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Over the
next few days Harry became accustomed to the fact that Amanda was
dating Draco, as much as he didn't like. Though it didn't really
bother him that much as he did see them together much, as he was
trying to avoid Malfoy at all costs.
Although
it was harder the following weekend at the Quidditch which Harry was
determined to win, mainly because it was his first game as team
captain and he didn't want to be beaten by an easy beat team.
After
Harry shook hands with the Hufflepuff captin, the teams both mounted
their brooms and started the match.
Within
the first few twenty Gryffindor was winning 70-0, Katie had score a
goal, Ginny and Amanda had scored three apiece. Harry hadn't seen
the golden snitch yet although he did nearly lose his head to a stray
bludger; lucky her saw it out of the corner of his eye. Ron had been
lucky too, saving everything in sight.
Gryffindor
scored three more times, while Hufflepuff scored once, before Harry
saw the snitch and sped after it. The Hufflepuffs team seeker saw it
as well, but his Comet twenty-six was no comparison. Harry easily
caught the golden snitch, which meant Gryffindor had just won 250-10,
which put them in first place followed by Slytherin, Ravenclaw and
then Hufflepuff.
After
shaking hands with the Hufflepuff teams', the all quickly started
congratulating each other on the victory before moving off to
celebrate with their own friends. Amanda saw Draco coming towards so
she ran over to him, swung her arms around him and started kissing
him. When they broke apart Draco asked,
"So I
take it you're happy I came then?"
"Very,
how will the Slytherins take it, you coming to support a Gryffindor
player?"
"Probably
the same as the treat me now, half the house isn't talking to me
you know," he stated glumly.
Amanda
instantly understood that many of the Slytherins parents were death
eaters, which made them mostly likely friends with Lucius. As far as
Voldemort and his death eaters were concerned Draco's name was mud,
he concealed information from his father and his beloved Dark Lord.
"Drake,
are you okay?" She asked seriously with concern obvious in her
voice.
"Fine
now that you've won your first match," he told her with genuine
enthusiasm in his voice and face.
"I
know," she squealed in excitement before she started kissing him
again and it didn't take long before he was kissing her back in
congratulations.
Harry
saw Amanda and Malfoy kiss passionate in the public's eye, where
they were in the view of hundreds of Quidditch fans. He felt jealous
but did not let on as he went to talk to the other Quidditch players,
but he ended up talking to Ginny who looked a little pissed off.
"You
don't look to happy for somebody who just scored four goals and won
our first game of the season!"
Ginny
just smiled at him for a moment before replying dully, "I just
broke it of with Dean."
"Why?"
Harry asked, as he thought there relationship was going steady,
obviously he must have been wrong.
"Because
he said that I was a pretty good Quidditch player, for a girl," the
last word she held for a few seconds to show her disgust.
"I
mean have you ever heard anything so ridiculous, or sexist for that
matter!? As if girls can't play as good as guys!!" She huffed
in a voice that made Harry nod in agreement for fear of the
consequences if he didn't agree with her.
Hermione
was talking to Ron in a quiet shy voice; both of them had red
colouring in their cheeks as if they were blushing, when Harry
approached them. Harry elbowed the nearest person, who turned out to
be Luna wearing her roaring lion hat and butter beer corks necklace.
"Hey,
do you know why they are whispering?" Harry asked as he nodded to
Hermione and Ron.
"Oh hi
Harry," Luna greeted him, "in the excitement Hermione ran up to
him and gave him a hug, when she realised what she was doing she
quickly let go and they've been trying to make general conversation
for the last five minutes. It was rather amusing actual, they both
look so embarrassed."
Harry
thanked Luna before heading over to see Hermione and Ron, but shortly
after Harry arrived Ron disappeared.
"Are
you okay Harry?" Hermione asked know he had seen his crush kissing
him enemy.
"What
are you talking about Hermione?" Harry asked know exactly what she
was talking about.
