Call it what you want {Theodore Nott}

chapter fourty-eight

"Right," said Harry, when she had sat down again, "shall we get practising then? I was thinking, the first thing we should do is Expelliarmus, you know, the Disarming Charm. I know it's pretty basic but I've found it really useful -"

"Oh, please," said Zacharias Smith, rolling his eyes and folding his arms. "I don't think Expelliarmus is exactly going to help us against You-Know-Who, do you?"

Amy hated to say it, but she agreed. Surely it will take a lot more than that to defend themselves from the dangers out there. But, then again, Harry is experienced so whatever he says goes.

"I've used it against him," said Harry quietly. "It saved my life in June."

Smith opened his mouth stupidly. The rest of the room was very quiet.

"But if you think it's beneath you, you can leave," Harry said.

Smith did not move. Nor did anybody else.

"Okaayyy....' Amy said, as she clapped her hands. "Expelliarmus it is."

Everyone immediately got up and walked away into pairs.

"Do you really think he used it against him?" Iris whispered to her. "I don't know." Amy answered honestly, "but, he wouldn't lie about it." She said as she backed up to create some space between the two.

Amy took her wand out of her pocket as she watched Iris do the same. The two girls look at each other and smirked. They did love to duel.

Iris had just started to say the spell then Amy suddenly whispered "Expelliarmus." She watched as the wand left the girls hand and flew right into her own.

"I literally hate you." Iris said, as Amy smiled mischievously as she twirled her wand.

Suddenly Amy's wand flew straight out of her hand. She looked to Iris and saw how she was empty handed and also looking confused. She spun round and saw Fred and George in the corner of the room, laughing, holding her wand.

"Really guys?" She asked.

"Sorry, little snake," said Fred, "couldn't resist."

Amy just rolled her eyes and summoned her wand back.

"Ok, everyone!" Yelled the voice of Hermione Granger, causing everyone to walk over to her. "So I was thinking about ways to communicate the date and time of our meetings. So I came up with these."

She walked to everyone handing out something that seemed to be a Galleon.

"You see the numerals around the edge of the coins?" She asked as she handed Amy hers. She held it up and saw how it gleamed fat and yellow in the light from the torches. "On real Galleons that's just a serial number referring to the goblin who cast the coin. On these fake coins, though, the numbers will change to reflect the time and date of the next meeting."

Amy looked to the coin impressed and noticed how there was no number on it.

"So that concludes our session today." Harry said awkwardly, "and I guess you will all see when our next one is."

After Harry's conclusion, everyone started piling out of the door.

"Hey, Amy" Harry said quickly coming up behind her.

"What's up Harold?" She asked.

"Can I uh...talk to you please...in private." He added looking to Iris. The brunette looked between the two then sighed dramatically. "Fine, I'll go wait outside."

Once everyone had cleared out of the room, Hermione and Ron walked over to the pair. "We've been talking to Padfoot." Harry said.

Amy raised an eyebrow, "am I supposed to know who that is?" She asked.