A Dragon's Flight
4 friends united by Love and friendship attempt to take control of their lives, One is the brother of the famous BWL, another is the disgraced son of the Malfoys, another is the daughter of a forgotten half-blood Wizard and the final one is the daughter of the Greengrass family. This is the story of how they made their own family and took control over their destiny
A/N This is chapter 8 of A dragon's flight, In this chapter we will get our first visit to Hogsmeade. Enjoy! Also yes this chapter is Shorter and more relaxed; some calm after the storm of last chapter.
Also what do you think of my New Summary for the Story?
ADF Part 8- Hogsmeade
Tracey's P.O.V
My eyes fluttered open from the deep sleep I had been in, I had this crazy dream that Myself, Harry, Samuel and Daphne had fought a Troll last night and somehow had managed to win.
The sun drove through the Window blinding me as my eyes opened properly...wait Sun? Windows? We don't have any of those in the Slytherin Dormitory!
After my eyes adjusted to the brightness I looked around and I noticed several other beds full of other people. People who I Knew. Across from me was Samuel who was snoozing away, he looked really cute like that...I didn't just call him cute did I? Oh boi I did.
To Sam's right was Harry who was awake but staring into space probably wondering about how he got into this situation. To Harry's right it looked to be his younger brother Jacob if my eyes were working properly and next to him was Ron weasley.
Across from him was Susan Bones who was in a deep sleep, although she was muttering something not that I could understand what from how far away I was. Next to Susan was Hermione Granger who was reading some sort of book and ignoring everything else in the world and then in between us was Daphne who was awake and waving at me.
Oh she was trying to grab my attention, waving back I said as quietly as I could "Morning Daphne, did we actually fight a Troll last night?" she nodded and said "Yeah, kind of unbelievable right, how's your new scar" Oh yeah I got cut by a piece of wood last night.
Reaching for the top of me Shoulder blade and said "Feels like it's almost nonexistent, I think that unless you knew I had it, it wouldn't be noticed at all" She smiled and said "That's good!" I looked into her eyes which were constantly changing colour and saw that her hair was a dark brown.
Tentatively asking her I said "are you Okay, your hair's in your grumpy colour and your eyes are constantly changing colour". She sighed and said "The Old Coot came in last night after you and Samuel fell asleep and started arguing with Harry, apparently James and Lily Potter have been informed"
Oh that would explain why she was not happy and why Harry seems so deep in thought. I then looked at her forehead and saw some slight bruising on her forehead. I asked her "Are you okay, that bruising looks pretty bad"
Daphne gave me a hrim smile and said "I will at some point, it is so small that it could be dangerous to give me any medicine for it, and I've got a killer headache from it too. Doesn't help that my back is still in pain from crashing into Harry last night, did you know that I broke one of his ribs!"
She really hit him with enough force to break a rib...Damn. Madam Pomfrey walked over to us and said "Hush, It's only 6 O'clock in the morning most of my patients won't be up for another 4 or 5 hours." Well I mean that was 4 of 8 already up so…
Daphne asked the sensible question and said "Madam Pomfrey, what time will me, Tracey and Harry be able to leave" Madam Pomfrey scrunched up her face as she thought about it before replying "I want to make sure that Mr Potter's Rib has fully healed after its break but the 3 of you should be able to leave just before breakfast and I would suspect that Mr Malfoy will be able to leave just after breakfast if he wakes up when I think he will".
Daphne then asked "Will we all be able to make it to Hogsmeade?" Wait, the Hogsmeade trip was today? Fuck I completly forgot about that.
Madam Pomfrey was silent for a couple of seconds before stating "As long as you are all careful not to pull your new muscles or damage your new bones I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be able to."
God me and Sam were going together weren't we, damn it feels like ages since he asked me if he wanted me to come or not. Wait does this count as a date?! Agh I hope so but I don't even know if Samuel even likes me, he might just be asking me so he's not alone. Or maybe he's asking me so that Harry will go with Daphne as a way to force them together.
