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Chapter 13: The Black Army
Fifth year for Ron and Harry (and fourth for Olivia and Ginny) had begun. All Hogwarts students knew that their class of Defence against the Dark Arts would be much less attractive, as their former professor was detained by the Death Eaters and held back by Lord Voldemort, if she was still alive. It was the unofficial version told by the young woman's friends and family; the official version was that Igor Karkaroff had abducted Hermione Black to exchange for a possible ransom in order to have a good life but had killed her a few days after kidnapping her.
Opinions were mixed and Lord Voldemort's return was also denied, attributing this to the spirit of a young man shocked by what he had to face in the final round of the Triwizard Tournament. Harry did not want the reward, he had given the money to the Weasley Twins to buy their shop in Diagon Alley.
The news sent via the Daily Prophet was, of course, openly denigrating Harry and Dumbledore who had faith in him. The arrival of Dolores Umbridge in the school did not help things, she systematically took over anyone who dared to say that the ministry was in error and just seeing her constant pink made people nauseous. The pupils were already exasperated by her new teaching methods.
They were only doing the theory, enough to succeed in their OWLS, Harry had tried to reply by stating that they had to learn how to defend themselves to fight the Death Eaters, but all he obtained was a detention. He tried to console himself by thinking of his mother and what she had to undergo, he had to find a way for his friends and him to learn how to defend themselves because it was definitely not with Umbridge that they would learn that.
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Her wrists hurt so bad, really bad ... Her ties were too tight but she knew they would not give her the pleasure of treating her humanely. She knew perfectly well that if someone had seen her at that moment they would not have recognized her. Hermione had lost about 25 pounds and could no longer use her legs to the point that the Death Eaters were dragging her into the recesses of their Master's house to undergo various "interrogations".
They had just forgotten one thing, something very important: Hermione Black was an extremely stubborn woman and she knew that the duration of her survival was related to the information she would give. Voldemort was persuaded that the young woman could help him achieve total power in a very short time and did not intend to kill her even if seeing a Mudblood resist him frustrated.
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Harry was getting more and more nightmares right now, he saw Voldemort torturing his mother night after night and it seemed so real ... He was trying to put that aside when he learned that his little sister had a great idea: the students could train together, Harry would help them with Olivia who despite her age knew a multitude of spells and strategies via her father. They still had to find a place, and it was Neville who found the Room of Requirement. Ginny and Ron, had the idea of bewitched Gallions to give the time and date of the encounters. It was Luna Lovegood who proposed a name for their group: B.A. for the Black Army referring to the woman who was their true Teacher: Hermione Black. The name was accepted by all.
"Harry it's true that you know how to make a patronus appear?" Luna asked.
"Yes, he is capable of it, I have seen him do during the summer at home!" Ron exclaimed.
"Wow, so that's impressive." Said Cho.
It was once or twice a week that the B.A. would work on everything that Harry and Olivia had learned from their father in preparation for a possible fight against the Death Eaters. From Stupefy to Reducto to Patronus and Expelliarmus. All that was learned was a mini victory for the group. At the same time, more detentions had been given by Umbrage for more idiotic reasons, she suspected that the students were meeting and for her it was only for one reason: to train in the name of Dumbledore against the Ministry.
She then hired a small team of students, mostly Slytherins, to find the meeting place for students and how to get there. She even had Veritaserum manufactured to have the last word of the story, although it was forbidden by the ministry, this kind of practice was the only recourse Umbridge had found against recalcitrant pupils.
Harry continued to have nightmares, again and again with his mother tortured by the Dark Lord, it felt like he was in his body. It was horrible he woke up sweating every night and finally worried Ron who took him to Dumbledore in the middle of the night. The latter summoned Snape to help Harry block his mind because all of them understood that the young wizard had a connection with the Dark Lord and had to make sure that the latter would not use the link in the other way.
The room remained shocked because yes it meant that Hermione was alive but it meant that she suffered permanently. Harry had explained to them the frustration he felt through Voldemort he interpreted by the fact that his mother had not revealed anything, but he had also described Hermione as emaciated, weak, pale and full of scars. Olivia had snuggled into Ron's arms and wept with tears, she'd never stopped thinking about her mother, alone there and mistreated.
"Then Miss Black, when are you going to tell us how to find the members of what you call: The Order of the Phoenix?"
"Oh, but it's very simple, you know, you just have to wear a pink tutu and sing God Save the Queen in the heart of London! I assure you that you will attract members of the order, not just them I admit..."
He threw her several Crucio, which left her unconscious on the ground. Bellatrix wanted to kill her, a Mudblood that dared to wear the noble name of the Black was deeply disgusted. Voldemort was wondering if it would not be better to kill her once and for all, but he did not admit defeat. He had even authorized his Death Eaters to use methods of Muggle torture: whips, martinets, burns with red-hot iron, and other things.
At Hogwarts, a great adventure was preparing. Dumbledore was replaced by Umbridge in the direction of the school. The Order had learned that, for reasons, some long-term prisoners of the Death Eaters, including Hermione, were soon be transferred. Ron, Olivia, Ginny, Harry, Luna and Neville would try everything to save her. One thing motivated them: she would have done the same for them.
