Dumbledores Army

Dumbledores Army - refered to in public as the DA - is a secret (supposedly) Defence Against the Dark Arts group that was founded by Hermione Jean Granger, with Ronald Billius Weasley's support, and led by Harry James Potter in their fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Its purpose was to teach Defencive spells and enchantments that might help its members fight newly-reterned Lord Voldemort and his loyal Death Eaters, as their actual Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher (Professor Dolores Umbridge) is employed by the Minister for Magic (Cornelius Oswald Fudge) and therefore refuses, like the Ministry of Magic, to acknowledge Voldemort's return or teach them any magic as they think that Professor Albus Dumbledore would assemble his students to take on the Ministry. So they decide that it is time to take matters into their own hands and so they and twenty-five other students, learn it themselves ...