Harry Potter & The Messenger's betrayal
By: Rachelfan5000
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, I own…uh…well…I hope to own my own laptop soon, (but probably won't)
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Watching: Nickelodeon (Saved by the bell)
Listening to: Misfit - Amy Studt
Quote: "You are the light in me, hold me tight and set me free, you always let me know, hold me tight and Don't let go," - David Sneddon
Chapter 14 - Match against Ravenclaw
In the next few days Harry had little time to think about anything other than Quidditch, Harry had indeed done a Wood and made the team practise Quidditch nearly everyday in the week. The match against Ravenclaw was coming up now, Hermione had taken up the job of continuously pestering Roxie telling her the figure couldn't have apparated, at first Roxie stuck out her tongue and said something like, "You're just jealous!" Leaving Hermione wondering what she was jealous of, or so she told Harry and Ron. The second time Roxie had stuck out her tongue in a mean way before finding her friends, the third time Roxie had said something very rude that began with the letter 'F'.
The rude and lying Roxie was the last thing on Harry's mind though, he had learned that attacks in the Outside World were becoming much more frequent, and soon, he feared, Voldemort with have a new ally, The Dementors seemed incredibly keen to join him. The Quidditch match also kept jerking in the back of his mind too, he'd have to face Cho, which seemed unbearable, and he still blamed himself for what happened with Cedric. And of course, keeping his and Ginny's relationship secret was increasingly difficult, especially when he just wanted to be with her after tiring Quidditch practises.
Ginny had proved to be a spectacular keeper, she could save some goals that seemed impossible for such a small girl. Of course, Fred and George were teasing her at every opportunity, Ginny, who was used to this, could easily shrug it off.
"Looking forward to the match tomorrow?" Ginny asked, one night after practise.
"You bet," Harry smiled, Ginny grinned back happily. The two of them kind of stopped talking til they reached the Common Room, where they each said goodbye and Ginny ran off to find Rachel and Franscesca. Harry however, found Ron and Hermione in the corner of the room hissing at each other, but they stopped as soon as they saw Harry.
"What's Roxie done now?" Harry asked expectantly. Hermione just shrugged.
"Nothing, recently," Hermione replied, "You don't think I've ruined my chances of getting her to join S.P.E.W, do you?"
"Spew," muttered Ron. Hermione slapped him playfully. Harry sniggered.
"I think she's more likely to say sorry," Harry said, Hermione shrugged again.
"She's been bullying some of the other first years today into spew," Ron said, looking at a bunch of first year girls wearing badges with S.PE.W written proudly on their robes. A few of the first year boys looked heartily embarrassed by the badges and were trying to hide them up from view.
"I have ten new members," Hermione said smugly, Ron suddenly changed the subject.
"Shouldn't you be getting to bed Harry? Quidditch tomorrow,"
"Oh yeah," Harry replied, Harry had the distinct impression Ron and Hermione wanted to get rid of him.
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"Ready, Harry?" Ginny asked the following morning, Harry, being hardly able to sleep because of being torn between excitement and worry over oversleeping, he'd come down for an early breakfast to find Ginny, Katie, Alicia and Angelina all sitting at the Gryffindor table not touching any food before them. Harry suspected Fred and George could sleep well whatever was happening the next day, Harry envied them.
"Remember, catch the snitch," she said.
"You know, I've been playing seeker longer than you've been playing keeper, I know what I do," Harry replied, not eating anything though he felt extremely hungry. He bugged the rest of the team to eat more, but Ginny made up the lame excuse of eating before Harry had came down and Alicia, Angelina and Katie giggled something about a supermodel diet.
A few hours later the whole of Hogwarts seemed to be outside in the crowds in the Quidditch stadium, Harry felt his insides turn to nothing.
It hit him a moment later that he was the Gryffindor Quidditch captain and since Roger Davies had left Hogwarts last year the Ravenclaw team needed a new captain. And that captain would probably be Cho, since she was one of the best Quidditch players in the school.
"You look like you've died, Harry," somebody said, Harry snapped to his senses and began the speech he'd spent his time, while he was lying awake the previous night making up.
"Right, team, I'm not going to bore you with Oliver's usual speech," Harry began. Katie, Alicia and Angelina cheered.
"Mainly because I can't remember what it is," Harry continued, the rest of the team sniggered.
"But we have the best team, sure, we might've lost Wood, but we've got Ginny now, " Ginny blushed bright red, "and we've got three amazing chasers, two incredible beaters, and…uh…"
"You," Fred Weasley said.
"Precisely," Harry said, "definitely the best team in the school."
Harry led the team out of the changing room, noticing Ginny was looking very nervous and skulking around the back.
"You'll do fine, Ginny," Harry yelled, Ginny blushed and smiled.
The crowd erupted with huge cheers when they entered the stadium. Harry distinctively heard a boy yelling:
"That's the team I'm gonna make next year!"
Madam Hooch was refereeing, as usual, she took no time mentioning she wanted no dirty work and too many fouls, there was no real need, only when it was Gryffindor versus Slytherin were there real fouls.
"Potter, Chang, shake hands," Madam Hooch barked, Harry and Cho stepped forward, and shook hands, Harry noticed she was looking away.
"On my whistle, 1-2-3," And with a loud whistle from Madam Hooch the teams were off the ground, Harry rose high above the ground and noticed Cho slightly following him, which had worked for her once before.
