Arnold and the truth about his parents

Part 6: Qudditch and siblings

Arnold was nervous; he didn't want to get in trouble in his first week. (Well in serious trouble anyway.) Yet it seemed as though he was. (He couldn't imagine what he had done wrong…) They had deposited Drew off at the infirmary and had been walking for some time suddenly they came to a stop and Arnold recognized the classroom as the defence and the dark arts room. A loud knock filled the empty corridor and Professor Black opened the door.

"Professor Black, I'm sorry for the inconvenience but can I please borrow Sam for a minute?" Professor Weasly (Ginny) asked.

"Certainly" After a few moments Sam came out.

"Professor if its about the dung bombs that where set off in the toilet it was James not me…" Sam said instantly, Arnold had to grin he noticed that Professor Weasly was smiling as well.

"No, no it's not about that but I will be seeing you about that after your lesson please inform James of it as well."

"Yes Professor."  Suddenly Sam noticed that Arnold was there.

"Hey Arnold…" Sam said with a smile.

"Hey" Arnold muttered back, he was now wondering why he had been brought to see Sam.

"Sam you're looking for a chaser* right?" Sam nodded eagerly. "I found him" Sam smiled happily. Arnold still had no idea what they where talking about but he vaguely remembered that John had told him that Chasers where apart of Qudditch.

"What kind of broom would he need?" Professor Weasly enquired.

"Possibly a Weaster3000" Sam said after a moment. "Uncle Ron** built them especially for Chasers" Professor Weasly nodded.

"I'll write to Ron and see if I can get a broom from him, I think Professor McGonagall will agree seeing as she did let Harry into the team back when he was a first year." Arnold's head popped up at the mention of his father's name.

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A few hours later Arnold had sat down at the furthest end of Gryffindor table for dinner.

"I still can't believe it" John said to Arnold for about the hundredth time.

"We know" Helga, Drew, Arnold, Michael and Daniel said as one. Arnold had told them all as soon as he had gotten the chance. (Drew's wrist was a lot better) John felt his face redden. Suddenly a light brown owl came flying in and stopped in front of John.

"Hine what are you doing here?" John asked the owl in wonderment.

"He can't answer you" Both Arnold and Helga said at the same time.

"Now that's freaky, why don't you open the letter John?" Drew suggested. John tore open the letter and after reading his face went pale.

"What is it?" Arnold asked instantly worried. John wordlessly gave him the bit of paper and Arnold read it out loud to the group.

" Dear John,

We have exciting news for you! In ten words or less your mother is pregnant! Your going to have another brother or sister!

I hope your doing well in school and are getting into- uh I mean studying hard.

From

Your dear old dad

P.S Emily says hi!"

Percy, Sam, James (they had come over) and Helga all smiled.

"I'm getting ANOTHER brother or sister?" John managed to get out, "Emily's bad enough…"

"Think about your father John, he had 6 siblings to put up with." Arnold pointed out. The twins, and Percy nodded. Arnold suddenly stood up.

"Uh... I gotta go to the…."

"Library" The group coursed. In a short time Arnold had become much like his mother and most of the school knew it.

"You know Arnold, soon your going to turn out like Percy here…" Sam was going to continue but after he saw Percy's glare he decided to stop. Arnold got up and started to head to the library.

"Hey Arnold, wait up…" Sam said running over to him. Arnold turned around.

"Yeah Sam?"

"Just wanted to say meet me at the Qudditch pitch tomorrow, you should have your broom by then…" Arnold nodded and continued on his way.

To be continued….

Authors Notes

Note 1: I put Arnold as a chaser because I wanted Arnold's position different to Harry's.

Note 2: Ron was an Auror up until Harry and Hermoine disappeared. Then he started up a broom making business from scratch (much like the twins did with the joke store…) and the Weaster was named by combining Harry and Ron's last names together (if ya notice the Weas from Weasly and the ter from Potter)

Note 3: A reviewer pointed out that I had made Ginny head of Slytherin, which was purely by accident. She is and always was meant to be head of Gryffindor.

Note 4: What should Arnold get at Christmas? The invisibility coat or the masquerades (how ever ya spell it) map? Please vote when ya review thanks!