Ow too many thoughts running through my head at once, that hurt, I looked back over at Sam who was still sleeping, he had ended up getting a concussion last night and was only going to be able to wake up at all today because Harry had healed him straight away.
Turning to face Daphne once again I asked "So are you going on a date with Harry to Hogsemade?" I only got a deep glare in return, she wasn't happy with me for asking. "No I'm not, we going together but only so we aren't interrupting your little date with Samuel"
I started to cough, making both Harry and Hermione turn to face me with Harry mouthing "What the hell are you two talking about?" While the Matron wasn't looking I stuck a middle finger up at Daphne and mouthed back to Harry "Nothing".
Then I said to Daphne "It is not a date, it's just two friends going together" She nodded slowly as if she was sayingSure, whatever you say So I stuck my tongue out at which I know is quite Immature but I didn't really care.
A Couple of Minutes later Madam Pomfrey was checking over Harry and said something to him, while she was still speaking he stuck his thumbs up which told us what we needed to know, he had been cleared to go. His ribs were healed enough.
After another hour the 3 of us were given the all clear to leave and get breakfast although Harry was ordered to do no exercise for the Next week much to his Disappointment. As soon as we left the two of them started hounding me about what inspired me to make a Bow and how I was able to hit the Troll as well as I did.
I tried to answer them to the best of my Ability but to be honest it was just sheer luck that neither me and Hermione hadn't been killed before they arrived last night. Even with the extra training that I had done with Master Perseus over the summer when I finally decided to join them in their lessons, I barely could keep myself and Hermione protected.
Then again we had all been lucky to survive the Troll when we started fighting him, most fully grown Wizards could Barley face a Troll without being seriously injured but we managed to deal with it without too many injuries and nobody was dead which was always a good thing. Maybe I was just overthinking it but it didn't feel like the end just yet.
(5 Hours later)
I stood at the exit to the school watching the orange, yellow and brown leaves flutter down to the ground as Autumn made itself clear. I was waiting for Samuel to come down so we could go to Hogsmeade but due to his head injury last night, he was taking things a bit slower than normal.
From behind me I heard "Sorry for keeping you waiting Tracey!"" I turned around to see Samuel in a Black T-Shirt and a tartan bomber Jacket and a pair of black Jeans, his hair sticking out all over the place in its normal position.
The Bomber Jacket was the very same one that I had given to him last Christmas and he was actually wearing it! Oh my god he was actually wearing something that I wore him. But of course the very first thing I said to him was "That Jacket still fits you?"
He gave me a cheeky grin and said "I loved it so much that when my Father left the house during the summer I got Mum to place a growing enchantment and a repairment enchantment on it. It shall grow with me and can't be damaged by overwearing"
I pressed my hand against and said "It's still very soft too" He gave me another grin and said "Before she ran off to go and get Butterbeer with Jamie, Yoana gave me this list of places to go to in Hogsmeade; How about we start heading along before the stores get to busy"
Siling at him I moved to his side and wrapped my hand around his, the height difference between the two of us making it slightly difficult but we made it work. The two of us walked quite slowly so before too long Harry and Daphne overtook us.
Daphne was quite clearly content seeing as her hair was blond and she had her head against harty's shoulder. The two may claim it wasn't a date but the two of them alone in a village where many Hogwarts couples go? Yeah it was a date (and Yes I saw the Irony seeing as me and Samuel were going together, but we were just going as really good friends right?)
Harry also had an arm around Daphne's Shoulder who was even wearing Harry's Quidditch Jacket with his number on it. Daphne had an arm around Harry but she was clearly being careful as to not agitate his ribs which were still healing.
Samuel chuckled so I twisted my head to face him and said "What is it?" He gave me a bright smile as he said "It's just those two. They claim they are not a couple and that they don't like eachother but They do things like this together, they exercise together early in the morning and Daphne even supports Harry flying even though she hates the sport."
