Chapter 4: Flying

Ginny's POV

I couldn't believe that one of Cedric's friends called Kristin a mudblood! It had to be someone from Slytherin. No one in any other house would stoop so low just because they think saying something makes them look cool. I certainly wanted to find the little prick and give him a piece of my mind, but for now I decided I'd let it go. I was on my way back to the common room when I heard a familiar voice I hadn't heard yet this year.

"Hey Weasley, how're things going with you and Potter?" Malfoy sneered with Crabbe and Goyle snickering behind him.

"I don't know what you're talking about, Malfoy." I said simply.

"Oh please. I'm not as easily fooled as your daft brother, the idiot doesn't even realize…"

I whipped out my wand. "Don't you dare talk about my brother like that again!" I said through clenched teeth, my wand pressed against his neck.

"Or what?" his cold, grey eyes narrowed as I loosened my grip.

I stepped back, smirked and glared. "You'll see. You won't know when it's coming, but you'll see." He looked really uncomfortable…good.

I walked to the common room where I found Kristin and Cedric. Cedric was teaching Kristin how to play Wizard Chess and from where I was standing, it looked like it wasn't going so well.

"Wait. I don't get it. So where should I make my next move?" Kristin asked with this really confused look on her face.

"You move the pawn to either the first or second square in front of it. In this case you probably only want to move it one space." Cedric explained.

"Gotcha." The pawn moved itself to the square in front of it. Cedric made his bishop move in front of it and took it out.

"Hey!" Kristin yelled, smacking him on the shoulder.

"Ow! Sorry, couldn't help it." Cedric grinned.

Kristin looked over and saw me and I raised my eyebrows. She rolled her eyes.

"Okay, so apparently I suck at Wizard Chess." She sighed.

"And I totally rock at it." Cedric commented. She glared at him.

"Quiet… cheater."

I laughed and sat down on the couch. I watched Cedric dominate Kristin in chess and then he said goodnight and went upstairs. Kristin cleaned up the chessboard and she sat down next to me on the couch.

"So, do you fancy Cedric or something?" I questioned her with my eyebrows raised.

"What? No, of course not, he's a friend."

"Alright, well, we should probably go to bed." I smiled. Kristin smiled back and we went upstairs. Hermione was reading with a little light charm floating behind her head.

"Oh there you guys are! I was wondering when you were going to come to bed." She closed her book and waved her wand and the charm died. We laid there in the dark for a bit and finally Hermione broke the silence.

"Okay, do you like have something going on with Cedric?"

"Mhm, precisely what I said." I added.

"Why is everyone asking that? We're just friends, I only met the guy like a couple hours ago! Ugh, I'm tired goodnight Ginny, goodnight Hermione."

The Next Day…

I woke up to find Hermione and Kristin gone. Uh oh, today was the first Quidditch match of the season and I overslept! I gathered my hair in a messy bun and quickly dressed in my Quidditch robes and hurried downstairs. I walked into the Great Hall seeing every other Quidditch player in robes and everyone excited. I sit down next to Kristin and she has this lost look on her face while looking at my robes.

"Okay, what exactly is Quidditch?" she asks me as I reach for a Daily Prophet.

"Well, Quidditch is kind of like what Americans call it …what it is? Soccer?"

"Yeah, soccer." Kristin said. I explained Quidditch to Kristin and she sounded like she somewhat got it. After we ate, I caught up with the Gryffindor Quidditch team and Kristin went with Hermione to the pitch.

Harry's POV

We won our Quidditch match! We slaughtered Slytherin, and Malfoy is pissed. Excellent. Everyone was congratulating us on our win. The Gryffindor house started flooding in and everyone was patting us on the back and screaming and such. I looked over and saw Ginny with her bright red hair in the back of the crowd. She was walking out. I made my way through the crowd and called after her. She didn't answer me and I figured she just couldn't hear me. She turned a corner and I followed, around the corner I stopped and she was nowhere to be seen.