Chapter 20: What the Hell?
Just then the rest of the school came into the Great Hall. Hermione signaled to Nina to not mention her and Draco to anyone and whispered to Draco "let's not tell anyone just yet, ok?" he nodded and Nina walked over to them.
Dumbledore suspected what was going on and pretended that he imagined the whole thing. "Now, I assume that you all have probably guessed who's item you have, so now, one person from each group shall come up to the front with the item they were asked to analyze and then tell us all something that you learned about the person from their personal possession."
Harry (yellow), Pansy (red), Hannah (green), Padma (orange), Seamus (purple) and Nina came up. "Now, all of you have discussed whose items you have before you came here, but if you were wrong I would like you to say who you guessed first and why. If you were right the first time, your group gets a point, if you are wrong, your team does not get a point. As you can tell, this is a competition. Let us go in rainbow order, Pansy."
"I thought I had Longbottom's stupid Rememberball thingy. I know because he always forgets everything, but then they all told me that this wasn't even a Remembrall. It turns out that it's a crystal ball and it belongs to MacMallion."
"Padma"
"I have Blaise's broomstick because he loves to fly, and I learned that he is a Chudley Cannons fan because of the sticker on the end."
"Harry"
"I have Dean's soccerball shaped art kit, because his favorite sport is soccer and he loves art. He is a great artist."
"Hannah"
"I have Goyle's decorated box that is always full of food, and I learned that he likes to sketch because some of these pictures are hand drawn."
"Seamus"
"I thought I had Ernie's good luck kit because he's superstitious, but it turns out that he forgot his back home. This is Parvati's kit, and I learned that she is superstitious."
"Nina"
"This is Maya's," she and Harry giggled and Hermione frowned, remembering Dudley "sketchbook. I know because it-" Nina knew that Hermione never showed this to anyone for a reason "it has a book list inside of it and music sheets for our favorite songs, and I actually never knew that she was such a good photographer, but this has a few pictures that she took a few years ago."
"Now, will all of you please sit down and will one more person from each group come up." This went on for the next two groups.
When the game was over, everyone left the room except for Hermione and Draco, Nina took Harry and Ron outside the doors so they wouldn't see the two.
"What're you doing Nina?" Ron asked.
"Yeah, we want to talk to Hermione" Harry added.
"I need to talk to you guys. It's really important!" With that she dragged the two to the next corridor. "Um, I was wondering how school was going so far, I mean the quidditch team! I heard that you were having trouble with your new chaser!" she said.
"What are you? A spy for the Slytherins?" Ron joked.
"Um, Dean, Ginny and Nicole are fine, but Jake, one of the beaters, sucks, but he was the only person who could actually dodge the bludgers." Harry said, confused.
"It's really cool that Dumbledore made you captain instead of one of the seventh years," Nina continued.
"Listen Nina, is there something else you wanted to tell us?" Ron said.
"Well, I, um, YES! I was wondering if you could help me for tryouts for the Slytherin team next year. I play all positions," Nina lied. Actually, she had never been on a broomstick, but she knew that Harry and Ron would never take her seriously and hoping they would say some other time.
"Cool, why don't you grab your broom and meet us at the pitch in a few minutes?" Harry said.
'SHIT! FUCK! DAMN! CRAP!' Nina kept thinking in her head. She nodded weakly and said "O.K. I'll go get my broom," Nina slowly walked to her dormitory.
"Did you actually believe that?" Harry asked.
"How stupid and gullible does she think we are?" Ron laughed.
"She even told us that she's never played," Harry said.
"Let's go get Hermione, I wonder why Nina didn't want us to get her" Ron said as they got to the Great Hall.
"That's why" Harry said.
Ron's jaw dropped and Harry looked petrified. "What the hell?"