Harry Potter - Series Fan Fiction ❯ Harry Potter and the Bad Wish ❯ Surprise! ( Chapter 8 )

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Chapter 8: Surprise!

The next week passed, the weekend came, and the first Quidditch practice came and went smoothly. On Monday Harry was a little sore after training for Chaser with Ginny who was a little to aggressive tackling Harry several times to steal the ball from him. Harry was sitting in the Great Hall for breakfast when Ginny came over.

“Sorry about yesterday Harry.” She sat down next to him. “Hermione told me Monica didn't tell you, and I am sorry about trying to cheat to win the bet.” Ginny grabbed a roll. “I haven't held my end of the bet though, you did win and I guess I should tell you who Monica has been seeing.”

“Don't worry about it Ginny; I think I know, Hermione won't say it but its Monica and Devin, right? Devin isn't really her Brother it is just part of his cover to get away from the Republicans in America.” Ginny nearly choked on the roll she was eating when Harry said this. “Don't worry Ginny I won't tell anyone, Devin is my friend, so is Monica.”

“You really think that? That's just gross Harry, they're twins.”

“Really? I could have sworn it was Devin using Monica being his sister as a cover, are you serious?” Ginny nodded her head. “Hmm, maybe it is a ghost.”

“That's even more ew Harry, really ew.” Ginny got up and walked away before Harry put any more gross thoughts in her head. Hermione took Ginny's place asking Harry what they talked about.

“Monica, she says Devin isn't using Monica as a sister for a cover, of course she could be lying. At least it would mean Monica wasn't with a ghost.”

“Harry that is gross, it would be necrophilia, I think, and even if it wasn't still disgusting.” Hermione put the sausage she was going to eat back.

“Well she could touch Peeves so she could touch other ghosts, right?”

“Harry that is still disgusting and wrong, in both sense of the word. Forget about it for now Harry I want to eat.” Hermione grabbed some toast as her stomach wasn't ready for real food after the images Harry had put in her head.

“Then tell me if I am right Mione, or tell me who she is seeing, I won the bet and they won't tell me if I am right or wrong.” Harry put his arm around Hermione. “If Neville was seeing someone I would tell you.”

“If Neville was seeing someone he would tell everybody, Harry, Monica will tell you if she wants you to know.” Hermione shrugged Harry's arm off. “We have class to get to and I am hungry now because of you.” Hermione stood up getting her things together.

“Ok Mione, Double Potions, how fun.” Harry finished an egg and got his things together following Hermione.

They finished Double Potions and other classes for the day meeting up outside the Common. “Hey Mione, sorry I didn't stick around to help Professor Flitwick, I had enough of that charm to last me at least twenty years.” Harry smiled and kissed Hermione on the lips. “Hope it was as boring for you as it was for me, Toad Cap.” The Fat Lady opened the door and they went in.

“That's just mean Harry, and yes it was boring. I'm looking forward to November so I'll have a reason to pay attention in class.” Hermione rubbed her temples trying to fight the headache, Charms had been so boring even she couldn't stay awake.

“I don't know, right now the classes are easy, the work load is easy, means I have more time to be with you.” Harry stared into Hermione's eyes. “I love you Mione.”

“Sweet talker,” Hermione put her arms around his neck, “want to do something else with those lips?” Hermione smiled kissing Harry on his lips.

“Well we have Potions homework Mione, are you sure that can wait?” Harry smiled back and kissed her back.

“Shut up Harry and kiss me again.”

That weekend was the first Quidditch game, Headmaster McGonagall wanted the first couple games to be done before fall and winter came then have the rest in spring, easier to guard the Quidditch field in good weather. Harry and the Gryffindor team had practice that Saturday, after Hufflepuff. They went to the Quidditch field early to watch Hufflepuff. “What are you doing? We have the field for another ten minutes!” Apparently the player made Captain flew down.

“We are just going to watch, no need to throw a hissy fit.” Monica had taken charge. “We won't hurt anything will we?”

“We are here so you will go away.” The man wasn't going to back down.

“Hey we won't interfere alright? Monica let's just…”

“Harry what's the big deal? Besides I want to watch, they have some good players.” Harry looked at the Hufflepuff Quidditch team, two of them were redheads, could it be?

“You don't need to be watching us, we have a game tomorrow and we need all the help we can get!” Two of the younger members of the Gryffindor team laughed. “You know what I mean!”

“Hey you can watch us if you want ok?” Harry was trying to do his job as Quidditch Captain.

“Fine, we get to stay and watch you for all of your practice.” The Hufflepuff Captain got on his broom and flew up to help his team practice. When the practice time for the Hufflepuff team was over they flew down to the stands and got seats to watch Gryffindor.

