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"If yeh don't make any sudden movements you should be fine" said Hagrid cheerfully."Hagrid what would exactly happen if we were to make any sudden movements?" asked Ron carefully but before Hagrid could answer Crabbe and Goyle were screaming and running away from the class their clothes slighty singed and smoking."The fire crab will only shoot flames when threatened" warned Hagrid."We're gonna have to cut this class short, I need to check if those two made it to the hospital wing." said Hagrid walking them to the front oak doors.
"I'm going to the library, maybe I can start that essay for Prof. Flitwick" said Hermione happily."Are you coming?" she asked Harry, Ron, Neville and Seamus."I could use some help" said Neville and Hermione beamed at him. "Yeah, me too" said Ron. They left in the direction of the library leaving Seamus and Harry standing in the Great Hall."So, Harry what do you want to do with our extra thirty-five minutes courtesy of Hogwarts' resident idiots." said Seamus happily. He was pushed onto Harry almost making him fall by a scornful Draco Malfoy."I'm sorry Harry that guy it's such an idiot he thinks he owns the place" said Seamus looking a Draco with great dislike.But Harry wasn't paying attention to Seamus he was staring at the back of Draco's head with a confused expression, he just couldn't figure out Draco Malfoy the guy was great one minute and a jerk the next.
Harry was in one of the common room tables working on his charms essay when he glanced at his watch it read 7:48 p.m." Harry come on the dueling club meeting is in less than fifteen minutes" Said Ron coming down the boys' dormitory staircase with Seamus, Neville and Dean.
"I know, let's go" said Harry walking upto them and opening the portrait concealing the entrance to Gryffindor tower."Hey is Hermione coming?" asked Harry no one in particular."Yes I am" said Hermione walking out first. The boys followed and got to the Great Hall with a couple of minutes to spare. The usual tables were gone and there was an empty platform where the head table usually stood and the rest of the room was full of students chatting amongst themselves about what to expect of the dueling club.
A smiling James came from the back of the platform followed by three other adults "Good Evening, glad you could make it, it's a pleasure seeing you -"get on with it Potter" said Snape clearly annoyed with James' antics and by the smiles on the other two adults' faces that was exactly what he wanted."Listen, Professor Dumbledore thought it was a good idea if I got some help so your DADA teacher Prof. Lupin is going to be assisting but I needed more help, some I chose- he was looking at Sirius- and some were...assigned" he said looking at Snape." Okay, we're going to be practising some basic defensive spells -the studenst started to groan- I know you know them from your DADA lessons but this is different I want you to do combinations of spells that would work together, I want you to think on your feet and everything is not just to take down your opponent you have to learn how to deflect curses and how to dodge the ones with no countercurse, and what to do if one of them hits you anyway. So for this first excercise we -he said gesturing to the Professors, Sirius and himself- are going to be pairing you off -everyone moved close to one of their friends- with someone you don't know" finished James smirking. There was a chorus of "What?". "Well the point of the excercise is to learn how to work together so no one from the same house should be paired off." Hermione raised her hand. "yes?" James nodded to her."Well Professor Potter there are people who know each other well and are not on the same house" she said.He smiled at her and said "Well I thought it was obvious that no friends should be paired off either" she blushed and a few people sniggered." You and...you" they were pairing off people on opposite sides of the room. Sirius was looking at Harry trying to find him someone but "Potter you're with Malfoy"said Snape sneering. "Okay now I want you to work against the pair in front of you" said James. Everyone faced off Harry and Draco were going against Seamus and the Slytherin boy with brown hair -what was his name...Blaise something?- Draco sneered at Seamus and Blaise at Harry it was like they were trained by Snape or something thought Harry." Now, Seamus and Draco are going to face each other , Blaise you're going to watch out for Seamus if he is hurt or tires you are to duel Draco, the same for you Harry, but under no circumstances do I want two on one because that would be cheating and you'll be disqualified, understood?" he said looking at them.When the boys all nodded he said "Good now I don't want harmful spells just enough to disarm your opponent...wands at the ready...go. As soon as he said that Draco let about three curses in rapid succesion and Seamus was sent flying to the other end of the room before he could even begin his first attempt..."Blaise step up!" said James loudly, the boy looked hesistant at the prospect of dueling Draco but stepforward nonetheless and fired a curse which Draco deflected easily and sent another one back. Blaise blocked it and was about to fire another one but Draco stunned him before he could utter a word." Good job, Draco" said Prof. Lupin smiling."Okay, now I want you guys to take another pair that's beaten their first pair too" said James looking at Draco
and Harry.