It was very true, so I decided to let him in on a little secret right there and then "You know Daphne as actually admitted to me that she likes Harry's I even teased her during the summer about it and she blushed bright red, she definitely like him"
Samuel gave a crazy grin and said "Really?! Oh that is great, I do know Harry likes her even though he has never admitted at least to anyone but himself. It's the small things, the way he acts around her compared to even me or you. To be honest I'm sure they will work it out soon, I hope they do."
Chuckling I said "same with Jamie and Yoana" which made Samuel burst out laughing and say "They act like an old married couple, the fact that they haven't revealed that they're dating yet is honestly a sounding."
I then decided to bring the thing that had been bothering me up "So what about us today, Is this a date or is it just two friends going out for some lunch together?" He rubbed his head sheepishly, his face going as red as Dumbledore's Robes as he said "Well when I initially asked you I was kind of hoping it would be a date, but ITotallydon'tmindjustgoingasfriendswithyou"
Wow he could speak fast when he wanted to, squeezing his hand lightly I said "Cool it Flash, I say we take this as a date and see how it goes from here on out" The redness in his face went down and he gained a small confident smile.
Looking right into my eyes he asked me "Lets see how it goes" Squeezing my hand back. Oh my God we were actually on a date, Oh please tell me today ends well, agh I can't think.
I can't believe it, I was actually going on a date with samuel, i didn't think that could ever happen. The two of us started moving slightly faster, both of us determined to get going faster now but we still kept a gentle pace for Sam's sake.
There I go again, calling Samuel a nickname. I seemed to be unable to stop doing it for some strange reason. The leaves started to get a bit soggy as we went further along the path to get to Hogsmeade due to it raining the night before but that wasn't too much of a bother, we just had to be careful where we stood.
We arrived at the Village quite quickly and it was busy. There students and Adult Wizards alike went around between the stores, quickly glancing in or going into the stores and grabbing items from whatever was in the store.
We briefly saw Harry and Daphne going into the Three Broomsticks most likely to get some butterbeer, the two of them already having a bag full of stuff each. Clearly they had taken Jamie and Yoana's guide to Hogsmeade to heart.
Samuel looked around and said "So where do you want to go first" I pointed towards the shop that was full of Sweets and said "My sweet tooth wants some sweet's let head there first" The two of us made our way over to Honeydukes and entered it slowly, the smell of Sweets drifting into our noses.
We looked around the store for a good 20 minutes picking out various sweets to take back to the castle in our own individual bags and a bag of sweets for the two of us to share this afternoon. It seems like the two of us had very similar tastes when it came to the kind of sweet food we liked.
Following Honeydukes we made our way over to Zonko's Prank Shop where Sam stocked up on his pranking equipment with Zonko's finest equipment. I even got a couple of small pranks which I might end up using in the bloody 1st years if they didn't stop being nuscances.
To be honest seeing Sam with a look of glee on his face as he saw all of the different pranking items was wonderful, He actually looked completely relaxed for once, not like he was looking for his Father or some invisible threat, which was always nice to see.
After going around a couple of other stores we started to make our way over to the three broomsticks where we knew Harry and Daphne still were. Before we entered I stopped Samuel and said to him "Sam, today has been great especially after last Night, I would love it if we did this again." I kissed him on the cheek at the end of the Sentence before entering the pup.
I didn't turn around but I could tell by the delayed reaction of him coming in that he had gone bright red and that he was in shock. The best part of it was that I meant every word that I had just told him.
We found Harry and Daphne in a booth cuddled together as they drank Butterbeer. When we shuffled in the two greeted us and Harry said "I will go and get the two of you a drink, Me and Daphne were just about to get a bite to eat, do you guys want anything."
My stomach growled as did Sam's and it came to me that neither of us had eaten lunch so I said "Get us two sanwhiches if you could" He nodded and signaled for Sam to follow him which Sam did, his face bright red.
