Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot and 1 character.
It will be kind of slow, as I said before, but bear with me, it will get
better.
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Downstairs Ron, Hermione and Harry were having breakfast and talking to
Neville, Lee and Seamus. Ron and Hermione were whispering in each other's
ear.
"I love you" whispered Ron in Hermione's ear.
"I love you more" she replied. Then Ron grabbed a strawberry from his plate
and gave a bite of it to Hermione, then he ate the rest.
Hermione said "I gonna kiss you," then Ron said "I'll kiss you first." Then
Harry said "But, I'LL puke first! We're eating right now, could you do that
later? While we're not around?"
"Oh, sorry, I sorta forgot you guys were there" replied Ron.
"I'm sorry you guys, I forget that you're there too" said Hermione,
blushing.
"Well, don't let it happen again, and finish your breakfast!" commanded
Harry, jokingly. Neville, Lee and Seamus were laughing. Then they all saw
Draco and Elena come into the Great Hall, holding hands and talking.
"Hey Elena!" yelled Hermione. She was happy to see her, Ron was, as always,
astonished by her beauty, Harry felt wretched because he felt really
attached to Elena, and Neville, Lee and Seamus still thought Elena was
beautiful. Elena heard Hermione and went over to the gryffindor table to
talk to her, still holding Draco's hand.
"Come on, let's go by Hermione and them."
"I told you, you can't sit wherever you want, you have to sit at your
table" said Draco.
"I'm not going to sit down, I'm just going to say hi, calm down."
When she got near Hermione she said "Hey Hemione, how have you been? Ron?
Harry?"
"Hey, I'm fine, you?" responded Hermione, then Ron said "Hello Elena" and
finally Harry said "Hello Elena, you look beautiful this morning."
When Draco heard that he slammed his fists on the table and turning to
Harry he said "What did I tell you about flirting with my girlfriend,
Potter?"
Everyone turned to look at what was going on then Harry said "I can
compliment her even if she is your girlfriend. I can talk to her whenever I
want, whether you like it, or not!" yelled Harry while getting to his feet
and facing directly at Draco.
"Not while she's with me!" yelled Draco, and then he pushed Harry.
Harry pushed him back and after he did so, Draco punched Harry in his
stomach. Harry threw Draco on the floor and they started hitting each
other.
"Harry, Draco, stop it, NOW!" yelled Elena, but they wouldn't listen.
Everyone was yelling excitedly while Ron, Hermione and Elena were trying to
break up the fight.
Then, hearing all the commotion professor Dumbledore got up and said loudly
"Mr. Malfoy, Mr. Potter, will you please, stop this commotion immediately
and report to your common rooms. Everyone else, please continue to business
as usual." And with that everyone returned to eating their breakfasts,
Elena said goodbye to Hermione and Ron and walked over to the slytherin
table to sit with Millicent, and Draco and Harry left for their common
rooms, like they were told to.
When Harry got to the gryffindor common room, professor McGonagall was
waiting there for him.
"Hello professor" he said.
"Mr. Potter, what happened down there? What made you act in so immaturely?"
asked McGonagall.
"I'm sorry for what I did down there" he apologized.
"Well, can you explain to me what happened so I can come up with an
appropriate punishment for you, because we both know that such behavior
cannot go unnoticed."
"Yes professor. What happened was Elena came over to our table to say
hello, and I said hello back, and complimented her, then Malfoy got angry
for some reason and started yelling and punching me, and I was just trying
to defend myself."
"Yes, well, I suppose Mr. Malfoy had a reason for getting so angry, but
that is no justification as for what you did. You know that fighting is
against school rules and could get you expelled, you should have known
better."
"I'm sorry professor" answered Harry.
"Yes, well, is that all that happened?" she asked.
"Yes, that's all professor" he answered.
"Very well, you may go downstairs, I will tell you your punishment while
you are in my class, and consider yourself lucky if you don't get
expelled."
"Yes, thank you professor" he said, and he went back to the Great Hall and
ate the rest of his breakfast in silence.
Meanwhile, Draco went downstairs to his common room, like he was supposed
to, and when he got there he found his head of house waiting for him.
"Good morning professor" Draco said.
"I don't find anything good about this particular morning, and do you know
why?" asked Snape.