About an hour later only another pair was left. "Okay now Draco and Hermione are going to face each other."Said James. "Hey the whelp has made it so far I'm impressed" said Jeremy smiling when he saw Harry giving him a death glare." Wands at the ready...go" said James. Hermione and Draco started to duel they had very different styles but were both very good so it went on for a few minutes when Draco shot a spell that sent Hermione a few feet back he thought he had won and Hermione took advantage and without standing up shouted "Expelliarmus" thus leaving him without his wand. Harry jumped to finish Draco's duel and started dueling Hermione he disarmed her in his second try and then Jeremy and Harry faced each other, the duel went on for about twenty minutes each boy jumping, cursing, rolling, hexing, doing flip-backs, jinxing... their speed was amazing."Stop!" said James.Both boys put down their wands and looked at their father expectantly."This is never going to end can anyone tell me why?" Hermione put her hand up and he nodded at her."Because they're brothers they have probably practise together before and can anticipate each others movements" said Hermione in her usual class know-it-all mode."Thank you. You all did very well and I want you here next week, same time, same place. Good night!" said James walking upto his sons with Remus and Sirius." You were good boys, now off to bed." they all hugged good night."Harry you were amazing!" said Seamus as they were walking out of the Great Hall."Finnegan stop drooling!" said Draco and just walked away. "I really hate that guy" said Seamus.
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It was friday, end of the week...it seemed almost too good to be true. The teachers had them working extra hard because they were to take their owl's at the end of next semester."Classes are done for today!" said Ron happily throwing his book bag underneath his bed. All the boys laughed and went to dinner together.After dinner Harry went to the seventh floor and started looking at the paintings looking for the one Draco had mentioned he found it and opposite was the door to the room Draco told him to meet him. When he opened the door Draco was sitting in a comfortable over-stuffed chair in front of a lit fireplace the room was done in dark blue and the only light came from the fireplace and a few candles all-in-all it didn't look like the place where you met your study-buddy more of where you would have a candle-light dinner with your boyfriend- (Harry doesn't know how the room of requirement works)- while Harry was looking around the room Draco was looking at him.When Harry noticed he blushed."Hello Potter" said Draco smiling at Harry's heated face."I hate that" said Harry looking at the floor."What?" asked Draco standing up. "You, calling me Potter" said Harry softly lifting his head and looking straight into Draco's eyes. They fell into silence and stared into each other's eyes for what seemed like hours.Finally Draco couldn't take Harry's intense green gaze on him and looked away."That's your name isn't it?" asked Draco, Harry almost forgot what they were talking about but quickly remembered."Yes it is but for my friends and family I prefer Harry"
"Well we're not friends, Potter" he put a lot of emphasis on the last word."Oh...right" Harry almost felt like crying -(but didn't, of course)- "Well g-good-night" said Harry almost running to the door."Wait, what about your potions, my transfiguration, we made a deal Potter, are you backing down?" Harry had stopped but his hand was still on the door-knob."Look, I'll get Hermione to help me and you can ask my mum for help" said Harry."We both know that's not going to work" said Draco a little anoyed."Why?" asked Harry looking at him."Because if Granger was any help you wouldn't be in this position in the first place plus she'd drive you mad by the end of your first meeting and I can't go to your mother for help." he said crossing his arms in front of his chest."Why not?" asked Harry curiously."Similar to why you can't, if my father or any of the Slytherins for that matter found that I went for help to a mudblood, I'd be dead" he finished."Did you called my mother a mudblood?" asked Harry slowly."Er...kind of" said Draco as if only realizing he had said that."What do you mean "kind of", so you believe in all this pure-blood mania?" said Harry angry."I'm so stupid my brother told me all about your great, death-eater father and what do I say, "no Jeremy Draco isn't like that" I can't belive what an idiot I've been" Harry was screaming now.Draco was looking at Harry but apparently didn't know what to say so Harry walked to the door and opened it."Wait Potter!" Draco ran after him and grabbed him by the arm and threw him against the wall a little harder than intended and seconds later felt the tip of a wand on his temple.
