Chapter 7:
Harry trudged into the cozy Gryffindor common room. He just had his Occlumency lessons with Snape. It somehow became better and Harry's been having lesser nightmares lately. Snape's attitude towards Harry changed a bit which made his life easier for him to cope with
He found Hermione, Ron and Angie seated around the fireplace. Surprisingly, Lishia and Jacky weren't there. Harry chose a place beside Ron, chucked his bag on the floor and started scribbling his charms homework. Just then, the common room door opened and in stormed Jacky and Lishia.
"How can he do this to us!" yelled Lishia, apparently frustrated for she was practically pulling her hair. The four of them stared at her with the same questioning look on their faces. Angie was the first to speak, again.
" Clam down, will you? What happened? Tell us!" She put an arm around Lishia's shoulders to stabalize her emotions. Jacky lifted her hands up and put them down again to help Lishia regulate her breathing but she too was fuming so that was of no real help at all.
"That idiotic, freaking, stupid..." Jacky's sentence was cut off abruptly by a loud "beep!" from Angie.
"You can skip all those wonderful descriptive words of yours and come straight to the main point Jacky!" Angie commented, blinking at Jacky.
"Ah!!! That stinking filthy Malfoy!" Lishia burst out.
"Draco? What did he do?" Angie questioned, surprised. By this time, Jacky had already cooled down to the normal nice temper of hers. She continued.
"Why don't I start from the beginning? Right. Today, Lishia and I were supposed to do our detention with Snape."
"But I thought that your detention with him was long over?" Hermione asked.
"Oh! They received a note that night from Snape about doing detention tonight instead as he was 'unavailable' that night. It was sent directly to our dormitory. Really don't know what he's up to." Angle explained.
"Oh. Don't mention it! I totally hate him!" Jacky rolled her eyes.
"Wait! Who's the 'he' you're talking about this time?" Ron asked.
"Who else but Draco Malfoy? That git! Our detentions won't be half as bad if he hadn't appeared to spoil our day. Snape made us brew some really weird potion for him that's really complicated." Jacky said.
"What potion, what potion?" Angie asked, jumping suddenly out of her chair and looking expectantly at Jacky waiting for a good answer.
"Um. I forgot" Jacky said, trying hard to remember. Angie sunk back into her chair sulking and murmering something under her breath. Lishia cast her a desperate stare and continued Jacky's explanations.
"When we were done, we came back. On our way here, we met that irritating Malfoy. He cursed us while we were chatting."
Jacky took over and said,
"While we were about to curse him as well, guess who came? Snape! And that slimy Malfoy complained about us cursing him and acted as if he was in great pain. So, in the end, Snape took off another twenty points from Gryffindor." Jacky ended and slumped down onto the armchair.
The first hogsmeade weekend was about to arrive. The weather was getting colder by the day, and harry mostly stayed indoors except for his quidditch practices. They were making steady progress, and harry was quite confident that they would win the quidditch cup that year. At least, not until he heard the news.
It was after quidditch practice, and harry with the rest of his team mates we drying up and changing back into their normal robes, when geneve, a third year griffindor came running in. she looked particularly aggravated. Her eyes were wide open and she looked as if the sky had just fallen down. But harry knew her exaggerated ways, and calmly asked what was wrong as jacky ran over to her.
Geneve hyperventilated. While everyone looked concerned.
Finally, geneve drew a deep a breath. By then harry was fully dressed and was ready to leave.
"I just saw Adrian, Jason and kal," she drew another breath," as players for the Ravenclaw team."
Harry had forgotten about them. He had underestimated the other teams. What was he to do now? Harry tried to compose himself.
"geneve, " he said, trying not to look worried, " what positions are they in?"
"im not sure. I only saw them walking into the pitch together in the ravenclaw quidditch robes."
"thank you."
Geneve ran away.
Harry directed himself to lishia. "are they good?"
"my kor is. Im not sure about."
"what."
"my kor." Said lishia a little exasperated, " older brother."
Ron cut in. "you're related? I thought you had different surnames!"
Lihsia, seeing that they would need time to absorb this, sat down. Everone followed suit, staring intently at her. Jacky, however, already seemed to know, and she stood by the door, tapping her feet and waiting.
