A/N: Dun dun dun... haha, I love cliff-hangers. I've got a question. Does ANYONE read these? I mean seriously. I try to be witty and funny and I'm getting the impression that my time is totally wasted on these things... seriously. Also, my hit counter is going nuts, but I'm not getting that many reviews, I mean come on everyone...haha, Anyway... Chapter 3 of Against All Odds! (I almost typed Opposing Teams, mawhahaha)

Disclaimer: Read Chapter 2!

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Hermione could almost feel her face going white. "An accident?" she choked out.

Ron nodded solemnly. "A death eater attack."

Hermione grasped and she felt Draco's hands go to her shoulders. "Who...?"

Ginny looked up, she's was now shaking because of her tears. "Harry." she said before covering her face up.

Hermione's jaw dropped and in a moment she was kneeling on the floor with Ginny rocking her back in forth as Ron and Draco knelt behind them rubbing their backs.

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Inside the next hour Hermione had gone and gotten Lindsay who was now sipping tea with everyone else in Malfoy Manor awaiting visiting hours at St. Mungos. Ginny wasn't really doing anything at all.

After they got Ron and Ginny comfortable in the parlor, Ron voiced that he thought that he would like Lindsay to be there, but he didn't want to leave incase something happened. Hermione then said that she would go get Lindsay, so she appeared to her house and knocked on the door.

"Come In!" came Lindsay's sing song voice from inside.

Hermione pushed open the door and walked in and looked around. She couldn't see Lindsay. "Lindsay?" she called out.

"Hold on." Said Lindsay from the Kitchen.

"Okay." she said, not wanting to bother her when she was possibly messing with knifes or kitchen utensils of the sort. She walked into the dinning room and sat down and put her head onto the table, resting it on her arms.

"Who wants waffles!" she said coming out of the kitchen wearing a flowery apron, waving a spatula in the air. Hermione looked up at his and in an instant Lindsay dropped the spatula. "Who died?"

Hermione stood up. "No one, but there's been an accident."

Lindsay's face dropped. "It's Ron ok?" she questioned, worry for her boyfriend in every word.

"He just needs you at the moment."

Lindsay didn't falter. She quickly turned back into the kitchen, turned everything off, seeing as she was a muggle-born like Hermione herself. She quickly grabbed a jacket, her wand off the door side table and scribbled a note to her parents before grabbing Hermione and leading her outside. They quickly ran down an alley and Hermione grabbed Lindsay's arm and they appeared to Malfoy Manor.

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Ginny, after almost an hour of waiting was now pacing in front of the window, casting glances, every few seconds, back to the old grandfather clock in the corner. Hermione sat on the couch with her feet resting on Draco's lap, trying to read a book but her eyes wouldn't focus, as he attempted to be interested in a game of wizards chess with Ron while Lindsay sat in a chair next to them, curled up looking at the game but her eyes were hazy and glazed over.

The moment the clock chimed 11 and Ginny practically ran to the cloak closet. She grabbed her jacket and threw the other's theirs. She immediately grabbed a handful of floo power and threw it into the low flames. "St. Mungos!" she shouted and went spinning off. They let Ron and Lindsay go next and Draco and Hermione followed.

When they came spinning out of the fireplace, they found Ginny at the reception desk talking to the welcome witch.

"Harry Potter." she said horribly.

"I'm sorry, but Mr. Potter's ward has been blocked off to visitors unless your on this list."

Ginny didn't even look at the list. "I'm on the effing list."

The witches smile faded slightly. "Name."

"Ginerva Weasley."

The witch didn't even consul the list. "All Weasley's are permitted." she said unsmiling " and your names?"

"Ronald Weasley." Ron said at once, the witch nodded at him.

"Hermione Granger." Hermione said quickly. The witch again nodded.

She looked at Draco who promptly said. "I'm don't think that I'm on that list."

"Name?" she asked sweetly.

"Draco Malfoy." he said uncertainly.

She checked the list again. "Your right, your not. You may either wait in the lobby or in the tea shop." she turned to Lindsay then. "I'm sure I'm not on there either. Lindsay Davenporte."

"Again you may wait in the lobby or the tea shop. You three," she said pointing to Hermione, Ginny and Ron." May go up and see him. Ward 44, Derwant Ward, Room 14. Password to the ward, Snitch." she said quickly. Ginny quickly nodded and went sprinting down the hallway. Ron gave Lindsay a quick kiss on the cheek and went running down the hallway at a slightly slower pace then Ginny.

"Draco, are you going to be okay?" Hermione asked stepping aside.

"Yeah Hermione, Go see Harry, I'll be in the tea room when your done." he said giving her a firm push in the direction of the door. Hermione gave him a grateful look and went running in the direction Ron and Ginny had disappeared.

She quickly ran up 3 flights of stairs and came out on a landing, off which there were 5 wards with white doors and name plates above them. In front of one ward was a ministry of magic guard who was looking a little bored with his wand loosely off to his side. She walked over to him. "Snitch." she said quickly and he let her through the door. All the doors off this hallway were closed except one, Harry's.

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Ginny ran quickly through the hallway down to where Harry was. She quickly stopped in the doorway and looked for him. Despite the 4 beds in the room only one was occupied.

Harry laid in his bed wearing a backless hospital robes and had a sheet resting over the lower portion of his body, except his leg which was wrapped up healing. At the moment he was sleeping looking at the opposite wall. Ginny, not wanting to wake him up slowly walked towards him. Halfway there she heard Ron run pass the room then backtrack, although he didn't follow Ginny into the room but instead stood right inside of the doorway. Hermione did the same thing when she arrived.

