Keep Me In Your Memory

Chapter fourteen- The Rogue Bludger

Harry was walking down the hallway in between the Weasley twins laughing as they swung him in the air. "So, Kitten, Draco is playing his first Quidditch game tomorrow and against Haiden, who are you going to root for?" Fred asked.

"Both of them." Harry answered innocently and the twins laughed causing Harry to blush.

"Harry?" Hermione nervously called from behind them, in unison, the three of them turned to look at her.

"Hello Hermione, what can I do for you?" Harry asked as George pulled Harry closer to him. Hermione bit her lip before opening her mouth only to shut it seconds later and nervously tucked her hair behind her ear only for it to pop back into place. Hermione closed her eyes, took a deep breath before opening her eyes, her brown eyes held a determined look.

"Harry, I- I need your help getting a book from the restricted section." Hermione stuttered out and looked ready for his rejection. Harry watched her for a few seconds, watching as she mentally beat herself up, watching as her dark brown eyes teared up, before smiling.

"Okay." Harry said and Hermione gasped in shock.

"Wait, really?" Hermione asked, "You're gonna help me, even after I-"

"Of course." Harry cut her off, he didn't want to think about anything that happened around the night Mrs. Norris was found petrified. Because even though he had not only the note, but also the memories of his interaction with Dumbledore, no one else had those memories. Apparently everyone else involved remembers him kindly telling Dumbledore that he was late to class and then he left for class. The fact that no one else remembered the real interaction between him and Dumbledore scared him, if the person who claimed to be him changed that, what else could he change?

"After she what?" The twins asked. Harry bit back a smirk as he left George's side to grab Hermione's hand.

"See you guy later!" Harry called to them as he began to lead Hermione towards the library.

"AFTER SHE WHAT?!" The twins yelled after them causing Harry to giggle.

"You know, you shouldn't tease them like that." Hermione told him and Harry gave Hermione a look that had her gulping and looking away. Harry turned back to look where he was going as he navigated the hallway around groups of students who began to point at their still clasped hands and whisper. Harry sighed just knowing that some strange rumor about him and Hermione was going to find it's way to Draco's ears and then he would have a jealous Draco on his hands.

"So what book do you want." Harry asked as they entered the muffled stillness of the library. Madam Pince, the librarian, nodded at Harry who nodded back in a silent greeting.

"Oh, um, Moste Potente Potions." Hermione muttered causing Harry to stop in one of the aisle to look at her with a raised eyebrow.

"Now why would you need that book?" Harry asked suspiciously and Hermione began to try to stutter out some excuse about using it to understand Gilderoy Lockhart's Gadding with Ghouls. And Harry sighed while rolling his eyes.

"You know, it would just be smart to tell me the truth since I'm going to have to be with you when you use it." Harry informed her.

"Wait, what? Why?" Hermione asked.

"Because the book will be in my name, only I will have permission to use the book. If you use it without me with you it will alert the closest professor while jinxing you and the only way to have the jinx removed is by a professor." Harry informed her and Hermione's eyes widened in fear causing Harry to smirk. "You didn't take that into consideration while making this plan, did you?" Hermione shook her head and her eyes teared up again.

"I'm sorry. I can't tell you." Hermione cried.

"This plan has something to do with me, doesn't it?" Harry asked with a sigh. His answer was Hermione bowing her head in shame. Harry looked away from her sadly and the two stayed like that for a few minutes gathering some attention from the other students in the library. Harry felt his eyes begin to tear up as the hurt from what was happening set in. Harry took a shuddering breath and wiped away a tear that had fallen. "Haiden asked you to do this, didn't he?" Hermione nodded and Harry gave a wet laugh. "I get it. I understand. I'll help you, but next time, you're going to have to find another way into the restricted section that doesn't include me. And tell my brother, that the next time he wants my help with anything, not just getting a book from the restricted section, he better come and beg me himself." He told her hissing the last part before angrily grabbing her by the wrist and practically drug her to the restricted section.

"I'm so-" Hermione began.

