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Chapter 6 Hit The Floor pt. 2
It was a good thing that Harry had been quite high off the ground because the distance was sufficient for him to summon his broom to him and fly after the person who was now free falling the distance of what appeared to be about fifty to sixty feet above the ground. In a split second Harry's seeker instincts came into play and he dove down after the falling person. As Harry drew nearer to the person, he realized that he would have to let go of his broom to catch them. Throwing caution to the wind, Harry started to slightly curve his descent so that he would not need to change his trajectory so drastically after catching the fallen person. Flying towards where they would be Harry timed his approach just right catching the person a mere five feet above the ground. As if realizing that they had been saved who ever it was instinctively threw their arms out accidentally smacking him in the face before they finally threw their arms around his neck, but the smack was enough to cause Harry to momentarily loose his balance due to his lack of arms holding onto his broom. Harry brought his left arm back to his broom as quickly as he could but it was not quick enough the loss of balance at such a low altitude caused them to fly strait into the ground at breakneck speed.
Cho's POV
Even though she didn't have the fastest broom of the lot Cho pulled ahead of everyone else, after playing seeker all her life focusing on that one spot was not much more difficult that focusing on the golden snitch in quidditch. Focusing on a golden ball and an invisible person as it turned out had one big difference, and that difference just happened to be something called depth perception. Cho suddenly found herself coming in contact with something very solid in mid air. The collision caused her broom to pivot in mid air and with her body's momentum she flew off her broom and began to plummet towards the ground. Because of the mid air turn her back was facing the ground as she fell which made her feel as if she had been falling forever, she closed her eyes expecting at any moment to come into contact with the hard ground. It was at this point in time that she came into contact with what she believed to be the ground. At first, Cho thought that she was dead; she didn't truly feel any kind of pain at all. It was at this point in time that she opened her eyes and realized that she was being held up in the air by some invisible force. Without thinking Cho reached out into the thin air trying to grab onto something, anything that would make her feel more secure. As Cho threw her hands out, the back of one of them seemed to come into contact with something hard, the contact caused whatever it was to lose control as they suddenly began to plummet towards the earth.
Regular POV
"Cho! Cho! Can You Hear Me?" Cho's eyes opened to the scene of a worried looking Hermione, who appeared to be leaning over her.
"Yeah Hermione I'm ok now if its alright with you, do you mind not yelling, I think I just went deaf in the right ear" Cho answered with a grin on her face, she made to get up but stumbled back to the ground.
"Did you catch the licence plate number of that truck that just flattened you?" Fred asked as he attempted to help her up off the ground, but after a few failed attempts, it soon became obvious that Cho wouldn't be able to stand on her own.
"What I'd like to know is how you even survived the fall from that high up?" a frustrated George voiced.
"And what caused you to fall off in the first place?" Ron chorused
"Well really Ronald I would have thought that would have been simple" Hermione answered in an annoyed tone "There can be only one explanation for that; because Harry was invisible our depth perception was totally thrown off so Cho must have collided with him in mid air-
It was at this moment that Cho interrupted Hermione "Hermione! Harry when I ran into him, it felt like fell off his broom as well I'm sure of it!"
"So that means that he should be somewhere nearby if he fell off too and from the-
Again Hermione was interrupted but this time it was by the exclamation made by Ginny who had just tripped over something
"Ginny!" Ron exclaimed as he rushed over to her "are you ok?"
"Ron would you get off and give me some room to breath please? Its not like I'm fatally wounded or something I only tripped that's all" Ginny answered struggling to get out of her brothers hug. Once Ron had let her go Ginny stood up and looked to where she had tripped, "That's Odd!" she commented.
"What's odd?" Cho asked
"I could have sworn when I tripped that I tripped over some huge rock or log or something, but there's nothing there; you don't think- but Ginny never finished her sentence because Hermione and Ron had streaked over to where Ginny had been pointing followed closely by the other two, who in their rush had let Cho fall back to the ground in a rather ungracious form. They had preceded to dog-pile the spot that Ginny had referred to and soon a triumphant "Gotcha!" was heard from Hermione as the rest began to grope the surrounding area as if trying to grab some invisible item.
It was Ron who finally seemed to find what it was that they were all looking for and when he did he seemed determined to pin it down on the ground. "It's him Hermione" Ron proclaimed "but I'm still trying to find the hem of the cloak"
"Already found it Ron" she pulled off the cloak to reveal and unconscious Harry lying on hid back.
Harry's POV
When Harry woke he found himself in his bed in his room at Privit Drive. He felt around his bedside till he found his glasses when he put them on he was surprised to see his friends lying on the floor of his room. Someone had obviously conjured sleeping bags for the whole group because he had never seen those in his aunt's collection, or so many sleeping bags in general.
"Ah I see you've joined us once again, you gave us quite a scare for a while there you know?"
The voice had startled Harry to such a degree that he very nearly jumped out of his skin. He looked beside him and was even more startled to see Albus Dumbledore sitting next to him. Harry mentally slapped himself for not noticing the figure blocking some of the light coming from the window.
"How long have I been out of it for?"
"Harry it has been about two days since the whole incident" the old man answered. They were both startled when Ron suddenly snorted loudly and rolled over in his sleep. "I swear that Mr. Weasely here could most likely sleep through a Hurricane and drown it out at the same time" the old man commented his eyes twinkling like crazy. Harry couldn't help but grin. The old mans gaze shifted back to the group sleeping on the floor "You know they all refused to leave your side this whole time, especially three particularly lovely young ladies" Dumbledore mentioned his grin growing bigger, and his eyes twinkling even more.
Harry suddenly had a thought come to his mind, "Sir how is it that we are in my aunt and uncle's house. I would have thought that they would be even less likely to let me stay here after what happened the other night?" Dumbledore's eyes suddenly lost they're twinkle and became very serious again.
"Before I get into that, I wonder if you would care to explain the reason for the whole incident of the other night."
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