Black Raven (Harry Potter)

Dumbledore's Army

Erela's POV

It snowed last night. We all headed to the Hogs Head to meet with some people who wanted to be a part of Harry's group. I was met with familiar faces, but also some faces that I haven't seen before.

Many students were apprehensive and didn't know whether to trust Harry. It wasn't until Luna firstly mentioned him casting a patronus charm, followed by Neville mentioning Harry killing a basalisk and Hermione confirming that she witnessed him casting the partonus charm to protect him and her from the Death Eaters. He was one of the Triwizarding champions, he is a skilled wizard.

The people who wanted to join signed their name on a piece of parchment, before we all headed back to the castle. As we walked through the bridge I could help overhearing Hermione mentioning how Cho couldn't stop looking at Harry. I was filled with jealousy and trying my best not to show it.

We were filled with excitement knowing that we have formed a group of people together for Harry to teach them how to protect themselves, but also to stand up against Umbridge.

Arkalis POV

The stress of studying for my O.W.L.S was made at ease whenever I was around Esme. We have been studying a lot together in the library. I have been able to get to know her a lot more with the time that we spend together and that is always one of my favourite parts of the day.

It has been a week since we formed Dumbledore's Army, and Neville happened to stumble along a place for us to train. Hermione mentioned that it was the Room of Requirement. The six of us felt excited as we knew, we could start our meetings.

It didn't take long for the meetings to begin. We held one the next night after finding the Room of Requirement. I never really how unskilled some people were, but I have to praise Esme when we were practicing stupefy on each other she was definitely a lot quicker than me. The twins placed their bets on Ron and Hermione as well as me and Esme. Me and Ron just made the excuse of being gentlemen and letting the girls stun us. The really reason was just me being mesmerised by her beauty. Erela was eager to go against Hermione, putting her in her place as she stupefied her across the room. It was great to watch her being put in her place a little. At times I get annoyed by her being a little know it all, it doesn't take away from the fact that she is a great person, it's just a little annoying.

We practiced a lot of things weeks leading up to Christmas. Many different spells and counter curses to protect us. Erela has been a great help to Harry and I must say they work really well together. I was able to pitch in at times too. There was something which caught my eye just a few days ago. Harry was checking groups who were practicing the levioso charm, when he got to Cho's group the both of them couldn't look away from each other as their eyes met. It wasn't that which struck me, it was the expression that Erela pulled. She clearly felt some kind of jealousy. I know that Harry and Cho have been spending some time together after the sessions, it's just usually him walking her to the Ravenclaw common room. Just after she witnessed the eye contact, there was tension between the both of them as we were dismissed to go back to our dorm rooms. Esme began to notice Erela looking over at Harry a lot more, she also noticed the short eye contact they give each other. It was pretty amusing watching my sister fall for Harry and not knowing what to do about it, but I also felt bad for her having to watch him like someone else.

Erela's POV

Our last session ended as in a couple of days time we were all heading back home for Christmas. Me and Harry thought it would be appropriate to give everyone the two days off, so that they could pack and be ready to go home. We have spent a lot of time here in the Room of Requirement and everyone has improved so much already.

As I was passing the halls, I was stopped by Professor Filch.

"Professor Umbridge would like to see you in her office right this instant Miss Black." He commanded.

I knew what it was about, my brother and Esme were questioned yesterday about being part of a group which was not confirmed by Umbridge herself. She has recently created the Inquisitor Group, which was filled with Slytherins who were trying to catch us in the act.

I knocked on her door gently.

"Come in."

I've been in her office twice before, for speaking out of line in her class. She definitely had some kind of vendetta against me. Her office was pink and the sound of the cats gave me a headache.

"Sit down." She commanded.

I didn't say anything back to her.

"Would you like some tea dear?" She asked.

"I'm alright thanks."

"Alright. I will cut to my point Miss Black. Are you taking part in any activities that I should know about?"

"I don't really have the time to be doing anything else apart from studying." I snapped.

"I have very bad suspicions about you and Mr Potter and I will get to the bottom of it. I will not let you both roam around the school feeding the students lies."

"If anyone is feeding anyone lies is you, professor."

"I will not let you get away with your tone and I will not allow you to treat me like this. I hear of your power and I am not afraid of it." Umbridge uttered.

"Oh but you should be. See Remus didn't train me and my brother to be bullied by people like you, who think it's ok to gaslight students into believing that danger is not upon us. You must realise professor Umbridge, I could not give a merlins beard about your threats or how hard you try to get information out of me. You won't get it out of me and I can assure you that, because you know full well if you tried to give me the truth serum I wouldn't hesitate to hurt you. It would be pretty embarrassing for you to be hurt by a student. Now if you don't mind I have studying to do." I expressed.

She was shocked for a moment.

"If you carry on I will get Fudge to find your father and put him back in Azkaban." She seethed, trying to boil my blood.

"You do that and you will pay for it."

She no longer had anything to say.

As I got back to the common room I overheard Harry, Ron and Hermione talking by the fire place. They carried on their conversation as I tried to study. Overhearing the fact that Harry kissed Cho filled me with jealousy. Ugh, I hated that I had to listen to it and the fact that Harry described it as "wet" just made me cringe. I felt a little sick. It hurt a little too. I tried to shut away the feelings, thinking it's because it's the first boy that has given me attention, but it was clear that I couldn't hide the feelings I had. We laugh together sometimes and it reminds me of the times that I watch Remus and Sirius laugh together. Love was the last thing on my mind, all I wanted was to make my father proud, but these feelings for Harry took over my mind. I couldn't bare hearing them talk about his kiss with Cho, so I picked up my stuff and went to my dorm room.

As I walked in I was greeted by Esme's smile.

"Where were you? I noticed you didn't come back straight after the DA meeting." She seemed worried.

"Umbridge wanted to see me in her office."

"Is everything alright? She gave me a really tough time the other day, saying that if I don't fess up she will expel me from Hogwarts. I lied through my teeth of course and told her nothing was going on and I think she bought it."

"Yeah she tried to get me to tell her if I was doing anything, but if I am being honest I think I just put her in her place. I don't care the amount of times she makes me scar myself with her stupid quill." I replied.

"Someone will give in eventually, she will use something to get them to speak up." Esme uttered.

"She will probably use the veritaserum, it wouldn't surprise me anyway."

"Yeah you're right, luckily they haven't caught us yet."

"Luckily."

I begun to feel this bad feeling, like something was going to happen to someone and I didn't know what to do about it.