"Let him go or I'll hex you into oblivion!"Jeremy's voice was calm and clear.Draco turned his head a little and was suprised by the hatred he saw in Jeremy's eyes, he was always joking around and laughing so much it was so rare that he was a Ravenclaw. Draco let go Harry's arm and stepped away from the brothers that's when he noticed that the elder of the Potter children wasn't alone, one of the sixth year Ravenclaws was with him, that girl Chang he had seen her in the prefect meetings. Once Draco was gone Jeremy switched from angry-big-brother mode to worried-big-brother mode and started asking Harry if he was okay while leading him to his parents' quarters.Harry was so shocked and angry he didn't know where he was going and was letting Jeremy pull him along. He kind of saw Jeremy saying good- night to a pretty girl with long, straight, jet-black hair. And then he was in his parents' front room, Jeremy asking him if Malfoy had done anything to him. When James and Lily having heard Jeremy came out of their bedroom."Boys you should be in bed, is everything okay?" asked Lily concerned. "Yes, mum" said Harry a little too quickly."No" said Jeremy."Everything is not okay I want to know what you were doing in the room of requirement with Malfoy and why he was pinning you to the wall" That got his parents' attention."It's none of your bussiness" said Harry hurriedly making for the door."Harry James Potter don't even think about it" said James uncharacteristically serious."Are you okay, baby?" Lily was checking him over."I'm fine mum" but before he could get his hands away from her she spotted Draco's finger-marks on his wrist and showed them to James who came over and started inspecting them."Malfoy did this to you?" asked James looking murderous."Are your head and back okay?" asked Jeremy worried.
James looked at him when he said this and then back to Harry and started feeling the back of his head and pulling his robes to check his back. They found a bump on Harry's head and a couple of small bruises on his back. Harry was squirming while his mother was putting some potion on the bruises."What happened?" she asked after she finished.Harry had remained quiet while his family try to get something out of him but he couldn't tell them."I don't want you to even walk close to him" said James."I'll talk to Prof. Dumbledore in the morning" said Lily.
"You will not!" shouted Harry."Stop treating me like a baby!!!" That was the last thing he said before he got up and stormed out of the room.
Please review, even if you don't like it so that I know what needs work. Thanks for reading.
Hope you like it!
"If yeh don't make any sudden movements you should be fine" said Hagrid cheerfully."Hagrid what would exactly happen if we were to make any sudden movements?" asked Ron carefully but before Hagrid could answer Crabbe and Goyle were screaming and running away from the class their clothes slighty singed and smoking."The fire crab will only shoot flames when threatened" warned Hagrid."We're gonna have to cut this class short, I need to check if those two made it to the hospital wing." said Hagrid walking them to the front oak doors.
"I'm going to the library, maybe I can start that essay for Prof. Flitwick" said Hermione happily."Are you coming?" she asked Harry, Ron, Neville and Seamus."I could use some help" said Neville and Hermione beamed at him. "Yeah, me too" said Ron. They left in the direction of the library leaving Seamus and Harry standing in the Great Hall."So, Harry what do you want to do with our extra thirty-five minutes courtesy of Hogwarts' resident idiots." said Seamus happily. He was pushed onto Harry almost making him fall by a scornful Draco Malfoy."I'm sorry Harry that guy it's such an idiot he thinks he owns the place" said Seamus looking a Draco with great dislike.But Harry wasn't paying attention to Seamus he was staring at the back of Draco's head with a confused expression, he just couldn't figure out Draco Malfoy the guy was great one minute and a jerk the next.
Harry was in one of the common room tables working on his charms essay when he glanced at his watch it read 7:48 p.m." Harry come on the dueling club meeting is in less than fifteen minutes" Said Ron coming down the boys' dormitory staircase with Seamus, Neville and Dean.
"I know, let's go" said Harry walking upto them and opening the portrait concealing the entrance to Gryffindor tower."Hey is Hermione coming?" asked Harry no one in particular."Yes I am" said Hermione walking out first. The boys followed and got to the Great Hall with a couple of minutes to spare. The usual tables were gone and there was an empty platform where the head table usually stood and the rest of the room was full of students chatting amongst themselves about what to expect of the dueling club.
