AN Another new chapter up, I am having a bit of writers block trying to write the eighth one, and your reviews help give me that inspiration. That sounded cliché. Anyway can you all comment some names for kids, and I will include the ones I like best in the story, yes they can be named after you if you do so wish. I will choose my favourite ones. Please review them, I will appreciate it. Thanks
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Chapter Six Harry's Pov
I woke up in the morning and no one else was awake as I was an early riser. I went down to breakfast and sat down with Justin, Hannah and Susan at the Hufflepuff table. The Hufflepuffs had gladly let me sit with them and the teachers were glad we were promoting house unity. No one else really tried to promote it but us. I didn't understand why there were house boundaries in the first place, however though I did speak to people from other houses, Slytherin wasn't one of them.
Obviously during feasts I had to sit with the Gryffindors and sometimes I sat with Lee, Fred and George. My dorm mates had stopped picking on me after Halloween as Lee had told me that they had before halloween. Not that I remembered it. I was glad I wasn't being bullied still. Back in primary school bullying was basically my life. I loved going to school to get away from Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia but Dudley was still there, and everyone else had bullied me.
" Hey guys."
" Hey Harry." The girls chorused.
" Harry!" Justin shouted causing people to look at him and him to blush.
" Seriously Justin." I said shaking my head in exasperation.
" Sorry mate but I need you to save me! They were talking about girly things!"
" Oh."
" Sorry Justin!" Susan and Hannah chorused.
" No its okay I have Harry to talk to now. Right mate?"
" Yes of course."
" Good."
" So what happened last night?" Susan asked.
" Well George, Fred and Lee pulled the prank and I got detention for it."
" Didn't they say you weren't involved." Hannah asked shocked.
" They did but she didn't listen."
" That's not fair at all." Susan protested.
" Oh well." I said shrugging.
" What did you get for it?" Justin asked.
" Detention."
" Well it's not too bad." Hannah reasoned.
" I guess." Susan admitted.
" What lessons have we got today?" Justin asked.
" I don't know." I said.
" It was so kind of Professor Dumbledore to let you have classes with the Hufflepuffs Harry." Susan said beaming at me.
" I know." I told her sincerely. I was so glad I was allowed with the Hufflepuffs. Though the Gryffindors had stopped bullying me, it didn't mean they liked me. I began to wonder whether I had done something that I couldn't remember, something that had made them want to hate me. But then, at primary school nobody had ever liked me and I had never done anything to them. Not that I knew of at least.
" It's nice to have you with us all the time." Susan said.
" Yeah." Hannah agreed.
" And it means I have some guy to talk to." Justin agreed.
" Come on we have to get to charms." Hannah asked.
I sighed as I thought of my friends. Justin was my best mate and he was hyperactive and always happy. Susan was a sort of mother hen as was Hannah. However Hannah is more gentle and calm than Susan who sometimes had random bursts of energy and would become hyper. Susan and I had talked about our parents a few times. Susan lived with her aunty as both of her parents had been killed in the first war against Voldemort. She however, loved her aunty to pieces, and they were really close unlike Aunt Petunia and I.
We walked into charms and took our seats. I sat with Justin and Hannah sat with Susan midway through. I was on good terms with all the other Hufflepuffs in my year as well as most of the older ones too. They had counted me as a sort of pseudo Hufflepuff, but I didn't mind. I really enjoyed charms it was my favourite lesson and though I understood the work in the other classes pretty quickly, charms always came to me so quickly and I found the spells easy to do.
I had told Susan, Hannah and Justin all about Fluffy, Hagrid had told me when I had visited him but when he accidentally revealed information he wasn't meant to have, I never brought it up with him, not wanting him to get upset. I knew there was a possibility he would lose his job if anyone was to find out. Susan had been shocked at it as it was illegal to have a Cerberus in a school. She had been raised by her Aunty Amelia since she was a baby and she knew the laws like the back of her hand yet she daren't say in case of the fact Dumbledore had permission and I might get in trouble for it.
In charms we were learning how to make our quills do back flips. It was quite easy. I got it straight away and Justin had looked at me in amazement. Justin's best lesson was astronomy. Apparently he had a telescope at home from before he knew he was a wizard as even then he had been mesmerised by them. I could understand what he meant. They had a beauty about them, and they drew me in. I thought it was amazing how the light from the stars had taken millions of years to get down to earth and we could see stars that were long since dead.