"Don't." Harry growled throwing open the gate to the restricted section causing Hermione to flinch. The air was tense between the two as Harry drug Hermione to where the book she wanted was and pulled it from the shelf opening it for her. "Copy the potion you need then run back to my brother." Harry ordered her as he conjured up a scroll and a quill with ink without even realising he did it both without a wand and wordlessly. He turned around so that she could do so without him seeing the potion, a few seconds later he heard her slowly going through the book for a few seconds before he heard her begin to write. "You know, I really thought we could be friends." He heard Hermione pause in writing before continuing. "And not because you're friends with my brother but because we had the same interest. But I see now that I was wrong."

"Harry-" Hermione started.

"Did you even consider my feelings? Did you even stop to think that I would have helped you if you had only just asked what you wanted to know?" Harry asked her.

"We didn't want to offend you." Hermione whispered.

"Oh, well, great job with that." Harry told her sarcastically. He started to feel bad when he heard her sniff signaling that he had made her cry, but pushed that feeling a side with the thought that she would remember this and fight his brother to keep it from happening again. He turned around when he heard her close the book. "Got what you needed?" Hermione nodded while trying to wipe her face of tears, but the fact that she was still crying made it hard. "Don't expect me to help you gather the ingredients, I also won't bail you out if you get caught." Harry told her as he put the book back up. Hermione sniffed again and Harry sighed as he once again felt bad, and this time the feeling stayed. Harry shocked Hermione by pulling her into a hug.

"Calm down, you made a mistake, now learn from this and grow stronger. Don't be afraid to argue and disagree with your friends, especially when it comes to other people. If they are truly your friends they won't abandon you. Yes they may get mad at you but they will eventually get over really hurt me today." Harry whispered to her.

"I'm sorry." Hermione cried into his shoulder while hiccuping and Harry rubbed her back. "I'm so sorry."

"It's alright. You've learned a lesson from this. And I'm sorry I said this ruined your chance to be my friend, I was hurt and angry, I consider you a friend." Harry told her causing Hermione to began to cry harder and Harry continued to comfort her. "Just let it out and then we can start anew and forget about this." After another minute of crying, and Madam Pince coming to see what was going on and Harry waving her away, Hermione stopped crying and slowly pulled away from Harry while blushing. "Feel better?" Harry asked while conjuring up a handkerchief not even realizing he did it wordlessly and wandlessly.

"That's the second time you've done that." Hermione said confusing Harry.

"Did what?" Harry asked.

"Wordlessly and wandlessly conjure something up." Hermione pointed out and Harry glanced at the handkerchief. Harry nervously handed Hermione the handkerchief.

"Don't tell anyone I can do that." Harry said pinching his nasal confusing Hermione.

"How long have you been able to do this?" Hermione asked.

"Since after I lost control of my magic." Harry muttered before quickly saying, "Can we stop talking about this?"

"Have you been hiding that you can do this? Why? It's amazing that you can do not only wordless magic but also wandless magic! Not even Dumbledore can do wandless magic!" Hermione gushed out.

"I SAID STOP TALKING ABOUT IT!" Harry yelled, his magic shaking the bookshelves surrounding them. His yell echoed around them calling Madam Pince who looked at Harry disappointingly.

"No yelling in the library, Harry, you know that. I'm going to have to ask you to leave." Madam Pince told Harry.

"Sorry Madam Pince." Harry muttered as Hermione quickly gathered the scroll with the potion she needed copped onto it and followed Harry out of not only the restricted section but also the library.

"I'm sorry Harry." Hermione whispered once they were outside the library.

"Just don't say anything about you-know-what." Harry told her looking away from her.

"I won't. And, thank you." Hermione said.

"Yeah, whatever." Harry muttered as he walked away from her.

~Keep Me In Your Memory~

Harry woke on Saturday morning with a bad feeling. Something was awful was going to happen today during the Quidditch match, that much Harry was certain. But what, he didn't know. Harry silently prayed that nothing bad would happen to Draco as he pet a very content Loki. "I don't want Draco to play today." He whispered to Loki who meowed and stretched before he began to playfully bat at Harry's hand. "Would it be wrong for me to ask Draco not to fly?" Harry asked Loki who grabbed Harry's hand and bit him. "Ow!" Harry hissed pulling his hand away from Loki who meowed angrily at him for taking away his toy before getting up and jumping off the bed. Harry rolled his eyes as Loki sat in front of the closed door and stared at Harry.