“Ok people we have an audience, let's show them the reason why they shouldn't even show up tomorrow.” The team starting in the Hufflepuff got on their brooms and flew up in the air. Harry first started rising higher before he remembered, first game was against Hufflepuff, and he was going to be playing Chaser, not Seeker. Flying back down he passed Ginny who was trying to get in place on her old broom.

“Harry don't screw up.” Ginny glared at Harry and flew up higher. Harry turned his attention onto the practice, Jim was the Keeper with Monica there to give him tips. The balls were released and flew into the air. Harry grabbed the Quaffle and flew quickly dodging both Bludgers and scoring.

“Hey that's a tech fault! Seekers aren't allowed to score like that!” The Hufflepuff Captain had yelled from the stands.

“I know, that's why I'm not a Seeker!” Harry yelled back down grabbing the Quaffle again dodging the Bludgers and passing it back and forth between the other Chasers, they needed practice to. The first hour was spent training the team that was starting the next day, Harry had scored several times, Jim had blocked one when Monica told him which goal Harry was going to be going for, and smiled from ear to ear when he did.

“Ok Harry that's enough.” Ginny flew down with the Snitch in her hands, she had caught twice so far.

“I'm the Captain if you remember Ginny, but ok, Practice team and Starting team switch!” Monica flew to the goals letting Jim fly above her to watch her, learn how to see where a Chaser was going to score. They practiced like this for the second half of practice showing Hufflepuff that it didn't matter which team they were playing against they still had little chance of winning. “Ok team good practice, don't do anything stupid like get hurt, and make sure you get a good night sleep.” Harry looked at the Hufflepuff team. “We will need to be our best to beat them.” Harry wanted to boost the Hufflepuff confidence and make sure his team wouldn't take them for granted, even if he did.

Sunday came and Harry was up early. He wanted to get his running in the Great Hall done and be able to shower before anyone else got up, he was tired of people asking him during his run about what had happened last year. Getting done with this he went back to the Gryffindor Common Room and sat on a couch to wait for Hermione to get up. Harry waited, the sun was coming up and he still waited. Getting bored with waiting Harry decided he would go wake Hermione up. “Mione, get up.” Harry was trying to be quiet; Monica and Patil were still sleeping.

“What are you doing Harry; you aren't supposed to be up here.” Hermione was awake enough to know what was going on, unlike the first time Harry did this.

“I was bored, I got up early to get my running in and now I'm bored, get up Mione, please?” Harry smiled trying to look sweet and innocent.

“Let me get dressed, I can't be looking my best right now.” Harry turned around and closed his eyes getting a laugh from Hermione. “Harry we aren't you know, not together, you can look, not like you haven't seen it before.”

“We aren't ready for that yet, I know I've seen you naked before but we are starting over, as if I never have seen you like that.” Harry kept his eyes closed trying to keep temptation from making him turn around and look.

“Ok Harry I'm dressed.” Harry turned around and saw she was, he hugged her and kissed her. “Harry if we could get out of here, don't want to wake Monica and Patil up.” They went down the stairs to the Common Room.

“Thanks Mione, you probably could have gotten another hour of sleep.” Harry didn't want to be alone, the castle was to cold for that, even if it was a warm morning, the castle still felt cold.

“At least you let the others sleep, when Monica's uh, you know, they don't care about keeping quiet, so annoying.” Hermione had caught herself before she told Harry, she wanted to sometimes just so she would have someone to talk to about it. It was strange to her, it was a little wrong, she could never see herself like that, but she couldn't talk to anyone about it.

“I am obviously more of gentleman then they are, whoever they are, or whatever.” Harry pulled Hermione into his lap. “The castle isn't so cold when I have you Mione.” Harry held her as she rested her head on his shoulder; she was still a little tired. “You going to cheer for me at the game?”

“No Harry I was going to cheer for Hufflepuff, but if you want me to I guess you could talk me into it.” Hermione started nibbling on Harry's ear.

“Mione you know an athlete isn't supposed to get his blood flowing on game day.” Harry started to rub her back kissing her neck. They snogged for a few minutes before stopping. “Mione slow down.” Hermione's hands had started to roam making Harry uncomfortable.

“Sorry Harry, I just get so, happy, when I'm with you.” Hermione got off his lap and sat in a chair next to him.

“You make me happy to Mione but we shouldn't do that, not here, not now.” Hermione looked around the Common Room.

“I know Harry, I love you so much and want to show it.”

“Then cheer for me instead of Hufflepuff.” Harry smiled at her.

“See you were able to talk me into it.” Hermione smiled back a little put off that Harry hadn't said he loved her back.

The game was about to start, people were wondering what was going on. The Gryffindor team was out there but they were taking the wrong spots, and Monica wasn't playing some scrawny third year was in her place. Madam Hooch blew the whistle and both teams shot up into the air. “They seem to have worked out a strange strategy, Harry has he Quaffle?” Will Flitwick had taken over for Lee Jordan.

