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Chapter 11

Harry felt as though he was hiding a deep dark secret the next few weeks, when it came to his defense lessons. It was kind of like having a secret club. Like his own little Order Of the Phoenix. On their second lesson they all had decided to name their little group Defiance, because that's what they were kind of doing. Resting Umbridge and the Ministry right under their nose. Surprisingly it had been Britney Lupin who came up with the name. And when Harry was supposed to be reading her book, he was really planning his next lesson. They were meeting twice a week, once in the beginning of the Week on Monday and Once at the End on Friday.

The students were surprisingly learning fast, Neville had successfully disarmed Rigel in the third meeting, but then hid behind a table, until Harry was able to assure him Rigel was not going to curse him back. Ron Weasley learned to master the Impediment Jinx after just three meetings, Ginny was so happy, she borrowed Hedwig the next day and ordered Ron a box of Chocolate Frogs, which totally shocked him when Hedwig dropped the box in front of him two days later. On their fourth meeting Padma Patil had produced such a good Reductor Curse that she had reduced a table full of Sneakoscops to dust, then Rigel dragged her to a corner to make out for the rest of the lesson. In which Teddy had complained loudly about his poor eyes.

Speaking of Teddy, he was the one most learning, Harry always knew he was gifted in magic, but had always found Defense spells hard to do, but with Harry showing him the right wand movements and how to say the words he was now almost as good as him, and can do spells he found too hard before. The one thing Teddy was complaining about was Parvati Petil, who seemed to grow a sudden crush on Teddy since his display of magic and would not leave him alone. Even when Teddy caved in and took Parvati to Hogsmeade on a date, but all that did, was make her think they were now going out. And had to sit by him in every class, at lunch, at dinner, and during their Defiance meetings.

It was a good thing that both the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff Quidditch captains were apart of their group, so they would know not to make a Quidditch practice on a Monday or Friday: Harry didn't have to worry about his own Quidditch practice, Roger Davis always made them on Saturdays or Sundays, one of the days that didn't have class so they could be out on the pitch most the day.

Ginny had come up with a clever method of communicating the time of the next meeting to all members in case they needed to change it on short notice or if they had to cancel it suddenly for some reason. She gave each of the members a fake Galleon with a Protean Charm on them, the members stared at her shocked she was able to do such a NEWT level spell and Ginny had felt bad that Ron thought she was giving out real Galleons, so she gave him a couple of Galleons to spend in Hogsmeade the next Weekend.

The days seem to just fly by, the Halloween feast came and went as did the First Quidditch match of the season, with Gryffindor beating Slytherin 250-100, the second match saw Raveclaw beating Hufflepuff. With Harry catching the snitch just ten minutes into the match. Now Gryffindor and Ravenclaw were in the lead for the cup and the season just started. Harry was hoping it would come down to those two teams going one on one for it. He loved playing Gryffindor, they were the team that put up the most effort, since Cody didn't want to be seen losing to his little brother. And Rigel and Teddy knew they would never here the end of it if they it they lost to Ravenclaw. It always made an exciting match for the rest of the school to watch.

One afternoon Harry and Ginny were sitting in Ravenclaw Tower working on their vampire report for Grimes when something dawned on him. Harry sat reading that book and the description of the vampires, their cold hands and staying out of direct sunlight, and them being a part of clans. And then Ginny mentioned thinking Professor Grimes was a vampire. That's when shocked realization hit him, his sister Sophie is a Vampire. She had the cold hands, the pale skin, she was part of a clan. Harry kept it to himself for now and thought over how he felt about it only to realize he didn't mind at all. He actually found it a little cool that his older sister was a Vampire. She didn't hurt people, so it was alright with him. He would just keep it from Cody and Jesse, because they would make a big deal of it and Jesse would try to stop Harry even more from having anything to do with Sophie from out of fear that she would want to turn him into one.

