A year in the life of Harry Potter
Chapter 16: August, 12
Severus had prebooked the tennis court for the next morning at eight o'clock. Afterwards they'd get changed and then they'd have breakfast.
"Ever played tennis before?" Quentin questioned as they walked towards the court.
Harry shook his head as Severus unlocked the door. "Never."
"Well, you'll like it."
"What are the rules?"
"We always play some valleys to warm up with," Lucy explained, handing Harry a racket. "Quentin will explain everything to you."
"Okay," Quentin said, positioning herself in the middle of the serve square. "You serve like this." She threw a tennis ball in the air and hit it with the racket above her head. She had, on purpose, only hit it lightly so that it wouldn't go over the net. Quentin took another one. "Or you serve like this." She let the ball fall down on the ground, and as soon as it came up high enough she hit it. This time she'd used more strength so that it would go over the net but still make it easy for Harry to get.
Harry stepped forward as soon as he had calculated in his head about where the ball should land. As good as he could he hit the tennis ball back. Quentin reacted fast enough to get it though, and she hit it back with a bit too much strength so that it went behind the line marking where the playing ground ended.
"That was well good," she gasped. "Only too bad I didn't hit it back so that you could catch it. If we'd play a game it'd be your turn to serve as it went into out."
After about ten minutes Severus and Quentin started a game. Harry watched carefully and Lucy counted the points. They finished just shortly before nine o'clock with Quentin winning 2:1.
"We have one hour left before breakfast finishes," Lucy said. "Go get changed Quentin, Harry. We'll bring the rackets, balls and the key back to the reception and then we'll get you."
"You were right," Harry smiled as they walked back to the hotel. "I do like tennis."
There was a wide variety of foods at the breakfast buffet: scrambled eggs, bacon, cooked eggs, numerous kinds of bread and bread rolls, fruit juices, milk, butter milk, cereal, fruits, salad, yogurt, various kinds of marmalade, three or four kinds of cheese and salami, and a lot, lot more.
"Enjoy your fatt dead animal," Quentin muttered as she saw Severus put bacon on his plate.
"I will," he grinned.
Harry gave him an irritated glance.
"She's living in the world of the vegetarians," he explained. "For the last few years she hasn't been eating a bite of meat."
Harry looked at the bacon he had wanted to put on his plate. "Maybe I'll try it out as well."
"Finally!" Quentin said triumphantly. "I've been trying to get other people become one, but until now I never succeeded."
"Oh man. Now we've got to put up with two vegetarians," Lucy sighed.
A/N: Sorry for the short chapter, but my laptop is infected by some kind of virus and I haven't been able to get rid of it yet.