Shooting Star (Harry Potter x reader) [Years 1-4]

|Quidditch, dragons and snitches| •Year 1•

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3rd Person POV

Harry had used his new cloak way too much, somehow finding a room with the so called Mirror of Erised inside. According to Dumbledore, the mirror showed the deepest, most desperate desire of that person's heart. Harry had seen his parents when he stepped closer, looking at that mirror. When he tried to show it to Ron and Y/n, Ron saw something else, he saw himself a few years older, being successful at school and being Head boy

Y/n didn't even want to look at the mirror, since she felt that, like Harry, she would see her parents, or at least her mother.

Dumbledore had convinced Harry not to go looking for the Mirror of Erised again and for the rest of the Christmas holidays the Invisibility Cloak stayed folded at the bottom of his trunk. Y/n could sense that Harry still was thinking about what he had seen in that Mirror

And she was right, Harry had nightmares with the image of his parents slowly disappearing, a sinister laughter sounding in the background

"You see, Dumbledore was right, that mirror could drive you mad", said Ron, when Harry told the two about these dreams

"Ron's right, Harry, as much as it hurts, it's better to not go search for that mirror", Y/n nodded

Hermione, who came back the day before term started, took a different view of things. She was torn between horror at the idea of Harry being out of bed, roaming the school three nights in a row and disappointment that he hadn't at least found out who Nicolas Flamel was.

They had almost given up hope of ever finding Flamel in a library book, even though Harry was still sure he'd read the name somewhere

Once term had started, they were back to skimming through books for ten minutes during their breaks. Harry and Y/n had even less time than the other two, because Quidditch practice had started again. Wood was working the team harder than ever

Even the endless rain that had replaced the snow couldn't dampen his spirits. The Weasleys complained that Wood was becoming a fanatic, but Harry was on Wood's side. If they won their next match, against Hufflepuff, they would overtake Slytherin in the House Championship for the first time in seven years

Y/n enjoyed playing Quidditch, so she didn't mind the extra training, but her sleeping problems had returned, so she was exhausted everyday. But for Harry, playing Quidditch made him tired enough to have fewer nightmares at night

Then, during one particularly wet and muddy practice session, Wood gave the team a bit of bad news. He'd just got very angry with the Weasleys, who kept dive-bombing each other and pretending to fall off their brooms

"Will you stop messing around!", he yelled, "that's exactly the sort of thing that'll lose us the match! Snape's refereeing this time, and he'll be looking for any excuse to knock points off Gryffindor!"

George Weasley really did fall off his broom at these words.

"Snape's refereeing?", Y/n said, almost falling off her broom like George

"When's he ever refereed a Quidditch match?", George spluttered through a mouthful of mud, "he's not going to be fair if we might overtake Slytherin"

The rest of the team landed next to George to complain, too

"It's not my fault", said Wood, "we've just got to make sure we play a clean game, so Snape hasn't got an excuse to pick on us"

But for Harry and Y/n, there was another reason for the two to not want Snape near them while they were playing Quidditch...