's Map, and tiptoed into the Gryffindor common room. He threw the cloak over himself and activated the map. He sighed in relief when he realized that Su Li was up and about in the Dungeons...with Pansy Parkinson...?
Thanks to the map, Harry found it quite the uneventful journey down into the castle bowels, and it wasn't very hard to find Pansy either since she was currently running like a Muggle who'd seen a ghost.
"Paaannnnssssyyyy, wwwhhhyyy aaarrreee yyyooouuu rrrruuuunnniiinnggg?" A voice asked eerily, but Harry couldn't find the source. "DDDooonnnn'ttt yyyooouuu wwwaaannnttt tttooo bbbeeeee fffrrriiieeenndddsss?"
"I don't know who you are, but when I catch you I'll make sure you never leave here again!" Pansy barked out proudly and smiled smugly when no answer came.
Her smugness was ruined when she found herself on the ground tripping over something invisible. Instantly, the girl tried to grab whatever it was, but there was nothing there. "Who do you think you are?" Pansy shrieked. "I am a purebloo—"
"I know what you are, Parkinson," Harry interrupted in a hoarse whisper.
"Baron?" Pansy questioned. "But, that voice from before was a girl..."
"I can allow my companion her moment of fun," Harry "Baron" Potter whispered hoarsely. "Or, do you oppose...?"
"No, no of course not!" Pansy denied instantly as she released a shuddering breath before doing an obviously fake laugh. "Now...Now that I think about it, it was really funny!"
"TTTTTTThhhhhaaaaannnnnnkkkkk yyyyyoooouuuu," the eerie voice whispered in Pansy ear and the girl shrieked as she ran down the hall, and ran even harder when she heard a high pitched cackle.
Once Harry knew for sure that Pansy was gone he sighed and said, "You finished Su Li?"
"H-How do you know who I am?" Su Li asked in shock. "But, that was bloody brilliant how you imitated the Bloody Baron back there."
"Thank you," Harry said as he removed his cloak and Su Li gasped.
"Harry Potter?" Su Li said in shock. "And, you have an invisibility cloak? That's so unfair!"
"Are you going to remove the Disillusionment Charm, Su?" Harry asked and Su Li blinked.
"Oh, sorry," Su Li muttered and soon the fifth year Ravenclaw reappeared. "How did you find me?"
"Me and my friends are quite good at finding invisible people." Harry shrugged and Su Li scowled.
"No kidding, that Hermione Granger caught me right off the bat," Su Li explained. "Gave me detention before I could even think of escaping."
"You didn't try to prank Ron?"
"Oh, I did and he caught me just as fast...That's still really creepy how they did that by the way...But anyway, he let me off so long as I prank Malfoy." Su Li grinned. "It was my pleasure...Did you know Malfoy screams like a little girl when he's scared?"
"No...But, I gotta say I never expected you to be a prankster," Harry admitted. "You were always so quiet in class that I tended to forget you were even there..."
"Don't you know, Harry? It's the quiet ones you got to look out for," Su Li explained smugly. "In the five years I've been here, only Hermione has given me a detention. Everyone else blames the twins for the pranks so I get off for every single one."
Harry laughed softly for a moment before he grew serious. "Can you cast the Disillusionment Charm or does someone cast it for you?" Harry asked and Su Li nearly stumbled over the abrupt change in conversation.
"I cast it myself," Su Li explained. "Why?"
"Because we're going to escape into the forest disillusioned tomorrow night, so I need you to teach everyone how to do the charm."
"Tomorrow?" Su Li squeaked with a stunned look. "Already?"
"Yes, so if you can hurry I would appreciate it."
"Of...Of course!"
"Good, then I'll see you tomorrow," Harry said as he threw the cloak over himself and silently disappeared...It kind of freaked Su Li out that he barely made a sound.
"Harry! I finished the mirrors!" Hermione explained excitedly waking up the entire dorm.
"Not now 'Er-my-ne," Ron mumbled hiding his head under his pillow. "It's too early..."
"I wasn't talking to you, Ron!" Hermione snapped.
"Be quiet the lot of you!" Dean grumbled.
"Can't this wait for a while Hermione?" Harry groaned out. "It's too bloody early for this..."
"No, we need to get up and pass the mirrors along to everyone! And, we need to learn the charm by today too otherwise we won't be leaving."
"Fine," Harry grumbled and threw a pillow at Ron. "Oi! Get up Ron!"
"Go on without me..." Ron muttered.
"Aguamenti!" Hermione cried annoyed and Ron yelped when he was splashed with a jet of water.