"I'm not opening the door, you bit my hand." Loki yawned and began to clean himself. "Spoiled cat." Harry muttered pulling himself from his bed to walk over to the door and opened it for Loki. "Don't expect me to rescue you if you get in trouble." He told the cat who ran from the room. Harry started to shut the door when he felt the invisible eyes on him again, he whipped around and focused his magic onto his eyes and found a slightly see through Dumbledore staring at him from the middle of his dorm. Harry turned back to the door and closed his eyes to try to calm himself down. Dumbledore was watching him, waiting for him to do something. What that something was and why Dumbledore was watching him was still unknown.

Harry ripped the door open and ran down to the Ravenclaw library, accidentally knocking into Cho Chang on the way. "What's the rush?" She asked.

"I, uh, got an idea for a prank that I need to write down before I lose it." Harry called to her.

"The Weasley twins are a bad influence on you!" Cho called back as Harry ran into the library and to his spot where he found Luna waiting for him while reading the Quibbler upside down as usual. He hugged her from behind not even shocking her as she continued reading. "I'm scared of Dumbledore." He whispered into her hair.

"Why?" She asked as she turned a page.

"He's watching me, waiting for me to do something. Why and what I don't know and that scares me. Also the fact that he would watching a student without them knowing scares me." Harry informed her quietly, who knew if Dumbledore was listening.

"Don't worry Harry. Whatever the headmaster has planned, we'll protect you from it." Luna gently informed him before slipping out from his arms and stood up. "I'm hungry, let's go eat. Maybe if we're lucky enough, we'll be able to eat with Myari and Draco." Luna grabbed Harry's hand and began to lead him out of the Ravenclaw Tower.

They made their way to the great hall in comfortable silence only broken by the occasionally passing conversations from other students or the paintings. When they got to the great hall Harry was happy to see Draco and Myari sitting across from each other. They seemed to be deep in discussion, Harry laughed quiety when Draco said something that caused Myari to bare her teeth at him before throwing some of her scrambled eggs at him. His laugh turned into a giggle when Draco retaliated by throwing a sausage at her.

"They seem to be getting along, maybe we shouldn't interrupt their bonding." Luna said with a small smile.

"Yeah, at least their not fighting." Harry said, "But maybe we should stop them before something lands in Draco's hair. I might not be able to save Myari if that happened." Luna hummed in agreement as they walked over to the Slytherin table, splitting up so that Harry could sit on Draco's side while Luna went to sit on Myari's side.

"Harry, will agree with me! Right Harry?" Myari cried the second Harry and Luna took their seats.

"I'm not agreeing to anything without knowing what I am agreeing to." Harry stated as he began to fill his plate with a Ham, baby spinach, and cheese omelet, crispy bacon, and toast.

"That Apple Jam is the best jam ever!" Myari told him and Draco made a face.

"Oh, yeah, never had it." Harry told her before taking a bite of his omelet. Myari dramatically groaned while clinging to Luna who was munching on a peach covered with sour cream and honey.

"Why am I friends with these barbarians?" Myari moaned while fake crying.

"I never said I was your friend. I'm just making sure neither of you steals Harry from me." Draco stated as he wrapped his arm around Harry's shoulder and kissed his cheek causing Harry to blush.

"Hey Harry, lean across the table real quick." Luna said.

"Okay?" Harry said and leaned across the table as Luna did the same and pecked Harry on the lips shocking not only Harry, but everyone who saw it. "You can sit back now, Harry." Luna told him and he sat back, still in shock at what just happened.

"You are dead." Draco growled out as Harry hid his face in Draco's arm while Myari hid her face behind her hair.

"Maybe you should have acted quicker if you didn't want someone to steal Harry's first kiss. If you're not careful and take too long, someone is going to come along and steal him right from under you." Luna told Draco as she took a bite of her breakfast.

"That won't happen because I won't let that happen." Draco growled as Luna's eyes drifted over to the Hufflepuff table.

"I'm sure you'll try to keep it from happening." Luna hummed out.