Harry flew with the Quaffle scoring before ten seconds had passed. Harry waited to hear the cheers but none came, everyone was to stunned at what they were seeing, Harry was a Chaser? “10-0 with Harry scoring the first goal!” Now the people started to cheer. Harry flew around letting Hufflepuff get close to the Gryffindor goals; he wanted the training team to get some experience during this game. “Now it seems Harry is just flying around, what kind of strategy is this?” Harry saw that the two younger Chasers were not able to stop the more experienced Hufflepuff Chaser so he flew down and grabbed the ball just as the Hufflepuff Chaser was about to score. “Harry has the Quaffle! He is flying fast to the other side, he dodges a Bludger, then another, and he is clear, score!” The crowd cheered again, Harry did a dive in celebration. Harry again let the Hufflepuff Chasers get the ball close to the other side and this time he decided to see what Jim could do.

“The left!” Monica called out to Jim who flew to the left ring blocking the Quaffle. Harry let another Chaser have the ball watching them charge down the field. Harry flew up next to them.

“Give me the ball!” The Chaser passed it to him. “Get on the right.” Harry shot off towards the middle as the other Chaser flew towards the right. Harry dodged a Bludger and then a Hufflepuff Chaser. “Here!” Harry threw the ball to the other Chaser just as the Hufflepuff Keeper flew over to block him. The other Chaser shot and scored!

“Gryffindor is up 30-0, Harry doing well as Chaser but where is the Seeker?” Ginny had flown off, no one knew where she was, no one could see her. Harry took this distraction to get the Quaffle and score again. Hufflepuff had the Quaffle for only a moment when Harry grabbed it and flew towards the Gryffindor goals.

“Get over here!” Harry called out to the two younger Chasers on the team. “We are going to charge the goal; we keep passing the Quaffle in between us then let you score.” Harry pointed at the Chaser on the left. “Ready? Go!” Harry and the other two Chasers flew at the Hufflepuff goal, Harry had to slow down so the other two could keep up with him. They passed it back and forth getting past two Hufflepuff Chasers and one Bludger before Harry passed it to the Chaser on the left and he scored.

“50-0! This is a great game so far but Hufflepuff better pick it up.” Harry let Hufflepuff get the ball again and flew around looking for Ginny. He saw the red hair before he saw anything else, what was Ginny doing? She was sitting on the ground not even looking for the Snitch.

“Ginny what's going on?” Ginny turned around, she was caught.

“Nothing Harry!” Ginny tried to storm away but Harry was much to fast on his broom.

“No you aren't even playing, were you hurt?” What was Ginny doing? Harry didn't want to think she was doing something wrong but if she was, what would he do?

“Harry I don't like you alright? I was going to be the Captain, I was going to be a role model for people, but you, you just couldn't let that happen could you? I was a great Chaser, but you had to take that away from me, put me in a spot where you are better then me, I don't want to play.”

“Why didn't you say this before! Ginny I don't need you saying that, your Brother use to say things like that, Ginny you…”

“Shut up! Damn it Harry I am nothing like Ron, leave me alone!”

“No Ginny, you are a friend of mine, you are friends with Hermione, why don't we talk about this after the game?”

“No Harry.” Ginny again tried to walk away but Harry on his broom was too quick. “Harry go away!” Ginny pulled her wand out and pointed it at Harry.

“Ok Ginny sorry.” Harry flew away back to the Quidditch field; he had to tell Dumbledore, no McGonagall, about this. They were told if any student started to act differently they were to tell it to their Head of House.

“And he is back! In his absence the Hufflepuff team has brought the score back from 50-0 to 70-50! Still no sign of the Seeker, wait, where is Harry going?” Harry flew over to where Headmaster McGonagall was sitting.

“Harry you do realize there is a game going on?” Headmaster McGonagall was not amused by what was going on.

“I know but Ginny, she just flew off, I was going to stop her but she had her wand and I didn't have mine. We don't have a Seeker and Ginny might be under the Imperius Curse again or something.”

“I see Harry, thank you for this information, I will send security members after her.” Harry flew back to the game, finding the score at 80-60; the game was getting close, and without a Seeker Harry needed to score at least 160 more points to make sure Gryffindor won.

Harry flew and grabbed the ball away from Hufflepuff and scored in seconds. He flew and grabbed it again scoring. Harry kept scoring keeping the ball away from everyone else making the score 140-60. “What's going on? Harry seems to have been super charged, did he take a potion when he flew off? That is against the rules last I checked, and where is the Seeker Ginny?” Harry flew and scored again not listening to Will. “They didn't, you know, in the middle of a game…” Harry flew scoring again and again not hearing anything. “Wait, what's this, it seems Gerry has the Snitch! Hufflepuff wins!” Hufflepuff was dazed, they wanted to cheer, but had they heard right? “180-210! Hufflepuff wins!” Now they exploded in cheers and clapping, they had just beaten Gryffindor! Harry was stunned, they had just lost, against Hufflepuff, he had lost.

