The Evil Spawn

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     It was now Saturday; Alexis awoke with a pain in her left arm. Even with her left arm in pain, she managed to get dressed. Looking at her watch, she had approximately 10 minutes to get to the Hogshead, in Hogsmeade.

She walked calmly to Hogshead even though at this rate she would most likely be at least 3 minutes late. When she finally reached the door, she yanked it open and came face to face with a large group of kids.

"Am I late?" She asked the Trio.

"Not at all. We were just getting started," said Ron, who was pulling out chairs for everyone.

Alexis nodded and sat down next to Hermione, Ron, and Harry, who were all facing the group. Padma and Parvati Patil were there, along with the twins, Lee Jordan, Neville Longbottom, Luna, Dean Thomas, Lavender Brown, Cho Chang, and one of her friends that Alexis had never seen before. Then Katie Bell, Alicia Spinnet, Angelina Johnson, Colin and Dennis Creevey, Ernie Macmillan, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Hannah Abbot, a Hufflepuff girl with long plait braids, Michael Corner, Terry Boot, Anthony Goldstein, Ginny, and a boy that was on the Hufflepuff quidditch team.

The entire group was sipping butterbeer and interacting with each other as they were waiting for any one of the four to start speaking.

"Er," Hermione said, her voice slightly higher than usual. "Well—er—hi."

Alexis watched with an amused look on her face, as Hermione tried to talk to the large group. She was embarrassed for Hermione, as she was stuttering and slowly turning redder and redder.

"Do you want me to take over?" Alexis whispered into Hermione's ear. Although usually Hermione would be scared of Alexis, she turned around and whispered 'yes'. Alexis gave a small smile and turned to the group.

"So—" She clapped her hands together to capture everyone's attention. " Everyone is here because you guys don't want to keep learning that rubbish Umbridge is teaching you all."

She got some yells and claps of agreement.

"You want to pass your Defense Against the Dark Arts O.W.L. too though, I bet?" said Michael Corner to the Trio.

Before Hermione could answer, Alexis spoke up. "Have you met her? Of course, she does." There were some chuckles from the group, "But that's not the only reason why they made this group. Frankly, they made this group because Voldemorts back."

The reaction from the students was very predictable. Some shrieked, Terry Boot gave a little twitch, Padma shuddered, Neville yelped and tried to cover it up with a cough, and everyone fixed their eyes onto Harry.

"Where's the proof you-know-who's back?" asked the blond Hufflepuff player quite aggressively.

"Well, Dumbledore believes it—" Hermione began.

"You mean, Dumbledore believes him," said the boy, nodding in Harrys' direction.

"Who are you?" said Ron rather rudely.

"Zacharias Smith," said the boy, "and I think we've got the right to know exactly what makes him say You-Know-who's back."

"And who are you to say that?" Alexis spoke up coldly, sending a shiver down everyone's spine.

"I'm Zacharias Smith, I just said my name—"

"Right. So you're Zacharias Smith. I don't remember you becoming Headmaster or Minister for Magic." Zacharias looked stumped.

"Harry doesn't owe you anything. He watched someone die, while you sat comfortably in the stands. If anything, you guys are the last people he should have to prove this too. A classmate died, and you're invalidating his death by not believing the person who witnessed it."