Chapter 1

Narrator's POV

It was raining, again. The whole world seemed to feel dark and gloomy to Harry as he walked up the path to Gryffindor tower to change. He had already been to the locker room and changed, only to find his teammates, Oliver, Angelina, Alicia, Katie, Fred and George turn their backs on him. In all of his 11 years of life he had never felt so bad. That was really bad. He could handle the Dursley's cruelty, he had endured it for ten years. Ten long, miserable years of cooking, cleaning, picking up after, beatings, and starvation. Ten years of the Dursley's trying to turn him into their own, personal slave. "Well," he thought, "I really have had a miserable life. Maybe, they're right. I am a freak, a miserable freak with a bastard father and slut of a mother who died drunkenly in a car crash. I don't have any friends but Ron and Hermione, and they deserve better than me."

Oliver's POV

The whole time at Quidditch practice, something was wrong with Harry. I mean, normally, he puts his all into practice, coming up with new ideas. Maybe we were wrong to treat him that way. We thought that as a team, we were family and we were supposed to discipline someone when they misbehave and our form of discipline was ignoring the person. But, something about him feels wrong. Today when we out in the fields, he just did what I asked, nothing more, nothing less. And oh, that look of abandonment and hurt in his eyes, that was what hurt the most. Come on, we can't win the Quidditch cup if our Seeker doesn't try his best.

Alicia's POV

If the Quidditch team is a family, Oliver is the dad and I the mom. Normally, one would think Angelina, my best friend for 3 years is the mom, since she is a bit of a leader. But with Oliver, being so obsessed with Quidditch and Angelina to a minor extent, after a long talk, we thought it would be better for me, the lease obsessed one to balance him out. Angelina, George, and Fred were supposed to play the role of the big sister/brothers to Katie, the youngest on the team, well that is before our Seeker, Harry, came. Now it is both of them as the babies, Harry the biggest baby of the lot of us.

Oliver was the angriest when we heard about the point loss. He wanted to kick Harry off the team. I am the only reason that Harry is still on it. He is just new to this world, and something tells me he has not had a good upbringing. Maybe the Muggles, had abused him.

As a half-blood learning and living in both worlds, I know something about the muggle child-care system. Dad is a wizard, while mum is the muggle. I know about the child care system since one of my muggle friends went through um - what do you call it - a divorce, and had to live with her dad. Well, her dad abused her, sexually, emotionally, and physically, and with my family's help, we got her to tell us which we then called the police. It worked out well for her and I learned something about the courts. Still though, the sexually abused, well that gives me the shivers.

Back to Harry, I will work to get to know him better. I hated not being able to hold him and tell him it will be alright and that I am not mad with him. According to the rumor, he was being noble, a prized character trait of the very house that is treating him like a pariah, and was helping out a friend. I couldn't and that what was killing me today. I think I should have a go at talking to Angelina, she is smart and might help me pressure Wood into being kinder to Harry. That girl is scary if she wants to be and has gotten Wood to be loose up with us a few times.

Angelina's POV

I was approached by a down-cast Alicia. Uh-oh, I thought, something must not be good, otherwise, she is the sunshine of the Quidditch group. She had me walk with her around the lake and began to talk.

"Angelina, how do you feel about the point loss thanks to our Seeker?" she asked.

I thought about how to put it. I had mixed feelings. I decided to tell her as candidly and accurately as possible. "I don't know Alicia, I feel like those pendulums on the clocks, rocking back and forth. I don't know whether to be proud that he is already exhibiting nobility, sad he is going to loose the house a bunch of points, or angry at him and the other first years in on it. I can't settle on one feeling. I think we should talk to Katie about it, she is closer in age to him and is also new to the team."

Katie's POV

Ahhh - they must want to talk about moves. Can't they let me be, here in the common room? Why can't they just do it during practice. What is wrong with Alicia, she should be able to talk Angelina out of it. If they do, well, I got to scoot. Angelina can go on and on about it, so I want to wear her out. Well, they want to talk to me, they got to find me. I guess it is time to play chase.

I ran to the door, and thankfully just missed them. The only problem is, they are hot on my tail. I began running towards the stairs, because I know they are Angelina's weakness. She hates them. That witch! She comes running up them. I am headed to the 5th floor and then will come right back down, on the other side of the castle. Then I will run around the lake, come inside, and run to my dorm, where she cannot get in, unless I invite her. Ha!

45 minutes later...

LOL! I can hear Angelina trying to curse this door open, but it isn't working. She has even tried to summon me, but thankfully, the doors prevent that. I guess I will go back to homework.

1 hr and a half later...

"Time for dinner and meeting the Harpy," I thought. Well, I might as well face it, so I went down to the Great Hall for dinner.

"There you are. I have been chasing you all afternoon trying to talk to you," Angelina thundered at me.

"Well, what do you want from me? Quidditch tactics? Bertie Botts Flavored Bean? Chocolate frogs? My bag of nail polish?"

"What was the last thing?" Alicia asked me.

Shoot, why does she have to pay so much attention to everything I say? "Nothing" I told her with a shrug of my shoulders.

Rolling her eyes, she told me, "If you don't tell me Katie, I swear, I will turn you into my target for the tickle hex till we all become very acquainted with it."

"Oh fine," I grumbled, "I said that did you want my bag of nail polish."

" Yes, I do, but first, I want to talk to you about Harry." She told me. "Angelina, its safe, she doesn't have her wand out."

"Well, Katie, since you are new to the team, how do you feel about how we treat Harry?"

Ohhh...I guess I should have heard them out earlier. This is going to be a long conversation... "Well, it is mean, unfair, and plain stupid. Everytime I see you refer to Harry as 'the Seeker' I want to get my Potions book and walk the back of your head. I don't talk to Harry much, no more than you do, but he seem to be sorry and really hurt by your behavoir. I have to admit though, his eyes were very cute and when he said bye, to me, his eyes seem to cut right through my soul." And thus our night passed, developing the bond of sisterhood between us, the bond of teammates, and family.