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Author's Note: The idea for this story came when I saw an action figure of Harry Potter called Extreme Quidditch…Many thanks to Veer for beta-work, inspiration, help with some of the dialogue (and the fun following attempts) and down right silly conversations!

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Chapter 14

The next evening Harry and Draco prepared themselves for an evening of fun. They were greeted warmly by Arthur and Molly who gave them both a hug and told them how thankful they were that they both had such good ideas. Clearly, Ginny had brought them up to date on that night's plans.

As usual those Weasley brothers present, in this case Fred and George, didn't start their interrogation of Ginny until after diner as they were all in the living room enjoying a cup of tea.

"So Gin, have you seen this guy of yours lately?", George started, forgetting about subtlety.

"I have actually,", Ginny said, trying not to smile at the surprised look on George's face. "I saw him the day before yesterday."

"Oh", George said, surprised that he got that answer that easily.

"Does he know about the Extreme Quidditch match?", Fred now wanted to know.

"Of course he does!" Ginny sounded like she couldn't believe that he would even ask such a question. "We talk about Quidditch a lot you know, especially since he found out that I work at the sports section of the Daily Prophet."

"So, what does he think about it?", Fred pressed on.

"He thinks that it's great that I play. He did have his doubts about me playing Extreme Quidditch though, but when I told him I would be playing with all my brothers, he was fine with it."

Fred and George still looked utterly amazed at the fact that they were now getting the information they'd been after for weeks. Nobody noticed Harry and Draco trying not to burst out laughing. Or Oliver who was listening intently.

"Will he come to see you on Anniversery Day, or does he have to work?", George now asked her.

"He doesn't have to work. Why?", Ginny now sounded suspicious.

"Well, if you two have been seeing each other as long as you've been telling us, we'll want to at least meet him Gin." Fred sounded reasonable. Unfortunately, whenever the twins sounded reasonable they were up to something.

"Oh, in that case you'll be very happy to hear that he will be there at Anniversary Day.", Ginny said looking at both her brothers.

"So we will meet him there?"

Ginny nodded.

"When will he be there Gin? We wouldn't want to miss him, now would we?", George said.

"Oh, don't worry. You definitely won't miss him. He'll be there most of the day, I'm guessing. We've only agreed to meet at the party, because I don't know how long the game will take and I didn't want him to expect me to be around him all day long. So, you'll have to wait until the party and then I will introduce him." She smiled sweetly.

Now the twins were getting suspicious. It had been strange to have Ginny answer all their question so reasonably, she hadn't done that before. Ever. And now she had that smile. She hadn't smiled at them ever since she had received Charlie's letter and Bill had come to visit her.

"Ginny, are you alright?", Fred asked her just to make sure.

"Well, of course I am alright Fred!", she answered him, trying to contain her amusement. "In a couple of weeks we'll be playing Extreme Quidditch in front of the NQL and loads of people from the Quidditch world, I'll be playing with all my brothers, my colleague will be writing about it in the paper, and my boyfriend will be there. What's not to be alright about?" With that she walked out of the room to get some chocolate chip cookies from the kitchen.

While Ginny had been finishing her conversation with her brothers, Oliver had walked over and had purposely started a conversation with Draco and Harry about the next Quidditch season. He winced a couple of times as Ginny came close to revealing things about them and sighed in relieve everytime she kept things going the way she wanted to. They were still in their conversation when Ginny left the room. Oliver kept on talking so that he could avoid being questioned by the twins, like they had the last time he had been there when Ginny's boyfriend had come up. He was thankful to Harry who kept the conversation going and filled in silences whenever he let them fall. He couldn't wait until the Anniversary Party. Then finally he could tell the world how he felt about his little Miss Temper, as he had started calling her after that remark Harry had made. He glanced over at the twins. Suddenly, he was terrified of the interrogation that would surely follow after the big announcement he was preparing. Oh Merlin…

Since Anniversary Day was now approaching, the press was paying attention to it too. They'd already mentioned the demonstration game of Extreme Quidditch. Oliver wasn't sure how, but they had managed to get the names of the players. His contact at the NQL had told him that when the news was out that Harry Potter would be on on the team with the Weasleys against Oliver's teammates of Puddlemere United, there had been a run for the tickets. Needless to say that the NQL was already very happy with Extreme Quidditch!

Draco had read the newspapers and magazines too and had also received an owl from Oliver in which he told him all that he knew about it. Draco had appreciated it. After Harry had defeated Voldemort it had taken them a considerable amount of trouble to go back to a quiet life without too much attention from the people from the press. It had suited them both just fine. Harry wasn't too happy about it either.

