Ch 5 Room of requirement/DA
Needing some badly needed intel, Kodai volunteered to go into the school as a spy. Objective is to gather enough information as possible. But instead of exposing himself, he put more bugs into the great hall, so as to get a clearer 'picture' of what was going on.
And what he found, wasn't good. Apparently, Umbridge had declared herself the Hogwarts High Inquisitor. He couldn't help but find similarities with the Inquisition that was active in the middle ages. Basically, you obey the regime or suffer torture worse than death.
Heading back to the Yamato, he entered the communications room, and started recording. Umbridge was starting to grade the teacher's themselves. It was meticulous and frustrating work, having to track down Umbridge using the bug equipment. He managed to pin her down when he stumbled on an interesting conversation.
"… I was just wondering, Professor, whether you received my note telling you of the date and time of your inspec-" Umbridge started.
"I received it, or I would have asked what the hell are you doing in my classroom?" Minerva asked.
Kodai chuckled a bit. This would be interesting.
The teaching went as planned, though whenever Umbridge attempted to interrupt, Minerva shut her down. Hard.
Unfortunately, Kodai failed to put bugs on the grounds of Hogwarts, not thinking that it would be necessary. As a result, he failed to listen to what was going on at the Care of Magical Creatures class. That night, he snuck into Minerva's office, she being the only person on the school he could trust right now.
"What is it Kodai?" Minerva asked.
"Sorry about Umbridge. Wish I could help." Kodai said.
"That's none of your concern." Minerva said.
"I need detailed maps of the school. I'd like to keep track of Umbridge, but I can't bug her. It'll blow up in our faces." Kodai said.
"Okay. I'll get you the maps." Minerva said.
As McGonagall left to gather some maps, Kodai received a call from the Yamato.
"Kodai, you got to hear this!" Sanada said, urgent.
"Can it wait?" Kodai asked.
"No. Listen."
Kodai turned the volume all the way up on his transceiver, and he listened in Harry, Ron, and Hermione discussing something. Just as Minerva walked in.
"Listen to this." Kodai said.
"Maybe we just do it ourselves." Hermione said.
"Do what?" Harry asked.
"Learn Defense Against the Dark Arts ourselves." Hermione said.
Kodai and Minerva listened in, as the trio talked about it.
"It's about preparing ourselves, like Harry said. It's about making sure we really can defend ourselves. If we don't learn anything by ourselves…" Hermione trailed off.
"We can't do much by ourselves." Ron said.
"That's right. We need a teacher." Hermione said.
"Who?" Harry asked.
"You." Hermione said.
"What?" Harry asked.
"Harry, you're the best in the year at Defense Against the Dark Arts. You've beaten me in our third year. Look at what you've done." Hermione said.
"What do you mean?" Harry asked.
"Lets think. First year, you saved the Stone from you-know-who." Ron stated.
"That was luck." Harry replied.
"Second year, you killed the basilisk and destroyed Riddle."
"If fawkes hadn't shown up-" Harry said.
"Third year, you fought off a hundred dementors-" Ron said.
"That was a fluke." Harry retorted.
"Last year, you fought toe-to-toe against you know who again." Ron said.
"Listen to me!" Harry yelled. "It sounds great, but all that stuff was luck. I had no idea what I was doing half the time. No plan, nothing. It was just winging it."
Ron and Hermione were now laughing at Harry.
"Don't sit there laughing like you know better. I was there. I know what happened. I didn't get thru because I was brilliant at defense against the dark arts, I was bullshitting my way thru. STOP LAUGHING!" Harry yelled.
"You've no idea what it's like. Nothing. You think it's just memorizing bunch of spells and throwing them at him, like in school? The whole time you're sure you know there's nothing between you and death except your own – your own brain or guts or whatever, like you can think straight when you know you're a second away from death, or torture or watching your friends die. They never teach us that in class. And you two sit there acting like I'm a clever little boy to be standing here, like Diggory was stupid. That's pure bullshit. I could have been killed instead of Diggory." Harry said.
"Harry, don't you see? This is why we need you. We don't know what it's like to face Voldemort. We need someone to teach us who knows what it's like. Think about it. Please?" Hermione asked.
Harry nodded, too tired to think.
In Minerva's office, Kodai was shedding some tears. Harry's outburst rang home with him.
"You alright?" Minerva asked.
"Harry's right. You've no idea what combat is like. Things happen so fast. One minute a person standing next to you is alive. A second later, he's dead. And there isn't a goddamned thing you can do. I know what it's like, to face death." Kodai said, wiping some tears away.