~Keep Me In Your Memory~

As eleven o'clock approached the whole school started to make its way down to the Quidditch stadium. It was a muggy sort of day with a hint of thunder in the air. Harry was lead over to the locker rooms by Draco who had not let out of arm's length since breakfast. "If the twins weren't playing today, I would tell you to stay with them and away from that girl." Draco growled out and Harry sighed.

"Luna isn't trying to steal me away." Harry told him for probably the thousandth time that day.

"Then why did she kiss you!" Draco asked.

"I don't know, no matter how much I wish too, I don't know what is going through her head. But there had to be a reason, if there's one thing about her that I do know, it's that she never does anything without reason." Harry told Draco.

"I can tell you the reason, it's because she wants you as her boyfriend!" Draco yelled catching some attention from his teammates. Draco bared his teeth and let out an animalistic like growl at them causing them to turn away and pretend they weren't listening in.

"Draco calm down. I'm not going to be her boyfriend. In fact I'm not going to be anyone's boyfriend." Harry informed Draco.

"What!?" Draco asked snapping around to look at Harry with a shocked look. "Why don't you want to be anyone's boyfriend?" He asked sounding so sad and desperate.

"It's not that I don't want to be anyone's boyfriend." Harry said looking away with a blush. "It's that I can't."

"Why?" Draco asked looking between angry and devastated.

"Severus told me I was too young to date." Harry informed looking back at Draco who sighed in relief before looking half curious and half desperate.

"So, once you're old enough to date, then you'll be someone's boyfriend?" Draco asked and Harry blushed again.

"Well, yeah, if the right person asks." Harry said looking away from Draco not being able to look him in the eyes as the Weasley Twin's words from earlier that year echoed in his mind. He felt that if Draco were to look into his eyes then he would find about Harry's crush on him and become mad.

"And, if I may ask, who is the right person?" Draco asked trying to sound nonchalant but failing. Harry's blush darkened and opened his mouth to say something, anything, but all that came out was a small squeak. Harry closed his mouth and tried to get the courage tell Draco that he was the right person. But before he could, Flint, the Slytherin Quidditch Captain, called out to the room.

"Alright, anyone not on this team, get out!" Flint ordered.

"Good luck." Harry squeaked out before quickly kissing Draco's cheek and ran out of the locker room. On the way to the stairs towards the stadium seats, he ran into Ron and Hermione.

"Hello Harry." Hermione said before noticing Harry's red face, "Your face is red." She told him in concern as she rushed over to him and placed her hand on his forehead. "You're not running a fever." Harry gently removed her hand from his head and smiled at her as the red in his cheeks slowly disappeared, Hermione blushed at his kind smile.

"I'm fine Hermione, but thank you for worrying." Harry told her before motioning towards the stairs. "We should hurry and get a seat, the game will be starting soon." Just as he said that a roar of noise sounded. Hermione and Harry shared a laugh as Ron scoffed. The trio made their way up the stairs and into the stadium in time to see both teams shoot into the air. Hermione grabbed Harry's hand and led him towards some seats as his eyes located both Haiden and Draco. Draco was showing off the speed of his broom right underneath Haiden right as a bludger flew at Haiden who narrowly avoided it.

Harry froze in shock, pulling his hand from Hermione's grip, when he noticed that the bludger had a magical aura around. Bludgers were not suppose to have a magical aura around it, bludgers had magic inside them that allowed it to fly around. The only time a bludger had a magical aura around it was when they had been tampered with. Harry forced his way to the edge of the crowd, closest to the field. He needed to warn someone, a bludger that's been tampered with could kill someone.

As George gave the tampered with Bludger a powerful whack in the direction of Adrian Pucey, Harry tried to yell out that the Bludger was tampered with, but the roar of the crowd was too loud for anyone to hear him. The Bludger changed direction in midair and shot straight for Haiden again. Haiden put on a burst of speed and zoomed toward the other end of the field. Fred was waiting for the Bludger at the other end. Haiden ducked as Fred swung at the Bludger with all his might, the Bludger was knocked off course.

Harry frantically looked around trying to figure out a way to get the attention of anyone on the field. He needed to warn them about the tampered with Bludger. Harry closed his eyes and gathered his magic into his throat and whispered into his hands his warning about the bludger.

