Chapter Twelve; The Qudditch Game

Thanks Scrappy! We finally made it past the middle! Hope you enjoy the next chapter! By the way, here is another similarity reference at the beginning of the chapter and that it is all able to exist together in this fantasy world. (the magic stuff anyway or rather that's what I believe) I really hope that you're blessed by it like me, but if not I hope you enjoy it anyway.

Harry couldn't concentrate that rest of that morning. It was due to this fact that he failed his first disapperating and reapperating attempt. He couldn't shake the image of Malfoy sprawled out on the floor with blood spilling out all over onto the floor. Then a sudden image of the crucifixion came to his mind. He saw Jesus hanging on the cross with His arms stretched out looking up at the sky while His bottom lip began to tremble.

"Father, forgive them. For they know not what they do." Harry heard His voice ring throughout his mind. He wondered how He felt the moment he took His last breath. Harry's thoughts returned to his own father. He hoped and prayed that he would be able to face him again, that he would forgive him just as Jesus taught. Although Harry still didn't think he deserved his love and forgiveness anymore he deserved God's.

Besides those thoughts, he also found his mind filled with the Halfblood Prince. It suddenly had occurred to him that he had read the Sectumsempra Spell inside the book that his father had left him. Why would he give him a book like that if he was already aware of what the consequences could be? Not only that, but who or what was the Halfblood Prince? Was he really a prince like Harry had once believed himself to be the previous year?

That afternoon at lunch, he finally decided to tell Ron, Hermione, and Ginny about it. When he asked them what they thought that he should do about it, Hermione was the first one to respond. "I think that you should talk to your father about, after all, he's the one who gave you that book." She told him.

"I don't think that you should do anything." Ginny began with a rather sly grin. "After all, you were only trying to defend yourself. That bastard deserved it." She told him.

"I know." Harry began. "But just because he deserved it doesn't make it right." He said.

"Are you alright mate? After all this is Malfoy that we're talking about." Ron said.

"Yeah, it's just that I see things a lot differently since getting my faith back. And I just can't go on with this guilt anymore." He explained before he stood up and walked out into the hallway where he ran into his father.

"There you are. I've been meaning to speak with you." He told him.

"I'm sorry about what happened before. I panicked and I didn't know what to do." Harry quickly apologized.

"It's alright son. That happens sometimes. I just wanted to wish you good luck on your game today. Your mother and brothers and sisters should be here shortly." He told him when Harry suddenly had forgotten that he had had a Qudditch game today even though he had been practicing for a long time now.

"I don't think I can go. I don't feel so good." Harry told him earnestly before letting out a fake cough inside the fist of his hand.

"I don't think I believe in you. I know that I do. Just as long as you go out there and try your best your family and I will be proud of you. Here," he began before he dug a goblet out of his pocket and then added a smile vile of liquid luck to it. "drink this." He told him before he handed the goblet over to him.

"But I can't, it's against the rules!" he exclaimed.

"I made the rules Harry so I am very much aware of that. But you want to feel better don't you?" his father questioned him as Harry quickly closed his eyes and tilted his head back and drank it while his father just simply grinned at him. Harry opened his eyes again and turned to look back over at him returning his grin.

"I have to go, I've got a game to win." He said before he turned around and walked away while Snape continued to grin while he watched him go.

"Severus!" he heard a familiar female voice snap behind him before he quickly turned around to see Professor McGonagall standing there behind him with a look of pure horror, shock, and bewilderment on her face. "I can't believe you just did that! I mean I know that the boy is your son and it's obvious that you love him dearly but_" she began but Snape just simply lifted up the vile to reveal that it was still full.

"Relax Minerva, the boy doesn't need a potion, he needs to believe in himself." He said as McGonagall smiled back at him.

"I see, well I've got to see that was a pretty clever and sneaky thing to do Severus." She told him.

"Thank you." He told her while smiling back at her. "Now if you'll excuse me I've got a game to go to." He said before he turned around and walked away.

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Severus sat down in the stands next to his wife and other four children. "I'm so glad that you joined us even though that Harry is facing your house team today.

"Mummy, I have to go to the bathroom." Teddy (who was finally potty trained) told her as she breathed a deep and heavy sigh.

"Sweetheart, I thought I told you to go before we sat down." She said.

"But I have to go too Mummy!" Heather cried as Lily simply just sighed again before turning to look back over at her other two children. "Does anyone else have to make a rest stop?" she questioned them but they both just simply shook their heads.

"No, we already went." Tobey told her.

"Alright then, c'mon darlings. Let's go." Lily told them before she hoisted them up inside her arms and carried them back down the steps. "Be sure to let me know what happens while I'm gone." She said as she started carrying the two little preschoolers away.

"When's Harry going to come onto the field?" Eve wondered.

"The game should be starting any time now." Her father told her when suddenly sure enough all of the players soared out onto the field on top of their broomsticks.

"I can't see Harry, or Ron, or Hermione!" Eve exclaimed while standing up and straining her neck to see overtop of everyone's heads. However Tobey just simply grinned while he remained seated. He was tall enough now that he could see perfectly fine.

"I can't wait until I start Hogwarts next year." He said proudly to himself while continuing to dream about the day that he would take his father's place as seeker on the Gryffindor team once he was done with school. Eve continued to stand up inside the bleachers busily straining her neck and waiting to see her brother and his friends. As soon as Madam Hooch released the Quaffle the game begun and she suddenly saw Harry and Ginny whizzing past her.

"Go Harry!" she cried excitedly while extending her fist into the air and clapping her hands. A few moments later Lily returned carrying the twins back up the steps of the bleachers.

"So what did I miss?" she asked them.

"Nothing much. The game just begun." Her husband told her while she sat back down next to him with Teddy and Heather on top of her lap. The rest of game went better than expected. Gryffindor ended up winning a hundred and sixty points to fifty. Harry's family met him back inside the Gryffindor common room afterwards to celebrate.

"Go Weasley!" Seamus Finnegan hollered on the top of his lungs.

"Yeah we totally kicked their butts!" Fred added even though he and his twin brother had already graduated and was now busily working on their career at the joke shop. Hermione smiled, she was just about to congratulate Ron as well when suddenly Lavender grabbed ahold of his face and passionately kissed him. Snape turned over to watch her with concern as he noticed the hurt in her eyes before she simply turned around and walked away.