I was one of the first to arrive at the meeting. I went with Ginny. Harry, Ron and Hermione were still setting up when we got there; however, they were not alone.
"Dobbie!" I said, running over to the tiny house elf. He was so cute and small; I just wanted to hug him.
"Ally, do you know Dobbie?" Harry asked me.
"I've seen him," I said, my excuse for 'Psychic' behaviour. "I'm so happy to meet you Dobbie."
His large tennis ball eyes shone up at me. "The Pleasure is all mine miss. Dobbie has heard a lot of Ally from Harry Potter and his Wheezy. Is it true that you really have a fine arse?" he asked innocently, not even realising what it meant.
Ginny and I burst in to laughter while a very red Ron tried to shoo him away.
"Ignore him," Ron said, his voice very breathless and high pitch voice. "We really said you have very nice..."
"Cars," Harry butted in quickly.
I scoffed. "Because that makes sense."
Harry hastily laid out some cushions and dusted off the death eater mannequin.
"Besides, it was Ron who said it, not me."
"Thanks mate," Ron said.
"What did Ron say?" George asked, quietly coming through the door with Fred.
"That Ally had a nice arse," Ginny said. I shot her a death glare.
Fred walked behind me and stared at it.
"Hey!" I protested backing up against the wall so no one could see it.
"It is rather perky," Fred said.
Other people were staring to arrive now, and I was desperate to change the subject. We'd had enough talk off my backside for one day.
"Seamus," I said relieved, running over to him. He was standing talking with Dean. His eyes lit up when he saw me.
"Hey Al," He said, affectionately putting his arm around me. "How are -"
He was cut off by Harry addressing the small crowd.
"Right, thank you all for coming," he smiled warmly at Cho as she came late through the door and continued. "Erm - today in thought we start of simple and practise disarming."
Emo Boy, Zachariah scoffed.
"What?" Harry asked. "It's a useful spell and many people can't do it. Besides, it saved my life last June."
He told us to pair off and practise the spell. Seamus automatically stood by me, but I ran over to Ginny and stood opposite her.
"I'm with you," I said quickly, waving Michael off.
Ginny was very good and disarmed me first time, I however was really bad and on my fifth attempt I only managed to make her wand wobble.
"You're thinking about it too much," Harry said, coming up behind me. "Just take a deep breath and try again."
I closed my eyes and wiggled about. I took a deep breath. A new confidence suddenly came over me. This spell was easy. If I could summon in could do this. Plus, I had the cool wand on my side. Nothing could beat it, except the elder wand of course.
"Expelliarmus!" I called confidently. The spell hit her with such force that not only did she lose her wand, she also fell to the ground.
"Excellent," Harry praised, before moving on to the next person.
I retrieved Ginny's wand and then helped her up.
"You ok?" I asked her.
"Yeah, that was brilliant," she praised. "Do it again, just not on me."
I laughed and looked around the room.
"I'll do it to Ron. It'll be payback." I pointed my wand at Ron and whispered the spell. He was thrown to the floor.
"How did you do that?" he asked Hermione who hadn't even lifted her wand.
"I didn't," she shrugged. Ron looked around the room trying to find the culprit. I turned around quickly and pretended I was in deep conversation with Ginny.
"He's not looking," Ginny whispered. Ron had picked up his wand and was about to disarm Hermione.
"Expelliarmus." Again he fell on the floor.
Ginny and I could barely contain our laughter as he scanned the room like a mad man, trying to figure out who had done it. He bent over to retrieve his wand, but as soon as it touched his fingers, he was disarmed and it flew to the other side of the room.
Unless my wand had some strange 'acting on it's own accord' power, than that one wasn't me.
We looked around to see the twins grinning at us, their wands pointing at Ron.
When he bent down again, all four of us cast the spell. Ron zoomed through the air and crashed into the wall.
Hermione, and a few others, were now laughing at him hysterically.
I looked at Harry and saw that he was dying to laugh, but had to keep a professional attitude.
"Guys come on," he half scolded. He turned to Ginny, me and the twins and grinned. "I saw that."
"What?" George asked. "We didn't do anything, did we Fred?"
"No we didn't. I think Harry's spectacles are playing tricks on him."
Harry rolled his eyes and walked over to Cho where she was practising with a friend.
"Let's play squirt!" I said excitedly.
"What?" Ginny asked.
"I say some words beginning with S and you take a step away from each other. And then when I say Squirt, you fire at each other. But I'll say Expelliarmus instead, so Harry went shout."
I placed George and Ginny back to back.
"One step per word." I explained. Oh, that's a good word. "Explained."
They each took a step forward.
