Authors Note: Here are the rest of the chapters that I have written so far. I started this story in March on so that's why it is so far along. I think I only have a handful of chapters left to go. I am going to finish this off at the end of 6th year and start a new/continuing story for 7th year. Let me know if you have any ideas for 7th year. I am leaning towards a Snape/Hermione thing for the next story... but I don't really know. Enjoy and thanks for the great reviews!

Chapter 45: Meeting with Voldie

Snape reset the wards around the castle to make sure none of the students who had left to join the dark lord were allowed inside and sent Miss Weasley a short note saying that the crisis was avoided. He decided he should report to Voldemort and say he talked with a very distraught Gabrielle Delacour and an angry Draco Malfoy. It would be good for the Order for Snape to report this too him before being summoned. It was always preferable to give the Dark lord info first without it being discovered, that was the way to avoid being cursed.

Snape send Albus a note and apparated to the Dark Lord's side. "My lord," He said kissing the hem of the evil man's robes and making sure his mind was clear.

"Severus my son, what news do you bring me?" Voldemort asked. Snape was still not used to the preferential treatment, especially being referred to in such beloved terms.

"I just came from a meeting with young Draco Malfoy and his intended Gabrielle Delacour. Miss Delacour was quite distraught. It seems Miss Parkenson impersonated her sister, kidnapped her from class and dragged her to the forest where another death eater had her real sister tied up. The two then proceeded to question her loyalty and the loyalty of young Malfoy. Needless to say the two youngsters were upset that their loyalties were being questioned and wanted my advice on if they needed to do more to prove their allegiance to you my lord." Snape told the snake like man.

"Yes, I was afraid something like this would happen. We have too many new recruits who are impulsive and have not learned their place. I can understand why they captured the girl's sister who is marrying a muggle lover, but to try and test her loyalty without my consent!" Voldemort said and it was easy to tell he was becoming upset. "I have so few servants at the moment I hesitate to kill another one, but this Parkenson girl seems to be a liability. Why do you believe she did this?"

"Miss Parkenson was betrothed to young Malfoy before Miss Delacour was sorted into Slytherin. As soon as Malfoy realized he had a way to get out of marrying Miss Parkenson he canceled his betrothal to her and changed it to Miss Delacour. Miss Parkenson is blinded by her emotions. She believes herself to be in love with Malfoy although the marriage was a merger for power nothing else. Her attempts to gain Draco's favor recently had her ostracized by her fellow Slytherins for loosing so many points and bringing on the wrath of the other houses. She is unstable. She has always been loyal to you my lord, but I do not know if her loyalty to herself is more important to her than her loyalty to you." Snape was still reeling from having such a lengthy conversation without being hexed.

"She will be dealt with. The other death eater with her has already come to me and explained his actions. He was punished but I do not question his loyalty. Thank you for your report Severus, my loyalist of servants." Voldemort told him as Wormtail, who had been standing off to the side the whole time, glared at him. "Tell me, is Dumbledore planning anything yet?"

"No my lord," Snape said. "He does not believe in taking the offensive. In fact he did not even know the students would fight back or I am sure he would never have allowed their defense group. It seems Potter is the one to worry about, but since the attack he has been under close watch by all the teachers. Rumor is that he will be staying at Hogwarts over the summer so the old man can keep a close watch on him and keep him from making plans with his little friends. I do not believe Dumbledore will ever attack, he will just bide his time until we attack again." Albus had told him to feed that misinformation to the Dark Lord so he would take his time in re-grouping. By making it sound that Albus was upset by Harry and his friends' actions the story is more believable.

Severus relayed all of his conversation back to Dumbledore. The Order needed the summer to finish their plans of attack. Voldemort still only has a small number of followers and was having difficulties recruiting now that so many had been sent to Azkaban. The dark forces would not be a threat for a while but the Order planned to take advantage of their weakness.

