Autumn Winds;Chapter
5:The Firebolt Ride
By: Kaytea
Allison and Harry went inside
the castle and went to Herbology. Proffessor Sprout was very taken to Allison,
who potted a Canticaeile perfectly the first time. But she was having trouble figuring
out which was it's tantile and which was it's upouyier. Hermione helped her,
while Ron and Harry struggled between the both of them to try and squeeze a
very lively Canticaeile into a pot. Harry held the pot sturdy as Ron tried with
all his might to try and shove it in. By the end of the class, they were all
covered in dirt. The girls teased the boys about the large clumps of dirt on
their robes. And Ron sniggered at the large mud clod in Hermione's hair.
Allison laughed merrily at herself, with the streaks of mud down one cheek and
the other streaks down her robe. As they headed off to their dormitory's to
wash up, Filch stopped them dead in their tracks. He stared at their muddy feet
on his freshly cleaned floor. It looked like the vein in his head would
explode. "I should have you all expelled! Just prancing in here, not even
taking off your shoes first…!!!!" Ron and Harry tried to explain, "Sorry, we
didn't….mean to…..Herbology…really messy…..guess we weren't thinking." But
Hermione and Allison stopped them. "Please, we didn't think to take off our
shoes, we'll clean the floor up ourselves! We're terribly sorry." Hermione and
Allison flashed Filch the sweetest smiles, their eyes shining. Filch was still
mad, but instead of taking them to Dumbledore's office. He set a large bucket
full of soapy water on the ground. "You will go up to your dormitory's and
clean up, then you will come down here and clean this immediantly!!!" Filch
stormed off. "Wow I was sure we'd be expelled."Ron said. "Yeah for sure, well
we better get cleaned up. Meet you all down here in 10 minutes?" Everyone
nodded. As Ron and Harry went to the boy's dorm and the girls went into the
girl's dorm.
They all met down there and each
took a brush from the bucket. And they scrubbed. And scrubbed and scrubbed.
Harry wasn't sure who did it first, though he highly suspected Ron, but someone
launched a handful of soapy bubbles at Hermione. It soaked her from head to
toe. Ron was doubled up with laughter, Harry tried his best not to laugh, but
it was too much. He bursted out laughing. Allison and Hermione looked at each other.
"Can you believe those two?" So Allison and Hermione deviously grabbed a
handful of bubbles from the bucket and slung them at Harry and Ron. And pretty
soon, they were all covered in bubbles. Just then Filch walked in. "Playing
around? I thought I told you to clean those floors!!!!" Allison stood up still
laughing. "But, sir, we did!" And she was right. The floors WERE sparkling
clean. Filch's face turned purple, from being outsmarted in front of students
and grabbed the bucket and left. The group laughed and they trudged off to the
dorms to get cleaned up once again.
After dinner, Harry found
Allison sitting on one of the couches in the Gryffindor common room. She was
reading a transfiguration book. She kept holding out her wand and practicing
the waves and muttering the words under her breath. Harry sat down next to her.
"Having any trouble?" he asked. "Yes….I can't seem to get the wand wave right
on this spell. I know I'm saying the words right. "she said frustrated. "Let me
see you do it, then I'll tell you what you're doing wrong."said Harry. She was
trying to turn a chair into a fountain. This was a difficult one, but Harry
wanted to see if she could do it, he wouldn't be surprised if she did. She held
out her wand and said "Chaiseirus transformus fuentatius" and she waved her
wand to the right then down to the left real quick. The chair remained the
same. "See what I mean?" Allison said with despair. "Let me see." He moved next
to her and made her arm move up then right then left down right. Allison
blushed when he touched her arm. "Now try it like that" He said. Allison
chanted "Chaiseirus transformus fuentatius!" and she moved her wand up then
right then left down right. The chair sprung a leak and turned into a beautiful
silver fountain with glittering water running form it. "I did it! Oh thank you
Harry!" She hugged Harry with excitement. It was late, and the last person in
the common room with Harry and Allison, finally went up to bed. "Wow it's
late…..I'm still not tired though."Harry said. "Me neither, I don't think I'll
ever sleep after all the excitement today." Allison said closing her
transfiguration book. "Allison…..you repaid me for saving you from the lake,
with that picture, and I wanted to know if there was anything I could do for
you saving my tail twice from Voldermort." Harry asked steadily. "Well…I really
wanted you to take me on a ride on your Firebolt. I hear it's the fastest broom
invented so far." Allison asked timidly. "It is. And I'd be happy to, after all
you've done for me."Hary said, standing up. "I'll go get it from my
dormitory."Harry said, and he left and quickly returned with the Firebolt and a
silvery cloak, that looked like a puddle in his hand. "What is that?" Allison
asked, eyeing the silvery cloak. "It's an invisibility cloak, so we can get
past Filch." Allison looked amazed at it. "Come on, let's go." Harry said as he
climbed through the potrait hole with Allison behind him. They put the
invisibility cloak over them and the firebolt and walked quietly down the
corridors. Mrs. Norris walked right past them, and Allison almost bent down to
pick her up, thinking she was a stray, but Harry caught her arm and shook his
head no. Mrs. Norris sniffed around them, and sleepily walked out of the
hallway.