Jesse had already sent Harry a nasty Owl about her after Cody decided to owl him that Harry had spent time with Sophie this past summer, and her visiting him in the hospital. And about Sophie's husband showing up at Hogsmeade. So, they fought like cats and dogs when they were little, so what. What brother and sister doesn't. Harry thought Jesse should let it go and get over it already. Sophie seemed to have let it go. And Harry planned to go on seeing his sister and even taken to sending her letters every Saturday. Even though he hardly ever got a letter back. Harry just wanted to get to know Sophie, she was his family too after all. He even planned on getting her and Caleb something for Christmas, he just didn't know what a Vampire would want. He didn't think they would like it very much if he sent them a large box of Blood pops. They would probably find that insulting. Harry had sent Caleb a letter one day telling him he figured it out, but he left out what he figured out in case someone read his letter. Caleb knew what he meant anyway and had sent back a letter saying, it's about time, kiddy.

Hagrid had showed up sometime in Mid November, and Dumbledore announced at dinner one night: Hagrid would go back to doing his Game Keeper duties, then take his Care of Magical Creatures class back in the Spring when Professor Grimes has to leave for 'Personal Reasons.' Only Harry and his friends realized it was because it would be too sunny for Grimes to be outside during the day, and Harry found he didn't look forward to having to tell Professor Grimes bye. He had growed to like him.

On the Friday before everyone was to go home for the holidays Harry and Ginny had entered the Room of Requirement for another Defiance meeting, only to have Ginny busting out laughing. Dobby had taken it upon himself to decorate for Christmas. A hundred golden baubles showing his face and bearing the words: HAVE A VERY HARRY CHRISTMAS.

"It's not funny." Harry snapped. He started taking the things down and Ginny just kept on laughing. "Stop laughing and help me get these down before-"

"Well, A very Harry Christmas to you too, Lightning-bolt." Teddy's voice said, as he and Rigel stepped into the room. Harry's face turned red as he rolled his eyes.

"Dobby put them up here, not me." Harry said. Taking another down.

"Sure he did." Rigel said, and Teddy started laughing. Harry glared at them both as he got the last ones down. The door opened again and in came Luna.

"Hello." She said in a dreamy voice.

"Hey, Lulu." They greeted her.

The door opened again and in came, the Patil twins, along with Lisa and Lavender. Padma went right to Rigel and threw her arm around his waist. He grinned and bent down to kiss her. Parvati had smiled at Teddy and pointed up above his head.

"Misletoe." She said. Teddy looked up above him and then jumped back so fast he tripped over something and nearly fall, but Luna grabbed his arm and kept him standing upright.

"Good thinking." Luna told Teddy. "It's often infested with Nargles." Teddy grinned a little.

"Yes, have to stay away from pesky Nargles." He said, elbowing her lightly in the ribs and winking at her. Harry raised his eyebrow; if he didn't know any better he would think Teddy was flirting with Luna. Parvati seemed to think so too, because she went over and squeezed between the two of them making Teddy move away to the other side of the room, only for Parvati to follow. Just seconds later the door opened and the rest of the members of Defiance came walking in.

"Okay," Harry called out and everyone got quiet. "I thought this evening we should just go over the things we've done so far, because it's the last meeting before the Holidays and there's no point starting anything new right now before a three-week break-"

"We're not doing anything new?" Ernie demanded. "If I knew that I wouldn't have come."

"We're all sorry Harry didn't tell you then." Teddy said, very loudly. Parvati snickered into her hand and many people laughed. Ginny though was glaring over at Ernie with Her arms crossed, which made Harry smile.

"We can practice in pairs," Harry said. "We'll start with Impediment Jinx, just for ten minutes, then we can get out the cushions and try Stunning again."

They all divided up obediently; Harry walked around the room like he did before, when he walked by Ginny who was partnered with Luna, she beamed at him, then froze him with the Impediment jinx and it took her five minutes to stop laughing long enough to unfreeze him. Harry decided to wait till later to get her back, catch off guard and went on walking around the room. After ten minutes, they stopped then lay the cushions out to practice the Stunning Charm. Rigel and Padam took this as a cue to drag a cushion over in a corner and make out. After an hour Harry called a halt.

