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Chapter eighteen- Gryffindor vs. Slytherin!
Damien was just about to go to bed when he heard someone knocking, followed by the girl in the portrait's angry yells for waking her up.He huffed and slowly opened the portrait to see Draco, hands on his hips, foot taping impatiently. "Well its about time! You're bloody painting was starting to sound like a banshee!" Draco snapped, glaring at the back of the portrait as Damien held it open.
Without further ado, the blonde then walked inside Damien's room and plopped down on his bed. Damien shut the portrait silently and turned toward his fellow Slytherin.
"Is there a reason that you're in here at two-thirty in the morning?" he asked quite coolly. Draco shrugged and smirked, "So how'd it go? Did you dump her?"
"No!" Damien snapped, sounding offended.
Draco grinned with a mischievous glint in his eyes, "So, what did you two do together? Alone...."
Damien bristled, "Give me a break, Draco! I'm not stupid enough to do something like that!" Draco looked slightly put out. "Besides..." Damien continued, "Dad was watching the two of us like a hawk, the only time we got the least bit of privacy was in the gardens..."
"Probably thinks you two are just two hormonal teenagers.....ah, love..." Draco said in a mock dreamy voice. Damien laughed.
"Don't do that, it doesn't suit you....not to mention it makes you sound gay..." Damien sneered and Draco scowled, "I resent that!"
The blonde perked up again, "Did you kiss?"
Damien opened his mouth to say something, but decided against it and turned away.
Draco busted out laughing.
"Aww...ickle Damien gets his first kiss!" As Draco said that, he reminded Damien of the Weasley-twins, mocking Ron.
"Shut up!" he grumbled to the blonde, "And it wasn't my first kiss..."
The other boy stopped laughing immediately and looked at Damien expectantly, when he said nothing the blonde snapped, "Well? Are you going to tell me who it was or not?"
Damien shrugged, "Doesn't matter, its in the past...besides, she did nothing but cry..." he said bitterly, quite out of character from the typical contained boy that he usually was.
Draco noticed this and got up, stretching before he started towards the door.
"First Quidditch match is next Saturday against Gryffindor!"
Damien nodded, feeling slightly content as he thought about flying again.
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"Nervous?" Draco asked Damien for the fiftieth time at breakfast on Saturday.
"No, Draco..." Damien said in the same bored voice he had answered the blonde in five minutes ago.
"Okay good cause when you get nervous, you loose..."
"I know.." Damien rolled his eyes.
He could tell that Draco was rather nervous for him. Though Damien had no idea why, maybe because the blonde was afraid that he wasn't going to catch the snitch and everyone in Slytherin would blame Damien and they would hate him even more.
Draco was still the only one that would talk to him in Slytherin.
Montague stood and nodded to the other members of the Slytherin Team before starting on a rather long-winded speech as they gathered around his seat.
Damien was too preoccupied with Montague and what he was saying to notice Zacharias Smith, who had brushed by their table on his way to the Hufflepuff table, slipping something into his pumpkin juice.
After Montague's talk, he walked out of the Great Hall, the team trailing behind.
"Good luck.." Draco murmured to him and Damien took a quick bite of his toast and a sip of his pumpkin juice before following them.
Cheers erupted at the Slytherin table as they left.
Damien followed the others to the locker room when a voice stopped them.
"Damien?"
He turned to see his father walking over to him. He nodded, "Professor..." he said respectfully, since the whole of the Slytherin team was behind him.
Severus nodded to his house's team and a smirk appeared on his face, "Crush them into dust..." The team exchanged smirks and Montague said proudly, "Don't worry, we will sir..."
They all filed out except Damien, who grinned at his father, "Do you usually tell them that?"
His father smirked in response.
"Good luck, Damien..." Severus told his son.
Damien nodded and turned to hurry after the team when Severus added,
"And........be careful..."
Damien turned to the man and noticed the man looked slightly hesitant.
Damien smiled, "I will....Dad..."
He hurried out after the Slytherin team to the locker rooms and after putting on the emerald green robes, he waited with the other team, who were all chattering to lighten themselves up.
Damien spoke to no one as he waited patiently; he heard the footsteps and chatter of the rest of the school as they filed into the Quidditch Stadium.
He shivered, feeling slightly nervous...after all, he had never played for Slytherin before.
"Hey, Damien!" he heard a feminine voice and he turned to see Pansy Parkinson making her way over to him, she had joined the team this year. He inwardly groaned.
"Hello Pansy..." he muttered outwardly. "You nervous?" she asked casually and Damien arched an eyebrow, he would have thought that she had come over to flirt with him, as she did so much with Draco.
"Do you want something?" he asked, his voice having an undertone of coolness.
She arched an eyebrow at him, "I would have thought that you'd want some company! After all, everyone in Slytherin except Draco is either afraid of you or doesn't like you because you talk with Granger and Weasley so much."
He sighed, "I just think your prejudices are rather stupid..."
She sighed and sat down on a bench across from him. "Well they are but you know, we're not the only ones who are prejudice....they don't really treat us properly either.."
"That's only because you guys always start it!" Damien said, slightly defensive of his old house.
"No not really, we come here as first years and just because the older Slytherins are bastards to them then they treat us like shit, which of course causes us to treat them like shit also and it just starts this whole chain reaction...." She explained matter-of-factly.
Damien blinked. When he had been 'Harry Potter' he had always thought that Pansy was some kind of boy-crazy idiot who really didn't know anything and followed Draco around like a puppy but now, she almost seemed like Hermione.......
