AN: I have decided to only post every other day instead of every day. It wasn't an easy decision to make but I've just been so tired lately I need the break. Thank you all for the reviews they mean a lot to me. Once again I am not JK Rowling.

Sirius POV

"Did you have to give the poor girl detention?" I asked watching students pair up to duel. Ron and Hermione paired up flicking their wands through the air moving around the room quickly as if they were in a real battle. She had a strange look on her face like she wasn't wholly there.

"Yes." Severus said crossing his arms. His sleeve rid up a little and he immediately pulled it back down to cover his dark mark.

"You made her cry." I said looking over at the girl in question. Romilda's cheeks were red and tear stained as she fought halfheartedly.

"Happens." He said shrugging. I rolled my eyes and walked around the room watching everyone duel. Some were enthusiastic about it but others didn't seem to be enjoying themselves.

"Harry!" I called loudly. Harry looked up curiously from his duel with Lavender. She took advantage of his distraction and threw a stinging hex at him. He casually flicked his wand stopping the hex. I motioned for him to come over and he walked over.

"What's up?" He asked flicking his messy black hair out of his eyes.

"This is a sorry excuse for a D.A. practice." Severus said slowly and leaned against the wall. Harry frowned and turned to look at him.

"Why?" He asked looking around. I really doubted that these students would know how to react in a situation where they weren't dueling just one person but three or four. And a man could easily overpower any of the females in the room without magic.

"Why, sir." Severus said glaring at Harry.

"There's no need to call me 'sir' professor." Harry said. His eyes widened slightly after a moment once he realized what he said. I bit my lip to keep from laughing but I could feel my lips twitching.

"Detention, Saturday night, my office," Severus said. "I do not take cheek from anyone, Potter... not even 'the Chosen One.'" Harry glared at Severus and I quickly jumped between them when Harry opened his mouth.

"Anyway," I said looking between them. "This isn't really a realistic setting when it comes to a battle." Harry looked around the room his eyes settling on Hermione and Ron who were still fighting as if their lives depended on it. Some of the other students had backed out of the way to watch them.

"I see what you mean." He said a small frown on his face. His eyes sparkled and a moment later a bunch of death eater dummies appeared around the room throwing mild stinging hexes at everyone.

Students were screaming and running around the room trying to avoid the dummies. Neville whipped out his wand and threw a purple curse at it. The dummy collapsed in on itself and dust swirled around the room making it hard to see. Curses quickly started to fly through the air and I pulled out my wand. Now this was like a real battle.

Hermione POV

I gasped as the fake death eaters started to throw hexes around the room. Ron and I stood back to back fighting our hardest trying to keep them back. My wand snapped through the air faster than I thought possible. I distantly heard screams from the other students but I ignored them.

Harry was in the middle of the room trying to protect the younger students. A soft thump brought me back to myself and I turned. Ron was passed out on the floor obviously hit by a stray hex. Oh Merlin this really was like a real battle.

I fought as hard as I could but four death eater dummies were closing in on me. A yellow light hit the closest one and it erupted in flames. Snape was running over to me his eyes dark.

"Hermione you can't let them corner you." I barely heard the use of my first name from the dour potions master. He flicked his wand and a red light hit another dummy making it implode.

"Where's Sirius?" I asked fighting off the death eater dummies as best I could.

"Helping a first year who sprained her ankle." He said snapping his hand through the air. I looked around the room for my husband but there was smoke in the air and it was hard to see. Harry was dueling six dummies easily his eyes alight with mischief.

I turned back to my own dummies trying both regular spells and nonverbal ones. Snape and I stood back to back fighting. He never said anything but I knew he was protecting me. Maybe Sirius had asked him to.

I was about to be hit by a hex when suddenly someone yelled, "ENOUGH!"

The death eater dummies stopped looking innocent as if they were only decorations. I leaned my back against Snape's side breathing heavily. He stiffened but didn't push me away.

I looked around the room trying to see but the smoke hadn't cleared yet. Where was Sirius? It had sounded like his voice.

The smoke finally started to clear and I gasped sharply. Ginny was out cold on the floor face down her red hair spread around her. I ran to her jumping over the fallen dummies and pulled her into my arms. She had a nasty gash on the side of her face but besides that she looked fine.

I looked up to ask Snape for help but he had his hand pressed against the wall his eyes tightly shut. His lips were moving but I couldn't tell what he was saying. When he finally looked up his eyes were pained when he looked at Ginny. What the hell?

