Chipper1- I plan on writing a bit about Kingsley and Emmeline just by themselves much, much later in the story, but yeah, they are kind of like Ron and Hermione. : ) As for writing stories, if you've written one and think it's good, post it up! That's what I did anyway. : )
Cinderella1- Thanks : )
HyperCaz- Moody went to the dance with Florence. Justin plays a bigger role later on, although not too big.
Dieselbaby- Well, Hagrid isn't going to play a huge part in this story. You can just imagine him as being 30 years younger and more wild looking…I guess…?
Isis Stormwing- High school will get better later on. For most people, it's the best time of their lives. People are more mature and you get special privileges like driving and prom and all that good stuff. : ) Yeah, I did notice a change in Fred and George's joke shop name, but I suppose that isn't a big deal. I went to the fan art site you mentioned and the drawings are really cute. : )
Fantasyangel writer- Man, does teachers suck or wut? I was fortunate enough to have a couple of descent teachers this year, but I mustn't get my hopes up…
Egurlrox- Thanks!
Captain 'Phoenix' Aquamarine- This chapter isn't as fluffy as the previous one, but it's longer! : )
Irish Pixie- I probably won't write a story about Lily and James later on. After this, I'm going to post up the sequel to The Little Potter and after that, I will probably write a sequel to that! And then after that…I don't know…
Chapter 6- Gryffindor Against Slytherin
As they entered November, the weather made a turn from a warm and inviting outdoors, to the bitter wind and cold. It was their second Quiddich game, this one that was crucially important because it was against Slytherin, and Slytherin had a good chance of winning.
"Gryffindor against Slytherin," Kingsley mumbled that morning. "In other words, GAS."
"Gas?" Arthur asked.
"Big time. We are going to be exploding."
Arthur didn't quite get this.
"We are going to be losing," Kingsley said.
"Oh, come off it, Kingsley. We might win." Alice said brightly, but her face clouded too.
"If I don't catch the Snitch before Malfoy does, we're dead." Kingsley sighed.
"Just fly well and keep your eyes open!"
"Malfoy has a Cleansweep!" Kingsley protested. "Best brand of the year!"
"You'll do fine on your broom." Emmeline encouraged him.
Kingsley left for the locker rooms and then Moody, Arthur, Emmeline, Alice, and Molly went down to the stands around the Quiddich pitch.
A moment later, the two teams entered the field with Madam Frankfurt.
"There he is!" Emmeline said, pointing. They saw a small shape of Kingsley by his broom.
Madam Frankfurt, the referee, blew her whistle and the two teams rose up to the air.
"The Quaffle is released! Taken by Leon Wood of Gryffindor!" Frank was doing the commentary. "Look at that Wood go! Quite fast, oh no! There comes Lestrange trying to steal the Quaffle! Quick! One of the beaters, go hit her upside the head!"
"Longbottom!" Professor McGonagall's voice was sharp.
"Sorry, Professor."
Frank Longbottom had been doing the commentary ever since his first year here. Professor McGonagall was closely watching him.
"Yes! Lestrange didn't get a chance to steal the Quaffle! Heading up to the goal post now…come on…come on Wood! You can do it! Yes! GRYFFINDOR SCORE!"
The cheers filled the air along with hisses from the opposing team.
"Come on, Kingsley!" Emmeline muttered. "Eye Malfoy!"
"Let's win!" Arthur said, using binoculars to see Kingsley up close. "We're supporting you Kingsley!"
"And…oh no…Lestrange coming in on the Gryffindor goal post…quick! Stop it! Come on…no…no…no…OH SHE SCORES! THAT'S---" McGonagall tore the magikspeeker away from Frank just in time as he starting using foul language.
Kingsley flew in the air, straining to see a fleck of gold.
"Alright there, Kingsley?" Lucius smirked. "Hold on to that broom of yours. Not sure if it's sturdy enough to hold you up."
"Oh shut up!" Kingsley said and missed a Bludger that came whizzing by.
"May I take this opportunity to tell my girlfriend Alice that I love her and I think she's the prettiest girl here at Hogwarts---"
"Longbottom!"
Up in the stands, Alice blushed while her friends all gave whoops.
"Sorry Professor, and Gryffindor scores again!" Frank said. "Cheers! Score is 20-10 to Gryffindor."
"Still early," Molly said hopefully. "Still has enough time."
"I say just knock Malfoy out and go for the Snitch." Moody said.
"Superb flying of Leon Wood!" Frank commentated. "Blocked yet another goal from Slytherin!"
Hisses were heard from the Slytherin part of the stands. James and Sirius were spotted enchanting some eggs to fly at the Slytherin players. Professor Wortham caught them and started berating them, wagging her finger sternly.
"Hey---! Hey look!" Emmeline pointed to Lucius and Kingsley, both straining for something in the ground….was it the Snitch?
