Hello everyone. Finally got this chapter done and I hope to have the story through Christmas up by then.

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Chapter 10

Quidditch Disaster

It was the day of the quidditch match between Gryffindor and Slytherin and Harry was glad that he didn't have to deal with it yet. While they were sitting at the breakfast table Hermione leaned over and whispered into Harry's ear. "You're not as nervous as last time."

"Yeah because I am not flying and I don't have to worry about a broom bucking out from under me." Harry said. "But that doesn't mean that I am going to let my guard down and I am going to be watching to make sure that he doesn't have a chance to hurt anyone."

Harry looked up at the teachers table and saw what he wanted to see. Quirrell was watching him like a hawk, Snape looked like he had had a horrible night with no sleep, McGonagall was fuming, and Dumbledore sat as far away from her as his chair would allow and looking very nervous. Like the old saying goes, 'hell hath no fury like a woman scorned' but when a Scottish woman is scorned RUN FOR THE BLOODY HILLS. Then Harry looked at the rings on Dumbledore's hand but didn't see what he was looking for.

"Of course he wouldn't wear it out in public." Harry scoffed.

"What?" Hermione asked.

"The resurrection stone." Harry explained.

"You mean the one from the story of the three Peverell brothers, he has it already?"

"Yeah, I believe that it is the ring that Gringotts sent me a letter about a while back. Now I am just waiting for the package to arrive from Gringotts and collect the three hallows."

"What are you going to do with them once you have them? You're not going to use them are you?" Hermione asked worriedly.

"No." Harry told her adamantly. "I am going to return them to the person that they truly belong to and that is death itself. No one should be able to be the master of death because death is uncertain, it can happen at any time and no one can stop it."

"So when is this box supposed to come?"

"After the quidditch match a goblin will be waiting for us at the outside of the far side of the pitch so that no one will be able to see the exchange, even though I expect Dumbledore will be following me."

They finished eating their breakfast and followed everyone down to the quidditch pitch and found a seat on the far side in the back so that they could watch for the goblin and Harry was sure the even though he wasn't flying Quirrell would still try to do something .

Soon the players flew out onto the field. It turned out that wood found a seventh year to take over the seeker position. The game was going just like last time except the Slytherins were playing a little dirtier and their keeper was just as terrible as he remembered.

"Are you thinking of trying out for next year?" Hermione asked.

"I have been thinking about it and I think I will try out, but I think that I will not buy the nimbus 2001 because I am pretty sure that Malfoy will probably do the same thing he did the last time and buy his way onto team, if he can manage it that is."

Harry started focusing on the match and decided to watch the bludgers seeing as that is the only thing that could hurt him without him playing in match. It was a good thing he did because he noticed that one of the bludgers was acting strangely and wasn't attacking any players. In fact, it looked like it was going out of its way to stay away from the players.

"Hey Hermione, check out that bludger." He said while pointing out said bludger.

She found it and Harry watched her face follow it for a while before he heard her whisper, "not again."

That is when it shot out of the sky and started a direct dive towards Harry. He pushed Hermione out of the way and dove straight ahead and heard the destruction of wood come from behind him. Harry got up and bolted towards the pitch and jumped off the bleachers just as the bludger crashed into where he jumped off.

The bludger flew up into the sky and while it was on its way down one of the twins came and landed next to him and hit it as hard as he could away from them. "You alright?"

"Yeah I'm just fine. Listen I need you to do something for me. I need you to hit it into the ground so that I can dive on top of it so that we can stop it."

"Are you bloody crazy? With the way that thing is acting it will not stop until you are destroyed."

"I know but if I am on top of it, my weight will stop it from getting off the ground too far and will keep it from gaining speed."

"Alright, but I have to say that you are one crazy son of a bitch." He got ready to hit the bludger, but while it was on its way down one of the Slytherin beaters hit it to add some extra power to it. "You dumb fuck." The twin said. He tried to hit it but the power was still too powerful for his bat, which caused it to break and had Harry diving out of the way.

Madame Hooch landed next to Harry and helped him up. "You doing alright?"

"I've got a bludger targeting me, otherwise I'm fine." Soon the other twin landed and talked to his twin and turned only to laugh and got ready to receive the bludger. This time there was no Slytherin beater close by so he hit it as hard he could into the ground which fazed the crazy gray dive bomber.

This gave Harry the chance to dive on it and even the twins helped by adding their weight on top of it which kept it from moving too far. It still had enough force to punch into Harry's stomach, so he was feeling it but it wasn't enough force to cause any damage.

Soon enough the bludger stopped squirming and the three of them got the ball into the box and when they looked up they noticed that the Gryffindor seeker was holding the snitch. The entire stadium erupted into a wave of cheers and groans. "And Gryffindor wins." Lee Jordan announced. "The Gryffindor chasers ended up being just too much for the Slytherin keeper for a final score of 270 to 50."

When Harry looked up to the stands he saw Dumbledore just walking away and Madame Pomfrey rushing down to the pitch to check up on him. Isn't he even worried about his little weapon? What would he do if I were to die early?

