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Chapter 5 The Wizard Dueling Tournament
When Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Neville walked into the Dueling Station the first person Harry saw was Draco Malfoy.
"Listen, do me a favor and go explore. I have something that I have to do." Harry walked away from the group and over to the wall where Draco was standing.
He started to look around the wall casually pretending that he didn't know he was there. They stood there for almost ten minutes and Draco still didn't notice that Harry was beside him. He just stood staring at a short golden piece of wood that stood out from the wall.
"This is what I am going to use to beat that Potter in the Dueling Championship, this Goyle, is what is called a Wand Spell Booster. When you add it to your wand, it increases the amount of damage done to an opponent. Are you listening Goyle? I SAID AR........ YOU, What do you want Potter. Have you come to gloat about winning the Tri-Wizard Tournament, the House Cup and the Quidditch Cup? You disgust me Potter."
Draco turned to walk away when Harry grabbed his arm and pulled him back.
"Listen Draco, I am not here to fight or gloat. I am here to ask a simple favor". Harry made a sad face towards Draco.
"Why would I do that, eh? Okay, tell me the favour first and I'll see if I can help"
"I was wondering if it would be possible to be friends" Harry threw a sly smile in Draco's direction. Draco thought for a minute. If he said yes then he would have the chance to get valuable information from him.
"Yeah sure, why not" Draco smiled his famous smile, what he didn't know was that Harry had something up his sleeve as well.
"Oh no, were fifteen minutes late. Mum's gonna kill us" Fred stuttered.
"Harry c'mon were late we gotta go" Ron ran out with his brothers and sister.
"I'll see you at school then"? Draco asked.
"Yeah I'll see you at school". Harry extended a hand to which Draco shook politely. Harry turned his back and walked away with a cunning smile plastered on his face.
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Mrs. Weasley stood with her arms crossed at the foot of the steps of Gringotts Bank when the party came around the corner. They looked at the color of Mrs. Weasley's face and their hearts almost stopped beating.
"YOU ARE TWENTY MINUTES LATE. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW WORRIED I WAS HMM DO YOU"?? There was no answer.
Harry stepped forward and began to speak. "It was my fault Mrs. Weasley. I was chatting to someone and I helled everyone, sorry if I scared you".
"Ohhhh, that's alright Harry. I was like exactly like that when I was your age". Fred, George and Ron all looked at each other in amazement. If it had been anyone of them that had said that, their face would be covered in spit.
"Well, now that that's all sorted shall we go home now"?
"Mum how much money have you got left from all that shopping"? Ron asked nervously
"Erm.........around......4,000 sickles why"??
"Do you have enough to buy a Lightning Rod"?
"I'll tell you what. I'll mail you it okay, when you're at Hogwarts I'll send.............Earl with it"
"Eh...Mrs. Weasley, perhaps Hedwig can help. You know how Earl can be a bit misleading if you know what I mean". Harry's face turned pink.
"Harry, your right, we'll use Hedwig". Mrs. Weasley gave Harry a pleasant smile.
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Back at the Burrow Harry and Ron went straight up to Ron's room and started packing their trunks with all their new books and robes.
When they finished, they ran down to the dining room and sat down at the table. Mrs. Weasley came in and sat down with a huge plate of chicken closely followed by Ginny who sat next to her.
"Well, Percys at the Ministry and Mr. Weasleys working on some extra raids, so, dig in". Mrs Weasley announced.
Ron smiled then cut off a huge piece of chicken and placed it on his plate. Lifted his knife and fork and did exactly what Mrs. Weasley said, he dug in.
When they had finished there dinner they slumped up to bed but couldn't sleep so for hours they sat up and played wizard chess. As usual Ron was embarrassing Harry, the score was 21-3 when Mrs. Weasley came in and pretended to give them pumpkin juice, but what she had given them was a very powerful sleeping potion. Harry and Ron went out like lights.
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At Kings Cross Station it was very hectic. There were more first years than usual and the station was packed. There was a queue at platform 9 3/4, the conductor that was always there kept a close eye on all the people who stood talking about muggles and Quidditch and other wizarding things.