Ginny slowly ran her eyes over her boyfriend. His right eye was swollen up to the side of a very small orange, his lip was split and his left wrist was taped up. Ginny sighed softly. At least he was alive and still in one piece. She quietly walked over to him and took his un injured hand into her. She bent over and whispered in his ear. "Harry?" she said. His eyes fluttered and turned towards the voice. "Ginny." he said, his vision was blurry, all he saw was an outline of a person but he knew that voice.

She smiled and gave him a hug where he loosely, and softly gave her one back with his uninjured arm. She stood up again and handed him his glasses which had been repaired.

"Thank you." he said and tried to push himself up into a sitting position, Ginny had to help him. Once up in he looked toward the door. "Hey Ron, Hermione." he said smiling weakly at them.

They smiled and walked over to him. Hermione quickly conjured comfortable seats for them all and they all sat around him, Ginny on one side and Ron and Hermione on the other. They tried to keep the conversation light but it was hard. They all wanted to know what really had happened.

"I suppose you all want to know what happened, right?" Harry asked after about a half an hour.

"Yes, we'd like to know that too." said Mr. Weasley from the doorway. Mrs. Weasley was already walking towards Harry's bed, and Fred, George and Percy stood behind him. Mrs. Weasley gave him a kiss on his cheek before she began fussing over him. She only stopped when Mr. Weasley told her that he appeared to already be taken care of.

"I don't know where to start." Harry stated. Ginny was holding his uninjured hand and she gave it a reassuring squeeze.

"The beginning is always nice." Said Fred, winking at Harry.

"Well, you see Fred, the beginning has to much information for you to know, I think I'll start in the middle."

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It was my second week of practice with my new teammates and we were having a practice skirmish with our reserves. I was flying around the orange and black pitch and then I saw it. The golden snitch. Not wanting to disappoint my new teammates I raced towards it. I dove under a bludger and over a pair of chasers. It was inches from my hand when all of a sudden a red light came from the ground and pulled my broom from under me. I looked about, trying to cling to my broom as it started a quick descent to the ground. Death eaters. I looked above me and my teammates were in a variety of distress. 3 of them were frozen in place, 4 of them were on the ground unconscious, 2 of them were squirming around under the cruciatius curse and the last four of them, the girls, were being rushed at by a mob. The death eaters, a good half dozen or so, were aiming spells at me. It was still to high to jump from by broom and if I tried to get my wand out they would notice it and disarm me faster then I could say "Quidditch" I waited. When they viciously slammed me into the ground, that's when my wrist broke. I stood up quickly, and they formed a semi-circle in front of me. I pulled out my wand and saw them falter, could it be because of the performance I gave against Voldemort? Were they there or did they hear about it, I never found out.

The first one shot a disarming spell at me which I deflected by shouting "Protego!" loudly.

"Oh, ickle potty kins thinks he can play with the big bad death eaters." said a cooing voice from the batch.

"Yeah, I reckon, I can handle you bunch." I said confidently. They couldn't be any worse then Voldemort. And I was right. A couple of stunning spells and 3 of them were down for the count and I was giving the others to much to worry about instead of them going over and awakening their fallen comrades. After a quick glance over my shoulder, I saw that the frozen players had recovered and were now down on the ground, quickly dueling and stunning the death eaters who had placed the Cruciatius curse on the others. The one's with the curse on them were still laying on the ground panting but they looked to be ok. The girls had managed to get their death eaters up against the wall, held there with strong ropes and were now firmly snapping their wands in front of their faces.

Why couldn't anyone notice me? I'm the one still fending off 3 death eaters by myself. Not that I couldn't handle it but it would be nice if I had some to help. Just then Aurors stormed the field, I guess one of the spectators watching our practice had apperated to the ministry and alerted them to a death eater attack. Just then the one death eater who made the cooing voice turned to them and sent a large wave of a spell, while another one decked me in my eye as soon as my attention was turned. I fell to the ground and he kicked me in my lip before they all apperated, except the 4 who were tied to the wall. I had the wind knocked out of my when the wave spell reverberated off of the stadium wall and came back. It knocked those who were standing on to their backs.

I tried to stand up but my leg didn't feel like it wanted to work, I looked down and it was at an odd angle. When did that happen? I asked myself while I clutched it with my uninjured arm. I could feel sweat breaking out on my forehead, and I started to feel nauseous. I looked up as a shadow covered me. It was Tonks and Kingsley Shaklebolt. They both grabbed one of my arms and pulled me up into a standing position. "Up you get Harry." and with that they apperated me to St. Mungo's.

" And that's about it." Harry finished lamely. All around him faces were in shock. Ginny was looking at him slack jawed, as was most of her family and Hermione had put her hand over her mouth. "Now, don't go looking all shocked. I'm fine."

"Fine!" said Ginny. "Fine my arse!" Her parents looked at her shocked but didn't say anything. "Do you have any idea how worried I was?" she said standing up and towering over him.

"Hey, it's not my fault." he said meekly before turning back to Ron.

They talked for another hour until the healer in charge came in a ran them out.

Hermione and Ron went upstairs to find Lindsay reading the Quibbler and Draco drinking tea finishing a wizarding crossword. "Lets go." Hermione said. Draco and Lindsay both got up and in moments everyone was back home again (Ron dropped Lindsay off this time.)

"Everything okay?" asked Draco when they got home.

Hermione nodded. "Everything should be just fine." she said, she smiled and kissed him. "Oh and I got my apparition license!" she said excitedly. They spent the rest of the day at her parents house.

A/N: Okay, I know, lame ending for a kinda cool chapter, but I assure you next chapter will be so much cooler. Anyway, Chapter Dedications to...

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