Chapter Two; Good News, Bad News
Hey guys, I got a very special announcement! I might still have writer's block for "Battle of The Bands" but at some point, after I finish posting this story there will be a Harry Snape prequel all about how The Dragons came to be! Some I'm very excited about it and I hope that you will give "The Legend of The Dragons" a read once it comes out! Anyway, for now, here's the next chapter!
The next few weeks flew by and before Harry knew it, he was off to Hogwarts for the annual Halloween celebrations at the school. As usual his family and friends were happy to see him but since they had just seen him a couple weeks prior, it wasn't the same usual excitement. That afternoon Harry and Ron had picked out their pumpkin from Hagrid's pumpkin patch and started cleaning it out together. That's when suddenly Eve and Alyssa entered the room wearing their Quidditch robes and carrying their broomsticks in hand.
"Hullo Harry." Alyssa began while smiling warmly at him. Harry turned his head and smiled back at her.
"Oh hullo Alyssa." He said while scooping up a bit of pumpkin goop up inside the palm of his hand and then set it down on top of the newspaper.
"How was practice?" Ron questioned them.
"It was great! Alyssa did really excellent!" Eve exclaimed excitedly.
"So did Eve." Alyssa told him with a grin.
"Wow, two witches. One from Gryffindor and one from Slytherin actually getting along." Ron began. "I never thought that I'd see the day." He finished while he scooped out some of the goop on the other side of the pumpkin.
"Guess what Harry?" Eve began. "Tobey has finally been able to have enough signatures to be able to play Quidditch on a dragon next year." She told him.
"Really?" Harry began with a grin. "That's great! With a dragon to see for him, he's liable to be a great Quidditch player." He said.
"I know, especially since he also has a sharp sense of hearing." She said.
"Do you know what position that he wants to try out for?" Ron wondered.
"Yes, he still wants to try out for seeker." She replied.
"Wow, I really hope that he makes it. That would really be something. The first wizard to play the position of seeker without actually being able to see the Snitch at all." Ron said.
"I know he can make it. If I didn't have faith in him I would have told him to give up a long time ago." Harry told him.
"Tobey, Eve, and Teddy and Heather were right about you Harry. You're a great brother to them and they're lucky to have you." Ron said. "Although I still can't believe that those words came out of the mouth of the same person who mastered Ginny's famous bat boogey hex in less than a week." He added as Eve narrowed her eyebrows and glared at him before withdrawing her wand and pointing it at him.
"And don't tempt me to do it on you." She warned.
"Boy. If Ginny ever teaches her to do wandless magic then we're really in trouble." Harry told him.
"Well come on Evie, we better go back and change into some comfortable clothes. I can't believe that most of my professors gave me homework over the weekend. And close to Halloween too!" Alyssa cried indignantly.
"Alright, but I'm keeping my eye on you mister!" Eve snapped before she stored her wand away again and then turned around and followed Alyssa as Harry and Ron continued working on their pumpkin together.
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"Look who's going to be the cutest little pumpkin at the party." Aaron said while flopping down on top of the bed and tickling Danny's belly making him squeal with laughter and giggles.
"Oh, I don't know about that. He'll have quite a bit of competition with Johnny." Brittany began while sitting down on the other side of them. "You should see his costume, he makes a pretty cute little ghost." She told him before Aaron wrinkled his nose and sniffed the air.
"Uh oh, it smells like it's time to empty out the pumpkin." He told her.
"I'll do it, I think it's my turn anyway." She began. "Then I'll start getting him ready for his nap." She told him before Danny's smile vanished and he immediately burst into tears.
"I would have thought that you would have realized by now not to say the N word around him." Aaron said.
"I know, but he feels so much better and refreshed after he wakes up." Brittany told him before she held out her arms and scooped the baby up inside of them. "C'mon Danny, it's time to get you cleaned up and put a fresh nappy on you." She told him before she turned around and carried him away. That's when suddenly a knock came on the door.
"I'll get it!" Aaron called before he got up and hurried over to the door. "Oh, hey Ginny." He began with a grin after he had answered it. "Harry's not here." He told her.
"I know. I'm not looking for Harry I'm looking for you." She told him before she entered the bedroom.
"Oh, well then, what's up?" he wondered before she took a deep breath and flopped down on the bed.
"I'm worried about Hermione. She's been down in the library ever since she got back and I've hardly ever seen her since I came back here myself." She told him before he turned around and walked back over to the bed and sat down next to her.
"Oh I see. Well, why are you coming to me about it? Why didn't you just go to Harry and Ron?" he inquired.
"Because, they wouldn't find anything wrong with that." She began before she turned to look at him with an earnest and serious expression on her face. "Besides, I know it's Halloween but I really don't want to scare them." She told him as he simply just chuckled at her.
"Why? That's the whole entire point to Halloween." He told her.
"Not when it has to do with Voldemort." She told him before the grin quickly vanished from his face.
"What do you mean?" he asked her.
"Well, Harry thinks that there's a possibility that Voldemort might have returned." She told him.