Chapter 17: Being Hit On

When Stephanie, Cameron and Hermione got back, they were all aghast at not only the fact I never got any information on the founders or Flamel, but also that I was out of bed after hours three times in a row!

Right when classes came back was also the next Quidditch match, It was Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff. Harry was playing…and to my shock when I found out…Cameron!

"I just joined the team this term, I play Beater for Hufflepuff." Cameron said the day of the match, as I walked into the Hall and stopped when I saw Cameron (or as we started calling her, She-Cat, being she could turn into a cat, and what I had said when we first met her) in Hufflepuff Quidditch robes. I rolled my eyes in disbelief until I saw the Beater's bat next to She-Cat. My eyes widened.

"Ok, then. Good luck." I said backing away and sitting at the Gryffindor table.

"I'm scared of her." I said simply to Percy. "Remind me to have you let me borrow Fred and George when I talk to her."

Percy rolled his eyes "Oh come on!" he yelled, wrapping an arm around my shoulder "She can't be that bad, for a Muggle-born."

I looked at him. "She's a…few twigs short of a Nimbus Two Thousand, to put it simply."

"Oh!" Percy said, catching on "You mean she's…?"

"Insane?" I asked "Hell yes."

Percy nodded "Then I guess I can let you borrow the twins."

I laughed "Thanks, Percy, your a true friend."

"Why thanks, I try."

At that moment, Crystal ran up and plopped herself in between us, causing Percy to retract his arm off my shoulder.

"Hey, guys!" she said cheerily "What am I missing?"

"An invitation." Percy mumbled.

Crystal ignored him, or most likely didn't hear him "Anyway. I think that Harry's going to be all right, seeing as we're playing Hufflepuff this time around. Oliver promised to keep an eye on him."

"Ok" I said as Crystal got up. "OLIVER, HE GETS HURT, I BREAK YOUR HANDS!" I yelled as the quidditch team started walking out of the Hall.

"HE WON'T!" Oliver yelled back "HAVE SOME FAITH IN ME!"

"LUCK HARRY!" I yelled.

"THANKS, SIS!" Harry yelled back.

I rolled my eyes and got up at the same time as Percy, Ron, Crystal and Hermione.

"Come on." I said, breaking into a run "I'll race you to the pitch!"

"No fair!" Percy yelled "No 'on your mark, get set, go'?"

"Ok, On your mark get set go!" I yelled still running.

"HEY!" Percy yelled behind me as I sprinted out into the grounds.

"Got to be fast, Perce if you want to win!" I teased, picking up speed.

Or I could just play dirty."Percy yelled.

The next thing I knew, Percy had tackled me onto my stomach.

"PERCY WEASLEY!" I yelled as he lifted me over his shoulder

"LET GO OF ME, WEASLEY!" I yelled, pounding on him.

Percy ignored my screams for him to put me down and carried me to our seats in the pitch.

Percy smirked when he sat me down "I won."

I glared at him "When I get my hands on you, Percy Weasley, so help me I'll-"

"Ok, ok, easy. I'm sorry." Draco ordered, still smirking.

The game started with no sight of the Snitch. Gryffindor scored a couple of goals (much to my excitement.) and Snape was refereeing. He gave Hufflepuff an unfair advantage, seeing as he hated Gryffindors (especially my brother).

Professor Snape just gave Hufflepuff a penalty for no apparent reason when I

got bored.

"I'm gonna go bug your brother" I told Percy "who's in?"

Me!" Crystal chirped, bolting to her feet.

After we got up, we made our way to the other end of the Gryffindor part of the stands, where Ron was standing with Neville.

"Hey, Ron!" I said cheerfully.

Neville nodded and turned away.

"Hey, Harls. Oh no, look who's coming" I turned around and saw Malfoy and his goons

"Malfoy, what are you doing here? Come to jinx Neville some more?" Ron demanded.

