Harry Potter & The Messenger's betrayal
By: Rachelfan5000
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter (Bet you didn't know that! ;)
Chat of Today! : Thanx Hermione DB Granger
Watching: The Box (Again!)
Listening to: bad song by flip'n'fill
Quote: Boys! Why do they cause so many problems?! - Liz, Atomic Kitten.
Chapter 15 - No Hard feelings (Also: No better title!)
The Gryffindor common room exploded with cheers as soon as Harry entered.
"Cheers to the best seeker Gryffindor's seen in so many long years," People were shouting, some where so overwhelmed that Ron and Hermione had to act like bodyguards and shield Harry from overexcited Gryffindors.
Fred and George had, of course, tickled the pear and had taken loads of food. Well not taken, probably just given to them by happy house-elves, which reminded Harry, he still needed to see Dobby sometime in the year.
There was an immense load of noise and partying, one-person in particular was shouting a lot and eating an incredible amount of food. Roxie was grinning broadly and Harry saw it was the first time he'd ever seen her truly happy. This sort of feast, noise and excitement was obviously something Roxie was used to.
Harry went to bed late that night, after the partying was called off by a tired but rather happy looking Professor McGonagall, she also told Hermione off as prefect for not getting the Gryffindors to finish earlier. But Hermione didn't seem to mind, though she was slightly irritated by Ron's teasing.
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Harry slept in the following morning, though when he did finally get up he noticed he was the first one out of bed, he couldn't sleep any more, good for Ron, Seamus, Dean and Neville if they could.
He was one of the only people in the common room too. Probably all blasted from the previous late night. A girl with shocking red hair and a load of freckles walked over to talk to him.
"Rach and Frankie sleep like logs," Ginny said quietly, "I'm usually an early riser, and today is no exception, even after last night."
"Everybody in my dorm is sleeping too, so are you going to breakfast?" Harry asked Ginny. She smiled happily and her face brightened, then she rubbed her eyes.
Harry fastened his hand around Ginny's small, tender hand, wondering if he was holding her too tightly, but she smiled even more. They walked out of the common room together, hand-in-hand.
The first thing Harry noticed as he sat down was Cho Chang sitting at the Gryffindor table with a sixth year boy, conversing in quiet voices. Cho noticed Harry and said what was unmistakably 'later' to the boy and walked over to Harry. Cho must've grown a few inches over the summer because although Harry was still taller than she was, she'd grown was a lot taller than before.
"Hi Harry," she said, and she smiled a smile that would make most guys' hearts break. Harry knew Ginny would be frowning at her from behind him.
"Hi Cho," Harry said awkwardly, not knowing what to say and feeling guilty for catching the Snitch when Cho had been so close.
"Congratulations on the match yesterday," Cho's smile faded a little when she saw Harry's guilty expression, "No hard feelings," she held out her hand for Harry to shake. They shook hands quite quickly and Harry sat back down with Ginny, Cho sat back with the Gryffindor sixth year who put an arm around her and gave Harry a smug glance that said 'she's mine'. Ginny looked mildly angry, but not enough to be mad at Harry, she looked over at Cho Chang jealously. Cho noticed her looking and grinned.
"You were great too, Ginny," Cho yelled across the table. Ginny blushed and the only things she could say back were:
"You too." Cho gave a thumbs up sign and continued talking to the Gryffindor sixth year.
After a quick breakfast and no sign of Ron or Hermione or any of Ginny's friends, Harry took Ginny's hand and began to drag her into the school grounds.
"Where are we going exactly?" She asked with a look torn between pain (Harry was dragging her across the floor) and confusion, "and, um, I can walk without your help."
"Oh, right," Harry let go of Ginny's hand and she examined her wrist, "it's just I've had to drag Ron and Hermione here quite a lot, they don't seem to want to do anything but mess around together…alone." Ginny giggled. "You can go back if you want, but I'm going to visit Hagrid, I've barely seen him all year."
"I'll stay with you, but don't mind me if I get all tongue-tied and lost for words, that's just me, ignore me," Ginny said, tossing her straight red hair.
"I can't ignore you," was Harry's response, Ginny replied by turning scarlet.
The two walked slowly, Ginny pocketing her swollen wrist, towards Hagrid's, Harry knocked on the door as hard as he could, which wasn't extraordinarily loud and Harry wouldn't have been surprised if it wasn't for Fang's barking Hagrid wouldn't have known anyone was at the door.
Hagrid opened the door; he was clearly expecting a much taller person because he looked straight ahead of him before looking down at the short Harry and the even shorter Ginny. He welcomed them in and tried to make a cup of tea for the two.
"Bin with Olympe in the summer, Hogwarts business, yeh heard somethin' abou' it before the end of the las' school year, didn' you Harry?" He said gruffly, as though he was slightly miffed by the fact it was nearly Christmas and Harry hadn't seen him apart from in Care of Magical creatures, where they had been looking at the odd monstrous creature, but not anything like last year's blast-ended skrewts.
"Yeah," Harry said. He looked over at Ginny who was being quiet and sipping her tea politely.
"There's a firs' year who seems to be in'rested in wha' we were doing' course, won' say. We'll jus' say they're safely on our side," Hagrid winked at Harry. "So how're you, Miss Weasley?"
Ginny looked up, and had to look even higher because even though Hagrid was sitting down, he was still very much taller than her.
"I'm fine, how about you Hagrid?" she replied.
"Though' you would've bin able to guess," Hagrid said joyfully, Ginny smiled. "Does anyone wan' one of these? Made them myself!" Hagrid offered a tray of strange looking biscuits; Ginny who hadn't been warned about Hagrid's cooking, took one and ate it happily. Harry also took one, though he inspected it cautiously as though expecting to find a Hippogriff's claw in it somewhere.
Harry decided he better not risk anymore biscuits and he and Ginny said they had to leave, Hagrid bidded them farewell. Because of the distraction, waving back to Hagrid, Ginny didn't realised she'd walked straight into someone. Someone with furiously messy black hair and a knack for telling lies. Someone whose name was Roxie Stevenson.
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Yay! I wrote chapter 15! And guess what, I've already named chapter 16 it's 'Brown eyes that fail to hide the truth' long name, but I like it. Thank you whoever reviewed. Cool people review, I love ya! * Bows down to audience of very few people. *
I'm sorry this took so long. I've been at Cricket classes, Drama classes, Singing classes, Dancing (jazz) classes, and tennis classes. So I've been a busy bunny. Next chapter will be up soon and it features Roxanna doing what she does best…telling lies! Also features a lot of Hermione, and maybe Crookshanks!
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