Daphne turned to face me with a sinister grin and asked "So how did it go? I'm assuming that since Samuel is bright red that it went well?" I blushed lightly but I told her all of the details of this afternoon which made her all happy as she then told me about what her and Harry did today.
Harry's P.O.V (Just after passing Tracey and Samuel)
From behind myself and Daphne I could hear Samuel chuckle at something, I wouldn't be surprised if he was laughing at me and Daphne though.
Next to me Daphne shivered even though she was wearing my Quidditch Jacket from last year. I turned my head to face her slightly and said "Are you cold? Do you want my jacket" She shook her head lightly and said "I'm fine, just a shiver as if somebody was talking about us"
Chuckling I directed my head at the other two and said "It's probably those lovebirds over there" My ponytail swishing around hitting my neck as I did so. Daphne grinned and said "Probably, I have to say you are looking much better than you have in the past couple of months, everything alright?"
Winking at her and giving her a grin I said "Well my body was so Exhausted from the fight last night that I just slept through the whole night for once without any bad dreams." Her eyes narrowed, what had I said?
With a deadly voice she said "Harry? What Bad Dreams?!" Oh shit….I Hadn't told her about the dream, oh this wasn't good. Slowly removing the arm that was resting on my ribs she glared at me even harder and said once more "What Bad Dreams; Harry?"
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Gulping I said "Erm since we heard that voice on the morning of our first day back and I believed it was Vodlemort, I erm….I've been having dreams of that night" To be honest right now it wasn't the dreams that terrified me, it was her reaction of me not telling her about them.
She whispered "October 82?" I nodded and she placed a hand onto my right cheek "Oh Harry, I'm so sorry" before moving her hand away just for her to slap the very same cheek. It was sharp and for a couple of seconds it stung but I could deal with it.
What hurt more was the hurt in her eyes as her eyes changed from a glowing purple colour to orange and her hair went from being the beautiful blond colour that I loved seeing to her dad's dark brown. She was angry.
With no more than a whisper she said "But why in the name of Morgana did you not tell me!" Gulping once more I said to her, "I'm sorry Daph, I just didn't want to worry you with it. I kept on hoping that the bad dreams would go away"
Her eyes started to get lighter changing shades as she said "Harry, I could have helped you, we may have only been able to talk through the dream, but that could have helped, even if it only helped you deal with the pain a bit".
I hung my head in shame, she was completely right, I knew that, but then again she was Daphne Greengrass, my closest and oldest friend, the person I could talk to no matter what. Lifting my head I looked back into her eyes and said "I'm sorry, Daphne, I know I should have told you, I was being an idiot."
She sighed and said "Yes you are, but you're my idot." Keeping her hand on my cheek, as she then said "So next time you have a bad dream like that tell me and we will talk about it and together we will try and work our way through it, okay?"
Nodding slowly, I looked at her eyes and saw them change from Yellow to green, the same shade of green that my mother and my and I had. The roots of her hair also started to change from Brown/Black back to Blond.
She wrapped her arm back around my waist before resting her head on my shoulder once more and the two of us started walking towards Hogsmeade again keeping a steady pace.
I knew that to those that passed up while we were stopped thought that we were probably quite weird but I didn't really care, I knew Daphne always just wanted what was best for me in the end.
A Leaf fell onto Daphne's head and with my free arm, I moved it across my body and brushed it off her, making her sigh happily. I could feel my ribs ache slightly but they had been doing that all day, actually they had been doing that since they were broken last night, but seeing how they had been fixed within a day I think that's not too bad of a pay off.
The Village appeared over the small hill and it was heaving. There were long Queues running out of the doors of a majority of the shops including Zonko's and Honeydukes.
However Daphne wasn't interested in any of those stores, no, what she was interested in was going to the clothes store. As she dragged me I asked "Daphne, why are we going here, you normally don't like buying clothes"
She huffed at me and said "Yes well both of us lost a set of robes last night because of the Troll, so we are buying a new pair each." Right, I couldn't really argue with her points there.
