slight timeskip (because I am so goddamn lazy. Oh, and Quidditch)
To nobody’s surprise, when Quidditch recruiting started, Hadrian blasted through them all, without a second glance and made it on the team as a Chaser. Weird how in every single Harry Potter fanfic, he’s always a chaser, eh. He couldn’t care less about it honestly.
Oh, and Draco made it in too using Daddy’s money, but he isn’t being sucked up to, so he’s been acting even more like a brat because he isn’t being spoiled like he was at home. To the point when he bought Nimbus two thousand and one’s for everyone, they still didn’t give a damn about him, he had first class seats to it as well as he was there for every single one of Hadrian’s practices.
He mostly just did his homework and studied on the bleachers, but hey, he promised Hadrian to go to every Quidditch practice, and he hasn’t skipped a single one. Samuel and Lucas would join him every once in a while, and if they weren’t (because of detention or something, they’re troublemakers), Hermione and Neville would join him instead. But if they weren’t there, he’d just be alone.
Anyways, when Draco shyly gave Hadrian the Nimbus, Hadrian just scoffed and then said. “I don’t need it, my Two Thousand is still working. Draco’s eyes darkened for a bit as he watched Hadrian run up to Ron like a puppy and ask about how he did.
Last thing about quidditch before he moves onto something less fun, the team’s have been awfully nice to him, to the point where it’s kind of scary, whenever he was at the quidditch pitch, a lot of the players would come to see if he was alright and he was comfortable. They were probably scared of Hadrian, that was kind of the only reason he could come up with.
Now, onto some other things. He had just found out the diary doesn’t exist, so this should be a normal year, god damn he never thought he’d be saying that. Except for the fact that Lockhart was still a pedophile and he still hadn't managed to find a way to show that Pettigrew was an animagus.
Ginny was doing great in her classes (aside from defence, but defence shouldn’t even be counted as an actual class), she’s made friends with a few of her classmates and some people from other houses, like Astoria Greengrass and is on slightly close terms with Demelza Robins. She’s settling in well, and honestly. That’s actually all he can ask for.
Classes are going pretty normally, Hermione used to be obsessed over Lockhart until she was the one staying over in class, and that was how Ron found out that Daphne was extremely overprotective, or in love. It really depends.
But to sum it up. He had never seen Daphne so determined to bring someone down. Lockhart’s already been complained about to the ministry. Although Lockhart was a pretty important person, he didn’t stand a chance when he was against The Houses of Parkinson, Slytherin, and Greengrass. The only reason he hadn’t been sacked and shipped off to Azkaban was because of Dumbledore delaying his trial.
Almost all purebloods, and quite a few neutrals have made their decision about Dumbledore, but most to all lights, and the rest of the neutrals. were still spouting that Dumbldedore was good. A war that Ron had no intention of joining. He was minding his business as a neutral, and it was going to stay that way.
Now, onto something he didn’t really want to say, Duncan, god this guy had a lot to unfold. So his parents got divorced and his mum had just filed for bankruptcy and was in jail for tax evasion. Ron slightly felt bad for Duncan, he had seen the guy’s parents on the train and it looked like they were good parents.
But it just so happened that, when Ron was studying, he heard some seniors gossiping how Duncan was actually adopted by a really nice couple that tried to get him through therapy after child support was called on his parents for gambling and attempted murder. So it turned out, instead of accepting the fact that Duncan just had really bad biological parents, he blamed his adoptive parents.
He trashed his room and screamed at them in private, he even tried to pretend they were kidnappers and was just a problem child, and his hatred made him take it out on unsuspecting students at school. Even so, his parents tried hard to love him and only divorced because they felt like they couldn’t live with each other anymore.
So now, Duncan is currently shooting glares at everyone in his way. Still bullying and taking his anger out on literally anyone. Thankfully, he can’t really touch Ron anymore, because although he says he doesn’t believe the rumors, he sure acts like he does.
Now that that’s out of the way, let’s continue.
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The first quidditch match of the season was finally starting, Slytherin versus Gryffindor. Ron and Hermione walked to the Slytherin stands, Neville deciding to stay put as he was still slightly afraid of Draco. The only reason Hermione couldn’t stay in the Gryffindor stands with him was because she had promised Daphne.
Ron kind of supported Slytherin wholeheartedly. Oh and did he mention that Ginny was here as well? She was the loudest of them all when the names were called out.
“Here comes the Gryffindor team consisting of Fred and George Weasley: Beaters, Oliver Wood: Keeper and captain, Alicia Spinnet, Angelina Johnson and lastly Katie Bell as Gryffindor Chasers, Lastly, their newest seeker, Emily Ward! An amazing lineup from Gryffindor, it’ll be hard to beat this one.” That gained a lot of cheers from the Gryffindor stands, nearly blew his ears off, loudest being from Duncan Taylor.
Then when Slytherin came in, the cheers from Gryffindor were a lot less enthusiastic but Hermione was the Gryffindor who screamed the loudest. Daphne looked smug as she looked at the bushy haired girl cheering for her own house.
After an extremely tense handshake. The game began, it was an intense start, Hadrian had gotten the first score, giving ten points to Slytherin, the twins were knocking away the bludgers, and ended up giving Slytherin a penalty after they knocked out Slytherin’s keeper.
