Hogsmaede part 2
After spending a while in the joke shop, they moved on to "The three broomsticks". There, Harry bought them both a butterbeer, and just as they were about to sit down, heard a huge screech from the other side of the room.
"Aaaaa! It's Harry Potter!" Harry turned around to the source of the noise, to find none other than dear old Rita Skeeter!
Harry did a double take, turned around, and tried to hide, but too late! Nobody could trick Rita Skeeter! Nobody!
"Oh Harry! How is it to be in the fourth year finally?"
"I'm in the seventh year Rita."
"OH wow… I wonder how you felt to see someone else become Head boy!"
"I am head boy."
Cally who had been standing nearby, noticed that the lady had a "Quick Quotes quill" writing out everything she said.
"How's Donald Weasely?"
"It's Ronald, and he's fine" replied Harry bluntly.
That was when Rita noticed Cally standing beside Harry.
"And who is this?"
"A friend of mine."
"And what would her name be?"
"None of your business"
Rita turned to Cally,
"Hi, none-of-your-business! Nice to meet you! I'm Rita Skeeter, Daily Prophet! But of course, I suppose you know me!"
"No, actually, I don't really know or care who you are."
Rita, now snubbed, turned back to Harry,
"And Harry, what happened to Miss Granger? How could you break her heart and go out with another girl?"
"Well, if you must know, Hermione never was, and never will be anything more to me than my best friend. Now if you don't mind we have to leave. If you do mind too, I don't really care."
With that, he grabbed hold of Cally's hand and pulled her out of the pub.
"Ummm, Harry, don't you think we should head back to school now? The try-outs start in a while."
"Yeah, sure."
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They both were just in time for the trials. Ron was screaming his lungs out, making the first and second years very nervous. Cally walked over to them, with a genuine face of concern, saying,
" Don't fall for his angry mood! He's just trying to see how you react to tension! Don't let it get to you!"
The young witches and wizards looked a little more at ease, once they heard this.
"What's going on? Cally, what are YOU doing here? Don't distract the players, get off the pitch!"
"Ronald Weasely, for your kind information, I'm trying out too!"
"You are? I mean… yeah, you are…ummm… get into a line all of you!"
The trials worked out fine. Ron played keeper, and gave them five shots at goal each. To Harry's astonishment, Cally scored one, two, three, four and five goals!
She was the obvious choice, just as they were finishing off however, one of the first-years got hit in the face and her face was a biiiiiiit messed up… Cally was immediately by her side, and as Ron guided the other students to the Gryffindor tower, Harry and Cally took the first-year to Madam Pomfrey.
After getting the first-year fixed up, they walked back in silence to the castle. As they climbed through the portrait hole, they could see the heads of Ron and Hermione in front of the fire.
Harry indicated towards Cally to sneak up behind them to surprise them… What they saw however surprised them. There, in the middle of the common room, were Ron and Hermione, making out. Harry rose,
"A Ahem…"
They both straightened up, with rather guilty faces,
" Oh hi Harry! When did you come?" asked Hermione.
"Oh just in time to see your wonderful performance!" said Harry trying hard not to laugh.
"Harry mate, stop looking like that! She is my girlfriend, and I don't think it's illegal to snog her if I want to!"
"Did I say anything?" asked Harry, now laughing, unable to control himself.
Hermione, red in the face, got up hastily, and walked up to the dormitory, but not to her dormitory, to the boys' dormitory. Ron, taking the clue, followed her.
Harry, snickering behind them, sat down opposite Cally,
"Well, I suppose I have no other option than to wait here, coz god knows what awaits me upstairs!"
Cally laughed, "Well then, I'll wait with you, anyway I have some charms homework to finish,"
Harry smiled. "This is gonna be one heck of a night!" he thought…
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This chapter is for Natz, Vaish and Mudity who urged me to post it...
Thanx to Kratika, Vaish, Natz, etc... for d reviews...
I know I said it was loooooong, but change of plans... lol
-Sam 😊 😆