Even When There's No Way, There's Always A Will
~* Hey everyone, I'm so sorry this has taken so long to get this chapter up. . . I promise to try to update sooner from now on. I do believe that the symbol problem that seemed to be in ff.net has been fixed !! yay! So anyway, here's the next chapter, I've had to hunt for some French & German names because only one person reviewed with names. . . by the way, thanks to Ronandhermioneforever, Craig, sas, Inusasmie, and Erin. If I haven't mentioned anyone, sorry! So here's chapter 19! *~
Chapter 19 ~ Starkals Students
It had been two weeks since the Starkals students and they had been training for Quidditch like it meant the world to them. Also, Draco had returned from St. Mungo's. Andrea and Cho were basically the only people who were happy about this. Cho had even tried to get back together with Draco, but he was still extremely worried about his father. Draco had explained to Cho that he still loved her (and she still loved him!), but they could never be together as long as Lucious was in the picture.
That Tuesday night was apparently a special night. There were rumours going around the school that the Starkals teams were to be announced that night.
Harry, Hermione and Ron were sitting on the brilliant green grass of the Hogwarts grounds, admiring how pretty it looked with the four Quidditch Pitches and their stadiums.
'I can't believe how much effort went into these grounds.' Hermione mused, gazing dreamily at the brilliant blue lake.
'I can.' Ron said. 'I mean, Dumbledore always wants perfection whenever Hogwarts hosts a special event.' He looked at the grass, watching a small bug crawl it's way over to where Harry was sitting.
'I can't wait to play these people from Australia. I reckon it'll be awesome.' Harry said, as he tapped the bug with his finger.
At that moment, a group of girls from Starkals Academy came over to where the three friends were sitting. One of the Starkals girls tapped Harry on the shoulder, and Harry, Ron and Hermione stood to face them.
'I heard about YOU. You're Harry Potter.' One girl said.
'Who are you?' Harry asked.
'Me? I'm Simone Harrison.' Simone said. 'This is Tai Sullivan, Kerri Stallard, Victoria Heather, Loren McDonald and Brittany Mitchell.' She gestured to the five girls around her. Kerri and Victoria waved, however, the other three remained still.
'I heard that a boy from this school was in the psychiatric ward at St. Mungo's Mental Institution.' Loren said. Hermione gave the Starkals students a mean look as they laughed un-controllably, well, except for Kerri and Victoria, who seemed to be giving Loren looks of shame.
'Loren, we're here to play Quidditch and have fun, not to tease students from Hogwarts.' Kerri said softly.
'Fine.' Loren stalked off, followed closely by Brittany and Simone.
The remaining three girls looked over to Harry, Ron and Hermione.
'Sorry about them, they can be a tad rude sometimes.' Tai said.
'Oh, that's alright,' Ron said.
'But just so you know, Draco wasn't in the psychiatric ward, and St. Mungo's is just a regular hospital.' Hermione added.
'Aw Hermione, it was more fun when the foreigners thought Malfoy was a psycho.' Ron said.
'Yeah, and why do you suddenly call him "Draco"?' Harry asked, looking at Hermione suspiciously. Hermione shifted slightly.
'Um, well, I've been talking to Andrea regularly these days, and she likes me to call him Draco.' Hermione said, flushing a small bit.
'This Draco character, he has two names? What does "Malfoy" stand for? Mean- Asshole-Living-For-Obscene-Youth?' Tai asked. Ron and Harry burst out laughing, and rolled around on the floor, clutching their sides. Hermione, however was not impressed. She stamped her foot impatiently.
'No. Malfoy is Draco's last name, you know, Draco Malfoy?' Hermione stated.
'Oh, but Hermione, Mean-Asshole-Living-For-Obscene-Youth is so much better!' Ron said, standing up.
Kerri looked down at Harry.
'Hey, I recognise you! You were one of the people in Quidditch Robes standing on the side of the red carpet that we had to walk down!' Kerri said, and offered Harry a hand up. He took it and got to his feet.
'Nice to meet you, Kerri is it?' Harry said. Kerri smiled.
'Yes, it's Kerri! Nice to meet you too Harry. I hope we'll be versing eachother in Quidditch!'
'That would be nice.' Harry said. 'Has Professor Bennett or whatever her name is decided the teams yet?'
'It's Professor Bishop, and we think she has, but all will be revealed tonight at dinner.' Tai said, correcting Harry's mistake in their Professor's name.
'Great! I can't wait to see who gets in the teams! Good luck to all three of you, and may Simone, Brittany and Loren not make either teams.' Harry said.
