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-Harry's Half Brother

Chapter Four: Cats, Bats, and Board Games

June 16th, 1997, 9:00 PM

After leaving the dance floor, Harry and Ron made their way to the abandoned chessboard. The game started and there was a silence over the entire room. Hermione came in a few minutes later with Luna in tow.

"Where did she come from?" Ron asked taking his eyes off the board, feeling himself get nervous as each second passed.

Luna pulled a maroon letter out of her purse, "I received this last week from your mother, Ronald. It is an invitation to the banquet," she said, with her Luna charm.

Harry tried to hold in his sudden spasm of laughter, but failed miserably. "Your move, Ronald…"

Hermione came over to Harry and sat in his lap. "I want a closer look at the game!" she claimed.

Harry just laughed and continued to move his pieces.

It was a stalemate for two hours before Hermione squealed. "What!" Harry asked in anticipation. Hermione leaned over him and whispered something in his ear. A sly grin slid across Harry's face as he nodded his head. "Hey Ron, does this setup look familiar to you?" he asked as he waved his hand over the board. It was Harry's turn and he was still cheekily grinning.

Ron suddenly went pale. "Uh… mate… about the bet…" Ron had seen this exact arrangement six years ago when the trio went after the Sorcerer's Stone.

"Ah, ah, ah," Harry moved his knight into position. "Check, Ronald."

Ron sighed and took Harry's knight with his queen. He started muttering obscenely under his breath, but no one could quite catch it because it was rushed together.

Harry's face lit up as he made his final move, and put his Bishop into the strike. "Checkmate!" Harry exclaimed. "Pay up…" he said motioning towards Luna with his eyes.

"Fine… keep your bloody britches on…" he said as he got up. He moved over to Luna and slipped his hands around her waist, "Sorry 'bout this," he said as he leaned his head down to hers and lightly placed his lips upon hers. Luna wrapped her arms around Ron and brought herself closer to him.

After the first minute, Harry was laughing to hard to stop it, but after the third, it started to disgust him. He tapped Ron on the shoulder and he broke the kiss and looked over his shoulder at him. Harry looked at him smugly, "It was supposed to be a kiss, not a snogging session," he said laughing again. Harry patted him on the back, "I'll leave you two alone to it," he said as he grabbed Hermione's hand and led her into the other room to start their own session.

When Harry got Hermione into the small living room, he set her down on his lap and leaned in, but before he got to her lips she opened them. "Did you bet Ron, that if you won a game of chess he had to kiss Luna?" she asked with a slight glare.

"Maybe…" Harry said like a child trying to avoid a punishment.

Hermione grinned and raised his chin to hers, "That was one of the sweetest things I've ever seen," she said as she kissed him passionately. Harry was astonished by the sudden change of emotion, but went along with it.

Ginny was walking down the stairs when she saw Ron and Luna? tongue tied. She was too disgusted to say anything and walked into the living room en route to the kitchen. What she saw on the couch made her blood boil once again. Hermione was below Harry and had one leg wrapped around his waist. Ginny couldn't handle it any longer as she cast her famous bat bogey hex.

Harry heard that familiar sound and shielded Hermione from the curse, taking the brunt of it to his back. He fell to the floor with five slashes gushing blood. Hermione stood up, furious. "What did you do that for?" she asked angrily.

"He's supposed to be in love with me! Not the mudblood!" she yelled. Harry staggered to his feet at the mention of mudblood, but wasn't strong enough to hold his weight as he collapsed onto the couch.

Hermione remembered the weapon at her waist and quickly pulled it out as it took the form of a whip. She flung it and it wrapped around Ginny's ankle and she pulled as Ginny plunged to the ground. Hermione put her foot over her throat as she spoke. "How can you say you care for him when you just finished cursing him? I noticed the symptoms that Harry was having on the dance floor, you've been slipping him amortentia, haven't you?" she said as she raised her foot.

Ginny got to her feet and raised her middle finger to her. Hermione slapped her across the face and they began brawling in the living room. This caused a lot of ruckus, enough to snap Ron and Luna out of dream world. Ron ran into the room and saw Ginny on top of Hermione and Harry bleeding on the couch. "Luna, go get my mum and my brothers, except Bill, and try not to make a scene of it. I don't want this to ruin Bill's wedding," he said to her quickly as he jumped in to try and pull Ginny off.

Within a few minutes the screams of Mrs. Weasley could be heard. Fred and George grabbed Ginny, while Ron and Charlie took hold of Hermione. When they had cleared the fight, Mrs. Weasley screamed again when she noticed that Harry was bleeding profusely and had lost a significant amount of blood. "All of you, meet me at St. Mungo's. Ron, go tell your father where we've gone." Mrs. Weasley grabbed a hold of Harry and they were gone in a snap.

(A/N) Hope you guys enjoyed that installment. Please review, I love to hear from you guys! I solemnly swear I am up to no good!
-Harry's Half Brother