"Bloody hell Hermione!" Ron cried soak and wet. "What is wrong with you?"
"Oh shut up! We need to get a move on!" Hermione retorted. "That goes for the rest of you! Su Li was already by according to Lavender, so we need to call a D—I mean a meeting of the Knights! Unless you changed your mind, Harry?"
"No," Harry replied firmly. "She right...Get up!"
"Sod off, Harry!" Dean grumbled.
"Aguamenti!" Seamus and Neville cried and Dean fell off the bed with a cry of surprise and he scowled when he saw that neither had their wands or anything.
"Oh sure laugh it up..." Dean muttered bitterly. "Merlin, did we have to get up so early?"
"We have to prepare, Dean," Hermione scolded. "Unless you want to be caught?"
"Fine, fine," Dean said getting up.
"You mind, Hermione?" Neville asked kindly tugging at his night shirt and Hermione's face reddened when she realized what he was getting at.
"Just a minute, Neville," Hermione assured him. "Can I have the map, Harry? I need to get to the Slytherin common room to tell Daphne and the others since they can't be alerted like the Houses can be."
"Sure," Harry said handing her the parchment and she quickly headed out. The boys quickly dressed and Harry activated the D.A. Galleon alerting the others. Harry wasted no time and went straight to the Room of Requirement...except a door was already there. Harry quickly pulled out his wand and looked hesitantly in the room and there he saw Su Li standing there nervously.
"Oh good you're already her—"
"Whose voice did I disguise myself as last night?" Harry interrupted pointing his wand at her and she swallowed hard.
"The Bloody Baron's," Su Li said thickly and Harry nodded before lowering his wand. "Bloody hell Harry! You just about gave me a heart attack there!
"Sorry Su, but I needed to make sure you were still you," Harry apologized. "What are you doing here so early?"
"Getting ready to throw up! I'm no good at public speaking!" Su Li whined. "I...I can't teach a bunch of people! But, you can!"
"Huh?"
"I can teach you the Disillusionment Charm and then you can teach the rest of the Knights! It's perfect!"
"I'm no good at public speaking either!"
"You've got more experience than me!"
"But, you know the charm better!"
"I'm a rubbish teacher!"
"I'm not very good!"
"Dragon dung!" Su Li barked. "The people that were in your D.A. are much better at spells after being taught by you!"
"That was all them!"
"Liar! Just let me teach you the charm!"
"Alright..." Su Li grinned until Harry added, "When you teach everyone else."
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Don't make me snog you into submission!"
"What?"
"I know how you boys get when you're snogged good enough! You'd follow my every order!"
"You're nuts!"
"No, I'm not!"
"Yes, yes you are!"
"Fine I am, but I'm still having you teach the charm!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!
"Yes!"
"What are you two arguing about?" A voice nearly screeched from the doorway causing Harry and Su Li to whip around to see Sally-Anne Perks looking at them with her hands on her hips.
"Ah! Sally! Just the one I needed!" Su Li cried happily.
"That's Sally-Anne, Su!" Sally-Anne said exasperated.
"Whatever," Su Li said dismissively and Sally-Anne rolled her eyes. "Harry won't let me teach him the Disillusionment Charm, so he can teach everyone else! Make him do it Sally!"
"That's Sally-Anne!" Sally-Anne repeated exasperated. "And, who do I look like? Hermione Granger? I can't get Harry Potter to do anything he doesn't want to."
"Damn right she can't," Harry whispered to himself.
"You've got to do something Sally! I mean both of your last names start with a 'P' so you've got to have something in common!"
"Sally-Anne! And, that is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard...How are you a Ravenclaw with a brain like yours?"
"Dunno..." Su Li shrugged. "Either way can you help me? Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Ple—"
"FINE!" Sally-Anne interrupted pinching her nose. "Merlin, why are you my best friend...?"
"Because I'm great fun?"
"I'm so glad you didn't make friends with the Weasley twins..." Sally-Anne sighed. "And, could you please just let her teach you, Harry? We won't get anything done if we leave it up to Su."
"Fine..." Harry grumbled and Su Li squealed as she hugged Sally-Anne.
"You're the best Sally!"
"That's Sally-Anne!" Sally-Anne looked much more smug than annoyed however.
So, for the next hour Su Li worked on teaching Harry the charm and begrudgingly he had to admit that she was a terrible teacher. Had he left it up to her everyone would know how to not disillusion yourself rather than how to do it.
"Hey, Harry! Were you here the whole time?" Ron asked confused. "Why didn't you come down to breakfast with everyone else?"