'Oh, I dunno. . . Loren's a pretty good Beater.' Victoria said. 'I wouldn't be surprised if she made one of the teams.'
'Well guys, we'd better go change into our robes for the presentation tonight.' Kerri said to her two friends.
'Okay, nice meeting you Harry, Ron and Hermione.' Victoria said, 'Oh, and you can call me Vicky if you like.' Vicky smiled at the three, and the Starkals girls headed back up to the castle.
'They were nice. Shame about the other three though.' Ron said, as he watched the retreating girls.
'They just had a small attitude problem, that's all.' Hermione said.
'Hermione, you have a problem. First you're being all chummy with Andrea, then you call Malfoy "Draco", and now you're being all soft on the Starkals Bitches.' Harry said.
'You don't know they're bitches, Harry.' Hermione scoffed. 'For all you know, they could be nice once you get to know them.' She followed the tracks that the Starkals girls had left on the grass back to the Hogwarts Castle.
'What's up her nose?' Ron asked, turning to Harry, who simply shrugged.
~***~
'See Potter, Weasley and Granger talking to those lowly Starkals students?' Draco said to Andrea, as they looked out the window to see Draco's most hated Gryffindors talking to some Starkals girls.
'Oh Draco, you should at least be nice to Hermione. While you were in hospital she was very kind and supportive to me.' Andrea said.
'I don't care. She never is nice to me, and she's a filthy Mudblood.'
'Draco, you're going back to your usual self before you fell in love with Cho. I thought you were still in love with her?' Andrea said, looking sadly at Draco.
'Don't get me wrong Andrea, I still love Cho,' He sighed. 'I just can't figure out a way to be with her. And in the mean time, I have to act like normal.' Draco said. Andrea put her hands on Draco's shoulders and brought him around to look into her eyes.
'Draco, if you love Cho, you should do anything and everything in your power to keep her, no matter WHAT your father says. She's willing to risk it, but why aren't you?' Andrea said, spoken only like a true friend.
'Father will have Cho hurt. I know he will. And what's more, with his on going arrangements for me to marry Pansy, I dunno. . .' Andrea looked shocked.
'Draco, do you know why you got better?' She asked.
'No, I just figured it wore off, you know, like the Polyjuice Potion?' Draco began to wonder why it was that he got well.
'You recovered from the Demrah Potion because it was given to you by a family member. That means that Lucious poisoned you with the Potion, or else you wouldn't have been able to shake off the effects.' Andrea said softly. Draco turned pale.
'Y-Y-You mean to say that my father is not going to punnish Cho, but ME?' He asked slowly.
'I don't know, probably, but the only way you could have come out of your state is if you were given the potion by a family member. Maybe Lucious just wanted to scare you into marrying Pansy so that you wouldn't get hurt physically. . .' Andrea wondered.
'Well, he'd better not try anything like that again.' Draco said, getting extremely mad at his father, and planning on sending him a Howler with Quinton.
'Okay, well, anyway, we'd better get to the Great Hall, I hear that they're announcing the Starkals Quidditch teams tonight!' Andrea jumped to her feet, dragging Draco up with her, and the two Slytherin's set off to the Great Hall.
~***~
There was a lot of noise in the Great Hall that evening. A smaller table had been placed in the Great Hall, for the Starkals Academy students, and they were all seated, and quite quiet, anxiously awaiting their Professor to be called apon to announce the Quidditch teams. The rest of the students, the Hogwarts lot, were making an extreme amount of noise.
'Settle down everyone.' Professor Dumbledore had stood up, and no one had noticed. Almost like someone had placed earmuffs on everyone's ears, the Great Hall fell extremely silent.
Each and every student in the hall was anxiously awaiting the upcoming announcement.
'Professor Bishop, you may take it from here.' Dumbledore took his seat as the young witch with flaming red hair stood up next to him.
'Students of both Starkals Academy and Hogwarts School, I do believe that you have all been anxiously awaiting this announcement for a while now. I have decided the teams of which are to participate in the InterSchool Quidditch Cup.' She pulled out a role of parchment, and unrolled it.
'The Starkals Black team will be as follows.' The young, pretty Headmistress cleared her throat before reading out the teams.
'Starkals Black. Keeper - Joel Pancari.' There was an uproar of cheer from the Starkals table. Joel was obviously very popular. He headed up to the teachers table, and was informed to go into the chamber on the left of the table.
