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Chapter 14: Are You A Wizard Or Not?

By the next morning Meg had forgotten about her troubles from the night before. It was 6:30 am and there was a Quidditch game in three hours. Quidditch matches tended to create excitement in even the most studious of students. The few Ravenclaws that had already awoken had bright blue faces and were adorned in as much Ravenclaw paraphernalia as possible. Meg was slipping over to the empty Slytherin table when sound burst through the doors to the Great Hall.

James had come skipping into breakfast singing about quidditch, his arm latched in Alfie's, dragging the yawning and disgruntled boy with him. Alfie did not seem happy to be awake so early with such a loud alarm yanking him along. Meg grinned at James.

"Margaret darling, care to join us!' James looped his other arm in hers, practically singing her name. She giggled and responded.

"Oh Jameson, I'd be honored." The two skipped to the Gryffindor table and sat themselves down. Alfie was shuffling behind them, he'd somehow managed to yank his arm from James' control.

"I hate morning people." Alfie muttered as his head banged against the table. James was ignoring his friend and instead singing a new song at the top of his lungs. Meg joined in with laughter, adding her own notes and lyrics to his already terrible versus.

"And then old Ogg got hit in the head. While Gwenog flew from the rafters!" Alfie pounded his head on the table at his friends nonsensical tunes.

"Mr. Potter, Ms. Wood. I understand your excitement, but do try to keep it quieter. The rest of the castle is still trying to sleep." Professor Vector had walked down to them and spoke sternly with a firm frown on her face. Meg knew Professor Vector's expressions however and this was one of her softer faces. James had never had a class with Professor Vector and was instantly frightened. Meg winked at James.

"O'course Professor Vector. Sorry." Professor Victor's lips twitched into an almost smile at Meg, her bubbly personality made it hard for even the sternest of teachers to resist.

"Thank you Miss Wood. I'll see in class next Thursday." Meg nodded in response and waved Professor Vector away.

A couple Hufflepuffs had entered the Great Hall now and like the Ravenclaws, were showing their House spirit. One girl had transfigured her head to be a large badgers. Meg and James cheered for her, glad that other people were as excited about quidditch as them. They had gone back to singing too. Alfie was smacking his head against the table repeatedly, while teachers shook their heads at them. More students trickled in to the Great Hall as the day progressed and they either glared, ignored or joined in with Meg's and James' singing.

Roxanne had belted her own version of the school song replacing Hogwarts with Hufflepuff and other words with quidditch related vocabulary. She was decked in yellow and black attire as her recent boyfriend was on Hufflepuff and her last ex was in Ravenclaw. However, she walked beside Rose who was decked in Ravenclaw attire to support her best friend. Meg and James ended their song and meal once it was 9 o'clock. The game would begin in 30 short minutes and every one was filtering down to the field. The players had left around 20 minutes earlier to get dressed and stretched. Meg and James were chatting incessantly and at warp speed, while Alfie trailed behind them, a muffin clutched in one hand. They sat themselves in the best seats, shoving others out of their way and squishing in next to eachother. Meg was practically sat on James' lap.

Most of Gryffindor had come to see the game along with all of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. The first couple quidditch games were always exciting to watch. Meg had suggested for her quidditch team to watch the game as well, to learn more about their opponents and how they play. Besides some of the Slytherin team, not many other Slytherins had attended the match, instead favoring to sleep in or traipse around a nearly empty castle.

Fred slipped in between James and Alfie just as the announcer began shouting about the beginning of the game. The players were flying out and the crowd was cheering wildly. Fred's hair was in a disarray, causing the others to come to the conclusion that he'd only just awoken

"Good of you to join us mate!" James yelled in Fred's ear. Fred shrugged and laughed.

"I like my sleep!" Meg pointed excitedly and began bouncing as Madam Hooch blew the whistle and tossed the quaffle into the air. The players zoomed around the field, fighting over the quaffle, dodging each other and bludgers.

Ravenclaw was in the lead when James started having to pee. He stood and gave the others reassurance he'd be back soon. After doing his business and starting to walk back to the pitch he was met by Zabini.

"Potter." Zabini stood in front of James.

"Not again." James groaned aloud. "Look it's your own fault Meg asked me to watch the match with her this time-" Zabini cut James off with snarling words.

"Listen here you bloody buffoon, you and your whole family are a bunch of rotten spoiled bitches. Just because your dad beat you know who doesn't make you or your dumb brother or slut sister special-" James fist flew forward into Zabini's chin before he could even think about what he was doing.

