Even When There's No Way, There's Always A Will
DISCLAIMER~ I don't own Harry Potter blah blah blah you get the point.
Hi guys! I'm not quite sure what to put in this chapter as a fill in until Quidditch trials, so I'll just go straight into that. Please review! Give me some ideas! Thanks! Enjoy!
Chapter 3 ~ Quidditch Trials
The first week of school was vaguely boring, and passed rather slowly. Draco noticed a croud of people around the notice board. He, Crabbe and Goyle pushed to the frount, where Draco saw that it was a list.
QUIDDITCH TRIALS
This weekend, any queries, or can't make it, contact Minerva McGonagall.
Gryffindor Nominee's
Katie Bell - Chaser
Harry Potter - Seeker
Colin Creevey - Beater
Alicia Spinnett - Chaser
Ron Weasley - Keeper
Ginny Weasley - Seeker
Seamus Finnigan - Beater
Slytherin Nominee's
Marcus Flint - Chaser
Cora Black - Chaser
Draco Malfoy - Seeker
Kane Thornton - Beater
Pansy Parkinson - Keeper
Gregory Goyle - Beater
Vincent Crabbe - Beater
Hufflepuff Nominee's
Justin Finch-Fletchley - Keeper
Hannah Abbott - Chaser
Micheal Corner - Beater
Jordan Micheal - Chaser
Drew Lingard - Seeker
Ravenclaw Nominee's
Terry Boot - Chaser
Peter Yorreyn - Beater
Cho Chang - Seeker
Joan Weatherby - Chaser
Roger Davies - Keeper
Imogen Vestra - Beater
Nominee's please note; wear house Quidditch robes to trials, Saturday, 8am and Sunday 8am. Spectators strictly prohibited,
Yours Sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall
It because clear to everyone that Gryffindor and Slytherin had the most amount of nominee's. This would cause great conflict if the teams consisted of mostly Slytherin and Gryffindor. Draco noted that Cho was nominated. He hoped that they would be in the same team.
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That Saturday, Draco woke at 6.00am, unable to sleep. He got up, and dressed in his Slytherin Quidditch Robes. Pansy was waiting for him downstairs.
'Hurry up Draco, you'll miss breakfast.' She said in her over annoying voice.
'I thought I'd woked up early.' Draco said gruffly.
'Not even close Draco. Now get you butt moving.' Pansy stopped to check out his butt as he walked past her.
Pansy and Draco walked to the Great Hall together. A few times, Pansy slipped her hand around Draco's waist, but everytime, he shook her off, grumbling something about it being too early in the morning to have to worry about her non stop flirting. But Draco, let me assure you, was wide awake when he saw Cho sitting with Mariette, her curly haired friend, in the dining room {A/N :- I think her name's Mariette, can't check it because my friend is borrowing my Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix, ah well, it's her name now.}.
'Hi! Oh hi Draco! Over here!' Cho called out to him across the Great Hall.
'I'll see you later.' He muttered to Pansy and they split, much to Pansy's dismay. Draco headed over to Cho and Mariette.
'Hey Cho, hey Mariette. How are you ladies this morning?' Draco said in his most charming, gentlemanlike voice. Mariette giggled.
'I'm good Draco, are you ready for the trials?' Cho asked him.
'Well, actually, I haven't had the chance to practice my Quidditch all over the summer, and I may be a bit rusty around the edges.' At that moment, the Great Hall was filled with owls, most likely from parents who had heard about the events occuring at Hogwarts this year. Draco looked around and noticed Quinton flying towards him.
'Oh my Gosh, Draco, is that your owl?' Cho said in awe. Quinton landed on Draco's shoulder and stuck his leg out so that he may take off the small piece of parchment.
'Here,' He said handing Quinton to Cho, 'Could you hold him for a quick minute? His name's Quinton.' Cho looked ready to kiss him, just as well because Harry had just walked into the Great Hall. Instead though, Cho and Mariette resumed praising Draco's owl. Draco decided on opening his letter.
Dear Draco,
I heard about the Bulgarian Chaser coming to referee your Quidditch games, I have also rigged the judging so you will be selected into the toughest Hogwarts team. I wish you the best of luck.
