Interview in Hogsmeade
"It's a Hogsmeade weekend this weekend, you wanna go?" asked Demelza in the common room,
"Yeah, the last time I went into Hogsmeade village was when me, Ron and Harry snuck in under the invisibility cloak, Harry cast his stag, the death eaters were after us and we were rescued by Aberforth." Hermione began to get excitable,
"You really had a lot of adventures with Harry and Ron didn't you?" said Demelza, Hermione nodded, Crookshanks purred on her lap, "You coming Ginny?"
"I have to." Said Ginny,
"Why do you have to?" asked Demelza,
"Because it's my interview with the Holyhead Harpies! I'm so excited…and nervous, but mainly excited!" Ginny began to jump up and down trying to contain herself.
Soon she calmed down and said,
"So, Hermione, that dance last night, everything's kind of a blur, I remember you being there and the dance, and the punch bowel and…no…tell me I didn't, we didn't, did we, um?" she began to point to her lips and then to Hermione and back and forth, Hermione gave a small nod of shame, "Okay, we never tell Harry and Ron, agreed?" asked Ginny,
"Never ever, ever, ever-" began Hermione whilst she shook Ginny's hand to seal the deal,
"Yeah, I think that that's all the touching that we might be doing in a long while." Ginny backed away from Hermione and Hermione rejoined Crookshanks on the scarlet sofa.
The weekend had arrived; Hermione, Luna, Ginny and Demelza were walking across the pathway in Hogsmeade village. Newt the dog was on Luna's lead and Arnold and Zelda sat on Ginny and Hermione's shoulders (Crookshanks was perfectly happy in the Gryffindor common room chasing mice).
"Okay, so we have to go to the Three Broomsticks." Hermione was saying,
"Why?" asked Luna,
"Because that's were Gwenog Jones is waiting to give me an interview!" Ginny got excited again, "We're here!" she exclaimed as they entered the pub, "There she is, here; take Arnold for me, thanks, bye!" Ginny but the pygmy puff inn Demelza's hands and went of to sit with Gwenog Jones.
Hermione, Luna and Demelza sat down at a separate table and ordered three butterbeers from Madame Rosmerta (Hermione held coldness against her because Ron had once had a crush on her).
"I hope it goes well, fingers crossed." Said Demelza,
"Actually, I always found that crossing your fingers doesn't help, I always use a variety of lucky charms, but, I left them in the Ravenclaw common room." Said Luna,
"Really, because I always thought that lucky charms are a load of-"
"Dem!" Hermione stopped her before she could say the next word,
"I'm sorry Demmy; I didn't mean to offend you." Luna gave a dreamy smile,
"It's Demelza, Dem to my friends and that doesn't include you!"
"She doesn't mean it Luna." Hermione turned to Demelza and Demelza muttered something under her breath that sounded like,
"Looney."
"They look like they're doing well, don't they?" said Hermione trying to change the subject and looking and Ginny and Gwenog who were laughing and smiling together.
"Yeah they do, I hope Ginny gets a spot on the team." Said Luna taking a sip from her butterbeer.
"Same." Said Demelza.
A bout five minutes later Ginny returned to the three of them with a huge smile on her face and waving to Gwenog as she left the Three Broomsticks.
"Tell us everything!" cried Demelza,
"How did it go?" asked Hermione,
"Do you think you made the team?" Luna's dreamy eyes stared at Ginny, Arnold the pygmy puff climbed onto her shoulder,
"Well, I won't know anything for sure for a little while and she wants to see me on the pitch in a game situation before she decides anything." Ginny frowned slightly but soon smiled again, "But I think it went really great, she started off by asking me why I want to take a career in Quidditch and I told her it was because I genuinely love the game and think that it would be something that I would be good at and then she asked me what position I played and I told her I was a chaser but I can be an alright seeker and she said it was great because one of their chasers is going into retirement at the end of the year and they need a new one and…" Hermione, Luna and Demelza took general interest as Ginny went into explicit detail about the interview, "…and we had most of the same likes and dislikes and we had great chemistry which she said would be an important part of joining a team and that she thinks that the rest of the girls would love me, I told her that I've always loved Quidditch and that I've always supported the Holyhead Harpies because I see them as role models being the only all-witch team in the sport which seemed to go down very well and…" By the time Ginny was finished with, "…and then she left, but, you three obviously saw that so I don't have to tell you." Hermione and the other two were quite bored but Ginny was still very excited.
"Wow," said Luna, "that sounds…"
"Very, very detailed," said Demelza but sensing the tone she finished with, 'which is really great and everything and I can't believe that…" her voice died down, "I guess we're going to have to train extra hard then." Ginny nodded at this and then said,
"Oh, that reminds me, Madame Hooch asked me to find a commentator, who should I pick?"