Tonks finally decided to have two bridesmaids for her part of the wedding party. She asked both Ginny and Hermione to be her maids. That left Remus to find another attendant as well. "Who do you think I should ask?" Remus questioned his soon to be wife. "I was thinking of asking Severus but you know he hates attention as well as the fact that there would be suspicion of his true allegiance."

"You could pick any one of the Weasley boys or another Order member like Kingsley," She suggested. "I think you could still ask Severus. He may say no, but if you want him there shouldn't be any reason not to. We'll be safe from suspicion here at Hogwarts and only family and Order members are invited anyway."

"I'll think about it. I'm not sure Harry would be too comfortable with Severus standing up with him either. I might think about asking Bill Weasley but I don't want to upset Ron if Ginny, Hermione and Harry are all in the wedding and I ask his brother over him." Remus sighed. He wished the rest of his friends were still alive to see him marry.

"I know you miss them," Tonks said giving him a hug. "I lost track of most of my friends when I became an auror. I only had a few friends at school, nothing like how you, James and Sirius were. I am happy that we have friends now."

"When are you girls going shopping?" Remus asked to lighten the mood.

"This weekend in Diagon Alley. There isn't a Hogsmead weekend until next week so we figured it would be a good time to escape. Molly, Fleur and Gabrielle are joining us as well. It's going to be a real girl's day out!" Tonks smiled thinking of the troop of them trying on dresses.

Remus went to the staff room to finish up some paperwork before the staff meeting that night. Snape was already in the room reading a book when he got there. "Good evening Severus," Remus said as he sat down at the table.

"Remus," Severus said with a nod. "What are you doing here so early? I figured you would be busy with wedding plans." Snape said with a slight smirk.

"Tonks has most of that under control. I only have one or two things left to take care of." Remus said deciding that now would be a good time to ask him. "I was wondering if you might want to be involved in the ceremony Severus."

Snape looked up from his reading confused. Why would they want him involved? Didn't he have Harry to stand up as his best man? "I thought Potter was your attendant."

"Harry is my best man but Tonks couldn't choose a single bridesmaid so she has two and now I have to have another person to even things out." Remus told him. "I know you hate these kinds of functions, but..." Remus shrugged not knowing what else to say.

"What would be expected of me?" Snape asked wary of having to make a toast or some other uncomfortable task.

"You walk one of Tonks bridesmaids down the isle and stand beside Harry during the ceremony. Then at the reception you have to dance one song with the bridesmaid. We are incorporating some muggle traditions since Tonks is a half-blood. The wedding party dance is one of them." Remus told him.

"That sounds acceptable. I assume there will be specific robes required for me to wear?" Snape sneered. Remus nodded and tried not to smile at the thought of Snape out of his traditional teaching robes. "Then I accept this honor." Snape added. He knew that his relationship with Remus had gotten better over the years, but he never imagined he would be asked to be in the man's wedding. He had never been asked to be in anyone's wedding before and felt honored that the man who he used to hate would ask him.

"Thank you Severus. I do appreciate our friendship. I know we had a lot to overcome to get to this point." Remus started to say but finished quickly when the door to the staff room opened and the rest of the teachers filed in for the meeting.

"I wonder who Remus will pick to be his other groomsman," Hermione asked the next morning while she and Ginny were looking through dress magazines. "I hope it's not one of your brothers because Ron will feel very left out."

"You're just worried they'll make you walk down the isle with someone you don't like," Ginny smirked. "I'm guessing he'll ask another professor or order member. Maybe he'll ask Professor Flitwick since he's both!" They both giggled at the idea of tiny professor Flitwick walking her down the isle and having to dance with him.

"I've never been in a wedding before; this is going to be so much fun!" Ginny told her. "I don't have any real sisters so this might be my only chance."

"It won't be your only chance if I can help it." Hermione told her with a wink, "But I do have to find a man first." They laughed again. "What did you mean by real sisters?"

"I have 6 brothers who will eventually marry and they will be my sisters-in-law and then I have you. You've always been like the sister I never had." Ginny told her.