On another topic, congratulations on becoming Prefect. I was a Prefect back in my day at Hogwarts. Waste of time that school. I knew I should have sent you to Durmstrang Institute. Professor Karkaroff would have taught you well.
I wouldn't have thought you'd have noticed your prize purebred owl missing, so I borrowed him for a few days to deliver this letter to you. You had better be taking good care of him, he'll be needing to take many long trips.
Yours truly, Lucious Malfoy
'Who was it from?' Cho noticed Draco had finnished the letter.
'My father, um, congratulating me for becoming a Prefect, wishing me good luck for the Quidditch, and telling me he borrowed Quinton, nothing major.'
'Oh, yes, good luck Draco, personally, I think Harry's a shoe in for seeker in one of the teams.' After seeing the look on Draco's face she quickly added 'Well, seeing as he's Dumbledore's pet and all.' Draco's expression relaxed a small bit, but at that moment, Harry and Ginny walked past.
'I can't believe McGonagall didn't nominate Ron!' Harry said with an outrage.
'Yeah, then at least he'd be here with us, at what, seven thirty!' Ginny exclaimed with a quick watch check. Draco was tempted to start singing Weasley is our King but his ever growing desire to be with Cho made him keep his mouth shut. Somehow, Draco's feelings of hatrid for Harry were being slowly replaced by strong feelings for Cho. There was definitely something about Cho. So at this, Draco let Harry and Ginny go, in light of this, Harry looked back, extremely puzzled that Draco had not said anything about Ron. Without missing a beat, Harry kept up with Ginny and said nothing.
'Shall we?' Draco held his arm out for Cho to take, she hesitated, but not for long, and took his arm.
'Mariette, I'll see you in the Ravenclaw common room when Quidditch trials are over.' The girls waved goodbye to eachother, and Draco led Cho out of the Great Hall, which had it's ceiling bewitched to look like a bright, sunny day.
Cho and Draco both heaved sighs of relief when they stepped out onto the grounds and it actually was a bright and sunny day, without a cloud to be seen for miles. They walked cautiously over to the Quidditch Pitch, arms linked, and brooms in hands. At first sight of students zooming around on their brooms warming up, Cho dropped Draco's arm. He didn't mind.
'Cho, want to come for a warm up lap?' Draco jumped on his broom and kicked off from the ground.
'Sure!' Cho copied his action and they flew side by side around the Quidditch Pitch five times before Maddam Hooch blew her whistle signalling for all fliers to come down and begin the session.
'Firstly, I would like you to separate into your primary positions. Seekers over there,' She motioned to a space, 'Keepers over there,' Again motioning to a space, 'Chasers over there,' Another space was chosen for the chasers, 'And last but most certainly not least, beaters over there by the chasers.' Maddam Hooch gestured to next to the chasers.
Cho found it quite unnerving to be standing in between her current love interrest, No! I shouldn't be thinking about Draco like that! And her past love interrest, Harry. Even though Cho didn't want to, and was resisting with every bone in her body, she couldn't help but like Draco, just a teensy bit, could she? Cho went into thinking about on the Hogwarts Express, he had appologised to everyone he'd upset, without even a second thought. And the fact that Draco had not once said something to Harry, or any other student, that could be labeled offensive, at least, not while she was around. Maybe he was just being a gentleman around her, it must have been her imagination that he could ever like her, or, for that matter, anyone who wasn't a Slytherin. Quite a waste of a lovely person, Cho thought to herself.
'Ok, I'm going to let the balls go now, play as teams, preferably in your own house teams. Ravenclaw and Slytherin are to be aiming for the South goal posts, while Gryffindor and Hufflepuff are to be aiming for the North goal posts.' Maddam Hooch waved her wand, and the score board now had four spaces. She blew here whistle and released the balls. All Quidditch players kicked off from the ground and resumed their familiar positions on the pitch. Draco and Cho stayed quite on eachother's tails most of the time, eyeing eachother every once in a while, and the other 10 % of the time they went looking for the Snitch.
