HPatTch9: Rivals, Friends and the Ones in the Middle

Chapter summary: the third day of school at Hogwarts and I have only one thing to say…………CONFLICT!………… hehe sorry personal joke.

Well everyone, I'm back! andI brought a new chappy with me.


Harry and Leisha met early the next morning. Keeping to her word Leisha was helping Harry out with organizing his team. After visiting the notice boards in the seniors, Ravenclaw, Slytherin and Hufflepuff common rooms the two of them were now in the Gryffindor common room pinning Quidditch tryout times.

"You sure you're not going to hold tryouts?" Harry asked Leisha as she returned from talking to a younger student.

"No need, I already have my team worked out" She answered while wrapping her cloak around her tightly.

"When did you do that?"

"Last night, Lloyd helped"

The two of them stepped out of the portrait and started down the corridor towards the great hall.

"What, that other Malfoy?" Leisha noticed that there was shock in his voice.

"Yeah, what's wrong with that?" Leisha said defensively.

"Well if he's anything like his cousin-" Harry's explanation was then cut off by Leisha.

"Harry trust me, Lloyd is nothing like that pool of leaches, Draco" Even saying his name left a bad taste in Leisha's mouth. From now on she'd just have to stick with 'Ferret boy'.

Harry and Leisha had reached the grand stair case and they were waiting for the right staircase to swing past.

"So you must really like this Lloyd" Harry said to break the silence.

"Get your head out of the gutter Potter. Lloyd and I are just friends, it's all we have been and it's all we want to be" Leisha said with boredom in her voice. Harry could tell she had been asked the question many, many, many times.

"And besides she's already taken" A new voice joined in. Not even needing to turn around Leisha knew it was Craig.

"Please go away!" Leisha said quickly to stop herself from smacking him with the back of her hand.

"It's great to see you too Leisha" Craig replied, totally oblivious to her previous comment.

"Look you only just managed to get by the other day," she said as calmly as possible, through gritted teeth, "and I'm asking you nicely, piss off!"

"Oh come on Leisha I came here to be civil."

Leisha's eye started to twitch, Harry smiled and chuckled to himself. Leisha of course heard this and hit him on the back of the head to shut him up.

"Now I got this," He said while holding up the scrap piece of parchment Leisha had scribbled a note to him on, "but I was quite offended that you didn't hand it to me in person"

"You were in your dorm, sleeping" she told him while shuddering as she thought about have to actually go near his room or his bed or him for that matter.

"And what would have been better than waking up next to you?" he said with a grin. Leisha slapped the back of his head which instantly got rid of it.

"Please keep your sick perverted fantasies to yourself. Puke doesn't go well with breakfast" Leisha said as she stormed off but still both Harry and Craig kept up 'damn' she thought.

"Anyway I just came to tell you, I'd be … well thrilled to go on that date on Saturday." He said smoothly

"Wait a minute," she said stopping him in the middle of the corridor after she realised what he said, "I never agreed to any date and besides my Saturday is already taken. I have Quidditch training, and so do you for that matter, Harry tell him he has Quidditch training!"

Harry was about to say that Craig had Quidditch training (in fact he would have told Craig that he smelled like a hippogriff with a gas problem if Leisha demanded him to, in truth Harry was a little intimidated of her).

"Sure Leisha, 'Quidditch'….. Whatever you want to call it" he then started to turn away

"She loves me really, she's just putting up an act" he told Harry before he walked away (out of Leisha's strangling grip).

"I hate him." She then muttered to Harry, who was still laughing about what Craig had said to him.

"Then why do you put up with him?"

"No bloody idea" she then concluded as they reached the grand staircase.

"Hiya Harry" a mousey brown haired boy said cheerfully,

"Hi Colin, what are you doing up?"

"Didn't you hear? Some girl is organizing a school mag. I'm going to ask for a position as a photographer" Colin said as he held up his camera.

"You'd be good at that" Harry said with a hint of sarcasm in his voice after he remembered his second year.

"Thanks Harry, I'll tell you how it goes" Colin said as he jumped on another moving staircase.

"So it seems that Charlie is actually going to start this magazine"

"Unfortunately. What's the bet the first edition will be a 'Charlie special'. 52 pages of her royal vain-ness" Harry raised his eyebrow at Leisha, "well it happened before!"

"Why wouldn't she put in her boxers prank?"

Leisha merely shrugged, "well enough chit-chat Potter, I'm starving and I need to eat before charms."

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"You dung eating, flat nosed squash!" Charlie yelled at the top of her lungs at Draco Malfoy. Everyone's heads turned to Draco to see his comeback. It was like watching a tennis match rally, but this was the great hall, not Wimbledon

"You Old batty hag!" Everyone then turned to Charlie.

"You slimy toad with puss filled warts!" Everyone turned back to Draco.

"You unmagical piece of glass!" Again everyone faced Charlie.

"Your intelligence resembles that of a 100 Aussie beef pie floating into the sun" Charlie yelled even louder.

"Well you're a slow reading, unimaginative cake wreaker" Draco matched.

"Why you peroxide little vampire who can't tell the difference between a banshee and his own mother" impressed with the extended insult the audience 'oooo-ed' and 'ahhh-ed' and then turned to Draco.

"You……..you…….. You stupid little cat!" He struggled. Charlie stared at him with a look of triumph.

