Weasley is our king,

Weasley is our king,

He didn't let the Quaffle in,

Weasley is our King..."

Ron had done spectacularly. Tori couldn't believe it, but soon Ron was waving the silver Quidditch Cup in his hands.

''Weasley can save anything,

He never leaves a single ring,

That's why Gryffindors all sing:

Weasley is our King.

''Weasley is our King,

Weasley is our King,

He didn't let the Quaffle in,

Weasley is our King!"

Tori had played well, sure she was about more aggressive than usual and nearly knocked Cho Chang off her broom, but it was worth it once she got to hold the Quidditch Cup over her head towards the screaming Gryffindor crowd.

"Weasley is our king!"

✧ ✦ ✧

Despite the win, the next week was all cleared for N.E.W.T.S. which made Tori very nervous. She and Lee studied for hours when they weren't pulling off their next prank on Umbridge.

"Nastily Exhausting" was an understatement. Tori had never studied harder for anything in her life. She was up nearly all hours of the night and falling asleep during the day. Luckily, she wasn't the only one.

Monday they had their Transfiguration N.E.W.T. first. Tori did well, turning a cauldron into a swarm of butterflies. She also managed to turn her foot into a fin for a minute.

On Tuesday was their charms assignment. Professor Flitwick called them in one by one and let them perform a charm of their choice for any extra credit before their exam. Tori decided to cast three small fireworks, no doubt using the twins as inspiration. Professor Flitwick smiled at her and marked down his parchment.

On Tuesday night, Tori was sleeping soundly when Angelina shook her awake. "Somethings going on outside, come on." Groggily, but forcing herself to become alert, Tori followed Angelina down the dormitory stairs.

Most of the fifth years started to come into the common room, looking frightened. Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnigan quickly filled them in on what happened.

"We were just taking out Astronomy O.W.L.S.—"

"—There was a lot of noise—"

"— Hagrid was begging attacked—"

"—Lots of shouting—"

"—Professor McGonagall was struck four times—"

"— nasty stunning spell to the chest—"

''But why sack Hagrid now?" asked Angelina, shaking her head. "It's not like Trelawney; he's been teaching much better than usual this year!"

''Umbridge hates part-humans," said Hermione bitterly, flopping down into an armchair. "She was always going to try and get Hagrid out."

''And she thought Hagrid was putting Nifflers in her office," piped up Katie.

''Oh, blimey," said Lee. He and Tori both covered their mouths. "Lee and I were the who's been putting the Nifflers in her office." Tori gasped.

"We've been levitating them in through her window." Lee nodded.

''She'd have sacked him anyway," Dean assured them. "He was too close to Dumbledore."

Unfortunately, Dean's reassurance didn't stop the guilt from residing on their faces.

''That's true," Harry sighed, sinking into an armchair beside Hermione's.

''I just hope Professor McGonagall's all right," Lavender Brown said tearfully.

"They carried her back up to the castle, we watched through the dormitory window," said Colin Creevey. "She didn't look very well."

"Madam Pomfrey will sort her out," Alicia said firmly. "She's never failed yet."

Tori tried to spend the rest of the day thinking like that. She did well on her potions exam, though she nearly forgot the last ingredient to a Polyjuice Potion. She couldn't focus at all.

She went the entire day in a daze. She remembered glancing at Sirius's pocket watch for the time at one point, but other than that it felt as if Tori wasn't even in her own body.

When exams were over, she found Ginny and Luna wandering the halls and decided to catch up with them.

The three of them were walking through an empty corridor when they heard Harry's voice yell out.

"IF YOU THINK I'M JUST GOING TO ACT LIKE I HAVEN'T SEEN—"

"Harry's in here," Ginny said, going towards the door. It seemed like he was arguing with someone.

''WELL, I EXPECT HE'D SAY SOMETHING DIFFERENT IF HE KNEW WHAT I'D JUST—"

Ginny walked in, looking curious, closely followed by Luna, who as usual looked as though she had drifted in accidentally. Tori closed the door behind them, turning quickly.

"Hi," said Ginny uncertainly. "We recognized Harry's voice. What are you yelling about?"

''Never you mind," Harry snapped roughly.

Ginny raised her eyebrows.

''There's no need to take that tone with me," She said coolly, ''I was only wondering whether I could help."

''Well, you can't," said Harry shortly.

''You're being rather rude, you know," said Luna serenely. "Yeah, it's not cool." Tori crossed her arms.

Harry swore and turned away.

''Wait," said Hermione suddenly. "Wait... Harry, they can help."

Harry and Ron looked at her.

''Listen," She said urgently, ''Harry, we need to establish whether Sirius really has left Headquarters."

''I've told you, I saw—"

''Harry, I'm begging you, please!" said Hermione desperately. "Please let's just check that Sirius isn't at home before we go charging off to London. If we find out he's not there, then I swear I won't try to stop you. I'll come, I'll d—do whatever it takes to try and save him."

''Sirius is being tortured NOW!" shouted Harry. "We haven't got time to waste."

''But if this is a trick of Voldemort's, Harry, we've got to check, we've got to—"

''How?" Harry demanded. "How're we going to check?"

