A/N: Ta Da! Chapter 4 just like I promised. Please note that Harry's schedule is not based off of any fact from the books, because again, this story doesn't really take place in any certain time/place.
Disclaimer: The Wizarding World is not mine, because if it was, I would totally live in it.
Chapter 4
Tag
Mondays, for Harry Potter, weren't actually all that bad. He had Double Transfiguration to start out his morning, then a free period, followed by Herbology, and then lunch. After, he had Charms and then another Free Period. Not to mention, on this very fine Monday, after classes, he was going to play a muggle game with all his best mates.
Breakfast was done in a flash, and before he knew it, Transfiguration was over too, and it was time for his free period. He took this time to brood over what game he would have them all play today. Again, he was drawing a big fat blank. It was really fantastic weather outside, so Harry decided that they should probably take advantage of that. Again, he racked his brain to come up with a game they could play, but yet again, he couldn't think of a bloody thing.
He went to Herbology, his mind still in a frenzy about what they were going to do this afternoon. He was so distracted, he got hit by one of the branches of whatever odd plant they were dealing with today. Hermoine gave him a 'you'd better pay attention or I'm not lending you my notes' look, and then they went about with their work.
Hermoine, being so smart, figured out on her own that Harry was being stupidly distracted by the fact that he didn't know what game they would play today. She, not wanting Harry to fall behind in classes for a stupid reason like that, told him during lunch what game they could play.
"Tag?" Harry questioned, "What's that?"
"A simple muggle game," Hermoine said, "where someone runs around trying to tag the others. If someone is tagged, then they become 'it' and then that person has to go around trying to tag the others. Really, it's very easy."
Harry pondered this. It sounded decent... But it would be a lot more fun if...
"What if we used broomsticks to play?" Ron said, having overheard Harry and Hermoine's conversation. Harry and Ron's status as 'best mates' was proven yet again by their telepathy. Hermoine shrugged and decided that that would probably be okay.
So off they all went to Charms, and afterward, they rounded up brooms for everyone to use in their game of 'Tag'. Harry and Ron each had their own brooms, as did Fred and George. So that left them with obtaining four other brooms for Neville, Ginny, Hermoine and Luna. They simply went into the broom shed and swiped four 'Cleansweeps' and then were on their way out to the courtyard to wait for everybody else.
Ginny and Luna arrived first, coming from their Transfiguration lesson together. Then came Neville, his schoolbag on the verge of ripping from the amount of books he had. Then almost 30 minutes later Fred and George came.
"Where have you been?" Exclaimed Ginny
The twins both were laughing as they started to explain.
"We were coming out of potions-" started Fred
"And we saw Peeves a little bit up the hallway trying to convince a first year Hufflepuff that flying flabberwaddles exist!" Continued George
"Peeves is a git. He really shouldn't be saying stupid things like that, rotting young children's minds..." Hermoine sighed. Luna glared at Hermoine.
"Actually," Luna started, "Daddy wrote his own piece for the Quibbler last month about flying flabberwaddles. They live in your garden and nibble on Erumpet toes." She looked at everyone with a dazed, yet defiant look on her face.
"Err...okay.." Hermoine responded.
"Well anyway," George cut in, "Since Peeves is like, one of our best mates, I don't know can you call a ghost a mate? Oh well anyway we decided we'd go raid Snape's office and attach some freaky potion ingredients to ourselves and go scare the Hufflepuff kid by pretending to be flying flabberwaddles! We weren't actually flying...but the Hufflepuff kid was too scared to care.."
"That's so mean!" cried Hermoine
"But so funny!" replied Fred
"You could've gotten caught in Snape's office, you know."
"But we didn't"
"How did you avoid it?"
"Depends, will you give me detention if I tell you?"
"Probably"
"Then...I know something you don't know! I know something you don't know! Wow, Hermoine, it feels really good saying that to you! Come on everybody, join in!"
As Harry, Luna, Fred, George, Ginny, Ron and Neville all sang a chorus of "I know something you don't know', Hermoine got redder and redder by the second. She sent a death glare at Ron, and he instantly shut up. Finally, everyone sang themselves hoarse, and they continued onward with their game.
Everyone mounted their brooms. It was decided that Harry would be 'it' first.
"One, two, three...and go!" Harry said, launching into the air. The game players scattered themselves throughout the sky as they waited for Harry to come and try to tag them.
Having the Firebolt, Harry had no problem being 'it'. He immediately tucked into a dive to tag Hermoine, who was struggling to even stay upright on her broom. She cursed as Harry's hand brushed the back of her robes and she tottered slightly as she zoomed off to tag someone else.
She leaned over to tag Ron as she passed by, but lost balance and fell off her broom. Ron whirled around and swooped lower to catch Hermoine. She landed on the broom and instinctively put her arms around Ron's waist to secure herself. As her broom had fallen into the lake, her and Ron would now be a team.
Ron twisted to the right to go and tag an unsuspecting Ginny, who was talking to Harry. He tapped her on the top of her head, and her head twisted around in an instant to see what had happened. She then realized she was now 'it', as did Harry, who flew off in the other direction. Ginny made a beeline to Luna.
"And now Weasley is on her Cleansweep zooming toward Luna Lovegood who seems quite dazed right now." Lee Jordan said. He had picked up on the object of the game and took it upon himself to commentate.
"Which Weasley?" Dean Thomas called out, who had also stopped to watch.
"Oh who knows, there are so many of them." Lee called back, jokingly.
