I looked at my watch on my wrist and saw it was already noon. Today was going by rather quickly, like this morning I awoke at the crack of dawn. I was heading to work to workout, practice some defensive spells, and then look over some files before anyone in the department showed up. Then around nine I decided to check on the Auror's progress group by group. I left the Ministry and headed out to the stadiums where the teams practiced.

I was down to two teams remaining by the time it was two, Chudley Cannons and Holy head Harpies. I headed to the Chudley Cannons where Ron was located to see if maybe he had been lucky and found any connection between the dark magic use and Quidditch.

'Mate, any news?' I asked Ron as I approached him. I had just apparated onto the designated area for Aurors within the field. The players were all on the field in the air playing as the Aurors searched the grounds. I saw a couple of them turn when I first walked in and then slowly all of them turned when they saw me. The Aurors around all started to approach me when they saw me coming. Hopefully they have news.

'Mate, there has been odd occurrences where the locals wake up outside and some locals have gone missing,' reported Ron. 'Some of the wards around the field have been broken into, and there is a tear in that corner over there,' he said pointing at a far corner of the field.

'Okay I'm heading over to Holy Head stadium now to get the report. Good work Ron,' I said turning toward the apparition point.

'Mate why don't I go with you? Then we can go for a drink together like the old times,' asked Ron and I nodded to him.

I turned towards the rest of the Aurors and said, 'great work today, those of you who want to go can go, but if you want to watch the Harpies practice you can,' I said to which I saw some men elbow each other. The Harpies were known as the only all women Quidditch team and had some of the most attractive players in the league. They were also one of the best teams in England as many of the Harpies eventually went on to play for England's Quidditch team. They were known for being party goers and very outgoing, they were always in the headlines and always causing problems. 'But do not get in. their way or disturb them in any way this is an investigation. I still have to clear them,' I paused looking all the Aurors surrounding me over. 'After the investigation is concluded some of us will be going out for a drink, if you wish to join us you may, otherwise tomorrow I want you all functioning at seven o'clock,' I finished off to some side looks, no one was happy about coming in at such an early time.

Some of the Aurors started heading towards the apparition point, some were excited about seeing the Harpies practice as the Harpies were known for their beauty and aggressiveness, while some were just happy to leave work at a reasonable time to see their families.

'Seven o clock, buggers mate that early, not even Hermione has to be up at that time,' complained Ron next to me.

'Ron we are having a surprise practice drill,' I told him smirking. No one else knew they would have to complete a fitness test tomorrow morning.

'What no, mate, Harry they will hate you for it, if you weren't my best mate, I would hate you for it, maybe I still will,' responded Ron. 'But thank you for telling me so I do not get too many Fire whiskeys tonight,' he added and started walking to the apparition point.

'Harry aren't you coming?' he asked stopping in his tracks.

'I will, let me just brief the Chudley Cannons coach on the situation,' I replied heading towards where the coach and players now stood gawking.

I approached Mr. Dawdler, the head coach. He was an old man maybe in his retirement age and shook his hand. He looked ecstatic and a bit surprised to see me, 'What an honor to meet you Mr. Potter, I heard so many rumors of you, but I never thought they would be true,' he said excitedly.

'And what rumors might those be?' I asked pleasantly as I looked at the team that was now back in the air.

'You are so young and have accomplished so much, your parent must be proud of you. I met your father once; he was going to play professionally. He was extraordinary as I have heard you are too; you could have been extraordinary. If everything they say about you is true then you sir are the star of your generation,' he said. I didn't know my father was going to play professionally.

'Mr. Dawdler I wish to thank you for your allowing us time to investigate and hopefully we did not disturb your practice much, and good luck this upcoming season. I will notify you if we require to intrude in any more of your time,' I said as I shook his hand one more time and headed to the apparition point.

'Good day Mr. Potter,' I overheard him say as I walked away.

I appeared at the apparition point at the Holy Head Harpies stadium and immediately saw Gwenog, the coach arguing with Ron and a couple of the Aurors. Meanwhile the players had all stopped playing and were up in the air watching the spectacle. I immediately spotted Ginny by her signature red hair, even from where I stood, I could see her outfit made no effort to hide he curvaceous body. I ignored the leap my heart made when I saw her. She was surrounded by two other witches, one had blond hair and the other brown hair.

I approached Ron where he stood arguing with Gwenog, where she could be heard saying, 'I don't bloody care who you are this is a closed practice,' and I smirked to myself and thought oh this will be fun.

'Good afternoon Ms. Jones,' I said as I approached and extended her arm to shake. 'What seems to be the problem?' I asked when she just looked me up and down and didn't shake my hand.

'Well, you, Mr. Potter think you can just come in here and demand to be allowed into my practice, demand to investigate, you are disrupting my practice. My girls need to practice,' she responded rather irritated.

'I was just explaining to Ms. Jones before you lot arrived that the Minister himself has approved of our investigation, so we have every right to investigate anything related to this ongoing case,' said an Auror named Conner as he held up the official documentation given to every Quidditch coach.

'Ms. Jones, I regret the inconvenience, but we must investigate these strange occurrences. I am in charge and you have my word that we will try to be as least disturbing as possible. We will do this as soon as possible,' I replied looking her in the eyes and trying my hardest to make her trust me.

'Fine bloody hell do what you must but do not disturb my girls,' she responded and walked away.

'Connor what have you done so far?' I asked turning to Connor.

