Amare et Odium
Alllllrighteo
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disclaimer will count for all the other chapters, so I don't need to repeat it
over and over…unless there's some rule that says you have to. I think I'll get
on to the story now.
Draco Malfoy soared high above the crowds, looking for any
signs of the snitch. Below him, his Slytherin teammates battled it out with the
Ravenclaw team, each side trying to get ahold of the Quaffle. Bludgers were flying
everywhere, hitting anyone foolish enough to get in their way.
Cho Chang, the Ravenclaw
seeker flew around near Draco, trying to spot the Golden Snitch as well, which
would earn 150 points to the team who's seeker caught it first.
The score was very close,
90-80, for Ravenclaw. The snitch hadn't been spotted at all during the game,
and with the battling going on between the two teams, it wasn't likely Draco
would see it anytime soon. It was a bloody battle down there, balls and
broomsticks everywhere, everything moving too fast to be seen.
One of the Ravenclaw beaters
hit a Bludger towards him, Draco just barely got out of its way, the black ball
ruffled his hair up as it went over his head. The crowd below gasped.
Mutterings could be heard, some were quite disappointed that the Bludger didn't
hit him on the head.
Lee Jordan made some
statement about the Bludger almost hitting him, and then voiced his opinion
that it should have, but Draco didn't really pay attention to the announcer.
Lee, although a pureblood, was a mudblood lover, and therefore wasn't worth
Draco's attention. What did he care about some idiot that hung out with filth
like that? Draco turned his attention back to the game, a Ravenclaw chaser had
just scored, making the score 100-80. Draco had to find that snitch, and fast,
before they could score any more goals.
Ron Weasly shouted out in frustration as the Bludger passed
by Malfoy without even touching him. Fellow Gryffindors around roared in
disappointment. "Ah come on you git!" He yelled "You must have better aim then
that! The thing missed him by a mile!" Ron slumped back down. "Seriously
though… I was that close to seeing the 'great' Malfoy, Pride of
Slytherin, knocked off his broomstick…"
"Well it didn't knock him
off Ron, so get over it." Hermione Granger said matter-of-factly.
"Oh come off it Herm," Ron
started "You wanted to see him lying flattened on the ground as much as I did."
he teased her, a big grin spreading from ear to ear.
"Well…" Ron's grin was
infectious, she was trying not to smile, but a grin was slowly working its way
through. She looked away and instead directed her attention back at the two
teams battling each other on the field.
"Admit it Herm," Harry
Potter started teasing her, his 'toad green eyes' [as Ginny had put it in their
second year] alight with mischief. "You want to see him go flying into the air
then splat-" He made a motion with his hands. "Draco Malfoy is flatter then-"
"Hagrid 's biscuits!" Ron
shouted. The three burst out laughing.
High above, somehow, Draco
could make out Potter and his little 'fan club', as he liked to put it,
laughing hysterically over something. 'Bet their laughing at me' he
thought bitterly. 'Honestly, I don't know why people hang around him. He's
famous for something that he didn't do-its only because of his mother that the
curse rebounded. If you ask me, he's just taking advantage of all the glory.
I'll show him though…I show every last one of them that I'm better then 'The
boy who lived''. Draco's train of thought was interrupted by a streak of
gold catching his eye. It was heading for the crowd, right where Potter was.
Draco grinned and headed for them at full speed. The snitch moved close to the
crowd, making it hard for Draco to catch it. People screamed and moved away
from him, but it made no difference. He blocked out the screams, focusing only
on the snitch. He could see Granger standing up to see what was going on. The
snitch stopped, hovering right above her head.
"Look at that people! Havn't I always said that all Slytheirns
were insane and deserved to be in St. Mungos?" Lee Jordan said in his usual
cocky tone. "Just look at it, Draco Malfoy terrorizing the crowd and-what? Is
that the snitch?" The crowd looked at the speeding Draco, hurtling towards Hermione
at an alarming rate. She didn't see him coming, her back was turned, looking at
the crowd for the snitch. Almost there…almost got it… as Draco's fingers closed
around the tiny fluttering ball he crashed into Hermione, falling into the
crowd below. Pandemonium broke loose, screams could be heard. Madame Hooch
quickly made her way through the crowd.
"Has he got it? Has he got
the snitch?" She demanded, pushing people aside. Madame Hooch finally made her way
through and knelt over Malfoy. He held up the snitch weakly, all the air was
knocked out of him. The news slowly made it's way through the crowd, Malfoy
got the snitch. Slytherin won…they beat Ravenclaw. This was almost
impossible to believe, next to Gryffindor, Ravenclaw was the best team. And
they lost to Slytherin. Slowly, as the realization of this sunk in,
people began muttering. The Slytherins whooped and hollered, this was a victory
they had been long awaiting. Madame Hooch, now turned her attention back to
Draco.
"Are you all right boy?" she
asked, noting the cut he got above his left eye. "That was a pretty nasty fall
you took."
"Yes, I am, all I got was
this cut. I landed in something soft and that broke my fall." Draco looked
underneath him to see what it was. Mildly amused, he found Hermione the
Mudblood lying under him, flat out cold.
"You knocked her out you
prat!" Ron said, struggling to free himself from Harry so he could take a swipe
at Draco.
"He's not worth it."
Harry muttered in Ron's ear, and he relented. "Yeah, well, at least could he
get off Hermione?" Ron said, furious that he just lost his chance of beating
the slimy git to a pulp.
Madame Hooch helped Draco up
and off an unconscious Hermione girl. Ignoring the deadly stares thrown at him
by the Gryffindor students, he grabbed his [thankfully intact] Nimbus 2001 and
lifted off into the air. He flew over to his teammates, who congratulated him
on a terrific catch. The team captain, the beater from last year told him to
keep up the good work and walked off. A couple of Slytherins who had seen him
crash congratulated him on getting the snitch and the mudblood at the same
time. Draco laughed with the rest of them. But…in the back of his mind, a tiny
voice pointed out that nobody even asked if he was all right… not that it
bothered him. He shook his head, 'What was I thinking?' He thought. Head held high, he walked proudly
back to towards school. Out of the corner of his eye he noticed the weasel and
Potter helping Granger to the infirmary, and for a moment, one tiny, brief,
miniscule moment that even he didn't notice, he envied her. Flashing a look of
pure hatred towards her, he walked back to the warmth of the castle.
Sooooo….that was the first
chapter! The one that kicks everything off! I'll take the time right now to
thank my two phenomenal beta readers, this story would not be possible without
you, Starrysign and Caitlyn Allana. Check out her story Harry Potter and the
Cave of UNADAX, it's positively spiffy. Rapotoriffic, as the Citizen would
say. Also my mom, who scrutinized every chapter as well. She's harder on me
then my beta's, so I figure she deserves a mention.
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