"I forgot..." Harry admitted and suddenly he felt really hungry.
"Good thing I got some of mum's instincts then," Ginny said giving him a couple of bagels that he accepted gratefully.
"What about me?" Su Li asked as she stared at the bagels longingly.
"Here, I was saving this for later, but you'd just annoy me the whole time with how hungry you are." Sally-Anne sighed as she handed over her last bagel.
"Is that all?" Su Li asked causing Sally-Anne to glare. "I'm only kidding!"
"You better be!"
"Are we going to get started or what?" Daphne Greengrass asked as she stepped in with her fellow Slytherins and Hermione.
"Right," Harry said with a nod and Su Li stepped off the stage while Hermione, Ron and Ginny stepped up. "First order of business...We are leaving tonight. Make sure you have everything packed and a note explaining what's going on, so no one worries you've been kidnapped."
"Better keep the forest out of it though," Ron pointed out. "Escaping won't work if they know where we ran off to."
"Second, everyone choose a partner and it would be best if the first, second and third years partnered with older students. Remember we're going into a dangerous forest without Hagrid to keep creatures at bay and the centaurs are not in a good mood this year. It'd be best if the younger students are as protected as possible until they are taught the stronger spells."
"Okay," everyone agreed together and the younger students sighed in relief.
"Great and now I'll leave it up to Hermione to explain the mirrors," Harry said and Hermione turned to him so fast she cracked her neck.
"Harry!" Hermione whisper shouted. "You didn't mention anything about this!"
"I know...It's payback for the Hog's Head meeting." Harry and Ron grinned as Hermione glared.
"He's got a point Hermione." Ron laughed.
"You helped out, you know!" Hermione huffed.
"Only because you told me too!"
"It was your idea to tell the Quidditch team!"
"That's because Harry knew them well compared to say Michael Corner!"
Ginny huffed at that. "Are you still going on about him?" She asked annoyed. "For your information, Michael and I broke up at the Quidditch game!"
"Really?" Ron asked excited. "Great—I...uh...I mean—" Ron stared nervously at the glaring Hermione "—that's too bad?"
"I can really feel the sympathy, Ron," Ginny said sarcastically.
"Are you going to tell us about the mirrors or what?" Kevin Entwisted, fifth year Ravenclaw, called out annoyed.
"Sorry!" Hermione apologized with a squeaky voice and threw one last glare at Ron and Harry. "Uh...Sorry about that...Anyway, with some modifications I have created communication mirrors that will allow us to talk to each other through them."
Hermione held up a locket and opened it to show the mirror inside. "All you have to say the name of the person you wish to talk to and it will automatically signal the person." Everyone murmured in amazement. "When the person 'calls' you, the locket will vibrate so you'll only know if you are wearing it. I suggest you keep it on you at all times...For it to recognize you, you have to pour a bit of magic in like you do when you use a wand to cast a spell."
"Where did you get so many mirrors?" Lisa Turpin asked. "I mean there must be one for each of us!"
"I used the Geminio Charm on it," Hermione said with a shrug. "On enchanted objects it can't copy the spells over, but on regular mirrors it works just fine.
"But...But, the Geminio Charm is a N.E.W.T. level spell!" Lisa cried out in shock.
"That's Hermione," the D.A. members said with a shrug and Hermione turned a pretty shade of magenta.
"She used a Protean Charm to charm our Galleons for the D.A.," Terry Boot, fifth year Ravenclaw, explained.
"Right, so come get your lockets," Harry called out and everyone grabbed one for themselves. "Good now that that's taken care of...How many of you know the Disillusionment Charm?"
Su Li, Sally-Anne Perks, Jessica Dorny, Angelina Johnson and Damien Ulquart all raised their hands. "Good, then you're going to help me teach everyone else...We're using the Disillusionment Charm to sneak out, so you better learn it because we can't risk anyone trying to sneak out without it."
"Yes sir!" Everyone saluted much to Harry's chagrin.
"Okay, the Disillusionment Charm actually has no incantation. It is based on wand movement, imagination and how well you can channel your magic. The charm basically makes you like a human chameleon, so you don't turn invisible so much that your body changes into the background to the point that it seems like you are invisible," Harry explained. "The difficulty of the charm is getting the charm to instantly and without delay change into any different background. If done incorrectly than your skin will remain whatever background you first used or it will change too slowly making you noticeable, understand?"
Everyone nodded (although a few hesitated for a second). "Good." Harry smiled. "Let's begin then..."