Malfoy scoffed "Longbottom was asking for it, Weasley!" Then He smirked " You know how I think they pick people for the Quidditch team? It's people they feel sorry for. See, there's Potter, who has no mummy or daddy and the Weasley twins, who have no money. Longbottom, you should be on the team, you have no brains!"

Neville shot up to his feet and glared at Malfoy.

"I'm worth twelve of you, Malfoy!" he snapped then he turned to me "Hi Harley"

Malfoy glared with a look of pure loathing.

"What did you just say?" Malfoy demanded, glancing at Crabbe and Goyle, as though to tell them Don't move…yet.

"I said I'm worth twelve of you, Malfoy!" Neville repeated

Ron stared at Neville with a look of shock.

"Neville…don't do that! Malfoy'll have your head!"

Malfoy took a step towards Neville "I knew there was a reason I put the Leg Locker Curse on you, Longbottom. Maybe I should have put the Tongue Tying Jinx on you as well."

Malfoy nodded to Crabbe and Goyle, who took a step towards Neville.

Ron, finally got in the way "No way, Malfoy. I'm not letting you touch Neville, though he took my advice to stand up to you a bit too much to heart."

"It was you who told Longbottom to say that to me, Weasel-King?" Malfoy demanded. "I'll let Crabbe and Goyle deal with you, Longbottom, you're dead!"

Just before he could do so much as slap Neville, Hermione shrieked in excitement.

"Ron, Harry caught the Snitch! We won! Gryffindor's in the lead for the House Cup!" she said wrapping her arms around me from behind.

"WAY TO BE HARRY!" I yelled, turning around and hugging her. "Let's go congratulate him!"

Hermione and I walked down onto the very loud pitch to look for Harry. We found him…being mobbed by a bunch of random second year Gryffindors.

"HARRY!" I screamed, jumping right into his arms "Way to go!"

"Hey, sis. Where's Ron?" Harry asked, returning the enormous hug I wrapped him in.

"Crap!" Hermione, to my surprise (she never swears) said "We left Ron and Neville alone with Malfoy!"

"Whatever Malfoy does to Neville or Ron," Crystal said, coming up to us and pulling me off Harry to pull me into a hug "I'll kill him."

"But, Cryssie." I said, returning the hug fully "I wanted to kill Malfoy!"

"No one is killing anyone" Percy said coming over to us. "Congratulations Harry, we finally have a chance to win the quidditch cup this year"

Right." Harry said "Alright I need to go change before the party in the common room."

And with that, Harry left for the change rooms.

We found out later that Neville was in the hospital wing again. Apparently, he tried to take on Crabbe and Goyle single handed. And Ron had a bloody nose. So, I was sitting in the common room later that day, helping Ron clean his face up.

"OW!" Ron yelled "That hurts, Harls."

"Sorry, I'm going as lightly as I can. Malfoy must've hit you pretty hard."

Ron nodded wincing "Yeah, Malfoy did. Damn him to hell." he hissed.

It still amazes me what would go through your head as to try to pick a fight. It's a miracle you weren't caught!" I scolded.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Ron said, rolling his eyes "Sorry that something he said made me mad."

"What'd he say?" I asked.

"He was talking about my family, and that royally pissed me off. Something inside me just…snapped when he called you a mudblood."

"Well," I said, leaning into his face, checking to see if his nose was broken "Draco Malfoy is a git. Don't let him rile you. I think the bleeding stopped."

"Thanks. You're awesome." Ron smirked.

"When am I not?" I asked smirking myself.

Ron got up and went to his dorm as Percy walked in. He sat next me and gave me a smile

"Is he alright?" He asked

"Yeah he's fine, nothing's broken and his nose stopped bleeding"

"Thanks for helping him, mum probably would have had a fit if she saw what happened"

"It's no problem" I said

I knew we were going to have another moment. And sure enough, we did.

We were just about to kiss (yes, I know again) when yet again Crystal burst through the door.

"HARLS!" she yelled, ruining the moment "I found something in Nightshade's tree!"

I would have groaned if Crystal didn't say that.

"Let's go!" I said, grabbing my Invisibility Cloak and following her.