"You're all getting really good." Harry told them, smiling. "When we get back from the Holidays we can start doing some of the big stuff-maybe even Patronuses."

There was a mumble of excitement. The room began to clear, most wishing Harry a happy Christmas. Soon only Harry and Ginny remained. Harry smirked at her.

"So, think you can get by with jinxing me, eh?" Harry demanded. Ginny smirked.

"I think I did." She said. Harry gave her his sneaking grin and she knew what he was planning to do, her eyes went to the door, and Harry took a step in front of it, his grin widening. They stared at each other fighting down laughter, then Harry took a step toward Ginny, she squealed and dodged the other way, Harry began to chase Ginny around the room, he was very tempted to curse her to catch her. But he did not need to; moments into the chase Harry caught Ginny around the waist and pulled her down onto one of the cushions and started tickling her sides.

"St..op...Har..ry...sstop." Ginny tried to say through her laughter. Harry smirked and kept on tickling. "SStopp please."

"Are you sorry?" Harry asked, as Ginny tried to pull his hands away. "Say it."

"Sorry." Ginny laughed, Harry stopped his tickling. The way they were lying on the cushion, Ginny was on most of it, on her back and Harry lay on his side, looking down at her. Ginny smirked up at him.

"I'm sorry, that I couldn't get to my wand to jinx you again." Ginny laughed. She tried to get up for Harry couldn't go back to tickling her, but he was faster than she was, and he held her down and went back to tickling her.

"Stop, Harry." Ginny cried.

"Say you're sorry for real this time." Harry said. "Say, Harry, I'm so sorry for jinxing you."

"Harry, I'm so sorry for jinxing you." Ginny laughter. Harry finally stopped with his tickling and just smiled down at her.

"You're mean." Ginny accused, but she was smiling.

"I'm mean, you're the one that did the jinxing." Harry said.

"You said to practice the jinx." Ginny laughed. "So, it's your own fault you got jinx."

"I'm the teacher." Harry said. He laid a hand on her waist. "You don't jinx the teacher." He leaned in and kissed Ginny, she brought her arms up and put them around Harry's neck and deepened the kiss. When they pulled a part she said.

"But jinxing you was fun."

Harry said nothing, he just leaned in and kissed her again. Longer and more passionate than he has ever kissed her before. When he pulled back he smiled down and said.

"I love you."

Ginny smiled up at him and laid her hand on his cheek.

"I love you too." She said, then gently brought his face back down to hers. They kissed for about three minutes, before Harry broke it and started kissing Ginny down her jaw and to her neck. As he was kissing all over her neck and jaw, Ginny took her hand off his check and laid it on the hand Harry had on her waist, then shocked Harry by pushing his hand up her shirt.

Harry stopped kissing her neck to look at her in shock, Ginny just smirked back at him and pull his head down making his lips go back on her neck. Harry got over his shock and resumed his kissing, while keeping his hand up her shirt.

Half-hour later Ginny and Harry walked into the Ravenclaw common room, hands entwined, smiles on their faces and marks all over their neck. They might have went one step up from just kissing, but they stopped before they went too far. Both feeling they were not ready to take it all the way just yet. They kissed each other good-night then headed up to their dorms.

Harry was still smiling and feeling cheerful when he changed into his pajama and crawled into bed and pulled his hangings closed. He drifted off to sleep thinking of Ginny. But that dream changed to something else:

It was dark and Harry felt as if he was slithering down a cold stone floor, there were objects around shimmering in strange, vibrant colors. Harry turned his head, at first he thought the corridor was empty, but no, a man was sitting on the floor, his chin was dropping on his chest, his outline gleaming in the dark. For some reason Harry stuck out his tongue, he wanted to bite the man. But he couldn't, something told him he had more important things to do. But the man suddenly jerked away and pulled out a wand and Harry had no choice but to bite him.