"And they're off! Spinnet takes the Quaffle immediately, passes to…no, intercepted by Ravenclaw chaser Kieran Dunst, passes to - no intercepted by Spinnet - tackled by Dunst - Are those two the only ones playing?! - Probably has something to do with the big fight that ended their relationship last month -" Lee Jordan was, as usual doing the commentary, and, as usual, adding extra information not even about the match.
"Jordan, back to the game," Professor McGonagall said warningly.
"Yes, Professor, aahh, Angelina Johnson finally grabs the Quaffle! Go Angelina - just through that hoop! SHE SCORES! Ten - zero to Gryffindor."
Harry looked around for the snitch, now was as a good time as any to catch the snitch, he looked around for a glint of gold but found nothing. Cho seemed to also have seen nothing, she circled the pitch following Harry closely, and blocking him if anything that could possibly be the snitch caught Harry's eye.
"Spectacular save there by Weasley, " Lee Jordan's voice was announcing, Harry looked at Ginny; she seemed tired, but as eager as ever to play Quidditch.
Harry dodged suddenly to avoid a bludger hit at him by a Ravenclaw beater; George Weasley hit the Bludger back towards one of the Ravenclaw chasers.
"'Cor, that's gotta hurt, Katie Bell with Quaffle - can she score? - No, wait, it's time-out for the injury to the Ravenclaw side," Lee Jordan said.
Harry looked down; the Ravenclaw chaser was getting back on his broom, with what looked like a mouth full of blood.
"Back to the game, Bell passes, no intercepted by Dunst, passed to Andrews, he scores! Er…I think that's forty - fifty to Ravenclaw now,"
Harry looked at Ginny and realised why she had failed to save that last shot, she was pointing below him, and to his shock, Harry realised Cho was diving for what seemed like a very small golden ball with wings. Harry zoomed downwards, it was very lucky Harry had a firebolt and Cho a comet, otherwise he might not have been able to catch up with Cho quite so quickly.
"Hello? Weasley? Dunst just scored a goal? Evening up the score to - oh who cares? Never mind, it looks like one of the seekers is about to grab the Snitch anyway," Lee Jordan said.
"Jordan, Commentate properly, please," Professor McGonagall said.
Harry reached for the Snitch, he was faster than Cho, but she was nearer, she grasped it for just a moment but it flew out of her hand, Harry saw his chance, and grabbed the snitch out of the air. However, neither he nor Cho could pull upwards fast enough to stop them hitting rather hard on the ground.
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Harry awoke to a large pair of brown eyes staring at him, which weren't Ginny's. For a moment Harry did not recognise her, although he noticed that Cho was also standing over him, not quite so close.
"Harry! Wake up!" The girl with the brown eyes yelled into his ear, Harry suspected she hadn't been trying to deafen him, but it nearly did.
"I'm awake," Harry said suddenly, getting up on his knees, knocking the girl over. He realised it was Rachel, Ginny's friend. She fidgeted with her pigtails in an embarrassed sort of way.
"Rach, calm down, he's my…. Friend," Harry heard Ginny's voice sounding through a load of other ones.
After what seemed to be eternity, being surrounded by loud voices and a massive crowd, he found Madam Pomfrey was forcing chocolate into his hands and telling him to eat it. Harry didn't really feel like it, but he ate the chocolate reluctantly and was allowed back to the Common Room. Escorted by Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Rachel and Franscesca of course.
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Hi guys. I can't believe how many reviews I got for the last chapter, I was expecting four at the most! Oh well, I love you all!! Hugs and kises to everyone, sorry for the long gap inbetween this chapter I have been writing:
Say goodbye -Harry/Ginny fic. Bit creepy. Finished, partially posted on fanfiction.net
Do it with Cho Chang - I decided on pure humour so this is what I got. Finished.
Memories of the past chapter 4 - I love writing this fic so much! Please review it! Nowhere near finished.
Rachelfan5000
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Hermione 'DB' Granger:
On Chapter 1: I'm 100% english…no I'm not. I'm 50% english, but I've lived in England all my life, I know I write like one, it's because most of my favourite fics are written by americans.
On Chapter 2: No, I don't think Dudley would ever reach normal weight, but I couldn't be stuffed to write all the diet stuff.
On Chapter 3: HERMIONE IS RIGHT!!! * Claps* Woohoo, Roxie is to do with the plot, what, you hopefully won't find out til I write it. But I have been foreshadowing it through all the chapters, but two and two together and you have the plot of this fic. I shouldn't have said that…I shouldn't of said that…
On Chapter 4: Alright he's Snuffles.
On Chapter 5: Nah, Rachel aint me, for a start she's got straight hair unfortunately I don't. I have found very spooky similarities between Rachel and Madrigal, my character in my L/J fics, that I didn't mean to put in.
On chapter 6: Maybe it is Roxiest, but I know a Roxie who's really into studying, or rather, my best friend does.
On chapter 7: Short is beautiful, I agree totally. I'm short too ^_^
On chapter 8: Yeah I understood that and thanks!
On chapter 9: Questions…they wizz around in my head too.
On chapter 10: Yep…Go R/Hr
On chapter 11: I know, it's really sad that we haven't been snogged and book characters have.
On chapter 12: Sorry bout sky-scar thing…oh well…Yeah, Land before times great, Chomper's the best.
On chapter 13: Teehee, sorry. Hope u like this one!
Leia: I apologise that was my beta reader Opal.Star, she always writes that on her fics.
The Huntress and The fairy: THE HUNTRESS RULES!
Eleanor: Thanks for being so cool
X13: I try, I try.
Rhysel Ash: I so agree.
My anscestors are from finland: I already knew that and you are wrong she is up to chapter 24.
