My Protector | A Harry Potter love story

chapter 6

"Take a bit of toast, mate. Go on." "I'm not very hungry." Harry grumbles looking at his food. "Ron's right Harry." I say to him. "You're going to need your strength today." Hermione finishes for me, and we all nod in agreement. "Good luck today, Potter." We all look to see it's Professor Snape. "Then again, now that you've proven yourself against a troll a little game of quidditch should be easy for you. Even if it is against Slytherin." He walks away, well more like lightly limps away but it doesn't go unnoticed by Harry. "That explains the blood." Harry remarks. "Blood?" Hermione asks. "Listen, last night, I'm guessing Snape let the troll in as a diversion so he could try and get himself past that three headed dog but, he got himself bit, that's why he's limping." That confuses me. "But why would anyone go near that dog?" "The day I was at Gringotts, Hagrid took something out of one of the vaults. said it was Hogwarts business, very secret." I interject, "So, you're saying--" "That's what the dog's guarding. That's what Snape wants." We all look at each other with worried expressions. We hear an owl hoot which is strange because it's not mail day.

We see Hedwig, Harry's owl drops over a big package right on the table. "Bit early for mail, isn't it?" Hermione asks. "But I... I never get mail." Ron looks really excited. "Let's open it." We all tear open the package and it's THE broom "Harry... do you know what this is?", I ask him. "A broomstick." "Not just any old broomstick, it's the Nimbus two thousand." "But who..." Harry stops talking when he looks over and sees Hedwig being petted by Professor McGonagall. Lucky bastard.

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Hermione, Ron, Hagrid and I are in the stands wearing Gryffindor hoodies and waving flags waiting for the game to start. "He's going to do brilliant isn't he!?" I ask them. "There ain' no doubt bout' it Ara" Hagrid says over to me.

"Hello! and Welcome to Hogwarts first Quidditch game of the season. Today's game Slytherin versus Gryffindor!" Lee Jordan announces to everyone.

"Whoooo!!!" everyone in the Gryffindor stands cheer. "Go, go, Gryffindor!" starts chanting amongst the stands. I and Hermione have binoculars and I raise mine up to my eyes to look for Harry. I spot him and he looks so nervous he's looking down to see how far up he is which is not smart. "Oh damn. he can't be looking down like that." I say as I take mine off and hand them over to Ron to use.

"The players take their positons' as Madam Hootch steps out onto the pitch to begin the game." She walks onto the ground and yells out. " I want a nice, clean game...from all of you." She opens out the chest and the bulger and snitch start flying out and away. "The bulgers are up... followed by the golden snitch. Remember the snitch is worth 150 points, the seeker who catches the snitch ends the game. The quaffle is released... and the game begins!"

It's hard to find Harry after that with everyone flying around so fast and close I give up and start to enjoy the game.

Gryffindor was able to score 20 points thanks to Angelina Johnson which makes Slytherin start to play dirty, and their captain flings a bulger over at Oliver which makes him fall to the ground leaving Gryffindor with no Keeper. They end up taking out Angelina by knocking her into one of the podiums stands. I see that harry starts to go after the snitch then is stopped when his broom starts jerking him around.

"What's going on with Harry's broomstick?" I use my binoculars and follow Harry around and notice that Snape is watching Harry intensely and murmuring. It must be spell. He's jinking Harry's broom.

"it's Snape, he's jinking the broom." I tell Hermione and Ron. "Jinking the broom? What do we do?" Ron questions. "Hermione takes out her wand, "Leave it to me."

Hermione has been gone for a while, but I keep my binoculars on Snape when all of a sudden Snape's clothing catches a small fire. Must've been Hermione. It works because Harry stops jerking around and it able to find his footing again after almost falling off his broomstick. He's able to find the snitch again and goes off flying after it with the Slytherin seeker not far behind him. "Go! Go Harry!!" The two seekers start knocking their bodies into each other, but Harry is holding his ground. The snitch makes them divot into the ground which scares the Slytherin seeker as he pulls up.

Harry pulls up just in time and goes up to stand on his broom, he reaches out for it and steps closer to it on his broom which causes him to fling out of his broom and onto the ground. Harry looks like as if he's about to throw up and I'm holding onto Ron for dear life.  "Oh my god." I exclaim. "Looks like he's going to be sick." Hagrid yells out. The snitch then comes out of Harry's mouth and lands on his hand. "Oh my god! Ron! He did it!!" I hug Ron and Hagrid.

"He's got the snitch. Harry Potter receives 150 points for catching the snitch!" Madam Hootch comes out on her broom and blows the whistle. "Gryffindor wins!" Everyone in the Gryffindor stands cheer. "Whoo-hoo! Go Harry!" I yell out. The rest of the Gryffindor team circles Harry and claps for him.  I knew he could do it.

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"Nonsense! Why would Snape put a curse on Harry's broom?" Hagrid inquires us. "Who knows, why was he trying to get past that three headed dog on Halloween?"  "Who told you about Fluffy?" "Fluffy? That thing has a name?" I ask. "Of course, he's got a name he's mine. I bought him off an Irish feller I met down at a pub last year then I lent him to Dumbledore to guard the--" "Yes?" harry interjects. "Shouldn't have said that. No more questions don't ask any more questions. That's top secret, that is." "But Hagrid, whatever Fluffy's guarding, Snape's trying to steal it." "Codswallop. Professor Snape is a Hogwarts teacher. " "Hogwarts teacher or not I know a spell when I see one. I've read all about them, you've got to kept eye contact and Snape wasn't blinking." I try to explain to Hagrid. He sighs then says, "Now, you listen to me, all four of you. You're meddlin' in things that ought not to be meddled in. It's dangerous. What that dog is guarding is strictly between Professor Dumbledore and Nicholas Flamel."

Flamel? I've heard that name before. We all look over at each other. "I shouldn't have said that. Should not have said that." Hagrid walks away from all of us muttering to himself. "Who's Nicholas Flamel?" harry asks us. "I don't know." Hermione says.

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it's Christmas time which means all the students can visit their families again if they wish to or not. I've decided not to because my lovely father sent me another lovely letter about how much I'm actually not welcomed back home right now on account of Draco making up a bunch of lies about me and my friends. Good riddance. I wasn't really excited to see anyone, except maybe mum for Christmas. I sit over with Harry and Ron in the great hall as they play wizards chess. "Remember guys, I play winner." "Yea, yea." they both grumble at me. I see Hermione walk over and I give her a hug as she watches the boys play. "That's totally barbaric." "That's wizards' chess. I see you've packed." Ron says. "I see you haven't" she throws back at him.

"Change of plans my parents are going to Romania to visit my brother Charlie. He's studying dragons there." "Good. You can help Harry and Ara then. They are going to go and look in the library for information on Nicholas Flamel." Ron looks flabbergasted. "We've all already look like a hundred times." "Not in the restricted section. Happy Christmas." Hermione takes her luggage and walks away from us. "She really is the smartest witch isn't she?" I look over at her proud as Ron says, "I think we've had a bad influence on her." "What? Not me?" "No, you're a Malfoy, you're already got bad influence in your blood." I drop my jaw and harry chuckles and I push him aside. "Watch and learn Weasley. I'm going to take your arse this round now." "Bring it, Malfoy." I stick my tongue at him as we set up for a new game of chess.