Daphne looked through the robes materials and started muttering to herself "Too rough, too Smooth, not smooth Enough" I chuckled slightly and she quickly glared at me before going back to the different Materials.
We went around the shop slowly, Daphne going furiously through the different materials until she said "Perfect, Harry feel this" She passed the premade material to me and I felt it and it was very soft and would probably be a great material to wear to class.
Nodding at her I said "if you think it's good enough material, then let's buy it." She nodded and started to go through her pockets trying to find her coin pouch when I placed my hand on her wrist and said "I will pay"
She looked at me wide eyes and said "Harry that's expensive, robes aren't cheap and these are pricey materials" I shrugged my shoulders and replied "Yeah, well it is my douchebag father's money so who am I to care how much I spend."
She grinned and removed her hands from her Pockets and I looked through my own, finding the pouch quite easily and walking up to the desk where a bored nineteen year olds sat and said 'welcome to baldy blah, how may I help you' or something along those lines.
Placing the robes down I said "Two robes in this material, Ravenclaw emblem on them and blue inner highlights" Before giving her the sizes she need and then I said "And put the repair charm on them so they can't tear" She nodded and wrote down the prices, her eyes widening and she said "That will be 50 Gallons overall" I pulled out 50 Gold Coins and passed them over to her.
She started gasping before saying "I will have them ready for you to collect in half an hour" The two of us nodded and made our way out of the store, the Queue having dramatically decreased and people now being able to wander freely between stores.
Walking up to an adult I asked "Excuse me sir but where did all of the long Queues go?" The man looked confused, and said to us "Oh erm, Two red headed boys started a snowball fight. Lots of people got involved and have headed over to the shrieking Shack.
Of course the Weasley Twins would start a snowball fight, it was exactly like them to do something like that. We were passing Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop when Daphne and myself saw Amada staring out the window dreamily as us and gave me a small wave.
I didn't even give a single thought to the way that Amanda was staring at me but Daphne did and she was not happy, her eyes started to turn red as she said "Alright we are going to Honeydukes! I do not like the way she was looking at you"
Starting to cough I said "Daphne, you never like how Amanda looks at me, how's that anything new" She glared at me and said "Well she looks at you like your a piece of meat that she can dig her claws into, of course i don't like the way she looks at you" Pulling me towards Honeydukes whole still glaring at Amanda.
We wandered the sweets Isles for a good 5 minutes, with Daphne wanting to be certain that Amanda hadn't followed us in. We grabbed all of the sweets that we wanted before leaving the shop and making our way back to the clothes store to pick up our new Robes.
A couple of minutes later we came out with two bags with a robe in each and the sweets that we had picked up and started to make our way over to the Three Broomsticks. The Pub owned by Madam Rosmerta was rather quiet and she was cleaning the counter.
We made our way over to a table that was hidden away and sat down, placing our bags down on the free seats which we would move when Samuel and Tracey arrived in a bit but for right now we would but them there, stop anyone from sitting there as Daphne said but what she really meant was Stop 'Amanda' from sitting there.
Thankfully I go talong with all of my dormates even if, as I've said before, we never had proper friends but we never really argued and we could all hold a conversation. Daphne and her roommates were never like that. Daphne and Amanda hated each other from Day one.
According to the only one of Daphne's roommates who Daphne was on good terms with, Sarah. Daphne and Amanda were at each other's throats on the very first night and almost had a fistfight until Maria had stepped in.
Madam Rosmerta walked up to the two of us and said "What can I get you kids?" Holding two fingers out I said "Two Butterbeers please" She nodded and walked off going and making us some.
