All student organizations are henceforth disbanded. Any student in noncompliance will be expelled. Umbridge's voice sounds through the castle as Harry, Ron, Hermione and I walk through the third floor corridor. This is absolutely absurd. We are given a new decree to follow every other day now. How many more of these things can Umbridge come up with?
"She knows," I state as we stop in front of a picture of two older wizards sitting in two high backed chairs. Ron sits down and pulls out his Potions work.
Harry shakes his head back and forth quickly, "I don't think so."
"Why else would she make a decree like that?" I question, my eyes locked with Harry's chocolate brown ones.
"I don't know, because she's a vile toad," Harry offers back.
"Besides that," I answer, rolling my eyes.
"I think she suspects something, now stop, I'm trying to finish this," Ron butts in from the floor, holding up a scroll of parchment. Ron still hasn't done his potions work and it is due tomorrow.
Hermione rolls her eyes, "Honestly, Ronald, you're still not done?"
Before Ron is allowed to defend himself Neville runs up to us, breathing heavy, his face red, "I found it! I found a place to hold our meetings!"
"Go on," I encourage him, "but keep your voice down."
"Right. Sorry. Come with me," Neville says.
Ron stands up and follows after Neville, Hermione, Harry and me.
Neville continues to explain things as we hurry after him, "So the other day Crabbe and Goyle decided it would be funny to harass me in the hall. I needed a place to go to get away from them so I passed by right here –" Neville stops in front of a plain brick wall – "then there it was, a door grew out of this wall."
As Neville continues to babble on a wooden door begins to appear where the brick wall has always been. How odd, I've gone to Hogwarts for five years now and not once did I ever find this. A secret room, it's absolutely incredible.
"You've done it, Neville. You found the Room of Requirement," Hermione says as we enter the room, the majority of the walls are covered with mirrors, stun dummies are set up around the room and there is an assortment of other things that could be used in a class like the one Harry and I are going to teach.
Neville looks completely confused, "The what?"
"It's also known as the Come and Go Room. The Room of Requirement only appears when a person has a real need of it and it always comes equipped with the seekers needs," explains Hermione, making herself seem like an even bigger know it all that I thought she was.
Ron glances over at me and I know he is going to say something that will only upset Hermione, "So say you really needed the toilet…."
"Charming Ronald, but yes, that is the general idea," replies Hermione, eyes closed.
"It's brilliant," says Harry, looking over at me, the excitement of a child shinning in his eyes. All I want to do is go curl up by the fire in the Slytherin common room with Draco.
"It's like Hogwarts wants us to fight back," I add on, unable to hold back my excitement. It really is an incredible thing to be going against what an entire group of people just so readily follow. Maybe they are just too frightened to try but I refuse. Dumbledore's Army, a name we decided on at our very first meeting at Hog's Head, will take down Umbridge.