"I know what you mean; I feel the same way about you and the boys too. Remember that I'm an only child. I think one of the reasons I broke up with Ron was because he feels too much like my brother and that just gets weird!" Hermione said. "Come on we better get down to the entrance hall to meet up with Tonks and Gabrielle.

The four ladies were meeting Molly in the Leaky Cauldron so they used the Three Broomsticks to floo there since only Tonks can apparate. "I can't wait to get my apparating license this summer!" Hermione said as she dusted off the soot that was covering her. "It at least won't be as messy!"

"Are you old enough yet?" Gabrielle asked her curiously.

"It doesn't matter now that I'm a fully qualified witch. I can get all my certifications early." Hermione told her making Ginny grin as she realized the same was true for her. "The best part is being able to do this!" She said as she used a cleaning charm on all their robes. It was the first time she had done magic outside of school and it felt good.

Molly arrived shortly after them and they all headed off to the first dress shop in Diagon Alley. It was a tiny shop specializing in wedding and special occasion robes called Celebrations. The shop was filled with different fabrics, robes and accessories. They had a few racks of robes as well as multiple books of robes that could be made with all the different fabrics.

"There are so many dresses! How am I supposed to know what I want?" Tonks asked starting to get overwhelmed.

The sales lady came over. "I'm Mary, let me help you. Why don't you start by trying on some of the pre-made robes to get an idea of what you do and don't like. Then if we get an idea of what you're looking for we can look through the books and find the perfect dress for you."

"Do you want lots of frills or a more simple dress?" Hermione asked walking over to the racks with Ginny and Molly and Gabrielle headed over to the books. Tonks was standing still in the middle of the small shop letting everyone else direct her.

"Simple but pretty. I don't want to look like a walking wedding cake but it is my wedding so I'm thinking of more than just plan robes." Tonks said smiling that she had some idea of the direction to go.

Hermione and Ginny picked out about 10 dresses and sent Tonks to the dressing room to try them on so they could get her thoughts. "So what do you think of this one?" She asked as she emerged in the first dress. The nice thing with wizard robes versus muggle ones was the wizard one adjust automatically to fit the person trying them on so you can see exactly how it fits, not just guessing.

The girls just giggled at Tonks in the dress. It was a simple white lace dress. But the layers of lace on the straight dress made her look like a mummy, especially with the pink hair! "Are you going with pink hair for the wedding?" Hermione asked her. You might want to try the dresses on with the color hair you plan on having in case they look different with different hair.

Tonks changed her hair to its natural color of brown and went to try a different dress. After 5 more dresses that were not even close to what she wanted she found one that was close. It was a white satin dress that had an empire waist and sheer loose sleeves. The top of the dress was embroidered with silver thread and had a band of silver ribbon at the empire waist. The sleeves were very thin with silver sparkles.

"I really like this style and all the detail... except..." Tonks wrinkled her nose trying to figure out how to say what she wanted.

"Except you don't want silver details because you're marring Remus who we all know doesn't handle silver well," Hermione said smiling at Tonks who looked relived that she had put it so well.

"We can experiment with using different colors in the embroidery or even using different fabrics and details," Gabrielle told her as they all approached the bride to try and see what they could do to make the dress perfect for her.

"What if we change the dress to a cream color and the details to gold? I think gold details will look better on cream colored fabric." Molly spoke up. "Unless you want to go with something more wild like pink details!" They all smiled.

"You know that Remus half expects you to wear a hot pink dress," Ginny told her. "He loves you so much that you could wear your teaching robes and he wouldn't care." The others all laughed knowing that Remus was completely wrapped around her finger.

"Yes, but Harry wouldn't care what you show up in either yet we're letting you wear a pretty dress." Tonks told her with a wink. "I think cream with gold will look nice, let's try it. Mary came over and said the necessary spells and they tinkered with the dress for the next hour or so.

"Now you need accessories!" Gabrielle said as they headed over to see all the jewelry and head pieces. "Are you going to want a veil like muggles wear?"

