Carpe Diem: Second Year Revision
by Alec6427/NecessaryEvil
Disclaimer: The Harry Potter world is not mine and as long as J.K. wants it it will stay that way. The title is also borrowed from a Buffy episode's title so it aint mine either.
Chapter Eight:
Faith, Hope, and Trick
Soon Divination was over and everyone had filed out. Harry looked for Will, but he seemed to have disappeared. Harry made his way back to the Draconis house with so much on his mind that he slammed right into someone heading the same way he looked up from the floor and found himself facing someone completely unfamiliar to him, "Sorry mate," Harry said.
"No problem man,"
"Who are you?"
"New transfer, just got sorted into Draconis, name is Mike Hope,"
"Harry Potter,"
"I know," Mike motioned towards his scar as way of explanation.
Harry nodded grimly, "House is this way,"
"Thanks,"
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On the way down to the Great Hall for dinner Harry, Cho, and Ron came across a commotion in the hall. As they showed up to see what was going on Crabbe flew out of the crowd as though he had been hurled and after him strode a young girl about Will's age. She had black hair and tan skin and had managed to get the standard school robes to show the most skin Harry had ever seen on a girl. He quickly looked away and grabbed Cho's hand and started dragging her towards the great hall.
"Excuse me, are you Harry Potter," Harry groaned as he turned around and saw that the girl was the one talking to him.
"Yeah, so what,"
"Do you know where I can find Will Finn?"
"Try looking down at the Quidditch field or wherever the hell Jen is,"
"Thanks, I'm the newest Draconis member, my names Faith,"
"Nice to meet you, now I gotta go eat. Come on Cho,"
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When Harry and Cho got to the Great Hall she turned him around and looked up into his eyes and said softly, "What was that?"
"I'm just getting sick of everyone recognizing 'the Famous Harry Potter' I didn't do anything so great,"
"You defeated you-know-who twice,"
"Voldemort,"
"Right you defeated Voldemort twice. Once as a baby and once after only one year at Hogwarts,"
"Bull shit. Do you know what happened the night Voldemort found my family in Godric's Hollow?"
"He killed your parents and then tried to kill you, but you stopped him,"
"No, he killed my dad, then turned on me and my mother gave her life for me and that's why Voldemort's spell backfired off me and that's how I defeated Quirrel last year, it has nothing to do with what I'm capable of. I'm nothing great,"
"That's bloody crap. You are Harry Potter, you are the best seeker this school has seen, you were brave enough to try to stop the Philosophers Stone being stolen, you treat everyone fairly, and you have Ron as a friend, and you have me, you are the greatest wizard I've ever known and with my family trying to set me up with a nice rich boy I know quite a few wizards,"
"That many prospects," Harry grinned.
"Don't worry Mr. Potter, you've got no competition," Cho grinned back and kissed him lightly on the lips. Harry was surprised she had hardly ever kissed him on the cheek in private and now she was kissing him on the lips in public. He smiled and wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her over to the Draconis table with him, while they walked she slowly leaned her head onto his shoulder and they spent the rest of the night at the mercy of Ron and his merciless teasing until Harry had enough and asked how things were going with Hermione, at which point he mumbled something like 'that git Malfoy,' but Harry wasn't sure he had heard that right.
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The next day they had Quidditch practice first thing in the morning. Harry and Cho were going to be working on their seeker skills today for the first time in official practice. Wiill said he was going to teach them how to do a very good Seeker move that was called the Wrongski Feint in Europe, but was more aptly named, "That Must've hurt," in America. The trick entailed convincing the rival seeker that you'd seen the Snitch diving straight down and pulling up at the last minute and hoping your opponent couldn't, both Harry and Cho caught on quickly.
As Harry walked up to breakfast, he thought that Trick will come in the coming match against Slytherin, not only could he batter an opponent he could seriously injure that git Malfoy who had just become the Slytherin seeker by buying his team new brooms.
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A/N: Okay I'll try to answer every Review thats been written since last time.
Pen2: Uhhh ok.
Cho-Chang: Right on!!! Bringing Cho out of the drawer.
David: Look mate I've told you once I'll tell you again Harry will not end up with Hermione anywhere but in your twisted imagination and don't use our friendship to give the ppl more info than I want them to have.
Bumbleveela: If you get too confused just come right out and ask me, I'll try to explain, k?
Kim: Here you go! Had writers block and am still a little bitter about losing the girl I love. So I'm gonna give Harry bigger breaks than he'll ever have in the real books just to spite life.
Thanks to all you reviewers. Hopefully there will be more of you next time so that it'll look longer. I pumped this out in about twenty minutes once I got started so sorry if its short and dumb. R/R please. Nvr thought I'd say that.