Draco was getting nervous and he said "Because of what happened downstairs
between me and Potter?"
"Exactly. What happened down there, Draco? You are one of our finest
students, you are a role model to most slytherins, you can't go around
picking fights, especially now, that the school year has merely begun. Tell
me, what happened?"
"Well, Elena and I went downstairs to have our breakfast, and she went over
to say good morning to some people. I went with her and all of a sudden,
Potter started flirting with her, in front of me! I told him calmly that
she was going out with me, and he just ignored it completely and he almost
kissed her. That's when I yelled for him to stop flirting with her, and he
attacked me. That's what happened."
"Draco, I'm surprised at you. You know that you can get expelled for that
don't you?" asked Snape.
"Yes professor, and I am truly sorry, it will never happen again."
"Yes, well, I am forced to give you a punishment, so I will have to take 5
points from slytherin and you will get detention for 2 weeks cleaning the
dungeons after classes."
"Yes, professor."
"Now, go upstairs and finish eating your breakfast, I'll see you in my
class" said Snape.
"Yes, professor" responded Draco and went up to finish his breakfast with
Elena.
After breakfast ended, they went to their first class of the day. The
students were still talking about that morning's incident. When Elena
arrived, she sat next to Harry and just before class began she said "I'm
sorry for what happened this morning."
"Don't worry, I know how Malfoy is, and it wasn't your fault" Harry
answered.
"But still, I want to apologise. He's not usually like that, but I guess
he's just, a bit, overprotective."
"Elena listen, I have to confess something. I really like you. Since the
first time we talked I felt a connection between us and I was going to ask
you out, but just as I was going to, I found out you were going out with
Malfoy, and I didn't have the chance to. I just thought that you should
know that."
"Look, Harry, I really like you too, but not in that way. I'm with Draco
now, and I'm in love with him. You're a really good friend to me, but just
a friend. I'm sorry, but that's how I feel" she said. Just then McGonagall
walked into the classroom and everyone settled down.
"Good morning class, today we will be reading in pairs and the with your
partner, you will be converting some silver into gold, and then back into
silver. It is a version of alchemy, so it is very tricky and will require
much concentration. Both you and your partner will do it at least once and
then will take notes on how you did. I will not do an example first because
I need to see how you would do without me, but I will help whoever needs
help. Now turn to page 25 and begin your reading." She then turned to Harry
and said "Mr. Potter, will you please step up to my desk." Harry told Elena
to begin reading without him and then walked up to professor McGonagall's
desk.
When he got there she said "I have thought this through and talked to
professor Snape about what his punishment was to Mr. Malfoy. You will have
to serve detention for 2 weeks helping Hagrid with whatever he says, and 20
points will be taken from gryffindor. Now, go help Miss Romero with the
assigment."
"Yes professor" he said and went back to sit with Elena.
"What happened?" she asked when he got back.
"I got my punishment for this morning" he said.
"And??" she asked.
"2 weeks detention and 20 points from gryffindor."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't worry, it's not your fault" said Harry, then, trying to change the
subject he said
"Well, what does it say that we should do?"
"It says that you need to concentrate really hard and think of the silver
turning into gold then say 'argentum ad aurum' and then to turn it back
into silver just concentrate and think of the gold truning into silver and
say 'amoliri argentum', if you want to, I could do it first, then you can"
Elena said.
"Sure, I need to relax a bit, so I can concentrate better."
Then Elena closed her eyes, then pointed her wand to the silver, and after
about 1 minute she said "argentum ad aurum" then Harry saw the small piece
of silver change it's color to gold. Elena opened her eyes and saw the
small piece of gold and said "Wow! I did it! I can't believe I did it! ok,
now let me turn it back." Elena closed her eyes, she pointed her wand to
the gold, and after a minute she said "amoliri argentum" and Harry saw the
small piece of gold change it's color again, this time to silver. Elena
opened her eyes again, saw it and said "Ah! I did it!"
"Congratulations! Now let me try it." Harry repeated what Elena did and
succeeded also. They were the first pair done, then Draco and Crabbe
finished. Harry was surprised Crabbe did it that fast, being as stupid as
he is. Everyone started finishing, the last couple to finish was Hermione
and Ron, for some reason Ron wasn't able to turn the silver into gold.
