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Harry Potter and the Scarlet Moon

Chapter 3 Ironic

An old man turned ninety-eight

He won the lottery and died the next day

It's a black fly in your Chardonnay

It's a death row pardon two minutes too late

Isn't it ironic... don't you think?

It's like rain on your wedding day

It's a free ride when you've already paid

It's the good advice that you just didn't take

Who would've thought... it figures

Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly

He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye

He waited his whole damn life to take that flight

And as the plane crashed down he thought

"Well isn't this nice..."

And isn't it ironic... don't you think?

It's like rain on your wedding day

It's a free ride when you've already paid

It's the good advice that you just didn't take

Who would've thought... it figures

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you

When you think everything's okay and everything's going right

And life has a funny way of helping you out when

You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up

In your face

A traffic jam when you're already late

A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break

It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife

It's meeting the man of my dreams

And then meeting his beautiful wife

And isn't it ironic... don't you think?

A little too ironic... and yeah I really do think...

It's like rain on your wedding day

It's a free ride when you've already paid

It's the good advice that you just didn't take

Who would've thought... it figures

Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you

Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out

Helping you out

Alanis Morissette

Around 5 in the morning I woke up. The sky was already working itself from the violet blue into a soft blue. The air was moist and thick. There was barely any light in the room, for the sun had not fully risen yet. The others were still asleep and didn't even shuffle in their beds as I made my way to the window. There was a soft breeze outside. The grounds looked so peaceful.

I had that dream again. It's always the same every night. That night in the Department of Mysteries plays over and over again in my mind. Even though my friends tried telling me it was not my fault and there was nothing I could do about it, I cannot help but think of the long list of 'what ifs'. Ron muttered something in his sleep. ' Harry, stab him!....stab him!' Ron shuffled in his bed. I looked over to his four poster bed, he stopped moving, he seemed to be all right now. I turned back to look outside.

It's funny. How I didn't listen to her. I usually did, but at the time it was really called for I didn't. It's ironic, if anything.

As Harry made his way to the Great Hall he saw four girls, three Slytherins and a Ravenclaw, making their way to breakfast. He couldn't really see who they were. It wasn't until he heard Giuliana's voice saying 'Buon giorno, Harry!' that he recognized the others as Aleksa, Mayara and Rayanne.

'Hey' he said feeling rather awkward talking to a Slytherin, being a hello nonetheless.

Rayanne seemed to notice Harry's uneasiness and asked ' Where's Ron?'

'I think he's still in the common room.' Harry pointed behind him. Rayanne ran towards Gryffindor Tower saying she was going to wait for Ron, completely forgetting about Harry's uneasiness and leaving him with 3 Slytherins. Before another word could have been said, Draco Malfoy appeared behind the girls, looking not at all pleasant. This couldn't be good.

'Won't this affect your social status, Potter? Talking to Slytherins,' he sneered.

'Now that you are here, I think it will.' Harry replied calmly.

'Let's go Giuliana.' Draco put a hand on Giuliana's shoulder, 'See you at the first Quidditch game.' He told Harry as he was walking towards the Great Hall guiding Giuliana.

Giuliana, however, stopped at hearing the word Quidditch. 'Harry plays? I love Quidditch, yes!' Aleksa and Mayara shot her questioning looks, but Giuliana ignored them. Giuliana skived from under Draco's hand and hooked her arm on Harry's right arm dragging him into the Great Hall. Behind them were Aleksa and Mayara laughing at the situation and the strange look on Draco's face. It was a bizarre mixture of confusion and amusement.

Harry entered the Great Hall like that, with Giuliana dragging him like a rag doll and Mayara and Aleksa behind them. Draco just stood there staring as they went inside. Once inside, the three girls guided Harry to the Gryffindor table. There weren't many people in the Great Hall yet, but the ones that were there were staring at the four.

Hermione was already there, reading a book as usual, but she looked up when she heard the doors open. It was easy to tell that Harry was completely embarrassed by the situation seeing that his face was as scarlet as a Weasley's hair.

'Buon Giorno, Hermione!'

'Hello' she replied distractedly as she went back to her book. Soon the students returned to their chattering and the Great Hall started filling with more students.

Harry and the girls were quickly emerged in conversation about Quidditch, Ron and Rayanne joined them right when they were talking about the teams from their country.

'Egypt is horrible at Quidditch, never got into the cup itself, we are not so skillful on broom, we ride on carpets.' Aleksa said matter-of-factly.

'Italy used to be good, with the past captain, 2 world cup, BICAMPIONE, but they changed the captain in the last world cup, we didn't even get to the finales.... horrible, we were killed by Bulgaria. Bulgaria, 450; Italy, 30. Terrible!' Giuliana rested her elbows on the table and hid her face with her hands, shaking her head dramatically. Harry chuckled.

