The Light

Chapter 51~ Training

And so began our training sessions. Hermione and I quickly developed these fake galleons that would alert the members about when the next meeting would be. The engraving on the coin would state the date and time of the meeting, and it would heat up whenever something was changed. Hermione got the idea from the Dark Mark on the Death Eaters, but with this, we weren't actually branding our members.

I felt partially guilty, for most of the nights we were meeting I had to cancel on Draco. I continued to promise to make it up to him, but whenever he would ask me what I was doing instead, I couldn't answer him.

The way the lessons usually went was Harry would decide what he wanted to cover, and the two of us would demonstrate the best way to perform the spell. Whatever we needed would materialize within the room which made any materials a breeze. We would start them off on dummies, which I found necessary since some of the spells were hard to do for the first time.

Once Harry and I demonstrated Expelliarmus, the disarming charm, we had them all line up and practice on the dummy. Neville has been working so hard but still seems to struggle. The first time he tried the spell his own wand flew out of his hand and nearly hit Collin who was standing at the very back of the line.

"I'm hopeless," Neville groaned sadly.

Harry and I shook our head, "You're flourishing your wand too much," I noticed.

"Try it like this," Harry demonstrated, "Expelliarmus!" He flicked his wand at the dummy's and it flew out of its hand. I applauded with the others.

There were many nights where Filch has been trying to follow a few of our people when they're on the way to our meetings. So on my off time I'd actually been working with the twins on some...items that might help us keep him distracted when we need extra time.

Another night we were working on stunning, "Now stunning is one of the most useful spells in your arsenal." Harry told them.

"Tonight we'll work on Stupefy and next time we'll do Petrificus Totalus," I glanced over at Neville who laughed he clearly remembered being on the other end of that spell when we were eleven. I turned over to Nigel who would be attempting to stun Harry, "Go on then Nigel, try your best," I encouraged.

Nigel looked petrified to stun his idol, "Stupefy!" He flung his wand, the spell hitting Harry in the chest, flinging him back. From the force of the spell, Nigel himself was shoved back on the floor.

"That's good!" I encouraged as Harry slowly got to his feet, "That's a great start! Hermione, Ron, you two go next. Let's see who's reflexes are faster, yeah?" I challenged getting smiles from the others.

Ron went up to Hermione, "Don't worry, I'll go easy on you," he told her.

I had to hold in laughter as Hermione thanked him and he walked to the other end of the room where Nigel perviously stood. Knowingly, I walked over to the twins, "How much we betting?" I whispered.

"One sickle," George whispered.

"You're on," I nodded turning back to watch.

The two of them took a moment to prepare, but even before Ron could open his mouth, Hermione had shouted, "Stupefy!" And he fell back.

I opened my hands nonchalantly and my brothers put their money in my hand, "Thank you!" I walked away.

"Know-it-all," I heard them mutter as I walked back to the front of the class.

"Now everyone break into pairs and try it amongst yourselves, there are pillows scattered round to break your fall," Just as I said it the pillows appeared around the room.