94 hp Diagon Alley

He and Luna rushed out following Professor McGonagall.Professor McGonagall took her place in the middle of the corridor and raised her wand.

"Stone - oh, for heaven's sake, Filch, now don't -"

The elderly caretaker staggered into view, yelling, "Students are out of bed! Students are running into the corridors!"

"That's how they should be, you gibberish idiot!" cried McGonagall. "Go and do something useful! Get Peeves!"

"Pee-Peves?" Filch stammered, as if he had never heard the name.

"Yes, Peeves, you fool, Peeves! Haven't you been complaining about him for over twenty years? Go get him, quick!"

Filch obviously felt that Professor McGonagall was losing his mind, but he shrugged and staggered away, muttering silently.

"Well, Potter," said McGonagall, "you and Miss Lovegood had better go back to your friends and bring them to the Great Hall—I'll wake up the rest of the Gryffindors."

They parted at the next landing, and Harry and Luna ran towards the secret entrance to the Room of Requirement, passing groups of students, most of them wearing traveling cloaks over their pajamas, escorted by teachers and prefects to the University. hall.

"That was Potter just now!"

"Harry Potter!"

"It's him, I can swear, I saw him just now!"

But Harry didn't look back, and came all the way to the entrance of the Room of Requirement.Harry leaned against the enchanted wall, which parted instantly to let them in, and he and Luna hurried down the steep stairs.

"how--?"

Seeing the inside of the house, Harry was so startled that he slid down a few flights of stairs.The room was full of people, much more crowded than when he had been here.Kingsley and Lupine were looking up at him, and Oliver Wood, Katie Bell, Angelina Johnson and Alicia Spinnet, Bill and Fleur, and Mr and Mrs Weasley.Of course, Mad-Eye and Cedric were watching him too.

"Harry, what's the matter?" Lupine asked, meeting Harry at the bottom of the stairs.

"Voldemort is coming, the school is on lockdown - Snape has run for his life - what are you doing here? How do you know?"

"We messaged the rest of Dumbledore's Army," Fred explained, "no one wants to miss out on the fun, Harry. Then the DA informed the Order of the Phoenix, and it just snowballed." big."

"What's first, Harry?" cried George. "How's it going?"

"They're evacuating the younger students, and we're all assembled in the Great Hall to wait," said Harry. "We're fighting."

The roar was overwhelming, and people rushed towards the foot of the stairs.Harry clung to the wall, letting them run past him, members of the Order of the Phoenix and Dumbledore's Army, and members of Harry's former Quidditch team, all drawing their wands and heading towards the keep. rush away.

"Come on, Luna," Dean called, holding out his hand as he passed.Luna took his hand and followed him up the stairs.

"We've got to plug a few loopholes," Mad-Eye told Kingsley, who was directing the campaign like a commander in chief. "Cedric to the Ravenclaw Tower—the two of us to the castle gate."

"Both the Forbidden Forest and the Black Lake are not safe," Kingsley quickly followed up. "We are not yet sure about the positions of the centaurs and mermaids."

The crowd thinned until only a small circle remained in the Room of Requirement below, and Harry made his way.Mrs. Weasley was arguing with Ginny, surrounded by Lupine, Fred, George, Gwen, Bill and Fleur.

"You're not old enough!" Mrs. Weasley was yelling at her daughter as Harry approached. "I won't allow it! Boys can, but you, you must go home!"

"I do not!"

With a flick of her hair, Ginny wrenched her arm out of her mother's grasp.

"I'm from Dumbledore's Army—"

"—that's a gang of teenagers!"

"A gang of teenagers ready to take on You-Know-Who, something no one else dares to do!" Fred said.

"She's only sixteen!" cried Mrs. Weasley. "She's too young! What did you two think. To bring her—"

Fred and George looked a little ashamed.

"Mum's right, Ginny," said Bill gently, "you can't do that. It's right that anyone under the age has to go."

"I'm not going home!" cried Ginny, with angry tears in her eyes. "Our whole family is here, and I can't just wait there by myself and know nothing—"

Her eyes met Harry's for the first time.She looked at Harry imploringly, but when Harry shook his head, she turned away angrily.

