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Raven and Draco looked at one another. "I'm not sure if the school will ever be safe again." Draco said with a sad look in his eye. Hogwarts had in the past few years been more like a home to him. A place for him to get away from his parents, and his dark reputation. "And I hate that. I really don't want to go to any other school, but there are less and less of us willing to take a stand against him. He watched as Cherry tugged at her sleeve as he did. It was the one secrete he'd kept from Raven. It had never been his choice, and he loathed the fact, but he played his part well. He was sure, however, that Raven may have caught on to his now more pale look. She made his heart beat for the greater good.

Raven frowned. She didn't notice either Draco or Cherry tug at their sleeves. "What matters is is that we have what it takes, we just have to believe. I know we can take a stand, and defeat Voldemort if given the right opportunity." She said clenching her fists at her side.

Cherry scoffed. "Yeah... Voldemort. He's so going down. No worries there. It's just the right people and the good people have to take a stand. But sometimes it just isn't that simple is it?" Then she looked out the window. She had taken a glance at Draco and realized he was just as uncomfortable as she was. She felt like they were practically cousins or even brother and sister. It scared her alot when he came to one Christmas party looking as if he was something from Night of the Living Dead. She wasn't sure if he ever knew who her father was, but crossed her fingers that if he did he wouldn't say anything.

"Not only that, I was in it. Best year I've had." Cam said with a smile, thinking back. He remembered the awe on his face when he'd first cast a Patronus in that class, watching the wolf take a few steps before sitting at his feet, howling in the room. It had been incredible.
"And of course I'd join. Anything to bring this place back...even if I won't be here long enough to see it that way, unless I come back as a teacher...I still want others to experience Hogwarts as it should be." he said, lowering his hand from Cherry's shoulder and resting it somewhere between the two of them.
Strangely, he found he held no bitterness towards Draco, despite the fact that, indirectly, he'd caused the problems in the school. But Cameron didn't hold grudges, so he was willing to give him a clean slate.

Raven smiled. "I remember you no. You casted the wolf patronus didn't you?" She asked. "Mine is a cat. I call it Keiran." She said smiling. "Draco's is a dragon. Could there be anything more fitting?" She said hugging him, her arm brushing against the Dark Mark on his left arm.

Draco winced. "Ow. I had lines, and my hand is still cramped up." He said looking at his arm, and then his eyes darting around the room. Surely no one had picked up the hint of a shady lie. He was doing what he was ordered to do given the fact it meant his life. It's for Raven... Draco thought to himself. He yawned. "Well I"m tired. I haven't finished my Transfiguration paper. Good night my love." He said giving Raven a kiss on her lips that made her smile. "Good night everyone." He said breaking the kiss, and heading out the door. "Good night pumpkin!" Raven called after him. "Man I love him!"

Draco, gave one last glance at Cam before taking his leave totally. He adverted his eyes, and smiled at Cherry. She was like a little sister to him. He'd always been an only child. He walked out of Raven's room, and made a right out the portrait hole when he shut the door. He had to go finish what he'd begun for the night. He knew it would be other sleepless night, but it would be one night closer to making Raven his for always. "Soon, we'll be free of all this evil, my Raven" She said under his breath. He used a secrete passage that led him to a dead end hallway. He passed a particular spot three times, and the Room of Requirement became visible in the dim light. "Another long night." He said. It had been a while since what had happened between him and his father, but he was about to put the past behind him.

Raven sat on her bed. "Have a sit you guys." She said politely. She made a tray of hot tea float around the room with out speaking a spell. "Take some tea. The new army will still be called the D.A., or so I think it should, but we'll basically be doing the same things as we were. Training, learning spells, and plotting ways to help the good side. Did I miss anything?"

"We'll rise up. And well, I kind of like the idea of ranks for our so called "Army"." Raven said sipping her tea after blowing on it to cool to surface of it down. "We'll have our professors, but amongst us, we'll need some sort of rank order, You know what I mean? We've come to the conclusion that all of us here in this room will put their thoughts and ideas into teaching as one unit. We're all good at different things." She added.

Cherry sipped from her mug and thought for a moment. "I know a whole lot about Death Eaters. How they work and who most of them are. Draco's right about how Death Eaters adored my Grandfather's Christmas parties." she said enthusiastically. "I'd also make a really good spy I think. I can be stealthy like a fox." she said and then looked at Cam and winked. Slowly she realized his hand was close to hers and slid her fingers just a slight towards it. Then tried to be subtle and draw back.