Just Old Friends
Chapter 20: Drinks at Hogwarts
It felt completely different sitting at the table now that everybody had left. Before anything was done, Dumbledore (who had been in charge of the evening) waved his wand and all the small tables, including their own, disappeared.
Then with another wave of his wand, the House tables were back in place then smiling he led the way to the end of one of the tables. Harry noticed instantly that it was the Gryffindor table and as he took his seat, his smile widened.
This was one of those things he had wanted to do since waking up; come back to Hogwarts and sit at the Gryffindor table. Now with Hermione on his left and Ron on his right he felt back at home as if for the first time everything would be all right.
Few had remained behind after the party; only a handful really. Remus had sent Tonks home with April as she was complaining about how tired she really was, and April, knowing that something was going on that she wasn't involved in, went with her.
Hagrid too had disappeared he was needed back in France and so with a goodbye and a 'see ya at Christmas' he too was gone. Percy had been sent home and had been asked to take Bill with him for the time being.
He didn't look happy but he knew that his brother needed him and since Bill and Charlie were staying with him, Bill really couldn't go back without him so with Charlie promising to pass on whatever was discussed, they too left.
The last of the group that Harry had thought would stay was Wood, but he said that with the very early start tomorrow he wouldn't be able to stay. But he would get Percy to fill him in later, so that left a few of them to sit at the Gryffindor table.
Harry had sit near the end of the table with Ron on his right. Next to Ron was Neville, who wasn't seated on the bench, but in his wheelchair at the head of the table. On Harry's left was Hermione, and on hers was Ginny.
Opposite them was a familiar looking lot, next to Neville and opposite Ron was Remus and next to him was Dumbledore, then McGonagall, Snape and lastly Flitwick. They were all quiet for a moment before Snape spoke up.
"Mudblood Mix."
From nowhere the drink appeared on the table and he smiled at those around him. Ron looked very happy as he followed with his order for Firewhisky. Neville smiled as he asked for his Vodka and Remus his Marauder Mix.
Hermione looked at the four of them in disgust.
"You shouldn't have anymore to drink, you've been on champagne all night,"
"Yes Miss Granger, but I like my Mudbloods. So if you don't mind… care to join us Harry."
He remembered the state he had been in last night and grimaced slightly, but the memory of the Mudblood Mix was just too tempting and he quickly added his order to the table. Hermione gave him a look which spoke more than any word she had ever uttered to him, but Ginny was one the one to stick up for them.
"Oh come on, Hermione! It's a party after all, let them drink. In fact I think I'll join them. I'll have a Marauder Mix. Make that two; Hermione you'll love it, trust me."
So with that, the two girls joined them as Dumbledore, Flitwick and McGonagall all settled for a plain glass of red wine each.
When each was happily settled with their wine, Dumbledore began to speak
"It's great to see you all together again my friends and this is a time of celebration what with us having Harry back… but alas we cannot all be happy all the time, bad things are beginning to happen again.
"If Voldemort is back again, I'm leaving; come on it took me two years to recover from the last battle."
Dumbledore chuckled lightly
"No Harry it is not Tom. This time, someone of your own age has managed to rally together his troops and is planning to attack in the summer, we will let him prepare himself his men and then we'll stop him."
"You mean Draco, don't you Minister."
"Yes Hermione, and come on you can call me Albus just like everyone else."
She blushed but nobody really noticed as Neville spoke up quickly.
"You can't let him get his men together, Albus. Now I know you're wise in ways I'm not even going to pretend to understand but I know Malfoy is trouble and that he could do it because he's learnt from the mistakes Voldemort made; he'll make sure he doesn't make them and then we'll be in trouble. We can't even use Harry as a secret weapon since he knows Potter is back."
Snape who had already reached his fourth Mudblood Mix was slurring as he spoke up.
"Longbottom right. Stop Draco quickly."
"Thank you Severus for your contribution. I must say Minerva. I never had trouble with him as a drunk until he decided to become friends with Remus. And to think all those years, we thought James and Sirius were leading him astray."
Remus was unable to answer for he had been racing Ron on drinking games and both were already in a bad state.
So the meeting turned to lighter things as they sat together. Harry found that he enjoyed this. It was something he never could have seen himself doing sitting drinking with this range of people but he was glad that he had. And he made a mental note to get Hermione to help him make a large batch of hangover cure tomorrow because they were going to need it.
Hey guys so another post for you all, I'm hoping to have another one for you all before Christmas
Brilliant-author16 yes you can't have a girly day without chocolate, I'm having fun making them friends and then slowly it will turn into more. Anyway there are so many characters in the story that I had to pull people out and surprisingly the twins are the ones I'm missing the most
Jessie You sound fun when you're drunk, I think the last time I was really drunk was in March and then I fell over and got my shoe stuck in a hole in the pavement, and I walked home with James and Claire and it was freezing and I had this tiny skirt on and a little top with no jacket and the next day in work was lots of fun. I think I'm slowly turning Snape into one of us!
Maiden-of-hope thank you for being so honest I really appreciate it. I feel that parts are unrealistic and that probably is a part, which is unrealistic. The thing was I didn't want to stay on the topic of the battle I thought that everybody would want to move on and basically I didn't like writing it in this story since the main plot is Harry and Ginny. Mind I didn't want to kill Luna off but I made the mistake of starting this off as a Luna and Harry story and I didn't see her leaving him even if he was in the coma so that was the only idea I had.
Annie yes Harry having a girly day does sound funny, but you'll see the girly day in the post I'm about to send you in the beta reading thing, no wait it's the one after the next one. But I like the idea because it's a good way to have just the two of them together without anybody else there
Harryp123 well thank you and I hope you like this chapter
Potter4prez yes a girly day with Ginny will be fun and I liked the last chapter because it was fun having Hermione dance with Harry and then Ron push in plus a good way to met April
Emma Lizzy Black thank you hun hope you enjoy
So please review when you're done
Kris