If I didn't add a tiny Drinny moment in this, I was gonna die lol. Even though it's more negative than romantic, I had to put something in lol.

And I'm calling the Slytherin that is holding Ginny, Katherine. She didn't have a name lol,

You care lol

Chapter 156: Bat Bogeys And Thestrals

The door closed shut behind Harry, Hermione, and the toad. Ginny, Neville, Luna, and I glanced around the room at the Slytherins. Crabbe still had his grip on Neville, while Warrington still had me by the hands.

For the next ten minutes, the four of us stayed quiet while the Slytherin prats held conversation, each of us looking as if we were trying to think of our own method of getting away.

Warrington had me closest to the window. A glimpse of brown flashed and I turned my head to look outside, where I saw Hermione, and Umbridge head into the Forbidden Forest. What the bloody hell were they doing?

I looked quickly around the room. There was Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, Warrington, Millicent, and a Slytherin seventh year in the room with us. Six versus four. If it was any other situation, the four of us would be done for.

But just because they were evil and cunning bastards, didn't mean they were smarter than we were.

Ginny apparently, was ahead of the game even more than I was, and began to wriggle violently, screaming through the gag.

Malfoy walked up to my struggling sister. "What's the matter Weaslette? Uncomfortable? Do you have something you want to share with the rest of the class?"

Ginny glared at Malfoy, but slowly nodded her head. The bitch chuckled and took the gag from her mouth.

"Let's hear it then, Princess." said Malfoy, in a low voice.

Ginny looked Malfoy in his cold gray eyes. The two simply stared each other down, as if to show that neither was scared of the other.

Then Ginny said sweetly "I'm thirsty. and I'm sure the others are too, what with these gags in their mouths and all. Surely you know you can't deny your captives food and water."

Malfoy showed the briefest moment of shock at the request, then wiped the emotion off his face.

"You really think I care about your wellbeing, Weasley? Or your fucking friends?"

"Of course not, that would be asking way too much of you." said Ginny, in her 'I'm gonna get what I want' voice. "But come on now, whats a drink of water?"

"Fuck you, Weasley, I'm not giving you anything. It's bad enough that I have to be in the presence of you two peasants enough as it is without having to wait on you."

"Oh come on, Draco. Just one sip of water? You can even tell your father how us Weasleys had to beg and rely on you for nourishment. Surely he would enjoy hearing how you had to give us a bit of charity."

Malfoy looked like he was considering this. "Fine. But only because you begged for it. Let go of her, Katherine."

The girl that was holding GInny hesitated. "Are you sure, Draco? I mean-"

"I said let her go. She can't do anything to us." said Malfoy, picking up Ginny's wand from Umbridge's desk and twirling it around.

The girl Katherine let Ginny go. Ginny sneered back at her, then walked over to Malfoy.

"You do know how to transfigure things into cups, I gather." she said sweetly.

Malfoy huffed and turned a piece of parchment into a water goblet. As he was doing this, Ginny quickly cut her eyes over to me, as if signalling me to make some sort of move.

When Malfoy was doe and had filled the cup with water, he handed it to Ginny, who smiled as she took it. She cut her eyes quickly to me again, and I raised my leg and stomped on Warrington's foot as hard as I could. The big wanker wailed in pain and let go of me. I pushed him over and snatched the gag out of my mouth. Crabbe and Goyle let go on Luna and Neville and charged at me, while Ginny threw the goblet of water in Malfoy's face.

Neville then ran over and snatched Ginny's wand out of Malfoy's hand and threw it over to GInny, as I grabbed Luna, Neville, and my wands swiftly off the table. Ginny grabbed her wand quickly from eville, swished it around wordlessly a couple times, and then pointed it at Malfoy. A black cloud of a hex spouted from the wand and hit Malfoy in the face hard, knocking him back to the ground, causing Harry's wand to fall out of his pocket, which Luna grabbed up.

Everyone paused and watched as Malfoy stood up. For a moment, it looked like nothing would happen. Then, all of a sudden, MAlfoy started screaming at the top of his lungs and hideous and slimy black and green bats started forcing themselves out of Malfoy's nose.

"Bloody hell!" I said laughing as Ginny threw another hex at Crabbe, Goyle, and Warrington, barely missing me.

Soon, the room was filled with bat bogeys, flying out of the noses of their owners and attacking their faces, sticking and scratching at them. Millicent and Katherine did the smart thing and stood back, watching in horror as their fellow Slytherins were attacked. Other jinxes and hexes were thrown amongst us and them, but in the end, we came out on top.

"You better not follow us." threatened Ginny, pointing her wand at the girls, who nodded in fear. We backed out of the room, closed the door, and sealed it shut. THen we took off running out of the room.

"Where do you think they went?" asked Neville, as we ran in no direction in particular.

" The Forbidden Forest. I saw them from the window!" I said.

We kept our wands out as we made a beeline for the forest. Soon, the cover of the trees made everything seem like dusk, so Neville lit the tip of his wand so we could see.

Soon, I heard voices. Arguing. Harry and Hermione.

