Who we really are

Disclaimer: Same as always…not mine. I do own the Avia.

Chapter Thirteen

Potions let out and the student moved on to where they were all headed next. Some of the Slytherins had a free period since they didn’t sign up for Defense. All of the Gryffindors did and so did the Slytherins who understood the importance of the class. When they traipsed into the room, Remus noticed the class was not as segregated as usual.

‘Harry must be working faster than I thought.’

“Good morning everyone today is just going to be a review to see what level everyone is on. I already know some of your levels but others I have not seen since you were third years.”

“Professor, I know more or less the levels of all the Gryffindors who were in the DA with me and some of the Slytherins.” Harry said.

“Very well, we can spend the rest of the class going over different things. Just to let you know now, we will be covering the Dark Arts.”

The Gryffindors looked scandalized.

“Professor,” asked Lavender?

“Yes Miss Brown?”

“How can we be learning Dark Arts? Won’t the knowledge of it make us bad?”

Harry looked angry.

“Calm down love, he’ll set her straight.” Draco whispered.

Surprisingly it was Ron who answered.

“Brown, don’t be stupid. Knowledge of something does not make you evil. Your intent does. Besides, what’s the point of learning just the defense and the light spells instead of learning what you’re defending against. Besides, the Death Eaters are not going use light spells and make things easy on you. You can’t defend yourself against something that you don’t know or understand.”

He finished his rant at a yell.

Harry didn’t look angry anymore, but amused.

“Well said Ron. So Remi, uh Professor, did Dumbles agree to this?”

“Go ahead and just call me Remi, you’ll never remember to call me Professor. Actually you may all call me Remus. However, if you don’t use my given name you will address me by my last name with an honorific. Is that clear?”

“Yes Professor.” The class chorused.

“Good, now the Headmaster is aware in theory what I will teach you. My lesson plans however are my own.”

Harry looked amused.

“So Remi, are they going to learn what I did?”

“I don’t think so Harry. Wouldn’t want to frighten them now would we?”

“Of course we wouldn’t.” He looked superior and smirked.

For the rest of the class her asked them questions and had them perform spells to check levels. Sirius was hidden in the back marking down who could do what and how well.

They made it through the rest of the day’s classes without anything else of interest happening.

At dinner Harry kept his head resting on Draco’s shoulder.

Everyone was staring at him.

“Come on Harry let’s go up to the room and eat. We’ll stop by the kitchens on the way up.”

They got up to go.

“We’ll see you guys in the Room after dinner.”

Harry walked over to Ginny and whispered in her ear.

He met Draco at the door.

“Come on love, let’s go for now, they’ll meet us later.”

He led him out.

“What’s wrong with Potter?” Pansy asked.

Who said it was any of your business?

“I was just asking, no need to but my head off.”

“Sorry, we just worry about him. He’s been so stressed out lately.”

“I’ve noticed. How is his training going?”

“He’ll be ready within the month.”

“Make sure he knows we fight on his side only.”

“He’ll be happy to hear that I’m sure. He may have alienated the Gryffindors completely though.”

“With their stress relieving activities earlier or the spell he put Granger under?”

“Most definitely the blood play.”

Up in the room Draco and Harry were relaxing after finishing their small dinner.

“Are you ok love?”

“Yea, I’m fine just tired of people staring right now.”

“That’s understandable, word has spread, and unless the Slytherins did it, it is most likely inaccurate. Also any pureblood should recognize the mark you put on her.”

“I’m hoping she looks it up in the library. It says she’ll be released upon my death. I want her to try and kill me.”

“Same here love. It will make things perfect. Her death, and as long as you use either your sword or a dark spell it will finally make them realize how far gone from the light you are.”

There was a knock on the door.

“Come in everyone, it’s alright.” Draco called.

Harry stretched himself out on the couch and put his head in Draco’s lap.

“You ok Harry?” Neville asked.

“Yea, I just have a headache. You wanted to know all about our goals.”

“I’ve already decided to join you, but yes I would like to know the changes you want to make.”

“That’s fair, what about you Luna?”

“You forget, I remember you when I was a first year.”

“That’s right. You walked in when me and Dray were pranking Pansy.”

“Yes, I almost ruined it. But you still managed to do it before I said hello.”