After about 15 minutes, the scores were :- Gryffindor - 30, Slytherin - 40, Hufflepuff - 20 and Ravenclaw - 20. This was a close match. Draco looked around and spotted that Ginny Weasley was a seeker as well. This, being extremely unfair being as Gryffindor had two seekers. Draco decided then to perform a Wronski Feint, a special move that Viktor Krum himself had taught Draco in his fourth year at Hogwarts, when the Triwizard Cup was being held. Draco swooshed his Quidditch robes and dove. He noticed that Harry was speeding after him, but not Cho, she had gone off to the other side of the Pitch searching for the Snitch, not at all watching Harry and Draco fight for the Snitch that wasn't there. But all of a sudden, from out of no where, it was there! Harry must have seen it as well, because he dove faster than what he has been going while tailing Draco. Draco also picked up the speed, but a bludger came smashing in their direction, sending both the boys spinning. The Snitch had vannished again. Draco gave Micheal Corner, a Hufflepuff beater, a death stare, and continued flying.
Quite a while later, Ginny Weasley caught the Snitch by sheer accident, and the muck around game ended. Maddam Hooch blew her whistle and called everyone down to her.
'I thank you all for coming, that shall be all for today, same time tomorrow, oh and by the way, nice catch Miss Weasley.' Ginny went slightly red, and Harry congratulated her as well, stating he couldn't have done it better himself.
Cho turned to Draco.
'I saw your Wronski Feint, that was impressive! Shame the Snitch turned up!' Cho laughed softly and her soft, black hair fell over her face, causing her to look more beautiful than before. They turned to walk back to the Castle, but Cho was interrupted by Harry.
'Cho, Cho! Mind if I have a word?' Harry called out to her, gesturing to Ginny that he'd only be a minute.
'Wait for me Draco?' Cho asked, Draco nodded. Harry and Cho went for a brisk walk.
'What can I do for you Harry?' Cho asked. They were wandering into the shade of the Forbidden Forrest.
'Well, Cho, I was just thinking, I'm, well, I'm, I'm sorry about what happened last year between us. I just wanted to make it up to you.'
'How Harry? I just don't think we were meant to be together, what with you always running to Hermione, I just couldn't handle it.'
'Shhhhh, don't talk.' Harry said soothingly. Cho wondered why she didn't want this, last year, it had seemed nice at the time, but she supposed it was just a rebound for Cedric's death. She shuddered at the thought. Harry embraced her in a long hug. She didn't, she just didn't feel right about it, her head was racing with memories, of Harry, Cedric, and Draco. She pulled away from him.
'You said you only wanted to talk?'
'Sorry Cho, I just got a bit carried away is all. Just thinking about you gets me on a high never thought imaginable. It's like being on the Quidditch Pitch searching for the Snitch twenty-four seven. You mean a lot to me Cho.'
'I'm sorry Harry, but you are only a friend. I just don't see you in that light. Last year, that was, well, that was just a rebound from Cedric.' She had finally gotten the words out. 'I'm so sorry Harry.'
'Don't worry about it, I'll be quite alright, I'll just need my Firebolt more than usual.' Harry's feeble attempt at a joke in his situation resulted in an uncomfortable silence. The pair headed back to their companions, who, surprisingly, weren't ripping eachother's heads off.
'Oh Harry, let me know if you're starting DA again will you?' Cho said
'I'll do that Cho.' Was his reply, and he and Ginny headed off to the castle.
'What did Pot, I mean Harry want?' Draco asked Cho.
'He wanted me back,' Judging the look on Draco's face, he didn't know about them last year, 'Well, during Professor Umbridge's reign of terror some students, me and Harry included, were a part of a secret defense against the dark arts club, and, well, Harry, I just was so upset about Cedric at the time, I didn't really like him, and he always ran off to Hermione.' Cho stopped short. 'Well, that's in the past, I made that clear to Harry.'
'Is this DA the club you told me about?' Draco asked.
'The very same!' Cho said with a grin.
'Oh but you're Head Girl! You shouldn't be running around breaking the rules!' Draco said playfully, and Cho shoved him. He chased her all the way back to the castle.
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*Sorry, I was going to write about the second day of trials, and who makes the team, but it's way late, and I just wanted the chapter to end so I can go to bed! Sorry! Please review and tell me what I should do in the future! I already have a basic idea of where the story's going, but please, I need some fill in's!*
~Gryffindor Gal~
DISCLAIMER~ I don't own Harry Potter blah blah blah you get the point.