I also liked the stories behind them. My favourite was Ursa Major which was also known as Callisto the bear. Zeus had impregnated her pretending to be Artemis who wanted to be a virgin forever. Artemis killed Callisto. Zeus took pity on her, and turned her into a constellation. I would like to think that had happened to my parents. They were still watching over me, together. They had pity taken on them too and they could watch over me. I quite liked the idea that they knew what was happening to me even though they weren't her on earth.
" How did you do that?" Justin asked shocked when he saw that my quill was doing flips.
" Think about your quill doing the backflips. Imagine it in your mind. Magic's all about intent." I told him.
" Alright." He said not looking at all sceptical.
He did and a minute later his quill was too doing backflips and I was awarded ten points from Professor Flitwick for helping Justin who was given five points for the spell working. We spent most of the lesson talking as our quills continued to do flips. Professor Flitwick told us he was proud of our work and it made me smile. No one had ever said they were proud of me before. It was nice feeling to know someone had said it, even though it was a teacher. I tried to shake the feeling off, not wanting to feel that happy about something so simple.
When that lesson was done we had Transfiguration and I sat with Hannah this time. We sat at the front as this was her favourite lesson. I rather enjoyed it too though Charms was mine. I just found it so easy. It was also fun and so much could be learnt from it. I really liked transfiguration yet I couldn't understand why I would need it. When would I ever need to turn an animal into a water goblet or something like that. I knew as we went on into later years we would learn things that would be important, but until then I saw no point of it, even though the lessons were easy.
The rest of the day passed quickly and then I had Quidditch practice. I went down having skipped tea. Justin, Hannah and Susan had tried to make me have something to eat but I wanted to go to the Library. I wanted to look something up. I wanted to have a few extra charms in my brain in case they came in useful at some point. Knowing me I would need it. Even before Hogwarts, trouble had always found me but I knew it would be even more so then. I had nearly been late for practice however I had slid through the door with one minute to spare.
" That was close Harry." Fred told me as I sat down beside him.
" I know."
" Where were you at dinner?" George asked.
I wondered whether I could get away with lying but then I had a feeling that he would have known if I was lying or maybe Susan, Justin or Hannah had told him. My main bets were on Hannah as she was a big mother hen. I also couldn't lie to George, he could tell when I was lying to him and it made me feel incredibly guilty as I saw the hurt in his eyes when I did try to lie to him. It was as if he believed that I didn't trust him. I could tell it hurt him, so I went out of my way not to lie to him.
" Er... I wasn't hungry so I went to the library."
" You have to eat." Alicia had said from across the room. I smiled at her. I really liked Alicia. Even when I was being bullied she had been there even if she hadn't noticed I was suffering. Sometimes she would sit with me at dinner when she noticed that I was sat alone, however most of the time I made sure to sit where she couldn't see me. I just knew that if she saw me sat by myself, she would know something was wrong. I didn't want George or anyone else to know I wasn't settling in, yet I didn't want to be alone.
" I know." I told her.
" Good." George said running his fingers through my hair.
I lent in subconsciously to the touch. It felt nice after being denied all physical contact with another human for ten years when I was with the Dursleys. George often gave me hugs and did things like this to get me use to human contact and Fred and Lee sometimes randomly hugged me so I wouldn't just be use to Georges hugs. Also I suspected on George or Fred's orders Hannah and Susan did it too. It was more than likely so I would be okay when Mrs Weasley subjected me to hugs as well.
" Right team let's get flying we are going to practice the moves from last night." Oliver said.
" Okay." Everyone called back.
We all got onto brooms and flew around the pitch as a sort of warm up. The wind rushed through my hair and I sighed. I love flying. The cool air and just the freedom, after so many years of spending most of my time in a shed or in my cupboard the freedom I had at Hogwarts was outstanding. We began warming up and I was racing the twins when my broom tried to buck me off. I held on as tight as I could possibly and the twins were ahead of me not that they had been before but they hadn't realised what was happening.
Fear was gripping in my stomach. I knew that we had been taught to make things cartwheel in Charms, however I knew a student couldn't do this unless they had particular practice in the dark arts. When the brooms were made, as a safety precaution they put charms on it to make it impossible for something to happen like this unless it was dark magic. I tried to calm my nerves when nobody had seen me. I would have shouted or something, but I was starting to feel sick and I knew if I opened my mouth it would end badly. It was Katies scream that brought them to me. Everyone except me had turned to her as I was already facing her and I was still trying to keep hold of the bucking broom stick.
" Katie what's the matter?" Fred asked.
" Look at Harry." She cried.
Everyone had turned to face me and I was now hanging off in the middle of the air as it did cartwheels trying to buck me off and I knew this seemed to surprised Oliver as he knew brooms had special charms on them to make sure this wouldn't happen unless it was dark magic.