"Okay," she said, looking at the entrance to the Hog's Head, "I'll say goodbye now, and then—"

Suddenly there was a rustling sound, and then a plop, and another person crawled out from the passage, his body shook a few times, and he fell down.Then he climbed up and sat down on a nearby chair, looking around through his askew horn-rimmed glasses, and said, "Am I late? Have I started yet? I just found out when—just—"

Percy stuttered and couldn't go on.He obviously did not expect to meet so many relatives.After a long period of astonishment, Fleur finally ran to Lupine and said in a tone that was obviously trying to break the deadlock: "By the way—how is little Teddy?"

Lupine blinked at her in surprise.The Weasley family's silence was freezing like ice.

"I - oh, yes - he's fine!" cried Lupine. "Yes, Tonks is with him - at her mother's."

Percy and the rest of the Weasleys were still there, staring at each other.

"Look, I've got pictures!" Lupine shouted, pulling a picture from under his jacket to show Fleur and Harry. It showed a baby with tufts of turquoise hair waving a fat baby at the camera. Fat little fist.

"I'm a fool!" Percy yelled, so loudly that Lupine almost dropped the picture. "I'm an idiot, I'm a vain fool, I'm a - I'm a -"

"An ambitious bastard who only loved the Ministry of Magic, disassociated himself from his family," said Fred.

Percy swallowed.

"Yes, I am!"

"Well, it couldn't be more clear than that," said Fred, holding out his hand to Percy.

Mrs. Weasley began to cry, and she ran forward, pushed Fred aside, and pulled Percy into her arms and hugged him tightly.Percy patted his mother on the back and looked at his father.

"I'm sorry, Dad," said Percy.

Mr. Weasley blinked quickly, then rushed to hug his son as well.

"How did you figure it out, Percy?" George asked.

"It's been a while," said Percy, wiping the corner of his traveling cloak behind his spectacles, "but I've got to find a way to get out, which isn't easy at the Ministry, they've been taking rebels Jail. Then I managed to get in touch with Aberforth, who revealed to me 10 minutes ago that Hogwarts was going to put up a full resistance, so here I am."

"Yeah, we do hope that the prefects will set an example at such a critical time," said George, imitating Percy's perfect prudence, "let's hurry upstairs and fight, or all decent food The Dead Apostles have all been captured."

"So I can call you sister-in-law now?" said Percy, shaking Fleur's hand, and they rushed up the stairs with Bill, Fred, and George. "And you, Gwen. Welcome to the Weasley family."

"To be honest, I'm always worried that you will deduct some points from me." Gwen smiled, and moved quietly, trying to help her good friend to block the view from Mrs. Weasley.

"Ginny!" Mrs. Weasley yelled.

Ginny also tried to sneak upstairs while the family reconciled.

"How about this, Molly," said Lupine. "How about just letting Ginny stay here, so she can at least be there and know what's going on, but not at the center of the fight?"

"I--"

"That's a good idea," said Mr. Weasley firmly. "Ginny, you just stay in this room, do you hear me?"

Ginny didn't seem to like the idea very much, but she nodded under her father's unusually stern gaze.Mr. and Mrs. Weasley and Lupine also rushed towards the landing.

"You can help the students evacuate." Gwen said to Ginny before leaving, "This is the only way for them to leave Hogwarts."

"Where's Ron?" Harry asked now. "Where's Hermione?"

"Must have gone to the Great Hall," Mr. Weasley called over his shoulder.

"I didn't see them on the way," said Harry.

"They seemed to say they were going to the bathroom," said Ginny, "shortly after you left."

"bathroom?"

Harry strode across the room to the open door next to the Room of Requirement, and inspected the lavatory over there.No one is inside.

"Are you sure they're talking about washing—?"

At this moment, his scars suddenly burned, and the Room of Requirement disappeared. His eyes flicked over the tall cast iron gates - flanked by stone pillars with winged boars on the top, across the dark playground, looking at the lights Bright castle.Nagini slumped slack on his shoulders.His heart was filled with the coldness and determination before the massacre.

Below the enchanted ceiling of the Great Hall, darkened and dotted with stars, sat at four long tables disheveled and disheveled students in traveling cloaks and dressing gowns.here and there not