Daphne was right up against me and said "Today's been nice, mostly" I decided to give her a snarky remark back and said "I'm not so sure about that, I mean my cheek is still sore"
She elbowed me in the ribs which made me wince in pain and I said "I'm joking, I'm Joking, I've enjoyed spending the day with you Daph" She looked at me and said "So your calling me Daph now instead of Delph. So first it was Delph, then you actually started calling my my actual name and now Daph"
I stuck my tongue out at her and said "Got a problem with that?" She leaned her head back against me and said "No not really, Not this nickname anyway" Two butterbeers appeared before us and Madam Rosmerta and said "There ya go Kids, Enjoy"
The Two of us grabbed our warm drinks and drank it slowly and damn it was nice, might have to call that one of my favorite drinks of all time. It was definitely nicer than Firewhiskey or Pumpkin Juice, that was for sure.
We drank our butterbeers not really talking about anything in particular, we mentioned the voice one or two times but because nobody had heard it again since so we had no new information to go off on.
We were nearing the end of our drinks when Daphne's stomach started to growl and I chuckled saying "Want to grab a bite to eat?" She nodded so I asked her what she wanted. She told me, "I would loved a cheese and Ham Panini"
I grinned at her seeing as I also fancied the same and I was just about to and order our food Tracey said hi back in a very, very excited manner.
Standing up I said "I will go and get the two of you a drink, Me and Daphne were just about to get a bite to eat, do you guys want anything." In somewhat comedic fashion their stomachs growled even louder than Daphne's had and Tracey said "Get us two sanwhiches if you could".
Nodding I started walking out of the booth but Daphne gave me a look that said she wanted to have some girl talk with Tracey so I signaled my head to get Samuel to follow which he did slowly.
We made our way over to the bar Counter and sat down on the stools as we waited for Madam Rosemerta to serve the two of us. Then next to me a Brown haired girl sat down and sadd "Trouble in Paradise" in a Sickly sweet voice.
Not even turning to face her I said "Nothing is wrong Amanda, go away" the girl scraped her stool across the ground so it was slightly closer to mine and said "Are you sure about that Har-Bear? I saw Daphne slap you outside when we were walking along, if everything was fine she wouldn't have done that".
Turning to glare at her I said "I said nothing was wrong, she was annoyed at me for keeping something that I shouldn't have from her." She seemed to try and get even closer and said "You Know Har-bear if you ever need to talk to someone I'm here for you, I know how mean that Daphne is."
I rolled my eyes as I told her "I said everything was fine, now please go away, I'm only here to order stuff" Amanda huffed looked like she was about to say something when Madam Rosmerta turned around and asked "So what can I get for you lads?"
Turning to face the owner of the pub I said "4 Butterbeers, Two Cheese and Ham paninis and two Sandwhiches" She scribbled the order down on a piece of paper and said "Of course, what would you like on your Sandwiches"
I turned to Face Samuel who was silent, noticing that two people were staring at him he said "Oh erm sorry, Can we have two Chiken Tikka please" She nodded and wrote that down and asked "For the same booth as before right" I confirmed the order and she said "Right I will have them over to you as soon as they are ready."
Both myself and Samuel nodded and we started to make our way over to Girls at the booth again and I asked Samuel "So what's got you all red and in Shock" He stuttered and said "Well...Today actully turned...in..into a date." Oh that was absolutely great.
He then said "and then just before we entered she said she had really enjoyed today and that we should do it again next hogsmeade Weekend in December." I patted him on the back and said "That's great Mate, so a second date book damn that great for you.
Hopefully I would find the person I liked that quite soon and be able to ask them out on a date like how Smauel had asked Tracey. I knew in my heart who it was. I just refused to admit it and I looked at the ground; I knew it was Daphne I liked but I couldn't tell her, not without risking our friendship.
We sat down at the booth finding Daphne and Tracey laughing their heads off so me and Samuel gave them a confused look and they said "Nothing you boys would understand. Now please tell us you ordered our food" Samuel stuck his thumb out and said "Oc course we did"
We sat there and enjoyed our meal when it eventually came and the 4 of us chatted before eventually making our way back up to the castle. Today was fun and that was the main thing.
A/N I hoped you Enjoyed this Chapter of A Dragon's Flight. remember if you enjoyed please drop me a review telling me what you liked or what I need to improve on. Till Next Time :)
