CHAPTER 6

A/N: I hope you all liked chapter 5. I started typing this one 2 days later. on the 17th

I'm sorry but I don't like this chapter as much as the rest. but I guess it gets better more towards the end of the chapter.

http://www.fanfiction.net/profile.php?userid=235463 - I recommend these 2 h/h stories. They're pretty short, yet really good. The first 2 on the list they should be. "I'm still here" and "A Year To Remember."

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Harry potter. Just some spells in the last chapter.

On with the show:

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CHAPTER 6:

Harry's Picture

Harry woke the next day at half past six. He got dressed and went to the common room, only to find Hermione.

"Bit early, isn't it?" Harry asked.

"Definitely," she replied. "I've decided to pick Seamus for Prefect assistant (A/N: Harry picked Ron.DUH!!!). Anyway, I was wondering, um, well, um."

"You were wondering what?" Harry said, making, if possible, Hermione's face go redder.

"Well, couldyouteachmehotflyonabrom?"

"What?" Harry said, with a clueless expression on his face. "You sound like me asking Cho Chang to the ball last year."

"I was wondering if you liked her," Hermione said. "Anyway, can you teach me to, er, fly a broom?"

"Sure, all you had to do was ask. I was going to book the pitch today anyway. Ron and I have practiced for hours yesterday. He'll definitely make at least the reserve keeper. We don't have a captain yet though."

They went down to the great hall. "Oy, Harry," Yelled Fred's voice behind them. Harry turned around.

"Yeah?" He replied.

"When should we have tryouts for the team?" George asked.

"I was going to book the pitch today." Harry said.

"Okay. Sounds good. Have you been training Ron well?" asked Fred.

"Want to see him play?"

"That's a yes," said George.

"Listen, I need you two to get all the Gryffindors trying out to the common room after breakfast," Harry said.

"Okay," said Fred.

Harry and Hermione walked into the great hall to see Cho booking the quidditch pitch.

"Hi Cho."

"Oh, hi Harry. Were you going to book the pitch today? I think we only need from 9-12 o'clock."

"That's fine. We were going to take the afternoon anyway. From one to about six thirty."

"You think your tryouts are long enough yet?" Cho asked.

"Tryouts are till 4 O'clock, practice till five, and then, er, we need it for something else," Harry said.

"You're teaching someone how to fly."

"That obvious?" asked Harry and Hermione together.

"Yup. I'm guessing it's you then, er, sorry but I don't know your name," Cho said.

"I'm Hermione Granger."

"The only Gryffindor with a Ravenclaw character," Harry finished, earning a whack to the head from both Cho and Hermione.

"Hey, not all Ravenclaws are bad. Just because you're in Gryffindor doesn't mean you're necessarily better then us Ravenclaws," said Cho.

"Okay, okay, sorry."

"Well, I can help teach you how to fly, since Harry isn't good enough," Cho said. Hermione burst out laughing. Harry didn't think it was very funny, but he didn't protest. He thought they would just keep going if he gave them fuel, so he just stood there, looking hurt.

~*~ (Common room)

"Attention all Quidditch type, er, people. Today, Beginning at one O'clock PM, are the Quidditch tryouts," Harry said, earning a loud cheer. "The open positions are keeper and chaser. The reserve team openings are seeker, for like many years strait now; keeper; two beaters; and two chasers. Together that's two starters and six reserves, or, er, just eight players."

~*~ (Quidditch pitch)

The tryout for keeper was a hundred shots to see the save percentage. Harry's work with Ron the day before paid off. Ron saved 99, beating Wood's record by three saves (96 is the record for all those that suck at math). Although Harry wasn't fond on the idea, Dennis Creevie (sp?) got reserve keeper. Colin and Ginny (starting to become a couple) got reserve chasers. Seamus got the starting chaser. Dean got one of the reserved beaters (on default). There was only one reserve beater, and, once again, no reserve seeker.

Harry knew Ginny was an ok seeker if something happened to him with the Voldemort issue. He decided that he could possibly teach Hermione after she masters flying. That way, she could make reserve by next year and maybe feel the joy of beating Malfoy in a seeker battle in a game.

Cho showed up at ten after five, as promised. Hermione, riding on Ron's old 'clean sweep 7,' was evenly matched in speed with Cho, but Harry couldn't be caught. Harry taught Hermione what she needed to know before she left the ground for the first half hour. Then, they helped her once she was in the air. By half past six, Hermione and Cho were racing like pros from end to end of the Quidditch pitch.

"Well, that's it for today. We can come back from four to six next weekend on Sunday. I'm getting hungry so I think I'm going to get cleaned up, eat, and go to Dumbledore's office. I think we go there tonight," Harry said.

"Only if your orb glows your color or Dumbledore's color," Cho said.

"What is his color?" Hermione asked.

"He has two. White and Red are his colors."

"That's cool. Two colors or our own. Add two plus one to get two for me. You all get to look for three colors, and I have to look for one," Harry said.

"See you later, Harry. You too Hermione," Cho said.

"Bye, Cho," They said back.

"Hermione, I'm getting you a new broom by next week, but we'll still start with the clean sweep 7 for bludgers."

"You're kidding. Bludgers!" Hermione complained.

"Well, I wanted you to be the reserve seeker, so if anything happened."

"Harry, You're the best flyer Hogwarts has had. You're not going to get injured," Hermione said.

"I meant with Voldemort."

"Oh," was all Hermione could say in return.

"Do you have any money on you?" Harry asked.

"Just a Galleon, why?"

"I want to get some chocolate frogs from Dobby."

"I'm proud of you for trying to treat house elves right and pay them."

"My mum tried to do what we did last year too, but that's not the only reason I want to help house elves," Harry said.

"Why else?"

"I don't have to tell you if I don't want to," He replied, while tickling the pear and realizing how fast that was. He opened the portrait and stepped in. There were hundreds of house elves in here. "Where's Dobby?" Harry asked.

"Dobby stepped forward. "Harry Potter has come to see Dobby, sir. Dobby is full of joy and happiness," Dobby said, wiping tears from his eyes. (A/N: that's even too emotional for dobby.lol)

"I guess we could talk a while. Could you get us some chocolate frogs and butterbeers."

"Anything for Harry Potter and his miss," Dobby said.

"Dobby, her name is Hermione."

"Yes, Harry Potter, sir," he said.

He came back with the food. They talked for a while until Harry choked on a chocolate frog after looking at the card.

"Harry, are you okay," Hermione said in a panic voice.

Harry swallowed it. "Yeah, I'm fine. I mean, I'm just choking on a chocolate frog. Wanna know why? Take a look at the card."

"Harry that's you, well the card is you but the picture is us."

"You don't say?" Harry said sarcastically. "Thanks dobby."

~*~

Later that night, Harry got a letter from Sirius saying the meeting was cancelled that night and he and Hermione were to sneak out early the next morning to become Animagi. Dumbledore had already authorized it.

Harry, now bored with no meeting, looked though the book he got from Sirius. On page 444, Harry stared at the chapter title in awe. It read "How to make a Marauder's map."

~*~ A/N: quicker wasn't it? Let me know you like it.

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