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27. The Secret Meeting

It took five hours for the news of Fred and me to cover the whole school. That was twice as fast as wildfire. I kept my secrets to myself, staying mostly quiet. Krista stayed by my side most of the time, Ginny would do the same when lessons weren't going on. People would come up to me and say they felt sympathy and take my side. I would smile and thank them but in all honesty,

I don't want people to take my side.

Things had also changed dramatically for Hogwarts as well. Harry got a detention and had the same punishment as me, but with the words 'I will not tell lies. Professor Pink had decided to check every teacher as they taught a lesson. She then tried to fire Professor Trelawney, making me feel sorry for the poor woman until Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore saved her from the Pink Disaster. Dumbledore soon disappeared a few days as the Ministry of Magic tried to take him to Azkaban. But this made Professor Pink headmistress. She then started making strict bans, rules and regulations about what students could and couldn't do. This finally broke the hatred to some woman so Harry called a meeting at a run-down pub called the Hog's Head, which was where I am now.

The room was filled with students already, waiting for Harry to enter. The room consisted of me, Krista, George, Fred, Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Cho, Neville, a blonde hair girl I was introduced to called Luna and a few other people. After a few minutes of silence, the door opened to reveal Harry. He looked at all of our faces as he sat down. Hermione stood up as he did that and then said, "Um...hello. You all know why we're here. We need a teacher, a proper teacher. One who has a real practice at defending against the dark arts."

"Why?" A random kid asked.

"Why? Because You-Know-Who is back you Clotpot." Ron sneered.

"So he says." The kid retorted, pointing his head in Harry's direction.

"So Dumbledore says." Hermione argued.

"So he says. So Dumbledore says. But where's the proof? Harry can tell us about Cedric's death." Another kid spoke up. Krista stiffened at the name and I put a hand on her arm, comforting her.

I stayed looking at Harry as he stood up and spoke for the first time, "Look, I'm not going to talk about that day." He nodded slightly to Krista, then carried on, "If that's the only reason why you're here then you might as well leave." Harry then spoke quietly to Hermione who just argued quietly back and grabbed his arm, trying to stay in the room.

"Is it true that you can produce a patronus?" Luna asked out loud, silencing the two. Some people gasped in amazement and looked to him to see if it was true.

"Yes. It is true. I've seen it." Hermione answered for him.

"Blimey Harry, really? I didn't know you could do that." Dean asked in awe.

"He also killed the Basilisk with the Gryffindor sword." Neville nervously boasted.

"It's true." Someone agreed at the back.

"He also fought of a hundred dementors at once." Ron included.

"Look," Harry spoke out, "It all sounds great when you say it like that. But in truth, half of that time I didn't know what I was doing or I had help somehow." Harry sighed and sat down.

After a few moments, the kid who first disbelieved it all said slowly, "Is he really back?" Harry slowly looked up from staring at the grey, dirty floor and nodded.

I sighed and stood up, all eyes on me. "Well, where do I sign up?" I asked, earning a smile from the trio.

After everyone in the room has lined up and signed a piece of paper, we all headed back to Hogwarts to find a secret room to train. The large group we called ourselves as Dumbledore's Army split up to look round. Harry, Hermione, Ron, The Twins and I were on the second floor looking round when Neville ran towards us. "Neville, you okay?" I asked him.

He nodded and gasped out, "I think I found...a secret room." He took off in the direction he just came in and we followed to the fourth floor. We walked along a long corridor and stopped opposite a blank wall.

"A...wall?" Ron said. Hermione shushed him and Neville smiled as silver sparkling double doors formed right in front of us.

Once they finished forming, we all walked in to a large space, the room silver with mirrors, making the room look bigger than it actually was. "The room of requirement." I whispered in awe.

"The room of what?" George questioned.

Hermione sighed and spoke, "The secret room. You think of the place you need three times and it will appear before you."

Harry nodded with a small smile and commented, "This is it. This is the place where we will practise." We all nodded and then walked out.

We found the other half of the group and explained quietly in the back of the library where we found the perfect place. We all agreed that we will start practising tomorrow afternoon. We were going to continue whispering about what we would do for our first lesson but I saw Mrs Norris, Filch's cat, so I tapped Hermione and we all disbanded, making sure that Dumbledore's Army would stay a secret.

The next day, we all quickly walked into the Room of Requirement and stood as a group, opposite Harry as he spoke after everyone had turned up. "Alright. The first lesson you'll all be learning today is duelling. Now, it will be important for the future if you ever come across a follower of Voldemort. You have to be quick, swift, and fast. If you don't do at least two of those things, your better chance is to then run. Right, two lines facing each other and leave quite a big gap. First pair to duel will be Scylla and...Fred." Krista looked at me and I shook my head taking my wand from my ankle boot and standing in front of the fire.

The lines formed of watching students as Fred stood near me. I looked at my wand and then at Harry as he spoke, "Ready?"

I slowly nodded. He then nodded at us and stepped back. Fred opened his mouth, but I was quicker as I flicked my wand and shouted out, "Expelliarmus!" Fred's wand flew out of his grip and he looked from it back to me. I was going to finish the duel, but I put my wand down to my side and shouted, "Accio wand!" Fred's wand flew to my outstretched hand and I then turned to Harry, "I won."

The girls came up to me and crowded me. "Why didn't you use stupefy?" Ginny asked me.

"Because as much I'm still angry at him, I miss him and love him, and that made me unable to harm him." She nodded and I looked at Fred's wand, walking out of the crowd and heading to the crowd of boys. They saw me approaching and parted, revealing Fred. I walked up to him and held out his wand, not being able to look at him. I swallowed my sob and looked at Harry. "Can I leave for a bit?" He nodded and I turned on my heel and walked out of the Room of Requirement.

I leaned against the wall and let out my holding breath. "You okay? Heard about you and Fred." I looked up to see Dorian.

"Yeah. Also, I don't want to go a date. I may have dumped him, but I still love him and just waiting for the anger to fade." He nodded and leaned against the wall next to me.

"I know. To be honest. I like Melissa anyway. But let me take you out next weekend. Not as a date, but to try and cheer you up." Dorian asked.

I was silent but then finally nodded, "Okay. The Three Broomsticks." Dorian nodded and then walked away. I watched him leave and sighed, standing up straight and walking back into the Room of Requirement.