'Nothing, sir, we weren't allowed into any of the training rooms or to check any of the equipment,' he responded.

'Well, of course not, they are women, and you are a man, of course they don't trust you lot,' replied Rosalie. She was one of the few woman Aurors I have ever met. She had shoulder length thick light brown hair and big blue eyes, she was tall and curvy, but beauty and brains to match. No one on the field dared mess with her as she used to work for the Department of Mysteries before she transferred earlier this year, so my first time meeting her was this morning.

'What would you suggest?' I asked Rosalie turning to look at her ignoring Connor who was about to speak up.

'Have the women take care of checking the locker rooms while a group checks the grounds and a group checks the equipment,' she responded perfectly as if reading my mind.

'Rosalie, you and Lisandra will check the locker rooms. Ron you will lead a group to inspect the wards and grounds. I will lead the team to inspect the equipment, and hopefully we will find nothing and be gone in no time. We are behind on our search, if we don't hurry, we will not be out of here at a decent hour. The rest of you, stay out of their way I do not want to have to argue with Ms. Jones, she secretly scares me,' I said to which many laughed.

headed towards Ms. Jones just as the women were about to take a ten-to-fifteen-minute break. Good timing that I got because otherwise I don't think I would have been allowed to insect the brooms. 'Ms. Jones and ladies, we need to inspect your brooms,' I said, and I saw a couple of them shoot me a look of unhappiness. 'I promise it will only take about five minutes. I will inspect the brooms while these two inspect the balls,' I finished, and Ms. Jones nodded fer approval. I chanced a look at the witches, and some were flashing me their best smile, and some were looking at the two Aurors behind me like they were eye candy. Ginny didn't even look at me. It was like I wasn't even here.

The ladies one by one steeped up and handed me their brooms and I performed a series of spells to check if any magic had been used to alter the brooms, and then each one had to go up in the air and fly their broom.

The last one was Ginny whose broom glowed a different color after the spells meaning it had an issue. I grabbed an extra broom and flew up in the air with her, but of course she took off and didn't wait for me. Like why wasn't she even speaking to me? Why was she acting like I didn't exist?

'Ginny slow down, 'I said and got no reply, and instead she flew faster.

'Ginny you could hurt yourself,' I said behind her. She ignored me and sped up and so I did too I leaned forward and let go of the handle and put my hands on my side and sped up, so I was flying next to her.

She still wasn't looking at me so I did the only bold thing I could, I stood up and turned my broom to be directly in her path. I heard gasps from below and I saw the look of surprise on Ginny's face.

'Get out of my way Potter,' she said angrily. Oh, oh, oh whatever I did I was in for it. She turned in the opposite direction and sped off, I sat back down on my broom and decided to lay on my back and sped off in circles in her direction hoping to drag her oof course. I heard gasps of amusement below and she quickly changed courses once she saw me.

'Tell me what the problem is, Ginny. I want us to be civil,' I said loud enough for her to hear.

'You want us to civil, not going to happen,' she yelled as she sped off.

'Ginny!' I yelled as I fixed myself once again on the broom as I sped after her. I looked down below and saw that the Aurors had joined the Harpies and were all watching us from below.

'I think we are about done flying now,' she yelled as she started to dive only, I was about halfway down the field when she did, so I had to quickly maneuver myself go down and meet her as she dived. I sped up down towards her and laid flat on my broom to go even faster. Halfway sown was when I saw it, her broom had thrown her off course and she rolled off her broom. She was falling and falling fast, I heard gasps from everyone. As I neared the ground, six feet away from the ground I leveled off and sped off towards her, I willed myself to go faster to catch her in time. I stood on my broom as I almost reached her, I had to catch her, I couldn't let her fall.

I stretched out my arms and felt her body against my arms, I cradled her closer to me. I slowed down my speed and directed my broom to slowly lower me six feet to the ground. I had got her; she was in my arms.

All around me I heard cheering and clapping. I temporarily forgot about her broom because the only thing on my mind was Ginny's safety.

'Put me down Potter,' she commanded. I gently put her feet down and helped her stand while keeping my hands on her small waist. 'Get you hands off me, I don't need your help,' she yelled. She turned to face me, and I saw the rage in her eyes. Oh, I was in for it. Even when she was furious, she looked beautiful.

I took my hand off her once I knew she was okay. 'I was perfectly fine up there! I did not need you to catch me!' She was yelling and by the silence I was pretty sure everyone was overhearing our conversation. Ginny was clearly mad, and I had to let her talk it out. 'YOU COME HERE LIKE EVERYTHING IS BLOODY OKAY! WELL GUESS BLOODY WHAT YOU WANKER, NOT EVERYTHING IS OKAY! YOU LEFT, WE MOVED ON! I MOVED ON, SO WHY AM I SEEING YOU EVERY BLOODY DAY! EVERYWHERE I GO ALL I HEAR IS HARRY THIS, POTTER THAT, HES SO GREAT, HES SO GORGEOUS, WELL IM SICK OF IT. I WANT IT TO STOP.' Everything she was saying was true and there was nothing I could say to defend myself.

BOOMMMMM. The silence was interrupted when an explosion right above us rocked the air. Ginny's broom erupted in flames sending shards of wood and gold everywhere. Without thinking about it I grabbed Ginny and flung her to the floor below me, I grabbed my wand and set a force field around us to protect her. She struggled below me until she saw the explosion above us. She looked me in the eyes as we were only a fingertip away from each other and I saw that her anger had dissipated, below it was hurt.