Everyone was now looking at Ron and he was beginning to sweat. Five minutes
before the class ended professor McGonagall said to Ron "Mr. Weasley, five
minutes remain and I don't believe you will be able to turn it into gold.
Don't worry, not everyone can perform alchemy, I did say it would be
difficult and tricky. Everyone clean up, the next class will be needing
this material."
Then Draco said "It seems like poor people can't turn things to gold, too
bad, it would help them out. I don't need to worry, but it seemes like
Weasley over there does."
Most slytherins laughed at this comment and Ron turned red, McGonagall
wasn't able to hear the comment.
Harry said "Malfoy, why don't you do us all a favor and shut up, we don't
need your stupid little comments to annoy us, we get annoyed enough just by
looking at your face." Draco was going to say something, but they were
dismissed before he could say anything back.
The rest of the day was just like that, little fights would begin between
Harry and Draco, but ended without getting into anything serious. After
classes both Draco and Harry served their detentions and had something to
eat before they did their homework. Harry talked to Ron about what was
going on and Draco would talk to Elena. Later that day, they learned the
quidditch game schedule.
It read:
1st match- Hufflepuff vs. Gryffindor, 2nd match- Ravenclaw vs. Slytherin,
3rd match- Hufflepuff vs. Ravenclaw, 4th match- Slytherin vs. Gryffindor
_________ More dates soon to follow.
"It looks like we get to play the first game, against hufflepuff" said Ron.
Hermione said "I don't know how you can play that, it looks so violent! Not
to mention dangerous and painful!"
"That's what so great about it! The danger, the violence, THE PAIN!"
responded Harry, jokingly.
"You should know about pain" said Ron remembering Harry's quidditch
incidents.
His broom was cursed his first year, his second year a bludger was charmed
to follow him around, his third year he had fallen 50 feet from his broom,
while flying, his fourth year, thankfully, there had been no quidditch
season, but his fifth year he had been banned from playing quidditch.
"Well, it's for the love of the game" Harry responded laughing.
"So, captain, when are we going to practice?" asked Ron.
"I'll have to get permission from Professor McGonagall, but hopefully some
time either this or next week, so be ready, but don't worry, we'll beat
them" responded Harry.
The date for the first game was set for September 18. They had two weeks to
get ready. The next week, the gryffindor quidditch team got around to
practicing, three times, and the other two days, the slytherin qudditch
team practiced also, they too had to get ready, they were in the second
match. Finally, the day of the match came and the gryffindor team was as
ready as ever. Both teams walked onto the field, Harry and Ron both saw the
crowd, they both immediately identified Hermione, Ron send her a kiss, he
send her one back. Harry, meanwhile was looking for Elena, when he found
her, he saw Draco next to her. They were holding hands, then he saw hm
whisper something into her ear, she giggled and then he gave her a kiss on
the lips. Harry got very jealous and angry, and when he flew into the air,
for the iniciation of the match, he was angry as ever. Then they heard the
whistle blow and saw the quaffle fly up. Both teams went flying toward it.
Harry was looking for the golden snitch, but was still watching the game.
Hufflepuff was leading 40-30, but what decided who won the game, most of
the time, was the capturing of the snitch. Harry was watching Ron hit a
bludger when he saw a tiny spark in the sky. He saw it a bit more focused
and saw that it was, indeed the snitch. He went zooming towards it and saw
the other seeker follow him. Harry went as fast as he could and he
stretched out his hand towards the snitch. He felt it on his fingertips, so
he stretched out a bit more, and once he had it in his hand completely, he
squeezed as hard as he could. He heard the whistle blow, but was still as
angry as could be because of Draco, then he heard that they had won, and
once he heard this he realized what he had done.
He had broken the golden snitch! Madame Hootch went up to him and asked
"What happened?"
"I'm sorry professor, I just grabbed it and it broke" said Harry.
"Are you sure that's what happened? You didn't squeeze too hard, did you?"
Harry knew he had, but he didn't want to admit it, "No, I just grabbed it
as usual and it just broke."
"Very well then, you can go now." And Harry hurried to catch up to Ron.
They went to talk to Hermione, she congratulated them, then they left for
the showers.
