Sorry last chapter was a bit balls, hopefully this chapter will get some
more of the plot in... Oh by the way if you like Ron turn away now! I won't
put any author's notes in this time, I'll just put anything important here.
Yeah, its seems slightly slashy at some points but don't worry this won't
turn into Ha/Dr, Ro/Ha, Ro/Dr. Just thought I'd clear that up. Sorry there
still isn't much happening. More will happen soon though. There's a pretty
long bit of male bonding in here.
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Harry slammed the portrait after him and made his way to the head's dorm, he'd just had a vicious argument with Ron about Hermione and Ron said if they were both going to be like that they might as well forget him then walked out with Seamus and Dean. Harry had sat for a moment and then walked out. He couldn't stand the sight of Ron's bed, the poster above his bed; he couldn't stand Ron at that point in time. He knocked on the door furiously trying to get his anger out until eventually he was thumping it. Malfoy opened the door and Harry had just wrenched his arm back for another thump but stopped abruptly when he saw the slytherin's pale face. He froze.
"Problem Potter?" He said forcing himself to make a fake smile,
"Just Weasley" He growled, Malfoy gestured for him to come in and Hermione walked out of the bathroom with a towel round her body,
"Hello Harry, why were you knocking on the door like something was about to eat you alive?"
"Ron is being a total idiot!" Harry cracked his knuckles and Hermione looked at them she could see they were starting to bruise,
She gestured for him to sit down and Malfoy sat too, She took a seat on the black armchair across from the two boys who actually, out of their own choice sat next to each other, she was slightly shocked but decided to keep it zipped,
"What's he done now?"
"Well, I came in late yesterday night because I'd sat in the common room for ages just mulling stuff over in my head,"
"Perfectly reasonable" Draco said nodding trying to be friendly, Harry smiled; Draco reminded him of Dumbledore and his small comments on what he said.
"But, once I woke up this morning after having slept perfectly well in my bed, Ron started shouting saying that I was leaving him out and there was things going on between me and you" He pointed to Hermione, "Then I said we were talking and he said if we were going to be like that he'd hang around with some proper mates and by this time all the information about me and Ginny had been spread to Dean and Seamus and those three walked out leaving me and Neville sat there. So I just walked out and now I'm here"
"Weasel's always had a bad temper Po...Harry"
"I know Draco" Hermione laughed,
"What?" They both spat at her,
"It's just funny that you two are calling each other by your first names"
"Well, it's about time we started acting more mature putting old feuds behind and replacing them with friendships"
"Yeah," Harry looked slightly confused, "Whatever he said," The boys laughed,
"What are you going to do anyway Potter, I mean Weasley's gryffindor keeper isn't he?" Draco thought that calling each other by their first names suddenly seemed rather extreme,
"That's all the male population of this school seem to worry about" Hermione shook her head and left to get changed,
"Yeah well the thing is Malfoy, even though I'm quidditch captain and would love to throw him off, we need him" He shook his head, "All the rest of gryffindor pretty much suck at quidditch"
"I think Blaise would throw off anyone who wasn't going to co-operate"
"Yes well I'm not Zabini"
"Well, one of the main problems with Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff is they don't realize that quidditch is about teamwork not scoring goals and trying to be the best" He sighed,
"I know what you mean, if you try to go from one end of the pitch to another with the quaffle in your hand you bound to get hit by a bludger but if you pass a split second before the beaters see what your doing they aim the bludgers at you leaving the other chaser a free run for a while where if they don't have time to attempt to score they can pass back" Draco nodded,
"Exactly what Blaise tells us" Nodded Draco,
"The problem with you improving your seeking skills is that our teams are so alike now it all depends on the snitch"
"I know, I think your idea of the school having it's own set of brooms was good" Draco said remembering Harry's suggestion of all the school having a set of firebolts for each house, "I mean it stops some of the richer people getting broom which could outstrip others by miles"
"I know" Harry ignored the dig at Ron's broom, usually he'd stick up for him but he was being such a bastard, "You know what would be good? Arranging a friendly or two"
"Friendly?" Draco said confused,
"Well, muggles have a game called football and they have a world cup like in quidditch. Except they also play games against each other which isn't to win anything it's just to practice and talent spot"
"I get what you're saying so a slytherin VS gryffindor match but not a spectator's one for the house cup"
"No, you can still have spectators but it means you could get some subs out and see how they play and you won't have to risk the house cup"
"That sounds really good, because then we can test out some other beaters Crabbe and Goyle are losing us valuable points because they keep hitting people after the bloody weasel the brainless gits!" He shrugged, "I know Blaise has wanted to try some cleverer people out for a while but is worried they might not play too well in a match because we haven't had time to test them out because we only have team practices,"
"I think we should tell Dumbledore" Harry said,
"I suppose wouldn't it waste his time a bit though?"
