Disclaimer: I'm hoping for Harry Potter as a Christmas present. I sent a letter to Santa and everything. It's September so he'll have lots of time.
AN: So, its been awhile. Usually I finish the nest chapter before I post but my sister (the monster, blame her for all of this) pressured me into posting ;) Then my Grandparents came and I didn't write. And then school started and I didn't write. I pretty much just didn't write. Whoops. Anyways, the fourth chapter for your viewing pleasure. I'm not to happy with this one, it was hard to get back into the swing of things. But hopefully, the next one will be better. At this point two more chapters can be expected, unless someone give me a genius idea that needs a chapter. Read and review but avoid the flames, it doesn't teach me anything. Another warning, this is for fun. This is AU. Mostly. If I don't say anything about either assume its canon or ask me. There is (was) Ginny bashing. That is now over. No more bashing. I am aware of who Ginny was written, I just took the worst and the possible character flaws and magnified them. She could be obsessed with Harry, she thinks he's this big hero and she's been dreaming about him for years. Add a traumatizing experience in which he saves her and poof! Fanfiction obsession stories.
- Thanks! Sometimes I hate Ginny and sometimes she's okay (but never great for me) it really depends on who's story i'm reading. Yes, Harry grew some balls, in my brain he's awesome. Always. I refuse to see wrong about Harry.
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The Weasley's, Harry and Hermione finished their food and stood as a group. Harry finally cancelled the silencing charm and the babble of the Great Hall rushed back in. Charlie glanced at his wristwatch
"It's a little past 4 now. The younger students are coming back in an hour or so to help with the cleanup. We have a bit of free time before we have to help." Harry nodded as he stretched
"I wish I could go fly but my broom got blown up."
"Blown up?" chorused the twins "What did you do?"
"When we did the 7 Potter escape in July. Hagrid and I we're attacked by 3 Death-Eaters. Remember how I was in the sidecar?" Ron snickered and Harry glared at him "Anyways, I had to blow up the sidecar. My firebolt and Hedwig were in it." Harry looked sad for a moment but shook himself out of it. "I blew up a deatheater at the same time so it was worth it." Everyone stood up and walked out of the Great Hall, sidestepping well wishers and the odd star struck witch. Once they were in the Front Hall they paused, unsure of where to go.
"We could go to the Room of Requirement." Hermione piped up
"The what?" Mr. Weasley, Bill and Charlie asked simultaneously. Mrs. Weasley and Fleur looked interested as well
"We found it fifth year." Ron answered "It would be easier just to show you." The older Weasleys were intrigued and followed the Trio through secret passages the didn't know existed. The twins didn't even recognize a few
"When did you find these-'
"Passages? We thought we had-"
"Found all of them!" Fred and Georges said, honestly confused. Harry, Hermione and Ron glanced at each other
"We spent a lot of time out after hours." Ron said shrugging. Everyone glanced at Hermione in shock
"It wasn't like we were pranking people!" Hermione said defensively "Well, most of the time." Fred and George looked dumbstruck
"You were the ones who kept hexing Snapes things!"
"So he would turn red and gold-"
"Or pink!"
"We thought you were innocent! You three were evil little firsties!" Bill leaned around Charlie to look at the trio incredulously
"You hexed Snape in your first year! Why?"