"No, but I do want something in my hair. I'm not sure Remus would know what to make of a veil and lots of muggle women are getting married without them now anyway so my family won't be shocked like they would be if I showed up in pink!" Tonks told them all.

They found her the perfect head piece to wear that looked lovely in her light brown hair. They got all her lingerie and her stockings but couldn't decide on a necklace and decided to find one later. "We can head to the jewelry store after lunch to see if they have a necklace to go with your dress." Molly told her as they headed to the counter to pay for her dress and accessories.

"That comes to 2600 galleons," the sales lady said with a smile as Tonks eyes bulged out at the price. Ginny noticed the look and smiled. She knew how Tonks felt, 2600 galleons was a HUGE amount of money.

"Oh, I forgot!" Ginny said and hurriedly pulled a piece of parchment out of her pocket to give to the sales lady. "This should take care of the bill." Harry had given her a note with the instructions to charge anything that Tonks wanted to his Gringotts account.

The sales ladies eyes got huge and she hurriedly nodded at Ginny and put down the correct Gringotts vault for them to charge before handing the paper back to Ginny. "Thank you ladies for your business and I wish you the most happiness with your upcoming nuptials. Please stop by again some time!" She then handed them Tonks purchases and they left the store.

Tonks turned to Ginny, "Did Harry just pay for my wedding dress?"

"Yep, that and anything else you want. He says there is no limit for his future mum." Ginny told her laughing. "He said that he knew you would get freaked out by the cost and wanted you to have one less worry. He's buying Hermione and my dresses as well anything Gabrielle may want."

They all headed off to look in Madam Malkin's for bridesmaid dresses to compliment Tonks' dress. Madame Malkin hurried over once she saw the Weasleys knowing that she needed to make a good impression on the minister's wife and daughter. She was very excited to help the two girls with their bridesmaids' dresses. Mrs. Weasley went off with Gabrielle to look for new dress robes for the occasion.

After two hours of trying on dresses the girls had not found what they wanted but Mrs. Weasley and Gabrielle were all set with very pretty dress robes and accessories. They decided it was time for lunch and headed off to eat. "We'll go look for a necklace for me after lunch and then head into muggle London to find dresses for the two of you since it seems that is the style you were both thinking of anyway." Tonks told them as they ate. They said goodbye to Mrs. Weasley after lunch who didn't want to go to muggle London or jewelry shopping.

They all headed toward the jewelry shops. The first store was mostly rings and smaller pieces and they had decided that she needed an impressive large necklace to compliment her dress. "You need a necklace like what royalty used to wear that covers your neck and is like an extension of your dress." Gabrielle had told her. "If you still can't find something by the end of the day we may have to send Fleur to France to find something."

The entered the final store in town to find Remus, Harry (looking like Xavier) and Severus looking through the ring cases. "What are you boys doing in London?" Tonks asked startling them since they didn't expect to run into the girls while shopping for Tonks' wedding band.

"Same as you, we are shopping for wedding things." Remus told her giving her a kiss. "We figured your idea to get out of the castle was a good one as well.

"We are trying to find a necklace for Tonks to wear with her dress," Gabrielle said as she headed to the correct section and started browsing. After they realized the store had nothing in its cases that matched what they wanted she sighed. "Do you have anything larger?" She asked the shopkeeper. "We are looking for something resembling what royalty used to wear. Large and covering most of the neck."

"You don't see anything like that in the wizarding world anymore unless it's in a private collection of one of the old pureblood families. There is just no market to make such an item. You might want to look in muggle London or if you know exactly what you want I can have it commissioned." The store owner told them.

"We're heading to muggle London now anyway. We can look while we are there. We'll let you know if we need it commissioned." Gabrielle told him.

They said goodbye to the men and headed off to the Leaky Caldron to go into muggle London. The girls took off their robes to reveal their muggle clothing underneath. Even Gabrielle had worn wearing muggle clothing just in case. They shrunk the robes and pocketed them before heading out and hailing a cab to take them to the major shopping areas of town.