Hi guys! I'm not quite sure what to put in this chapter as a fill in until Quidditch trials, so I'll just go straight into that. Please review! Give me some ideas! Thanks! Enjoy!
Chapter 3 ~ Quidditch Trials
The first week of school was vaguely boring, and passed rather slowly. Draco noticed a croud of people around the notice board. He, Crabbe and Goyle pushed to the frount, where Draco saw that it was a list.
QUIDDITCH TRIALS
This weekend, any queries, or can't make it, contact Minerva McGonagall.
Gryffindor Nominee's
Katie Bell - Chaser
Harry Potter - Seeker
Colin Creevey - Beater
Alicia Spinnett - Chaser
Ron Weasley - Keeper
Ginny Weasley - Seeker
Seamus Finnigan - Beater
Slytherin Nominee's
Marcus Flint - Chaser
Cora Black - Chaser
Draco Malfoy - Seeker
Kane Thornton - Beater
Pansy Parkinson - Keeper
Gregory Goyle - Beater
Vincent Crabbe - Beater
Hufflepuff Nominee's
Justin Finch-Fletchley - Keeper
Hannah Abbott - Chaser
Micheal Corner - Beater
Jordan Micheal - Chaser
Drew Lingard - Seeker
Ravenclaw Nominee's
Terry Boot - Chaser
Peter Yorreyn - Beater
Cho Chang - Seeker
Joan Weatherby - Chaser
Roger Davies - Keeper
Imogen Vestra - Beater
Nominee's please note; wear house Quidditch robes to trials, Saturday, 8am and Sunday 8am. Spectators strictly prohibited,
Yours Sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall
It because clear to everyone that Gryffindor and Slytherin had the most amount of nominee's. This would cause great conflict if the teams consisted of mostly Slytherin and Gryffindor. Draco noted that Cho was nominated. He hoped that they would be in the same team.
***
That Saturday, Draco woke at 6.00am, unable to sleep. He got up, and dressed in his Slytherin Quidditch Robes. Pansy was waiting for him downstairs.
'Hurry up Draco, you'll miss breakfast.' She said in her over annoying voice.
'I thought I'd woked up early.' Draco said gruffly.
'Not even close Draco. Now get you butt moving.' Pansy stopped to check out his butt as he walked past her.
Pansy and Draco walked to the Great Hall together. A few times, Pansy slipped her hand around Draco's waist, but everytime, he shook her off, grumbling something about it being too early in the morning to have to worry about her non stop flirting. But Draco, let me assure you, was wide awake when he saw Cho sitting with Mariette, her curly haired friend, in the dining room {A/N :- I think her name's Mariette, can't check it because my friend is borrowing my Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix, ah well, it's her name now.}.
'Hi! Oh hi Draco! Over here!' Cho called out to him across the Great Hall.
'I'll see you later.' He muttered to Pansy and they split, much to Pansy's dismay. Draco headed over to Cho and Mariette.
'Hey Cho, hey Mariette. How are you ladies this morning?' Draco said in his most charming, gentlemanlike voice. Mariette giggled.
'I'm good Draco, are you ready for the trials?' Cho asked him.
'Well, actually, I haven't had the chance to practice my Quidditch all over the summer, and I may be a bit rusty around the edges.' At that moment, the Great Hall was filled with owls, most likely from parents who had heard about the events occuring at Hogwarts this year. Draco looked around and noticed Quinton flying towards him.
'Oh my Gosh, Draco, is that your owl?' Cho said in awe. Quinton landed on Draco's shoulder and stuck his leg out so that he may take off the small piece of parchment.
'Here,' He said handing Quinton to Cho, 'Could you hold him for a quick minute? His name's Quinton.' Cho looked ready to kiss him, just as well because Harry had just walked into the Great Hall. Instead though, Cho and Mariette resumed praising Draco's owl. Draco decided on opening his letter.
Dear Draco,
I heard about the Bulgarian Chaser coming to referee your Quidditch games, I have also rigged the judging so you will be selected into the toughest Hogwarts team. I wish you the best of luck.
