Harry Potter Promise NR.9
Date: 1/13/2016,
Categories:
Fiction
Fan fiction,
Author: zimbi
... achievements. I think he's probably a better professor than that fraud, he did teach our parents, but I'm going to withhold judgment until he gives me a reason to get off the fence." "That sounds like a good idea," Neville commented. "Let's give him a chance, but haven't we all learned by now not to trust blindly?" Hermione flinched slightly at the small dig to her previous faith in authority figures. They all put their books away and headed down for dinner. XXX Harry spoke with Minerva after supper, and they set up a DA meeting for that weekend. In the meantime, Harry also had to plan on setting up Quidditch tryouts. He wasn't quite as nervous as he would have been, had they not had a full reserve team the year before, but as Captain, he had to reserve the Pitch, and it would come down to him to decide on the new team. Over the course of the week, Harry spoke to all the other Captains, and they decided to split their tryouts over two weekends. Slytherin would need to do the most rebuilding by far. With Malfoy gone, Crabbe and Goyle were the only members left of the previous team. Snape had given Theodore Nott the position of Captain, as the sixth year had played as a reserve a few times over the years. That, and Blaise said he wasn't interested in playing. They decided that Hufflepuff and Slytherin would have their tryouts the second weekend of the month, and Ravenclaw and Gryffindor would have their tryouts the third weekend. It was so much easier to get things done when ...
... all four houses got along, Harry mused, as he made his way to the DA lounge that Saturday afternoon. It was a large group gathered for that meeting, once more with everyone returning but the graduated seventh years. They had also added the majority of the first years. A few holdouts were normal, Harry knew from the previous year; it was mostly kids who had been taught at home to remain aloof and not associate with other houses. From experience, Harry knew they would join within the next few months, after acclimating to school and the newly developed Inter-House friendships. With so many people in the group, Minerva and Flitwick had done some major reconstruction and sectioned off that wing of the castle, turning it into a much larger lounge. There were multiple interconnected rooms, so that people could form smaller groups to study different subjects. It was a very successful evening, with a little studying, and a little catch up with friends that they hadn't seen since the previous term. One of the topics a lot of people were talking about were Snape's Defense lessons. The old Potions professor had proved to be adept at his new subject, and people were talking about how much they enjoyed the lessons. Harry was smiling as he dropped into his bed that night. XXX Harry received an invitation to a 'small get together' in Professor Slughorn's quarters the next week. The 'get together' was for Saturday evening, and Harry really didn't want to be a part of Slughorn's little club. As ...