Chapter 46: Hidden Royalty

The guys finished picking out Tonks' wedding band, got their dress robes and went to Headquarters for dinner. "We should help Tonks find the perfect necklace." Harry told Remus trying to get him to remember the 'special' drawer in the jewelry case in the vault.

"Why don't we go check the vault?" Remus asked him. "You know that you can trust Severus and he is going to live her over the summer so he'd probable end up finding out anyway.

The three headed to the vault and over to the very large jewelry case. Severus was impressed with the size of the collection. "I knew the Blacks were well off, but I never expected them to have anything other than dark items."

You haven't seen the best part of the collection yet." Harry said as they finished checking the collection. "This is Remus and my best kept secret, so make sure this info stays between us." Harry made sure there was nothing in the drawer and then told them all to focus on the perfect necklace for Tonks to match her wedding dress.

Harry opened the drawer and pulled out a very large but gorgeous necklace. It was gold with diamonds. The details were delicate and the golden threads were interspersed by the diamonds. "Wow!" Severus said in one of his rare inarticulate moments. "How did you do that?"

"This drawer works a lot like the room of requirement. It senses what you want and creates it using the base materials of gems and metals that are over there," Harry said pointing to the stash of gold, silver, gems and other materials. "This is what we used to find the perfect engagement rings and jewels for the inauguration."

"This is how you made Tonks ring with moonstone and hot pink sapphires?" Snape asked, "I was wondering how you found such a creation in a jewelry store."

"It also made Fleur's ring and rings for Ginny and Hermione whenever they get married." Harry said showing Snape the bag with the two remaining rings in it.

Snape admired the ring with the large emerald surrounded by rubies and diamonds. "I believe this was meant for Miss Weasley," He said watching Harry nod. The other ring was beautiful. It was a large heart shaped diamond with small round diamonds around it. "This ring looks almost exactly like the ring my grandmother wore. She never took it off. She was buried with it because she could never be parted from it. I always thought it was the most beautiful ring and would be a perfect engagement ring. Who did you have in mind for this one?"

"I thought it was for Hermione since I was imagining what my 3 favorite girls would want when we were looking for the perfect ring for Tonks. This ring is very much like what muggle engagement rings look like. They are mostly always diamonds. I thought of her when I saw it." Harry told him as a look of shock passed Snape's usually closed features.

"We should put those away and get back to school," Remus said breaking the reverie. "I don't think either of those rings will be used for a while. You all are way too young to marry and besides there are battles to be fought first."

"That's true; I don't want to marry Ginny until Voldemort is defeated. As much as I would love to marry her soon, I just couldn't live with myself if something happened to her." Harry told his dad.

"I did not realize you and Miss Weasley were that close," Snape said. "Although I should have realized that Potter men never let go of what they want."

"I was hoping you would pair me with Ginny for the wedding ceremony. I might feel kind of weird having to watch as she danced with Snape," Harry asked Remus.

"That shouldn't be a problem." Remus said with a laugh.

"Miss Weasley is one of the bridesmaids?" Snape asked in surprise. "That means that either Miss Granger or Miss Delacour is the other one? The one that I'll have to escort?"

"Escort and dance with," Remus chuckled. "I know Hermione is a good dancer so you'll have to make sure you don't step on her toes."

"I'll have you know that all purebloods are taught to dance at an early age. I was forced to attend royal galas when I was younger before the royal family went into hiding from the death eaters." Snape told them.

"Why would you have to go to royal functions?" Harry asked him curiously. He knew next to nothing about Snape other than his part in the order.

"My family are Lords. When my father passed away I officially took over all his titles and became Lord Snape. I keep my background quiet since there is no real use for it since the royal family is hiding. You are also a lord since you are the only one of your family you would officially be Lord Potter with all the titles pertaining to it." Snape told them all.