''We'll have to use Umbridge's fire and see if we can contact him," said Hermione, who looked positively terrified at the thought. "We'll draw Umbridge away again, but we'll need lookouts, and that's where we can use Ginny, Luna, and Tori."

Though clearly struggling to understand what was going on, Ginny said immediately, ''Yeah, we'll do it," and Luna said, ''When you say 'Sirius', are you talking about Stubby Boardman?"

Nobody answered her.

Luna and Ginny looked at Tori who sighed. "Of course I'll help. Besides, if Sirius is being tortured by..." She took a long pause. "By V-Voldemort." She paused once more. "You're not the only one losing something."

''OK," Harry said aggressively to Hermione, ''OK, if you can think of a way of doing this quickly, I'm with you, otherwise I'm going to the Department of Mysteries right now."

''The Department of Mysteries?" said Luna, looking mildly surprised. "But how are you going to get there?"

Again, Harry ignored her.

''Right," said Hermione, twisting her hands together and pacing up and down between the desks. "Right... well... one of us has to go and find Umbridge and—and send her off in the wrong direction, keep her away from her office. They could tell her—I don't know—that Peeves is up to something awful as usual..."

''I'll do it," said Ron at once. "I'll tell her Peeves is smashing up the Transfiguration department or something, it's miles away from her office. Come to think of it, I could probably persuade Peeves to do it if I met him on the way."

It was a mark of the seriousness of the situation that Hermione made no objection to the smashing up of the Transfiguration department.

''OK," She said, her brow furrowed as she continued to pace. "Now, we need to keep students right away from her office while we force entry, or some Slytherin's bound to go and tip her off."

''We can stand at either end of the corridor,' said Ginny promptly, ''And warn people not to go down there because someone's let off a load of Garrotting Gas." Hermione looked surprised at the readiness with which Ginny had come up with this lie; Ginny shrugged and said, ''Fred and George were planning to do it before they left. Besides, with Tori with us, they'll probably believe us."

"Thanks, Ginny." Tori wasn't sure if she should have taken that as a compliment.

''OK," said Hermione. "Well then, Harry, you and I will be under the Invisibility Cloak and we'll sneak into the office and you can talk to Sirius—"

''He's not there, Hermione!"

"I mean, you can —can check whether Sirius is at home or not while I keep watch, I don't think you should be in there alone, Lee and Tori have already proved the windows a weak spot, sending those Nifflers through it."

''I... okay, thanks," He muttered.

''Right, well, even if we do all of that, I don't think we're going to be able to bank on more than five minutes, said Hermione, looking relieved that Harry seemed to have accepted the plan, ''Not with Filch and the wretched Inquisitorial Squad floating around."

''Five minutes'll be enough," said Harry ''C'mon, let's go—'

''Now?"' said Hermione, looking shocked.

''Of course now!" Harry snapped angrily. "What did you think, we're going to wait until after dinner or something? Hermione, Sirius is being tortured right now!"

''I—oh, all right," She said desperately. "You go and get the Invisibility Cloak and we'll meet you at the end of Umbridge's corridor, okay?"

Harry didn't answer, but flung himself out of the room and began to fight his way through the milling crowds outside.

"Sirius is one of the last people Harry had left. You can't blame him for acting like this." Tori said slowly. "He's never been like this before though—" Hermione replied softly.

"He's angry. He has every right to be."

"Well, no kidding he's angry." Ginny huffed.

"I was," Tori said quickly. "I acted just like that too. Except I actually destroyed a couple of things. So lets not dilly dally, yes?"

There are two weeks left until it will be a full year that Cedric was killed. The thought haunted Tori every day. A couple of minutes later Harry was jumping the last few stairs to join Ron, Hermione, Tori, Ginny, and Luna, who were huddled together at the end of Umbridge's corridor.

''Got it," He panted. "Ready to go, then?"

''Alright," whispered Hermione as a gang of loud sixth-years passed them. "So Ron—you go and head Umbridge off... Tori, Ginny, Luna, if you can start moving people out of the corridor... Harry and I will get the Cloak on and wait until the coast is clear..."

Ron strode away, his bright-red hair visible right to the end of the passage; meanwhile Ginny and Tori strolled through the crowd, Luna quietly in their heels.

"Hey! You might not want to go down that way, theirs a load of Garrotting gas down there. I reckon you don't want to head up to your common room with a stink, huh?" Tori quickly grabbed a Ravenclaw boy, who frowned at her. "But then I'll have to take the long way!"

"Hey, it's either the long way, or you stink. The choice is yours." The Ravenclaw boy mumbled under his breath and turned around.

Ginny and Luna seemed to have taken the same approach to people as well. That is until Pansy Parkinson came walking down the corridor with a nasty smirk on her face. "Well, as an Inquisitorial Squad member ever I thought it was only suitable for me to check about the rumored gas. Fortunately, I found there wasn't any. Which means you three are up to something if you don't want people going down here. Care to share?"

The three girls glanced at each other. "Not with you, no." Tori snapped. Pansy smiled. "Well, why don't you come on down with me to Umbridge's office? The rest of your friends are there too!"

this chapter was very messy. oops

and I HOPE YOUR HAPPY THAT I PUBLISHED IT SINCE YOUR WAITING SO PATIENTLY

she knows who she is :)