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Chapter 7

The majority of them were already gathered in the hallway, they were just waiting for Ginny to bring James, Hermione, Angelina, Roxanne Victoire and Dominique to come down with their luggage. Harry was in the front of their group, and was getting slightly impatient. Teddy looked about him. It looked so odd to see everyone wearing muggle clothes, instead of the usual wizarding robes.

"When will they hurry up?!" Duncan exclaimed, checking his watch.

"You know Duncan," said Teddy smiling, "the match won't start any earlier if we get there early"

"I don't care!" he replied, in with a mock defensive, but fairly eager, tone to his voice.

Suddenly they heard people coming down the stairs, and the girls appeared at the end of the hallway.

"Finally!" Harry exclaimed "what took you so long?"

Ginny came to stand by Harry "we had to convince Roxanne and Victoire that they didn't need to take a million set of robes and muggle clothes with them."

"Oh right. Alright are we all ready?" Harry called out, beginning to unlock the door.

They hurried out of the door and down the steps onto the path below. They were stood out at the front of the house, and Teddy looked back, watching the house disappear.

"I still haven't got used to that" said Duncan, in awe of its magic. Although being a pureblood, his parents had not put as much security on his house, than the Black family had, and it had been quiet a shock to enter an invisible house, then to watch it disappear.

They began to walk down the road. Harry leading, followed by Ron, Teddy and Duncan, then George, Fred and Louis, then the girls and James.

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George, Fred and Louis were talking about the upcoming match as they walked.

"Well Ireland were only beaten by the skin of their teeth" said George, addressing Fred and Louis. "it was something like 250 to 240"

Fred gave a low whistle.

"But aren't Spain supposed to be really good?" asked Louis.

"Yeah. I heard they absolutely slaughtered Germany." said Fred "Is that true dad?"

"Unfortunately for England yes" replied George.

"So how are we going to get there? I bet the stadium is huge isn't it?" Fred asked.

"We are going to catch a portkey from the ministry, but we have to use the visitors entrance, and yes, the stadium will be huge. The last one could fit about on hundred thousand people in it" he replied.

He laughed at the look of awe on his sons face.

They traipsed through dark-ish city, past all the houses and offices, towards the entrance of the ministry. They approached the entrance to the ministry, and Harry let them in. they had to travel in two groups as they would not all fit inside the rather small phone box. As they descended they entered a large hall, with a wooden floor and many fireplaces situated at intervals in the side of the walls. A small group of witches and wizards were stood at the far end, also waiting for a portkey. They joined the group and waited.

A ministry official passed them a portkey and they all crowded around an old football. It was a bit of a squash.

Harry held the ball, on his right was George, then Fred, Duncan, Teddy, Victoire, Dominique, Louis, Ron, Hermione, Angelina and Ginny.

The ball emitted a blue glow, and suddenly, Teddy felt the familiar swooping sensation in his stomach. The portkey slammed all but the adults into the ground, and Teddy found that he had fallen right on top Victoire. They both blushed and when Teddy got to his feet he held out his hand for her. Helping her up, he hoped that no-one had noticed. Unfortunately, he had not noticed the identical grins on the faces of Harry and Ginny.

"Urgh!" Roxanne and Victoire shouted, for the ground was wet with the morning dew.

Victoire shouted "I'm soaked!"

"That's alright girls" said Angelina, "you brought enough sets of robes and clothes you can change once we get to the tents"

An unrecognised voice called out "ten past six from the Ministry of Magic!"

Harry walked up to him and shook the hand of a wizard who looked to be half asleep. He was wearing a pair of formal trousers, a red chequered shirt, bright green socks, and brown sandals. "are you alright there Derek?" Harry called out to him.

Teddy and Duncan smiled at one another and turned away, trying not to laugh. They heard the girls giggle from behind them.

He gave a friendly wave to them all "been up half the night sorting out this mess. The amount of people that are complaining about the time we set them up!"

"You'll always get the ones that complain, don't worry about it Derek" said Harry.