"I don't have older siblings at all," began lishia. " so I decided to adopt some. No its not official. " she said, referring to harry's inquiring look," but they do treat me like a real younger sister. Adrian is my only older brother. I have four jies, or older sisters." She sighed. "too few."
harry took a while to absorb that. The ways of asians he still did not understand.
"how about kal and jason?"
angie answered that. "very good. In fact, I think better than any of-"
lishia said it with her. "us".
There was a general sigh from the players. Harry made a decision. "we will train twice as hard against.."
Harry had just realised. He was going to play against cho. He changed his sentence midway.
"Against ch-them".
Everyone nodded in agreement. Slowly, they trudged up into their common room.
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harry started on his herbology homework. An essay on the much cultivated muggle aloe vera plant.
Then, suddenly, ron said," hermione, can you come over here for a moment?"
Hermione seemed to hesitate, before pushing her chair back, and walking over to Ron. Harry watched, amused, as they conversed in low voices. After a while, they broke off, and both seemed pleased. Ginny asked the question on his mind.
"what are you people doing?"
but harry noticed a pronounced smile on jacky's face. He looked at her enquiringly.
"I think," said jacky slowly, choosing her words carefully," that harry will be alone in his trip to hogsmeade tomorrow."
Ginny seemed to have caught on. "of course, everyone seems to have a partner." She gave hermione a significant look.
Harry finally understood. Ron had just asked hermione out. He grinned. "hey ron, so what are you planning to do together tomorrow?" there was a hint of cheekiness in his voice.
Ron blushed scarlet and hermione immediately went back to doing her muggle studies homework, scribbling furiously. Lishia was eyeing them in mild apprehension. Angie looked particularly playful.
"yeah," she prodded, " what?"
ron was so red it was had to tell which was redder. Him, or the tomato that ginny was examining. "err.n..nothing..i."
harry smiled encouragingly." Don't worry. I know it'll go out fine."
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it was only the next morning when, harry, ginny, ,ron, hermione and the three asians were walking down the corridor to check out of the school, that harry realised the full impact of jacky's words. He was going to be alone on his hogsmeade trip. Alone.
He tried to think of whom he could go with as the others exchanged gleeful chatters. Ron and hermione were going out togther and he did not want to play gooseberry. His thoughts turned to ginny. Ginny? No way, she was going out with dennis creevy. He automatically thought of lishia. Nope. Not her. She was going out with, harry smiled painfully to himself, fred. Jacky was going out with george. That left angie. Angie? Doesn't really suit me, Harry thought sadly.
The sound of lishia's voice broke his thoughts.
"I want to grow my hair. " she said childishly, " as long as that girl's." she pointed." Whats her name?"
harry followed her finger. She was pointing at cho. Hermione answered. " cho chang."
"she's chinese too?" angie asked. Hermione nodded.
Harry suddenly wondered why he had not thought of cho. But before he could make up his mind whether to go up to her or not, adrian appeared. Cho smiled at him and the held hands walking together.
Harry's heart sank.
He tried to distract himself. Lishia was pointing her finger at jacky, teasing her. She was repeating the name "cho". Jacky was protesting profusely.
They turned a corner, and harry spotted filch ticking people of the list in the queue. All of them lined up. Harry could not help looking at cho and adrian holding hands two places in front.
Suddenly, his and cho's eyes met for a moment. They laughter died from cho's eyes, and they stared at each other. They both looked away at the same time.
This, said harry to himself, is going to be the most unenjoyable hogsmeade lesson he ever had. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- harry roamed the hogsmeade streets alone, peering into every shop window mournfully. Finally, he decided that he was tired, and sat down at the three broomsticks for a butterbeer.
Somehow, it didn't taste right to him. He looked around for something to ease his loneliness. Then he saw it. Fred and lishia were sitting together four tables away. They were talking and joking, and generally very cheerful. Harry looked on, enviously. How he wished he had company. He took a sip of butterbeer.
Fred had gotten up, and was helping lishia up. They walked out of the bar, hand in hand. Harry stared down, and took another sip of butterbeer. Unexpectedly, a drop of something went into his cup, making ripples. Thenhe realised that it was his tear.