Hermione
just looked at him until he confessed, "okay I saw them, but it
doesn't matter I'm fine with it."
"You
can't be fine with your archenemy kissing the girl you like!"
"I'm
fine with it okay Hermione, now lets just go back to the common room,
we're like the only ones here," Harry told her exaggerating a
little. There were still plenty of people around, although the were
all heading towards Peakes who was shouting, "party in Gryffindor
common room!"
"Can't
turn down a party invite, especially one for our Quidditch team!"
Hermione
smiled and nodded, "okay we'll go to the party, I've just got
to go to the library for a few minutes, but then we're going to
talk about this!" She added in a serious tone.
Harry
went to the party to wait for Hermione; he went in search of Amanda
hoping to congratulate her on a game well played, the only problem
was she didn't seem to be there. In his search though he did
manage to find Ron who was in the back corner entangled with and
kissing Lavender in an awkward manner.
"Looks
like he's eating her face doesn't it? The filthy hypocrite,"
Ginny's voice sneered from behind him. Although Harry didn't say
anything he secretly agreed with her, though his thoughts were
interrupted as he heard someone run out of the corridor and into the
hall, he saw a bush of bushy brown hair before the door slammed shut
behind her. Hermione.
Harry
followed her, even though he didn't know what he was going to say
when he caught up to her. It didn't take long for Harry to find
her, as she was in the unlocked classroom sitting in the front row
staring at the board.
"Are
you okay?" Harry asked nervously, hoping Hermione wouldn't snap
at him.
"I'm
fine, why shouldn't I be?" She snapped in a nasty accusing tone,
leaving Harry with a vacant expression.
"I'm
sorry Harry, I'm just annoyed at Ronald," she explained in an
apologetic voice.
After
the Gryffindors Quidditch win, Hermione refused to be in the same
room as Ron and was spending more and more time with Ginny and Amanda
when she was around, which wasn't very often. If nobody was around
she would retreat to the library, as she did in her first year when
she had nobody to hang around with.
The
autumn soon died, giving birth to the winter, which meant Christmas
was approaching. The first week in December had terrible weather,
causing all Quidditch matches to be cancelled. The weather was so
bad that all Herbology and Care of Magical Creature classes were
cancelled as well, the down side being nobody was allowed outdoors,
which limited the places you could go.
Snape
often kept Draco behind after class to give him threatening messages
from his father and from the Dark Lord, Draco would simply pretend to
listen then leave. He knew his father had no control over him
anymore, because he recently got a letter from his cousin Tonks
stating that Lucius and Narcissa have removed from the residence of
Malfoy Manor. And as for the threats from Voldemort he wasn't
really bothered much, as he knew Voldemort couldn't get him while
he was at Hogwarts.
Harry
spent a lot of his free time with Hermione, as it was embarrassing to
be around Ron when he was with Lavender. Amanda spent nearly all her
time Draco and Bradley, who was now twenty-two weeks old, as all her
classes were with Draco and her Care of Magical Creature classes had
been cancelled up until after the Christmas holidays.
Ginny
however had become rather anti social since she broke up with Dean,
she even began talking back to teachers, which quite often landed her
in detention. Amanda was spending less and less time with her friends
and whatever time she did spent with her Gryffindor friends, nobody
dared mention Draco Malfoy's name, in fear of provoking Harry into
a fit or rage.
It may
seem that this December at Hogwarts was rather gloomy but in fact
something good did happen. Amanda, with great help from Harry, found
out that Dumbledore had found and destroyed another one of
Voldemort's Horcruxes, Slytherins locket. She also found out off
Harry that Dumbledore is pretty sure that Nagini, Voldemort's
snake, was another Horcrux. Although Harry and Dumbledore didn't
know it, that meant that, that snake was the last remaining Horcrux,
if you exclude the piece of soul in Voldemort's actually body.
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Here you guys go another chapter, although not much happened!