Next James knew Zabini and himself were rolling around on the ground, fighting the muggle way. Fists flew and made loud impact. The fight only ended when the boys were quite literally forced away from each other. Alfie had yanked James away from Zabini, while Zabini's friend Charles Flint was dragging him away.

Zabini spat towards James and it took all of his willpower not to lurch back at him again.

"Don't ever talk about my family again Zabini or it won't just be a black eye." Alfie yanked on James arm.

"Come on. The game ended and everyone's headed to lunch." They were ready to leave when Zabini shot forward again and smacked into James. Alfie dove into the fight this time, helping James get away from Zabini's clutches. Flint had grabbed ahold of Zabini this time and he had a slightly bloody lip from jumping in to stop the other three.

"Stop it, all of you. Wood will kill us if we show up all beat up to the next practice." The last bit was only for Zabini, who nodded and turned stiffly away from James and Alfie.

James allowed Alfie to yank him back to the restrooms and help clean him up a bit. After removing as much blood as they could they walked off to the Great Hall for lunch.

"Shit." James groaned for the tenth time as he touched his finger's to his stinging nose. Upon poking it he let out a hiss of pain and knew it was definitely broken, just as he'd feared.

"It's your own fault." Alfie shook his head while nursing his arm against him.

"It's partially your fault as we-" Alfie ignored James' blame throwing and kept speaking.

"I had to back up your idiot arse and now look." Alfie held his arm in front of James' face, making his friend aware of the bruised and oddly bent body part. James grinned and then winced wishing he hadn't.

"So you wanted to save my arse, huh?" James winked at Alfie. Alfie opened his mouth, most likely to say a smart comeback, but a voice spoke before he could.

"It is a rather nice arse." Both boy's turned in shock to face a rather amused Meg. Her eyebrows were raised and lips pursed in an attempt to keep herself from laughing.

"I heard some idiots got in a fist fight. Apparently they forgot they were wizards with wands." James glanced at the ground, ashamed. Alfie pointed to James.

"You've found the idiot." Meg shook her head good naturedly.

"What were you thinking?" Her voice was stern, but not unkind. James shrugged his shoulders, causing him to wince in pain. Meg's expression softened. "I think you've got a broken nose." Her fingers lightly grabbed James' face and turned it for inspection.

During her survey of his injuries James eyes found hers. He was caught by how beautiful her blue eyes were. They reminded him of blueberries, which he supposed weren't the prettiest of things to compare a girl's eyes to, but that's what he'd thought.

She pulled her wand out and pointed it in between James' eyes. His eyes widened in alarm and he flinched back. Meg chuckled and told him to calm down. She tapped his nose with her wand and muttered a soft word.

A sharp pain jolted through James' nose, turning into a warm feeling as the nose righted itself. Next Meg tapped his bleeding lip and the other visible bruises that covered him. She moved onto Alfie and did the same to him. They both grinned at her after she finished and thanked her profusely.

"You're lucky that I'm training to be a medi-witch." Meg informed them false sternly.

"You're bloody brilliant, you know?" James almost hugged her for not yelling at him. He'd expected her to be very unhappy with the fact that he'd got in a fight with her boyfriend.

"Oh I know." She winked and then entered the great hall, followed by James and Alfie.

James was disappointed to see that Zabini's face had also been healed. He became even more unhappy when Meg said goodbye to the two boys and joined Zabini for lunch. Zabini leaned in and kissed Meg soundly, then pulled away with a large smirk.

The jerk was acting like he'd won a trophy. James hated him so much that it made his fists clench to just think his name. How Meg could sit near him, let alone kiss him was a mystery to James. Although, considering she didn't know the truth about what Zabini had said to cause the fight it wasn't entirely her fault.

James stalked to the Gryffindor table and slumped down in his seat across from Fred. Alfie sat beside him and began to chuckle at his friend's behavior.

"Calm down I don't want a detention because you're jealous of Zabini, besides I think you've fought enough today."

"What?" James spluttered out in indignation. "I'm not jealous of Zabini!" He claimed it too quickly, confirming Alfie's statement. Alfie ignored James' open mouth and began to serve himself food.

"Of course you are. You're jealous that Meg is spending time with him instead of with us." James grumpily snatched a sandwich.

"Am not." He childishly muttered through a large bite.

"If you'd asked her out first she'd be over here with us." James rolled his eyes.