When they finally got on the train the carriage that they were normally in was taken by two girls.
"Excuse us, but why are you in our carriage"? Harry asked puzzled. One of the girls turned around and started to lecture them about Harry herself and Ron always sitting in that carriage but stopped half way and noticed that the people she was lecturing were Harry and Ron. She jumped up and gave them a huge big hug.
Harry and Ron looked at each other strangely. It wasn't until she let go that they discovered it was Hermione.
They were telling each other about their summers. Harry noticed that there was a beautiful girl. He couldn't keep his eyes off her, she just sat there totally silent just staring out the window.
Harry left Hermione and Ron talking and sat beside the girl, who was quite nervous about being next to the Harry Potter.
"Hi, my name is Harry Potter, what's yours"? Harry was shaking, he had gotten some feelings that he had never felt before. They were kind of like the ones he had with Cho Chang, but they were much much stronger.
"Me, I'm Penelopi Granger. Pleased to meet you Mr. Potter"
"Please, call me Har.....did you say Granger"? Harry looked worried. Having one bossy motherly-like know it all around all the time was bad enough, but now they may have to put up with another one. Harry kept thinking this while the the girl kept staring at him waiting for him to say something.
"Yes, me and Hermione are cousins and best friends. We used to hang out together all the time, we went bowling, pixie-catching, swimming, everything" The girl gave a small smile and then turned around to look out of the window again.
"Are you in first year"? Harry asked.
"No. I'm in fifth year. I was recently transferred from Durmbstrang because my parents decided to come back to England as they were experiencing a few obstacles in Germany".
Penelopi just kept talking and talking the whole journey.
When Hogwarts was in-sight, Hermione pulled Harry out to the corridor to talk.
"So.........what do you think of her"? Hermione asked confidently.
"She's very erm........talkative isn't she"? Harry turned away as Hermione gave him one of her looks.
"Well, I think she's just like me" Hermione snapped.
"You can say that again ah-hu, ah-hu". Hermione scowled at him viciously.
They both went into the compartment, sat down and laughed and joked the rest of the journey.
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When they reached the castle, they calmly walked into the Great Hall, took there seats and waited for the sorting ceremony to begin.
When the sortings were complete Professor Dumbledor rose from his seat to make the start of term announcements.
"First, I would like to welcome you all back for another year of magical learning. Second I would like to remind all pupils that extra classes are available to anyone who thinks they are eligible for application, if you think that you are then come to the great hall next Saturday at 14:45 sharp! Lastly I would like to welcome back the Junior Wizard Dueling Tournament. The usual applicational rules are as follows; Only students who are in second to sixth year are eligible. The following curses are prohibited; Crucio, Imperius and Avada Kedavra. Any one who distributes these curses will be immediately expelled and sent to the ministry. Well, that's all I have to say. Now let's eat". Prof. Dumbledor clapped his hands and the feast begun.
When the feast was complete the Prefects lead their houses back to their dormitories. When Ron, Harry and Hermione reached Gryffindor all they could do was talk about the kind of spells they would use in the Dueling Tournament and who they would hope to be up against.
It was late into the night when the threesome decided to get to bed as they had the first classes of the year the next day.
Just as Hermione and Ron left the common room, there was a bang on the painting. Harry rushed over and cautiously opened the painting.
It was Penelopi.
"Harry, is this the.............Gryffindor dormitories"? Penelopi screwed up her face in confusion.
"Yes Penelopi this is the Gryffindor dormitories. The girls is just up that set of stairs. You've just missed Hermimone, she went up about five minutes ago". Penelopi thanked Harry then she ran across the common room and up the flight of stairs out of view.
Harry had just received those strange feelings that he had gotten on the train. He then realized that he was in love. Harry Potter was in love with Penelopi Granger. He continued to walk up the flight of stairs to the boys dormitories, grinning a big grin.
Thank You::
Dragonsbane:: Thank you so much for reviewing, as usual you are my most loyal reviewer.
