Hermione sat on the sofa in the Gryffindor Common room with Ron sitting next to her dressed in his Quidditch robes. He had his arm over her shoulders as she read the letter that Harry had sent back. Ron stared at her for a while then decided to interrupt.
"What's wrong?" Ron asked.
"Harry wants me to talk to Jenny." Hermione said.
"What's wrong with that?" Ron asked.
"What am I going to say?" Hermione asked, "I can't lie because she's a Legillimen and Ginny has said something about Jenny not wanting to talk about Harry."
"I reckon she's confused." Ron said. Hermione looked at Ron as he looked into the fire as people wondered around talking about the match in about an hour.
"When have you been able to read the emotions of a girl?" Hermione asked.
"I mean I would be confused it that stuff that happened to Jenny happened to me." Ron said, "But then I'd also be really happy and all over you if it happened to me." He leaned in for a kiss with Hermione as she let out a small giggle.
"Not here Ronald!" Hermione whispered. Ron scowled and backed away.
"Fine." Ron said looking away.
"Team, get ready to go!" Jenny shouted from the Portrait hole, "Perfect flying conditions though it's cold and the ground is frozen." Jenny went to Ginny who was just coming down from the girl's dormitories. Hermione watched Jenny for a moment before sighing and getting up to intercept Jenny.
"Jenny, can we have a quick talk?" Hermione asked. Jenny turned to look at Hermione. She was putting her hair up in a pony tail.
"Yeah, sure." Jenny said. Hermione gave her a grateful smile.
"Well-" Jenny stopped what she was doing when she looked into Hermione's eyes.
"After the match." She said quickly before turning back to Ginny, who was now joined by Emma. Hermione dropped her arms at her sides when Ron walked up behind her and took her hand.
"Talk to her after the match" Ron said. Hermione nodded and followed Ron back to the sofa.
"I know the Order hasn't had a meeting since last term but it is very important that we keep the order going." April said to the order members who had decided to turn up.
"Who made you in charge?" Mundungus Fletcher asked April. April looked at him.
"I'm in charge because no one else seems to want the responsibility off running the order and Moody can't do it because he's busy with his work."
"You're the bloody minister, you must be busy too." Mundungus said flipping his hand in her direction.
"I am the Minister of Magic and if you won't let me finish I do have the power to put you into Azkaban," April said testily. Mundungus shut up instantly.
"Sorry, April but as much as I don't want to say it Mundungus has a point." Mrs. Weasley said, "You'll be too busy to keep track of everything,"
"I'll do that for her." Sirius said. April looked at him and gave him the briefest of smiles. A few people nodded and April continued.
"Our main aim is to protect those who are Voldemort's prime victims and-"
"But all the prime victims are in the order or at Hogwarts." Mundungus said. Harry could see April's patience wearing thin. She had been under a lot of strain recently but always made time to dedicate to the order and teach Harry all he needed on top of her duties as head auror and Minister of Magic. April let out a heavy sigh.
"You know, I hear that the Slytherins have run of Hogwarts, and that they're letting Filch whip them poor kids' backsides raw." Mundungus said. Harry began to lose the thread of the conversation and looked at his watch, nearly time for the quidditch match. He turned to Pavarti, who stood next to him.
"Ready?" he mouthed. Pavarti nodded and Harry slowly left the room. No one noticed as the adults began to get into a bit of an argument about intervening at Hogwarts. Harry stood in the hall way and reached behind a pile of coats to get his invisibility cloak and map. Pavarti joined him a few moments later.
"No wonder we seem to get things done better then the adults. All they do is argue." Pavarti said checking her reflection in the glass of a portrait of some old members of the order.
"Ok, lets-"
"Oi, Harry, not cheating on your girlfriend are you?" asked George as him and Fred walked out of the meeting as well.
"No." Harry said, "I would never go out with Pavarti, no offence"
"None taken." Pavarti said, "I wouldn't go out with you." Harry gave her a long look, she simply stuck out her tongue cheekily and turned to Harry, "Lets go."
"Where are you going?" Fred asked.
"Out." Harry said.
"We want to come, it's really boring in there." George said.
"But your girlfriends are in there." Pavarti said, "You can't leave your girlfriends."
"Yeah, you're right." Fred said, he turned to George. "go and get Katie and Angelina." George nodded and went back into the meeting. Harry gave a small moan.