'Beaters - Loren McDonald and Alex Hodgson.' Harry watched as the annoying girl who he had met earlier on that day, and a tall blonde boy walked through the opening to the left of the teachers table, and dissapeared out of sight.
'Chasers - Josh Hickling-Wright, Ashlee Davis and Kerri Stallard.' A tall boy with brown hair walked across to the left of the teachers table, closely followed by two short girls, one Harry recognised as the nice girl that had spoken to him.
'Finally, Captain and Seeker - Tai Sullivan.' The Starkals boys cheered as Tai made her way into the chamber to the left of the teachers table. Hermione nudged Harry.
'That was one of the girls who was nice to us this afternoon! I'm glad she made it, but not so happy about that Loren girl getting in.' Hermione muttered. Harry gave a grunt of agreement.
Professor Bishop continued, now eager to announce the Starkals White team.
'Starkals White. Keeper - Phillip Davidson.' A tall, gorgeous guy with brown hair and eyes walked over to the teachers table with a grin on his face. He paused at the table for a second, before going into the chamber on the right hand side to the teachers table.
'Beaters - Luke Gal and Brittany Mitchell.' The two students rose from their seats and followed Phillip's footsteps, all the while Starkals Students were going wild over their selection in the team.
'Chasers - Ricky Kunde, Melanie Bennett, who will also be the Captain of Starkals White, and Ryan Pancari.' The Starkals Black team Keeper's brother got the same reaction as his brother before him. The three Chasers disappeared into the chamber on the right side of the teachers table.
'Finally, the Seeker for Starkals White,' Professor Bishop paused for effect, before saying the final name. 'Victoria Heather.' Everyone who had met Vicky, including Harry, Ron and Hermione, cheered loudly, as the small girl with black hair and green eyes jumped up out of her seat and practically ran into the right chamber.
'Not a one of them deserved it more.' Hermione whispered to Harry and Ron.
'True.' Ron said, Harry just nodded, his eyes fixated on the girl, who resembled him now that he thought about it.
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~* And there's the chapter! Sorry guys! I'll really try hard to get the next chapter up soon. Don't forget to please give me some French and German names if you know any! Thanks guys! Please review. I'm leaning towards getting Cho & Draco back together, but I dunno, and I MIGHT form a relationship between Harry and Vicky. Please tell me if I should or shouldn't do these things! *~
~Gryffindor Gal~
~* Hey everyone, I'm so sorry this has taken so long to get this chapter up. . . I promise to try to update sooner from now on. I do believe that the symbol problem that seemed to be in ff.net has been fixed !! yay! So anyway, here's the next chapter, I've had to hunt for some French & German names because only one person reviewed with names. . . by the way, thanks to Ronandhermioneforever, Craig, sas, Inusasmie, and Erin. If I haven't mentioned anyone, sorry! So here's chapter 19! *~
Chapter 19 ~ Starkals Students
It had been two weeks since the Starkals students and they had been training for Quidditch like it meant the world to them. Also, Draco had returned from St. Mungo's. Andrea and Cho were basically the only people who were happy about this. Cho had even tried to get back together with Draco, but he was still extremely worried about his father. Draco had explained to Cho that he still loved her (and she still loved him!), but they could never be together as long as Lucious was in the picture.
That Tuesday night was apparently a special night. There were rumours going around the school that the Starkals teams were to be announced that night.
Harry, Hermione and Ron were sitting on the brilliant green grass of the Hogwarts grounds, admiring how pretty it looked with the four Quidditch Pitches and their stadiums.
'I can't believe how much effort went into these grounds.' Hermione mused, gazing dreamily at the brilliant blue lake.
'I can.' Ron said. 'I mean, Dumbledore always wants perfection whenever Hogwarts hosts a special event.' He looked at the grass, watching a small bug crawl it's way over to where Harry was sitting.
'I can't wait to play these people from Australia. I reckon it'll be awesome.' Harry said, as he tapped the bug with his finger.
At that moment, a group of girls from Starkals Academy came over to where the three friends were sitting. One of the Starkals girls tapped Harry on the shoulder, and Harry, Ron and Hermione stood to face them.
'I heard about YOU. You're Harry Potter.' One girl said.
'Who are you?' Harry asked.
'Me? I'm Simone Harrison.' Simone said. 'This is Tai Sullivan, Kerri Stallard, Victoria Heather, Loren McDonald and Brittany Mitchell.' She gestured to the five girls around her. Kerri and Victoria waved, however, the other three remained still.
