
Chapter 20
‘I got to see how good you fly, are you interested in playing quidditch?’ Ginny asked as she sat beside Jamie.
‘I would like to, I had a lot of fun this morning.’
‘You were a good a chaser, so if you want to try out, you should.’
Jamie looked at Harry, ‘It’s your decision Jamie, Ginny will be a great captain if you make the team.’
‘Okay, I’d like to try.’
‘So you got sorted into Gryffindor or did Snape just put you in there?’ Ron asked.
‘No the sorting hat said Gryffindor, it was strange listening to a hat talk. So is that how all you were sorted?’
Everyone nodded, ‘All of us were in Gryffindor apart from Fleur,’ Ron said.
‘Oh, were you in another house?’
‘No, I was schooled in France, at Beauxbatons academy.’
‘Fleur was one of the champions for the triwizard tournament, that’s how she met Bill,’ Harry explained.
‘You won that, I read about it.’
‘Yeah, well, I tied with Cedric Diggory, but I only won because a death eater who was pretending to be a teacher helped me win.’
‘You beat the dragon yourself Harry,’ Charlie said.
‘And rescued Ron yourself, not to mention Gabrielle,’ Hermione said.
‘And got through the maze with everything in there,’ Bill said.
‘All he did was give you hints, enough to give you some ideas without it being obvious,’ Arthur said.
‘I suppose.’
‘Harry gave us his winnings, that’s how we were able to start the shop,’ Fred said.
‘Shop, what shop?’
‘Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes, it’s a joke shop,’ George said.
‘It’s a great place, Fred and George have made some fantastic stuff, some dangerous as well,’ Harry smirked at the twins.
‘It’s not dangerous, it’s all good fun,’ George said.
‘Oh, what about the love potion, Ron could have jumped off the astronomy tower if I told him that Romilda wanted him too. It took all I could to get him to Sluggy, then he ends up poisoned.’
‘The poisoning wasn’t our doing, that was blasted Malfoy’s fault, but you saved little Ronnikins with the bezoar and the love potion was supposed to be for you,’ Fred said.
‘I know, I’m glad I didn’t eat those chocolates.’
‘I’m not,’ Ron pouted.
‘So will Snape ban our stuff or not?’ Fred asked.
‘No, I explained more about how they helped. Filch will confiscated any if he finds them, but you should see the looks he’s giving me.’
‘Has he seen you with Snape?’ Ron asked.
‘Yep, I think that’s why he’s not saying anything to me. I’ve got a feeling Sev’s said something to him, not just about me, but about us.’
‘So because all of you that are returning and helped fight he’s told Filch to ease off a bit?’ Bill asked.
‘That’s what I think. I have to admit though, Filch stayed even though he’s a squib. He could have taken off when he got the younger students through the tunnel, but he came back and helped, so he’s lucky to be alive.’
‘It’s true, how could he fight magic when he doesn’t have any, but he did stay,’ Hermione said.
‘Who’s Filch?’
‘The grumpy old caretaker, if you put a dirty foot on his floor or if you’re a minute past curfew he’ll have you in his office ready for one of his detentions. He has a cat, Mrs. Norris, she keeps an eye out for rule breakers then runs to find her owner,’ Ginny explained.
‘Why does he work there if he’s a squib?’
‘None of us know, Albus Dumbledore gave him the job, but Filch never answered when asked and all Albus said was Filch needed a job,’ Arthur said.
‘I heard that the game’s keeper was kept on even though he was expelled as a student, is that true?’
‘Hagrid shouldn’t have been expelled, he was set up by Voldemort,’ Harry said.
‘Harry, Hermione and I cleared his name in our second year, but Dumbledore knew he was always innocent so gave him the game’s keepers job, now he’s the care of magical creatures teacher. He loves Harry, will do anything for him, so will Grawp.’
‘So you’re close to all the teachers?’ Jamie looked at her brother.
‘No, Hagrid was the first magical person I met, he took me to get all my Hogwarts stuff on my eleventh birthday, we’ve been friends ever since. But I get on well with all the teachers, the only one I didn’t was Severus, but that was all part of his act as a death eater.’
‘But dad said he was a death eater, that’s why I don’t understand how he’s headmaster.’ Jamie said.
‘He was a death eater, but when Voldemort tried to kill Harry as a baby, he changed sides, became a spy for Albus and a member of the order of the phoenix. He risk his life many times over the years to keep Albus informed but also to make it look like you didn’t know which side he followed,’ Arthur explained.
‘He also saved my life many times, without me knowing it was him. He was sort of like my guardian angel, an invisible protector. None of us found this out until the fighting, he gave me some memories which basically let me kill Voldemort, then I let everyone know that Sev was really one of the good boys, not a bad boy after all,’ Harry smiled.
‘Ah, I saw that look Harry, you want the bad boy don’t you?’ Charlie smirked then laughed as Harry blushed, ‘Oh look, the saviour is all embarrassed.’
Harry tossed a piece of fruit at Charlie, ‘Prat Weasley. But I’ve felt what he hides under those robes, I believe he could take you in the muscle department Charlie.’
‘Even the main muscle,’ Charlie smirked again.
‘I wouldn’t know, he said no, I have to wait, oh but I don’t want to wait any longer.’
‘Raging young man’s hormones,’ Bill said, ‘I remember being like that, hard to control yourself.’
‘We really don’t want to hear any of this, so you boys stop with the muscles and sex talk,’ Hermione said, ‘There is an underage witch at the table.’
‘She’s old enough to hear all this Hermione, blimey we heard and saw worse, I think hearing about sex or,’ Harry groaned, ‘muscles is something Jamie can handle.’
‘Oh you’re going to be a great role model.’
‘I’m not telling her to go have sex Hermione, she’s just hearing it and think, we learn more about sex listening to everyone else talk. You don’t realise how much you pick up in those common rooms or the showers.’
‘I got my sex education at Hogwarts and not from any teacher,’ Charlie smirked again.
‘Alright, dinner is ready,’ Molly floated all the food onto the table, ‘Help yourself Jamie.’
‘Thank you Mrs. Weasley, it all looks wonderful.’
‘It is Jamie, Mrs. Weasley is the best cook around, you can’t get better food anywhere,’ Harry smiled up at Mrs. Weasley before he dished himself up some dinner, but noticed Jamie was a little hesitant so he dished her up some as well.
‘You know Harry, I never knew you were so good looking,’ George said making everyone either stare in confusion or realisation, ‘No, I’m not gay, but Jamie looks so much like Harry and she’s gorgeous.’
Jamie blushed brightly making everyone chuckle, ‘I was worried there for a minute George, I thought you were coming onto me like Charlie did.’
‘No, but I might come onto your sister,’ George smiled at Jamie making her blush again, Hermione and Ginny both giggled, where Harry looked from his sister to George, he wasn’t sure if George was just playing around or really flirting with his sister. Now he knew what Ron always felt like when he snogged Ginny, he felt the same seeing his sister being checked out by George. Maybe he would need to keep an eye on those two.