"No, I think now Voldemort is gone he's really concentrating on activities and teaching at this place"
"I'm going to go talk to Blaise about it quickly" With that he got up, "Talk later Potter, I won't tell him about Dumbledore though"
"Ok Malfoy, bye" Malfoy left quickly then walked back in.
"Forgot to put some robes on top of these" He gestured to his clothes and then went into his room, he walked back out bid Harry farewell and left again.
"Nice male bonding there, Harry"
"Yeah, well he's the only person I can talk about decent stuff like quidditch with"
"Well, I think you two seem to have put your differences aside quickly"
"I've been meaning to speak with him for a while now"
"Any reason why?"
"He just seems pretty clued up and you know what Dumbledore said about inter house friendships"
"He's been saying about inter house friendships since we got here Harry"
"Yeah, but before the downfall of Voldemort we all stuck our heads up our arses when he talked about friendships we all thought that being friends with a slytherin would be stupid, we should be concentrating on Voldie but I see what he's saying now, just because someone's in a different house does not mean we should hate them and act as if their different the truth is, even if all the houses have different traits we're still all here for the same reason to learn witchcraft and wizardry so when we leave this place we can get a good job we can lead a life using the gift we've been given"
Hermione shook her head, "That, Harry James Potter, is probably the wisest thing I've ever heard you say"
"I think deep inside, subconsciously I've thought it for a while I just have been with Ron and we've been taking the piss out of some slytherins and I've just never thought about it before, I've never really tried talking to a slytherin more than once from the whole time I've been in this school"
"Harry, have you been making illegal potions or something?"
"No, I just took my head out of my ass" The two laughed, "Got any parchment Herm?"
"Yeah, sure one sec" She ran to her room grabbed some parchment a quill and bottle of red ink,
"Oh, red ink. Where did you get it from I've only ever seen black or blue"
"I charmed it"
"Trust you" He grabbed a book of the bookshelf and sat back down using the book, Advanced Healing Potions, to lean on, he wrote out on the parchment, "First gryffindor quidditch practice on Thursday night all the team must be present unless they have seen me to forewarn me so I can arrange for a sub, I will book the pitch",
"That's good, Want me to put it up in the common room and you can go and write it into the sheet in the quidditch changing rooms"
"Alright" With that they left going opposite ways.
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Sorry there isn't much happening I just really need to get some ground down for later parts of the story when I might actually get to stop all this talking and get down to the storyline. Believe it or not I do have one!
Thanks Miarae (sp?) for your reviews, please review if you read and I'll be happy to take any suggestions on board!
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Harry slammed the portrait after him and made his way to the head's dorm, he'd just had a vicious argument with Ron about Hermione and Ron said if they were both going to be like that they might as well forget him then walked out with Seamus and Dean. Harry had sat for a moment and then walked out. He couldn't stand the sight of Ron's bed, the poster above his bed; he couldn't stand Ron at that point in time. He knocked on the door furiously trying to get his anger out until eventually he was thumping it. Malfoy opened the door and Harry had just wrenched his arm back for another thump but stopped abruptly when he saw the slytherin's pale face. He froze.
"Problem Potter?" He said forcing himself to make a fake smile,
"Just Weasley" He growled, Malfoy gestured for him to come in and Hermione walked out of the bathroom with a towel round her body,
"Hello Harry, why were you knocking on the door like something was about to eat you alive?"
"Ron is being a total idiot!" Harry cracked his knuckles and Hermione looked at them she could see they were starting to bruise,
She gestured for him to sit down and Malfoy sat too, She took a seat on the black armchair across from the two boys who actually, out of their own choice sat next to each other, she was slightly shocked but decided to keep it zipped,
"What's he done now?"
"Well, I came in late yesterday night because I'd sat in the common room for ages just mulling stuff over in my head,"
"Perfectly reasonable" Draco said nodding trying to be friendly, Harry smiled; Draco reminded him of Dumbledore and his small comments on what he said.
