Raised By A Killer // Harry Potter FanFic //

Dumbledores Army

"The room of requirement?" Harry asks as we walk back to the castle.

"I know that place!" Says Neville hurrying along with us. "I used it last year to hide from Filch."

"What is it?" Asks Ron, clearly confused.

"It's a room that appears when someone needs it. I've read about it, but I didn't think it was actually in the castle." Hermione says flicking through Hogwarts, A History, which she must have been carrying in her bag.

"It's perfect," I say skipping ahead and then walking backwards to continue facing them. "We can form the room into an area where we can practise!"

We continue back towards the castle, the sun slowly sinking beneath the horizon.

I was getting really excited about finally learning some defensive magic this year.

The next day Hermione had to keep reminding me to calm down as I bounced up  and down in my chair throughout class.

I was on a complete high and that night kept nagging Harry to decide when our first meeting would be.

"Please! Tomorrow night! We can do it Friday nights!" I say shaking Harry as the others laugh at me.

"We have Quidditch practice tomorrow afternoon Trista, but how about Saturday afternoon?"

"That's ages away! But okay! I'll let people know!" I say and make a start for the Great Hall before dinner.

"Ris!" Fred says as he and George laugh their heads off. "Be careful, not to get heard."

"Oh, right, yes...I'll be careful," I say and run out the room, ready to find people I needed to tell.

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"So how do we get in?" Hermione asks as we stand at the end of the hallway in front of the wall.

"Like this," Neville says and walks backwards and forwards thinking hard. Suddenly a door appears and we enter, taking in our surroundings.

It was never like when I had hid in here. There was triple the space, almost three classroom's put together in size. There were cupboards that people had begun checking for things we could use. There were targets, and pillows and dummies to firer spells at.

"So Harry, where do we start?" Ron asks as we all line up in front of Harry.

"I guess we could start will disarming," Harry says, "uh who wants to help me demonstrate?"

Skilah's hand shoots up and Harry nods to her. She steps forward and stands where he directs, drawing her wand out. "Okay, I'm going to disarm you," Harry says also drawing his wand. "One, two, three..." He counts, "expellierns!" He shouts and the wand Skilah had been holding flies into the air and Harry grabs it with his left hand.

We all clap excitedly and Harry does a small bow, grinning widely. "Okay, partner up and get disarming!"

I partner with Neville and tell him he can go first. He tries three times with out disarming my wand. I can tell he's getting frustrated and offer for me to have a try so be can watch and copy me.

I focus on Neville's wand, pointing my own at his. I flick my wrist in a small circle a say, "expelliarnus!" The wand n Neville's hand flies towards me and I jump up and catch it midair. I fist pump the air and smile widely.

"Not bad Ta Ta!" George yells and I turn and disarm him.

"Expelliarnus!" I catch his wand too. "Don't call me Ta Ta," I say and throw it back, also throwing Neville's back too, surprisingly catching it. "Try again Neville, but this time flick your wrist in a circle and focus really hard on my wand."

Neville does what I say but still can't disarm me. I call Harry over to help Neville but he's given up for today.

"You'll get it next week Neville, keep practising," Harry encourages but Neville walks away disappointed. "You did well," Harry says, "your not normally that good with this stuff."

"I have a better teacher," I say and laugh along with Harry.

Everyone was starting to leave but Hermione stops them, pulling out a small coin purse like the one she had given me. "Everyone, this is what appears to be a regular galleon, but if we want to hold a meeting, it will get warm and the date on it will change to when we want to meet. This way, we won't have to talk about it in front of people who don't know."

"Neat!" Says Seamus, "it's kind of like our own dark mark." I have no idea what he's talking about and decide to ask Hermione later.

People then begin to go out in pairs or three's so no one gets seen by someone suspicious. I'm last to leave with Hermione and decide to ask her what a dark Mark is while we wait.

"It's the mark all death eaters have, and when Voldemort touches it, it gets warm and they know to gather."

"What does it look like?" I ask, interested.

"Let's go to the library and I'll show you," Hermione says. On our way we pass Harry and Hermione whispers something in his ear which he then tells Ron.

"What did you tell him?" I ask as we start off again. We go down two sets of stairs and around a corner until we are at the library.

"I'll tell you in a minute," Hermione says as we head inside. She scans the shelves, searching for a book. She finds the one she's looking for and flicks through the pages until she finds a full page picture.

It was a colossal skull with a serpent tongue. I had seen it before. On my Mother's left forearm. It was very faded, and when I had asked her about it she had said the spell she had used to create it had started to wear off.

"Trista, have you seen this before?" She asks and I nod, beginning to shake.

"Did you know this? Did you know my Mother was a...a...a..." I say and whisper the next word, "Death Eater?"

Hermione nods looking partly scared. "You really didn't know?" She asks looking at my face of terror.

"Draco had told me, but I hadn't believed him." I said. "Hermione. What does this mean for me?"

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Authors Note

First of all I'm really sorry! Last week I forgot to update and yesterday as well. But today I had the day off from school so thought I best finish this chapter and update it!

I was pretty excited about this part of the book and trust me, it starts to get really interesting 😋

*Fact #12*

I dislike the way Ginny and Harry's relationship is portrayed in the movies because it was so much better in the books.

Anyway! Thank you for the reads and votes! Keep them coming!

And sorry, again.

Erin x
A Proud Potterhead ⚡️