Autumn Winds;Chapter
4:Flying High
By: Kaytea
Harry sat there, feeling as though
something heavy had hit his head. Allison was still out of it, lying on Harry's
lap. He felt so much closer to his mother, now that he had seen a memory of
her, when she wasn't about to be killed. And he thought about poor Allison too.
She was willing to risk anything to protect him. Allison stirred, and Harry
helped her sit up onto the bed again. She rubbed her head, as if she had been
knocked out. "I hope that explains some things for you Harry, and why I must
protect you.", she said softly looking down at her feet. "I may have been too
little to understand, but it's kind of like I made a promise with Lily. To keep
you safe." Harry just sat there. His thoughts were all jumbled in his mind.
Allison must have noticed that he couldn't speak, because she took out what
looked like a piece of folded parchment from her pocket. "Harry, I wanted to…….
give you something …..for saving me from the lake." She leaned forward to whisper something to Harry, but instead
she gave him a peck on the cheek. Harry turned as red as his mother's hair had
been. "Well, I've wanted to give you that since the moment I saw you, but this
is what I really want you to have." She handed him the parchment. Harry
unfolded it and what he thought was parchment was actually a very old
photograph. It was of his mum and dad with him as a baby. He knew it was a
wizarding photograph, because they were all moving. Harry's father was beaming
proudly at his beautiful wife and infant son. And his mother was smiling down
on her baby boy. The baby Harry had a handful of his mother's hair in his fist
and was laughing joyfully. "I couldn't remember what you looked like, all I had
was this photograph, my mum gave me. So when you saved me from the lake, I knew
you had Lily's eyes, and James' hair. And I just knew it was you!" She smiled
happily. "And I want you to have the picture." Harry, still speechless,
couldn't take his eyes off the photograph, he would have watched it for hours
if Dumbledore hadn't come into the room just then.
"Allison,
how is your back?" Dumbledore asked gently. "Oh Proffessor, it is so much
better, it doesn't even hurt anymore!" Dumbledore smiled gratefully. He turned
to Harry, who shoved the photo into his pocket. "Harry, you may return to your
classes…" "Great!" Harry stood up to leave. "However….Allison will be going
with you. She'll be in the same classes as you, so I'm sure you wouldn't mind
accompaning her?" Harry knew Dumbledore was only trying to make it seem like
she wasn't only in his classes, so she could protect him. But he still felt
like a wimp. 'As if he needed a girl to protect him' He thought. But,he thought
of Allison, and if Voldermort did kill him, she would think she failed to keep
the promise she made to his mother. "Yes, Proffessor." Dumbledore handed
Allison a set of school robes and a spare wand she could use. "Voldermort is
gone for now, but I want you both to keep your guard up." He left then, and
Harry waited for Allison as she went into the bathroom to change. They bid
goodbye to Madame Pomfrey, who looked fearful of seeing them again too soon,
and they went off to Harry's next class. Potions.
They reached the dugeon when it occurred to Harry,
that he never told Allison how mean Snape was, and that he hated muggles. Harry
took his seat, as others began to come into the classroom. Allison walked up to
Snape's desk to hand him the note Dumbledore had given her to show all of
Harry's teachers. Snape looked at it with a smirk on his face, and he looked at
Allison. "So you're the new muggle I've heard so much about…….take your seat
muggle!" But Allison did not. She stood there, "I have a name………I believe it
was on the note." Snape's face turned sour, he glared at Allison. The class
grew silent, astonished someone stood up to Snape. "I can read thank you. Take
your seat Miss. Boahyers." But Allison did not move. "It's Be-au-x-Ye-ux." She
said pronuncing it slowly. Snape had a look of murder on his face. Harry
gulped. Why didn't Allison just sit down? Snape looked like he was about to say
another foul comment. But Allison beat him to it. "It means lovely eyes." And
with a smile she glared fiercly right back at him with her beautiful turquoise
eyes. Snape swallowed hard, and cleared his throat. "Very well…please take your
seat Miss. BeauxYeux." Had Harry heard right? Had Snape actually said
"please"to a student? Much more, a muggle Gyffindor?!?!? Allison smiled, "Thank
you Proffessor Snape." And she took her seat, looking very pleased with
herself. Harry had to admit, there were some benefits of having Allison along
to his classes. For one, Snape didn't make any snide comments since Allison was
Harry's partner. Plus, she was really fun to be with. Harry never realized it
till he knew who she really was. But Allison made funny jokes and she was so
easy to talk to.
After Potions, Harry wanted to talk to Hermione and
Ron. But they were no where to be found. Harry hoped they weren't mad at him
for spending so much time with Allison. It's not like he had much of a choice.
Harry and Allison headed to the Great Hall, for lunch. There he saw Ron and
Hermione waving them down. He and Allison sat down across from them. "Wow
Allison, standing up to Snape? You ARE brave!" Ron said impressed. Even
Hermione, who dislike people who disrespected teachers, had a smile on her
face.Allison smiled thanks, as she examined with amazment at her plate that
filled itself with all her favorite foods. And she nearly screamed when she saw
the Bloody Baron pass by their table. "Just ghosts, you'll get used to 'em."
