chapter 8

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"You've done it, Neville

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"You've done it, Neville. You've found the Room of Requirement." Hermione smiles sighing taking a look at the room.

"The Room of- huh?" Ophelia narrows her eyes at the unfamiliar name.

"Uh it's also known as the come and go room. 'The Room of Requirement only appears when a person has a real need for it, and it's always equipped for h the seeker's needs."

"So you say you really needed the toilet.." Ron shrugs Ophelia covers her mouth slightly laughing quietly.

"Charming...Ronald, but yes, that is the general idea."

"It's brilliant. It's like Hogwarts wants us to fight back." Harry exclaims.

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"Expelliarmus!" Neville shouts at the dummy, instead his wand flies back making everyone duck suddenly almost hitting Nigel in the face.

"I'm hopeless."

"You're just flourishing your wand too much, try it like this. Expelliarmus!"

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"You will please copy the approved text four times to ensure maximum retention." Umbridge giggles slightly making Ophelia want to unforgivable curse herself then and there.

"There will be no need to talk."

"I need to actually think is more like it." Ophelia says rolling her eyes not caring what the woman says anymore.

"Wands away!" Neville puts his wand away embarrassed and puts his head down.

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"Stunning is one of the useful spells in your arsenal, it's a sort of a Wizard's bread and butter really so uhm. Nigel, give me your best shot." Harry puts his hands up.

Nigel stands there frozen, "Stupefy!" He shouts before him and Harry both fly back.

"Not bad, at all Nigel well done." Harry puts his thumbs up, narrowing his eyes after getting blasted onto the floor by a second year.

"Don't worry, I'll go easy on you." Ron assures Ophelia placing a hand on her shoulder.

"Thanks, Ronald." She laughs before getting ready,

"One sickle.."
"You're on."

"Stupefy!" Ophelia shouts sending Ron flying backwards she smirks proudly at herself.

"I let her do that....it's good manners isn't it? It's completely intentional..."

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"Working hard is important but there's something that matters even more, believing in yourself. Think of it this way, every great wizard in history started out as nothing more than what, we are now. Students, if they can do it, why not us?"

"Expelliarmus!" Ophelia shouts at the dummy making the wand fly back almost smacking Harry in the back of the head as he helps Cho with her spell.

"I think I almost interrupted something." She mumbles to Hermione.

"Reducto!" Ginny shouts making the whole room turn a light blue for a second. Everyone stares at the girl with widened eyes as she smiles proudly.

"Expelliarmus!" Neville shouts making the dummy's wands fly back, everyone runs over to Neville.

"You did it Neville." Padma smiles as everyone compliments the boy.

"Right, that's it for this lesson. We're not going to be meeting again until after Christmas, again until after the holidays, so just keep practicing. Great great work."

Ophelia looks to Harry who is watching Cho stand by a photo of Cedric, she looks to Ron and smirks.

"Uh, we'll see you in the common room Harry." She says as the trio walk back, completely knowing what's about to happen.

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"Well, how was it?"

"Wet. I- I mean she was sort of crying,"

Ron laughs as Ophelia and Hermione send him glares, "That bad at it are you?"

"I'm sure Harry's kissing was more than satisfactory, Cho spends half her time crying these days." Hermione states, Harry nods.

"You'd think a bit of snogging would cheer her up."

"Don't you understand how she must be feeling?" Ophelia bits in, "Well, obviously she's feeling sad about Cedric. Therefore confused about liking Harry, and guilty about kissing him. Conflicted because Umbridge is threatening to sack her mum from her job at the Ministry and frightened of failing her OWLs because she's so busy worrying about everything else." She finishes.

"One person couldn't feel all that, they'll explode." Ron laughs.

"Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon." She says bluntly before the three of them laugh, causing Ophelia to laughs a little.

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