The Other Potter

Chapter 32

"This is how you spend your free time?" Draco asked when he found me about an hour later. "What took you so long to get here?" I asked as I kicked the ball towards him. "The eighth floor is a big place" Draco told me and I laughed thinking of the time he had probably spent wondering the eighth floor looking for me; So much for my GPS suspicions.

Draco looked at the ball that now lay at his feet before smirking and kicking it through the arch in the ceiling. I laughed and caught it in my hands. "Ritchie, Jimmy and me used to come up here and mess around kicking this ball through that arch" I told Draco who gestured for me to demonstrate that I could do it.

I took a few step back before kicking the ball, it hit one of the beams and bounced back causing Draco to laugh. "Shut up" I laughed at him before kicking again happy when this time it sailed through the middle nicely. I grinned at Malfoy who laughed before kicking it back at me sending the ball through the arch again.

"Show off" I muttered before aiming the ball at Draco's head and ducking when he caught it and threw it at me. This went on for a while, the two of us throwing the ball at each other trying to hit the other person. I ended up lying on the floor with Draco laughing at our near misses and my shrieks of pain when I had actually been hit.

"It's almost dinner" Draco said after a few minutes and I frowned, I hadn't realised we'd spent so much time up here. I stood with a sigh and fetched my soccer ball before turning back to Draco who was still lying on the floor.

"I better get this back to my room" I told him before I started walking down the stairs after he didn't answer me. "See you at dinner" Draco called out and I smiled as I headed towards my common room.

I ate dinner quickly before all the Gryfindores headed up to our common room to celebrate Ron's birthday. I was eating sour sherbet with Ritchie on one of the lounges; we were having a contest who could keep the most in their mouth at one time. I kept choking when I tried to breathe in.

Hermione was the first to leave and then Lavender, Harry had gone off somewhere and Ron was too busy messing around with Seamus and Dean to care. Ginny came and sat next to us after a while. "What are you guys doing?" she asked and we both shrugged.

"Contest" was Ritchie's great reply when I started coughing again, maybe I could come up with a spell to make it so I wouldn't have to breathe...

"Seems like the party's starting to die down" Ginny commented and I looked up and took notice. The first, second and third years had all gone to bed and most of the fourth years. The seventh years had mostly passed out and some of the fifth and sixth years were heading up to bed as well.

"I'm tired" I said yawning pulling Ritchie and Ginny up with me. "Thank god, I've been ready for bed for ages" Ritchie said and I laughed "Why didn't you say something?" I asked shocked. "Because I'm a guy" he said it like it meant something. "Come on we have class tomorrow" Ginny said pulling me towards the stairs. "See you tomorrow" I called to Ritchie who simply grunted before he ran up his stairs.

"Happy birthday Ron" I shouted down to him, he waved me away and I laughed following Ginny to our room and falling asleep really quickly.

"What happened?" I heard faintly as I lifted slowly from my dream. "He was poisoned" I heard a different voice answer and I fought harder to wake up. "When!? How!?" a voice I now recognised as Ginny's shrieked. "I don't know, come on just hurry up" I heard Hermione call and I heard the door to the bedroom close as I finally managed to open my eyes. I shrugged my shoulders before going back to sleep thinking I had still been dreaming.

Turns out I hadn't been dreaming and Ron had been poisoned after eating love potion filled candies causing him to fall in love with Romilda. "So Ron and Lavender aren't together anymore?" I asked Ginny as we sat eating breakfast. "I don't think so, she seemed really upset when he called out Hermione's name in his sleep" Ginny said with a laugh.