"Now you're just running out of insults" She told him, while still wearing the smile.

"Shut up!" he retaliated

"No you shut up!" Again the insult rally was back on.

"I told you to shut up first"

"But I told you to shut up second!" Charlie quickly turned on him.

"Geez, you two are really mature" Katie said sarcastically.

"SHUT UP!" they yelled at her and then stared at each other. Both Draco and Charlie then slowly turned red.

"Ok everyone break it up. Clearly Charlie won this one. But I'm taking bets for the next fight, I mean…. Um…. Shouting tennis" Alexia interfered as she pushed Draco out of the centre of the group. The audience started to part their ways and as Draco and his friends went to the Slytherin table, Charlie and her friends went to the Gryffindor table.

Leisha sighed as she sat down and turned to Lloyd who had also abandoned his cousin and sat at the Ravenclaw table with Rob, who happily waved at his sister from across the hall. While waving back Leisha heard the nasty rumours that were being shared at the Slytherin table about Charlie, so naturally Charlie decided to start some of her own and brought out a fluffy pink notebook (with matching pen) and started writing. Leisha watched this and with great self-control stopped herself from hitting the both of them in the back of the head. Instead she rested her head on her folded arms and thought to herself '3 days down, only another "360-or-so" more days to go'. Giving up on that she banged her head down hard on the table, 'Shit…'.

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As Harry waited for Remus to walk through the door to the Defence Against the Dark Arts class room he noticed that everyone was split into several main groups. The first of which were the 'pro draco' or the 'pro Charlie' separation. Then there were the ones that were in the middle of the two. Then there were a few newer students that were looking around the class room nervously. Remus then entered the classroom looking tired and pale as he always did before a full moon.

"Sorry I'm late class, I was just talking to the headmaster" He said as he ran his eyes over the class. Harry could have sworn that once he saw Leisha, Remus then stopped looking around.

"Don't take a seat just yet class, for those that don't know me I am professor Remus Lupin and I am a werewolf. So if you have any issues with being taught by a werewolf you'd better leave now"

Harry looked around the classroom and saw only a few of the Slytherins were joking around, everyone else was deadly serious about staying.

"Ok, well let's get started"

Nearing the end of the class, Harry looked around the class room again. Like many of the other students that came from Castells, Charlie had taken an interest in her wand. She tapped it against the desk softly, but as it did nothing she tapped it harder until she hit her wand against the desk so hard that it shot out bright pink sparks. As everyone turned to her she smiled sheepishly and waved. She then carefully placed it down on the table in front of her and then turned to Harry.

"Aren't you meant to be taking notes?" He asked her as she was reading over his shoulder.

"What do you think Leisha's for?"

Harry saw Leisha busily taking notes behind him, then with out even looking up she handed one sheet of paper to Katie, who had her head buried in her sketch book. Katie took the notes without looking up and then handed them to Alexia. Alexia took the notes and pulled out a yellow quill and held it above the parchment. This quill then sprung to life and copied the notes onto three other sheets of parchment.

"And besides," Charlie continued, "I have other work to do" She then pulled out several sheets of parchment of her own and then turned back to Harry. "Harry how long have you been at Hogwarts?"

"Since first year." Charlie still stared at him and Harry sighed. "Six years" happily, Charlie scribbled this down.

"So you'd be able to help me out with a few things"

"Um I guess"

"Goodie! So who the bloody hell is Draco Malfoy? Why is he such a prat-?"

"-Charlie you're meant to have an unbiased opinion" Lloyd cut in from behind them. Leisha also wore a look that said the same thing.

"Well stuff that!"

Both Leisha and Lloyd slapped the palm of their hands against their forehead at Charlie's recent comment and then turned back to the rest of the lesson.

Charlie the suspiciously picked up her wand and hid it under the table

"Psssst, Potter, What's the spell to turn hair pink?" Charlie then whispered to Harry as she took aim of Draco's head.

"Umm…. Dunno." He said as he tried to get the last few notes down before the bell rang.

"Of course you do, you're just holding out on me!" she accused. Harry shook his head and then returned his concentration on his work. Charlie then got very, very annoyed at him and resolved to prodding him in the arm with the tip of her wand.

"What are you doing?" Harry asked as he watched Charlie continually prod him.

"Poking" she answered simply.

"Well obviously, but why?"

"Because you're withholding information which I need and I won't stop poking you until you tell me the spell" she whispered harshly to him.

"And what makes you think that I'd tell you just because you're poking me?" he asked her as she still continued to poke him in the arm.

"Because if it doesn't work, then I'd chuck my wand away and kick you in the-"

At this moment the bell drowned out the rest of Charlie's sentence. Harry then fell off his chair in order to avoid Charlie kicking him in a certain area.

"Charlie!" Leisha screeched with a look of horror on her face.

"What?"

"You missed!"

Charlie simply shrugged her shoulders and gathered her books together. Once she had, she simple stepped over Harry, who was still on the floor and walked out the classroom door like everyone else. Harry still sat on the floor in a mixture of shock and relief at his narrow escape from, well………. Yeah.

"Oh come on Harry pull yourself together, she didn't even hit you" Leisha said while holding up Harry's books for him to take.

"But she came that close to-" Harry said while showing Leisha just how close Charlie had come to actually kicking him.

"Big deal" Leisha said as she went to follow Charlie, Alexia and Katie.


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