It was a pretty okay match, Hadrian kept scoring left and right, working flawlessly with the rest of his teammates. The Gryffindor team, determined not to let Slytherin dominate, fought back fiercely. Their chasers, with the help of keeper Oliver Wood, tried to outmaneuver Slytherin’s defense.
Meanwhile, Hadrian, however, was unstoppable. He weaved through the air with calculated ease, dodging opponents and scoring goal after goal. The Slytherin stands erupted in cheers each time the Quaffle soared through the hoop, Ron, although he would never admit it, his cheers were the loudest of them all.
“This match is getting intense! Alicia’s got the ball, she passes it to Katie, ooh, getting past Bletcheley’s gonna be tough, can she make that? she swiftly gets away from a bludger, throws the ball AND SHE SCORES!” Lee Jordan screams, earning a tumultuous cheer from the Gryffindor side.
Ron slightly raised his hands to cover his ears while Hadrian had gotten a few boos from Gryffindor as he effortlessly regained a high lead.
It was going to be tough for the Gryffindor’s, The Slytherin’s had a huge lead, but if Emily managed to catch the snitch faster than Draco, it just might be able to turn the tides on the match. The match was 80 - 210, with Slytherin being in the lead.
The students in red and gold were starting to lose hope but then a glint of gold zapped across the area. A wave of gasps were hard from the stands, this was it. This was the long awaited moment. The golden snitch.
“HERE IT IS, the snitch has finally come into play! Will Gryffindor be able to turn this around?!” Lee Jordan announced, Ron waited with a shaky lip, this was it. If Emily managed to get the snitch, Gryffindor was going to win. But if the Slytherin chasers manage to score some more, Gryffindor is screwed even if they get the snitch.
Ron clenched his fists and he muttered “Come on, please.” He bit his lip slightly. Hermione kept her eyes on the field at all times not even blinking as if she was scared to miss even a single moment.
Hadrian scored, Katie Bell got knocked out, Angelina made the penalty. Only for Hadrian to reclaim another throw. The match was getting tense, almost everyone had gotten quiet. Emily dived, like she had just spotted the snitch. But it looked like Hadrian had seen through her bluff first.
He Dived with immense speed and managed to grab Draco before he plummeted to the ground gasps echoed around the stadium. Emily’s scoff could just barely be heard, she then flew to somewhere else, Hadrian then went off to score another goal, Ron kept his eyes, trying to find the snitch.
It had been five minutes and no other sign of the snitch had been seen, Hadrian managed to put Slytherin into an even bigger lead, the stands were deafening. Gryffindors wishing that Emily would just get the snitch, and Slytherin’s cheering.
But as luck would have it, Ron eventually spotted the sparkle of gold buzzing in the sky. Apparently, Hermione did too, because she ended up screaming. “MALFOY, LOOK TO YOUR RIGHT!” That got a lot of attention, not just from Slytherin.
“Why should I listen to you Granger?!” Draco said, and out of spite, he flew in the opposite direction. Flint’s eyes widened, and then he commanded the beaters to knock Emily out, Slytherin’s booed, not at Hermione, but at Draco. Most of them had a clear dislike of muggles, but they didn’t outright despise them. So when Draco intentionally didn’t follow her advice, they started hating.
Draco didn’t notice this of course, he kind of thought they were booing Hermione for giving false advice by this time, Hermione had started calculating. Emily Ward had taken her advice much better because she immediately shot to where Draco was before he left and looked everywhere. By this time, Hermione had started calculating.
“The scores are 110 to 300, even if Draco doesn’t manage to catch the snitch, Slytherin will still be fine if they just keep this going, Emily has a higher chance to catch the snitch, she’s definitely much more experienced than Draco and she’s using my help much better than Draco,” Hermione muttered and the rest of the words became incoherent.
Emily had realized if this kept going, Gryffindor was going to lose by a lot, so. She went full force, Her eyes darted around. She flew around, taking in every sight of the pitch, and once she had locked eyes with her target, it wasn’t long before Gryffindor’s seeker caught the snitch.
Gryffindor had barely lost, but they understood and still cheered for Emily nonetheless, rushing onto the pitch to congratulate her first catch of the snitch. While Slytherin was another story.
They had covered a small part of the pitch, it was just Hadrian, Draco,Ron, and Hermione who had walked down to congratulate Hadrian. “Draco, this is disappointing. Because of your own prejudice, you caused us to have a disappointing match. The only reason we won is because of the chasers.”
Draco pouted and was about to speak then Hadrian cut him off. “Draco, there is no excuse for this behaviour. I sincerely hope you start focusing, for the sake of the team.” Draco nearly had tears in his eyes. Then stormed back, as if he expected Hadrian to run after him. But stopped somewhere close by, when he saw Hadrian have a whole three sixty, when he saw Ron.
“Good match Hadrian! You did great!” Ron said, ruffling Hadrian’s hair, Hermione smirked playfully. “Yeah, you did amazing!” She smiled, “Yeah, that was impressive, I don’t think that’s happened very often, the seeker catching the snitch but the other teams still winning.” Ron said.
Hadrian beamed at the compliment.
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Going to be ending the chapter off for now, way too lazy to continue.