Grudges

Chapter 3

"I wasn't even involved in this prank whatsoever guys, please let me go to herbology." Victoria sighed as the twins blocked her path, Skye still going on about how bad of a friend Victoria was for not helping her.

Secretly, Victoria was happy to be missing such a class. She personally thought herbology was just a little useless, unless of course you were planning to be a herbology professor or a healer like Madam Pomfrey. She certainly wasn't planning on doing either of those things, she knew didn't want to have anything to do with herbology.

Skye was still thrown over Fred's shoulder when they started walking to what Victoria assumed was the herbology room, Skye had long ago calmed down. Victoria was walking quietly next to George, thinking about her future. She wanted to be a writer, but she also wanted to be an auror. DADA was her favorite class, and she knew this year would be ruined by Professor Umbridge, on the next Saturday there was a meeting with Harry Potter at Hogsmeade. Skye had told her.

She knew Slytherin's weren't supposed to know about the meeting, as recently they had been sucking up to Umbridge, but she wasn't, and she blatantly refused to. She would attend that meeting regardless of what others thought, and she would join whatever they were planning.

A hand waved in front of her face shook her from her thoughts, they were in front of the greenhouse. Skye rolled her eyes at Victoria and opened the door, leading Victoria into her least favorite class.

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Saturday quickly arrived, and Victoria was hiding in the back of the room, the hood on her jacket pulled up as far as it could go as to hid her face. Skye was up front along with Fred and George, they were joking around and playing along before Harry called the rooms attention.

He spoke of Voldemort, and how he was really back and how we needed to learn to fight him. A few students asked questions, and he answered them honestly, telling them about Voldemort and all the things he had done. Skye was one of those people who raised her hand, but she had a different type of question.

"If Voldemort is guilty for discriminating against a certain person, aren't you guilty of that as well?" Her voice was condescending as she spoke.

"What do you mean?"

"She's talking about her Death Eater friend." Lavender Brown's voice spoke up through the crowd.

"She is not a Death Eater you bitch. Now how about you shut your mouth before I hex it shut. She's a Slytherin, and all of you have in some way discriminated against her for no reason."

"All Slytherins are not to be trusted." Ron Weasley spoke up, Victoria flinched at the statement, almost tempted to step out of the shadows and show them her bare left wrist.

"That's not true little brother,-" "Victoria is a good person." The twins spoke up this time, they looked back to the corner I was in and smirked. "Right, Victoria?" She groaned as the whole room looked at the shadows.

Victoria stepped from the shadows, letting the hood fall from her head. "Je te déteste les gars." She growled in French at the twins.

The twins quickly looked at Skye, who translated it as 'I hate you guys'. The room was still staring at Victoria.

"I'm not a Death Eater and i'd appreciate it if you guys would stop assuming I am simply because I am a Slytherin. The only reason i'm here is because I heard this would help train to fight Voldemort and his followers. I will gladly leave and not tell anyone of this meeting if you guys aren't willing to accept me in this group." Everyone quickly turned their heads to Harry, his face flushed as they all began to stare at him once more.

"I...uh sure. Welcome to...?" It was then Harry realized they hadn't come up with a name for their group.

Victoria stood in the back of the room thinking as the group steadily grew louder and louder, talking about the name. She stealthily walked up to Harry, avoiding the gaze of the other members as she walked.

"I'm Victoria Moreau. It's nice to finally meet you, Harry." Victoria stuck her hand out for Harry to shake, a smile on her face as he took it.

"Nice to meet you Victoria. I'm Harry Potter." She laughed quietly and let go of his hand.

"Like I don't know." She paused for a minute, looking over the room, hearing many names, one of the things that stuck out was the name Dumbledore "What about Dumbledore's Army? That is what we are, right?" Harry looked over at her in astonishment before smiling widely.

"Dumbledore's Army. I like it."