"Do you think the royals will come out of hiding once the war is over? I am surprised they stayed in hiding after Voldemort's supposed first fall." Remus said.

"They are very smart individuals. I am sure they realized there was no proof he had actually been defeated. I believe they are under the Fidelius charm someplace. I am sure they will surface once the war is over. Can you imaging living a lie for that long?" Snape commented.

"Living a lie?" Harry asked.

"Most people who undergo the Fidelius change their appearance and then choose to live as muggles so they can have some semblance of a normal life." Remus told him. "I wonder if they can even take the charm off? If their secret keeper died..."

"I'm sure they keep track of the wizarding world. The king and queen may have passed on by now but the prince and his wife would not be much older than us. I wonder if they have had any children." Snape commented. "When I was young my mother and the queen were friends. They said it was a shame our two families couldn't join since they both had boys. When the prince married so young their conversations turned to having me marry any daughters the prince might have. I believe they may have even formally betrothed me; I could never get a straight answer out of my mother before she died. She was devastated when they went into hiding."

"How old would the prince be now?" Harry asked since this was interesting information that he had never heard about the wizarding world.

"He is 5 to 10 years older than us I think," Snape told him referring to Remus and himself. "He married young and may have many children even grandchildren by now. They went into hiding late during our 7th year when Voldemort was gaining so much power and started killing those who stood in his way."

When they got back to the school the friends all got together in the room of requirement and Harry told them what he had learned about the royal family and how both he and Snape were lords.

"I read a book about them before I came to Hogwarts," Hermione told them. "My mother insisted that we buy it saying that if I was running off to a new society I should know as much as I could about how it was run. It really is too bad they went into hiding they were doing a very good job with things. They worked kind of like the British royal family and the Ministry worked like parliament. The minister of magic didn't have as much control with them around. If they had stayed Fudge wouldn't have been able to screw so much stuff up."

"Is there anything you don't learn from books?" Ron asked jokingly.

"I figured out you were a prat all on my own," she shot back and they all laughed.

"I'm a lord now too since my father is dead," Malfoy told them all. "Longbottoms were appointed lordship as well due to their continued service to the royal family. Mrs. Snape and Old Mrs. Longbottom were very close friends according to my mother who loved to gossip about how things used to be."

"My gran was friends with the queen?" Neville asked shocked. "She has never mentioned that she even knew them."

"Well I didn't even know there was royalty in Brittan!" Gabrielle told them as the Creevys, Justin, Hannah, and Luna nodded as well.

"Mum has mentioned them once or twice. Mostly it was when Fudge did something stupid and she lamented their loss. I just assumed they were dead, I didn't realize they may still be alive." Ginny said as Ron agreed.

"How do you determine wizard royalty?" Hannah asked the room.

"The royals are descendents of Merlin himself. Theirs is the oldest of all bloodlines." Hermione told them. "Most of the lords and ladies are from other old bloodlines. There are a few others that were granted their tiles more recently for exemplarity service." Hermione told them like she was reciting from the book she read almost 7 years ago. "Most of the Lords have actual tiles like Duke, Earl or Baron. There are even a few Countesses."

"What was their name?" Justin asked.

"The surname for the current Royals is Kensington, the King and Queen were King Edward and Queen Amelia, their son was Prince Phillip and his wife was Victoria." Draco told them all, impressed with himself for remembering those facts.

"Why was Snape with you guys today anyway?" Ginny asked Harry.

"Oh, that's because Remus asked him to be his other attendant for the wedding." Harry said enjoying the shocked look on the girls' faces. "Looks like Hermione will be escorted up the isle by him. The whole royal conversation happened when Remus joked with him about dancing with her. Supposedly he was forced to go to royal parties when he was young and had to know how to dance."

"I'm with Snape for the wedding?" Hermione asked again, trying to process that she would be on her professor's arm and have to dance with him.

"Yeah, Remus said I could escort Ginny so that leaves Snape to escort you." Harry told her smiling.

