I guess you can say it's been a long year for harry. From having being attacked by dementors before school, to almost getting expelled. Now he has to deal with Umbridge and Dumbledore won't even talk to him and it's only October. He had just finished DADA and once again he has another detention. He just decided to go up to the common room so he could start his work since we obviously gonna have no time later on.
Harry got to the common room and spotted Ron and Hermione working at a table in the corner by the fire. "Hey guys" he said as he sat in one of the empty chairs pulling out his work to start on.
"Hello Harry" Hermione said as she looked up from her work, while Ron just gave a grunt in acknowledgement. "So when is your detention?" she asked as she went back to her work.
"Tonight at six" he said while trying to start his essay for charms.
Finally Ron spoke up "'Mione can you check my answers for this?" he said while holding out the parchment. Hermione just sighed while Harry chuckled and held out the paper. "sure Ronald". While Hermione was doing that Harry heard footsteps coming towards the table. He looked up and saw his quidditch captain Angelina Johnson walking towards him.
"Harry we have quidditch practice tomorrow so please for the love of Merlin do not get a detention." she said while looking at him. Harry looked at him and could see what looked like desperation and tiredness in her eyes.
"Don't worry Angelina I already have a detention for tonight, so unless my work doesn't meet her standards I'll make practice tomorrow." as he said this they heard Hermione squeeze the parchment. Harry gave her a look of understanding while Angelina gave a her a look of confusion and Ron one of horror and shock. "Hermione I worked hard on that!" It was that that broke Hermione out of her trance and released that paper.
"Don't worry Hermione you know I can handle umbridge" Harry said as he gave her shoulder a squeeze to which she relaxed and nodded back. Angelina just looked more confused as that statement. Harry then turned to her "Don't worry Angelina I'll be there I promise." she just nodded and left. The trio then worked for a couple more hours which consisted of Hermione finishing her homework and the boys asking for help on theirs. Soon it was time for Harry to leave but he was able to finish all of his work. "I got to go but i'll see you guys later" he packed up all of his things and left.
When he got to the classroom he saw umbridge sitting behind her desk doing work. Or well what she considered work. He stepped into the room and she looked up and smiled at him. Well to Harry it really wasn't a smile. "Ah Mr. Potter sit you'll be writing lines tonight." she said while she handed him the parchment and quill and he went to go sit down. He didn't even need to be told what to write and he just started to write. He could feel the pain in his hand and the quill started to carve the words in it while using his blood.
He honestly didn't know how long he had been there for. Or how many times he had written that same sentence over and over. One hour had turned into three and next thing he knew it was midnight. "Alright Mr. Potter that is enough let me see your hand" Harry stopped writing and walked up to umbridge to show her his hand. She grabbed his hand and saw the left over blood. "well it seems that the words have sunken in enough tonight Mr. Potter you may go now". Harry grabbed his stuff and left, feeling a bit light headed . He made his way up to the Room of Requirements hoping to get some help from Dobby with his hand. He finally made it to the seventh floor and started pacing back and forth hoping for somewhere to sit down. Finally a door appeared and he walked inside, well more like stumbled inside. He saw a couch on the side of the room facing a fire just like in the gryffindor common room. He went and sat down for a minute before he did anything. "Dobby" was the only thing said before he heard a small pop was heard behind him.
"Oh harry potter sir, what is wrong" harry heard behind him in that squeaky voice he could never forget.
"Hey dobby do you think you could get me some bandages? and some chocolate?" he responded in a low voice
"Of course Harry Potter Sir!" a pop was heard and a couple seconds later another one as Dobby was standing right in front of Harry.
"Thanks Dobby" Harry said as his hand was now wrapped and a piece of chocolate in the other. Dobby just nodded and popped away. Harry stood up and walked out of the room and started heading towards the gryffindor common room. He took out the map to make sure he gets there without being seen 'I really don't need another detention' he thought to himself. A few minutes later he was tired from walking but made it. 'maybe i'll sit down for a minute before heading upstairs'. He noticed it was one o'clock and everything was catching up to him. Next thing he knows everything is going black and he had fallen asleep on the couch.
It was the next morning and Hermione was worried. Harry hadn't come back from detention by the time she and Ron went back to sleep. Hopefully she'll be able to ask him this morning during breakfast. On her way down to the common room she ran into Angelina, Katie and Alicia. The three Chasers for the gryffindor quidditch team.
It was Katie who spoke up first "Hey Hermione, what's wrong? you looked worried"
Hermione hesitated, she didn't know if she should say anything about Harry and his detentions with Umbridge. "It's nothing Harry didn't come back last night after his detentions with Professor Umbridge. But it's probably nothing he probably just went and walked around the castle for a bit afterwards." they could all tell she was saying that to probably reassure herself but didn't say anything. They all walked together down the stairs together but stopped when they saw someone laying on the couch asleep.
