Harry Potter and The Girl Who Knew {year 4} (A George Weasley & Harry X Reader)

82. Witch Weekly.

On Friday morning at Breakfast an owl arrived for Harry with Sirius' letter tied to it's leg. Harry opened the letter and read it quietly to you, Ron and Hermione.

Be at stile at end of road out of Hogsmeade (past Dervish & Banges) at two o'clock on Saturday afternoon. Bring as much food as you can.

"He hasn't come back to Hogsmeade?" Ron said.

"It looks like it, doesn't it?" Hermione replied.

"I can't believe him," Harry almost wined. "If he's caught..."

"Im sure he's fine, Harry." You reassured him. "He got this far, right."

"(Y/n)'s Right, Harry." Ron said agreeing with you. "It's not like the place is swarming with Dementors any more."

*****

That afternoon you had double potions. When you got to the dungeons you saw that Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle were stood with Pansy and her band of girls.

"There they are, there they are!" Pansy giggled as the four of you approached them, as you did you, very clearly, saw that Pansy had a copy of Witch Weekly which with Hermione's face on it. "You might find something to interest you in there, Granger!" Pansy said loudly throwing the magazine that to your surprise you caught impressively.

When you entered the classroom you headed for the table at the back of the class, as you usually did. you gave Hermione the magazine and she flipped through it until she found an article titled HARRY POTTER'S SECRET HEARTACHE:

'A boy like no other, perhaps,' you read over Hermione's shoulder, 'yet a boy suffering all the usual pangs of adolescence, Wrights Rita Skeeter. Deprived of love since the tragic Demise of his parents, fourteen-year-old Harry Potter thought he had found silence in the steady girlfriend at Hogwarts, Muggle-born Hermione Granger. Little did he know that he would shortly be suffering yet another emotional blow in a life already littered with personal loss.

Miss Granger, a plain but ambitious girl, seems to have a taste for famous wizards that Harry alone cannot satisfy. Since the arrival at Hogwarts of Viktor Krum, Bulgaria seeker and hero of the last World Quidditch Cup, Miss Granger has been toying with both boys' affections. Krum,  who is openly smitten with the devious miss Granger, has already invited her to visit him in Bulgaria over the summer holidays, and insist that he has "never felt this way about another girl".

However, it might not be miss grangers doubtful natural charms which have captured these unfortunate boys' interests.

"She's really ugly," says Pansy Parkinson, a pretty and vivacious fourth-year student, "but she'd be well up to making a Love Potion, she's quite brainy. I think that's how she's doing it."

Love Potions are of course banned at Hogwarts, and no doubt Albus Dumbledore will want to investigate these claims. In the meantime, Harry Potters well wishes must hope that, next time, he bestows his heart upon a worthier candidate.'

"I told you!" Ron hissed. "I told you not to annoy Rita Skeeter! She made you out to be some sort of... of scarlet woman."

"Scarlet woman?" Hermione said and the both of you snorted in amusement.

"It's what my mum calls them," Ron muttered clearly embarrassed.

"If that's the best Rita can do, she's losing her touch, what a pile of rubbish." Hermione said before giving the Slytherin girls a sarcastic wave, since they were watching her and Harry like hawks. And the four of you unpacked your ingredients for the potion you were making.

"Something is a bit off though." You spoke up. "Think about, I mean, Hermione, how could she have known..." You said earning a weird look from Harry.