A smiling James came from the back of the platform followed by three other adults "Good Evening, glad you could make it, it's a pleasure seeing you -"get on with it Potter" said Snape clearly annoyed with James' antics and by the smiles on the other two adults' faces that was exactly what he wanted."Listen, Professor Dumbledore thought it was a good idea if I got some help so your DADA teacher Prof. Lupin is going to be assisting but I needed more help, some I chose- he was looking at Sirius- and some were...assigned" he said looking at Snape." Okay, we're going to be practising some basic defensive spells -the studenst started to groan- I know you know them from your DADA lessons but this is different I want you to do combinations of spells that would work together, I want you to think on your feet and everything is not just to take down your opponent you have to learn how to deflect curses and how to dodge the ones with no countercurse, and what to do if one of them hits you anyway. So for this first excercise we -he said gesturing to the Professors, Sirius and himself- are going to be pairing you off -everyone moved close to one of their friends- with someone you don't know" finished James smirking. There was a chorus of "What?". "Well the point of the excercise is to learn how to work together so no one from the same house should be paired off." Hermione raised her hand. "yes?" James nodded to her."Well Professor Potter there are people who know each other well and are not on the same house" she said.He smiled at her and said "Well I thought it was obvious that no friends should be paired off either" she blushed and a few people sniggered." You and...you" they were pairing off people on opposite sides of the room. Sirius was looking at Harry trying to find him someone but "Potter you're with Malfoy"said Snape sneering. "Okay now I want you to work against the pair in front of you" said James. Everyone faced off Harry and Draco were going against Seamus and the Slytherin boy with brown hair -what was his name...Blaise something?- Draco sneered at Seamus and Blaise at Harry it was like they were trained by Snape or something thought Harry." Now, Seamus and Draco are going to face each other , Blaise you're going to watch out for Seamus if he is hurt or tires you are to duel Draco, the same for you Harry, but under no circumstances do I want two on one because that would be cheating and you'll be disqualified, understood?" he said looking at them.When the boys all nodded he said "Good now I don't want harmful spells just enough to disarm your opponent...wands at the ready...go. As soon as he said that Draco let about three curses in rapid succesion and Seamus was sent flying to the other end of the room before he could even begin his first attempt..."Blaise step up!" said James loudly, the boy looked hesistant at the prospect of dueling Draco but stepforward nonetheless and fired a curse which Draco deflected easily and sent another one back. Blaise blocked it and was about to fire another one but Draco stunned him before he could utter a word." Good job, Draco" said Prof. Lupin smiling."Okay, now I want you guys to take another pair that's beaten their first pair too" said James looking at Draco
and Harry.
About an hour later only another pair was left. "Okay now Draco and Hermione are going to face each other."Said James. "Hey the whelp has made it so far I'm impressed" said Jeremy smiling when he saw Harry giving him a death glare." Wands at the ready...go" said James. Hermione and Draco started to duel they had very different styles but were both very good so it went on for a few minutes when Draco shot a spell that sent Hermione a few feet back he thought he had won and Hermione took advantage and without standing up shouted "Expelliarmus" thus leaving him without his wand. Harry jumped to finish Draco's duel and started dueling Hermione he disarmed her in his second try and then Jeremy and Harry faced each other, the duel went on for about twenty minutes each boy jumping, cursing, rolling, hexing, doing flip-backs, jinxing... their speed was amazing."Stop!" said James.Both boys put down their wands and looked at their father expectantly."This is never going to end can anyone tell me why?" Hermione put her hand up and he nodded at her."Because they're brothers they have probably practise together before and can anticipate each others movements" said Hermione in her usual class know-it-all mode."Thank you. You all did very well and I want you here next week, same time, same place. Good night!" said James walking upto his sons with Remus and Sirius." You were good boys, now off to bed." they all hugged good night."Harry you were amazing!" said Seamus as they were walking out of the Great Hall."Finnegan stop drooling!" said Draco and just walked away. "I really hate that guy" said Seamus.
