"Petrificus Totalus"

"Stupefy"

"Expelliarmus"

"Wingardium Leviosa"

"Impedimenta"

This had been going on for the past few minutes and by now the rest of Dumbledores Army had stopped their own practicing and watched Neville and Seamus going back and forth.

Everyone's heads were turning back and forth watching each spell leave one persons wand and fly out at the other. Suddenly Neville and Seamus's eyes widened when they saw the spells currently coming at them.

"Protego!"

"Finite!"

They both yelled out their spells but it was no use and they were hit. Seamus started rising in the air until he hit the ceiling. He kept getting banged against it while several students below chuckled.

Neville on the other hand had gone stiff and fallen to the floor. Harry sighed. It was the same thing every time.

Neville and Seamus pair up. Neville and Seamus start yelling out any spell they can think of. Neville and Seamus can't put up shield charms, and the rest of the DA has to help them. Whether they are hit with Tarantallegra and start dancing uncontrollably or the barfing slugs charm and are chucking up slugs (which you can ask Ron, it is NOT a good experience).

"Okay everyone. Ron, Lee, the twins, Lavender, Padma, Parvati, and Luna help Neville. The rest of us will work on getting Seamus down." Harry instructed and everyone got to work on their specified person. It took a couple tries but eventually Neville was un-petrified and being helped up by Ron. Seamus however to a little longer because he kept moving.

Eventually after more than enough tries of aiming a spell and hoping for the best best, Hermione cast the immobulus charm on him and he finally stayed still.

Unfortunately though he was frozen when his face was squashed against the ceiling causing Fred and George to laugh at him making them no help. After a couple more minutes Seamus fell to the ground, landing on a pile of pillows Hannah Abbott conjured. Dean walked over to give his friend a hand up smirking the same way he does every time this happens.

This, of course, made Seamus glare at him just as he does whenever Dean smirks like that. "Guys." Harry stepped in before Seamus started yelling at Dean who was trying to contain his laughter. "This is getting out of hand."

"Harry's right mates." Ron agreed with his friend

"It's the same thing every time we have a meeting." Hermione added.

Harry continued "Being totally honest you two aren't the best at defensive strategy and it's becoming a distraction for everyone else."

"How is our practice a distraction?" Neville questioned.

"Yeah. Nobody else has anything to do with it." Seamus muttered.

"We do when we have to stop what we were doing to help you lot because you didn't get any shields up and you both are hit with a spell." Lee called from the back of the group.

"Look I think it would be best for all of us if you two had different partners. It's nothing personal but we all know by now that we aren't going to learn anything from Umbridge so we have to learn it here but we don't get anything done when you two pair up." The wizards in question didn't respond. They simply nodded their heads.

Hermione now stepped up and looked around at the group for a moment before turning back to Neville and Seamus. "Okay. Seamus why don't you try partnering with Ernie, and Neville with Justin. Are you all okay with trying that?" The four nodded their heads and everyone walked back to different areas of the room to work.

Once Hermione and Ginny walked away to continue practice Ron looked to Harry and Asked "This is going in the letter isn't it?" "Oh yeah." With that said they went back to dueling and needless to say meetings went much more smoothly after that.