It will be kind of slow, as I said before, but bear with me, it will get
better.
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Downstairs Ron, Hermione and Harry were having breakfast and talking to
Neville, Lee and Seamus. Ron and Hermione were whispering in each other's
ear.
"I love you" whispered Ron in Hermione's ear.
"I love you more" she replied. Then Ron grabbed a strawberry from his plate
and gave a bite of it to Hermione, then he ate the rest.
Hermione said "I gonna kiss you," then Ron said "I'll kiss you first." Then
Harry said "But, I'LL puke first! We're eating right now, could you do that
later? While we're not around?"
"Oh, sorry, I sorta forgot you guys were there" replied Ron.
"I'm sorry you guys, I forget that you're there too" said Hermione,
blushing.
"Well, don't let it happen again, and finish your breakfast!" commanded
Harry, jokingly. Neville, Lee and Seamus were laughing. Then they all saw
Draco and Elena come into the Great Hall, holding hands and talking.
"Hey Elena!" yelled Hermione. She was happy to see her, Ron was, as always,
astonished by her beauty, Harry felt wretched because he felt really
attached to Elena, and Neville, Lee and Seamus still thought Elena was
beautiful. Elena heard Hermione and went over to the gryffindor table to
talk to her, still holding Draco's hand.
"Come on, let's go by Hermione and them."
"I told you, you can't sit wherever you want, you have to sit at your
table" said Draco.
"I'm not going to sit down, I'm just going to say hi, calm down."
When she got near Hermione she said "Hey Hemione, how have you been? Ron?
Harry?"
"Hey, I'm fine, you?" responded Hermione, then Ron said "Hello Elena" and
finally Harry said "Hello Elena, you look beautiful this morning."
When Draco heard that he slammed his fists on the table and turning to
Harry he said "What did I tell you about flirting with my girlfriend,
Potter?"
Everyone turned to look at what was going on then Harry said "I can
compliment her even if she is your girlfriend. I can talk to her whenever I
want, whether you like it, or not!" yelled Harry while getting to his feet
and facing directly at Draco.
"Not while she's with me!" yelled Draco, and then he pushed Harry.
Harry pushed him back and after he did so, Draco punched Harry in his
stomach. Harry threw Draco on the floor and they started hitting each
other.
"Harry, Draco, stop it, NOW!" yelled Elena, but they wouldn't listen.
Everyone was yelling excitedly while Ron, Hermione and Elena were trying to
break up the fight.
Then, hearing all the commotion professor Dumbledore got up and said loudly
"Mr. Malfoy, Mr. Potter, will you please, stop this commotion immediately
and report to your common rooms. Everyone else, please continue to business
as usual." And with that everyone returned to eating their breakfasts,
Elena said goodbye to Hermione and Ron and walked over to the slytherin
table to sit with Millicent, and Draco and Harry left for their common
rooms, like they were told to.
When Harry got to the gryffindor common room, professor McGonagall was
waiting there for him.
"Hello professor" he said.
"Mr. Potter, what happened down there? What made you act in so immaturely?"
asked McGonagall.
"I'm sorry for what I did down there" he apologized.
"Well, can you explain to me what happened so I can come up with an
appropriate punishment for you, because we both know that such behavior
cannot go unnoticed."
"Yes professor. What happened was Elena came over to our table to say
hello, and I said hello back, and complimented her, then Malfoy got angry
for some reason and started yelling and punching me, and I was just trying
to defend myself."
"Yes, well, I suppose Mr. Malfoy had a reason for getting so angry, but
that is no justification as for what you did. You know that fighting is
against school rules and could get you expelled, you should have known
better."
"I'm sorry professor" answered Harry.
"Yes, well, is that all that happened?" she asked.
"Yes, that's all professor" he answered.
"Very well, you may go downstairs, I will tell you your punishment while
you are in my class, and consider yourself lucky if you don't get
expelled."
"Yes, thank you professor" he said, and he went back to the Great Hall and
ate the rest of his breakfast in silence.
Meanwhile, Draco went downstairs to his common room, like he was supposed
to, and when he got there he found his head of house waiting for him.
"Good morning professor" Draco said.
"I don't find anything good about this particular morning, and do you know
why?" asked Snape.