"I don't want to keep telling people how I killed Voldemort and then kept quiet and how I absolutely love it!", he had said. "They never wanted to believe I didn't care about the fame and the hero thing. Hell, they all thought it up, I never did! After I killed him we managed to get away from it all and now it'll be starting all over again, just because I helped Oliver out!."

He was pacing the room now. "And before you know it, they'll have dragged everybody I love and care about into this too and I hate that even more!"

"And, Quidditch nut that you are, and since you've already promised everybody that you'll play, you'll in fact play." Draco nodded. "So, there are now a couple of options open to you. One, you go in there early with the rest of the team and let it wash over you. Two, you go in early but refuse to talk to the press. Three, you come in late just in time to change and get ready for the game. That way you won't have to deal with the press very much."

Harry was seriously thinking it over. "There's a big possibility that when they see you there with me, they'll want to know about that too, Dray.", he then said, biting his lip. More than Harry, Draco had fiercely battled for their privacy, and Harry didn't want him to be confronted with the press' curiosity without having talked it over.

"And?", Draco wanted to know.

"Dray, I know how much you value our privacy. I really want you there, but I would totally understand if you didn't come because you might not want the questions."

Draco felt that nervous Harry just lurking around the corner and decided that he didn't want him any nearer. He stoond in Harry's line of pacing and wrapped his arms around him. Tight.

"You silly Gryffindor! I couldn't care less about those media people. All I want is for you to play the bloody game, catch that snitch as fast as you can to minimalise your bruises, have a bit of a party and then go home."

"Yes, but……"

"No buts about it.", Draco said firmly. "We'll deal with the press, after you've played the bloody game. That way you won't be distracted by what they've said to you, you'll play the game with all you've got and then they will be distracted. And should there be questions, we'll deal with them then and there. Ok?"

Harry nodded and kissed him. Sometimes things with Draco were so simple.

Oliver was practically a nervous wreck by the time the demonstration game was about a week away. And he was taking his teammates with him. Bill and Charlie would look on in amazement at his actions and would stay very calm. To the utter frustration of their brothers. Ginny remained calm, but for an entirely different reason. She and Oliver had decided that the Anniversary Party would be the perfect time to tell her family about them. Oliver had been thinking about that evening too and that only added to his nervousness. So much so that one night he apparated over to Harry and Draco's flat to talk to them about it.

Now he was the one pacing the living room floor. It earned him a peculiar look from Draco.

"What?", he said.

"You Gryffindors do have the same way of showing that you're nervous. Is it part of the initiation? Or is it part of the requirements for being sorted into Gryffindor?"

Oliver merely looked at him and started pacing again. Draco sighed and gestured to Harry, indicating that it was his turn.

"Oliver, please sit down?", Harry asked him.

Oliver did but was fidgeting nervously in his seat.

"This isn't about the game Oliver and you know it.", Harry said in a firm and determined voice. "Why don't you tell me what's realy gotten you this riled up?"

Oliver looked at him blankly, paled and slid back in his seat. "Oh gods! You're right! It isn't about the game because we are very well prepared for it.", he mused.

"Don't I know it!", muttered Draco, who had filled more hot baths for Harry in the last weeks than he had done in all the time that they'd lived together.

"Ginny and I are going to tell her family about us that night at the Anniversary Party.", he told them.

"So what's with that that's making you so nervous?", Harry pressed on.

"I'm not sure what her brother's are going to do once we tell them that we are dating. Basically we've been – well, not lying – not telling them the truth about the fact that we were dating. I even told the twins that I didn't know who she was seeing!" Oliver said, nerves playing up again.

"How serious are you about Ginny?', Draco now asked him.

"Very serious. I'd like her to be more than just my girlfriend.", Oliver confessed. "But we haven't talked about it yet."

"Why don't you think about it? You could of course ask her to marry you that evening and give her a ring. That of course doesn't mean that you have to marry right away but it does tell her how you feel. And you'll be showing her brothers how you feel and that you're serious in your feelings towards her."

Oliver was thinking it over. He nodded. "That's a great idea, Draco."

"Besides, you've got Molly and Arthur on your side in this and they'll be at the party too.", Harry helped.

A much more relieved Oliver left their flat later that night. They received an owl a couple of days later telling them that he had indeed bought a ring and that he would be proposing to her at the party.

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