"Yeah, you better run you cowards!" Curtis screamed at the fleeing members. How pathetic, they couldn't even finish the job that their leader deligated. He sent one more Incarcerous after them before the message sunk in. We won. He sighed in relief. It wasn't until then he realized how exhausted he truly was. The adrenaline was beginning to wear out. This better get me an O on my NEWTs in Defense Against the Dark Arts. He last thought before turning to (Gemma) on the floor.

"Yeah, we made it. It's over now." Curtis said before a small smile, before holding out his hand, "Let's go get Jackson and see Mum, I bet our dads are with her," He wished he could send a Patronus but he hadn't mastered it and didn't have the energy to do so even if he could. But if he knew his parents they wouldn't back out of a fight like this. Waiting until she was able to get up they would walk over (well, Curtis would promptly step on some of the Alliance's faces) out of the room to head down and see the resolution.

Curtis would only begin to realize how important some of his memories would be at the end of his Hogwarts journey.

There was no reaction from the unconscious Hufflepuff as the opossum patronus came in to the room and the the Minister’s voice could be heard. It was only when the patronus had vanished did Minjae stir in his stunned sleep. As the effect of the stupefy spell was wearing off, the seventh year opened his eyes slowly. The first thing he saw was the scene in front of him and it was not what he had expected. He watched as the group of Alliance followers began scurrying out of the room in an attempt to escape. A frown appeared on his face as he attempted to sit upright , leaning the back of his head against the wall . Something must have happened in their favor or else the Alliance wouldn’t be running away and it didn’t take a genius to understand what was happening.

He forced himself to stand up, using the wall behind him for support. They had won hadn’t they? He looked around the room, at his classmates and professors and tears started to form in his eyes again. The ringing in his ear was still present but he was too tired to pay attention to it at the moment. He searched around for his wand and found it next to him on the ground. He slowly stooped down, groaning in pain as he picked it up. Covered in dust and dirt from the debris , his nose broken and blood smeared and a possible sprained ankle from when he had been thrown across the room earlier. Minjae had definitely looked better but he couldn’t be more happier. They had won. A small smile appeared on his face thinking about how they were free now. Free to go home. Free to see his parents again . Thinking about his parents was the reason why the tears now fell down. Using the sleeve of his robe to wipe the tears away, the Hufflepuff looked around again and panic began to spread as he did not see two of his friends in the room.

”Has anyone seen Noah?” He asked as he limped around slowly"Aboli...?".

Violet was sorely tempted to set some of the more aggressive Alliance members on fire, but luckily her self-control was not tested to its limits due to the arrival of the Patronus and the flight of their attackers. She slumped back against the wall for a moment, exhausted, and gave a look of relief over at Mamie, her partner as she slowly lowered her wand.

But looking around the room, Violet realized their work was far from over--they needed to get the kids who were hurt to someone who could help them. Walking over to Kaira, she bent down to gently take Ingrid by the shoulder and looked to see if the younger student showed any signs of waking. Looking up at Kaira, Violet said, "We should try to use a levitation spell and go find some healers somewhere." Raising her voice, she called out, "Can someone help Ashley, she looks pretty out of it, too."

Awake…

Blinking away the fuzziness of the massive snooze she’d apparently taken in the…uh…

“Where am I?” she mumbled as she did her best to take in the faces in front of her, the thrumming in her head now starting to grow and grow as if someone had left on the wireless and were slowly starting to turn it up. She had been in the spare room running away from the Neo-Alliance? No, she’d been looking for her brothers and sisters!

Sitting up swiftly, she almost bumped heads with the girl who’d had a hand resting on her shoulder (Violet) as she attempted to look around for her family. Adam was with her, wasn’t he? But he wasn’t with her now? Where had that little idiot got to now?

“Ouch…my head” she grumbled as the room began spinning. Turning grey, she flopped back down and lay there for a moment, doing her best not to pass out. Finally, after a moment, her eyes managed to move back the two people close by (Kiara and Violet). “What happened? Did we win? Is…everyone okay?”. She had no idea if she could walk or how much she was really hurt, only that if she kept hitting her head like this, she’d have no braincells left. She’d be a witless Ravenclaw.

Mamie was all about the partner strategy, even if she secretly thought Violet would be better at offense than she could. She was trying her best! And maybe it was best to have the older, more experienced witch covering their defenses...defense was important when people were using unforgiveable curses, she thought.

But then--was that a talking otter? She stared as the glowing magical mammal said Headmaster Rosier was...was defeated? Mamie nearly dropped her wand in relief, as now the Neo-Alliance were scrambling to get out of the room. It was so suddenly quiet she could hear Minjae...asking about Noah and Aboli. She looked over at the seventh year. "Noah and Aboli...they went to fight," she said, suddenly scared again, with the adrenaline suddenly rushing back to keep her energized enough to worry. What if something had happened to them?

She heard Violet say something about Ashley...and looked to see her very best friend, over on the floor. Mamie hurried over and crouched next to her, this time careful not to disrupt any sleep she might be trying to get. "Professor Recard?" she called, she thought she had seen the healer in here earlier? Maybe she could do something for Ashley? What had happened to her poor friend? Mamie wanted to hug her but...well, she didn't know where she'd been since that horrible potions class. And she had been so focused on "fighting" off the Neo-Alliance just now, she didn't know what might've happened to the girl more recently, that might make a hug painful or something.

Ivy felt herself rising slowly from the depths of unconsciousness. There was a lot of noise all around her, but it was muffled and distant and she couldn't make out any of it. Not until everything stilled and a new sound was heard, one that her mind was able to grasp a few intelligible words from.

Rosier...fallen... This battle...must cease... This war...over... Restore peace...

Her eyes opened, and she quickly sat up, wincing a little as the room spun. Or not quite a room but the...closet? The last thing she remembered was... Er, well, maybe she didn't want to think about that too hard right now. She was feeling poorly enough that she didn't want to think about what had caused it. But if she knew about the efforts of Aries, Christian, and Tavie to get her in here instead of laying in the middle of the open room, she'd thank them.

For now, though, she clambered to her feet despite the wooziness she felt and looked out into the room. Holding onto the closet doorframe with one hand, her eyes scanned over her friends and classmates and professors...and a bunch of Alliance members either frozen or knocked out or incapacitated in some way. She would've been pleased to know that she'd helped out in freezing some of them, but she was relieved nonetheless that they weren't fighting any more.

Did that mean...?

"Did we... Are we... Is everyone..." Could she finish her sentences? She could barely follow her train of thought. Everything, every thought and every emotion, was all jumbled together.

Kaira looked up to see another girl sit next to her as she tried to cast the reviving spell. 'I guess we could do that..' and as she was about to do just that, it seemed like the spell had worn off and Ingrid was up again.

Kaira was relieved to see the girl awake again. 'Careful,' she said, as the girl hit her head. 'Yes yes..It's okay..You had been stunned..Lucien Rosier is..gone..we are winning,' she said reassuringly to the girl. 'We will take you to a healer..,' she said. She didn't know what to do. She looked around at the older students for help. Raising her voice slightly, she said 'Someone help please?,' pleadingly.