Timeless Escapades

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Chapter 9

Harry slammed into the hard Quidditch Pitch with a dull thump. The stands filled with a simultaneous intake of breath. The world was a kaleidoscope of colours, spinning rapidly before his very eyes. Harry watched the blob that was known as the stands, blink rapidly before his eyes. There were now little blurs swimming around his little space of vision, and still a jack hammer seemed to be determined to crack his head in two. It wasn't helping that Sirius, who had been the commentator for the match, was screaming insults into the microphone.

"YOU IDIOT!!!! UNPROVOKED ATTACK ON THE SEEKER!!!! DIDN'T YOU EVEN SEE THE BLOODY SNITCH IN HIS HAND YOU SNEAKY, FILTHY, DISGUSTING, CHEATING BIT OF SH— "

"Harry!"

Harry squinted through his half closed eyelids to behold a blob with untidy black hair obscuring his vision. The figure was starting to double as he held up a hand with roughly more than five fingers.

"How many do you see, Harry?" James asked.

Harry's tongue felt heavy as he replied in a voice that seemed too high and squeaky. "Eight?"

James, who seemed too concerned to not laugh as his team mates did, called over his shoulder to a few third years to get Professor Dumbledore. "The Headmaster is coming, Harry."

Harry smile was a bit lopsided as he watched James's unfocused body. Where was he any way? Kind of weird place for a bed... maybe he was in the Chamber of Secrets? No... too bight. Hmm... Knight Bus, maybe? The ground did sort of feel like it was moving... the blue sky twirling dangerously. Blue... he was hungry for blue berries, really good little fruits... fruitilicious! Fancy, fabulous, fancies, flabby, funny, funky, floppy —

"Harry?"

Albus Dumbledore's aged face swam into view above Harry's. His eyes were twinkling merrily. He reached out a gnarled hand and pressed it firmly onto Harry's forehead.

"Quite the catch there, Mr. Prowner."

"'S nothin!" Harry slurred happily, as James and Sirius, who had finished being berated by McGonnagal snorted somewhere in the back of the crowd. "Verwy easy... Dad taughted me."

Dumbledore chuckled and removed his hand from Harry's brow. "Well... think that a trip to the hospital may be in order!"

Harry didn't see what was so funny about this statement. On the contrary, he thought that the nasty big white hospital wing was nothing even compared to amusing, he focussed his eyes on Dumbledore's swaying form. "No hospital wing... too smelly."

Sirius laughed outright at this as Dumbledore fixed him with an amused smile, "I'm afraid that Madame Pomfrey wouldn't have it any other way, my boy."

And with that, Dumbledore lifted his wand and shot a sleeping spell at the boy who lived, effectively putting him into a slumber.

Harry awoke to the bright, white sterile sight of the Hogwarts Hospital Wing. Lily Evans was sitting next to him.

"Hey!" Lily said gently, helping Harry to sit upright on his pillows. "You were out for quite a while, you know."

Harry groaned lightly, his head was still pounding something fierce. "What happened?"

Lily grimaced slightly as she recalled the match. "One of the beaters hit you after you had gotten the snitch. You fell the whole way down and then Professor Dumbledore brought you back to the hospital wing. I think he announced to the hall that you had some broken ribs and a concession."

"How long was I out?" Harry asked, rubbing his eyes free of the remainders of his sleep.

"Um... about three days." Lily told him, she didn't look very comfortable at all.

"What's the matter?" Harry asked, the pit falling out of his stomach. "Did I say anything wrong?"

"Oh!" she looked at him quickly before busying herself with her hand motions. "Well... after the match, um — the Slytherins made a complaint about the tactics used in the match."

Harry didn't know where this conversation was going but kept quiet all the same... however, he couldn't shake sinking feeling that was starting inside him.

"Well... the Slytherins said that your broom wasn't qualified for the game – seeing as no one had ever seen anything like it before, and um — the staff gave the game to Slytherin."

Harry sunk back against his pillow. No wonder James and Sirius were no where in sight. They probably hated him now. Harry swore under his breath and then looked back at Lily. "Are they all angry at me?"

Lily looked a bit hesitant to reply before she said, "Yes, the whole house thinks that you sabotaged the game."

Harry groaned again and then raised an eyebrow at Lily. "Well, then why are you here? Don't you have your knickers in a bunch about this, too?"

Lily raised herself up as far as she could in the bedside chair and glared at him. "Of course not." she snapped. "I'm not one of those idiots that think Quidditch is the whole world! Potter and Black are the worst... they didn't even want to see you! The only one's their concerned for are themselves. Selfish prats."

Harry had fallen down cast throughout the entire speech, sinking low under the covers and trying to block out his mother's ranting. Was this really what his parents would have been like? Screaming at each other about their habits... ignoring him completely? Harry was suddenly not so sure that he had wanted his parents alive after all.

"Harry? It'll be alright! Don't worry about it, my friends are a lot more fun than those idiots... you can hang out with us! Black and Potter won't try anything on you when I'm around."

Somehow, he really doubted that.

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