Percy Jackson and the Triwizard Tournament [Book 4]

125) Some Sort of Kink Shaming

That evening I spent in the Gryffindor common room, talking late with my friends. I'd explained to them what I'd spoken with Dumbledore about, which Harry seemed relieved to hear.

"Why didn't you tell us you planned on seeing him?" Harry asked.

"I wanted to get his professional opinion on the whole situation," I shrugged. "I didn't feel the need to involve anyone else before I even got to hear what he had to say. Now, if you don't mind my asking, what did you go to Dumbledore for?"

Harry sighed, then started to explain. He'd fallen asleep in Divination, and had had a dream about Voldemort. He'd tortured Pettigrew for letting someone escape, and that some person was dead. His scar had started hurting, and he'd woken up from the pain. He'd immediately gone to tell Dumbledore, and he'd seen the Pensieve, and gotten curious. He'd seen the trials, then had spoken more with Dumbledore.

"Dumbledore reckons You-Know-Who's getting stronger again as well?" Ron asked once Harry had finished explaining. He stared into the common room's fire. The Gryffindor hearth. "And he trusts Snape? He really trusts Snape, even though he knows he was a Death Eater?"

"Yes," Harry said.

"I trust him, too," I shrugged. "He's a dick, yeah, but I would trust him with my life."

"Rita Skeeter," Hermione muttered after a while, looking down at her knees.

"How can you be worrying about her now?" Ron asked in disbelief.

"I'm not worrying about her," Hermione said to her knees. "I'm just thinking... remember what she said to me in the Three Broomsticks? 'I know things about Ludo Bagman that would make your hair curl.' This is what she meant, isn't it? She reported his trial, she knew he'd passed information to the Death Eaters. And Winky too, remember... 'Ludo Bagman is a bad wizard.' Mr. Crouch would have been furious he got off, he would have talked about it at home."

"Yeah, but Bagman didn't pass information on purpose, did he?" Ron said, and Hermione shrugged. "And Fudge reckons Madame Maxime attacked Crouch?"

"Yeah," Harry nodded, "but he's only saying that because Crouch disappeared near the Beauxbatons carriage."

Hermione glanced down at her watch, then quickly stood up, "We haven't done any practicing! We were going to do the Impediment Curse! We'll have to really get down to it tomorrow! Come on, we should get some sleep."

***

Ron and Hermione were supposed to be studying for their exams, but they'd dedicated most of their time to helping Harry. Draco had decided to do the same with me.

"Left!" He shouted, and I quickly leapt to my right, narrowly dodging Seamus's (he was also helping) bald as he swiped at me. "Right! Right! Le— right! Down!" The flat end of a sword knocked into my legs and I tumbled down.

I groaned, pulling off my blindfold, "This sucks. No one's gonna call out which way the monster's coming at me unless they're from an episode of Dora or something."

"We're getting to that," Draco squatted down beside me. "You've got to get used to the balance with being blindfolded before we can get on to sensing the punches."

I groaned, "This isn't fun."

It wasn't fun, but it ended up working. In the end, I dodged most of the shots from Seamus, and even some that Draco ended up sending himself. The only move from Seamus that I wasn't able to dodge had been because he grabbed my hair.

"Ow! Low blow, dude!" I cried, tearing off the blindfold and rubbing my head where he'd grabbed my hair.

"Maybe you should cut it," Draco proposed. "It's getting a little long."

"I dunno, I kinda like it," I shrugged. "Plus, I feel like a badass when I put it in a ponytail. It's like, when I do that just before a fight, my enemy is like ten percent more scared."

"He's got a hair kink," Seamus said drily.

"I haven't got a hair kink!" I whipped around to look at Seamus.

"Sure you do! That's why your hair is long, and you push your hands through Draco's hair all the time, and you practically melt when he does that to you!"

"How much do you watch us?" Draco whispered in concern. Well, maybe not concern. Mild terror.

I ignored him, "I haven't got a hair kink. But you, you've got a Dean kink!"

Seamus's face flushed redder than a tomato, "Dude! Uncalled for!"

"Just as uncalled for as hair pulling," I shrugged. "And you didn't deny it."

Somehow, his face grew darker, "You and I both know I'd be lying."

"Ooh la la, he's finally admitted it to himself," Draco teased. "I seem to recall a very long rant on how you didn't like Dean and how you definitely didn't like his hair, or his eyes, or the shape of his cheekbones, or the shape of his ass —"

"Okay, okay, that's enough!" Seamus held his hands up on surrender. "Silena reamed me for denying it. I think she'd kill me if I ever tried to deny it again. I wouldn't even have to tell her, she'd just find out."

"She does have a way of finding those things out, doesn't she," I agreed.

"Yeah. Silena is scary."

"I'm scary?" A voice appeared behind us. Silena.

We all screamed.

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