"Heard that, Jordan!" Fred called out
"Good, because I said it loud enough for you to hear!" Lee teased
"Well which Weasley, Lee?" Dean called again
"Ginny, wait no, now Luna's 'it' though. Luna is now darting around on her broom with her hair flying out from behind her. She has got some bloody long hair that girl has. I think the length of her hair is the same height as my Grandmother Pipkey. You know, I haven't seen her in a while. Good thing too, she's a cheek pincher. I think I still have the nail marks from last time..."
"Jordan!" McGonagall called. Lee's head whipped up from the microphone. Professor McGonagall was sitting in the grass watching the game of tag. Lee smiled at the sight and said "Yes, Professor?"
"If you're going to commentate this game," she scolded, "At least do it right."
"I'm just making it more interesting, professor."
"Interesting, my cat rump, you're commentating is a load of rubbish."
"You think so, professor?"
"Yes, yes I do."
"Can you please show me how it's done then?"
"Happy to." McGonagall said as she stood up and walked over to Lee.
She got herself situated and grabbed the microphone.
"And Luna's off after one of the Weasley twins. I believe it is Fred. She swerves to the right to catch him off guard. She must watch the Quidditch games because Fred's right is his weak spot. Good job Ms. Lovegood!" Professor McGonagall called.
"And she taps Fred and makes a u-turn to go as far away from the 'it' as possible. Fred shoots down ward to tag his brother George. He makes a lunge for his twin...and he misses!And he's tumbling toward his right, I told you that was his weak spot, folks..."
"Professor" Fred whined
"Just stating the facts, Weasley!" McGonagall called after him. Lee began to watch Professor McGonagalls' commentating with much interest, for the reason that he never knew that his Transfiguration teacher could have such a sports announcer-like voice that really made you want to listen.
"As Fred mounts his broom again, he now tries for Ron and Hermoine. He leans to his left this time, nice choice Fred, and taps Ron's arm. Ron is now off to go tag Neville, but Neville is hovering right above the whomping willow and Mr. Weasley now looks like he'd rather not risk it. Now he's going for Harry it looks like. But Harry, with that fine broom of his easily gets away from him and flies off in the other direction. Ron instead now makes a beeline toward George, who is now quarreling with Fred about something or another. KNOCK IT OFF YOU TWO YOUR IN THE MIDDLE OF A GAME!" She cried. The twins heads whipped around so fast that they had to steady themselves on their brooms. They turned around just in time to swerve a bit upward to avoid Harry's tag. But Harry was just one step ahead for then he pulled out of his dive and got George on the back of his head.
"And with Mr. Weasley 'it', I must now retire my post as commentator and hand it off to a waiting Mr. Jordan for I have to go meet with Mr. Filch about an apparent infestation of flying flabberwaddles roaming the school." McGonagall exclaimed as she left, her robes billowing behind her in the nice light breeze. Lee happily took the post again and reinstated his antics as commentator.
"So now George, one of my best mates, is 'it'. He flies off towards his sister, Ginny, and makes a dive for her head. She tries to duck but George catches a bit of her long hair. You know, Ginny's hair is pretty long too. Why do all the girls here have long hair? I mean really? Hermoine has long hair as well...as does Lavender. As does every other girl in this bloody school!"
"You know Lee," George called, "You've got some pretty long dreads there yourself."
"But that's different, George, my hair is actually cool."
All three girls who were playing the game of tag and had heard the comment whipped around to glare at Lee. But since Hermoine was with Ron, when she whipped around, he lost his balance and fell off the front of the broom. Hermoine reacted to the falling a little too late and could not get her broom into a dive fast enough to go catch him. Thankfully, Harry dove and caught Ron just in the nick of time before he hit the Whomping Willow.
The game continued having Fred, Ginny, Luna, Neville and Harry each be 'it' again.
The game ended with an amazing swerve by George to avoid a tag by Harry. Ron had already been deposited back on his broom with Hermoine, so Harry was once again flying solo. Unfortunately, Harry was too close to the ground to pull out of his dive in time and he ended up smashing into the grass. He broke the bridge of his glasses, and his nose as well. Everyone decided that this was probably a good place to end their game.
Hermoine and Ginny helped Harry up and into the castle to go the infirmary. Luna walked off in the direction of the greenhouses, for Merlin only knows why. Neville went up into the Gryffindor common room before Dinner, which left Fred, George and Ron outdoors under the now setting sun.
It really was quite a beautiful sight. Three brothers staring off into the fading pink, purple and yellow horizon. The clouds were parted at exactly the right angle to give it that postcard, perfection look. It was a real shame that Fred and George had to ruin it.
"Ron, you really need to get better at your flying, mate" Fred teased
"Yes, I almost wretched at the sight of you on your broomstick" George played along. Ron blushed a magenta-ish color.
"Aww, we're just kidding ickle Ronnikins." Fred cooed. They all laughed and headed inside for dinner in the Great Hall. They sat down on the polished Oak benches and awaited the coming of the food. While they were waiting, Neville came down and accompanied them, as did Ginny and Hermoine. Harry came down a couple minutes later, nose and glasses both repaired. Ginny broke the silence
"Today was a lot of fun." she said offhandedly
"Yeah, it was" Hermoine wholeheartedly agreed
"Tomorrow, same time same place?" Harry questioned
"You bet!" They all answered in unison.
A/N: Chapter four is now said and done. Let me know if there are any games you would like to see Harry and his friends play! Also tell me of any improvements I should make. I am open to constructive criticism, or really criticism of any kind. Hope you enjoyed! Next chapter should be up in a week!