Author: Ann Leony
Summary: Maybe an awaited interview.
A/N: This was inspired by a picture of Draco Malfoy leaning on a stone wall during Care of Magical Creatures. The list, I tried to make it all man, but I have to include girls because I don't know that many characters, and you could only use original character that much. Have to do more homework and Cedric is not Dead cause he's too beautiful to die.
By the way, if they are any mistakes in name or spelling of some things, I apologizes beforehand. I'm at college and I don't have any of the books for reference. I'm living of other fictions.
Chapter Eleven
Too much could be said for a men who like guys. More could be said to guys who now have woman 'things' caused by a freak accident (Alright, not really a freak accident, more in the freaky alchemist category). Some took it in their stride and make the transition quite smoothly, like Jimmy Pulley who later became a supporter of the Witches Watchers League. He had thirteen children and lived a quite happy life married to his boyfriend at thirty and was still going strong at eighty four. Others, like Ashley Thiele, who kept his first name became rather eccentric and keep questioning his offspring for years. He didn't think that they existed and keep pinching everyone before bed.
Blaise, apparently, don't think he will be joining the mental conditions of Jimmy as he liked his person well enough as not to ask for any permanent changes. However since he unknowingly (tricked is a better word) became this creature that is woman, he is more depressed than ever. WHAT WOULD SEAMUS SAY? He couldn't imagine that Seamus would want him and he definitely would go back to Thomas. "Just my luck." Zabinis had never succeed in the love business.
Maybe if he don't get out of his room, like ever, Seamus might not notice. He better get Snape before he fled the country. Let just say that he knows how his Head of House's brain works.
Not many knew that the interview itself will be published in a follow-up magazine that can be bought with the calendar and more pictures will be put in the magazine. The fans are going to go crazy over it. It was the Planning Committee marketing idea. Apparently Melinda suggested they make this a yearly thing if they could achieve 70 percent circulation with the first issue. Being a daughter of a muggle business mogul gives her an inner business sense. Henrietta Hogget also surprises everybody by professing that she is the only niece of Melanie Hogget, an editor at the Witches Weekly and a very well known gossip columnist, though not as notorious as Rita Skeeter, she has her own following. Her stories have never went over the borders of the ludicrous. Henrietta in return decides to make a column in the magazine about validating the rumors about the candidates for the calendar. Hermione and Pansy agreed immediately.
Colin Creevy, the most enthusiastic photographer of the present array of students was assigned by Hermione Granger and Pansy Parkinson for the interview and the photo shot for the much awaited calendar. And much to his delight, his first victim (oops, I meant interviewee) was non other than the elusive Harry Potter. He had made appointments with all the candidates for the calendar and it seems Harry was the only who could see him that weekend. Never had he lost his obsessive compulsive fascination with Harry, Colin, with the help of his brother Dennis will make sure this is the best interview of Harry Potter even if he has to eat flobberworms later. He met Harry at the designated place at 4 o'clock that Saturday evening.
Josh Feather had prepared him a few questions but other than that he was free to ask anything of interest about Harry. And he intend to do just that. He saw Harry waiting for him and was sitting under a tree. It's a normal place for Harry to be so Colin preferred that the pictures for the interview to be shot in the natural surrounding of the person. Seems to think it brings more of the person's character and make them more comfortable.
" Hi Harry, how are you?" he eyed the teen wonder with hunger in his eyes.
" I'm fine, Colin. Where's Josh? I thought he was the one who will be conducting the interviews?" and he had a set of matching puzzled look on his face. Colin almost squeal because of it's cuteness.
"Josh had family problems and have to go home for the weekend. Something about a grandmother marrying. So he told me to take the job." That was true. Josh's grandmother is marrying, again, for the fifth time and she insist that her favorite grandsons be there to catch the bouquet. She became rather eccentric by her third marriage. What's not true is that Josh did not pick Colin, but was begged and blackmailed to give Colin the job. That, Harry did not need to know, yet.
"Well, we can start if you like. You can ask anything." That open trusting look, only Harry Potter could give that look.
" The first question is how would you describe being at Hogwarts so far?" Colin decided to follow Josh's patterned questions. Harry seems to relax a little as it seems that the question was very open ended and did not pry too much into his personal life.
" Well, It's well known that I regarded Hogwarts more as home than school, being an...without parents. Professor Dumbledore is more of a father figure and I have everything I need here." He concluded with a smile.
" Is your home life unsatisfactory?" Colin was screaming in his head at the stupid question, but he had to do his job.
Harry smirked, seems quite happy to let his heart out on that question." Unsatisfactory is an understatement. Let's just say if I followed Voldemort, stop flinching Colin, yes, Voldemort, I would heartily agree with muggle torture. I was treated badly and I was truly happy when I first read my letter from Hogwarts saying I was leaving."
" What are you're favorite and least favorite subjects that you're taking?" He leaf through the compilation of questions that Josh prepared and get ready to venture very, very far from it.
" I love Defense Against the Dark Arts and the best teacher was Professor Lupin. He actually knew what he was teaching and was not possessed with anything. My least favorite is Potions, but that is just because of the teacher. I bet if somebody else, anybody else teach it, I could get a decent grade."
Colin feels that they have had enough of that and decided to move in deeper waters. He had heard every rumor on Harry Potter but if he wanted to get in the secrets, he must pick his words carefully.
" Is it true you dated Cho Chang, the prettiest girl in school early this year? " slow and steady.
" I wouldn't say dated, we didn't even get to finish one whole date. She is till very much in love with Cedric." Harry smiled as he say that. Just a small tug at the corner of his mouth. His eyes were telling another story however, and it seems he couldn't forget Cedric either, for an entirely different reason.
" Are you seeing anyone right now?" Colin know the imperative word was 'anyone' instead of 'any girl' to see if Harry had notice. Apparently not. Cementing the idea that Harry might not be batting for the correct team, if not both.
" No, not currently. I don't seem to have the time for relationships." He answered with a shrug.
"Does that mean you are interested with somebody? " He made a very serious face and scrunch up his temple, while leaning nearer towards Harry.
Harry first look like he was going into one of his tempers again when he suddenly had that thinking look that he always wear when he tries to think of a new way for somebody to get the spells right during the DA trainings. He than sat down again and smiled cheerily at Colin. " As a matter of fact, I am seeing someone, Colin." and he smirked as only a Malfoy can.
TBC
A/N: I hope you guys like this installment. Harry is going to draw blood, even if for a wrong reason.
