Spirit Magic
WARNING: This story takes place in Harry's sixth year, which means there are spoilers to the fifth book!!!!!!!
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or Harry Potter.
Part Twenty: The New School Competition.
Harry couldn't help but smile a little as he entered the room and found Kurama fast asleep. Things were just starting to look good again, and for a moment, Harry only wanted to flop on his bed, and forget everything. Quiet, worry free peace. But just as Harry settled down on his own bed, Kurama rolled over and slowly began to stir. As soon as Kurama's emerald eyes saw that Harry was back in the room, he was instantly awake and alert.
"Are you alright?" Kurama demanded flinching at just how motherly he was sounding. Oh how Hiei would make fun of him if he ever found out.
Harry looked at Kurama for a second before a true smile broke across his face. "Yeah, it took some time for Hermione to knock some sense into me, and I think Ron is starting to come around. At least he doesn't ignore me anymore, and treats me relatively normal again. It may take some time, but I think he'll actually try to be a little nicer to you too," Harry said watching relief cross Kurama's face.
"So your alright with that thing that Ron had said," Kurama asked hesitantly.
"Yeah, as long as you don't mind the fact that I sort of became friends with you because I was sort of trying to replace Sirius," Harry said looking over at Kurama hopefully. Kurama only laughed at the statement and held out his hand toward Harry.
"Only if you don't mind the fact that I originally befriended you because it was part of my mission," Kurama said watching as Harry took his hand and gave it a firm shake.
"It's a deal then," Harry said before he started bursting into laughter. "We probably are the worst friend makers in the world," Harry exclaimed.
Kurama only laughed at the statement, while his mind wandered to the other members of his team who were in actuality the worst people at making friends, especially a certain fire demon.
"Oh, I almost forgot. Professor McGonagall has made me the new Quidditch captain, and I'm supposed to come up with a date for the new tryouts. I want to make it next Saturday if it is okay with you, but Hermione says I shouldn't make it official until after dinner tonight," Harry said getting a thoughtful look from Kurama.
"It makes sense, Hermione was hinting at something earlier today, I wonder if that is the reason she insists on the delay. But as of now, I am not currently engaged in any activity, so Saturday sounds like an opportune time to hold tryouts. Lets see what this announcement at supper is first though before we make any rash decisions, it might be wise to follow Hermione's advice," Kurama said causing Harry to roll his eyes.
"Great, another know it all," Harry mumbled getting a stern glare from the demon before the two of them headed off to finish the rest of their classes.
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The Great Hall roared with excited voices as the students discussed the events of their day. Much of the conversation was about Hagrid's class, but there where a few students who didn't seem interested in that topic, or were currently discussing something a bit more important. So when the time came that the deputy headmistress tapped on her glass to get the students attention, it was a wonder that the hall was suddenly cast into a silent spell. The only time that Dumbledore ever addresses the students, is at the opening feast, or the last one of the year. Nervous eyes gazed up at the head table, wondering if the news was going to be good or bad.
"As you all know, two years ago, this school was involved in a competition that helped bring three wizarding schools together. This year, their will be a similar event, only this completion will be an academic competition. One that wont be as dangerous, but just as competitive," Dumbledore said pausing a second to let the new information to settle in before he began talking again. "The completion will be broken into two parts. The first half of the year, will determine which two students are the smartest boy and girl of Hogwarts. The second part of the competition will be between the top two students of the three wizarding schools to determine which school is more academically superior," Dumbledore said glad to see that he still had the majority of the students' attentions. "Now the two students for each house has been selected by the head of the house. The students have been selected by the way each student has performed both in lecture and practical lessons, so I hope that each house will show the proper support for the winners no matter how 'nerdy' you think they are," Dumbledore said, his eyes twinkling a little in amusement at the way his students gasped at his somewhat improper use of words.
"Professor Snape, you may announce the Slytherin candidates," Dumbledore said sitting down.
Snape glared over at the headmaster, but stood anyways, and addressed the rest of the school, though his eyes seemed to favor the Slytherin table more. "The male candidate for Slytherin will be Draco Malfoy, and the female candidate will be Pansy Parkinson," Snape said ignoring the boos that the rest of the houses, especially Gryffindor was doing when he had announced Draco.
Dumbledore stood up again and smiled to the two students that had been chosen. Clapping enthusiastically before he turned to face Professor Sprout.
Standing up, and turning bright red at the sudden attention, Professor Sprout made her announcement before the head of the Ravenclaw house took over and made announced her decision. Finally after the cheering died down, Professor McGonagall stood and looked over to the Gryffindor table.
"The candidate for the Gryffindor females is Hermione Granger," Professor McGonagall said even though it was obvious that everyone already suspected it.
Hermione sat beaming brightly, glad that for once she was the one that was getting all of the attention. "So who do you think the boy is?" Harry asked leaning in and asking Hermione.
"I bet it's you Harry," Ron blurted out, and was about to say more when Professor McGonagall spoke up again.
"And the male candidate for the Gryffindor's will be, Mr. Shuuichi Minamino."
TBC.
Author's endnote: I'm sorry if Harry seems too happy in this chapter. I didn't want to dwell too long in his feeling over Sirius's death, and there was like a two hour time period from the time that Kurama got off the communicator with Koenma and the time the Harry comes back. So in that time, there was a lot of Hermione and Ron trying to get Harry to lighten up, and also in that time frame, Harry finds out that he has been made Quidditch captain. ^_^. If anything that made his day. Does anybody know who the head of the Ravenclaw house is? And did I get Pansy's last name right? I didn't have time to look those two things up. Well anyways, how does the new competition sound? I wanted to do something like the tri-wizard tournament, but it couldn't be too dangerous because of what happened to Cedric. So this is a more *cough* boring *cough* version of the competition. Oh well, just more stuff to make our favorite fox boy stand out. ^_^