Into The Light (Golden Trio Era) {2}

Expecto Patronum

March soon became April, the teachers and Hermione persisted in reminding Harry, Ron and Mikayla that the OWLs were getting closer and closer. All the fifth-years were from stress to some degree, Hannah Abbott became the first to get Calming Draught off Madam Pomfrey after she burst into tears during Herbology. She sobbed that she was too stupid for exams and that she wanted to leave school before sitting them. If it wasn't for DA lessons, Mikayla and Harry would have been extremely unhappy at Hogwarts, Umbridge has made it her mission to torture them every Defence Against the Dark Arts class. They couldn't help but feel extremely proud of their fellow DA members progress. They had finally started work on Patronuses, everyone was very keen on to practise. Mikayla was struggling with her Patronus conjuring, struggling to find the moment she felt happiest without it being tainted by the reminder the person was dead or no longer loved her. "You need to find a Happy memory Mikayla." Ron reminded her for the fifth time she failed, she looked around the room to see that she was one of the few people still struggling with their Patronus. "I don't have a lot of those anymore Ron." Mikayla whispered back angrily and frustrated with her defeat. Mikayla conjured herself a chair, and sat down racking her brain for happy thoughts. She felt lightheaded as she fell off her chair slipping into unconsciousness.

"Merlin's beard! I'm swimming!" I yelled causing Fred to shush me, I stopped kicking my legs due to excitement and started to sink, "Fred! I'm sinking." I yelled waving my hands for help. Fred grabbed me by the waist, I wrapped my legs around his middle and my arms around his neck as I looked him in the eye after he saved me again. We were holding onto one another, neither of us saying a word, but telling a whole story with our eyes. "Thank you for saving me again." I blushed looking down trying to hide it, Fred chuckled slightly at my embarrassment. "We're going to get you used to the deep end, then diving in by morning." Fred told me as I smiled widely at the fact that we would be spending all night swimming. The moonlight settled on my face as I cannonballed into the pool, pushed myself off the floor of the pool and revealing the tops of my shoulders and head as I float waiting for Fred to jump in. We swam around for another hour until the sun began to rise...

Mikayla came back to reality with a headache and surrounded by others, she furrows her eyebrows as she waves her hands telling people to give her some space. She summoned herself a bottle of pumpkin juice, and drank a couple of mouthfuls before standing up. "You ok?" Mikayla nodded smiling at Ron, her eyes shifted to Fred's, "it was a happy memory that I had forgotten about." Harry tells everyone to get back to work, Mikayla closed her eyes letting the memory fill her mind, a smile on her face, "Expecto Patronum." A white light formed a German Shepard that stood tall slightly in front of her in a protective way. She spotted Fred staring at her, she stared back at him, before slowly made her way towards him. "What memory do you use Fred?" She asked in wonderment, "Swimming in Egypt, you?" Mikayla smiled confirming they were both using the same memory. "Thanks again for teaching me how to swim." "Of course, I'd do anything for you Black." Mikayla chuckled before reconjuring her Patronus, that began playing with Fred's Magpie Patronus, trying to catch it. 

Harry kept reminding them all that producing Patronuses in a brightly light classroom is very different that real life. "What we really need is a boggart or something; that's how I learned, I had to conjure a Patronus while the boggart was pretending to be a dementor-" "But that would be really scary!" Lavender Brown exclaimed while only puffs of silver smoke came from her wand. "And I still- can't-a do it!" she shook her wand furiously like a bottle whose contents were stuck inside. "It's still much better than the real thing," Mikayla shuddered, thinking of her first time using the spell. Neville was having difficulty as well. "You've got to think of something happy," Harry said to him. "I'm trying," He sounded miserable, only wisps were coming from his wand whenever he attempted the spell.  "Harry, I think I'm doing it!" beamed Seamus, Dean had brought him to his first meeting since he and Harry made peace. "Look- ah- it's gone... But it was definitely something hairy, Harry!"

"They are sort of nice, aren't they?" Hermione said to Mikayla, looking pleasantly at her Patronus, an otter floating in the air like in water. Mikayla casted her own once more and watched it leap around the room, bounding off objects that weren't there. "Hi, Dobby, Peppy!" She heard Harry's voice say, "What are you- what's wrong?" She let her Patronus fade away and walked toward them, frowning. Peppy and Dobby were violently shaking and their eyes were much larger than usual, wide with terror. Most of the others had stopped practicing and were gathered around them at this point. "Harry Potter, sir..." Dobby said nervously, "Harry Potter, sir... Dobby has come to warn you... but the house-elves have been warned not to tell..." Dobby threw himself into the stone wall, Harry and Mikayla, were familiar with this behavior, and acted quickly to grab him.  "What's happened, Dobby?" Harry held him there by one of his arms, kneeling in front of him.  "Harry Potter... she... she..." Dobby used his free arm to throw his fist into his face, Harry then restricted that arm as well. "Who's 'she,' Dobby?" Harry's expression grew increasingly horrified. Dobby gave no answer though to sooth this. "Umbridge?" Mikayla asked Peppy urgently. Peppy nodded, everyone was looking around anxiously now. "What about her? Peppy- she hasn't found out about this- about us- about the D.A.?" Dobby and Peppy couldn't answer but they all understood. Arms constricted, Dobby attempted to kick himself in the head and ended up on the floor. Mikayla kneeled down beside Dobby to aid. "Is she coming?" Harry asked breathlessly. Dobby let out a cry and began to stomp his bare feet into the ground forcefully. "Yes, Harry Potter, yes!" Harry looked at Mikayla, his face flushed white. She could feel her heart hammer in her throat. He stood back up, looking terrified at a group of equally terrified people. "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?" He yelled. "RUN!"

They all pelted towards the exit at once, forming a scrum at the door, then people burst through. Mikayla sprinted with Ginny to Gryffindor toward, "Fumos!" Mikayla proclaimed with a wave of her wand, causing a smokescreen, she grabbed a hold of Ginny's hand and pulled her through the smoke that hid them from Umbridge and her little helpers. Mikayla told the Fat Lady the password and pulled Ginny into the common room, soon being followed in by Ron and Hermione who were also holding hands when they arrived. "Where's Harry?" Mikayla questioned once everyone arrived in the common room, no one had seen him. "Who tattled? Who wasn't at the meeting today?" Hermione questioned the room, "Cho's friend wasn't there." Ginny spoke up after two minutes of silence. "We'll know tomorrow for sure." Everyone spaced out and began to looklike they were studying or playing chess.