Draco was getting nervous and he said "Because of what happened downstairs
between me and Potter?"
"Exactly. What happened down there, Draco? You are one of our finest
students, you are a role model to most slytherins, you can't go around
picking fights, especially now, that the school year has merely begun. Tell
me, what happened?"
"Well, Elena and I went downstairs to have our breakfast, and she went over
to say good morning to some people. I went with her and all of a sudden,
Potter started flirting with her, in front of me! I told him calmly that
she was going out with me, and he just ignored it completely and he almost
kissed her. That's when I yelled for him to stop flirting with her, and he
attacked me. That's what happened."
"Draco, I'm surprised at you. You know that you can get expelled for that
don't you?" asked Snape.
"Yes professor, and I am truly sorry, it will never happen again."
"Yes, well, I am forced to give you a punishment, so I will have to take 5
points from slytherin and you will get detention for 2 weeks cleaning the
dungeons after classes."
"Yes, professor."
"Now, go upstairs and finish eating your breakfast, I'll see you in my
class" said Snape.
"Yes, professor" responded Draco and went up to finish his breakfast with
Elena.
After breakfast ended, they went to their first class of the day. The
students were still talking about that morning's incident. When Elena
arrived, she sat next to Harry and just before class began she said "I'm
sorry for what happened this morning."
"Don't worry, I know how Malfoy is, and it wasn't your fault" Harry
answered.
"But still, I want to apologise. He's not usually like that, but I guess
he's just, a bit, overprotective."
"Elena listen, I have to confess something. I really like you. Since the
first time we talked I felt a connection between us and I was going to ask
you out, but just as I was going to, I found out you were going out with
Malfoy, and I didn't have the chance to. I just thought that you should
know that."
"Look, Harry, I really like you too, but not in that way. I'm with Draco
now, and I'm in love with him. You're a really good friend to me, but just
a friend. I'm sorry, but that's how I feel" she said. Just then McGonagall
walked into the classroom and everyone settled down.
"Good morning class, today we will be reading in pairs and the with your
partner, you will be converting some silver into gold, and then back into
silver. It is a version of alchemy, so it is very tricky and will require
much concentration. Both you and your partner will do it at least once and
then will take notes on how you did. I will not do an example first because
I need to see how you would do without me, but I will help whoever needs
help. Now turn to page 25 and begin your reading." She then turned to Harry
and said "Mr. Potter, will you please step up to my desk." Harry told Elena
to begin reading without him and then walked up to professor McGonagall's
desk.
When he got there she said "I have thought this through and talked to
professor Snape about what his punishment was to Mr. Malfoy. You will have
to serve detention for 2 weeks helping Hagrid with whatever he says, and 20
points will be taken from gryffindor. Now, go help Miss Romero with the
assigment."
"Yes professor" he said and went back to sit with Elena.
"What happened?" she asked when he got back.
"I got my punishment for this morning" he said.
"And??" she asked.
"2 weeks detention and 20 points from gryffindor."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't worry, it's not your fault" said Harry, then, trying to change the
subject he said
"Well, what does it say that we should do?"
"It says that you need to concentrate really hard and think of the silver
turning into gold then say 'argentum ad aurum' and then to turn it back
into silver just concentrate and think of the gold truning into silver and
say 'amoliri argentum', if you want to, I could do it first, then you can"
Elena said.
"Sure, I need to relax a bit, so I can concentrate better."
Then Elena closed her eyes, then pointed her wand to the silver, and after
about 1 minute she said "argentum ad aurum" then Harry saw the small piece
of silver change it's color to gold. Elena opened her eyes and saw the
small piece of gold and said "Wow! I did it! I can't believe I did it! ok,
now let me turn it back." Elena closed her eyes, she pointed her wand to
the gold, and after a minute she said "amoliri argentum" and Harry saw the
small piece of gold change it's color again, this time to silver. Elena
opened her eyes again, saw it and said "Ah! I did it!"
"Congratulations! Now let me try it." Harry repeated what Elena did and
succeeded also. They were the first pair done, then Draco and Crabbe
finished. Harry was surprised Crabbe did it that fast, being as stupid as
he is. Everyone started finishing, the last couple to finish was Hermione
and Ron, for some reason Ron wasn't able to turn the silver into gold.