"Excruciating," Fred said, thoughtfully.
"Extendable Ear." I said. Fred grinned.
"Expelliarmus," Fred said quickly.
Ginny and George spun around and quickly cast it. George fractionally won.
We played a few more times throughout the hour. Harry gave us some disapproving looks, but couldn't really say anything.
At the end of the session, Hermione gave us each the galleon which would tell us when the meetings were. I held it in my hand as though it in my hand as though the world would end if I dropped it.
Over the next few weeks, we met quite frequently in The Room of Requirement. I was a quick learner and soon became one of the best in the class, if I must say so myself. We learnt how to stun, shield, block and loads of other defensive spells. The only downside though was Umbridge.
Despite my best efforts, she soon found out that something was going on. It was a little fishy that forty students suddenly disappeared three times a week and she soon set people on our tail.
Filtch and the Inquisitorial Squad were basically stalking whoever they expected to be a part of the DA. Harry, the Weasleys and myself were all on top of this list. It was a regular occurrence for me to be walking to class and have a Slytherin following me. Or to go out with Seamus for a quick make out only to find Mrs Norris hot on our heels.
After weeks of waiting for Fred and George to act, I'd had enough.
"Aren't you going to prank them?" I asked one night in the common room.
"Can you be more specific," George said. "We prank a lot of people."
"Who do you think? Umbridge, Filtch, The Death Eater wannabe's and the most important... That bloody cat." this time I had tripped over her going to the kitchens to see Dobbie. Filtch had screamed at me and almost put me in detention. If it wasn't for me stating that animals were not allowed near the kitchens he would have strung me up from the ceiling by my thumbs.
"Ah, We're already one step ahead of you," Fred grinned.
"What are you doing then?" I asked. They chuckled mockingly.
"I'm sorry dear but you have to be a Weasley Twin to find that out."
I quickly enchanted my hair to turn bright red and then stood on the chair to make myself taller.
"I find that highly offensive," George said in feign sadness.
"Me too," Fred nodded. "Goodbye Alyssa."
I went to stomp upstairs but then realised it would just make me look even more childish.
"Filtch has a crush on Umbridge. Send him chocolates from her and when I say chocolates I mean fever fudge." I smiled at them sweetly before skipping off to bed.
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I regretted it as soon as I said it. I knew it would cause up roar, I don't know what came over me. But i had said it and there was nothing I could do.
The team were all going out to practise and Hermione, Ginny and I were talking about Quidditch.
"Do you play?" Hermione asked me.
"No, I've never even seen a quidditch match." I said. The whole common room stopped and gasped.
"How - How could you have not seen a Quidditch match?" Harry asked his eyes wide with horror. I looked around and saw that everyone had the same expression on their face. These people really needed to get a life.
"It wasn't really that big in Salem. Only the huge stupid boys ever played," I lied with ease.
"Please tell me you've flown before?" Ron asked me, looking quite worried and sick. I grinned and shook my head. "What? Even Hermione's been on a broom before."
"Even Hermione?" She glared. "I'll have you know Ronald that -"
Suddenly, I was lifted off my feet and thrown over some a tall persons shoulder. It had to be a Weasley.
"Hey!" I called not liking being upside down at such a height.
"Let's break her broom virginity," Fred called carrying me through the portrait hole. He was met with a chorus of cheers and I could hear the rustles of people following us.
"Can you put me down?" I squirmed, kicking my legs and pounding his back. I accidently clipped the top of his butt.
"Would you please refrain from groping me?" he sneered.
"I'm sorry but it's rather peachy," i quoted.
"Thank You," he said brightly. I glared at the floor.
Once we had arrived at the pitch, he put me down. I looked around and saw that half of Gryffindor had came down.
"Now Ally, this a broom," Seamus said patronisingly. He handed me an old tatty thing that was almost broken in half. They had done this on purpose. Bitches.
I snatched it off him. "Let's just get this over with." I hooked my legs around it and waited for something to happen... Nothing.
The crowd laughed. I glared at them.
"Fly?" I sang in a mockingly, trying to hide my fear. I squealed as the broom rose up into the air. It was very slow and rickety. I almost fell of twice in my first ten seconds.
"Whose idea was it to give her the oldest broom in the shed?" Hermione asked. The crowd all turned to look at the twins.
"We thought it would be funny," George admitted.
"Oh yes, it'll be absolutely hilarious when she falls and breaks her neck," She scolded. "Ally come down."
I shook my head. I wanted to prove to them that I could do it. Maybe then the stupid teasing would stop.
I slowly rose up and began to fly in weaving circles, gaining more speed each time. I flew over to the goal posts and began to weave in and out. Suprisingly, I didn't fall off.