On another topic, congratulations on becoming Prefect. I was a Prefect back in my day at Hogwarts. Waste of time that school. I knew I should have sent you to Durmstrang Institute. Professor Karkaroff would have taught you well.
I wouldn't have thought you'd have noticed your prize purebred owl missing, so I borrowed him for a few days to deliver this letter to you. You had better be taking good care of him, he'll be needing to take many long trips.
Yours truly, Lucious Malfoy
'Who was it from?' Cho noticed Draco had finnished the letter.
'My father, um, congratulating me for becoming a Prefect, wishing me good luck for the Quidditch, and telling me he borrowed Quinton, nothing major.'
'Oh, yes, good luck Draco, personally, I think Harry's a shoe in for seeker in one of the teams.' After seeing the look on Draco's face she quickly added 'Well, seeing as he's Dumbledore's pet and all.' Draco's expression relaxed a small bit, but at that moment, Harry and Ginny walked past.
'I can't believe McGonagall didn't nominate Ron!' Harry said with an outrage.
'Yeah, then at least he'd be here with us, at what, seven thirty!' Ginny exclaimed with a quick watch check. Draco was tempted to start singing Weasley is our King but his ever growing desire to be with Cho made him keep his mouth shut. Somehow, Draco's feelings of hatrid for Harry were being slowly replaced by strong feelings for Cho. There was definitely something about Cho. So at this, Draco let Harry and Ginny go, in light of this, Harry looked back, extremely puzzled that Draco had not said anything about Ron. Without missing a beat, Harry kept up with Ginny and said nothing.
'Shall we?' Draco held his arm out for Cho to take, she hesitated, but not for long, and took his arm.
'Mariette, I'll see you in the Ravenclaw common room when Quidditch trials are over.' The girls waved goodbye to eachother, and Draco led Cho out of the Great Hall, which had it's ceiling bewitched to look like a bright, sunny day.
Cho and Draco both heaved sighs of relief when they stepped out onto the grounds and it actually was a bright and sunny day, without a cloud to be seen for miles. They walked cautiously over to the Quidditch Pitch, arms linked, and brooms in hands. At first sight of students zooming around on their brooms warming up, Cho dropped Draco's arm. He didn't mind.
'Cho, want to come for a warm up lap?' Draco jumped on his broom and kicked off from the ground.
'Sure!' Cho copied his action and they flew side by side around the Quidditch Pitch five times before Maddam Hooch blew her whistle signalling for all fliers to come down and begin the session.
'Firstly, I would like you to separate into your primary positions. Seekers over there,' She motioned to a space, 'Keepers over there,' Again motioning to a space, 'Chasers over there,' Another space was chosen for the chasers, 'And last but most certainly not least, beaters over there by the chasers.' Maddam Hooch gestured to next to the chasers.
Cho found it quite unnerving to be standing in between her current love interrest, No! I shouldn't be thinking about Draco like that! And her past love interrest, Harry. Even though Cho didn't want to, and was resisting with every bone in her body, she couldn't help but like Draco, just a teensy bit, could she? Cho went into thinking about on the Hogwarts Express, he had appologised to everyone he'd upset, without even a second thought. And the fact that Draco had not once said something to Harry, or any other student, that could be labeled offensive, at least, not while she was around. Maybe he was just being a gentleman around her, it must have been her imagination that he could ever like her, or, for that matter, anyone who wasn't a Slytherin. Quite a waste of a lovely person, Cho thought to herself.
'Ok, I'm going to let the balls go now, play as teams, preferably in your own house teams. Ravenclaw and Slytherin are to be aiming for the South goal posts, while Gryffindor and Hufflepuff are to be aiming for the North goal posts.' Maddam Hooch waved her wand, and the score board now had four spaces. She blew here whistle and released the balls. All Quidditch players kicked off from the ground and resumed their familiar positions on the pitch. Draco and Cho stayed quite on eachother's tails most of the time, eyeing eachother every once in a while, and the other 10 % of the time they went looking for the Snitch.