'Brazil' Mayara and Rayanne smirked ' 5 World Cup, not the highest, but good. Not to mention that we completely wiped Italy's ass in the Cup of 1990, in the qualification round.'

Giuliana didn't look one bit happy to remember said match, 'Vai te fanculo brasiliano. ' she glared at them laughing at the same time. Draco appeared from behind Giuliana and said something to her ear, Giuliana didn't look happy. 'Va bene Draco va bene, andiamo Mayara, Aleksa, Professor Snape is going to pass with the time of classes. Let's go.' with that they left, Giuliana telling Draco off, in a mixture of languages, for disrupting their conversation, but he never seemed to pay attention.

Rayanne took the time that everyone was leaving and left too. 'I guess not every Slytherin is bad huh.' Hermione said with a smile of triumph on her face.

'We never said they all were.' Ron protested. Hermione raised an eyebrow. Harry wanted, but just couldn't agree with Ron.

'Both of you need to be more open minded about the other people from other houses, you know, inter-house relations...' Hermione looked over the boy sitting in front of her,

'Speaking of inter-house relations....' Ron nodded towards Harry, motioning for him to look around. Harry did so, and saw no one other than Cho Chang

'Hi Harry.' she said timidly.

'C'mon Ron we need to help first years with the schedule.' Hermione pushed Ron away.

'But Hermione, that's McGonagall's job.' Ron replied, simply confused, 'Hermione, Don't push.... Ouch, there was a chair there...Hermione, what's gotten into you, woman!'

'Shut it, Ron...just go.'

Cho Chang, a 7th year Ravenclaw girl, who in Harry's opinion was very pretty, stood, now in front of Harry. 'Hi Harry, Welcome back.' she said a bit stiff.

'Hi' Harry replied. He wondered where this was going. Harry and Cho dated briefly during Harry's 5th year at Hogwarts. But after what happened with Umbridge, a horrible woman who filled in the post of Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher but resigned right after the year ended. Cho's friend Marietta had given them to Umbridge telling her that Harry had organized the D.A., then conveniently said something to her about an illegal meeting, but when questioned, Professor Dumbledore saved them by saying that it was he who organized the meeting. Since then, Cho hadn't been in Harry's Good book.

'So, um...came here to say hi, uh...how was your summer vacation?' She was uncomfortable, Harry noticed.

'Fine. Yours?'

'Yeah...good.... so um...'

'It's your last year, right?' Harry cut it.

Cho seemed taken aback 'Uh...Yeah.'

'Good luck with the N.E.W.T's.' [N.E.W.T (Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test) was the highest qualification offered, the students took it during their 7th year]

'Thanks, I'm really worried though, they say it's really hard.' She tucked her hair behind her ear.

'You'll do fine.' Harry gave a small smile.

Cho smiled widely, 'Thanks! How was your O.W.L's?' [O.W.L's (Ordinary Wizarding Levels) is test that students take in their 5th year, Harry had taken his last year, and did fairly good]

'Great, I got 12!'

'That's very good Harry! Good job.' She beamed at him.

'Yeah, Hermione said that too.'

'Hermione?' Cho lowered her eyes, 'Oh yeah your friend...' she muttered under her breath, but then took a deep breath, 'Well I have to go, Professor Flitwick will be passing with the schedules...bye.' she said quickly, and left before Harry could reply.

Hermione and Ron came right after that, Ron still looked confused, and annoyed by not knowing what was going on. 'So, how did it go?' Hermione asked Harry.

'She was acting a bit odd...like she wanted to tell me something, but can't. I dunno,' Harry shrugged.

Ron looked over to Harry, then Hermione, then back to Harry, to Cho-who was already sitting by Marietta, and then resting his eyes on Harry he came to a conclusion. 'I have no idea what is happening!' Harry chuckled; Hermione looked at him unbelieving.

'Honestly Ron, are you blind?'

'No, but- you didn't make any sense! Why did we have to go away? And Cho...What does she have to do with Harry¾?' Ron face then filled with realization, 'Ahhhhh.... Okay' Harry couldn't hold it anymore and laughed, Hermione soon joined.

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Bicampione: not sure if they use bi as in two times, we do in Brazil, it basically means that they won 2 times, as explained earlier.

Vai te fanculo brasiliano: don't know if that's how you right it, but it means 'go fuck yourself Brazilian', but of course she was only joking.

Va bene Draco Va bene: all right Draco all right,

Andiamo: let's go, or something to that effect.

A/N: sorry it took so long, school is now out for one of me (Ana) so I'll have more time to write. But it might still take a while to put the chapters up, because 1) I have to write, 2) I have to send to Carol, let her do the changes 2) send it to me to see the changes if any, 3) send it to our Beta reader 4) have her send the edited version, last but not least 5) post it.

Evil Minion

Ana

Carol