Everyone was now looking at Ron and he was beginning to sweat. Five minutes
before the class ended professor McGonagall said to Ron "Mr. Weasley, five
minutes remain and I don't believe you will be able to turn it into gold.
Don't worry, not everyone can perform alchemy, I did say it would be
difficult and tricky. Everyone clean up, the next class will be needing
this material."
Then Draco said "It seems like poor people can't turn things to gold, too
bad, it would help them out. I don't need to worry, but it seemes like
Weasley over there does."
Most slytherins laughed at this comment and Ron turned red, McGonagall
wasn't able to hear the comment.
Harry said "Malfoy, why don't you do us all a favor and shut up, we don't
need your stupid little comments to annoy us, we get annoyed enough just by
looking at your face." Draco was going to say something, but they were
dismissed before he could say anything back.
The rest of the day was just like that, little fights would begin between
Harry and Draco, but ended without getting into anything serious. After
classes both Draco and Harry served their detentions and had something to
eat before they did their homework. Harry talked to Ron about what was
going on and Draco would talk to Elena. Later that day, they learned the
quidditch game schedule.
It read:
1st match- Hufflepuff vs. Gryffindor, 2nd match- Ravenclaw vs. Slytherin,
3rd match- Hufflepuff vs. Ravenclaw, 4th match- Slytherin vs. Gryffindor
_________ More dates soon to follow.
"It looks like we get to play the first game, against hufflepuff" said Ron.
Hermione said "I don't know how you can play that, it looks so violent! Not
to mention dangerous and painful!"
"That's what so great about it! The danger, the violence, THE PAIN!"
responded Harry, jokingly.
"You should know about pain" said Ron remembering Harry's quidditch
incidents.
His broom was cursed his first year, his second year a bludger was charmed
to follow him around, his third year he had fallen 50 feet from his broom,
while flying, his fourth year, thankfully, there had been no quidditch
season, but his fifth year he had been banned from playing quidditch.
"Well, it's for the love of the game" Harry responded laughing.
"So, captain, when are we going to practice?" asked Ron.
"I'll have to get permission from Professor McGonagall, but hopefully some
time either this or next week, so be ready, but don't worry, we'll beat
them" responded Harry.
The date for the first game was set for September 18. They had two weeks to
get ready. The next week, the gryffindor quidditch team got around to
practicing, three times, and the other two days, the slytherin qudditch
team practiced also, they too had to get ready, they were in the second
match. Finally, the day of the match came and the gryffindor team was as
ready as ever. Both teams walked onto the field, Harry and Ron both saw the
crowd, they both immediately identified Hermione, Ron send her a kiss, he
send her one back. Harry, meanwhile was looking for Elena, when he found
her, he saw Draco next to her. They were holding hands, then he saw hm
whisper something into her ear, she giggled and then he gave her a kiss on
the lips. Harry got very jealous and angry, and when he flew into the air,
for the iniciation of the match, he was angry as ever. Then they heard the
whistle blow and saw the quaffle fly up. Both teams went flying toward it.
Harry was looking for the golden snitch, but was still watching the game.
Hufflepuff was leading 40-30, but what decided who won the game, most of
the time, was the capturing of the snitch. Harry was watching Ron hit a
bludger when he saw a tiny spark in the sky. He saw it a bit more focused
and saw that it was, indeed the snitch. He went zooming towards it and saw
the other seeker follow him. Harry went as fast as he could and he
stretched out his hand towards the snitch. He felt it on his fingertips, so
he stretched out a bit more, and once he had it in his hand completely, he
squeezed as hard as he could. He heard the whistle blow, but was still as
angry as could be because of Draco, then he heard that they had won, and
once he heard this he realized what he had done.
He had broken the golden snitch! Madame Hootch went up to him and asked
"What happened?"
"I'm sorry professor, I just grabbed it and it broke" said Harry.
"Are you sure that's what happened? You didn't squeeze too hard, did you?"
Harry knew he had, but he didn't want to admit it, "No, I just grabbed it
as usual and it just broke."
"Very well then, you can go now." And Harry hurried to catch up to Ron.
They went to talk to Hermione, she congratulated them, then they left for
the showers.