After about 15 minutes, the scores were :- Gryffindor - 30, Slytherin - 40, Hufflepuff - 20 and Ravenclaw - 20. This was a close match. Draco looked around and spotted that Ginny Weasley was a seeker as well. This, being extremely unfair being as Gryffindor had two seekers. Draco decided then to perform a Wronski Feint, a special move that Viktor Krum himself had taught Draco in his fourth year at Hogwarts, when the Triwizard Cup was being held. Draco swooshed his Quidditch robes and dove. He noticed that Harry was speeding after him, but not Cho, she had gone off to the other side of the Pitch searching for the Snitch, not at all watching Harry and Draco fight for the Snitch that wasn't there. But all of a sudden, from out of no where, it was there! Harry must have seen it as well, because he dove faster than what he has been going while tailing Draco. Draco also picked up the speed, but a bludger came smashing in their direction, sending both the boys spinning. The Snitch had vannished again. Draco gave Micheal Corner, a Hufflepuff beater, a death stare, and continued flying.
Quite a while later, Ginny Weasley caught the Snitch by sheer accident, and the muck around game ended. Maddam Hooch blew her whistle and called everyone down to her.
'I thank you all for coming, that shall be all for today, same time tomorrow, oh and by the way, nice catch Miss Weasley.' Ginny went slightly red, and Harry congratulated her as well, stating he couldn't have done it better himself.
Cho turned to Draco.
'I saw your Wronski Feint, that was impressive! Shame the Snitch turned up!' Cho laughed softly and her soft, black hair fell over her face, causing her to look more beautiful than before. They turned to walk back to the Castle, but Cho was interrupted by Harry.
'Cho, Cho! Mind if I have a word?' Harry called out to her, gesturing to Ginny that he'd only be a minute.
'Wait for me Draco?' Cho asked, Draco nodded. Harry and Cho went for a brisk walk.
'What can I do for you Harry?' Cho asked. They were wandering into the shade of the Forbidden Forrest.
'Well, Cho, I was just thinking, I'm, well, I'm, I'm sorry about what happened last year between us. I just wanted to make it up to you.'
'How Harry? I just don't think we were meant to be together, what with you always running to Hermione, I just couldn't handle it.'
'Shhhhh, don't talk.' Harry said soothingly. Cho wondered why she didn't want this, last year, it had seemed nice at the time, but she supposed it was just a rebound for Cedric's death. She shuddered at the thought. Harry embraced her in a long hug. She didn't, she just didn't feel right about it, her head was racing with memories, of Harry, Cedric, and Draco. She pulled away from him.
'You said you only wanted to talk?'
'Sorry Cho, I just got a bit carried away is all. Just thinking about you gets me on a high never thought imaginable. It's like being on the Quidditch Pitch searching for the Snitch twenty-four seven. You mean a lot to me Cho.'
'I'm sorry Harry, but you are only a friend. I just don't see you in that light. Last year, that was, well, that was just a rebound from Cedric.' She had finally gotten the words out. 'I'm so sorry Harry.'
'Don't worry about it, I'll be quite alright, I'll just need my Firebolt more than usual.' Harry's feeble attempt at a joke in his situation resulted in an uncomfortable silence. The pair headed back to their companions, who, surprisingly, weren't ripping eachother's heads off.
'Oh Harry, let me know if you're starting DA again will you?' Cho said
'I'll do that Cho.' Was his reply, and he and Ginny headed off to the castle.
'What did Pot, I mean Harry want?' Draco asked Cho.
'He wanted me back,' Judging the look on Draco's face, he didn't know about them last year, 'Well, during Professor Umbridge's reign of terror some students, me and Harry included, were a part of a secret defense against the dark arts club, and, well, Harry, I just was so upset about Cedric at the time, I didn't really like him, and he always ran off to Hermione.' Cho stopped short. 'Well, that's in the past, I made that clear to Harry.'
'Is this DA the club you told me about?' Draco asked.
'The very same!' Cho said with a grin.
'Oh but you're Head Girl! You shouldn't be running around breaking the rules!' Draco said playfully, and Cho shoved him. He chased her all the way back to the castle.
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*Sorry, I was going to write about the second day of trials, and who makes the team, but it's way late, and I just wanted the chapter to end so I can go to bed! Sorry! Please review and tell me what I should do in the future! I already have a basic idea of where the story's going, but please, I need some fill in's!*
~Gryffindor Gal~