Harry, Ron and Hermione were halfway through breakfast in the Great Hall when Neville came rushing into the great hall and sat next to Harry.

"Waazzup!" Ron said after swallowing his toast. Neville caught his breath before leaning forward and spoke in a low voice.

"The DA needs to meet tonight, I'll explain everything at the meeting. Meet me at the seventh floor corridor after dinner tonight."

"If you are taking about the room of requirement, it does not exist anymore! It was destroyed." Harry said.

"I know but I can't explain now but just meet me there." Neville said urgently before grabbing the last piece of toast from Ron's plate and rushing out of the Great hall.

"Wonder what's with him." Ron said frowning at his now empty plate. As the owl post arrived and various  owls of shapes, sizes and colours swooped in.

"Oh no!" Hermione sighed as one of the grey owls swooped down and dropped a sickly pink note on Ron's empty plate. Ron threw her an guilty look before picking it up and opening it.

My dearest Ronald,

How I wish I could be there with you when  you got hurt playing Quidditch. The rains that day was strange and terrifying and ruined what was an exciting match between the two strongest teams.

I hope you have recovered completely and will be able to play next weekend.

Yours unconditionally,
Lisa Conner

P.S: I was hoping to hear back from you, I sincerely hope my Identity has not affected our relationship.

Ron looked up from his letter, lost for words.

"Do not reply to her." Hermione said sternly to him. Ron nodded and looked back at the letter giving it a little sniff before he exclaimed "Its scented too!"

Hermione ignored this as she watched Dean unwrap his copy of the Daily Prophet as she sipped her pumpkin juice.

"She seems awfully interested in the match. So unusual." Ron added, his ears turning as pink as the letter.

Hermione frowned finally turning towards him to throw a dirty look at the letter but this time she looked different. "You are absolutely right, Ron." She said her face suddenly clearing up. Ron immediately looked up at her in surprise. "I am?" He asked confused.

"This letter is very strange. For the first time she talks about herself. Things that interest her like Quidditch." Hermione explained.

"But this isn't the first match we have had this year, or didn't she know about our crushing defeat against Hufflepuff?" Harry said.

"Probably because I wasn't on the team." Ron said casually playing with the crumbs on his plate, his ears still pink.

"Or...." Hermione said rolling her eyes. "There is something else about this match that got her interested."

Harry and Ron looked at each other clearly not sure what she was talking about.

"Ravenclaw! She must have been a Ravenclaw student and cannot decide if she wants her house to win or Ron!" Hermione explained patiently.

"That would mean she is a student here." Ron said with a small laugh. When Hermione glared at him for being so slow, he nervously looked around as though expecting to find Lisa Conner watching him. "That would definitely explain how she knows so much of what's going on here."

"If this Lisa Conner is in Hogwarts, then surely Terrence would have recognised her." Harry said. "He is after all her brother."

"Then either Terrence lied about his sister being dead or Lisa is not who she says she is. We can't trust either of them anyways." Hermione said in a manner of factly.

"That clears it up." Ron said sarcastically. "We are back to knowing nothing now." They were so deep in conversation that Harry didn't realise that he got a letter too!

"It's from Ginny!" Harry said excited, ripping it open at once.

Dear Harry,

I got in!! The trails are over and I'm officially on the team now!

How is everything over there? Is Ron still getting those creepy fan mail?

Things are going great over here, I only wish you could be here with me.....I've enclosed a picture of my new team.

Harry immediately pulled out the picture from the envelope and smiled. Ginny stood next to Gwenog Jones, they seemed to be getting along better too as they waved to the camera together holding up a giant banner that read "Holyhead Harpies"

There are times I just want to drop everything and come to Hogwarts again. But mostly I want to stay. Why don't you come here for a visit during the Christmas holidays? I can't bare to spend this Christmas alone. Especially after everything we have been through.

P.S: How is out team at Hogwarts. It's a shame I didn't get to Captain them but I'm sure you will do a better job.

Harry's heart soared, he liked the idea of meeting Ginny for Christmas. After everything they had been through, Harry couldn't think of anyone who deserved to have their dreams come true more than Ginny. He was just about to tell Ron and Hermione when he realised they weren't sitting next to him anymore, they were leaning over to Seamus and Dean.

"What's going on?" Harry asked as he approached the group. Hermione looked up with worry etched on her face. "The ministry...." she said pointing at the daily prophet in Dean's hands.

Harry looked at the paper and his jaw dropped. The Front page was mostly taken up by a picture of Kingsley talking seriously to a few other wizards. Some of them appeared to have been injured. The title of the article read

"MINISTRY RAIDS GO DANGEROUSLY AWRY"

"Apparently the ministry has been raiding homes in London looking for Nicolas Flamel and someone died." Hermione told Harry.

"What?" Harry said, shocked. Ever since the war ended, Harry never bothered to renew his subscription of the daily prophet. This was because he got all his news, well in advance from the minister himself. Lately however, Kingsley has been sending him fewer owls and none had anything to do with Nicolas Flamel.

Although Harry had been very disappointed about the lack of information from Kingsley, he had been distracted with the Flamel's followers in Hogwarts.

Harry looked down at the article and began to read:

Over the last few weeks, Ministry officials have been making unannounced visits to wizards residence all over London. Houses were busted into, residents interrogated and even a few were arrested. On enquiry, the ministry has failed to provide us with reasons for the arrests causing a stir in the wizarding community.

The latest raid, lead by the minister for magic himself, proved to be the most scandalous as one of the ministry officials cracked which set off an exchange of hexes and curses between the residents of and the group of inexperienced Ministry wizards, killing 86 year old Robert Gentry in his own home right in front of his Son and daughter.

No word yet from the ministry on the incident but Gentry's children, Robert jr and Callie Gentry have appealed to have the ministry officials sacked and a public inquiry being made. However since the minister for magic's personal involvement, this seems most unlikely.

"This is...." Harry said looking up from the paper, completely lost for words.

"I know." Ron said "Wonder why Kingsley didn't tell us about the raids."

"This is bad!" Dean said "Ever since the war, the ministry's reputation has gone down the drain. There is a lot of mistrust between the wizarding community and the ministry."

"Yes and with scandals like this the ministry will surely fall and the risk of wizards being exposed is high." Seamus said.

Harry looked back at the paper where Kingsley was shouting instructions at the ministry officials. He looked very tensed.

"I think you need to talk to Kingsley." Hermione said. "You might need to make a public statement about this."

"Me?" Harry said surprised.

"Yes. Right now 'The boy who lived' 'The chosen one' is what they need. If you show your support then they might come to trust the ministry again." Hermione explained. "I don't know why Kingsley didn't come to you before but this is the most logical thing to do."

"He did." Harry said suddenly recalling the night of his birthday. "When he offered us a position in the Auror department even though we weren't fully qualified. Now I know why."

The five of them sat in complete silence until nearly headless nick floated towards them and began talking excitedly about the Quidditch rematch they had with Ravenclaw that weekend.

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Is Kingsley messing up? Will Harry Ron and Hermione be able to save the ministry from completely falling?

What do you think about Lisa Conner? Any theories about what she is up to?

I was planning to split this into a series, but not 7 like JKR (my soul isn't strong enough for that)
I would probably do 3 (max) what do you think??
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For Hinny fans, you might get to see Ginny again in this book. I somehow like the idea of venturing out of Hogwarts to experience something new....

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