Chapter 4: The Practice That Sucked
Hermione jumped off Ron's broom. She wasn't scared of falling sixty feet in the air. She grabbed the handle of her broom and swung her leg over it. She stopped in midair. Harry was now by her. "Are you always that brave?" he asked. "No, just trying to be." Hermione replied, smiling. "Okay. Are you sure that nothing is wrong?" Harry asked. "Yeah. I'm prettysure." Hermione replied, trying to show a big smile. "What do you mean 'pretty' sure?" Harry asked. "It's nothing, Harry. Just nothing." Hermione replied. She then flew off into the distance.
Harry dived and then slowed down when he came close to the ground. He hopped off his broom and opened the ball crate. Inside were three balls. Hermione came speeding toward him. He passed her the quaffle. Lavendar and Pavarti took the two beater's clubs. Colin sat there. Harry let out the snitch. Ginny and Colin were chasers and so was Hermione. Harry was seeker. Lavendar and Pavarti were beaters and Ron was keeper.
"Begin!" Harry yelled. Everyone knew their jobs. Harry got back on his broom and took off for the snitch. He caught it every second. He watched as Ron went for the quaffle. Instead of catching it, it hit him in the nose and mouth. It was Hermione who threw the quaffle. "Sorry Ron." she called and zoomed toward him. She got out her wand and said, "Deletrius." The blood kept coming out though. "Someone rush him to the hospital wing!" Ginny shouted. Hermione let go of Ron and he began to fall to the ground. He fell for what seemed like forever. Harry went into a dive and grabbed Ron's robes.
"Hermione, what were you thinking!" Harry shouted, when he caught Ron. He pulled him onto his broom and landed on the ground. "I wasn't." she said tearfully. She took a dive to the ground and hopped off her broom. She ran to the locker room and stayed in there. Ron was lying on the ground. Everyone was on the ground crouched next to him. "What happened here?" said a nasty voice.
Everyone turned around and saw Draco Malfoy and the other Slytherins. "Did the mudblood's lover get hurt?" he said, snickering along with everyone else. "Leave him alone." Ginny said. "Well, better make him feel better. Crucio!" Draco said. "Progeto." Harry said. Malfoy's spell bounced off the shield and back at him. He began to scream. When he stopped screaming, Ginny took out her wand. "Don't you dare lay another wand on my brother, Malfoy." Ginny said. What a wonderful girl, Harry thought. "Is that the best you got?" Malfoy said, smirking.
Harry was looking at Ron. "Actually Malfoy, there's more of us." said a girl's voice. Harry turned and saw Luna, Dennis, Neville, Dean, and Seamus with their wands pointing at the Slytherin team. "Luna." Harry said. "What were you saying, Malfoy?" Seamus said. "Oh look. It's Potter's backup." Malfoy said. "Furnunculus." Luna said. Malfoy began to get boils all over the place. He ran into the Slytherin locker room and stayed there. So did the rest of his team.
The bludgers came pelting toward Lavendar and Pavarti. Harry saw them and got his wand out. What spell? Oh, what's that bloody spell? Harry thought. It came down and hit both of them on the head. They fell to the ground and layed unconscious. The bludgers bounced back up into the air and swayed around. Ginny and Colin stood there wondering what to do. Again the bludgers came down and hit them both. Harry got out his wand and said "Impedimenta."
The two bludgers slowed down. Well, I found the spell after learning it last year, Harry thought. He swung his leg over his broom and kicked from the ground. He grabbed the slow bludgers and flew back to the ground. He put them into the crate and wondered where the snitch was. "Accio snitch." he said. A little golden ball came zooming into his hand. All the balls were now put away. What am I going to do? Harry thought. Luna, Dennis, Neville, Seamus, and Dean stood there.
"What do you want us to do?" Luna asked, couriously. "Well, we can take these five up to the castle for a start." Harry said. "Where's Hermione?" Seamus asked. Harry had known that Seamus liked Hermione a lot. He even asked her out last year. "She's in the locker room, but you might want to leave her to me. You five..." Harry said, pointing at the five of them. "can conjure stretchers." Harry said. "Ferula." said all five voices. Stretchers appeared, and everyone levitated them onto them. "Come to the hospital wing when your done." Seamus said, and they all walked back up to the castle.