"Well in first year we thought he tried to kill me, so Hermione lit him on fire." Everyone spluttered as Hermione smacked Harry
"It wasn't like that! It was a distraction!" Harry chuckled, his eyes glittering mischievously
"So we thought he was evil. Really, all of our pranks were distractions. We thought he was trying to steal the Philosophers stone so we got in his way-" Ron cut Harry off
"Now that I think about it was really convenient that we used Quirrell as a practice dummy, since he was the really evil one." Harry snorted but continued
"We would practice the charms on Quirrell, then hex the potion bottles that people handed in for classwork, because he had to touch them." George gasped
"That's genius!" but Harry ignored him
"The pranks got more elaborate as we got older. By the time we were 15, Hermione had read almost everything in the library- she was our information. Ron was strategic- he planned everything so we wouldn't get caught and I was the muscle." Hermione and Ron both smacked Harry
"Shut up mate!" Ron snorted. Hermione took over the story
"That was it in the most basic sense but it was really much more complicated. Harry is very good at magic- warding and defence in particular- and in pattern based subjects like Runes, Arithmancy and different languages. How many is it now Harry?" She asked
"9" Harry grunted. "I can speak English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Latin, Mermish, Gobblygook and Faerie. I can read ancient Egyptian, Arabic and Chinese. I'm learning Greek now." The Weasleys gaped again but Hermione kept talking
"After the issue with the troll in 1st year, Ron became very good at charms and in defence once Harry taught him. He also excelled in Care of Magical creatures." Charlie looked proud and Mrs. Weasley looked like she wanted to go hug Ron but retrained herself " I am rather good at Transfiguration-"
"Bloody amazing you mean" Hermione flushed
"And I know a lot of spells and spell theory-"
"All of them" Harry cut in
"Anyway! So we would plan everything in an old classroom we found first year and some of the more complicated ones would take hours, so they would happen in the middle of the night. Add that to all of our… "adventures" we spent a lot of time out after curfew." Ron took over the story
"We would actually sleep in shifts in the classroom after Harry figured out how to ward it. We'll show it to you later. But sometimes Filch would be out close to us and we couldn't go back without bringing him right to it. So the secret passages became important. We spent more time out at night than in so we found lots. We actually saw you two a few times." He said to the twins "But we didn't say anything since we were usually doing something." The group came out behind a tapestry and walked down the hall. When they stopped the older Weasleys glanced around but saw nothing except a tapestry of dancing trolls. Mr. Weasley opened his mouth but shut it once Hermione started walking up and down the hall. After three passes, an ornate door shimmered into existence on the wall. Harry, Ron and the Twins grinned at the rest of the Weasleys and stepped inside, everyone following them
"Wow." said Percy. The room was open and comfortable with high windows and soft couches. Fleur thought it need a nice rug and then it would be perfect To her surprise, a large floor rug appeared underneath them. Harry grinned at them but let the twins explain
"This room gives you whatever you want!"
"Just think hard and it appears!"
"Perfect for illegal rebellions and parties!"
"Bring all your loved ones!"
"Buy it today!" Hermione laughed and gave a basic explanation before the family sunk into the couches and chairs.
"You keep mentioning a rebellion…" Mr. Weasley trailed off curiously
"Oh that was these three." Fred gestured at Harry, Ron and Hermione. "In our 7th year-"
"Their 5th-"
"They created this club-"
"The DA"
"Dumbledore's Army-"
"Where Harry taught us defence, because Umbridge was horrid and taught us nothing"
"'ow big was this club?" Fleur asked
"There were 26 plus us" Ron piped up "But one betrayed us and her best friend supported her so when we re-formed we didn't include her. We gained a few members in 6th year but otherwise it stayed the same."
"Harry taught 26 kids defence. When he was 15." Charlie said flatly, but was ignored when Mrs. Weasley started speaking
"What do you mean re-formed dear?"
"Umbridge knew we were doing something so when Edgecombe snitched on us" Hermione and Harry snickered meanly "She stormed our meeting. Harry got everyone except himself out in time." Mrs. Weasley gave Harry a disapproving look " But Umbitch got the list of members. Dumbledore took the fall." Mr. Weasley jerked up
"That was why he got sacked!"
"Oh yah." Harry grimaced "After he left I managed to convince Umbridge and Fudge that the students on the list were there because they were scared of Dumbledore and I. I got so many detentions."
"You still have the scars from those don't you?" George asked curiously "I only had 4 detentions so mine faded pretty quickly. You had hundreds!" Harry sighed and stuck out his hand. The words I must not tell lies stretched across the back of his hand in Harry's crooked scrawl. He then turned his arm over so they could see the words carved into his forearm I will not rebel against the ministry Mr. Weasley looked furious and turned to Ron, Fred and George
"She made you use a blood quill?!" The entire Weasley clan looked furious
"Those are class 2 dark objects" yelped Percy. The younger Weasleys, Harry and Hermione shrugged
"Mine said I will not question the ministry but it faded" Hermione said
"Ours said We will not embarrass ministry officials. They're gone too." Everyone glanced at Ron
"Mine said I will not support Dumbledore or Harry Potter. But I only had one detention, same as 'Mione. Harry hexed Umbridge so she would leave the rest of us alone."