"But, once I woke up this morning after having slept perfectly well in my bed, Ron started shouting saying that I was leaving him out and there was things going on between me and you" He pointed to Hermione, "Then I said we were talking and he said if we were going to be like that he'd hang around with some proper mates and by this time all the information about me and Ginny had been spread to Dean and Seamus and those three walked out leaving me and Neville sat there. So I just walked out and now I'm here"
"Weasel's always had a bad temper Po...Harry"
"I know Draco" Hermione laughed,
"What?" They both spat at her,
"It's just funny that you two are calling each other by your first names"
"Well, it's about time we started acting more mature putting old feuds behind and replacing them with friendships"
"Yeah," Harry looked slightly confused, "Whatever he said," The boys laughed,
"What are you going to do anyway Potter, I mean Weasley's gryffindor keeper isn't he?" Draco thought that calling each other by their first names suddenly seemed rather extreme,
"That's all the male population of this school seem to worry about" Hermione shook her head and left to get changed,
"Yeah well the thing is Malfoy, even though I'm quidditch captain and would love to throw him off, we need him" He shook his head, "All the rest of gryffindor pretty much suck at quidditch"
"I think Blaise would throw off anyone who wasn't going to co-operate"
"Yes well I'm not Zabini"
"Well, one of the main problems with Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff is they don't realize that quidditch is about teamwork not scoring goals and trying to be the best" He sighed,
"I know what you mean, if you try to go from one end of the pitch to another with the quaffle in your hand you bound to get hit by a bludger but if you pass a split second before the beaters see what your doing they aim the bludgers at you leaving the other chaser a free run for a while where if they don't have time to attempt to score they can pass back" Draco nodded,
"Exactly what Blaise tells us" Nodded Draco,
"The problem with you improving your seeking skills is that our teams are so alike now it all depends on the snitch"
"I know, I think your idea of the school having it's own set of brooms was good" Draco said remembering Harry's suggestion of all the school having a set of firebolts for each house, "I mean it stops some of the richer people getting broom which could outstrip others by miles"
"I know" Harry ignored the dig at Ron's broom, usually he'd stick up for him but he was being such a bastard, "You know what would be good? Arranging a friendly or two"
"Friendly?" Draco said confused,
"Well, muggles have a game called football and they have a world cup like in quidditch. Except they also play games against each other which isn't to win anything it's just to practice and talent spot"
"I get what you're saying so a slytherin VS gryffindor match but not a spectator's one for the house cup"
"No, you can still have spectators but it means you could get some subs out and see how they play and you won't have to risk the house cup"
"That sounds really good, because then we can test out some other beaters Crabbe and Goyle are losing us valuable points because they keep hitting people after the bloody weasel the brainless gits!" He shrugged, "I know Blaise has wanted to try some cleverer people out for a while but is worried they might not play too well in a match because we haven't had time to test them out because we only have team practices,"
"I think we should tell Dumbledore" Harry said,
"I suppose wouldn't it waste his time a bit though?"
"No, I think now Voldemort is gone he's really concentrating on activities and teaching at this place"
"I'm going to go talk to Blaise about it quickly" With that he got up, "Talk later Potter, I won't tell him about Dumbledore though"
"Ok Malfoy, bye" Malfoy left quickly then walked back in.
"Forgot to put some robes on top of these" He gestured to his clothes and then went into his room, he walked back out bid Harry farewell and left again.
"Nice male bonding there, Harry"
"Yeah, well he's the only person I can talk about decent stuff like quidditch with"
"Well, I think you two seem to have put your differences aside quickly"
"I've been meaning to speak with him for a while now"
"Any reason why?"
"He just seems pretty clued up and you know what Dumbledore said about inter house friendships"
"He's been saying about inter house friendships since we got here Harry"
"Yeah, but before the downfall of Voldemort we all stuck our heads up our arses when he talked about friendships we all thought that being friends with a slytherin would be stupid, we should be concentrating on Voldie but I see what he's saying now, just because someone's in a different house does not mean we should hate them and act as if their different the truth is, even if all the houses have different traits we're still all here for the same reason to learn witchcraft and wizardry so when we leave this place we can get a good job we can lead a life using the gift we've been given"
Hermione shook her head, "That, Harry James Potter, is probably the wisest thing I've ever heard you say"
"I think deep inside, subconsciously I've thought it for a while I just have been with Ron and we've been taking the piss out of some slytherins and I've just never thought about it before, I've never really tried talking to a slytherin more than once from the whole time I've been in this school"
"Harry, have you been making illegal potions or something?"
"No, I just took my head out of my ass" The two laughed, "Got any parchment Herm?"
"Yeah, sure one sec" She ran to her room grabbed some parchment a quill and bottle of red ink,
"Oh, red ink. Where did you get it from I've only ever seen black or blue"
"I charmed it"
"Trust you" He grabbed a book of the bookshelf and sat back down using the book, Advanced Healing Potions, to lean on, he wrote out on the parchment, "First gryffindor quidditch practice on Thursday night all the team must be present unless they have seen me to forewarn me so I can arrange for a sub, I will book the pitch",
"That's good, Want me to put it up in the common room and you can go and write it into the sheet in the quidditch changing rooms"
"Alright" With that they left going opposite ways.
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Sorry there isn't much happening I just really need to get some ground down for later parts of the story when I might actually get to stop all this talking and get down to the storyline. Believe it or not I do have one!
Thanks Miarae (sp?) for your reviews, please review if you read and I'll be happy to take any suggestions on board!
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