CHAPTER18- Surprises
Harry woke up still feeling tired.
He lay in his four-poster still awake.
-Quidditch- He thought.
-Dear…I forgot…Of course…you're the Quidditch captain now. YOU Have to plan the practices. Why did I ever think about when the next practice would be…? Oliver's gone now Harry…-
He thought to himself thinking of a time to schedule a practice. He began to think about the day he found out that he was captain…
He remembered walking into the common room one day and hearing roars of excitement… As usual, Hermione came sprinting over to him with Ron by her side…. ----Harry! Harry--- Hermione squealed. ---You're the Quidditch captain… I mean you have to be… Nobody else will!---
(Nobody had really been a REAL Quidditch captain at the start of the year, so at the time, Ron had to meet with Professor Mcgonigal to see if he could play a part in the team)-
Harry thought still awake.
-He remembered himself nearly fainting on the floor of the room; it was what he always wanted to be…and everyone knew it… ---We are going to win this year for sure! I know it--- Ron howled.
Harry was still saying –WHAT!- In a dazed trance. He remembered Hermione squeaking with excitement and Ron giving Harry a bear-hug trying to lift him up off of his feet.---Harry was indeed the Quidditch captain, and now he would have to plan the practices…He would be in charge. He would take on the role that he always wanted to be part of. He would have to take his team to victory as Oliver Wood once did…
---No more messing around on the field with no captain now- He thought throwing himself off of his bed as he walked down to the common room.
As he entered the heated common room, he found Ron awake staring at the fire.
"Morning Ron…"
"Hey Harry."
Ron began to stare out the window.
"Do you think I should plan a practice this afternoon?," Harry asked looking out the widow too.
"I'd love to! We'd better have one today before it gets too cold.," Said Ron.
"Your starting to sound like…oh…hey Hermione.," Harry said as Hermione came walking down to meet them.
"Surely you two aren't going to practice when it's this cold, are you?" She asked raising an eyebrow at the two of them.
"Yeah we are…It's not that cold, and the field is still dry.," Ron murmured.
"Oh well…" Said Hermione throwing her hands up in the air and muttering something that sounded like---boys---.
"Well…I'd better round up our team now. Hopefully we can meet each other at breakfast.," Said Harry as several of the Gryffindors came piling in the room with more by the minute.
As soon as the whole team had gotten downstairs, Harry huddled them in one of the corners and told them the news. Nobody was upset or surprised, and Fred and George nearly let of fireworks in the room. Everybody wanted to play Quidditch.
At breakfast, Harry rounded up the team once more to strategize their tactics on the field, and at last, the Gryffindors were huddled up on the Quidditch field and practicing that afternoon.
Soon afterward however, silence swept over the field as the bludgers were heard still buzzing around the field. Everyone stopped. Their brooms still hovered in the air. The team heard other people coming in. Harry looked down to see the Slytherin team blasting in towards them.
"Oh look," Said the Slytherin captain fiercely.
"Looks like Wood's gone, and whose this…your knew captain, the famous Harry Potter I see. Truly fascinating.," He said sarcastically.
"Move out NOW!," Yelled George
"YEAH! Unless you want to be pelted with one of these bludgers for lunch!," Fred fumed holding up a struggling bludger with a bat in his other hand.
Meanwhile Ron was gazing at Harry with an angry look on his face.
"Do something already Harry!," He bellowed watching Fred as he got ready to pound one of the Slitherins to the ground.
Harry was going to ask-WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?-, when they heard a loud-smack-, and sure enough Fred had pounded the Slytherin Captain flat on his face. George was now diving for him too, while Angelina Johnson was holding up the Quaffle to the whole Slytherin team looking as if she was so assertive that she could conquer the world. The entire Gryyfindor team was litterally demolishing the Slitheryin team, and now their was a huge pile of bodies on the Slytherin captain.
Harry could barely remember the last time that the Slytherins had taken the field away from them during one of their practices because he was too busy watching the fight.
Ron and Harry Hovered up above the fight, and Katie Bell was watching too; Angelina was busy pummeling the Slytherins with her Quaffle while George had the Slytherin captain in a headlock and Fred was looking like a professional boxer ready to annihilate him while George was holding him still.
"What are you going to do Harry!?," Katie Bell yelled from a distance as she came closer to them.
Finally Harry had an idea…
"I have an idea-
"WELL HURRY UP THEN!," Ron bellowed.
Harry whipped out his wand and waved it above his head.
Holding it above him raised high on his broom he roared into the riot crowd fighting below…
"EXPELLIARMUS!!!," Harry howled trying to disarm the Slitheryin team instead of Fred and George.
The result was a loud boom and the Slytherin captain went flying through the air. Fred and George Weasly barely fell backward, and the Slytherins that were fighting the Gryffindors went soaring backward.
After seeing that the Slytherins were angrily getting back onto their brooms and piling out, Harry realized that they had had enough; Ron was cheering loudly and Fred and George were grinning too. With one mad glance at them, the Slytherin captain shuffled out of the field.
"Wow! That was wicked Harry!," Said Ron.
"Yeah thanks…er…Harry, I'm not quite sure what you just did, but thanks anyway.," Said Fred grinning as he stood up.
Soon the team had had enough practicing for one day, and laughing wildly about the crazy story George and Fred had told them about the Slytherins, the Gryffindors set off to the castle for some rest in their dormitories.
Harry and Ron went up to their commonroom to find a tired lying asleep on her book of "Hogwarts, A History".
The two didn't bother to wake her but instead have a game of Wizards Chess, which Ron had brought with him.
Soon after playing, Ron exited the room ("Night Harry!") and Harry was left with a waking Hermione and a few sleepy other Gryffindors who were making their way up to their dormitories as well…
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