Harry Potter One Shots

To Melt In Winter

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Harry, Ron and Hermione shivered as the cold Winter air whipped around them. They had been outside for hours making snow-wizards and snow-trolls, and having amazing snowball fights. Their warm Winter clothes were drenched, but they were too busy enjoying their weekend to care. The snow was great fun!

Before long, the trio were joined by Neville, Ginny, Luna, Dean, Seamus, Fred and George, and even Cho joined in. Within minutes the eleven Hogwarts students had started a massive snowball fight. Fred and George pulled out their wands and made themselves a fort, running to hide behind it, followed by Dean, Seamus and Cho. They immediately started pelting snowballs at the others, who took off behind some trees, failing to dodge the incoming snowballs as they ran.

Harry, Ron and Neville jumped behind a tree to their right, and distracted the other team with their own snowy projectiles, allowing the three girls to hide behind their tree. All the students were having a great time.

The team at the fort was winning because Fred and George decided to cheat, hurling waves of snow into the trees. Harry's team weren't giving up though. Occasionally, Ron, Neville and Ginny would sneak around their own 'tree fort' and pelt snowballs at their opponents' heads.

They were so distracted by their mini war that they didn't notice Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, Blaise and Pansy slipping through the trees towards them, followed by a few older Slytherins they didn't know.

Out of nowhere, flashes of colour were flying through the air and the sniggering Slytherins emerged, outnumbering the others. Malfoy cast stupefy at Harry who threw up a protective charm, but he couldn't dodge the stinging hex that Goyle cast at him, which hit him in the neck. There were spells flying everywhere! The older Slytherins cast incendio at the fort and melted it, giving Harry the opportunity to hit them from behind, and Cho and Luna took it as an opportunity to run back up to the castle.

The Slytherins were firing spell after spell at them, but the Gryffindor's didn't give in. They were surrounded now, but they were using the trees to their advantage, weaving in and out of them and hiding amongst them. Malfoy, who had been hiding cast another spell at Harry that knocked him down. Crabbe and Goyle began casting spells at Harry while he was laying on the ground. It was hurting him but he was firing back, he wasn't going to let Malfoy the coward ruin his snowball fight and then beat him in a duel. It was just not happening!

Out of nowhere he was surrounded by a shield charm and a loud and menacing 'Enough!' erupted from somewhere to the right of him. Harry noticed that the others were just as surprised as him because all heads shot towards the voice, and their wand hands had dropped to their sides. Harry rolled onto his left side, which wasn't as painful as his right side, and stood up.

It didn't take him long to locate the owner of the menacing voice. He was a cloud of black amongst the white snow, and he did not look happy. "Mr Malfoy", Snape nearly spat as his eyes searched out the antagonist, "Get to my office now, along with anyone else from Slytherin who took part in the fighting. And I know who you are, so if you value your education and your free time, do NOT run off and try to get out of your punishment, otherwise I will come and find you and it will be ten times worse than a few afternoon detentions!" "Go!" he said louder when they were still standing there staring at him like he had gone nuts. As they walked away sulking, they were mumbling and cursing under their breath.

When his Slytherins were out of sight, Snape turned back to the wide-eyed and completely gobsmacked Gryffindors. "Miss Chang and Miss Lovegood informed me of what happened and I know the eleven of you are not to blame. None of you will be punished as you did not start the fight, and only defended yourselves from attack. Harry, Ron, Neville, Hermione, Fred, George, Ginny, Dean and Seamus were shocked beyond belief, this was the first time Snape had not blamed them for something that Malfoy had done. Snape rolled his eyes at the obviously flabbergasted students.