"You know I'm a teacher. But the hardest thing, is wondering if you prepared the students for the world. What goes on out there. At times, you ask yourself, did I do enough. It's almost tortures at times." Minerva said.
"You fought in the last war, didn't you?" Kodai asked, remembering Albus telling him of a previous wizard war.
"Yes. I saw plenty die. Including my friends, and former students. God, you never get rid of it all." Minerva said.
"Last battle of the war. The very last battle. We were heading back to earth, when the Gamilians ambushed us. We escaped, utilizing our wave-motion drive. That was a trap. Dessler, the leader of the Gamilian Empire, attacked us with his ship. Now his ship, was at least 10 times as large as the Yamato. More weapons, and a lot more troops. He boarded us, and I saw my closest friend, Yuki, get killed in the fight. One minute she was alive, the next she was riddled with plasma, burned to a crisp. I'll never forget it. Dessler retreated back to his ship and we blew it to atoms with our guns. But still, I can't help but have nightmares. That Yuki gets killed, the Yamato, destroyed. And then Earth gets bombed to oblivion." Kodai said.
"It sounds like Harry and his friends might start their own training." Minerva said, wondering what to take of the news.
"You're their teacher. What do you want to do with it?" Kodai asked.
"I'll support them. Train them if necessary. Umbridge isn't doing a damned thing to help them, and she's torturing the students. And you should help them as well." Minerva said.
"Me?" Kodai asked.
"Yes. You, and the Yamato. You've been in plenty of battles. You said you'd help us with Voldemort. Now's your chance. Help train us for combat." Minerva said.
"I'll do it. But I'll need to know where the training will be held." Kodai said.
"Follow Harry. That should give you a lead." Minerva advised.
"My suit's cloaking device doesn't last forever."
"Activate it." Minerva said, brandishing her wand.
Kodai activated the cloak, and Minerva cast a spell on it. Looking at the energy supply, Kodai was surprised to see it was infinite power.
"Well, that solves one problem." Kodai said, taking the maps.
"Good. Kodai?"
"Yeah?"
"Let me know when they'll start practicing. We'll need to help them from the beginning." Minerva said.
"Will do." Kodai said, smiling.
Following Harry proved harder than he thought. Kodai had to take extra care as he followed Harry throughout the school. While he never went into any of the classes Harry attended, he had to keep into the shadows of the hallways and passages of the school.
He overhead that they needed to find a place to train their 'army' of sorts. Kodai went thru the various maps of the school, but none showed anything worth his interest. None of the rooms seemed big enough to train in secret. One night, his luck changed.
"I need to find a place where twenty-eight people can practice defense against the dark arts without being discovered by any of the teachers. Especially Professor Umbridge." Harry said, to an elf of sorts.
The else responded happily. "Dobby knows the perfect place, sir. Dobby heard tell of it from the other house-elves when he came to Hogwarts, sir. It is known by us as the come and go room, or else as the room of requirement."
"Why?" Harry asked.
"Because it is a room that a person can only enter, when they have real need of it. Sometimes it is there, and sometimes it is not, but when it appears, it is always equipped for the seeker's needs." Dobby said.
"How many know about it?" Harry asked.
"Very few. Mostly people stumbles across it when they need it, but often never find it again, for they do not know that it is always there waiting to be called into service." Dobby said.
As Kodai listened, he watched Harry leave, but heard the place Dobby told him. Seventh floor opposite that tapesty of Barnabas the Barmy being clubbed by those trolls.
Confused, Kodai headed to McGonagall's office. He was taking a big chance. The students attending would be suspicious, and no-one, other than McGonagall and Dumbledore, knew he, his crew, and the Yamato existed.
"Who is it?" Minerva asked, hearing the door of her office knocked on.
"Kodai. I have information."
"Come in."
Sitting in a couch with Minerva, Kodai spilled the beans.
"They're meeting at the room of requirement. You know of it?"
"I know it. Visited it a few times when I was a student at the school. Comes in handy." Minerva said.
"We know the place, but I don't know where the meeting will take place. And there's another problem." Kodai said.
"What is it?"
"Harry said that he didn't want the teachers to find out, but you're against Umbridge, as is most of the school, but how do we convince him that we're on his side, and the fact that I'll be training them in hand-to-hand plus weapons training?" Kodai asked.
"We tell him the truth." Minerva said.
"I'm from the future, commanding a powerful warship, with hundreds, if not thousands of deadly weapons. Harry doesn't even know me. You and Albus are the only ones in the school who are aware of our existence. You think it'll go well?"