I flew back over to them and landed smoothly.
"That was not your first time on a broom," Harry said. "Youre controls too good."
"It was." I said handing the broom back to Seamus.
"Wow, You've got talent," Angelina said. I shrugged.
"Well it's a good thing I'm not the sporty type or else you'd be out of a job," I grinned at them all smugly before making my way back up to the castle.
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"Its the twenty fifth of November?" I said suddenly, a few nights later.
"Erm - yes, and?" Seamus asked.
"It's a month until Christmas." I groaned. "I don't have any presents or any money for presents," I said the last part quietly. I had always had more than enough money to pay my way, but now I was forced to live off charity, it sucked.
"Why don't you get a job doing people homework or something?" Ron suggested. Hermione tutted her teeth disapprovingly.
"Or sing and make money. I'm desperate to see part two of muggle studies," Collin and Oliver sniggered. I shot them a filthy glare.
"You could busk," Seamus said. I stared at him sceptically.
"Yeah and where do you suppose I do that?" I asked. "I'll just get my guitar out in the middle of Defence Against the Dark Arts. Get Umbridge to donate a pink sweater."
"You could do it here." Ginny motioned around the common room.
"So you guys would be giving me money to buy your Christmas presents? Besides, I'm not making a fool out of myself." they all groaned. "No, there is no way I'll do it."
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"...Long or short, do it, do it, Whip your hair, your hair, your hair. But hold the last hair," I instructed. "And then it goes back to the I whip my hair back and forth chorus. Everyone got that?"
They had broken me. I played them all some songs while some people sung along. But being old muggle songs many people didn't know them so I was made to teach them 'New Muggle Songs from America.' I had started off with Born this Way and then moved on to Willow Smith. It was a cool song. I couldn't not teach it them.
"You guys ready?" I began to play. "Hoped right out of bed, turn my swag on..." they all sang.
They managed to get most of the words right and some really seemed to get into it. Most people though saw it as a bit of a laugh and decided to incorporate dances and action.
But I didn't mind because at the end of the night I had made... Three Galleons, Twelve Sickles and Five Knuts! I didn't really understand the whole currency thing, but I was told that it was pretty good.
I did this occasionally over the next few weeks and soon made just under Ten Galleons.
Harry suggested that at the end of our last DA meeting, we have a break and I could play there.
I felt a little bad taking people's money of them, but it wasn't that I hadn't worked hard for it. My fingers had broken out into blisters.
I played at the last meeting earning ten more Galleons. Boo-ya.
As I was packing away I saw Harry and Cho talking with Neville lingering around.
"Hey Nev. Carry this for me?" I dumped Oliver's guitar (which he had kindly leant me) into his hands. Oliver wasn't originally a member of the DA as his dad was so high up in the Ministry, but thanks to me, He had come to the last meeting.
But he had left me alone with his guitar! How chivalrous of him.
I winked at Cho and Harry as I pulled Neville out the door, making them blush slightly.
As soon as we got back to the common room, I went upstairs and took a nap. I was just drifting off when...
"Ally!" Ginny called, stomping into the room. I sat up quickly.
"What's going on?" I mumbled.
"Harry just kissed Cho," she said, sounding genuinely upset. "You said he liked me."
"No I didn't." I lied quickly.
"Yes you did," she accused. I sighed in defeat.
"Ok, i did. But your with Michael," I said confused.
"But I was reserved with him, because you said Harry liked me!" her voice was getting louder, so I had to shush her. "You know what; just stop meddling in everyone's lives!" She shouted. I knew that people could hear us, but I didn't care.
"Well, excuse me for trying to look out for a friend."
I jumped back on to my bed and angrily drew the curtains around me. It took me a while to get back to sleep, but I finally managed it.
I thought I heard walking about and rustling in the night, but I was just so tired, I ignored it.
I woke up the next morning feeling really guilty. I shouldn't have meddled, or shouted, or lied. I withdrew my curtains only to find Ginny's bed strangely empty.
I put on a hoodie and went down to the common room. Hermione was sitting by the fire, a worried expression grazed upon her face.
"Hey Hermione, do you know where Ginny is?" I asked, she jumped up with shock.
"Oh Ally, I thought you'd gone with them." she said. I stared at her confused.
"Gone with who?"
"Ron and Harry and... You asked where Ginny is you don't know." But I did know. Oh, how could have I'd forgotten?
"Mr Weasley was on guard last night and he was attacked by a snake. Voldemort's Snake. Harry somehow dreamt what was happening. Ginny was upset so Ron was looking after her, so no one woke up Harry until it was too late. Mr Weasley's dying."
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