Harry Potter and the Order Of the Phoenix [196]
“I DID IT! HA HA HA!” yelled Bill, throwing his hands up into the air and causing everyone to look at him.
“What did he do?” asked Dumbledore.
“He was the one who switched the Snitches at the Quidditch Final!” said Harry. “He’s the one who put me in the Hospital Wing! He’s been threatening me all year long!”
“Is this true?” Dumbledore asked Bill.
“Yes! I did it! All by myself! Isn’t it amazing… ingenious?”
“Why don’t you come with me Bill?” said Dumbledore, grabbing Bill by the arm and leading him back up to the castle. “Don’t worry Harry, he will be taken care of.”
“Okay professor,” said Harry, watching him take Bill all the way back up to the castle. He wondered is he would be seeing Bill next year… even if he did, he knew he was not going to be on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, that was for sure.
“Some people are just so weird,” said Hermione, turning away from Bill.
“Yeah, like you, Harry!” yelled Ron, unexpectedly.
“What do you mean?” asked Harry.
“You changed the results of the race so that I got on the team!” he yelled. “How could you do that?”
“Um… because I’m your friend,” said Harry.
“I didn’t want to get on the team because I’m your friend,” said Ron through gritted teeth. “If Bill was better, you should have picked him!”
“But he wasn’t better, it was a tie,” said Harry.
“It doesn’t matter! You still-” suddenly, Ron went stiff for a second, his eyes flashed, and his head hung down. He was showing all of the signs of someone who had just had their memory erased. Harry looked behind Ron, to see who could have put the spell on him, when he saw little Aylar, with his wand out.
“Aylar!” yelled Harry. “Did you erase Ron’s memory?”
“Only the memory that you changed the results of the tryout,” said Aylar, putting his wand back into his pocket.
“Aylar! How could you do that!?”
“Harry, come on, he was practically about to kill you, and your friendship would be gone forever,” said Aylar, crossing his arms.
“But… you… and… Ron…” Harry mumbled. He couldn’t think of anything to say. He was appalled at what Aylar did, but was thankful that Ron had forgotten about the little incident. Yep, the latter definitely outweighed the con. “Thanks Aylar.”
“Don’t mention it. I do it all the time for them,” he said, indicating the group of Gryffindor first years.
“Hi Harry!” they all yelled at once.
“Over the summer, we’re all going to get together and practice Quidditch!” said Chris excitedly.
“Yeah, and maybe we’ll be able to make the team next year,” said Mike.
“Oh my god! That would roxorz my soxorz!” yelled Joe.
“I don’t know, the odds of getting hurt by a Bludger during a game are fairly high. According to my calculations, which are of course based on-”
Harry just merely turned his attention away from them, thankful that he wouldn’t have to see them for over three months. He’d need that time away to mentally prepare himself to have to deal with them for the rest of the entire year….
“Hey Harry, the train is here,” said Ron, tapping Harry on the shoulder. Harry put his arm around his friends, Ron, Hermione and Cho, and the four of them walked onto the train, leaving Hogwarts.
On the train, Harry, Ron, and Hermione got a room to themselves, while Cho decided to take some time and catch up with her old friends in another compartment. The four of them all talked about their year together as the train went along, taking them home.
“Hey Hermione,” said Ron, looking like he had suddenly thought of something. “Whatever happened to Krum? Remember? At the beginning of the year you said you two weren’t seeing each other anymore, and you wouldn’t tell us why…. Well… now will you tell us?”
Hermione put a smile on, and turned slightly red.
“Oh fine,” she said. “Well, everything was going great at his house… we were having lots of fun. I guess he thought we were having enough fun together to… well….”
“What?” asked Ron and Harry together.
“To… get married.”
Harry and Ron burst out into uncontrollable laughter.
“He asked you to marry him?” coughed Ron, several minutes