"Slytherin lead, sixty points to zero-" Lee Jordan announced as Harry blew his warning, that had formed a bubble, towards Fred and George who had taken to flying close to Haiden to keep the bludger away from him. Harry's bubble hit Fred who yelled something at George who signalled to Wood for a time out while stopping the Bludger from breaking Haiden's nose. Wood got the message and a second later Madam Hooch's whistle rang out. Haiden, Fred, and George dove for the ground, still trying to avoid the tampered with Bludger.

Harry watched as the Gryffindor team huddled up. Madam Hooch made her way over to them as the Slytherin team jeered and pointed in Haiden's direction. Harry hopped that the Gryffindor team was smart enough to ask for an inquiry or tell Madam Hooch about the Bludger. Harry groaned and hit his forehead when the Gryffindor team continued playing, he should had sent his message straight to Madam Hooch. He didn't know if he could conjure up another bubble message again, something told him that if he tried again he would get Dumbledore's attention on him more than he already did. That same something whispered that he didn't need anymore of Dumbledore's attention on him at the moment.

Harry held his breath as Haiden climbed higher in the air with the Bludger right behind him. Haiden looped, swooped, spiraled, zigzagged, and rolled, but the Bludger still followed him. Haiden hung upside down from his broom to dodge another fierce dive from the Bludger. Harry became angry as the crowd around him began to laugh at Haiden, not realizing the seriousness of the situation. But what Haiden was doing, though it may look silly, was actually saving his life. The Bludger was heavy and couldn't change direction as quickly as Haiden could.

Harry nearly pulled out his hair when Draco called to Haiden causing him to pause and get hit by the Bludger. Haiden slide sideways on his rain-drenched broom, one knee still crooked over it, his right arm dangling useless at his side. The Bludger came pelting back for a second attack, this time aiming at his face. Haiden swerved out of the way at the last second before diving towards Draco and Harry took off for the stairs.

Once at the stairs he raced down them and out to to field in time to see his brother, snitch in hand, roll on the ground to dodge the bludger. Harry ran as fast as he could towards his brother as he rolled again to dodge the Bludger once more. The Bludger came down a third time in between Haiden's legs. With the only thought of saving his brother, Harry magically exploded the Bludger before hitting his brother.

"YOU IDIOT! I GIVE YOU A WARNING ABOUT A TAMPERED WITH BLUDGER AND INSTEAD OF TELLING MADAM HOOCH AND ENDING THE GAME WHAT DO YOU DO?! YOU GO AND PLAY THE GAME WITH A TAMPERED WITH BLUDGER AFTER YOU!" Harry yelled as he continued to whack Haiden as the other students and the teachers rushed to the field.

"If we had stopped we would have had to forfeit the win to the Slytherins." Haiden explained Harry as he used his good arm to try and block Harry's hits.

"WHO CARES ABOUT WHO WON! YOU COULD HAVE DIED!" Harry yelled as Hermione and Ron got to them first.

"Watch it, my arm is broke!" Haiden cried.

"YOU'RE LUCKY THAT'S ALL YOU GOT FROM THAT BLUDGER!" Harry yelled as Severus and Lockhart got there. Severus pulled Harry away from Haiden and into a hug where Harry realised he was crying. Luna and Myari pushed their way into the crowd and over to Harry who was now trying to wipe his face of tears as Lockhart made his way to Haiden.

"Oh, no, not you." Haiden moaned.

"Doesn't know what he's saying." Lockhart said loudly to the anxious crowd of Gryffindors pressing around them. "Not to worry, Haiden. I'm about to fix your arm."

"No!" Haiden said holding his arm to his body. "I'll keep it like this, thanks…" Harry suddenly found himself being gently pushed away from Lockhart and Haiden by Luna.

"Dumbledore is watching you." Luna whispered to Harry who looked passed the crowd to Dumbledore who was indeed watching him with a guarded look. "We need to get you away from here. Now." Luna whispered to him urgently and Harry began to help Luna navigate them out of the crowd. Once out, Luna took Harry's hand and they took off running. "If you weren't on his radar, you are now."