Harry woke up with his eyes rolling in the back of his head and feeling like he was swallowing his tongue, his scar was burning: He was having another one of his seizures. Harry threw out his hands and grabbed the hangings around his bed and pulled, the whole thing came falling down with a loud bang, waking the other boys up. He heard shouts and yells and a voice he could have sworn was Terry Boot screaming at someone to go get help, as hands soon tried to hold him down.

"Harry, Harry, can you hear me?" Terry Boot demanded. Harry stopped shaking and tried to calm his breathing, his scar hurt so painfuly he was sure it would burst open.

"Harry? Terry asked, again. He could not answer for the pain hurt too much to speak. There was soon a commotion in the room, he heard a female cry, a dog bark, and Terry was being pulled away from him and small hands replaced his.

"Harry, what is it? What's wrong?" It was Ginny. Harry reached out a hand, and grabbed at her shirt. He needed to tell her, he had to tell her. He pulled her close to him.

"Your dad." he choked out. "He...he..." His head pounded. Ginny turned to the other boys.

"What the bloody hell are you gits just standing there for?" She demanded. "Someone go get Flitwick!" Harry heard someone run from the dorm and he suddenly felt sick.

He pushed Ginny aside and vomited all over the floor by his bed. As more students from all different years came into the dorm to see what all the noise was about.

"Harry, that's gross." Ginny said, she pulled out her wand and made it vanish. She then did a spell to take the smell from Harry's breath. "Just lay back down, Terry went to get Flitwick, it'll be okay, baby." She ran her hand through Harry's hair.

"I got...your dad...he was attacked." Harry said, Ginny's hand stopped.

"What?" She demanded.

"He was bitten...blood...everywhere." Harry said. "We have to go to Dumbeldore." Ginny gasped and Harry opened his eyes for the first time since his seizure and gripped her hand in his. "I'm sorry."

There was a sudden sound as three more people came running into the dorm, but it was not Flitwick and Terry Boot.

"What's going on?" Teddy demanded. "Britney came running in our dorm screaming about Harry having a fit." his eyes were wide and fearful, he was in pajamas, so was Rigel, who looked a lot calmer, Britney stood next to them holding onto her brother's hand, she had tears stains on her cheeks and was wearing a pink night gown.

"You're not suppose to be in here." Anthony said. Rigel glared at him as he walked over to Harry's bed.

Before anyone could say anything else Flitwick came running into the room followed by Terry.

"What's going on in here?" He demanded. "Terry said something about Harry having a seizure and why is so many people out of bed, and why is there two Gryffindors in here?"

Ginny quickly explained to Flitwick what happened and what Harry said he saw, when she was done Teddy was given her a wide-eyed look. Flitwick looked for her to Harry to the two Gryffindors.

"Come on." he said. "We're going to Dumbledore, everyone else get back to your own dorms and back to sleep." He turned back to Harry and them and motioned them out. Ginny stood so Harry could stand, but he stood too fast and stumbled, Teddy grabbed him to stop him from falling and Harry took a step, but felt too dizzy, and Rigel and Teddy and to help him all the way to Dumbledore's office.

Harry was so relieved when they made it to Dumbldore's office, he would be able to sit and maybe everything would stop spinning. Rigel put Harry's arm around his shoulder and put his arm around Harry's waist to keep him standing as Flitwick knocked on Dumbledore's office door. The moving staircase had made Harry more dizzy.

"Come in." Dumbledore called. Flitwick opened the door and led them in. "Oh...Fillus what a pleasant surprise-" His stopped and looked at the students coming in his office. Harry being helped by Rigel, who sat him down in one of the chairs in front of his desk, but Dumbledore did not look at him.

"Professor Dumbledore." Flitwick said. "Harry has had...Well, a nightmare and another one of his..."

"It wasn't a nightmare." Harry snapped. Ginny stood behind him, running her hand through her hair. Her sniffs and the way her breathing sounded told Harry she was crying.

"Alright, Harry, you tell it then." Flitwick said. "I will just go and alert Professor McGonagall where her two missing Gryffindors are." He turned and left the room.

