chapter:6 Muggle-borns

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"What's a spas-ship?" Ron asked, blinking. Apparently, he wasn't as invested in eating as Harry had thought.

"Shhh!" the three of them said.

Dean got up and moved over to join Neville, grinning the entire way. Neville looked happy for his friend at whatever Dean said as he sat back down.

The Pink Toad frowned and looked back and forth between the two sets of boys suspiciously. Harry devoted his attention to his lunch and ignored the whispering around him.

It spread like fiendfyre. Harry wasn't sure how, but by dinner time the entire D.A. wanted to see the spaceship. Or rather, at first and early in the afternoon, only those familiar with muggle science-fiction wanted to see it. By the time dinner rolled around, everyone else did to. After all, there had to be a reason why the muggle-born and half the half-bloods were so adamant about seeing a spaceship — so the others wanted to see what the fuss was all about.

On the other hand, Lee and the twins weren't so pleased. Lee, because he had apparently hoped to keep it to himself for a bit longer, and the twins because they didn't want anyone co-opting their time in the Room of Requirement.

They gave Harry rather pointed looks whenever they saw him as the afternoon progressed. Finally, though, they apparently decided there was nothing for it but to concede that others would want to play with the room. Fred gave him a fatalistic sigh as they entered the Great Hall for dinner, and said warningly, "I guess just once can't hurt. But just this once!" He half-glared at Harry as if it were his fault Lee had made a spaceship.

Hermione softly said "Yes!" and surreptitiously pumped her right arm when Lee and the twins promised to show the rest of the D.A. around. "Everyone wants to visit this . . . spaceship. If we do it first, tonight," she whispered to Harry as they sat down at the table, "instead of starting the regular session immediately, we can do that and it'll be out of the way and won't mess up the session too much."

She wasn't fooling anyone. She would gladly sacrifice a D.A. session to see a spaceship!

Harry looked around. A rather large number of people were watching him and trying to be surreptitious. He nodded. "Maybe we can hold the session in the spaceship? It certainly has rooms big enough," Harry mused thoughtfully as he started to fill his plate. "I guess I could cover the possibilities of muggle combat, and I can do that on the spaceship as well as anyplace else."

Dolores was watching him with narrowed eyes — well, as narrowed as she could manage.

Harry sighed and glanced at Hermione. He made a show of reluctantly handing her his fake galleon. Ron looked suitably envious. He shook his head sadly as she gleefully accepted the coin, then, under the guise of putting it in her rucksack, she made the changes needed to the coin.

A moment later, almost a score and a half of smiles broke out in the room. Several students exchanged high-fives.

The twins slumped, but then started whispering with Lee as they noticed the attention the Pink Toad was giving Harry.

Harry was sure there would be a suitable distraction after dinner, and dismissed it from his mind.

Most of the D.A. members left dinner early, rushing through or even — to Ron's incredulous horror! — skipping dessert. Harry and Hermione finally managed to drag Ron away from the table. A veteran of Hermione's enthusiasm, Ron had learned to pack his pockets with cookies before starting the ice cream and cake afters, so he wasn't too upset at missing the rest of dessert.

They took several shortcuts to throw off pursuers, and arrived before even half of the D.A. members, who had left earlier than the three, had reached the seventh-floor corridor.

Lee arrived almost at the same time as they did. "Don't worry," he said, "Nobody will suspect we're up here. The twins made a deal with Peeves, and there's a tremendous food fight under way right now. And most people will remember seeing us there tossing pies." He smirked. "The wonders you can accomplish with an intermittent notice-me-not and illusions, isn't it?" His eyes were twinkling almost as much the Headmaster's!

Harry, Ron, and Hermione all grinned.

"And even if someone does search for us, earlier in the week we put up subtle aversion charms in the corridors that lead here, so anyone who comes down those corridors thinks there's nothing important here. When they arrive at the actual corridor, only people keyed into the charms can see the wall opposite Barnabas the Barmy! Right now, all you need is one of Hermione's coins, but the twins plan to change that to match the D.A. contract, tonight, now that she's here with it." He grinned mischievously at her.

Lee walked up and down the corridor as the other members watched, and wondered what they would see. Experience had given him the skill, and he hadn't even finished the third leg of the walk when the oval-shaped metal door appeared.

With a grand wave of his arm, and a bow, he motioned Harry, and the rest, into his creation. The sci-fi acquainted half-bloods and muggle-borns giggled excitedly, and giddily hurried forward. They almost stumbled over each other with their eagerness to see. The confused pure-bloods slowly followed after.

"Soo," Ron said as he looked around the corridor inside the rather dark spaceship. "It's . . . nice?" he offered dubiously. He looked up at the ceiling four yards above them, and the metal arches that supported it. "Very . . . different?" he hesitantly said.

Hermione rolled her eyes. "Pretend you're walking into Merlin's secret and well-hidden workshop," she half-scolded him.

The pure-bloods looked around with a good deal more interest. Merlin's workshop would be amazing, so maybe so was a spaceship.

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