"I'll be happy to do it again." Said Luna, Ginny, Demelza and Hermione shared a moment of awkward silence and Ginny continued,
"So who do you think I should pick?" Ginny stroked Arnold on her shoulder and Luna stroked Newt under the table.
They were walking back up the street, licking lollipops that they had bought from Honeydukes sweet shop and Luna suggested,
"Didn't Hagrid say that we can find fairies and doxies here in Hogsmeade, maybe we should look for some?"
"Not a bad idea." Said Hermione, "We just need to find some bushes and trees, shouldn't be too hard." They carried on walking until they found a secluded area surrounded by bushes,
"How do we draw them out?" asked Ginny,
"Can we lure them with bait or something?" suggested Demelza,
"No," said Luna, "fairies and doxies are too intelligent to be fooled by bait."
"Well thanks for that little snippet of news!" yelled Demelza,
"Don't start you two," said Hermione who had an idea herself, "we just have to draw them out."
"How?" asked Ginny,
"I have an idea, it might not work but, here goes," Hermione pulled out her wand and said; "Incendio!" flames sprouted from the tip of her wand and ignited the bush.
For a while nothing happened,
"Come on, put the bush out and lets g-ahh" Ginny was cut of by about twenty perfectly formed, tiny little humans with insect like wings that were screaming in some sort of odd language coming from the flaming bush.
"I think we found the fairies then!" cried Demelza, a fairy let out a puff of purple smoke and Demelza started rubbing her bright red ear,
"They're beautiful!" exclaimed Luna,
"This isn't a time to be appreciating them!" yelled Demelza, whose ear now looked white hot,
"Nor is it a time for fighting!" snapped Hermione,
"Never mind all that, we have to get the eggs, put that bush out before they all burn to-ow!" a fairy had let out a blue puff of smoke and Ginny's eye was swelling up.
"Aguamenti!" a jet of water flushed from Hermione's wand and smothered the flames that surrounded the bush.
The bush was black and leafless and the eggs were clearly visible, but before Hermione had a chance to grab some, the whole swarm of fairies fluttered in front of her, blocking her from the egg ridden bush,
"How do you stop fairies?" Hermione cried,
"Cut of their wings." Suggested Ginny, whose eye was surrounded by congested tears,
"No, that's cruel!" said Luna,
"Say's the person whose ear isn't burning off!" yelled Demelza,
"So try to stop they're wings from moving." Said Ginny,
"How?" asked Hermione,
"You coulb twy fweezig vem." Luna seemed very calm considering that an orange puff of smoke had just swelled her lips to twice their regular size,
"Good idea! Glacius!" a line of snowflakes fired out of the tip of Hermione's wand and after a few seconds, the fairies fell to the ground all frozen together in a single block of ice.
Hermione grabbed a handful of fairy eggs and shoved them into a flask that she took from, and stuffed back into, her beaded bag.
"Now lets go before they- uh oh." They ice binding the fairies began to shatter and they all rose into the air and went after the four of them. Hermione, Ginny, Luna and Demelza ran down the hill that the secluded area sat on top of and were being chased by a swarm of fairies that were firing puffs of multi-coloured smoke out of their tiny, human hands.
"How are we going to lose them?" asked Ginny as they approached the bottom of the hill, Demelza held up her wand and yelled,
"Protego!" and an invisible shield erupted from her wand, the fairies hit it and they all fell to the ground,
"That boz vewy cwuel!" yelled Luna, soon all of the fairies rose up again and retreated back up the hill.
"Well it worked didn't it." Gloated Demelza,
"Come on, we should get you three to the hospital wing and sort out your injuries.
They then heard a rustling from behind the bushes,
"Oh no not more fairies." Hermione told herself. However the creature that stepped out from behind the bush wasn't a fairy, but a small, goblin like creature holding a sword.
"Whab woulb a wed cap be doig 'ere." Said Luna, Hermione thought the same thing, why would a red cap be there, but no time to think, the red cap charged at them with its sword at the ready.
Ginny performed a very impressive bat-bogey hex and the red cap fell and scurried up the hill after dropping a dung bomb in its wake, they saw its body drop at the top of the hill.
"That is absolutely disgusting!" yelled Demelza as the down smoke was emitted from the dung bomb, "Anyway, you three, hospital wing now." Said Hermione.
But on her way back to the castle she thought, Hogsmeade is not a red cap's natural habitat, they love bloodshed and spend their time in battlefields and dungeons so that they can beat the life out of fallen muggle warriors, maybe it got lost, or maybe someone set it lose, maybe it was meant to attack the for of them, or maybe it was meant to attack someone else but Hermione and the other three got in the way, but who would set it free? Who?