Harry Potter & The Messenger's betrayal

By: Rachelfan5000

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Chapter 9: Knock to the head

The days had gone by fast enough without incident and soon enough Harry was at his first Quidditch training practise of the year with the rest of the Gryffindor team. A few of the first years had come to watch.

Harry wondered vaguely who would be the new Keeper, as the Gryffindor Keeper; Wood, had left Hogwarts two years ago now.

He greeted his team pals and waited for someone to say something.

"Harry," Said Fred.

"We've been thinking, us and the rest of the team," George continued.

"And we've decided to make you -" Fred was cut off.

"Gryffindor's Quidditch Captain!" Chorused Alicia, Angelina and Katie as if they had rehearsed.

"Precisely." George finished.

"What?" Harry asked as it all hit him rather suddenly. Him? Quiditch Captain? No, that thought hadn't occurred to Harry before.

"Captain Harry!" Laughed Angelina, slapping Harry on the shoulder.

"Whoa! Cool, Harry!" Harry heard Ron's yells from far away, he and Hermione had come to watch, and Harry guessed Ron had heard the last line.

"Whoa guys, thanks, but are you sure?" Harry asked again, not daring to believe it.

"Sure, Harry we talked about it while you were at breakfast," Alicia grinned at Harry.

"So, who's going to be the new Keeper?" Harry asked. Looking up at his teammates.

"Uh, we don't know, Professor McGonagall and Madam Hooch will let us know if they notice anyone." George said.

"If the worst comes to the worst there's always Ronniekins over there," Fred jerked a finger towards Ron and everyone laughed, though Harry secretly thought Ron would be a good addition to the team.

"Can we get started now?" Yelled Katie, looking bored. "We can't waste our practise time talking!"

Everybody mounted their brooms, and after a while of playing Harry noticed the golden snitch flying near Angelina, dodging a bludger which was later hit by George Weasley in the opposite direction, Harry flew as fast as his firebolt could carry him towards the miniature ball.

It yanked itself out of Harry's view and then reappeared some yards further, Harry sighed and followed it as fast as he could.

Harry could hear excited yells from squealing first years as he edged closer to the snitch. The very second Harry grasped the small golden ball a small stone hit him on the head, not that it hurt or anything. But somebody must have had good aim to throw a stone and estimate where he'd be when it hit him.

Grasping the stone in one hand and the snitch in the other, Harry lowered to the ground where the rest of the Gryffindor team where leaving the pitch and Ron and Hermione were waiting for Harry.

"Harry!" Hermione yelled as Harry's feet touched the ground.

"What were you doing dawdling up there?" Ron asked, looking pretty much excited.

"A stone hit me, a big one," Harry opened his hand to let them see, "And why do you look so happy?"

"Er…Nothing." Ron's ears were glowing bright red and Hermione giggled.

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When Harry got back to the common room that day he took the stone out of his pocket, where he'd put it for safekeeping, he noticed then it wasn't a stone, but some kind of metal thing, which probably hurt more than a stone. Harry looked at it, now it seemed obvious this wasn't a stone, it had patterns you couldn't see unless you looked in great detail.

Harry shook it, as he had guessed, there was something inside, hopelessly trying to get into it, Harry tried to prise it open. Harry would have asked Hermione to open it, as she was good with things like that. But Hermione was fighting with Ron for some reason, causing the whole room to stare but after a while everybody diverted their attention back to what they were separately doing.

Harry used the spell that opened locks, though feeling the whatever-it-was wasn't locked. However it turned out that it had been looked as the 'thing' quickly opened itself without hesitation.

Inside was a crumpled bit of paper, Harry opened it up and tried hard to read the untidy mass of writing. But he could only work out the first few words.

Meet me at the Forbidden Forest

Somebody didn't know the meaning of forbidden. Or did they? Harry didn't think the note had been addressed to him personally.

"Hey, you two!" Harry had to yell at Ron and Hermione to get them to hear him.

"What? Harry?" asked Hermione.

"Look at this!" Harry showed them the stony-thing in closer up detail, as well as the crumpled note that had come with it.

"Dunno, Harry, except I've seen that thing before," Ron said, looking at the stony-thing.

"Yeah it's some kind of girl's locket I think." Hermione said, examining it.

"Hey, that's mine!" Ginny ran over from the other side of the common room. She picked up the stone-thing.

"Where'd you find it Harry?" She asked, looking at it closely.

"Hit me in Quidditch practise."

"Oh," Ginny blushed, "Sorry."

"You didn't throw it did you?" Harry asked her.

"Er, no, It disappeared it that night we were all up 'cos we thought there was an attack or something," Ginny looked at the floor and blushed deeper.

"Thanks for finding it," She said quietly.

"Do you know anything about this?" Harry opened the note, Ginny looked confused.

"No idea, Harry, I can't read it for a start," Ginny blushed even deeper, if she could go redder, and she left to join her friends.

"Bye Ginny," Harry said, and although Ginny's face was turned, Harry knew it had gone to it's red maximum.

"Well somebody's meeting somebody at the forbidden forest, and that's forbidden, shouldn't we try and identify the writing or something?" Hermione asked, squinting her eyes on the writing.

"Well somebody with writing like that's gotta be easy to find, I mean, it's worse than mine!" Ron said, looking at it.

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