Harry Potter: The Next Generation

Chapter 15

~Chapter 15~

The next morning was an active one for anyone and everyone that wasn't a member of the Griffindor or Hufflepuff Quidditch team. Usually the first match of the year was between the Gryffindors and Slytherins but it was switched up due to a mishap in transfiguration at the start of the school year. McGonagall agreed to let the anticipated rival match between the two to be postponed and allowed Hufflepuff to step to the plate, while Slytherin chaser Kristoff Shangritch spent his days healing in the hospital wing, earlier than usual.

Which received no complaint from them of course; but the students were always known to eagerly await the death match, as they call it, between Gryffindor and Slytherin.

"Are you ready? How're you feeling? Here you need to eat to keep up your strength." Rose buzzed about the Gryffindor common room tending to Crode when really she was just busying herself to keep her mind off things.

"Merlin Rose will you calm down already? Jeez, he's not a child you know." Lacey rolled her eyes with a grin.

"I just want to make sure Crode is feeling alright! You know there's a bug going round these days."

"Yes but isn't that a job for his girlfriend? I mean you don't see Nami freaking about."

"Where is Nami anyway?"

"Alright! I am ready!!! What'd ya think?" Nami shouted from the top of the stairs leading up toward the girls dormitory. She was completely decked out in her Gryffindor supporting colors; a more fashionable version of the famous roaring lion headpiece perched atop her head.

"Please tell me you didn't get that from-"

"Saw in your moms closet and I almost exploded to excitement! Told me I could have it, she's gotta spare. She and Rolf both agreed that I looked absolutely dashing in it!" Nami winked flipping her dark brown hair over her shoulder causing Lacey to groan.

"Well your all bright and smiles today." Rose laughed as Nami came bouncing down the stairs.

"You would be too if your house team was about to wipe the floors with---oh hey honey---those loser Snufflefluffs."

"Nami."

"Well it's true!"

"Sorry to tell ya Nams but the only floor wiping happening around here is us Hufflepuffs with you Gryffindorks!"

"Oi, very clever; come up with it all your own didja?"

"I'd like to think so yes!"

"Good for you; happy to know at least one of you has a brain to use." Nami snorted back. "Oh hush Rose it's just playful banter." She replied with an eye roll when Rose let slip a gasp.

"Well I should be off anyway have to go get dressed for this game I'm about to win."

"You couldn't win a game even if the opponent was doped up on sleeping draught!" Nami yelled back as Crode left the common room before turning back to her friends with a wide smile on her face.

"God, I love him." She snorted earning a gagging noise from Lacey and a shake of the head from Rose.

"A simple, good luck would have sufficed you know?" She says grabbing one of the miniature Gryffindor waving flags off the table.

"Yeah but that's not really fun is it? We could be all love dovey if we wanted to but I mean we fancied each other the most when fighting back then; just cause we're together doesn't mean we should stop. It's what brought us together in the first place; being competitive and all." Nami shrugged with a sickeningly sweet smile on her face.