Harry wiped his face dry with the back of his hand, afraid that anyone would spot him. He got up quickly, and walked out of the bar.
After what seemed like hours walking aimlessly on the streets of hogsmeade, harry spotted a familiar face. Draco. He was advancing on angie, a playful glint in his eyes. Both of them were in a secluded corner of the street. However, angie pushed him away, the same playful glint in her eyes. Draco grabbed her hand, and dragged her away.
Harry didn't wait to see what happened next. He know angie would be alright. She was a great witch. He hurried on.
Then he passed by another tea shop, the very same one that he and cho had been in. he spotted george and jacky inside. Distinctly, he saw george raise his hand from his chair, and move towards jacky's hand, which was lying limply on the table. Jacky promptly removed her hand, and george grabbed the sugar bowl, blushing.
Harry reminisced. He recalled a frightfully similar incident a year ago. He walked on, not wishing to see what was next.
He spotted hermione choosing robes in a robe shop. However, she was looking at male robes. His question was answered immediately. Ron was standing behind, blushing.
Everyone had a partner. Everyone except him. Harry grimaced. It was lunch time, but he did not feel hungry.
Suddenly, though he did not know why, harry longed for sirrus.
He heard a plop on the ground, and immediately realised he was crying again. This time, however, he did not care.
For the rest of the day, he roamed the streets of hogsmeade, alone.
Days passed at lightning speed for Harry. The Quidditch match for Gryffindor against Ravenclaw was drawing nearer and nearer by the minute.
~~ End of Chapter 7 ~~
A/N: The long awaited chapter 7 is finally here! Haha. After what seemed like 6 months?? Haha. Well, we're pretty busy with our exams. Then after
the exams, holidays. Yeah. You get it. Not much time. But we wrote them long ago. Haha. I nearly forgot where I put them. Hehe. Yup. Chapter 8's coming up very quickly. All the quidditch matches. Err.. Not really, cause the match with Hufflepuff will be in Chapter 9. Yeah. Christmas specials in
Chapter 9 too. And best of all. A big secret will be revealed and an
important character will join the D.A. Want to know who it is? Read
chapters 8 and 9 to find out! C ya!
Harry trudged into the cozy Gryffindor common room. He just had his Occlumency lessons with Snape. It somehow became better and Harry's been having lesser nightmares lately. Snape's attitude towards Harry changed a bit which made his life easier for him to cope with
He found Hermione, Ron and Angie seated around the fireplace. Surprisingly, Lishia and Jacky weren't there. Harry chose a place beside Ron, chucked his bag on the floor and started scribbling his charms homework. Just then, the common room door opened and in stormed Jacky and Lishia.
"How can he do this to us!" yelled Lishia, apparently frustrated for she was practically pulling her hair. The four of them stared at her with the same questioning look on their faces. Angie was the first to speak, again.
" Clam down, will you? What happened? Tell us!" She put an arm around Lishia's shoulders to stabalize her emotions. Jacky lifted her hands up and put them down again to help Lishia regulate her breathing but she too was fuming so that was of no real help at all.
"That idiotic, freaking, stupid..." Jacky's sentence was cut off abruptly by a loud "beep!" from Angie.
"You can skip all those wonderful descriptive words of yours and come straight to the main point Jacky!" Angie commented, blinking at Jacky.
"Ah!!! That stinking filthy Malfoy!" Lishia burst out.
"Draco? What did he do?" Angie questioned, surprised. By this time, Jacky had already cooled down to the normal nice temper of hers. She continued.
"Why don't I start from the beginning? Right. Today, Lishia and I were supposed to do our detention with Snape."
"But I thought that your detention with him was long over?" Hermione asked.
"Oh! They received a note that night from Snape about doing detention tonight instead as he was 'unavailable' that night. It was sent directly to our dormitory. Really don't know what he's up to." Angle explained.
"Oh. Don't mention it! I totally hate him!" Jacky rolled her eyes.
"Wait! Who's the 'he' you're talking about this time?" Ron asked.
"Who else but Draco Malfoy? That git! Our detentions won't be half as bad if he hadn't appeared to spoil our day. Snape made us brew some really weird potion for him that's really complicated." Jacky said.
"What potion, what potion?" Angie asked, jumping suddenly out of her chair and looking expectantly at Jacky waiting for a good answer.
