Chapter Seventeen: Reunion of The Army

As Harry returned from the memory, he told Ron and Hermione that the memory was not related to the fight. But it was his mother’s memory. He did not tell them what he had seen. It was too private for him to share to anyone. But after seeing that, his did not know what to feel for Snape after this. His mother loved Snape. And Snape loves his mother… but he betrayed Dumbledore. He killed him. Harry was confused.

For some weeks Harry Ron and Hermione stayed at Dumbledore’s house. It was safe and comfortable. They kept thinking about the places where the horcruxes could be hidded. There were still two of them out there. One was the cup, the other was the unknown object. Also, they kept practicing some difficult jinxes and spells, specialy the ones they had seen in the pensive. Although they still didn’t know about the Corazio spell.

On Halloween day they were sitting in the house when a patronus came to them. It was a bunny. Coming there it said in the same misty dreamy voice Harry knew to be Luna’s, ‘hi Harry Ron and Hermione. This is Luna. We are all fine here. We are at Hogwarts. Neville and Ginny and other say hello. Actually we are trying to do something. We are… ar – trying to break into the ministry. Just to make things difficult for the other side. And we plan to er- leave some Halloween presents for Umbridge. The whole DA is coming. Plus we now have malfoy. He has told us some real good secrets about the ministry to make things much easier. We haven’t told the teachers about it because – you know – they will try to stop us. But we are doing this anyway. If you would like to join us come and meet us at the telephone booth tonight. We are doing this at night so that there won’t be anyone at the ministry. We can cause as much destruction as we want without being interrupted. So see you tonight. But if you don’t come, it’s fine. We’ll understand.’

‘they’re mental’ said Ron.

‘it’s insane. They’ll get caught within minutes’ said Hermione.

‘we need to go and stop them’ said Harry.

Before dark they were ready to go. They apparated from outside the house. Apparating together under the cloak was difficult. The squeezing feeling was bad and there was the fear of being seen. When they reached the ministry entrance it was deserted. There was no one. Then they heard some music from behind. They turned. It was a small pub.

‘let’s go in there’ said Hermione.

And they went inside. As they went there they saw some familiar faces. The room was full of the DA members. They immediately removed the cloak and showed themselves. There was a huge applause as everyone saw them. People started hugging them. Then Hermione shouted ‘silence’ there was pin drop silence immediately. She continued, ‘what are you guys doing? Are you insane? It’s suicidal to go to the ministry like this… most of you are already wanted by the ministry-

‘Hermione’ Ginny interrupted, ‘we have thought about all this. Trust me we have a plan. We are going to drink poly-juice potion and going to get into the ministry. We have already drank some felix felicus to give us luck. And we are going to destroy Umbridge’s office and her supporters’ too. We know there is no one there tonight-

Hermione interrupted, ‘but they’ll know. They’ll come. And when they do come, how can a bunch of kids fight death-eaters? We have tried doing it before and we lost. Remember?’

‘But Hermione, we all are damn good’ said Neville. ‘we have been practicing some really good jinxes and spells in the past few months. And trust me Hermione we are really good. And all the death eaters are already out scaring muggles so we will be alone.’

Harry knew there was no point arguing. Even Ron and Hermione understood this. It was a choice they had to make, weather to be with their friends or not. They decided to go with them.

‘okay then, let’s make this the scariest Halloween for them’ said Harry.

And they all drank the poly-juice potion. Harry Ron and Hermione also drank the felix felicus.