"Come on! Come on!" Kingsley muttered to his broom. Malfoy was ahead…he can't let Malfoy win.
"GO KINGSLEY!" The Gryffindor crowd shouted.
Everyone else playing stopped in mid-air to watch. A bludger hit Crabbe in the head and no one noticed.
"No…no…" Kingsley muttered as Malfoy was ahead of him by a feet.
There was a split second of anxiety…and then…
a huge groan came from the crowd.
"Slytherin wins." Frank said dully into the magikspeeker. "Those stupid, slimy gits." Professor McGonagall didn't even try to criticize him for offending the Slytherin team like that, she too, looked very disappointed.
The Slytherin team gave a huge cheer and everyone went to the field to congratulate Malfoy.
Kingsley turned and started heading back to the castle.
"Come on," Molly said to the others and started walking to Kingsley.
"Kingsley, good play." Moody said encouragingly. "Malfoy just had a faster broom, that's all."
Kingsley didn't reply.
"Kingsley…" Emmeline started. "Don't feel bad about it. We can still win if Ravenclaw beats Slytherin and then we take over Ravenclaw…"
"I want to be left alone for awhile." Kingsley started and walked quickly back to the castle.
Molly's heart sank. She looked up to Arthur hopelessly.
"You're his best friend," Molly said. "Can't you do something---?"
Arthur shook his head. "When Kingsley wants to be left alone, he wants to be left alone. Best to let him be for awhile."
Behind them, Lucius Malfoy was doing the cha-cha dance.
"We won!" Lucius sang happily. "Slytherin won!"
Alice threw her shoe at him.
"Watch out, Alice!" Lucius said, he stopped singing. "Better not mess with me or else my father will demote yours at the Ministry! You'll be poorer than Weasley! Living in a bin!"
There was a sudden blinding light and Lucius fell face flat on the ground.
"POTTER!" Professor Wortham's voice rang in. "Potter, what did I say about using your wand?" She sternly looked at the boy with untidy hair.
He gave a smirk. "Bothered me that Slytherin won."
"DETENTION!" Professor Wortham yelled.
"Knew you'll say that." James replied coolly. "Wanna come, Sirius?"
"Yeah sure, I'll sneak you out anyway." Sirius nodded.
"DON'T YOU DARE MESS AROUND! I'LL SEE TO THE HEADMASTER!" Wortham marched Potter and Black up the castle.
"That's a pretty brave first year." Moody remarked.
"Won't be so brave after we get through with him. And his friend too." A voice said behind them. They turned to face Lestrange and Crabbe.
"Shut up before we hex you." Moody growled and they walked back to the Gryffindor common room.
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"Kingsley," Emmeline sighed. "Come on, don't feel bad. You played your best. So what if we lost?"
Kingsley gave a depressed moan from the floor. He put himself face toward the carpet and his arms spread out like an eagle.
"Fancy a game of Exploding Snap?" Arthur asked.
Kingsley gave another moan.
"Anything we can do to make you feel better?" Alice said desperately.
"One ding." Kingsley said, his nose pressed to the ground. "I wan' Emmelimb to gib me a kiss."
"KINGSLEY!" Emmeline exclaimed, blushing furiously red.
The others gave applause.
"What about Hogsmeade?" Arthur asked, referring to the secret passages out of the castle.
Kingsley sat up at once. "Really?"
"Oh no," Emmeline protested. "You two are not going to go to Hogsmeade by yourselves in the middle of the night again!"
"She's right," Moody replied. "I'll come with you."
"Moody!" Emmeline said. "You almost got caught last time!"
"Yeah…" Kingsley said dully, and then brightened up. "But we didn't."
"I can't believe you are just going to sneak out again. Professor Wortham is going to give you a week's worth of detentions and you won't be able to attend Quiddich practice, Kingsley!"
"You know, Emmeline," Molly said, thinking. "It has been kind of boring lately, with all that extra homework, tests…I kind of want to go too."
Arthur did a double take. "Really?"
"Yes."
"Yeah, I'll come too." Frank said. "Won't be able to sleep tonight anyway. Not after the game…" he stopped. "Well, anyway."
"Alice, how about some support here?" Emmeline said, rounding up to the girl.
"Well…" Alice said slowly. "If Frank's going, I want to go too."
"That's right!" Frank said happily. "We'll all go!"
Emmeline glared at one face to the next. The faces looked back at her innocently.
"Well, fine!" Emmeline said. "Just fine! The more of us there are, the riskier the chances are that we'll be caught!"
"Oh, come on, Emmy, you know you have a side of fun too." Kingsley said.
"No…"
"We're all going anyway."
"Kingsley, you are Headboy! Doesn't that say something?"
"Yeah, if we get caught, I can just say I was trying to stop them from leaving school." Kingsley pointed to his Headboy badge and grinned.
