The Girl Who Remembers

Chapter 3

"Morning" Madam Hooch greeted as she walked through us, "Place your hand over the broomstick and in a firm voice say up" she ordered, I stuck my hand out and the broom immediately came to my hand making her eyes widened,

"Up!" The rest of the class demanded, Harry's broom went straight up closely followed by Malfoy's, I noticed Hermione struggling with hers, and quickly glanced at Madam Hooch to see her looking in the opposite direction to us, I stuck my hand over hers and the broom went to her hand, she looked towards me,

"Thank you" she smiled, I returned it with a wink, we all mounted our broomsticks,

"Now give a good firm kick to the ground, hover for ten seconds then lean forwards to come back to the ground" Hooch demanded, Neville Longbottom began hovering without doing anything making me raise an eyebrow, "Mr-mr Longbottom. Mr Longbottom!" Madam Hooch called after him as his broom took him for a ride, my eyes widened as I kicked off the ground and followed him, "Miss Black!" She exclaimed, Neville fell off his broom and got his robe caught on the statue atop of the building, his robe began tearing, I mentally cursed before dangling myself from the broom and catching his wrists as the robe tore completely, he let out a yell of pain before I began to lower us to the ground, I set him on his feet and he fell to his butt clutching his wrist, I got myself on the broom properly before landing, "Five points from Gryffindor for Miss Black's stupidity..."she trailed off as her and the class came over, I lowered my head "Twenty points to Gryffindor for Miss Black's stupidity" she smiled making my head shoot up and look at her with wide eyes making her chuckle,

"I think I popped his wrist out when I caught him" I informed as she crouched down to Neville, she began to pick him up and he whimpered in pain

"Aw, it's a broken wrist, poor boy" She commented making my eyes widened,

"Neville, I'm sorry" I apologised,

"Don't be sorry, you saved his life" Hooch retorted, I nodded "Nobody flys while I take him to the Hospital Wing, if not you'll be out of here before you can say Quidditch" She announced while walking away,

"You see his face?" Malfoy asked gaining my attention as he picked up Neville's remembrance ball, "If he gave this a squeeze, he'd have remembered to land on his fat ass" he chuckled making the other Slytherins laugh,

"Give it here, Malfoy" Harry demanded,

"No, I'll leave it somewhere for Longbottom to find..." Malfoy trailed off as he circled Harry, "...How about the roof?" He smirked while ascending into the air, I sighed as I mounted my broom and flew level with him,

"Do you want to be shown up by a girl?" I asked,

"Come on Potter, bit behind your reach?" He taunted completely ignoring me, I turned my head to see Hermione lecturing Harry before he kicked off the ground and flew up to us,

"Give it here or I'll knock you off your broom!" Harry threatened balancing himself in the air,

"Is that so?" Malfoy mused, Harry went to swipe him but missed, "Have it your way" he smirked before throwing the ball into the air, my eyes widened as Harry chased after it, I rolled my eyes before flying passed Malfoy knocking him off, lucky for him he didn't fall far, I made my way passed Harry and towards a tower, I caught the ball and halted myself in front of a window, I tossed it back to Harry who gave me a firm nod making me smile as he flew back, I turned around to see McGonagall staring at me, I gave her a small wave and a weak smile before making my way back to the ground, the class were cheering and surrounding Harry before they noticed me, I landed and ran into the celebratory group

"Harry Potter. Dahlia Black" McGonagall called out, silencing the cheering, we lowered our heads and followed her inside, she lead us through the halls before stopping outside a classroom, "Wait here" she demanded before going inside, "Sorry to interrupt, Professor Quirrel, could I borrow Oliver Wood for a moment?" She asked,

"O-of course" he stuttered, an older boy followed her out of the classroom and looked at us,

"Dahlia, Harry this is Oliver Wood, quidditch Captain of Gryffindor. Wood, I've found you your new Seeker and Chaser" she stated proudly, Harry and I exchanged a look of surprise.

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"Congratulations on making the team guys" Fred congratulated, as he, George, Aurora and Valeria appeared around the two of us,

"Fred and George are on the team too, they're the Beaters. Aurora and Valeria are Chasers like yourself Dahlia" Ron informed, Aurora and Valeria wrapped their arms around my shoulders,

"Yeah our job is to make sure you're not going to end up in the Hospital Wing" George smiled,

"So if I end up in the Hospital Wing then I can blame you?" I retorted making them laugh,

"We'll see you later" Valeria said as the twins disappeared,

"I don't even know if I can do this" Harry sighed, I raised an eyebrow,

"It's in your blood" Hermione piped up before leading us to the Trophy room, she pointed at a shield making our eyes widened, 'James Potter, Sirius Black, Jennifer Ridgeback; Best Chaser Trio. Jennifer Ridgeback; Best Captain'

"Blimey Harry you didn't tell me that your Dad was on the Quidditch team!" Ron exclaimed,

"I didn't know..." Harry trailed off, we began to head back to the Common room when the staircase changed direction,

"Let's move before the stairs change again" Ron stated earning an eye roll off me, we walked up and I realised we were on the Forbidden Third floor,

"We should go back" Hermione whispered, I nodded and we turned around to be met with Filch's cat; Ms. Norris,

"It's Filch's cat" Harry alerted,

"Come on this way" I demanded as I lead them in the opposite direction, "Let's hide through that door" I ordered, Ron tried to open it

"It's locked!" He panicked, I rolled my eyes,

"Urgh, move over" Hermione demanded pushing him out of the way, "Alohomora" She jinxed opening the door and we all piled in, I stayed guard and listened out until Filch left,

"He's gone" I informed turning to the other three,

"That door was shut for good reason" Harry commented, I looked up and my eyes widened as I stared at a three headed dog, it growled at us making us scream and exit the room making sure to lock it behind us and we ran back to the Common room.