A Bet to Turn Events
Written by: Mg Nashisko and beta read by RuPeRts-gUrl-Rei
Disclaimer: I don't own hp or any of its characters…
Chapter 1: The Bet
It was a beautiful, cold day at Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione were walking to the first Quidditch game of the season; Hufflepuff versus Revenclaw.
"I'm actually quite glad that for the first time I'm not the one playing," Harry said with a pleased look.
Hermione giggled, "Well, you two go to the game, I promised Ginny that I'm going to help her with something." She then quickly walked away to meet with Ginny.
Ron shrugged as Harry looked at him with an expression as if to ask 'what is she doing?'
As they were walking to watch the game, the boys ran into Draco and his lackeys. "What a bloody bad way to start our day off," Ron murmured.
Draco gave a mean sneer, "Well, if isn't Potty and the Weasel."
"What do you want Malfoy?" Harry hissed.
"Isn't it such a lovely day, so what are you two doing? A date with each other, I presume?" Draco smirked and chuckled at his own joke.
"You know plenty well that they're going to see the game, Malfoy," a girl with dark, black hair said. Harry and Ron turned to see that it was Cho in her dark blue Quidditch robes. Her brown eyes were full of spite and anger.
"Well, if it isn't Chang," Draco said then he turned toward Harry and Ron, "so, are you boys so pathetic that you have to let a girl fight your battles for you?"
Ron's blue eyes fired up as he roared, "Shut your bloody trap, Malfoy! You wouldn't dare do anything if your lackeys weren't behind you," Crabbe and Goyle, Draco's 'lackey' glowered at him. "We're leaving, there's no point in dealing with the likes of you."
Cho then walked towards the Quidditch pitch, brushing Draco out of her way, and Harry followed right behind her. Draco and his lackeys, however, managed to stop Ron.
Harry and Cho stopped and turned around, only to see that Ron eyes hinted for them to continue. "So, you think you're so hot with your lovers here, eh?" Draco questioned once Cho and Harry was out of sight.
Ron smirked. "Lovers? Ha! Wouldn't you three make a fine couple?"
"Feh...!" Draco stated, "Crabbe and Goyle already have girlfriends for your information, and-"
"And you don't . . . " Ron finished for him with a smirk.
"I don't see any girls hanging around you either," Draco retaliated.
"You know bloody well that I could get any girl before you ever could," Ron hollered, his ears a bright pink and his face changed colors too.
Draco, with an evil sneer on his face, said, "I bet that you couldn't get with a girl even if you paid them."
Ron was furious, his face almost as red as his hair. "Then the bet is on. You have to get with a girl before I do. Whoever loses will have to be the winner's servants for the rest of the years we spend at Hogwarts."
"Two and a half years, eh? Deal!" Draco declared. "...but, I get to chose your girl...hmm...lets see..." he had millions of girls running through his head.
"Since you get to chose mine, let me choose yours . . . " Ron's head was trying to think of some girl's name, it was slightly harder for him to think of a girl's name, considering the fact that he does not have that many female friends himself.
Then in a split second both of the boys shouted out a girl's name.
"Chang!" was Draco's.
"Hermione!" was Ron's.
Both stood there, eyes widened. "WHAT!?" They both shouted in unison.
"Granger!?" Started Draco, "she hates my guts! That and the fact that she is ugly and a Mudblood!"
"Cho!? Harry fancies her! I can't do that!" Ron yelled.
But, that was exactly Draco's plan. Were he to lose, which he certainly cannot allow to happen, and Ron to win, then Ron would not gain much, just a false girlfriend and an ex-best friend. The reason Ron shouted out Hermione's name was not due to some undermined plane like Draco's, but it was because she was the only girl that he could've thought of at the moment.
"What? Too afraid?" Draco smirked, and thought to himself that after he wins Hermione's heart, he would dump her.
"No way!" Ron hollered not so sure of what he was saying. He knew that Harry would be furious at him, but, as much as he respected their friendship, there was no way he would admit inferiority to Malfoy nor would he allow Malfoy to have the satisfaction of believing that he cannot get a girl. Ron held out his hand to seal the deal with a handshake. Draco accepted.