"Alfie we are just friends. You know that." Alfie shrugged.

"Alright." Fred sent Alfie a wink that James ignored.

Meg twirled around with Zabini, causing James to scowl deeper than he already had been. The loud music was annoying, the food tasted like crap and the drinks weren't nearly strong enough. When James had complained about all of this to Alfie, he had simply asked why James was still here then and grabbed Hannah to dance with.

James, Alfie, and Fred loved parties, and were known to show up at any which explained why they were in the Hufflepuff common room. The Hufflepuffs had decided to throw a party since they'd managed to win the match even though Ravenclaw had been ahead for a good portion of it.

Zabini yanked Meg in even closer to him, attempting to grind more than dance. However, Meg was oblivious to his attempts as she whirled around, flipped her hair wildly, and jumped up and down. James smiled at her rhythmless movements and her obvious uncaringness on other's thoughts about her. Zabini didn't seem to appreciate her dance moves as much as James did though. He ended up eventually whispering an excuse in her ear and leaving her alone.

Meg twirled a few more times before seeing James. She made her way over to where he sat alone on a couch.

"Where is everybody?" James knew that by her gesture she meant their friends. At the start of the party they'd all been together.

"Alfie and Hannah are dancing together somewhere, Layla said she had a charms essay due Monday, and Fred is hitting on any girl he can." Meg laughed, still a bit breathless from her crazy dancing.

"Why are you sitting alone?" Meg wondered, but James didn't answer. He knew that for some reason the only person he was actually interested in dancing with was sitting beside him.

"Do you want to dance?" He asked and offered a hand to her. She used the hand to pull herself to her feet beside where James stood. James half-dragged her to a small space on the dance floor. He took one of her hands and her waist, her free hand rested on his shoulder and they began to dance.

It wasn't smooth or rhythmic and the silly almost waltz they were doing didn't match the party music. Neither of them cared how they looked as James spun Meg out a couple times and then hopped a few steps before continuing their faux waltz.

At some point they'd both begun to laugh. James grinned and thought that he could happily stay that way all night.

Sadly, Zabini interrupted them. He tapped on Meg's shoulder and yanked her arm from James' with a scowl on his face.

"I've been looking for you." Meg sent James an apologetic look.

"Sorry Blaise." Zabini glanced at James again before angling himself so that he was blocking Meg and James from each other completely.

"Let's go get a drink? Flint's got firewhisky that he's promised to share with us." His arm wrapped around her shoulders possessively and began to drag her away.

"Alright, one moment." Meg stopped them and turned to James. "Thanks for the dance. Don't sit alone the rest of the night, okay?" James nodded at Meg's worried face.

"I won't." He reassured her.

"Night." Meg was yanked away from James quickly. Zabini leaned down and whispered in Meg's ear, whatever he'd said made Meg giggle.

"Night." James whispered after her retreating back.

James was angry that Zabini had ruined his and Meg's moment, though he supposed Zabini had the right too. Had James been Meg's boyfriend and Zabini had been dancing with her James would have hexed him. But, James wasn't Meg's boyfriend and he'd been lucky that Zabini hadn't hexed him.

At some point Alfie had made his way over to James and he spoke, startling James.

"Nice dancing, if you can call it that." James chuckled at his friend's teasing.

"Probably not." He mused.

"Yeah, I doubt it could be. Everyone was talking about how horrible and cute it was." Hannah had slipped up beside Alfie hooking her arm in his and bluntly joining the conversation.

"Cute?" Alfie and Hannah nodded at James question. They all crossed to a free couch and sat beside each other.

"Yeah, a group of girls was expressing that they thought you two were absolutely adorable." Alfie made a disgusted face and winked at James.

"Yeah?" Hannah grinned and responded.

"Apparently they ship Mames." Hannah made finger quotations around the word ship. James frowned in confusion.

"Pardon?"

"Mames. It's Meg and James put together." Alfie shrugged as Hannah chortled. James joined in with Hannah's laughs.

"You're kidding?" The couple shook their heads.

"I wish." Alfie sighed.

"Well obviously they'd ship Mames. I mean look at us, both good looking, athletic, perfect…." Hannah interrupted James with a serious expression.

"I'm going to stop you before your head explodes from how big it's growing." Alfie chuckled at his girlfriend's joke and added on.

"Plus I've heard some girls saying that Zabini's more attractive." James scoffed.

"He's also a huge wanker." Alfie and Hannah chuckled before agreeing with him.

"That he is, that he is."

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