"Um. I forgot" Jacky said, trying hard to remember. Angie sunk back into her chair sulking and murmering something under her breath. Lishia cast her a desperate stare and continued Jacky's explanations.
"When we were done, we came back. On our way here, we met that irritating Malfoy. He cursed us while we were chatting."
Jacky took over and said,
"While we were about to curse him as well, guess who came? Snape! And that slimy Malfoy complained about us cursing him and acted as if he was in great pain. So, in the end, Snape took off another twenty points from Gryffindor." Jacky ended and slumped down onto the armchair.
The first hogsmeade weekend was about to arrive. The weather was getting colder by the day, and harry mostly stayed indoors except for his quidditch practices. They were making steady progress, and harry was quite confident that they would win the quidditch cup that year. At least, not until he heard the news.
It was after quidditch practice, and harry with the rest of his team mates we drying up and changing back into their normal robes, when geneve, a third year griffindor came running in. she looked particularly aggravated. Her eyes were wide open and she looked as if the sky had just fallen down. But harry knew her exaggerated ways, and calmly asked what was wrong as jacky ran over to her.
Geneve hyperventilated. While everyone looked concerned.
Finally, geneve drew a deep a breath. By then harry was fully dressed and was ready to leave.
"I just saw Adrian, Jason and kal," she drew another breath," as players for the Ravenclaw team."
Harry had forgotten about them. He had underestimated the other teams. What was he to do now? Harry tried to compose himself.
"geneve, " he said, trying not to look worried, " what positions are they in?"
"im not sure. I only saw them walking into the pitch together in the ravenclaw quidditch robes."
"thank you."
Geneve ran away.
Harry directed himself to lishia. "are they good?"
"my kor is. Im not sure about."
"what."
"my kor." Said lishia a little exasperated, " older brother."
Ron cut in. "you're related? I thought you had different surnames!"
Lihsia, seeing that they would need time to absorb this, sat down. Everone followed suit, staring intently at her. Jacky, however, already seemed to know, and she stood by the door, tapping her feet and waiting.
"I don't have older siblings at all," began lishia. " so I decided to adopt some. No its not official. " she said, referring to harry's inquiring look," but they do treat me like a real younger sister. Adrian is my only older brother. I have four jies, or older sisters." She sighed. "too few."
harry took a while to absorb that. The ways of asians he still did not understand.
"how about kal and jason?"
angie answered that. "very good. In fact, I think better than any of-"
lishia said it with her. "us".
There was a general sigh from the players. Harry made a decision. "we will train twice as hard against.."
Harry had just realised. He was going to play against cho. He changed his sentence midway.
"Against ch-them".
Everyone nodded in agreement. Slowly, they trudged up into their common room.
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harry started on his herbology homework. An essay on the much cultivated muggle aloe vera plant.
Then, suddenly, ron said," hermione, can you come over here for a moment?"
Hermione seemed to hesitate, before pushing her chair back, and walking over to Ron. Harry watched, amused, as they conversed in low voices. After a while, they broke off, and both seemed pleased. Ginny asked the question on his mind.
"what are you people doing?"
but harry noticed a pronounced smile on jacky's face. He looked at her enquiringly.
"I think," said jacky slowly, choosing her words carefully," that harry will be alone in his trip to hogsmeade tomorrow."
Ginny seemed to have caught on. "of course, everyone seems to have a partner." She gave hermione a significant look.
Harry finally understood. Ron had just asked hermione out. He grinned. "hey ron, so what are you planning to do together tomorrow?" there was a hint of cheekiness in his voice.
Ron blushed scarlet and hermione immediately went back to doing her muggle studies homework, scribbling furiously. Lishia was eyeing them in mild apprehension. Angie looked particularly playful.
"yeah," she prodded, " what?"
ron was so red it was had to tell which was redder. Him, or the tomato that ginny was examining. "err.n..nothing..i."
harry smiled encouragingly." Don't worry. I know it'll go out fine."
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it was only the next morning when, harry, ginny, ,ron, hermione and the three asians were walking down the corridor to check out of the school, that harry realised the full impact of jacky's words. He was going to be alone on his hogsmeade trip. Alone.