“Hey uh, great game!” Harry flew over to the Hufflepuff Captain to shake hands.

“You're just stunned that we won.”

“Damn right, you guys beat us, now just make sure you beat Slytherin so we don' look to bad.” They shook hands and Harry flew off letting the Captain enjoy his win.

“Harry I can't believe this!” Harry had flown towards the stands finding Hermione.

“It's ok Mione, maybe you should have cheered for Hufflepuff.” Harry picked her up on his broom.

“Harry what are you doing!” Hermione hung on for dear life.

“Going back to the castle in style.” Harry flew back to the castle getting there before anyone else did. Getting off Harry and Hermione walked to the Common Room but didn't enter, they felt something was wrong, really felt it.

“Mione Devin might be hurt, we should go in.” Harry was already feeling sad and angry, what had happened to Devin? Had Ginny come back and hurt him?

“What good will you be if you are affected by Devin? We need to get Luna, she isn't affected by this.” Hermione bit her lower lip trying to fight off the new feelings being put in her by Devin.

“Well we are Prefects so it is our duty to help our fellow students.” Harry clenched his teeth and balled his hands into fists, he either had to get away or go in and help Devin damn it.

“Yes but what good are we if we are so fucked up we can't do anything!” Hermione bunched her hands into fists.

“If we had gone in already we wouldn't have been out here fighting over something so fucking stupid!” Harry was about to punch the wall behind him when the door to the Common Room opened and Monica walked out.

“Whoa calm down you two I could hear you fighting from inside.” Monica put an arm around both of them leading them away from the Common Room. “You two stay here alright? Devin is going on about something and it would probably be best to just let him rant, go to the library or something if you want.” Harry being out of Devin's influence calmed down.

“What happened? We are Prefects and it is our job to help fellow students, and we are friends so please tell us what happened.”

“Look some people from back home sent Devin an Owl about something, it is kind of private.”

“Your Dad? Oh I'm so sorry Monica, are you ok?” Hermione couldn't believe it, first their Mother and now their Father.

“No Hermione not him, he's fine last I heard. It's about a friend from the States; Devin still blames himself for what happened even though it wasn't his fault.” Monica didn't want to talk about this with Harry there, Hermione already knew some of it but Harry was still in the dark and Monica didn't want to tell Harry until Devin told him. “Hermione come with me for a second alright?” Hermione nodded and followed Monica until they were several meters away from Harry.

“What's really going on Monica?”

“Devin, the Owl brought a letter from one of them, they might know where he is now and he wants to leave.” Monica didn't want him to, why he was so mad at her. “They sent pictures, of Sandy, Devin always said it wasn't an accident and now he knows it wasn't.”

“Well what happened? You told parts of things but well, you haven't been open about all of it Monica.” Hermione wasn't sure if she wanted to know, what she had already heard from Monica was sad.

“Sandy and Devin got into an argument about me, they yelled, Devin told her to go away, that much you already know, but…” Monica was now biting her lip, Hermione already knew most of it, just not the details, but they were supposed to keep it all secret. “Sandy ran out of the house, Devin went after her later and found her dead with a gun in her hand, Devin always said she wouldn't have done it, it was the Republicans, but I never believed him. Devin snapped though, he always had his abilities but until then he could control them, he could have fun, he could love things or watch some scary Muggle movie without worries, but when he found Sandy like that he snapped, his abilities affected half the city, Muggle and wizard. The Republicans came and attacked during the chaos Devin made, they tried to get Devin, with his powers, imagine a riot being caused in the middle of a major city, all by making Devin mad. His parents were killed, my Brother was killed, it wasn't safe for us to stay there anymore so my Mom took me and Devin away until my Dad could think of where to send us, that's when the leader of the Wizards in America got the idea of sending us out of the country. He sent out letters to different Ministry's and got a response from Dumbledore, he told us and we came here.”

“So they send him pictures? Why would they want him mad at them? Devin is someone I wouldn't want mad at me.”

“I don't know, maybe they are hoping he will get so angry he causes another riot and then they would know where he is. I tried the special shield my Mom taught me but it didn't work, I tried but I wasn't strong enough to contain him.”

“Well if we all do it at the same time it might work.” Harry was powerful, so was she, and with Monica they should be able to put one up strong enough to contain Devin's emotions.

“No, you won't even last long enough to cast it, if I didn't have this,” Monica takes a crystal out of her pocket, “I wouldn't have lasted either.” Monica puts it back in her pocket. “It's been so hard on him losing his sister like that, I never believed the Republicans did it but those pictures, they had to of done it.” Monica shook her head trying to get the images out of her head. “Take Harry somewhere, I need time to calm Devin down, don't tell Harry about what I just told you.”