"Even some of the teachers treat us wrong....that's why Professor Snape favors us so much, because we are treated wrong in every other class and because we are hated by all the other houses...." She tucked a strand of blonde hair behind her ear and shrugged.
"Sometimes I just want to go to another school where they wont have houses like this, y'know?" she looked at him expectantly and he nodded.
"There's always going to be prejudice though...." He said, "if there weren't such prejudice around then we probably wouldn't have these wars..."
"Ya.." she agreed, looking troubled. "I heard you and Draco are getting marked this December.."
Damien nodded. "Aren't you?"
She shook her head, "My parents aren't Death Eaters and never will be!"
Damien almost choked on the water he was drinking, "They're not?! I could've sworn they were!"
She shook her blonde head, "Nope.... My grandparents from my dad's side were Death Eater's but when my mom convinced him not to join, they disowned him..."
"But...you act like you support him! You call Hermione a mudblood and you kind of act like a Death Eater's child!"
She rolled her eyes, "Well I'd much rather be liked by at least my own house then hated by all four of them, wouldn't you?"
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"Welcome to the first Quidditch match of the season! Slytherin vs. Gryffindor!!" Ernie Macmillan shouted through the 'Sonorus' charm.
"And here comes the Slytherin Team, with their new Seeker due to Draco Malfoy's rather lethal stunt in Potion's...."
"Macmillan I'm warning you...." Professor McGonagall growled.
"Okay, okay Professor, so after Malfoy almost killed us in Potion's.."
"MACMILLAN!"
"Alright, alright. So for the new Slytherin line-up this year we have, Warrington, Montague, Crabbe, Goyle, Snape, Parkinson, aaaaaand Bulstrode...."
Boos erupted from the Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw's which were soon drowned out by cheers from the Slytherins and Damien suddenly swore to himself that he would never boo at the Slytherin team if he ever got back to his normal life. To put it bluntly, it wasn't a good feeling to be boo'd at by three quarters of the school.
"And now for the Gryffindors" cheers erupted from all but the Slytherins, who hissed. "We have Weasley, Weasley, Bell, Kirke, Sloper, and the two newest teammates, Finnigan, and Thomas!" The cheers were drowned out by the boo's and hisses from Slytherin once again.
"And now captains Montague and Bell shake hands..."
To Damien it once again looked as if Montague was trying to break Katie's fingers, though she, like Angelina, did not flinch.
Damien mounted his firebolt and rose into the air along with fourteen other brooms as the whistle blew and the game began.
"Aaaaaand Bell has the Quaffle! She passes it to Thomas, who passes it to Finnigan, who again passes it back to Thomas and he shoots and.....HE SCORES!!!! That's ten points for Gryffindor!"
Pansy, who was the new Slytherin keeper had missed by inches though Damien could tell that that wasn't going to happen very often.
"Warrington has the Quaffle, he passes it to Bulstrode who passes it to Montague and Kirke hits a bludger his way......and it misses by feet.... Montague goes for the score...come on Ron, you can do it! He throws and.......HE SCORES! Ten to ten...."
"Alright, Thomas has the Quaffle and passes it to Bell when....Warrington intercepts! He's taking it down the field, over to the Gryffindor side and.....he scores...." Ernie's voice sounded dull as Damien tried to block it out and search for the snitch.
Ginny was trailing him and out of the corner of his eye, she smiled and winked at him.
The cheers arose from the Slytherin side and they started up on 'Weasley is our king' once again. Damien rolled his eyes and flew above the game, glancing around for the snitch.
Ginny flew up beside him, also looking. She smiled sweetly at him, "Damien...." She purred. "You will let me win, won't you?"
Damien smirked, "Gin, I love you and all but I'm not going to let you win..."
Ginny smirked back at him, "Alright, but I'm not going to go easy on you..."
Damien chuckled, his eyes shining slightly as he made for the Slytherin end, looking for the snitch.
Cheers erupted again from the Slytherin side as Warrington scored and Damien heard Ernie mutter dully, "....thirty to ten to Slytherin..."
The singing of 'Weasley is our king' grew louder and Damien suddenly found it increasingly hard to concentrate.
He glanced back to the Slytherin stands to see, with a great amount of satisfaction, that Draco hadn't joined in on the singing and was instead, looking at Pansy, who had just successfully caught the Quaffle that had been thrown by Katie.
"Damien!" Pansy shrieked from her place at the Slytherin goal's. Damien whirled around to see Ginny, her red hair flying wildly, mere feet away from the snitch.
Damien's heart fluttered as he gave a burst of speed toward her, laying flat on his firebolt. He was gaining on her, he was at her ankles, the snitch was inches away....
Ginny started to reach out her hand, they were even, in a moment of desperation Damien threw himself forward and groped for the snitch and he felt his fingers close around the cool, golden ball, as he snatched it from the air. Ginny let out a frustrated shriek as they both flew to a stop, "You were supposed to let me win!" the redhead exclaimed and he grinned cheekily at her. She continued to scowl good-naturedly, though to everyone else, it would have looked real.
The cheers that erupted from the Slytherin side were deafening and Damien felt rather overwhelmed by the noise. Ernie was shouting something, but he couldn't hear it, the noise was so overwhelming, so suffocating.
A wave of dizziness passed over Damien briefly, before everything went black.
() Oh my....was that a cliffy? Oops...I know how annoying those can be...
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