Power and Persecution [1] || Harry Potter x OC x Draco Malfoy

84. Teach Me

DISCLAIMER

I do not own Harry Potter ... but my fav friendship in this fic is Bel and Buckbeak

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The first voice Harry heard next was unmistakably Ron Weasley's.

"He looks a bit peaky, doesn't he?"

The voice was accompanied by total darkness, Harry not yet opening his eyes to see where exactly he was.

"Peaky? What do you expect? He fell over 100 feet", Fred Weasley's voice was heard next.

"Yeah, come on, Ron. Let's walk you off the Astronomy Tower and see what you look like", George Weasley added.

At that point, Harry slowly peeled his eyes open to take in the sight of seven faces all leaning in towards him.

"Probably a right sight better than he normally does", Harry added onto the twin's wit to let the crowd of people know he was awake.

The second he spoke, the red and yellow painted faces of Seamus and Neville looked incredibly relieved, the twins laughed, and Ron and Hermione smiled, backing away to let Harry sit up straight.

He managed to accomplish it with a small wince, feeling the ache of every bone in his body.

"How are you feeling?" Hermione asked.

"Oh, brilliant", Harry replied sarcastically.

"You gave us a right good scare there, mate", George said as he took a seat on a chair to the left of Harry's hospital bed.

"What happened?" Harry asked, pulling on his circular glasses.

As he looked around, he took in the sight of the hospital wing.

He didn't remember how he got there, or why he was even there in the first place.

He also saw a group of Hufflepuff quidditch players and Madam Pomfrey all crowded around a bed opposite him, no doubt containing Cedric Diggory.

There was also another injured Gryffindor player a few beds down to his left which he couldn't quite make out.

"Well, you fell off your broom", Ron replied.

"Really? I meant the match, who won?" Harry corrected.

"Diggory over there caught the snitch", George started to explain, gesturing to the Hufflepuff boy lying on the hospital bed.

"He did it just after you fell. But he didn't realize what had happened", Fred added.

"As soon as he saw you lying on the ground, he tried to call it off. Wanted a re-match. But they won fair and square ... even Wood admits it", George continued.

Harry let out an aggravated sigh, gripping his damp hair in his hands.

He had lost a quidditch game.

For the first time ever.

If it wasn't for the circumstances under how they won, he knew Bel had earned bragging rights for an entire year.

And that thought bought with it another.

Harry looked back up and scanned each of the faces of the crowd around him.

Bel wasn't amongst them.

"Where's Bel?" he asked next.

The group all shared glances that Harry couldn't understand before Hermione tucked her hair behind her ears, clearing her throat, and standing up from where she was perched on the right side of Harry's bed.