About an hour later, after everyone's gone to sleep, all seven of them crept out to the common room.
"Got the Invisibility Cloak, Moody?" Alice whispered.
Moody nodded. "But we won't all fit underneath it. We can fit three at most."
"Well, I won't need it. I'll pretend I'm on night patrol or something." Kingsley said.
"You are supposed to be on night patrol!" Emmeline hissed.
"So let's start patrolling all the way to Hogsmeade, huh?"
"Molly, you can use the cloak," Arthur said. "I'll walk with Kingsley."
"Well, I'm going underneath the cloak," Moody spoke.
"Alright, Moody, Molly…and…." Kingsley looked around. "Ha! And Emmeline. You know she won't go for trouble if she can help it."
It was a slow process. Moody, Molly, and Emmeline had to inch around. Frank, Alice, Kingsley and Arthur walked quietly, in hopes of not running into the caretaker or any other teacher that might be roaming the halls at night.
They carefully went up to the fourth floor, where a huge mirror sat, dusty and old in the corner of the classroom.
"Alright, Frank and Alice, you first. Then Arthur and then you guys with the Invisibility Cloak. I'll go last." Kingsley whispered.
They nodded.
Frank used his wand and whispered, "Alohomora!"
A dusty trapdoor slid open and Frank and Alice climbed in, crawling towards Hogsmeade. Then, Arthur went and Molly stepped underneath the cloak and on to the trapdoor. Then Emmeline and Moody went in.
"Alright, here I co---" Kingsley said and then his face changed color. He shut the trapdoor quickly.
All six of them sat in the dark.
"What's he playing at?" Frank whispered.
"Shhhh!" Alice said and they listened to faint voices.
"And just what," Apollyon Pringle said coldly, "are you doing up, boy?"
"Just patrolling the areas." Kingsley answered back. They heard a weakness in his voice.
"Up on the fourth floor?" Pringle asked.
"Y-yes."
"Come with me, boy!" Pringle said sharply.
There was a few footsteps and then silence.
"Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no!" Alice said miserably. "Kingsley's been caught!"
"I knew we shouldn't've done this," Emmeline said. "Poor Kingsley, losing the match and then getting caught for roaming around at night."
There was a pause.
"What are you waiting for?" Frank's voice broke in. "We have to save him!"
"And just how are we supposed to do that?" Molly asked.
"Sitting in the dark isn't going to help. Come on." Frank opened the trapdoor and they all climbed out.
"I suspect Pringle's taken Kingsley to his office to write him up!" Frank said, thinking. "All we need is a distraction for Pringle, and then Kingsley can run out of the office and back to the dormitory."
"Oh yes, and while Kingsley sneaks away, whoever is causing the distraction will get in trouble." Emmeline spoke worriedly.
"Not if we act quickly. Come on, we can't stand around while Kingsley is being written up."
They all scurried to the second floor, where Pringle's office was. They could hear him sneering at Kingsley.
"…knew you were up to no good…saw it the minute you came to Hogwarts, boy…" Pringle's cold voice came.
"Alright, someone drop something and then run up the stairs!" Frank said. "Arthur and I will hide in this classroom and drop something else so Pringle will not go upstairs to find you---"
"Where are you going to go?" Alice asked, worried.
"As soon as we do something, we're running!" Frank said. "Come on. One…two…three!"
CRASH.
Alice had knocked over a goblin shaped vase and then, she, Moody, Molly, and Emmeline ran upstairs.
"WHAT IS JAMES POTTER DOING NOW?!" Pringle screeched, running out of his office and seeing the broken vase.
"I hear your footsteps, Potter!" Pringle said, and started up the stairs.
"No…not now." Frank whispered to Arthur. "Wait until he is up…okay…NOW!"
Arthur kicked a desk and a row of them fell, making an earsplitting noise.
"RUN RUN RUN RUN!" Frank said and they headed off to Pringle's office.
"SIRIUS BLACK!" Pringle shouted from upstairs.
Kingsley was already up the corner stairs, heading for dormitory.
"Hey, mate!" Frank called up to him.
Kingsley gave a grin and the three boys ran up to the portrait of the Fat Lady.
"Mimbus Wormack! Mimbus Wormack!" Arthur said frantically. The Fat Lady swung forward and they scrambled in.
"He didn't catch you, did he?" Alice asked, waiting in the common room.
"No…no…" Frank said, catching his breath.
"Oh thank goodness!" Emmeline said with relief.
"Oh, Arthur, you're alright!" Molly ran up to him and embraced him tightly. Arthur's heart beat faster and his eyes lit up.
'She thinks I'm brave!' Arthur thought happily. 'She is relieved I'm all right! She's been worrying over me!'
Behind them, Emmeline, now eased of her worry, starting shouting at Kingsley for being reckless.
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