He strode over to us and tapped his wand against Ginny's cheek quickly healing it. I sighed and looked her over now she could be sleeping. Suddenly Harry was next to me pulling Ginny into his arms stroking her hair.

I smiled at them and slowly stood up. My back was sore but I would be okay. I looked up suddenly my eyes wide.

"Sirius?" I called looking around. Where was my husband? I quickly looked around the room but didn't see him anywhere. Where was he?

"Over there." Snape said pointing towards a corner. I thanked him and ran across the room dodging students and piles of rubble. Sirius was holding a small blond haired girl to his side murmuring words of comfort.

"You okay baby?" He asked flicking a strand of black hair out of his eyes. I nodded and slowly knealed next to him. He smiled and looked down at the girl who was clinging to his side.

"What happened?" I asked looking at the Gryffindor who had been trailing Neville the past few weeks.

"Sprained ankle. I healed it but its still tender isn't it Sarah?" She nodded and Sirius smiled down at her. I sat down next to them and leaned my head against Sirius' shoulder. He wrapped his arm around me and I leaned against his side.

It took awhile but eventually everyone was healed or woken up. The room cleaned itself and provided the proper potions we needed. Sirius went to talk to the students and Sarah scooted towards me and I wrapped my arms around her.

"Is it really like that in a real battle?" She asked in a hushed voice.

"Yes Sweetheart it is." Sarah shivered and clung to me harder. I rubbed my hand up and down her arm and she smiled.

"Okay everyone." Sirius said catching everyone's attention. I looked up him and smiled. "Obviously someone had strongly wished for a more realistic fight scene. Harry in the future please refrain yourself from requesting them." Harry smiled sheepishly when half the people turned to glare at him.

"Now that you have been through that what did you think?" Students started yelling out how horrible it had been and how the dummies hadn't fought fair. Sirius smiled pleasantly listening to everything they said. One boy said two of them ganged up on him. I snickered when I realized it was Zacharius Smith. Stupid prat deserved it. Especially if he thought he would get sympathy for two them ganging up on him.

"Well those dummies acted exactly like how a real death eater would act." It was silent. Some people exchanged nervous glances but everyone who had been in the battle at the Department of Mysteries was nodding.

"Neville?" Sirius asked turning to him.

He looked up and smiled nervously at Sirius. "Yes?"

"How did some of the death eaters act when you fought them at the battle at the Department of Mysteries?" Sirius asked. Neville bit his lip and looked at the wall a small frown on his face.

"I fought with my friends with everything I had in me. The death eaters had us surrounded two to one and one of them was Bellatrix." there was a small gasp. "She is rather good at the cruciatis curse and one of the others broke my nose by kicking me in the face."

"So they didn't hold back because you were students?" Sirius asked curiously as if he didn't know the answer.

"If anything they were harder on us because of it." He said his eyebrow furrowed in thought. Everyone seemed to be murmuring nervously looking around at the dummy death eaters.

"It may have been hard for you with all those dummies but that's what the death eaters are actually like. Just imagine if unforgiveables were thrown into the mix. Most of you would be dead right now." Some of the girls were crying silently.

"Voldemort won't care if your students he'll kill you anyway. I'm telling you this because you deserve to know the truth so you can protect yourself. I believe that everyone in this room is special and deserves to live. Now remember you have to push yourself to your greatest potential I can't do it for you." Some of the students were nodding a firm resolve in their eyes. Sirius pulled out the watch from his pocket.

"You are all dismissed you have fifteen minutes to curfew." Some of the students left immediately but others stood around talking. Sirius walked over to us a small smile on his face when he saw Sarah cuddled up against me.

"I never did get to thank you." Sarah said looking at me.

"For what?" I asked rubbing my hand up and down her arm.

"You were the one who saved me from those Hufflepuff boys." Sirius stiffened and I looked down at her in surprise. I though she had looked familiar.

"You don't have to thank me Honey." Snape walked over to Sarah, Sirius and I. Sarah shivered and hid her face in my hair.

"Sarah? Would you like me to walk you back to your common room?" Snape asked his voice soft. She peaked at him timidly obviously nervous.

"You don't have to be scared of Professor Snape, he's actually a softly deep down." I whispered conspiratorially in her ear. She giggled, Sirius barked a laugh and Snape glared at me. Sarah stood up and walked over to the door a small smile on her face.

"You can give me detention later." Snape's lips twitched and he turned to leave but stopped. Harry had pulled Ginny into his arms and was kissing her sweetly. Snape frowned and left his black cloak billowing behind him. I must have been imagining things because it looked like he had a tear on his cheek.

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