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Chapter 5-9: The Start Of A New Era

"Desiree are you ready to go?" asked Hermione. The girls agreed to meet just as breakfast started that morning to go over their plan.

"Yes, I am Hermione. I thought we already went over this," she chuckled.

"I just wanted to make sure you remembered what you're supposed to do," said Hermione.

"All I'm doing is making sure everyone stays put in the room until you, Harry, and Ron get there," said Desiree. "Now go, you have to make sure they're up if we hope to have any success with our plan."

"Alright, alright, I'll see you down there in a bit," said Hermione, standing up and walking back out of the Great Hall.

Desiree continued to eat her breakfast in the remaining time she had until students began to make their way down to Hogsmeade. After she saw a good amount of students leave she decided it was finally time to start walking to Hog's Head Inn.

As soon as she walked outside the cold air nipped her nose. It didn't take her long to walk to the small tavern/inn since she was walking alone. She quickly walked through the tavern part of the inn and straight upstairs where everyone was set to meet. To her surprise almost everyone was already there.

"Oi Fred, look, it's Alcyone," said George, hitting his twins side as they walked in.

"Ah Alcyone, didn't expect to see you here," said Fred. "Looks like you're the only Slytherin."

"I have my reasons," said Desiree, removing the glove on her left hand that was raw from last nights detention.

"Blimey, that looks nasty," George grimaced.

"Um, hi," said Hermione to the group as she walked in with Harry and Ron. Everyone's attention then moved to them. "So, you all know why we're here. We need a teacher. A proper teacher. One who's had real experience defending themselves against the dark arts."

'Why?" asked a boy from the back.

"Why? Because You Know Who's back you tosspot," Ron snapped. Desiree bit back a laugh as much as she could until a chuckle escaped.

"So he says," said the same boy looking to Harry.

"So Dumbledore says," said Hermione quickly.

"So Dumbledore says because he says. The point is where's the proof?" said the boy again.

"If Potter could tell us more about how Diggory was killed," said a boy sitting next to Ginny. Desiree started shifting in her seat before she looked at Harry.

"I'm not going to talk about Cedric. So if that's why your here you might as well clear out now. Come on Hermione, let's go. They're just here because they think I'm some sort of freak," Harry stood up, nodding to Desiree. He understood what her look meant.

"Is it true you can produce a Patronus Charm?" asked Luna.

"Yes. I've seen it," said Hermione after Harry failed to answer.

"Blimey Harry, I didn't know you could do that," said Dean.

"And he killed a Basilisk. With the sword in Dumbledore's office," said Neville.

"It's true," said Ginny.

"Third year he fought about a hundred Dementors at once," said Ron.

"And last year he really did fight off You Know Who in the flesh," said Desiree.

"Wait," Harry paused. "Look, it all sounds great when you say it like that. But the truth is most of that was just luck. I didn't know what I was doing half the time. I nearly always had help."