Harry said, his mouth filled with food. Allison seemed to have more fun looking
at the bewitched ceiling or the grand banners that hung over each house table,
than eating. Fred and George came up to Harry, Quidditch Practice in 10 minutes
Harry, we're going to have tryouts for a new Keeper next week,hurry up now!" They
left and Harry finished his food and got up. Allison got up too and followed
Harry to the Quidditch field. "Harry, what's Quidditch?" Harry sighed. He
sometimes got tired trying to explain the game so many times, but he could tell
she was excited about it. "Well it's like Muggle soccer on brooms. There's a
Keeper (like a goalie), 2 chasers who throw the Quaffle through 3 tall hoops. 2
Beaters who beat the bludgers away from the other players and at the oponents.
And last the Seeker, who has to catch the golden snitch. I'm seeker for
Gryffindor."He said quickly. "Wow…" Allison said, her eyes all big in
excitement. Harry blushed and went into the locker room to change into his
Quidditch robes. Allison joined Ron and Hermione in the stands. The Gryffindor
team got on the field and Wood let out the bludgers,Quaffle, and snitch. The
team mounted their brooms and started
to play. Allison watched in the stands with amazement. How wonderful it looked
to fly. All the way up in the air.
It was very
hot this day, almost too hot to be outside with hot black, school robes on. The
tiny hairs on the back of Allison's next stood on end and a cold breeze blew
by. Darks clouds formed overhead and it
began to thunder. "Hmm…that's odd." Hermione said aloud. "No…there's nothing
odd about that, it's just what HE planned" Allison said with clenched teeth,
her eyes filled with worry. "What do you mean HE?" Hermione asked.
"Voldermort." Allison said coldly. She got up and started to shout "HARRY! COME
DOWN! HARRY!" but the thunder was too loud, Harry couldn't hear her. Just then
a lightening bolt shot right at Harry. Harry swerved away from it. The
lightening kept aiming at Harry, no matter where he went. Allison watched in
horror. How would she reach Harry in time? She took out her wand and aimed it
at the Broom Shed, shouting "Accio Nimbus 2000!!!" A Nimbus 2000 shot out from
the shed into Allison's hand. Allison shoved her wand into her robes and
mounted the broom, shaking in fear. She shot off from the ground like a bullet.
Hermione and Ron had never seen a Nimbus 2000 go that fast before. Up in the
air, Harry was just barely dodging the lightening bolts, the last one has
singed the back of his robes. Allison stopped when she reached Harry and Harry stared
at her in amazement. "Move!" Allison screamed. Another lightening bolt barely
missed them. They both sped off downwards. "What's going on with this beserk
weather?" Harry shouted. "It's Voldermort!" Allison yelled back through the
howling wind. Harry gulped. He and Allison turned left and dodged another
lightening bolt. Just when they thought it had stopped, a lightening bolt hit
Harry's broom. The broom dropped like a lead weight towards the ground. Allison
reached out and grabbed Harry's hand. Harry hung there, dangling in mid air
about 30 feet above ground. Allison was clinging onto the broom and Harry. She
managed to pull him up onto the Nimbus. Harry was on the front of the broom
now, and Allison clung to him as he plunged downward and past the stands. They
made it back to the castle, and the weather returned to normal.
Harry helped Allison off the broom and Allison
hugged Harry tightly. "Oh Harry, that was too close!" Harry nodded. He was
still in awe at how Allison flew. "So Allison, you must have flown a lot as a
kid right?" Allison blushed, "Actually, that was my first time. I was so scared
to get off the ground, but once I was in the air it came naturally."
"Wow…that's too weird, that's what happened to me 4 years ago." Allison blushed
even more. Just then Hermione,Ron, and the whole Gryffindor team rushed up to
them. "Harry! Allison! Are you okay?", Hermione cried. "Wow, Harry that was
some flying!"Angelina said. She turned to Allison, "And you, We need a keeper." Allison just smiled and
stood by Harry's side. "Yeah we're okay. But I don't think my Firebolt is."
"Don't worry Harry, we brought it." Ron said holding up the Firebolt, slightly
dented and scratched, but reletivly alright. Hermione took out her wand and
performed a renewal spell, that made the it brand new again. "Thanks,
Hermione!" Harry took his Firebolt, shining it on his robes. "We better go
everyone, we still have our afternoon classes and lunch is almost over."
Hermione said cheerfully. Ron gave a groan. "Classes! After all that
excitement?!?" Katie Bell rushed up to Allison. "We'll all talk to you later about the team!" And she rushed off towards
the castle. Harry and Allison started walking towards the castle. "Where did
Hermione and Ron go? Those two have
been acting pretty strange these days." Harry wondered aloud.
I made a mistake, I accidentally put that Wood was
still going to Hogwarts, when he really graduated from
Hogwarts in Harry's 4th year. This was very cleverly
caught by *Suppi-Chan* !!! Thank you Suppi-Chan!
Okay this is one of my personal favorite Chapters
from my Fanfic…gee I don't know though Chapter 5 is really good too! I hope you like this one…it's pretty long
for my usual Chapters, Also this was very kindly edited (because I can't
spell!) by Dreaming7! Thank you!
-Kaytea
