*The next morning, in the great hall. The gang is sitting, eating. Harry is twirling his food on a fork.*
Ron: Take a bit of toast, you two, go on.
Hermione: Ron's right, Harry. You and Y/N are going to need your strength today.
Harry: I'm not hungry.
Damian: Neither am I.
*Snape appears at the table.*
Snape: Good luck today, Potter. Then again, now that you and Wayne have proven yourselves against a troll, a little game of Quidditch should be easy work for you. Even if it is against Slytherin.
*Snape walks off, limping. Both Harry and Damian notice this.*
Damian: That explains the blood.
Hermione: Blood?
Harry: Listen, last night, Damian and I are guessing Snape let the troll in as a diversion so he could try and get past that 3-headed dog.
Damian: Right, but he got himself bitten, that's why he's limping.
Hermione: But why would anyone go near that dog?
Harry: The day I was at Gringotts, Hagrid took something out of one of the vaults. He said it was Hogwarts' business, very secret.
Hermione: So you're saying...
Damian: Whatever Hagrid got from that vault...
Harry: That's what the dog's guarding. That's what Snape wants.
*Hedwig, Harry's Owl, screeches as she enters the Great Hall. She is carrying a very large, long parcel. She drops it off at the table.*
Hermione: Bit early for mail, isn't it?
Harry: But I...I never get mail.
Ron: Let's open it.
*They open it to reveal a broomstick.*
Harry: It's a broomstick!
Ron: That's not just any broomstick, Harry. It's a Nimbus 2000!
Harry: But who...?
*He notices Professor McGonagall up at the head table, stroking Hedwig. She smiles and Harry nods. Later on, inside a Quidditch tower, the Gryffindor team is marching toward the starting gate. They reach it and stop, behind a closed double door.*
Oliver: Scared, boys?
Harry: A little.
Damian: I'm more nervous, than I am scared.
Oliver: That's all right. I felt the same way before my first game.
Harry: What happened?
Oliver: Er, I don't really remember. I took a Bludger to the head two minutes in. Woke up in the hospital a week later.
*Harry gulps and looks straight ahead as the doors open. They mount their brooms and zoom out onto the enormous pitch. There is cheering. Damian spotted Alfred in the audience stands. He waves to Alfred, and he waves back. Lee Jordan, the Quidditch commentator is announcing from a tower.*
Lee: Hello! And welcome to Hogwarts' first Quidditch game of the season! Today's game, Slytherin vs. Gryffindor!
*The Gryffindor students and Hagrid are cheering.*
Neville: Gryffindor!
*The players take their positions in the air in a circle. Harry weaves in, highest amongst. He looks down.*
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The Dark Knight of Hogwarts: A Male Batman Reader x Hermione Granger Fanfic 1-4
ActionYoung Damian Thomas Wayne lost his parents due to a fire at Wayne Manor and only had one person to care for him, the family butler, Alfred Pennyworth. Ten years later, he's been accepted into Hogwarts where he meets some new friends, Harry Potter, R...