"who do you think that is" Alicia asked from behind Hermione. Who had a very good guess at who it was. They all walked forward and sure enough Hermione was just sighed and saw the bandages around his hand and walked around the couch.
"What's Harry doing sleeping on the couch?" Katie asked the other girls. They just shrugged wondering the same. Hermione grabbed one of the blankets and put in on Harry. Who started to wake up.
"Mione? what's going on?" He asked as he started waking up. Hermione just bent and moved the hair out of his face.
"Just go back to sleep Harry alright? I'll bring you back some breakfast once its over and we'll talk about what happened last night when I get back." Harry just nodded knowing he wasn't going to get out of just got back up to see the tree chasers staring at her looking a bit worried.
"wait Hermione what's going on? What happened?" Angelina asked worried about her friend and seeker.
"It's complicated" Hermione responded not really knowing how the best way to answer that was. But before they could ask anymore questions Ron came down and interrupted.
"Bloody hell I was wondering where he was" He said as he saw his friend asleep on the couch.
"Yes Ronald now if you would please be quiet lets go to breakfast so we can come back and have a talk with him." Ron just nodded and left with hermione down to the great hall. The chasers shared a look before following them out. Stealing a quick glance at Harry before they left. When they got down to the great hall they saw Ron and Hermione quietly talking. Both looking mad but surprisingly not at each other. Angelina was honestly wondering if she should let Harry practice today after seeing him how he was earlier. An hour later breakfast had ended and Ron and Hermione had left with Harry's breakfast and headed up back to the common room.
Hermine put the food down on the table and woke Harry up "Harry get up breakfast is over and we brought you some food." he began to stir and soon got up.
He saw the food and grabbed the plate "thanks guys" they both just nodded and he began to eat.
"So what happened yesterday?" questioned Hermione
"same thing as always she had me write lines. but I guess she wanted it to 'sink in' better cause I was there until midnight" Harry responded still eating
"bloody hell mate you were in detention for six hours?" Ron asked to which Harry just nodded.
"I didn't get another detention though which is nice. And Dobby helped fix me up afterwards so I'm fine" Harry said while finishing his food and getting up. "Do you guys wanna do something before we to go to practice later?" he asked to which the others nodded. So they spent the day walking around the castle and lake just talking. They even started the plans for the next DA meeting. They all agreed that it was time to learn how to produce a patronus. Soon enough it was time for Harry and Ron to head to quidditch pitch for practice.
When they got there they went into the changing rooms already finding the rest of the team there. "well look who walked in" George said. Somehow Harry was always able to tell the twins apart. Something that meant a lot more to the twins then Harry understood. Everyone looked at them and some noticed Harry's wrapped hand.
"Hey Harry are you sure you'll be able to practice with your hand?" Angelina asked, concern showing in her eyes. Harry instinctively grabbed his hand trying to hide it.
"Yeah i'll be fine Angelina just scratched it is all" he said. Everyone looked at each other. The chasers sharing looks of concern and ones saying they don't believe him. And the twins sharing a knowing look since they have also had detention with Umbridge before but saying nothing since they didn't want to be yelled at by Harry. While Ron just went to get changed. Once they were all in their gear they headed out towards the pitch with their brooms. They were determined to win the quidditch cup again this year since it was cancelled last year.
For the next two hours they spent running practice games, having the twins hit the bludgers at them to practice dodging (which they were very excited about "we should do this more often!") and Harry trying to catch the snitch even faster than before. Ron was still missing a lot of shots. Although Harry knew it was more about his confidence then his skill. Soon practice was over and everyone headed back towards the changing rooms.
Harry could tell that Ron wasn't in a good mood after missing so many shots so he didn't bother him. His hand was hurting though since it got hit by a bludger when he was trying to catch the snitch. Luckily it wasn't that hard so it wasn't broken. He could hear the twins talking about a new prank they were trying to pull off. The twins and Ron had just left so he was the only one in there. He took off his gloves and noticed his hand.
"Bloody hell its bleeding again"he said as he was packing up after quidditch practice "damn Umbridge" was said while he was wrapping his hand "it's times like these where I wonder if Uncle Vernon keeping me locked in my cupboard would've been better then letting me go to this bloody school." was the last thing he said under his breath before walking out, but what he didn't know was there were still three chasers in there who heard him, each with surprised and shocked looks on their faces. "Guys" Angelina said while looking at the two girls next to her "what are we going to do?"