They made it outside, and they
took off the invisibility cloak. Harry mounted his Firebolt and Allison got on
behind him. "Hang on tight, this goes fast" Harry said quietly. They shot into the sky and Harry took sharp turns, and
went upside down . He could feel Allison's heart pounding fast, as she clung
tightly to him. Then Harry stopped the Firebolt midair about 20 feet in the
air. Allison was still breathing heavily. "Wow……"Allison exclaimed. Allison
flipped her legs over the side of the broom so she could see the whole Hogwarts
Grounds. Harry did the same, so he and Allison were sitting side by side. "Do
you think Voldermort gave up?" Harry asked with a sound of hope in his voice. "No,
he'll be back. Just because we got away from him twice, doesn't mean he'll give
up." Harry watched the stars and saw Allison looking up at the moon, gazing
dreamfully at the sky. Allison's eyes shined brightly in the moonlight, she
shivered in the cold night air. Harry covered her with his winter cloak, and
slipped his arm around her to keep her warm. Allison sighed deeply and leaned
into Harry. It was so peaceful, just sitting there under the stars, Harry was
filled with warmth inside his heart.
Meanwhile, Dumbledore could not
sleep. Voldermort being back in a body, would make anyone restless, but a
strange girl dropping in and Harry in danger again, it was too much for his
mind. Dumbledore decided to get some hot coco. He met up with Proffessor
Mcgonagall in the hallway on his way back from the kitchen. She was in her
bathrobe and looking very distressed. "Minerva? Everything alright?" he asked
worried. "Yes..it's just having Voldermort show up in my class today, was a bit
unerving."she said, gazing out at the moon. "Yes, yes, but everything will be
alright." Dumbledore said reassuringly. Proffessor McGonagall continued to star
out at the stars,"I suppose your right……dear lord! Is that Potter out there on
his broom?!?!" "Yes, I suppose it is."
Dumbledore said with a smile. "Well? We need to get him inside! What if
Voldermort's out there?" she said panicky. "No, I think he's had enough today.
But we should keep an eye on him." Dumbledore said. "Who's that he's with?"
McGonagall asked squinting through the window. "Why I believe it's our new
pupil." Dumbledore said chuckling to himself. "He seems quite taken with her."
McGonagall said with a semi-smile. "Yes, reminds you of a certain pair, doesn't
it?" Dumbledore grinned. "Why of course Albus. I remember catching them out on
broom in the middle of the night way back when." "Exactly! Just like his
father he is."Dumbledore said gazing out the window.
Harry held Allison close to him,
he could hear her mumur something, but he couldn't make it out. She looked up
at Harry, and smiled at him. Harry didn't know what it was about her, but he
felt so drawn to her. Her eyes glittered up at Harry, and Harry leaned over and
kissed her lips gently. He could feel his heart pounding. What if she didn't
want to be kissed? Had he done it right? But Allison leaned over and kissed him
back. Harry felt a different type of happiness, not like when he won a
Quidditch game or found out he was a wizard. This was new. They sat their on
his Firebolt till the sky began to turn pink, and Harry brought them down. They
put on the invisibilty cloak and snuck back into Gryffindor common room. Once
they were safely inside the common room, Harry began to utie the cloak, but there
was noise coming a corner. Someone….or something, was there. Harry kept the
cloak on. Allison looked worried, like something might jump out at them. Someone
called out, "Who's there?" . There was silence. Harry didn't even breathe. Just
then Ron came down the stairs. "Hermione! It's okay no one's there." Hermione
came out of the dark corner, and walked over to Ron. "Thank goodness……." But her
sentence was cut off, Ron drew her close, and Hermione giggled. Harry couldn't
believe what he was seeing. He watch in dibelief as Ron and Hermione kissed. So
this is why they've been sneaking around! Harry felt hurt they never told him,
but then again he hadn't planned on telling them what happened between him and
Allison either. He was beginning to wonder how long this would go on, it was
almost dawn and Harry needed to be in bed, before the Prefects woke them up. 15
minutes passed by, Harry and Allison looked at eachother, with Anguished looks.
How would they get out of this mess? All of a sudden, Allison sneezed! Ron and
Hermione let go of eachother and looked around. Hermione looked like she would
die of embaressment. "Someone's here! I know it." Ron said angrily. Finally
Harry couldn't take it anymore, and whipped off the cloak. Hermione, hid
herself in the dark corner at the sight of Harry. Ron looked like he saw a
ghost. "Uhh…..hullo Harry. How long we're you here?"Ron said eyeing Allison who
was hiding behind him. "Not long." Harry lied. Ron turned beet-red and looked
at the ground. "Don't worry, you're secrets safe with us."Harry said quickly to
fill the ackward silence. "So you won't tell anyone right?" Ron said nervously.
"Of course." Harry said. "Now let's go to bed."
Wow…..that took forever to
write. Sorry if the love scene was too mushy, I'm not good at writing romance.
Well I'll try to write
Chapter six later!
~Kaytea