'I heard that a boy from this school was in the psychiatric ward at St. Mungo's Mental Institution.' Loren said. Hermione gave the Starkals students a mean look as they laughed un-controllably, well, except for Kerri and Victoria, who seemed to be giving Loren looks of shame.
'Loren, we're here to play Quidditch and have fun, not to tease students from Hogwarts.' Kerri said softly.
'Fine.' Loren stalked off, followed closely by Brittany and Simone.
The remaining three girls looked over to Harry, Ron and Hermione.
'Sorry about them, they can be a tad rude sometimes.' Tai said.
'Oh, that's alright,' Ron said.
'But just so you know, Draco wasn't in the psychiatric ward, and St. Mungo's is just a regular hospital.' Hermione added.
'Aw Hermione, it was more fun when the foreigners thought Malfoy was a psycho.' Ron said.
'Yeah, and why do you suddenly call him "Draco"?' Harry asked, looking at Hermione suspiciously. Hermione shifted slightly.
'Um, well, I've been talking to Andrea regularly these days, and she likes me to call him Draco.' Hermione said, flushing a small bit.
'This Draco character, he has two names? What does "Malfoy" stand for? Mean- Asshole-Living-For-Obscene-Youth?' Tai asked. Ron and Harry burst out laughing, and rolled around on the floor, clutching their sides. Hermione, however was not impressed. She stamped her foot impatiently.
'No. Malfoy is Draco's last name, you know, Draco Malfoy?' Hermione stated.
'Oh, but Hermione, Mean-Asshole-Living-For-Obscene-Youth is so much better!' Ron said, standing up.
Kerri looked down at Harry.
'Hey, I recognise you! You were one of the people in Quidditch Robes standing on the side of the red carpet that we had to walk down!' Kerri said, and offered Harry a hand up. He took it and got to his feet.
'Nice to meet you, Kerri is it?' Harry said. Kerri smiled.
'Yes, it's Kerri! Nice to meet you too Harry. I hope we'll be versing eachother in Quidditch!'
'That would be nice.' Harry said. 'Has Professor Bennett or whatever her name is decided the teams yet?'
'It's Professor Bishop, and we think she has, but all will be revealed tonight at dinner.' Tai said, correcting Harry's mistake in their Professor's name.
'Great! I can't wait to see who gets in the teams! Good luck to all three of you, and may Simone, Brittany and Loren not make either teams.' Harry said.
'Oh, I dunno. . . Loren's a pretty good Beater.' Victoria said. 'I wouldn't be surprised if she made one of the teams.'
'Well guys, we'd better go change into our robes for the presentation tonight.' Kerri said to her two friends.
'Okay, nice meeting you Harry, Ron and Hermione.' Victoria said, 'Oh, and you can call me Vicky if you like.' Vicky smiled at the three, and the Starkals girls headed back up to the castle.
'They were nice. Shame about the other three though.' Ron said, as he watched the retreating girls.
'They just had a small attitude problem, that's all.' Hermione said.
'Hermione, you have a problem. First you're being all chummy with Andrea, then you call Malfoy "Draco", and now you're being all soft on the Starkals Bitches.' Harry said.
'You don't know they're bitches, Harry.' Hermione scoffed. 'For all you know, they could be nice once you get to know them.' She followed the tracks that the Starkals girls had left on the grass back to the Hogwarts Castle.
'What's up her nose?' Ron asked, turning to Harry, who simply shrugged.
~***~
'See Potter, Weasley and Granger talking to those lowly Starkals students?' Draco said to Andrea, as they looked out the window to see Draco's most hated Gryffindors talking to some Starkals girls.
'Oh Draco, you should at least be nice to Hermione. While you were in hospital she was very kind and supportive to me.' Andrea said.
'I don't care. She never is nice to me, and she's a filthy Mudblood.'
'Draco, you're going back to your usual self before you fell in love with Cho. I thought you were still in love with her?' Andrea said, looking sadly at Draco.
'Don't get me wrong Andrea, I still love Cho,' He sighed. 'I just can't figure out a way to be with her. And in the mean time, I have to act like normal.' Draco said. Andrea put her hands on Draco's shoulders and brought him around to look into her eyes.
'Draco, if you love Cho, you should do anything and everything in your power to keep her, no matter WHAT your father says. She's willing to risk it, but why aren't you?' Andrea said, spoken only like a true friend.
'Father will have Cho hurt. I know he will. And what's more, with his on going arrangements for me to marry Pansy, I dunno. . .' Andrea looked shocked.
'Draco, do you know why you got better?' She asked.
'No, I just figured it wore off, you know, like the Polyjuice Potion?' Draco began to wonder why it was that he got well.