"We're going to be late, I promise Ron I'd-" Harry said quietly to Pavarti.
"Ron?" Fred asked suspiciously.
"We're going to go and watch the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff match." Pavarti said very quietly.
"We definitely want to come." Fred said,
"Only if you can restrain yourselves." Harry said.
"We always can." Fred said like it was obvious. George snuck out of the meeting room with Angelina and Katie,
"Where are we going?" Angelina asked.
"Hogwarts." Fred said with a grin.
"Ready?" Jenny asked Emma and Dean. They nodded and everyone mounted their brooms. "Remember Dean, when Ginny or I say fall out while we're in formations we're going to do a trick and pass the quaffle to the person who shouted it."
"Can I do anything?" Dean asked.
"Of course, you just have to say fall out and we'll pass to you." Ginny said fixing her robes for some reason. Jenny saw Ginny's gaze go to Justin Finch-Fletchly, who was playing Beater. Several of the house teams had been depleted by people not returning to school.
"Captains shake hands." Said Lucious Malfoy. He had replaced Madam Hooch as the Quidditch referee. Jenny shook hands with Antony Goldstien.
"Good luck." Antony said with a flirty smile.
"You too." Jenny said with a slight smile. Jenny and Antony had barely got into the air when all the balls were released. Emma shot into the air followed by Sumerby. Ginny caught the quaffle and passed it to Dean. They all sped towards the goal when Zacharias Smith shot down from nowhere and snatched the quaffle from Dean. Ginny and Jenny turned sharply and followed Zacharias.
"Smith getting the quaffle down to the Gryffindor end, passes to Bradstone and then back to Smith again. Oh, nice roll as Smith dodges Marsden and straight for the goal." The Commentator said. Ron watched carefully as Zacharias headed towards the goal. From no where a bludger hit Zacharias' arm and he dropped the quaffle. Ginny caught it and quickly passed to Jenny. Jenny clutched it under her arm and urged the broom on. She did a few rolls to avoid bludgers and then headed up in a verticle line.
"What is Marsden doing?" the Commentator asked.
"Emma," Jenny shouted. Emma looked down from her height.
"What?"
"Try and distract Summerby a bit as well. We want the best chance possible. Play like a Malfoy." Jenny said. Emma nodded and zoomed off like she'd seen the snitch. Jenny did a quick arc and flew straight for the ground.
"Jenny!" Ginny shouted. Jenny saw her and passed her the quaffle as she passed. Jenny tried to pull her broom horizontal but it was difficult, like someone had bewitched it somehow. Jenny saw the ground approach and jumped off moments before the broom crashed into the frozen ground. Jenny lay on the frozen ground looking at where her broom lay, still intact but if Jenny had been on it she would have been very badly injured. She painfully got to her feet and stumbled over to her broom. She mounted it and got back into the air again.
"You ok?" Antony Goldstien asked as Jenny gained some height.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Jenny said with a wince as she forced her broom onwards. She had landed roughly on her back and it was so painful.
"Gryffindor score, ten zero." The commentator said. The Gryffindor's roared with happiness, "Nice goal by Weasley. Smith has the Quaffle again and passes to Bradstone, over to Goldstien, intercepted by Thomas. A nice Bludger from Finch-Fletchly but just misses Thomas. The Seekers have seen the snitch!" Emma shot past Jenny with her arm outstretched.
"Keep going." Jenny shouted to Dean, who was watching. Dean snapped to attention and passed the quaffle to Ginny as Antony was about to tackle him. Laura Madley, the Hufflepuff seeker shot past Jenny as well.
"Malfoy's caught the snitch, GRYFFINDOR WINS THE GAME!" the Commentator shouted. Ginny dropped the quaffle and grinned, she turned to Emma who was smiling, very pleased with herself. She flew over to Jenny and Ron, who had flown over and was about to give Jenny a hug when she caught her dad's eyes. The smile disappeared from Emma's face and she suddenly looked cold and non caring.
"I should just give up I swear, I'm not needed." Ron muttered as they all landed.
"You are, if we didn't have you how would the Chasers train?" Jenny asked. Ron gave her a smile when Jenny winced as she stood up straight.
"Are you ok?" Andrew asked, hopping off his broom. "That looked really painful."
"It's so lucky you weren't actually on your broom." Dean said.
"You fancy her now?" Ginny asked him casually.