The next few weeks were spent studying for finals and the Quidditch team getting ready for the finals against Slytherin. "How am I supposed to pass my OWLs with all the extra practices you two are calling?" Ginny yelled at the boys. "This is not the World Cup; we all still have school work to do! Between prefect duties, DA and Quidditch I barely have time to finish my assignments let alone start revising for OWLs! If I didn't have Hermione helping me organize I wouldn't even have time for the 4 hours of sleep I'm getting each night!"

The boys just looked at her and hung their heads. They were going overboard on practices and they didn't want Colin and Ginny to do poorly on their newts. "OK, we'll drop the number of practices to 2 per week and one on the weekend." Ron said trying to calm his sister. "And Harry and I will help with your prefect duties as well so you have extra study time." Ginny finally calmed down and went to sit by Hermione to study. The common room was quiet lately knowing the 5th and 7th years were uptight about their exams.

The next morning at breakfast Harry received a letter. He opened it and broke out into a huge grin. He handed it to Ron to read out loud:

Dear Mr. Potter,

We have been watching you play Quidditch since your 1st year. Now that you are of age we will be coming to scout you for the open seeker position on England's International Quidditch team. We will be in the teacher's box during your upcoming match with Slytherin to see you play first hand. If we like what we see you will be receiving an official invitation to attend seeker try outs during the last week of June. Try-outs are invitation only. We will be seeing you at you next match. Good Luck!

Everett Smith

Quidditch Scout

English National Team

"Wow Harry that's great!" Ginny said giving him a hug. He was smiling but still looked in shock. "They think you're good enough to try out for England!"

"Yeah mate, some of the seekers from the club teams don't even get asked to try out! This is a huge honor!" Ron said ignoring his breakfast for once in honor of Harry's news. "Can you imagine how cool it would be to play for England during the world tournament!"

"I still have to play well against Slytherin to even make the try-out list." Harry reminded them before they all went and got their hopes up.

"Just having a scout come to watch you shows how good you are Harry!" Ron told him. "You should go tell Remus and Dumbledore!"

Harry hurried up to show his dad the letter. The two spent the rest of breakfast discussing Quidditch theories and what moves to use to best impress the scouts. Even professor McGonagall and Madame Hooch joined in. "We haven't had a student be scouted for Quidditch while still attending here in all the time I've taught here." McGonagall went on to say.

"There have been a few offered invitations to try out for the franchise teams but never for the international team! This is so exciting!" Hooch said before they switched back to talking strategy.

"It's lucky we are playing Slytherin," Harry told them and continued seeing their confused faces. "Slytherin is very good this year and it will be a close match. If they watched a match where we won quickly I wouldn't have a chance to impress them. Going up against Malfoy who is a good seeker will help showcase my abilities."

"But wouldn't you be better going up against a seeker you knew would be easy to beat?" Remus asked him.

"Nope, I always play better against Malfoy and Slytherin. This will be fun now that the game should not be as bloody. Besides I have not lost to Malfoy yet and I don't plan to start now." Harry told them with a smile.

The practices that week were all about getting Harry ready for the game. They focused on making sure they played a good clean game and the beaters (Creevy brothers) were told to focus on keeping Harry out of danger and giving Malfoy a hard time. Al the other games against Slytherin Malfoy tailed Harry instead of looking for the snitch himself and Harry just hoped he would keep up his habit so he could showcase some moves.

Harry spent every waking moment out on the pitch getting ready and making sure he could execute all his moves flawlessly. He had been working on quite a few new 'secret' moves and was planning on pulling out a few of them for the scouts. He was very daring on his broom, one of his new moves included letting go of the broom and holding on only with his feet and ended with him flipping his broom around and going off in the other direction. He still had his favorite dives where he would get close enough to skim the ground with his toes before pulling up.

This was going to be a match to remember. It was the first time anyone can remember the Slytherin and Gryffindor teams getting along as well as the only time in recent history that a scout had come to a game.

Next chapter will be Chapter 47: Slytherin vs. Gryffindor