"Can you think of anything else?" Minerva asked, glaring at him. Kodai shut up.
The next day, they overheard Harry tell someone where the meeting was going down.
"You sure you want to do this?" Sanada asked.
"We promised to help them end the war against Voldemort. If we have to train them in combat, so be it. I won't need weapons." Kodai said.
"How will you train them with weapons?" Sanada asked.
"Magic." Kodai said, knowing it was the full truth.
"Eight pm?" Minerva asked.
"Yes. This could go wrong so many ways." Kodai said.
"Probably will. Lets get going." Minerva said.
Minerva led Kodai to the location, and saw that multiple students had arrived. Kodai pulled Minerva close to him, putting a hand on her waist. He activated his cloaking device, and he and Minerva walked in with the rest of the students.
"Yeah, the DA's good. Let's make it stand for Dumbledore's Army, because that's the ministry's worst fear, isn't it?" Ginny suggested.
"All in favor?" Hermione asked, kneeling on a cushion.
"Count us in." Kodai said, deactivating the cloak, shocking everyone.
Everyone was in shock, seeing Kodai appear out of thin air, along with Professor McGonagall.
"Professor?" Harry asked, shocked at seeing his teacher in the same room as him.
"Nice to meet you to, Harry." McGonagall replied.
"How'd you get in here?" Ron asked, suspicious.
"I'm Kodai. I'm from the space battleship Yamato." Kodai introduced.
"What?" Ron asked.
The two spent the next half hour explaining it. Much to the relief of the students, McGonagall and Kodai were helping the students train for combat.
"So where do we start?" Kodai asked.
"Have everyone start practicing their duels. In fact, I have an idea. McGonagall, versus anyone who wishes to volunteer, just to get things started." Harry said.
No-one wanted to duel the legendary professor.
"I'll duel." Kodai said, brandishing his storm rifle, setting it to the lowest stun setting.
"You sure? You're not a wizard." Zacharias Smith said, rolling his eyes.
"You're only human. You want to test your magic skills against my plasma rifle?" Kodai asked, aiming his rifle at Zacharias, turning the action from safety, to lethal.
"Kodai. Don't let him egg you." Minerva said, also eyeing the student.
"Okay. Just saying. Death comes quicker than the blink of an eye." Kodai said, tuning down his rifle.
Both Minerva and Kodai stood apart from each other. Both eyed each-other, waiting for the first move.
"Expelliarmus!" Minerva shouted, firing a spell.
To the surprise of everyone watching, Kodai dodged the spell, and rolled forward, and when he finished the roll, he fired a burst of plasma, although widely inaccurate, though it was enough to scare Minerva.
But she quickly reacted, and fired another spell, knocking Kodai back. Kodai returned fire, and it Minerva with a blast from his storm rifle. Everyone watched, as Minerva was tossed to the floor.
Kodai stood up, and walked towards the professor, his face showing increasing concern.
"Minerva? Talk to me." Kodai said, kneeling next to her. He put his hear next to her mouth, hoping to hear some breathing.
"I need to tell you something." Minerva whispered.
"What?" Kodai asked, as Minerva snaked a hand to his neck, grabbing it.
Minerva quickly threw Kodai to the ground and wasted no time straddling him and cast a spell to bind his hands from moving. She grabbed Kodai's rifle and pointed it at him, hand on the trigger.
"Never underestimate your opponent. You of all people should know that." Minerva said.
She got up and released the binds on Kodai's hand. Kodai sat up, but a shoe pushed him down to the floor, and kept him pinned down. Kodai looked up at Minerva, and got a good look at her legs. Kodai got slightly hard at the view.
A wicked smile appeared on Minerva's face. For too long, she'd been single. She and Kodai had a slight friendship going on. If Kodai was to be here for a while, they'd probably get close. Voldemort will arrive and kill us before the war's over. Might as well indulge in some fantasy before I bite it.
As per room of requirement parameters, anything the person needed at the time, was granted. In Minerva's case, several 'items' appeared. Mainly a riding crop, some rope, a BDSM collar, and other sex items.
"What's this for?" someone asked, holding a gag.
Minerva blushed bright red.
"Damn. Who knew she was kinky?" Ron whispered.
"I heard that." Minerva said.
Kodai sighed, and focused on having weapons to use for training. And it appeared. Pistols, rifles, shotguns, machineguns, you name it, it appeared.
"Lets get to work." Kodai said, grabbing a rifle.