He consulted his enormous list, "Right, you lot are in plot 11, field 6, right up by that wood over there" he pointed out across misty fields. "ask for a Mr Smith"

"Alright. Thanks Derek" he called out. Then he turned to the family. "alright guys and girls, we have to go over towards that wood"

They set out across the fields, through the fog, looking at all the other tents. Teddy could have sworn that he saw one with a garden, complete with pond and birdbath.

"The crazy things these people come up with." Harry said, shaking his head.

A small cottage loomed out from the fog, and a older man was stood on its doorstep. Teddy could tell in an instant that this was an ordinary muggle. He had grey hair and beard, and he was smoking on his pipe.

"Are you Mr Smith?" Harry called out to him.

"Aye" he said "you here to pay for a couple of nights?"

"Yes we are. How did you know that?" he asked with a slight frown.

"You ain't the only ones to be doin' so recently. Loads o' people are. Unusual that is. Right how many nights you stayin'?"

"Just the two, please" Harry told him

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When they had successfully paid for their stay, they began to search for the tents.

While they were doing this, they bumped into a very flustered looking wizard. He was wearing muggle clothes, and could quite easily pass for a muggle. However, they could see his wand.

"You alright Simon?"

The wizard turned to look at him "oh yes. But people aren't happy. We keep on having to sort out arguments over seating." he said sounding rather exasperated. "6 in the morning is really not the time for arguments like this. But just as a warning though, it might escalate into something else." then grinning he added "As a warning to them, it had better not"

Harry looked troubled "right. Thanks for the warning"

"I had better get off for my breakfast. Enjoy the match" Simon said to them.

"Yeah I might see you later" Harry called after him. They waved their farewells.

Ron spotted a note pinned to the ground. "Potter and Weasley" it says.

"Well lets set up camp then!" George exclaimed. Throwing his rucksack to the ground.

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Teddy turned to Duncan as they began to get the tents out of the bags "I still haven't got you back for what you wrote on my face!" he grinned evilly.

"I didn't do anything to your face" he said.

"You did so"

"It was my wand!" Duncan tried to explain that he hadn't broken his promise at all, he had promised that he wouldn't write on his face. And his wand had done it.

"Who was controlling that wand?" Teddy reasoned.

"I was but that's not the point!" argued Duncan.

"I don't think I want to know" Ron told the two boys. "writing on your face isn't as bad as some of the things Harry and Me did to each other when we were at school"

Ginny coughed loudly from behind Ron's back.

He grimaced. "but now is not the time to discuss that. Especially in front of the younger ones." he winked and then added in a whisper so that neither Ginny nor the others could hear him, "maybe I'll tell you later"

Hermione called from the other side of a large sheet of canvas she was holding up. "Ron, don't just stand there nattering, come and help!"

"Alright I'm coming" he moaned, and went away muttering to himself .

"Boys, could you lend a hand and go and fetch some water from the tap? Theres a map here" Ginny called out to them.

They grinned. It was a way to get out of doing the work.

"Sure" Duncan said as Teddy took the map.

"I would ask you to take the others, but Roxie and Vic are attempting to find some clothes and the toilets to get changed, and the other younger ones will be gutted if they can't help set up camp" she pointed to the map, "there a tap marked here, which I think is just down there" she said, pointing down the field.

Teddy could hear them trying to 'help' and by the sounds of it they were getting very enthusiastic about it.

Ginny handed him a bucket and they set off down the field. It was a great way to get away from the work, and it was bound to get a bit hectic. With the thought that they might finally about to get some answers from Ron about what had happened at the previous world cup that no-one else seemed willing to talk about, they set off down the field.

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A/N: sorry for the lack of updates! i was a bit nervous with this chapter so please tell me if it was ok. its taken me ages to write it and i have a bit of writers block when it comes to the match, which is why it has not appeared in this chapter.

does anyone know why, since my last update of Escape From Azkaban, i have had reviews for every chapter except the new one? it is very odd.

anyway, please do review, it makes me very happy, and i always try to review the stories of the people who review mine.