"I was asleep." Harry started. "But..I don't think I had a normal dream." Harry took a breath and slowly and as calm as he could explain to Dumbledore what happen. It ticked him off that through the whole thing he did not once look at Harry, but kept his eyes on his long fingers.

"How did you see this?" Dumbledore asked. Harry looked at him confused. The room had stopped spinning, but his scar still hurt.

"Um... in a dream like thing I guess." Harry said. Ginny's hand moved from his hair and both her hands started rubbing his shoulders.

"You miss understand me." Dumbledore said. "I mean...can you remember-er-where you were positioned as you watched the attack?" Harry shivered he did not want to think about that.

"I was," he licked his lips, the suddenly felt dry. "I...was in the snake's head...I was looking through the...the snake's eyes." Ginny gasped and gripped his shoulders tightly.

"I see." Dumbledore nodded. He then turned to Fawkes. "Would you go alert professor McGonagall she is needed?" In a puff of flames the Phoenix was gone. Dumbeldore then gave instructions to a couple of pictures of past Headmaster. And then told the one that was a black family member to alert Sirius he would be getting some quest. Harry was a little surprise that Sirius would still be at Grimmauld place. Just as the door opened and McGonagall came running in.

"What is it?" She demanded. "What happened?" She glanced at everyone, then her eyes fall on Dumbledore. He then explained to her what was going on and about Harry's dream.

"Would you please go wake the west of the Weasley children?" Dumbldore asked. "And Mr. Potter and bring them here." McGonagall turned and headed out of the office. One of the pictures popped back in its frame and told Dumbledore Mr. Weasley has been found, then another popped in and said he saw them carrying Mr. Weasley by her picture and he didn't look to good and they were taking him to St. Mungo's. Ginny began to cry again and Harry reached up and held her hand.

They sat in ten minutes silence then the door opened and McGonagall led in the Weasleys and Cody.

"What's going on?" Fred demanded.

"McGonagall said something about dad getting attacked." George said. Cody however rushed right to Harry after spotting how bad he looked.

"You had another one of those fits didn't you?" He demanded. Harry just nodded. As Dumbledore explained to them what happened. He then sent McGonagall out to look out for Umbridge as he made a prokey and sent them all to Grimmauld place. Which only made Harry dizzy again as he landed on the floor in the kitchen. Sirius appeared out of the darkness.

"What's going on?" he demanded, he reached out a hand and helped Ginny to her feet, while Cody grabbed Harry's arm and pulled him to his feet, he stumbled and Cody and Teddy helped him over to one of the kitchen chairs.

"What's wrong with Harry?" Sirius demanded, as Britney latched herself to his waist and cried silently, scared and confused to what was happening. Sirius patted her back as Rigel explained to him what happened.

"Is mum here?" Fred asked when Rigel was done. Sirius shook his head.

"She probably doesn't even know yet?" Sirius said.

"We're going to St. Mungo's" Ginny said. "We have to know if dad is alright."

"Hang on, you can't go running off to St. Mungo's." Sirius said.

"Of course we can if we want." George said. "He's our dad."

"And how are you going to explain how you knew off Arthur's attack when his wife doesn't even know?" Sirius demanded, as Rigel took Britney from his waist and led her over to Teddy, she claimed in his lap and laid her head on his shoulder.

"What does that matter?" Fred demanded.

"It matters because we don't want to draw attention to the fact that Harry is having visions of things that are happening hundreds of miles away!" Sirius said. "Have you any idea what the Ministry would make of that?"

"Who cares what the Ministry makes off anything?" Fred said. But Ginny sighed and walked over and took a seat next to Harry, she then laid her head on the table and began to cry. Harry hesitated a moment, then reached and laid his hand on her shoulder wanting to comfort her, but Ginny jerked out from under his hand, Harry felt a tug at his heart. Wondering if she blamed him, he turned and looked at the table and a moment later he had Ginny throwing her arms around his neck and crying into his shoulder, Harry put his arm around her waist and just let her hang on to him.

