Until The Very End.

Expecto Patronum.

It was our second day back at Hogwarts after the christmas break.

Millie's POV

Me and Andy were meeting the twins in the great hall for breakfast. We were walking arm in arm through the corridors, some students were giving us weird looks as we walked through. Mostly at me. They looked, scared? We walked into the great hall and that's when everyone turned their heads to us.

"This is weird" Andy whispered leaning over to me.

We walked through to the twins that were right at the front, trying to ignore the pairs of eyes watching us walk by. We sit in front of the twins and I put my hands on the table in front of me.

"Right what is everyone's problem? Why are they looking at me like I got two heads?" I asked the boys.

"You haven't heard?" Fred asked.

"Of course she hasn't bloody heard you idiot" George said to his brother and punched his shoulder.

"Haven't heard what? Will someone tell me what the hell is happening!" I said quickly making Andy jump.

George handed me a copy of the Daily Prophet.

'MASS BREAKOUT FROM AZKABAN'

"We have confirmed that 10 high-security prisoners in the early hours of yesterday evening did escape from Azkaban. We strongly suspect that the breakout was engineered by a man with personal experience in escaping from Azkaban, the notorious mass murderer Sirius Black..." I read out loud from the paper.

"Keep going" Fred said quietly tapping the paper for me to continue. I look at him with a confused face and put my eyes on the paper once again.

"cousin of escapee, Bellatrix Lestrange..." I finished reading. My hands started shaking as I put the paper back down onto the table "No this can't be true. It's the Daily Prophet, they always speak a load of bullshit. Right?"

"It's there in black and white Millie..." Andy spoke up quietly.

"I know it's there Andy!" I raised my voice.

"Sorry" she replied after I spoke.

"Turn the paper around" George told me. I gave him a confused look and did what he said.

It was there, the moving picture of my insane second cousin. She was free. And we all know who she's gonna want to get next. My dad. Hermione, Ron and Harry entered the great hall and made their way to us.

"Dumbledore warned Fudge this could happen. He's gonna get us all killed just because he can't face the truth" Hermione said before sitting down beside Andy and gave her a small smile.

"Harry" Seamus spoke as he appeared behind us and we all turned to look at him "I wanted to apologise. Now even my mum says the Prophet's version of things don't add up. So what I'm trying to say is that I believe you" he said ending with a smile and went to sit back down.

Andy's POV

After Seamus's 'speech' I looked around for Neville, but he was nowhere to be seen.

"You guys, I'm gonna go look for Nev, check he's alright" I said before giving George a kiss on the cheek and rushing out of the hall.

I wandered the corridors for a while as I searched for him. I reached the room of requirement and saw him stood by the mirror, looking at the old photo of the order.

"Nev?" I spoke quietly and approached him, looking into the mirror beside him.

"Fourteen years ago, a Death Eater named Bellatrix Lestrange used a Cruciatus Curse on my parents. She tortured them for information but they never gave in" he spoke up as he watched the moving picture taped on the mirror.

"I'm quite proud to be their son" he told me and looked down at me "But I'm not sure I'm ready for everyone to know just yet" he sighed and put his arm around me.

"We're gonna make them proud, Neville. That's a promise, okay?" I told him. The army came flooding in and gathered around as we turned to them.

"What's today Harry?" Luna asked him when everyone was there.

"Today guys, we're going to perform the patronus. Just split up into pairs and scatter yourselves around the room, make sure you have space" he explained, I paired with Millie and the twins went together.

"Make it a powerful memory, the happiest you can remember. Allow it to fill you up" he spoke aloud as he walked around us as we practiced "Keep trying Seamus"

He approached me, Millie, Fred and George who were in the furthest corner from anyone.

"Fred, George, your turn now" he said walking around us.

The twins got back to back raising their wands.

"Expecto Patronum!" they shouted in unison.

Blue-tinted, ghost-like magpies appeared at the ends of their wands and flew around them before disappearing seconds later.

"Go on girls, you now" Harry said to us.

We raised our wands and repeated the same spell. A tiny badger cub, looking the same as the twins magpies, ran around me and through my feet, jumping up on my leg and disappearing. I turned to Millie who had a fox pup running around her and disappearing after.

"A full-bodied Patronus is the most difficult to produce but shield forms can also be equally useful against a variety of oppenents. Just remember, your Patronus can only protect you for as long as you can stay focused" Harry continued as he walked around the room, approaching everyone.

But the lights began flickering and the ground shook every 3 seconds. The mirrored wall on the entrance smashed to pieces revealing a brick wall and a tiny hole in the middle. We then heard a very familiar high-pitched voice of a woman.

"I'll make short work of this. Bombarda Maxima" she said.

When Fred and George realised what spell she used, they stood in front of me and Millie, they bent over us and covered us entirely as the wall exploded and sent pieces of stone flying around the room. Some must of hit the twins backs because we heard them groan and wince in pain but quietly. When the room had calmed down they stood back up properly and stood behind us. We looked at the group of people that were now stood at an open entrance, Draco pulled a girl into view. We couldn't tell who it was because of the dust in the air, but when it calmed down we realised who it was.

"It's Cho" I whispered to Millie. But Millie was angry.