"Harry's are the only ones that scarred." Hermione sighed "He would come back from 5 hour detentions with his forearm bleeding and teach the DA like nothing had happened. That was when we started calling him captain or general. He was teaching us how to survive the war, despite the amount of pain he was in. The DA would have and still will follow him everywhere." Harry groaned
"I wish they wouldn't do that"
"Shut up Harry." Ron said without heat
"Everyone got tattoos!" Harry scowled as Ron, Hermione and the twins laughed. The four stood up and pulled down their left sleeves. The twins tattoo said in neat block script DA: Weasley Twins- Research and Development. Hermione's said DA: Hermione Granger- Lieutenant, Research Expert, and Ron's was DA: Ronald Weasley- Lieutenant, Tactics Expert the Weasleys looked stunned-again.
"Hermione owled us with the idea and we sent it out to everyone in the DA who had graduated. When there was a Hogsmeade visit we hired a person and rented a room for everyone to get them done. Then Hermione kidnapped Harry and forced him to get one." Charlie looked curiously at Harry who sighed again. He pulled down his sleeve showing DA: Harry Potter- Captain, Language Expert, Chief Warder
"We started the ranks at Captain because Harry refused to be called General. Everyone in the DA got a tattoo." Harry randomly chuckled, earning confused stared from Ron and Hermione
"I was just remembering Seamus's. It said explosives specialist." Ron and Hermione laughed, remembering Seamus's many explosive mistakes in class.
"I actually got the idea from the dark marks? Hermione said sheepishly "As horrible as they are, it's a genius piece of magic. I found the spell that Voldemort had altered in the restricted section. It was originally just a warning- it got hot if someone linked to it was calling for you but I changed it so there were three …settings. It would tickle for a second when someone sent a message. It got warm when we had a meeting and the location, date and time would appear under the name"
"Invisible to everyone else, mind you- didn't want other people to see it by accident." Ron cut in "They actually all invisible unless- like we did- show you willingly. Tricky bit of magic."
"Thank you Ronald" Hermione flushed lightly "Anyways, tickle for a message, warm for a meeting and ice cold for an attack, with the location, whether it was a evacuation, a search and rescue or a battle and number of Death Eaters, again invisible under the name. Only Harry, Ron and I can call a meeting but anyone can send a message or an alert when there's an attack. Just hold your finger on it and think of the information."
"Was that all really necessary?" asked shocked. Harry sighed as he stretched in his chair
"Luckily, the attack alert wasn't used all that often. Twice in the summer after 5th year-"
"Those were just three-person deatheater teams on muggleborns and their families" George reassured his mother
"Once during Christmas in 6th year on Terry Brown's family. He noticed the wards going down and called for an evac. We got them out just as the Death Eaters got in."
"Convenient really." Fred laughed
"And a few times in the summer after 6th year. We only had one real battle when they tried to attack Longbottom Manor, and it still wasn't more then 20 minutes. They thought that Neville wasn't going to be home but they still sent 15 recruit death eaters and Mulciber. We went in, dealt with it and left before they could finish with the first layer of wards."
"Mulciber went missing around that time. The Order assumed he was doing work behind the scenes." Bill mentioned, surprised. Harry, Ron and Hermione all shrugged.
"I think it was one of the twins Demon-in-a-box that got him." spluttered and turned on the twins. They glanced at each other and chorused
"We accidentally fed that one after midnight." stopped short and blinked, nonplussed by the remark. Harry laughed and continued before she could get back on track Harry continued
"There were a few alerts this year, that we dealt with pretty quickly. We used the message to stay in touch, so the DA knew we were alive. They kept it within the group though, it was to dangerous to go spouting information like that in Hogwarts." Everyone nodded in remembrance before continuing. Fleur piped up with questions about the actual lessons, which Hermione was happy to talk about. Harry, Ron and Hermione gestured widely as they discussed the wide range of spells and tactics they had taught in DA. Everyone relaxed as they soaked up the warmth of the room and sipped on the mead a house elf had brought in for them. To the Weasley surprise, Hermione made no mention of slavery. When asked she simply shrugged and said
"Dobby taught me some things."