Redhead || George x reader || y/n Lestrange

Chapter 58

Note: what's up bitches I'm back from the dead and I've brought for all you babies a treat. Merry Christmas.

The halls were quiet as you suck around every corner, lifting your feet and waving the others behind you to follow. You each crept past one of the many great brick walls within Hogwarts a total of three times, and upon your third return the doors of the room of requirement opened wide for you and a few of your peers to follow behind.

Upon entry, the room seemed rather pathetic. It was dark and musty, cold and barren.

"This reminds me of my childhood bedroom..." you let your eyes wander around the nostalgic dark brick as the eyes of the others hid their judgement about that statement behind their confused faces.

"My childhood room was a peaceful turquoise...this reminds me quite of our cellar." Luna chimed in quietly and wistfully.

The steps of Harry Potter emerged not so swiftly ahead of you, Ron and Hermione trailing not far behind. He gave each person a nod, a gesture of acknowledgement and respect, and spoke with weak confidence.

"Hogwarts wants us to fight back." His voice was frail behind composed posture, but compelling all the same.

"Can I count on you all to fight along side us?"

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"Expelliarmus!"

The same word echoed throughout the room, student after student attempting to knock the wand out of the mannequins hand. You could help but quietly snicker at the struggling students.

"Expelliarmus!" Neville shouted upon his entry to the front of the line. His wand was swiftly knocked out of his hand and launched behind him, landing dangerously close to where Ron stood.

"My god..." you thought to yourself. While your thoughts were ringing in only your head, the chuckle from your face and the stance of your eyebrows lead George to start up a conversation.

"It is only the first lesson you know. We'll get better."

You looked up to him. He smirked down at you, confident in the fact he was able to read your expressions with so much ease now.

"I don't at all disagree. It just takes me back to my first lesson..." failures such as these were not so easily permitted. Nor was time wasted on such simple spells.

"What we're you learning?" George inquired, genuinely curious but concerned as to what the response may be.

"Take a wild guess, my love."

He was silent.

"It was nothing I could use in such a small and collapsable room." You grinned, but this time without so much confidence and with more thoughtful memory. George gripped his arm around you and held you close, looking ahead to who was next. Soon it would be you.

Some more students succeeded in their first attempt before you stood before them. The suspense was thickening the air of the room. You had no intentions of causing any chaos, but their suspicion was not without cause.

"Expelliarmus." You spoke with a smooth and silky tone. The wand was knocked out of the dummies hand and you were able to move to the back of the line, watching as the next student succeeded the same.

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"Stunning is one of the most useful spells in your arsenal, isn't it?" Harry spoke to the class.

"Finally. The boy is making some sense."

"Go ahead Nigel, give it your best shot." He spoke again to a small ginger boy, nervous to even attempt to harm the ever famous chosen one.

"Now THIS is what I'm here for." Your eyes were almost wide, but not quite, with the excitement of what may happen. Either the spell succeeds and Harry is hilariously injured, or, it fails and Nigel will be hilariously injured. Either way, you were ready.

"Stupify!" Nigel shouted, though closing his eyes when his wand shot out the release of the spell. Harry was knocked to the ground.

The class was silent. You were not.

You were laughing heartily, resting your arm on your knee as those laughs turned into giggles, into chuckles, and then to words.

"Nigel that was amazing. Do it again."

Harry got up to his feet rather easily.

"Please don't. That was a very good shot Nigel, but another one would render me a broken man. In bones and in pride." The class could chuckle at that.

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"Stupify!" Hermione suited as the pointed her wand to Ron, who was immediately and very easily knocked over like a rubber chess piece. A swarm of girls came giggling to congratulate her, you thing one of them.

"Hermione that was beautiful. I've never been more proud of you." You winked at her for a reason you couldn't explain other that that is just what ended up happening.

"George! I want to do that to you to! Come here!" You lightly ran through a few people, chasing after your stalk of a boyfriend who has managed to disappear.

"I'll still find you...soon." You mumbled under your breath. George slowly backed away from behind you where he and been the whole time.

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"Great, keep your concentration." Harry held Cho's hand as she supported a boy in mid air with her wand.

"When will he actually teach something useful...he's just trying to flirt." Coming to this class as often as you had to was becoming agitating. You learned nothing, and those who were learning were being thought the spells that you knew would never save them.

"Harry, can we talk?"

Her turned to you, not yet letting go of Cho's hand.

"Of course. Why?"

"Let go of her hand and we can talk."

He blushed and immediately released her hand. He nodded to her, though it looked much more like a bow and walked to the corner with you.

"Harry, you're doing a great job teaching."

"Thanks y/n. I'm trying, but-"

"But you're not teaching them what they have to know."

He stood silent.

"I know who we're fighting against better than you do. Better than anyone here. I'm telling you now that if you want to prepare those students, prepare them with more than fancy words and impressive spells, you have to prepare them for the reality that the other side does not fight on equal grounds."

"They have to learn basic curses. The things I've had to use with them already, what I've seen them use. They don't have to dive into the dark arts but if they...WE have any chance at this then we have to get them on equal ground. I have to get them on equal ground."

Harry was silent for a few more moment, composting what you had spoken. Then he cleared his throat.

"Then what would you suggest I incorporate?"

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"Ok everyone. Today will be a little different. I have tried my very best to teach you everything that I can, and I am very impressed with where all of you are right now. Everyone has learned something new, and I'm sure you feel more prepared."

He nodded to you.

"But, it's time we started with some spells that you may more realistically need to know and will likely have to use. That's why I've decided that for today's class and for fractions of our continuing classes, we will have y/n educate us on what she has to offer."

The class didn't have much to say as you stepped forward. In fact, if was so silent that with each click of your shoes to the ground your steps were each heard throughout the room very loudly. You approached Harry and stood next to him, then turning to the class who now looked to you.

"What he said."