“So you all have been friends for so long.” Ron said.

“You have all seemed to know him so much better than me. Some best friend I am.” He said in a disgusted voice.

Harry sat up and went to kneel in front of Ron.

“Ron don’t think like that. The way you know me is still the same, but different from them. You’re still my best friend. Please don’t be sad!”

He leaned up and gave him a hug and a kiss on the forehead.

“Alright Harry, I understand”

He squeezed him one last time and went back to his seat.

“Now the biggest thing to do first is kill Voldemort. I’m thinking of killing Voldemort and Dumbledore around the same time. Granger will die before all of them probably.”

“What changes are we focusing on is what he meant. Not who we are killing to make said changes.” Luna said.

“Oh, well, we want to create equal rights for werewolves and other creatures those dark and light. We are also working to fix the corrupt government that follows Dumbledore. We want to create safety from Muggles.”

“Another thing is we want to create schools for mugglborns so they can learn what purebloods come into their first year already knowing.” Draco said.

“Those are all good things to work for. I’m proud to be a part of your faction.” Neville said.

“Luna is that more of what you wanted?”

“Yes Harry.” She smacked him upside the head.

Everyone laughed at Harry’s expense.

“Thanks ever so. –humph- These are my friends. Always laughing at my expense.”

“Well we were laughing at the mudbloods expense in Potions”

Harry smirked evilly.

“Good job on that by the way Neville. It was absolutely brilliant!”

“I wonder how afraid she is.” Luna stated.

“She’s probably holed up in the library trying to figure out what I did to her. Hopefully she’ll go to her beloved headmaster and gets a pass to the restricted section. That way she’ll have full knowledge that she belongs to me completely.”

“I had thought they banned that spell.” Ron spoke up

“No, it just became rare. Too many people used the spell without just cause and became slaves to the one they casted it on. That or they died, some had just cause but not the strength needed to cast the spell.” Draco explained.

“Ok, so what are we going to do about swaying others to our side?”

“I believe we could get Seamus and Dean to our side.” Harry said.

“Oh, yea, I forgot to mention this when we got here. You have the backing of all of Slytherin House. They will follow and serve only you.” Blaise informed him

“That is wonderful to know. I want all of you talking to people in other houses. Tell them what you need to, but make sure that they won’t release information to anyone that could hurt us.”

“All right Harry.”

“Does anyone have any ideas?”

“If we think of some we can get together and mention it.”

“That works for me.”

“I have an idea.”

“Yes Neville?”

“We’re going to be thought of as Dark and like Voldemort correct?”

“Well, yes we are. Why do you ask?” Harry looked surprised

“I think that when Harry comes out as the third power that we should have a mark or something to distinguish us for who we are. Voldemort has the Dark Mark and the Light’s mark is the phoenix.”

Shock was on everyone’s faces.

“I think it’s a good idea.” Luna remarked.

Harry nodded.

“Is everyone in agreement?” Harry asked

Everyone agreed.

“I actually think we should agree on a mark and get it now. We can have a visual one later on. It can be put in the middle of our backs. You, my original group will have slightly different marks.”

“I’m guessing you have something in mind already?”

“I do, but I’ll let you know later on. It’s time for us to split up and head off to whichever bed we’re all sleeping in tonight.”

They split off. Ginny, Neville, and Luna were going to sleep in Ravenclaw tonight. Blaise and Ron were going to Blaise’s bed again.

“You and me, my love are going to convince Sev to let us stay with him tonight.” Harry said.

The Slytherin boys and Ron went to the dungeons together but spit up at the entrance to the common room.

“Goodnight guys.”

They knocked. Severus came to the door glaring.

“What do you two want?”

“We need a place to sleep tonight, somewhere we feel safe. We didn’t want to disturb the other two tonight.”

Draco wrapped his arms around Harry and Severus’ face softened.

“Alright boys, come in. Let’s get you two to bed.”

Meanwhile, Hermione was hidden in the restricted section and as looking up the spell he cast on her.

Her eyes lit up.

“I’ll make you pay Potter.”

A/N: Just wanted to thank everyone who has reviewed. Also special thanks to WanderingKnghtsFire for pointing out a mistake that has now been fixed.