"We need to get back up to the castle," I heard Hermione say.

"By the time we've done that, Sirius'll probably be dead!"

"Well, we can't do anything without wands. Anyway, Harry, how exactly were you planning to get all the way to London?"

"Yeah, we were just wondering that." I said as we approached them.

Harry and Hermione gasped as they turned to face us.

"So, had any ideas?" I asked as I gave Harry back his wand.

"How did you get away?" he asked.

"Couple of Stunners, a Disarming Charm, Neville brought off a really nice little Impediment Jinx," I said as I handed Hermione's wand to her as well. "But Ginny was best, she got Malfoy-Bat Bogey Hex-it was superb, his whole face was covered in the great flapping things. Anyway, we saw you out of the window heading into the Forest and followed. What've you done with Umbridge?"

"She got carried away," said Harry. "By a herd of centaurs."

"And they left you behind?" asked Ginny, looking astonished.

"No, they got chased off by Grawp," said Harry.

"Who's Grawp?" asked Luna, intrigued.

"Hagrid's little brother," I said swiftly, trying to stay on task. "Anyway, never mind that now. Harry, what did you find out in the fire? Has You-Know-Who got Sirius or-?"

"Yes," said Harry, "and I'm sure Sirius is still alive, but I can't see how we're going to get there to help him."

We all fell silent, none of us really knowing what to say or what to do. It seemed as if it would be impossible. There was no way we could go back to the castle, it would raise suspicion, as I figured at least one of the tossers had recovered and went and told by now.

"Well, we'll have to fly, won't we?' said Luna, as if any other idea would be completely ridiculous.

"OK," said Harry irritably, rounding on her. "First of all, 'we' aren't doing anything if you're including yourself in that, and second of all, Ron's the only one with a broomstick that isn't being guarded by a security troll, so-"

"I've got a broom!" said Ginny.

"Yeah, but you're not coming." I said angrily. No way was i having something happen to my baby sister.

"Excuse me, but I care what happens to Sirius as much as you do!" huffed Ginny, her jaw set so that her resemblance to Fred and George was suddenly striking.

"You're too-" Harry began, but Ginny said fiercely, "I'm three years older than you were when you fought You-Know-Who over the Philosophers Stone, and it's because of me that Malfoy's stuck back in Umbridge's office with giant flying bogies attacking him-"

"Yeah, but-"

"We were all in the DA together," said Neville quietly. "It was all supposed to be about fighting You-Know-Who, wasn't it? And this is the first chance we've had to do something real-or was that all just a game or something?"

"No-of course it wasn't-" said Harry impatiently.

"Then we should come too," said Neville simply. "We want to help."

"That's right," said Luna, smiling happily.

Harry looked over at me, as if asking for help. And while I had the same thoughts running through my head as he did, I couldn't help but concede. I simply shrugged, wishing that I could replace Luna and Neville with Parvati, Padma, and Dean.

"Well, it doesn't matter, anyway," said Harry through gritted teeth, "because we still don't know how to get there-"

"I thought we'd settled that," said Luna maddeningly. "We're flying!"

"Look," I said, trying to hold in my anger, "you might be able to fly without a fucking broomstick but the rest of us can't sprout wings whenever we-"

"There are ways of flying other than with broomsticks."

"I s'pose we're going to ride on the back of the Kacky Snorgle or whatever it is?!"

"The Crumple-Horned Snorkack can't fly," said Luna in a dignified voice , causing my jaw to completely drop, "but they can, and Hagrid says they're very good at finding places their riders are looking for."

Harry turned and looked between two trees. A grin was etching itself onto his face.

"Yes!" he whispered, moving towards the trees, sticking out his hand, and rubbing the air like a madman.

" Oh bloody hell, is it those mad horse things? Those ones you can't see unless you've watched someone snuff it?"

"Yeah," said Harry.

"How many?"

'Just two.'

"Well, we need three," said Hermione, who was still looking a little shaken, but determined just the same.

"Four, Hermione," said Ginny, scowling.

"I think there are six of us, actually," said Luna calmly, counting.

"Don't be stupid, we can't all go!" said Harry angrily. "Look, you three (he pointed at Neville, Ginny and Luna) you're not involved in this, you're not-"

The four of them burst into more protests. Hermione and I just looked at each other and shrugged. We had already faced fact that they were indeed coming.

"OK, fine, it's your choice," said Harry, throwing his hands up, "but unless we can find more Thestrals you're not going to be able-"

"Oh, more of them will come, shut up." said Ginny confidently.

"What makes you think that?"

"Because, in case you hadn't noticed, you and Hermione are both covered in blood," she said coolly, "and we know Hagrid lures Thestrals with raw meat. That's probably why these two turned up in the first place."

'OK, then. Ron and I will take these two and go ahead, and Hermione can stay here with you three and she'll attract more Thestrals-"

"I'm not staying behind!" said Hermione furiously.

"There's no need," said Luna, smiling. "Look, here come more now ... you two must really smell."

Harry turned and sighted, counting out eight.

"All right," he said angrily, "pick one and get on, then."