Rowenna:: Thank You so much for being my beta, I really needed one because my other fic was very very bad and ooc. Thanks to you my new Fic is ten times better than the last one.
Ahem,
On with the chapter.
Chapter 5 The Wizard Dueling Tournament
When Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Neville walked into the Dueling Station the first person Harry saw was Draco Malfoy.
"Listen, do me a favor and go explore. I have something that I have to do." Harry walked away from the group and over to the wall where Draco was standing.
He started to look around the wall casually pretending that he didn't know he was there. They stood there for almost ten minutes and Draco still didn't notice that Harry was beside him. He just stood staring at a short golden piece of wood that stood out from the wall.
"This is what I am going to use to beat that Potter in the Dueling Championship, this Goyle, is what is called a Wand Spell Booster. When you add it to your wand, it increases the amount of damage done to an opponent. Are you listening Goyle? I SAID AR........ YOU, What do you want Potter. Have you come to gloat about winning the Tri-Wizard Tournament, the House Cup and the Quidditch Cup? You disgust me Potter."
Draco turned to walk away when Harry grabbed his arm and pulled him back.
"Listen Draco, I am not here to fight or gloat. I am here to ask a simple favor". Harry made a sad face towards Draco.
"Why would I do that, eh? Okay, tell me the favour first and I'll see if I can help"
"I was wondering if it would be possible to be friends" Harry threw a sly smile in Draco's direction. Draco thought for a minute. If he said yes then he would have the chance to get valuable information from him.
"Yeah sure, why not" Draco smiled his famous smile, what he didn't know was that Harry had something up his sleeve as well.
"Oh no, were fifteen minutes late. Mum's gonna kill us" Fred stuttered.
"Harry c'mon were late we gotta go" Ron ran out with his brothers and sister.
"I'll see you at school then"? Draco asked.
"Yeah I'll see you at school". Harry extended a hand to which Draco shook politely. Harry turned his back and walked away with a cunning smile plastered on his face.
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Mrs. Weasley stood with her arms crossed at the foot of the steps of Gringotts Bank when the party came around the corner. They looked at the color of Mrs. Weasley's face and their hearts almost stopped beating.
"YOU ARE TWENTY MINUTES LATE. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW WORRIED I WAS HMM DO YOU"?? There was no answer.
Harry stepped forward and began to speak. "It was my fault Mrs. Weasley. I was chatting to someone and I helled everyone, sorry if I scared you".
"Ohhhh, that's alright Harry. I was like exactly like that when I was your age". Fred, George and Ron all looked at each other in amazement. If it had been anyone of them that had said that, their face would be covered in spit.
"Well, now that that's all sorted shall we go home now"?
"Mum how much money have you got left from all that shopping"? Ron asked nervously
"Erm.........around......4,000 sickles why"??
"Do you have enough to buy a Lightning Rod"?
"I'll tell you what. I'll mail you it okay, when you're at Hogwarts I'll send.............Earl with it"
"Eh...Mrs. Weasley, perhaps Hedwig can help. You know how Earl can be a bit misleading if you know what I mean". Harry's face turned pink.
"Harry, your right, we'll use Hedwig". Mrs. Weasley gave Harry a pleasant smile.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Back at the Burrow Harry and Ron went straight up to Ron's room and started packing their trunks with all their new books and robes.
When they finished, they ran down to the dining room and sat down at the table. Mrs. Weasley came in and sat down with a huge plate of chicken closely followed by Ginny who sat next to her.
"Well, Percys at the Ministry and Mr. Weasleys working on some extra raids, so, dig in". Mrs Weasley announced.
Ron smiled then cut off a huge piece of chicken and placed it on his plate. Lifted his knife and fork and did exactly what Mrs. Weasley said, he dug in.
When they had finished there dinner they slumped up to bed but couldn't sleep so for hours they sat up and played wizard chess. As usual Ron was embarrassing Harry, the score was 21-3 when Mrs. Weasley came in and pretended to give them pumpkin juice, but what she had given them was a very powerful sleeping potion. Harry and Ron went out like lights.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
At Kings Cross Station it was very hectic. There were more first years than usual and the station was packed. There was a queue at platform 9 3/4, the conductor that was always there kept a close eye on all the people who stood talking about muggles and Quidditch and other wizarding things.