"What? No I'm just concerned" Dean said. "Besides, I'm going out with Lavender." Ginny nodded sceptically when Jenny disappeared from beneath their eyes.
"What the-" Andrew reached out an arm and got hit in the process by Ron,
"Come on, lets get back." Ron said to the others. He didn't seem concerned at all.
"Har-" Harry put a hand over Jenny's mouth as he watched everyone leave. He was under the cloak on his own and was very still in case someone saw him.
"Are you ok?" Harry asked after a while, letting his hand fall to his side. Jenny nodded. She was delighted to see Harry again. Her heart was skipping beats at a time but then that small tingle of fear and nervousness started developing at the pit of her stomach like every time she thought of Harry.
"Yeah, just a painful back, what are you doing here?" Jenny asked with a smile.
"I came to watch you play." Harry said smiling at her and giving her a gentle kiss on the lips. Jenny closed her eyes and her tongue flicked over her lips when Harry pulled away. Her smile grew slightly wider and she opened her eyes.
"That's why Hermione wanted the cloak." Jenny said. Harry gave her a smile.
"Come on, we have to go and pick up Pavarti and the others before we go to the common room." Harry said.
"Pavarti and-" Jenny asked slightly shocked, "Who else came?"
"Pavarti, Fred, George, Katie and Angelina." Harry said,
"And you all fit under the cloak?" Jenny asked, she held Harry's hand tightly and walked quite close to him.
"Yeah, I don't know how we did it though but we did fit Norbert under the cloak." Harry said nostalgically.
"Who's Norbert?" Jenny asked.
"Hagrid's old Dragon." Harry said with a grin, "It's really amazing to see you again. You look a bit more tired though."
"Try being kept awake really late every night to perform for those who want to listen." Jenny said sadly, "My voice is nearly gone."
"It doesn't sound like it." Harry said.
"It's a charm. It sounds like usual but I really can't speak very well at all." Jenny said. Harry frowned and pulled Jenny into a tight hug. Jenny felt Harry's heart pounding in his chest as she put her head on it.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Harry asked.
"I didn't want to worry you." Jenny said, "and because I've been feeling a bit-" Jenny frowned. "I'll tell you later." Jenny said with a sigh, "where's the others?"
"PAVARTI!" Lavender screamed as Pavarti pulled the cloak off. Lavender and Pavarti went into a tight sisterly embrace.
"You have to tell me everything that's been happening." Pavarti said.
"And you've got to tell me everything, who's Valcrew?" Lavender asked intrigued, Pavarti gave Lavender a cheeky smile causing Lavender to squeal slightly.
"Harry, good to see you." Ron said with a grin. "How are-" He looked at his twin brothers standing behind Harry, "What are you doing here?"
"Coming to congratulate you little brother." Fred said getting Ron into a headlock. George grinned and hugged Hermione and Ginny at the same time. Jenny stood silently watching with a slight smile. Harry looked at her and pulled her closer.
"What's wrong with you, you're not being your usual self." Harry said.
"How do you know, you haven't been around that much." Jenny said bitterly.
"Is that why you've been acting weirdly?" Harry asked.
"How do you know how I've been-" Jenny looked into Harry's eyes, "Ron and Hermione." She said nodding, "I should have known."
"Look, I asked them to keep an eye on you." Harry said holding Jenny's hands. Hermione gave them a slightly shifty look and nodded towards the dormitories. Harry gave her the briefest of nods and looked to Jenny. "Can we go to the Dormitory and talk about this?" Harry asked. Jenny looked away and looked slightly annoyed.
"No, I want to talk about it here." Jenny said, "I don't trust myself enough to be alone with you anymore." Harry looked at her slightly confused,
"I wouldn't make you do anyth-"
"I didn't say I didn't trust you, I said I didn't trust myself. I trust you completely, I trust you with my life, I just think that if I'm with you I'll do something I regret." Jenny said. "And it's not made much easier that-" Jenny let out a shaky breath and blinked away a few tears. Harry pulled her closer to him and hugged her tightly when the portrait hold opened and Emma walked in with Lucious Malfoy. A small bruise blotted Emma's cheekbone and she had a small cut on her forehead. She didn't look too happy or pleased either, whereas Lucious Malfoy looked quite cool and composed. Harry screwed his face up in pain as his scar sent a shock of pain through his body. Harry looked up and caught Lucious' eyes without meaning to.
"Potter!" Lucious shouted.