After ten minutes of fighting with Sirius, Fred, George and Ron gave in and sat down around the table with everyone else. And everyone just and waited, Sirius passed out Butterbeers at one point and Ginny let go of Harry, but grabbed hold of his hand and just sat holding it and waiting. Harry's mind kept going to his dream and seeing things from snake's point of view. He didn't know what to make of that and it scared him.

Hours soon went by, with no one talking and no word, the clock on the wall seemed to be ticking slower and slower, at one point Britney fell asleep in Teddy's lap, Rigel propped his feet up on the table and closed his eyes, but Harry couldn't tell if he was awake or not. Ron had his head in his hand and his eyes were dropping, which soon flew back open when his opposite hand slipped and split Butterbeer all over his lap. Three hours into the waiting silence Fawkes showed up with a note from Mrs. Weasley saying, their dad was alive and to stay right where they were. Which didn't comfort anyone much, if any.

Tick...Tick...Tick...the clock ticked on without any word. Harry was starting to feel restless just sitting there as the hours went by, he was almost temped to tear the clock from the wall and throw it across the room, the ticking was getting to him. Then finally when the sun was just coming up, Mrs. Wealsey came bursting into the room.

"He's going to be okay." Mrs. Weasley announced to the room, everyone had jumped to their feet when she came charging into the room. "Bill's with him now, we all can go later and visit him."

"Thank Merlin." Ginny cried, she turned to Harry and put her arms around his waist and Harry put his around her shoulders and held her, and for once Mrs. Weasley didn't say anything about it. "He'll be in St. Mungo's a few days, which means we'll be staying here for Christmas. That is if Sirius doesn't mind."

"Don't mind at all." Sirius said. "Rigel and I were going to stay here anyway, because that's where my godsons were going to be. For Harry safety." Rigel grunted at that. "We'll have one big Christmas. It'll be fun." At that Rigel looked up at his Uncle like he was crazy.

"How about I cook everyone something to eat." Mrs. Weasley said. Everyone got up to help and as Harry was getting some plates out, Mrs. Weasley shocked him by taking the plates from him, sitting them down and giving him a hug.

"Thank you, Harry." She said. "If it hadn't been for you I don't know what would have happened to Arthur." Harry just nodded, not knowing what to say. She soon let go and went to the stove and began to cook. Ginny came up to Harry and put her arm around his waist.

"Looks like you might be starting to get Mum approval." She smiled, Harry grabbed her hand and led her into the dark pantry.

"Gin, I think I might be going crazy." Harry said. "Why am I having these dreams? How could I be seeing things from Voldemort's snake's eyes? I don't understand any of this and Dumbledore what even look at me. Why? Why does my scar hurt all the time? Why do I suddenly have seizures? What does it all mean?"

"Shh." Ginny said, she reached out and pulled Harry to her. "It's okay, Baby. It's going to be okay. I'm here with you. I wish I could answer all this for you, but I can't. But whatever it means, I'll be here with you. We'll go through it together. And you're not going crazy. Dumbledore may not want to tell you what it means. But so we'll find out ourselves. We'll get Rigel to help."

Harry nodded and pulled back. "I feel bad. I should be comforting you and here you are comforting me." Ginny laughed a little.

"Yeah, well, guys can me big babies sometimes." Ginny teased. "But no, seriously, you're comforting me just by being here for me." Harry smiled and leaned in and kissed her.

"Come on," Ginny said, grabbing Harry's hand. "We better get back in the kitchen before Mum starts thinking we're in here doing something. Harry laughed and allowed his girlfriend to pull him out of the pantry. She was right, whatever this all meet they would get through it together.

"AN. Hope you liked it, that chapter was kind of hard to do. And I know Harry gets kicked off the Quiddtich team before Christmas break, but since he's in Ravenclaw and not in Gryffindor he wouldn't be in the first match of the year. So I figured it would be okay to do the banned from Quidditch after the holidays, so that with Slytherin would have lost at least two matches, making them out of the running for the cup, so Malfoy would have more of a reason to get mad and be nasty to Harry.