Harry was now doing everything in his power to stay out of sight of the Slytherins. The only time he ever had to see them was when he had Double-Potions, Defense Against The Dark Arts, and Care of Magical Creatures. Those classes were always on separate days, and Harry was happy about that. Then the Thursday schedules came around, and Harry felt like jumping in the lake and drowning. All his afternoon classes were with the Slytherins, and Harry knew he now had a problem.
"Oh come on Harry," Hermione said, "Just ignore them. You know Malfoy is always trying to get you worked up about something."
"It's not Malfoy I'm worried about," Harry said.
"Everybody make way for the famous Sherry Potter", Jyoti called out as Harry drew nearer to Umbridge's classroom.
"It's those two" He finished.
He, Hermione and Ron went past the laughing and pointing Slytherins, and into the classroom where they took their usual seats in the back of the room.
The rest of the class filed into the room. The Slytherins whispered 'Sherry Potter' as they walked by.
"Good afternoon class," said Umbridge's voice.
The class answered with their usual," Good afternoon Professor Umbridge."
Umbridge stared around the room.
"Wands away please", She said. Those who did have their wands out stowed them back in their bags.
"I have just been informed by Professor Snape of how very behind you all are," she said, "and that your last teacher wasted his time teaching you illegal curses."
"Well yeah," Harry said, "he was a death eater."
Across the room, Julianna sighed in a dreamy manner. The Slytherins were staring at them in their usual expectant way.
"Are we going to start this again Mr. Potter?" Umbridge asked.
"I'm not starting anything", Harry snapped.
"Actually you kind of are," Julianna said.
"I wasn't talking to you", Harry said.
"You are now", Jyoti said.
Harry ignored them and looked back at Umbridge," I'm just saying that he was a death eater, and he only taught us those curses so he could prepare me for-"
"I knew the word 'me' was in there somewhere," Jyoti burst out. The Slytherins started laughing.
"Shut up Jyoti", Harry snapped.
"No," Jyoti said," if anyone here needs to shut up, it's you. Everytime someone mentions something about that one dude, you start going off into la-la land and complaining about you, you, you."
Umbridge, like Snape looked on with amusement.
"Well if you were there Jyoti," Harry said, causing the Slytherins to stop laughing and glare, "you would know what it's like to see an evil wizard come back to power, and almost kill you, and-"
"And since you're here now Harry," Julianna said, "Maybe you'd like to know how my foot feels when it's halfway up your ass."
The Slytherins burst out laughing.
"I think we shall leave it there for today", Umbridge said loudly. "Now, let's see. That will be twenty points from Gryffindor for spreading lies about the dark lord, and another week's detention for Mr. Potter."
Harry left the class in a fowl mood.
"Don't worry about it mate," Ron said, "at least you have quidditch to look forward to."
"That's true", Replied Harry and his mood lightened a little.
Harry woke the next day with a nervous feeling in his gut. It was the first quidditch match of the season, and it was Gryffindor vs. Slytherin. He was looking forward to beating Malfoy just as he always did. He walked into the Great Hall to an enormous applause from Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Gryffindor. The Slytherins hissed at him as he passed by. Harry noticed that Jyoti, Julianna and Malfoy were deep in conversation, and weren't even paying attention to what was going on.
"They really have something occupying them today", Ron said as Harry sat down.
"Who," Harry asked.
"Malfoy and his cousins," Ron replied, "they've been talking like that ever since they came in here-Aaagh!"
A large amount of eggs splattered on the back of Ron's head.
"Quick talking about us Weasley", Malfoy called.
"I want to go get ready for the match", Harry said quickly. The three of them got up, and left the Great Hall. The students cheered at Harry again as he left.
The quidditch match had only been going for twenty minutes, and Gryffindor was already ahead by a considerable amount. Harry's hope for a good game was ruined when he looked over the stadium and saw Lucius Malfoy sitting with Jyoti and Julianna. He tried not to fly in that direction throughout the whole game. At one point Harry swore to himself that some time soon, he would get Jyoti and Julianna back real good. Because of them, he now had a large bruise covering the left side of his cheek. He had been flying around as usual looking for the snitch, when he stopped in mid-air above the Slytherins. He saw a bludger coming at him, and was about to move out of the way, when Jyoti suddenly yelled, "I can see your underwear!"
Distracted, Harry looked down, and the next thing he knew stars were dancing around his head.