Madame Pomfrey ran to him and started her check on him and when no warning came from her face he took that as a fact that there was nothing threatening about his injuries. "Really? He sees that something was wrong and he doesn't even come down to check on things. What kind of headmaster does that?"

After she was done healing Harry she left along with the rest of the school celebrating Gryffindor's victory over Slytherin. Hermione joined Harry at the pitch grounds and helped him up. "Harry, it was him again." She told him.

"I was guessing as much but the only problem is that we can't do anything without any concrete evidence which we will have soon enough." Harry started walking towards the exit and once they left the pitch they followed the outside wall and soon came upon a goblin leaning against the wall. "May your gold and the blood of your enemies flow like the Thymes."

"And may our business help our gold flow and make our enemies tremble in fear." The Goblin returned. "Mr. Potter-Granger it is good to finally meet you. My name is Ironfist and I am here to deliver a package to you." He handed over a box and a thick manila envelope.

Harry looked inside the envelope and nodded his approval and then scanned the letter really quickly. "It looks like everything is in order. Tell Ragnock to have his goblins in place by noon tomorrow; that is when everything is going to happen."

"It will be done good sir. How many would you like around here?" Ironfist asked.

"Two should be good enough. I should be able to handle Dumbledore on my own." Harry stated.

Hermione was shocked at this. "Harry, you can't be serious. He is a full grown wizard with the elder wand at his side."

"I know that Hermione, but remember I have the element of surprise on my side. He won't be expecting me to know very many spells." Harry explained giving Hermione the box to stick in her bag while stuffing the folder in his robes. "Now let's go back to the common room before people start wondering where we are."

Harry and Ironfist bowed then Harry and Hermione started walking back to the castle not talking. When they arrived at the doors they were stopped by the one man they did not want to see. "I'm sorry for not coming to you sooner, but are you alright Harry?" Dumbledore asked.

"I'm fine, just a few bruises, but I will be okay." Harry explained flatly. "Now would you like to explain why there was a rouge bludger at the match today."

"Harry, Harry, I am not sure why that bludger acted strangely today, but I can assure you that I will look into it as soon as I can."

"Alright, now if you will excuse me I want to get to the common room and join in the festivities with the rest of my house." Harry grabbed Hermione's hand and quickly ran off. They get up to the fourth floor when Hermione jerked on Harry's arm. "What is it."

"Could we talk over here for a second." Hermione pulled him into the nearest classroom and let go of his hand and walked to the front. "Harry, you know that you said you would explain things yesterday before we were rudely interrupted."

Harry nodded. "Where should I start?"

"How about you start at what you said at the stairs when you said that you loved me as a woman and not as a trophy." Hermione suggested. "What did you mean by that?"

"When I was coming down the stairs I was somehow able to read Ron's mind and his thoughts told me that everything that had happened had been to plan and I was supposed to go die so that his family could get all my money."

"But that's impossible your vaults would close off and all of your money would go to Gringotts." Hermione stated.

Harry shook his head. "Nope. Molly had set up a contract that would allow her family all of the Potter family fortune with nothing to stop them. And the only reason Ron liked you was to keep you away from me so that I couldn't fall in love with you and also do his homework so that he could also stay in the same year with me."

Her hands went up to mouth and she gasped in shock. "And what about my brother, why did Dumbledore come and erase his memory from my entire family?"

"I don't know, but if I had any guess it would be because he would be able to tell if something was wrong with you." Harry guessed.

"Alright, but what are we going to do about my family adopting you?" Hermione asked worriedly. "You know how people view marriages between family members." Harry started laughing. "What's so funny?"

"Don't you think that I haven't thought about that? The adoption by the Granger family is purely a political move. If I hadn't of done it some other family might have taken advantage of my situation and try to force me into a contract that would give them access to everything or I would be forced to go to an undesirable family."

"Undesirable family?" She asked.

"Like a family of death eaters or a family that would try to use me for some reason or another." Harry explained. "But in the contract with my adoption papers there is a clause that says that when I turn seventeen I can break off all ties with the family and be my own person."

Hermione walked to Harry and put her arms around him and put her head on his chest. "Why don't you just get emancipated? Then we wouldn't have to worry about people judging us about being in love." She whispered.

"Then I would worry about people not taking me seriously. I mean, think about it, don't you think it would be kind of strange to see an emancipated eleven year old."

Hermione looked up and thought about it for a second and then nodded. "You're right; it would be strange to see an eleven year old living all alone."

Harry turned around and started walking towards the door, but Hermione ran and caught him from behind and hugged him close. "Just promise me that we will always be together." She whispered into his back.

He turned in her arms and put his around her. "Always." He then extracted himself from her and opened the door only to have someone fall in.

"Weasley, what the bloody hell are you doing here?" Harry asked.

"Harry, language." Hermione scolded.

"What does it matter to you Potter, all I was doing was walking down the hall when I heard voices coming from an empty classroom." He turned and walked out of the room.

Harry clenched his fist. "Damn it."

"What's wrong?"

"I bet you anything that he is off to report to Dumbledore on what he has heard." Snarled through clenched teeth.

A/N: I hoped that you all liked this chapter and are looking forward to more coming soon. Review and let me know what you think.