He tried to think of whom he could go with as the others exchanged gleeful chatters. Ron and hermione were going out togther and he did not want to play gooseberry. His thoughts turned to ginny. Ginny? No way, she was going out with dennis creevy. He automatically thought of lishia. Nope. Not her. She was going out with, harry smiled painfully to himself, fred. Jacky was going out with george. That left angie. Angie? Doesn't really suit me, Harry thought sadly.
The sound of lishia's voice broke his thoughts.
"I want to grow my hair. " she said childishly, " as long as that girl's." she pointed." Whats her name?"
harry followed her finger. She was pointing at cho. Hermione answered. " cho chang."
"she's chinese too?" angie asked. Hermione nodded.
Harry suddenly wondered why he had not thought of cho. But before he could make up his mind whether to go up to her or not, adrian appeared. Cho smiled at him and the held hands walking together.
Harry's heart sank.
He tried to distract himself. Lishia was pointing her finger at jacky, teasing her. She was repeating the name "cho". Jacky was protesting profusely.
They turned a corner, and harry spotted filch ticking people of the list in the queue. All of them lined up. Harry could not help looking at cho and adrian holding hands two places in front.
Suddenly, his and cho's eyes met for a moment. They laughter died from cho's eyes, and they stared at each other. They both looked away at the same time.
This, said harry to himself, is going to be the most unenjoyable hogsmeade lesson he ever had. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- harry roamed the hogsmeade streets alone, peering into every shop window mournfully. Finally, he decided that he was tired, and sat down at the three broomsticks for a butterbeer.
Somehow, it didn't taste right to him. He looked around for something to ease his loneliness. Then he saw it. Fred and lishia were sitting together four tables away. They were talking and joking, and generally very cheerful. Harry looked on, enviously. How he wished he had company. He took a sip of butterbeer.
Fred had gotten up, and was helping lishia up. They walked out of the bar, hand in hand. Harry stared down, and took another sip of butterbeer. Unexpectedly, a drop of something went into his cup, making ripples. Thenhe realised that it was his tear.
Harry wiped his face dry with the back of his hand, afraid that anyone would spot him. He got up quickly, and walked out of the bar.
After what seemed like hours walking aimlessly on the streets of hogsmeade, harry spotted a familiar face. Draco. He was advancing on angie, a playful glint in his eyes. Both of them were in a secluded corner of the street. However, angie pushed him away, the same playful glint in her eyes. Draco grabbed her hand, and dragged her away.
Harry didn't wait to see what happened next. He know angie would be alright. She was a great witch. He hurried on.
Then he passed by another tea shop, the very same one that he and cho had been in. he spotted george and jacky inside. Distinctly, he saw george raise his hand from his chair, and move towards jacky's hand, which was lying limply on the table. Jacky promptly removed her hand, and george grabbed the sugar bowl, blushing.
Harry reminisced. He recalled a frightfully similar incident a year ago. He walked on, not wishing to see what was next.
He spotted hermione choosing robes in a robe shop. However, she was looking at male robes. His question was answered immediately. Ron was standing behind, blushing.
Everyone had a partner. Everyone except him. Harry grimaced. It was lunch time, but he did not feel hungry.
Suddenly, though he did not know why, harry longed for sirrus.
He heard a plop on the ground, and immediately realised he was crying again. This time, however, he did not care.
For the rest of the day, he roamed the streets of hogsmeade, alone.
Days passed at lightning speed for Harry. The Quidditch match for Gryffindor against Ravenclaw was drawing nearer and nearer by the minute.
~~ End of Chapter 7 ~~
A/N: The long awaited chapter 7 is finally here! Haha. After what seemed like 6 months?? Haha. Well, we're pretty busy with our exams. Then after
the exams, holidays. Yeah. You get it. Not much time. But we wrote them long ago. Haha. I nearly forgot where I put them. Hehe. Yup. Chapter 8's coming up very quickly. All the quidditch matches. Err.. Not really, cause the match with Hufflepuff will be in Chapter 9. Yeah. Christmas specials in
Chapter 9 too. And best of all. A big secret will be revealed and an
important character will join the D.A. Want to know who it is? Read
chapters 8 and 9 to find out! C ya!
