A Dangerous Love By: QuillHolder

Disclaimer: No, unfortunately I DO NOT own JK Rowling's characters. Sophie and her family are my characters, created by ME based on the world of Harry Potter, created by JKR.
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Chapter Sixteen: Quidditch With a Deadly Twist

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Harry and Malfoy walked into the middle of the field and Madam Hooch made them shake hands. Sophie winced as she realized each was trying to break the others hand. The game started moments later and Sophie was kept busy hitting bludgers left and right.

"And Gryffindor is up by thirty points!" yelled Dennis Creevy, who had taken Lee Jordan's announcing place.

"And McDonald scores another ten points for Gryffindor!"

"Watch it Potter!" Sophie yelled as a bludger missed his head by a few inches.

Harry, who had ducked when seeing the bludger hurtle toward him, needed no such warning.

"I thought that was your job!" He yelled back and returned to scanning the field for the snitch. Sophie zoomed past him to hit the bludger at the offending Slytherin beater, knocking him off his broom. She let out a loud 'whoop', grinned at Harry and flew off after the other bludger.

Minutes later, Harry saw the snitch glittering near the bottom of the Gryffindor goal posts. 'Now to loose Malfoy.' Harry thought. Malfoy was hanging around right behind him. Harry turned and acted like he was heading for the Slytherin goal posts instead. Malfoy, seeing he had a head start, took off.

Harry spun around and headed the opposite direction, keeping his eye on the snitch. Malfoy realized only too late what Harry had done, uselessly speeding after him. A loud cheer erupted from the Gryffindor stands as Harry's hand closed around the snitch, but the sound wasn't loud enough to drown out Sophie's blood curtailing scream.

Harry spun around in time to see Sophie fall from her broom..

She had been watching Harry race for the snitch when she her necklace suddenly glowed brightly and her vision blurred. She was standing in front of her mother who was pleading with her. She realized it was not her, but she was seeing through her father's eyes. He raised his wand and she felt the rush of energy and watched her mother fall dead.

"See what I had to do, Sophia? I had to. She didn't want either of us Sophie. She was planning on giving you away to begin with."

"No!" Sophie whispered

"Yesss. Yes she was. She was going to leave us both! I still want you Sophie. I will always be your father. I love you. Your mother never did! Remember that." And with that He was gone again. She was brought back to reality just before Harry's hand closed about the snitch.

An unattended bludger hit her hard in the ribs and she felt the bones breaking as she screamed. She blacked out just as she was falling from the broom.

"No!" Harry yelled, diving for the ground. Snape tried to slow her down. She slowed just before hitting the ground, but she had been going so fast to begin with there was still a sickening thud and a distinct crunching of bone at she hit the ground. Snape and Nathaniel reached her first. The rest of her brothers ran towards her.

Snape was kneeling on the ground next to her. Harry hit the ground and ran to her, dropping on the ground next to her, tears blurring his vision.

"Oh, God. Is she alright?" when no one answered him. "Is she alright?" he yelled.

"She's breathing Potter. Calm down." Snape growled, trying to hide the fact that this was greatly affecting him too. He took her to the hospital wing, where the quidditch team, her brothers and her uncle paced outside the door for two hours waiting for word from inside. Snape was allowed to go with her, mainly because Madam Pompfry was afraid to rile his temper.

Harry resorted to trying to take it out on the stone wall, which ended him up with bruised and bloodied knuckles. Nathaniel wrapped his hand and they resumed pacing. Snape emerged to say that she was going to be all right, and she was asking for Harry. Harry brushed past Snape and crossed the room to Sophie's bed.
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TBC, of course.

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