Father's Little Deatheater

Dumbledore's Army

First lesson in the Room of Requirement we learn expelliarmus. Neville goes first as the rest of us pile in line behind him. He tries to cast expelliarmus on the training dummy, but he fails and his wand goes flying back down the line we all have to duck, George covers my head with his arms. How cute.

"I'm hopeless" Neville moans. "You're just flourishing your wand too much" Harry tells him. "Try it like this" Expelliarmus!" Harry demonstrates.

Neville tries his hardest to practice out of the room as much as he can.

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Stupify! Is next

"Stunning is one of the most useful spells in your arsenal." Harry explained, pacing the room.
"Hehe, Harry said arse" The Weasley twins joke, making Atti snort instead of laughing. That's the first time in a few months I've heard any sound from him. Fred pats him on the shoulder. "Good to see you smile, Freckles." He whispers to him with a wink.

"Come on Nigel give it your best shot." Harry instructs. Both Nigel and Harry get ready to duel. "Stupefy!" Nigel says, raising his wand. He manages to stun Harry, but the forse of the spell makes him fall backwards too. "Good not bad Nigel. Well done." Harry congratulates, getting up off the floor.

Next up is Hermione and Ron's turn. "Don't worry ill go easy on you." Ron says, trying to act cool. "Thanks Ronald." she replies. "Come on Ron" Some of the boys call out.

"One sickle" George whispers. "You're on" Fred adds. "Hey what about me" I say, wanting to be in on the bet. "A sickle each from each of you if Hermione wins." I demand, shaking each of their hands. "Fine" They say in unison.

Ron moves to lift his wand, but Hermione is faster. "Stupefy!" She announces. Ron is launched back, yelping like a little girl. Fred and George pass me a sickle in each hand as I hold mine out standing behind them. "Thank you" I say, grinning. "Shutup" Fred says sarcastically.

"I let her do that. It's good manners, isn't it?" Ron says as he comes over to us. Fred nods his head in agreement. "It was completely intentional." Ron adds. "Another sickle each says I cant put the both of you on on your arse." I demand, getting slightly greedy. "You're on" They both say. We head over to the corner of the room as Ron watches. I raise my wand getting ready to stun both of the twins. They are standing close together so I focus on a point behind them so I can hopefully stun both at the same time. "Stupefy" I yell out, before they boys get the chance to stun me. Both boys fall back on their arse, I cant help but giggle. "Well done Asteria," Harry comes over, patting me on the back. I beam as Fred and George slump over handing me more sickles. "She's going to rob us blind." Fred jokes.

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The days go on as Umbridge get more curious about what were all up to. She sends Flitch and some Slytherins, including my brother to follow us. The twins and I get an idea to try and trick Flitch one day, by placing some chocolates in a heart box at his little desk in front of the Room of Requirement door. We watch from around the corner as he devours them. He scampers down the hallway, most likely to Umbridge's office as puss filled boils show up all over his face.

We learn multiple spells like: 'Levicorpus.' 'Diminuito!' and 'Reducto!'

Ginny casts a powerful Reducto one day. She beams when Harry congratulates her.

My bother tries to get me to join Umbridge's Inquisitorial squad, but I refuse. This makes her even madder.

Christmas was approaching fast. Neville is still trying to learn Expelliarmus. On this day he casts it successfully making Parvati's wand slip from her hand, causing most of us to cheer for him. I'm so very proud of him.. "So." Harry announces. "That's it for this lesson. Now, we're not going to be meeting again until after the holidays. So just keep practicing on your own as best as you can. And.. and well done, everyone." Harry continues, proudly.

Everyone starts to walk out the door. I'm helping the twins gather up their boxes of goodies when they approach Harry. "We've been thinking, Harry. We could always slip Umbridge some puking pastilles into her tea." "Or fever fudge. They give you these massive pus-filled boils right on.." I add, but Harry interrupts me. "Sounds great, guys. But will you excuse me?" Harry walks away and heads over to talk to Cho, who is staring at the moving picture of Cedric on the mirror. The twins and I look at each other as we head out of the room together.

Alex pulls me aside as we exit the doors. "I need to talk to you," He says. "See you guys, later" I say to the twins. Fred gives me a wave and George gives me a hug before wandering off with his brother. "Have you noticed Atti is never around anymore, he only shows up for these meetings." He tells me as soon as the twins leave. "Yeah, then he disappears again until the next one." I add. "I saw him head down this way a second ago. Shall we follow him." Alex says, pointing down the corridor. "Good idea." I agree, nodding my head as I follow Alex in the direction he saw Atti walk. We catch a glimpse of Atti walking down towards the DADA wing, but instead of going up the stairs he takes a left turn around a curved wall and disappears. We turn the same corner he did, to come across a tall grandfather clock, but instead of numbers there's constellations all over it. "You think he went inside." I ask. "He must have" Alex replies. "Alohomora" He casts shrugging his shoulders. It cant be that simple right? My thoughts were answered. It was that simple. The clock opens up to stairs heading down a dark Ominous corridor. Atti's favourite.

"H-Hello" A female voice speaks, the second we enter a big room with pillars and braises hanging from the celling.

Wha- What are you doing down here?" Atti stutters, shocked to see us. "Blimey Atti, you've cloned yourself." Alex exclaims. The girl giggles. "I'm Stella. Stella Grey." She introduces herself. "Merlin's beard you're a twin too." I exclaim, as they look identical. "Uh.. Surprise? Atti says with a shrug. "You must be Asteria! I recognize your voice." Stella proclaims. "And that must make you Alex." She says, turning to face him.

He explains to us about this place called the Undercroft, showing us the picture on the wall of his ancestors who founded this place. Then about him becoming an Animagus just recently. And found Stella while transforming for the first time. When they met she explained to him that she had been posing as Bandit since the beginning 1994. Crookshanks had killed the real bandit halfway through our third year, so she decided to replace him. She had been adopted by Remus and begged him to come to Hogwarts during Christmas break when he was a teacher, That's when she replaced Bandit. She was placed in Ravenclaw like Atti, but decided to stay in ferret form to look after him.