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'Thoughts/Mindlink'

"Normal speak/English."

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Harry, it seemed, did indeed have the mental capacity to acknowledge that putting his 'plan' into action before potions would result in something horrible happening to his person. Or at least that's what you'd think. But in reality, Harry had just forgotten his 'brilliant plan'. This was a very good thing for everyone in his year, because if he had remembered he would have put it into action specifically during Potions, just to tick off Snape! They would have gotten in a whole lot of trouble for it, and Hermione would have killed him! Thanks to Harry getting distracted by homework, the idea was pushed to the farthest corners of his mind.

Allowing the week to go by with nothing particularly interesting happening. Until Saturday that is, that Saturday was the first Quidditch practice of the year for the Gryffindor team. Their captain, Oliver Wood, wanted to get ahead of the other teams by starting practice as early as possible it seemed. As such he had booked the pitch for the entire day.

Now Normally, Harry would have been all for this. It would have been a great idea in his opinion. But it was Oliver's method of waking them that made him detest the idea. You see Oliver had managed to, very loudly, wake up the entire team, before the sun. Harry was barely conscious as he and the rest of the team followed their captain down to the pitch. Though, Harry was proud to say that he was the only member of the team that managed to stay halfway conscious during Oliver's extremely long and detailed hour long lecture on the new strategies and training methods he had spent the summer coming up with.

Though, he hadn't actually been listening to Oliver go on and on and on about his new idea's. Harry being who he was wasn't one to let an opportunity to go waste. And the fact that the infamous Weasley Twins were currently out like a light was just too good of an opportunity to pass up. So while Oliver was lost in his own little world, Harry sneaked away as stealthily as he could and filled a bucket with Ice water. He dragged it back to the main part of the locker room, and then promptly dumped the bucket of freezing water on the two veteran pranksters.

Their reaction was absolutely worth the revenge they were going to take on him for it later. They had shrieked, loudly, in surprise. They had also jumped a foot in the air, and crashed rather hilariously, into the spare brooms. This racket woke up Angelina, Katie, and Alicia, the Gryffindor Chasers. They all had a good laugh at the twin's expense, but then turned around and began to lay into Oliver for waking them up so early. Harry sweat d

ropped at the chaos he hadn't meant to be the cause of. "Um. . . Can't we all just calm down?" He tried to get everyone to shut up. He was starting to get a headache. "Alright then. . . If anyone needs me I'll be outside. I'm going for a fly." Harry wasn't sure if anyone had heard him, and he didn't actually care. He grabbed his broom and left the suddenly very loud Locker Room and was soon flying around the pitch, the silence quickly diminished his headache until it was all but gone.

As Harry flew around the pitch he noticed that the sun was coming up. This caused the sky to turn various shades of pink orange and red, it was really a sight to see. Harry didn't usually see the sunrise. He was generally awake after the sun rose, or too busy to notice if it had come up already. It was amazing. Harry told himself that he would have to wake up early more often so that he could see it again. He didn't have much more time to contemplate the sunrise though. As the rest of the team quickly joined him outside, though the Chasers still looked a bit angry, and Harry didn't exactly like the conspiring looks on the twin's faces. Harry quickly forgot about all that as they began warm-ups.

Halfway through the new and painstakingly detailed warm-ups Harry noticed that Ryou and Hermione, the only other Gryffindor early risers in their year, were sitting in the stands, along with a half awake Ron, who Hermione probably dragged out to the pitch by force. But that wasn't what really caught his attention. No what caught his attention was the fact that they had brought breakfast. Oliver, in his enthusiasm to begin training, hadn't exactly left them any time to eat before they got started. Harry grinned and dived down towards the stands, pulling out of the dive just in time to avoid crashing into them. "Hey guys!" He greeted with a grin. "You have no idea how happy I am that you brought food!" Harry laughed as Ryou passed him a slice of toast.

Ryou laughed. "You're very lucky that we even thought to. We only thought of the idea as we were leaving. I suppose we should have guessed from the start that Wood didn't give you any time to eat. He is a rather big Quidditch Fanatic after all." Ryou commented. Not fully aware of just how much of an understatement that was. "Seto wanted to come, or at least I think he did. When we invited him he sort of grunted and waved us off. I don't think he's had his morning coffee yet. Though, he's been messing around with that laptop of his so much, I don't think he's even gotten as much sleep as he should have." Ryou frowned in thought.

Hermione turned to him sharply. "Seto hasn't been getting enough sleep?" Hermione hated it when her friends didn't do things that they should do. Homework, Sleeping, Eating, all of those things were important! If Seto wasn't sleeping, Hermione would have to talk to him about that. It irritated her that someone as smart as Seto would willingly lose sleep when he was smart enough to know how important it was. And, no one wanted an angry Hermione Granger on their case.

Ron, having been woken up by Harry's enthusiastic greeting sweat dropped realizing that Ryou might have just set an angry Hermione Granger on one of the last people on the planet you wanted mad at you. Even he could see that if Ryou set Hermione on Seto, Seto would turn on Ryou, and then Harry would jump into help, and probably make things worse. "He said he didn't think he's been getting enough sleep. He doesn't know for sure, He might have just interpreted things wrong." Ron tried to correct the situation before Seto ended up mad at Ryou and things got out of hand. Seto Kaiba was a force to be reckoned with when angry.

Harry grinned at them and put into action his own method for getting Hermione to think about something else. "Hey, the Seeker exercises won't be going on for a while. So I'm going to be pretty bored. We could play a game?" He suggested. "Like Broom tag!" Broom tag was a game that Ron and Ginny had introduced Yugi Seto and Harry to that summer. It was just like normal tag, but on brooms. Harry then remembered that Hermione and Ryou didn't like to fly. "Or we could play Aurors and Outlaws? We'd have even teams." Harry didn't want to exclude anyone if he was going to play a game. It was going to be one that everyone could play.

This started a debate over what game they should play. By the time they had narrowed it down, Yugi and Seto had joined them. Oliver had been somewhat irked that a Slytherin was on the pitch while they were practicing. But once Harry assured him that Seto wasn't a spy, things went much more smoothly, and continued to run smoothly until around noon. Around noon was when things changed, and not in a fun way.

Around noon, the Slytherin team invaded the Pitch. While Harry had been hiding under the bleachers in an attempt to evade Seto who was trying to capture him in their game of Aurors and Outlaws, He could plainly see that this was going to be trouble. Instead of keeping up the game he went back over to the team to inform Oliver that they were coming.

Note!

Not that proud of this chapter. But though it was somewhat pointless, it is necessary for what is to come!

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