Magical - Harry Potter Fanfiction

67| Dumbledore's Army

The rain beat down on the common room window as Harry, Ron, Hermione and I sat in the common room. Everyone else was either in the library preparing for a potions exam we had tomorrow, or in bed.

"We have to do something now," Ron said. "No one else is going to. Not even Dumbledore it seems."

"There's something different about him this year. He seems a little off," Harry added.

"I've noticed that too," I agreed.

"He's probably really stressed about everything that's going on. I wouldn't read much into it," Hermione advised.

"Yeah, Hermione's right," I said.

Hermione nodded.

"We have a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, but she's useless. We know she's not going to teach us anything so we need someone who will," Hermione said, looking at Harry and I.

"You want Charlene and I to run Dumbledore's army?" Harry questioned.

"Just the teaching part, Ron and I can handle everything else," Hermione said.

"Why us?" I asked. "You know literally every spell there is."

"True, but you two have experienced more than I have. You can conjure a patronus! That's not the kind of spell you can learn out of a book," Hermione said, trying to talk us into it.

"What if people don't want to learn from us? I mean I love you Harry but if people know that your teaching they might not join, and we need everyone we can get right now," I said.

"We just have to forget about that and get as many people as involved as we can. There's this enchantment, it's like invisible ink. You guys know what that is right?" Hermione asked.

Ron and I shook our heads and Harry nodded.

"Well," Hermione said, looking at Ron and I. "Invisible ink is a muggle thing. It's kind of like how the writing would disappear in Tom Riddle's diary. So how the charm works is, we would get the parchment we have that has Dumbledore's Army as the title that we all wrote our names on, and we enchant it. So only someone who has written something down on that paper can see what's written on it."

"That's awesome! How have I not heard about that before?" I asked in disbelief.

"Because you don't spend all your time reading books?" Ron asked.

Hermione rolled her eyes.

"So tomorrow, Charlene, Mia and I will be in charge of recruiting new members. Ron and Harry, you two will think of a place where we can meet and what we're going to teach and how this is all going to work," Hermione said. "I'm going up to bed now, so I'll go fill Mia in if she's still awake."

"And Ginny?" Ron asked.

"What about Ginny?" Hermione asked.

"Won't you tell her too?" Ron questioned.

"She isn't in our dorm anymore. She got moved with some girls from her year. Goodnight," Hermione said before heading upstairs.

"I think I'm gonna head up too," Ron said, knowing Harry and I would want time alone.

"I'm glad we're finally alone," Harry said after Ron was out of sight, pulling me closer to him.

Harry kept talking about the possibilities of what Dumbledore's army could be. He was obviously pretty stressed out about it, so I took this as an opportunity to sit behind him and give him a massage.

"Relax," I whispered in his ear.

I moved my hands along his shoulders, palmed his shoulder blades, and kneaded his middle and lower back.