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It was friday, end of the week...it seemed almost too good to be true. The teachers had them working extra hard because they were to take their owl's at the end of next semester."Classes are done for today!" said Ron happily throwing his book bag underneath his bed. All the boys laughed and went to dinner together.After dinner Harry went to the seventh floor and started looking at the paintings looking for the one Draco had mentioned he found it and opposite was the door to the room Draco told him to meet him. When he opened the door Draco was sitting in a comfortable over-stuffed chair in front of a lit fireplace the room was done in dark blue and the only light came from the fireplace and a few candles all-in-all it didn't look like the place where you met your study-buddy more of where you would have a candle-light dinner with your boyfriend- (Harry doesn't know how the room of requirement works)- while Harry was looking around the room Draco was looking at him.When Harry noticed he blushed."Hello Potter" said Draco smiling at Harry's heated face."I hate that" said Harry looking at the floor."What?" asked Draco standing up. "You, calling me Potter" said Harry softly lifting his head and looking straight into Draco's eyes. They fell into silence and stared into each other's eyes for what seemed like hours.Finally Draco couldn't take Harry's intense green gaze on him and looked away."That's your name isn't it?" asked Draco, Harry almost forgot what they were talking about but quickly remembered."Yes it is but for my friends and family I prefer Harry"
"Well we're not friends, Potter" he put a lot of emphasis on the last word."Oh...right" Harry almost felt like crying -(but didn't, of course)- "Well g-good-night" said Harry almost running to the door."Wait, what about your potions, my transfiguration, we made a deal Potter, are you backing down?" Harry had stopped but his hand was still on the door-knob."Look, I'll get Hermione to help me and you can ask my mum for help" said Harry."We both know that's not going to work" said Draco a little anoyed."Why?" asked Harry looking at him."Because if Granger was any help you wouldn't be in this position in the first place plus she'd drive you mad by the end of your first meeting and I can't go to your mother for help." he said crossing his arms in front of his chest."Why not?" asked Harry curiously."Similar to why you can't, if my father or any of the Slytherins for that matter found that I went for help to a mudblood, I'd be dead" he finished."Did you called my mother a mudblood?" asked Harry slowly."Er...kind of" said Draco as if only realizing he had said that."What do you mean "kind of", so you believe in all this pure-blood mania?" said Harry angry."I'm so stupid my brother told me all about your great, death-eater father and what do I say, "no Jeremy Draco isn't like that" I can't belive what an idiot I've been" Harry was screaming now.Draco was looking at Harry but apparently didn't know what to say so Harry walked to the door and opened it."Wait Potter!" Draco ran after him and grabbed him by the arm and threw him against the wall a little harder than intended and seconds later felt the tip of a wand on his temple.
"Let him go or I'll hex you into oblivion!"Jeremy's voice was calm and clear.Draco turned his head a little and was suprised by the hatred he saw in Jeremy's eyes, he was always joking around and laughing so much it was so rare that he was a Ravenclaw. Draco let go Harry's arm and stepped away from the brothers that's when he noticed that the elder of the Potter children wasn't alone, one of the sixth year Ravenclaws was with him, that girl Chang he had seen her in the prefect meetings. Once Draco was gone Jeremy switched from angry-big-brother mode to worried-big-brother mode and started asking Harry if he was okay while leading him to his parents' quarters.Harry was so shocked and angry he didn't know where he was going and was letting Jeremy pull him along. He kind of saw Jeremy saying good- night to a pretty girl with long, straight, jet-black hair. And then he was in his parents' front room, Jeremy asking him if Malfoy had done anything to him. When James and Lily having heard Jeremy came out of their bedroom."Boys you should be in bed, is everything okay?" asked Lily concerned. "Yes, mum" said Harry a little too quickly."No" said Jeremy."Everything is not okay I want to know what you were doing in the room of requirement with Malfoy and why he was pinning you to the wall" That got his parents' attention."It's none of your bussiness" said Harry hurriedly making for the door."Harry James Potter don't even think about it" said James uncharacteristically serious."Are you okay, baby?" Lily was checking him over."I'm fine mum" but before he could get his hands away from her she spotted Draco's finger-marks on his wrist and showed them to James who came over and started inspecting them."Malfoy did this to you?" asked James looking murderous."Are your head and back okay?" asked Jeremy worried.
James looked at him when he said this and then back to Harry and started feeling the back of his head and pulling his robes to check his back. They found a bump on Harry's head and a couple of small bruises on his back. Harry was squirming while his mother was putting some potion on the bruises."What happened?" she asked after she finished.Harry had remained quiet while his family try to get something out of him but he couldn't tell them."I don't want you to even walk close to him" said James."I'll talk to Prof. Dumbledore in the morning" said Lily.
"You will not!" shouted Harry."Stop treating me like a baby!!!" That was the last thing he said before he got up and stormed out of the room.
Please review, even if you don't like it so that I know what needs work. Thanks for reading.