When they finally got on the train the carriage that they were normally in was taken by two girls.
"Excuse us, but why are you in our carriage"? Harry asked puzzled. One of the girls turned around and started to lecture them about Harry herself and Ron always sitting in that carriage but stopped half way and noticed that the people she was lecturing were Harry and Ron. She jumped up and gave them a huge big hug.
Harry and Ron looked at each other strangely. It wasn't until she let go that they discovered it was Hermione.
They were telling each other about their summers. Harry noticed that there was a beautiful girl. He couldn't keep his eyes off her, she just sat there totally silent just staring out the window.
Harry left Hermione and Ron talking and sat beside the girl, who was quite nervous about being next to the Harry Potter.
"Hi, my name is Harry Potter, what's yours"? Harry was shaking, he had gotten some feelings that he had never felt before. They were kind of like the ones he had with Cho Chang, but they were much much stronger.
"Me, I'm Penelopi Granger. Pleased to meet you Mr. Potter"
"Please, call me Har.....did you say Granger"? Harry looked worried. Having one bossy motherly-like know it all around all the time was bad enough, but now they may have to put up with another one. Harry kept thinking this while the the girl kept staring at him waiting for him to say something.
"Yes, me and Hermione are cousins and best friends. We used to hang out together all the time, we went bowling, pixie-catching, swimming, everything" The girl gave a small smile and then turned around to look out of the window again.
"Are you in first year"? Harry asked.
"No. I'm in fifth year. I was recently transferred from Durmbstrang because my parents decided to come back to England as they were experiencing a few obstacles in Germany".
Penelopi just kept talking and talking the whole journey.
When Hogwarts was in-sight, Hermione pulled Harry out to the corridor to talk.
"So.........what do you think of her"? Hermione asked confidently.
"She's very erm........talkative isn't she"? Harry turned away as Hermione gave him one of her looks.
"Well, I think she's just like me" Hermione snapped.
"You can say that again ah-hu, ah-hu". Hermione scowled at him viciously.
They both went into the compartment, sat down and laughed and joked the rest of the journey.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
When they reached the castle, they calmly walked into the Great Hall, took there seats and waited for the sorting ceremony to begin.
When the sortings were complete Professor Dumbledor rose from his seat to make the start of term announcements.
"First, I would like to welcome you all back for another year of magical learning. Second I would like to remind all pupils that extra classes are available to anyone who thinks they are eligible for application, if you think that you are then come to the great hall next Saturday at 14:45 sharp! Lastly I would like to welcome back the Junior Wizard Dueling Tournament. The usual applicational rules are as follows; Only students who are in second to sixth year are eligible. The following curses are prohibited; Crucio, Imperius and Avada Kedavra. Any one who distributes these curses will be immediately expelled and sent to the ministry. Well, that's all I have to say. Now let's eat". Prof. Dumbledor clapped his hands and the feast begun.
When the feast was complete the Prefects lead their houses back to their dormitories. When Ron, Harry and Hermione reached Gryffindor all they could do was talk about the kind of spells they would use in the Dueling Tournament and who they would hope to be up against.
It was late into the night when the threesome decided to get to bed as they had the first classes of the year the next day.
Just as Hermione and Ron left the common room, there was a bang on the painting. Harry rushed over and cautiously opened the painting.
It was Penelopi.
"Harry, is this the.............Gryffindor dormitories"? Penelopi screwed up her face in confusion.
"Yes Penelopi this is the Gryffindor dormitories. The girls is just up that set of stairs. You've just missed Hermimone, she went up about five minutes ago". Penelopi thanked Harry then she ran across the common room and up the flight of stairs out of view.
Harry had just received those strange feelings that he had gotten on the train. He then realized that he was in love. Harry Potter was in love with Penelopi Granger. He continued to walk up the flight of stairs to the boys dormitories, grinning a big grin.