'You recovered from the Demrah Potion because it was given to you by a family member. That means that Lucious poisoned you with the Potion, or else you wouldn't have been able to shake off the effects.' Andrea said softly. Draco turned pale.
'Y-Y-You mean to say that my father is not going to punnish Cho, but ME?' He asked slowly.
'I don't know, probably, but the only way you could have come out of your state is if you were given the potion by a family member. Maybe Lucious just wanted to scare you into marrying Pansy so that you wouldn't get hurt physically. . .' Andrea wondered.
'Well, he'd better not try anything like that again.' Draco said, getting extremely mad at his father, and planning on sending him a Howler with Quinton.
'Okay, well, anyway, we'd better get to the Great Hall, I hear that they're announcing the Starkals Quidditch teams tonight!' Andrea jumped to her feet, dragging Draco up with her, and the two Slytherin's set off to the Great Hall.
~***~
There was a lot of noise in the Great Hall that evening. A smaller table had been placed in the Great Hall, for the Starkals Academy students, and they were all seated, and quite quiet, anxiously awaiting their Professor to be called apon to announce the Quidditch teams. The rest of the students, the Hogwarts lot, were making an extreme amount of noise.
'Settle down everyone.' Professor Dumbledore had stood up, and no one had noticed. Almost like someone had placed earmuffs on everyone's ears, the Great Hall fell extremely silent.
Each and every student in the hall was anxiously awaiting the upcoming announcement.
'Professor Bishop, you may take it from here.' Dumbledore took his seat as the young witch with flaming red hair stood up next to him.
'Students of both Starkals Academy and Hogwarts School, I do believe that you have all been anxiously awaiting this announcement for a while now. I have decided the teams of which are to participate in the InterSchool Quidditch Cup.' She pulled out a role of parchment, and unrolled it.
'The Starkals Black team will be as follows.' The young, pretty Headmistress cleared her throat before reading out the teams.
'Starkals Black. Keeper - Joel Pancari.' There was an uproar of cheer from the Starkals table. Joel was obviously very popular. He headed up to the teachers table, and was informed to go into the chamber on the left of the table.
'Beaters - Loren McDonald and Alex Hodgson.' Harry watched as the annoying girl who he had met earlier on that day, and a tall blonde boy walked through the opening to the left of the teachers table, and dissapeared out of sight.
'Chasers - Josh Hickling-Wright, Ashlee Davis and Kerri Stallard.' A tall boy with brown hair walked across to the left of the teachers table, closely followed by two short girls, one Harry recognised as the nice girl that had spoken to him.
'Finally, Captain and Seeker - Tai Sullivan.' The Starkals boys cheered as Tai made her way into the chamber to the left of the teachers table. Hermione nudged Harry.
'That was one of the girls who was nice to us this afternoon! I'm glad she made it, but not so happy about that Loren girl getting in.' Hermione muttered. Harry gave a grunt of agreement.
Professor Bishop continued, now eager to announce the Starkals White team.
'Starkals White. Keeper - Phillip Davidson.' A tall, gorgeous guy with brown hair and eyes walked over to the teachers table with a grin on his face. He paused at the table for a second, before going into the chamber on the right hand side to the teachers table.
'Beaters - Luke Gal and Brittany Mitchell.' The two students rose from their seats and followed Phillip's footsteps, all the while Starkals Students were going wild over their selection in the team.
'Chasers - Ricky Kunde, Melanie Bennett, who will also be the Captain of Starkals White, and Ryan Pancari.' The Starkals Black team Keeper's brother got the same reaction as his brother before him. The three Chasers disappeared into the chamber on the right side of the teachers table.
'Finally, the Seeker for Starkals White,' Professor Bishop paused for effect, before saying the final name. 'Victoria Heather.' Everyone who had met Vicky, including Harry, Ron and Hermione, cheered loudly, as the small girl with black hair and green eyes jumped up out of her seat and practically ran into the right chamber.
'Not a one of them deserved it more.' Hermione whispered to Harry and Ron.
'True.' Ron said, Harry just nodded, his eyes fixated on the girl, who resembled him now that he thought about it.
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~* And there's the chapter! Sorry guys! I'll really try hard to get the next chapter up soon. Don't forget to please give me some French and German names if you know any! Thanks guys! Please review. I'm leaning towards getting Cho & Draco back together, but I dunno, and I MIGHT form a relationship between Harry and Vicky. Please tell me if I should or shouldn't do these things! *~
~Gryffindor Gal~