" Harry!" George shouted.
The broom was going higher until it eventually managed to buck me off and I was around sixty feet up. I closed my eyes feeling as if I was going to die, afterwards I did realise how dramatic I must have sounded, but I was scared and wasn't thinking properly. I prayed I wouldn't be hurt and at some point I must have passed out.
Georges Pov
" Katie what's the matter?" Fred asked.
" Look at Harry." She cried.
Everyone turned to face him and he was hanging off in the middle of the air as it did cartwheels trying to buck him off. Only dark magic could do that to a broom. Especially a nimbus 2000. Fear and protectiveness boiled like a volcano about to erupt in my stomach. He couldn't be hurt, please Merlin don't let him get hurt I pleaded inwardly. Harry's eyes were wide and startled and he was dreadfully pale.
" Harry!" I shouted.
The broom was going higher until it eventually managed to buck him off and he was around sixty feet up. He closed his eyes and a massive bubble of dread exploded in the pit of my stomach as he fell. I flew up as fast as I could pushing my cleansweep to its maximum speed and caught him. Fred flew up and grabbed the broom which had finally stopped bucking now that Harry had been bucked off. I flew down to the ground and lay Harry down on the grass. We all surrounded him as Lee rushed on as well. Oliver placed a hand to Harry's forehead to see if he was ill and needed to be taken to the hospital wing.
" He's fine we should just leave him here and he will join back in when he wakes up." He said.
" Oliver!" I protested. We couldn't just leave Harry on the grass, what if he was hurt again or whoever had cast dark magic on his broom hurt him as well. He needed to be safe, I wasn't going to leave him in an unsafe place. Just then Harry started to come around and I leant over him. I placed his glasses on his face which had smashed and Angelina had repaired. He blinked up at us and then tried to sit up abruptly. This caused Alicia to gasp worriedly.
" I'm fine!" He cried.
None of us believed it. He was dreadfully pale, and he looked shaken. His eyes were wide and his hands were shaking and I took them in mine and placed a kiss to them. My heart rate was starting to get back to something reasonably normal. I had been so worried something terrible was about to happen to him. I placed a kiss to his forehead and wrapped him into a massive hug.
" Harry you fell sixty feet off a broom!" Fred argued.
" Well I don't think I hit the ground."
" No George or was it Fred caught you." Oliver said.
" Me." I said.
" Who?" He asked sheepishly.
" George." Harry told him.
" Oh sorry George."
" Anyway shall we carry on?" Harry asked.
" Harry you can't seriously be saying..." Angelina argued.
" Why not?"
" We need to find out what happened to your broom." She told him.
" Fine then I will sit in the stands and wait for you to finish and then we can go see Professor Flitwick."
" Okay." I agreed.
" Come and sit with me Harry." Lee said pulling him off.
" Alright then." He said following him.
I felt so much better to know he was sitting with Lee. Lee would make sure Harry was safe. He wouldn't let anything happen to him. When the practice was over we went back over and all of the team as well as Lee went to go and see Professor Flitwick who was in his office and he looked mightily confused when we got there. He ushered us in and we sat down placing Harry's nimbus on the desk. There was no way enough seats, so Katie sat on Lee's knee and Alicia and Angelina had the other seats apart from the one I had. I pulled Harry onto my lap and he blushed heavily and Flitwick chuckled merrily.
" Gryffindor quidditch team and commentator what are you doing here?" He asked surprised.
" Can we have a word sir?" Alicia asked.
" Of course you know my office door is always open. With in theory."
" Sir Harry's broom was charm cursed to buck him off." Katie told him.
" Oh." Flitwick gasped turning to look at Harry who blushed.
" Harry fell off." Alicia told him.
" My boy are you okay?" He asked Harry.
" I'm fine."
" Can we ask you to give it a quick look over." Alicia asked.
" Of course you can how about I give you this back tomorrow Mr Potter after lessons."
" Okay thanks Sir."
" No problem now off to your common room it's not long until curfew and we don't want you being in trouble for being out of your dorms.
" Bye and thanks again." We all said before leaving.
Harry's Pov
We got into the common room and my went into my dorms after bidding them goodbye and started on some more homework. I was tired but it needed to be done, I knew it wasn't due in for a while, but I preferred to have my homework finished a while before it was due in, which led me into doing my homework the night I got it. No one else apart from Hermione did it the day they got it, but I didn't talk to Hermione. She was too busy with Ron and Neville, yet I noticed Ron and Hermione were always arguing and Neville seemed uncomfortable around them when they started.
