The Real Harry Potter

Chapter 146: Hermione's Betrayal at Tryouts



Harry's wand let out a high pitch sound, not unlike the screeching from the golden egg he had retrieved in the Triwizard tournament. Everyone quickly stopped their conversations as they moved to cover their ears, after a few seconds Harry ended the spell and put his wand away.

"What the hell was that?!" One seventh year demanded.

"That was me getting your attention," Harry said in an unamused voice. "You guys didn't seem to listen when I tried the regular way. I don't know about you all, but I have shit to do. So are we going to do these tryouts today, or should I postpone it so you lot can finish talking?" He asked, everything from his voice to his face and body language was practically daring everyone to talk back to him. A few looked like they were going to but wisely decided not to, after all it was no secret how dangerous of a wizard Harry was.

"Good," Katie said. "we can finish this today then." She commented.

"Listen up," Harry said. "first we are going to go through some basic drills just to sort out which of you can fly and which of you need improvement. Katie over here is going to lead you through some laps around the field, the first two laps will be slow. After that we'll take a small pause and build up the speed. Get on your brooms." Harry ordered before turning to Katie. "They're all yours." He said with a small nod.

"Thanks." Katie replied, though she looked like she was unsure if she should be happy about that or not.

After a few drills the number of hopefuls had dwindled down, until there were a few left. Harry had started with choosing the chasers that would be joining Katie, after a great few tryouts it had been decided that Katie would be joined by a forth year girl called Demelza Robins, who was particularly good at dodging Bludgers; and Ginny Weasley, who flew better than all the competition and scored seventeen goals to boot. Also nobody on the team could really say that Harry had shown any favoritism as he had even made Katie do the same tryouts as the chasers to prove she deserved her spot.

After that Harry had decided on who the back up chasers would be and selected them before moving on the beater trials and doing the same. Nobody appeared to be willing try out for seeker which Harry felt was a bit of a problem, but he supposed he could probably just take all of the players on the team and reserve team and have those who were willing try the position and see if any would be good back up seekers.

Then it was time for the keeper trials, Harry couldn't help but notice that Ron Weasley was trying out. Harry was tempted to tell the prat to just fuck off and go away but knew that wasn't fair and was at least willing to give him a fair shot. After a while the keepers had been reduced to three people, one fourth year called Bruce Bale, a sixth year called Cormac McLaggen and Ron Weasley.

Harry had started the fourth year off first and had him try to stop ten shots from Demelza, Ginny and Katie. He was able to stop nine on his own, though to Harry it was clear that he would have done better if he had a better broom than the old school one he was using. Next came Ron and Cormac who upon arriving at the hoops winked at someone in the crowd, Harry followed his gaze and saw it was Hermione who was siting in the crowd along with a bunch of other Gryffindors who had come to watch. Luna, Astoria plus Scott and Jean had also come to watch but nobody really cared since they knew that they were Harry's friends and were sworn to not tell anyone.

Ron was fairly admittedly a fair keeper, not really the best but he was able to keep all but one out, tying him with Bale, though he lost points for nearly falling off his broom. Cormac was doing good fairly good but Harry wasn't that enthusiastic as he knew Cormac by reputation was a bit of an arse, Harry knew better than to listen to second hand opinions, but after meeting him at Professor Slughorns meeting on the train earlier this year he had confirmed that the dude was an arse. Plus his reputation of bothering women could be a problem seeing as the majority of the team was female, so if Cormac did join the team then that likely meant that Harry would have to remind him who was the alpha male.

During Cormac's run something odd happened and his broom was suddenly jerked to the side, Harry's eyes narrowed at that. He looked around the crowd and saw most cheering but thanks to his improved eyesight he noticed Hermione putting her wand away, and if he didn't notice that then seeing Astoria and her friends pointing at her was further proof.

"Stop." Harry called after magically amplifying his voice, everyone stopped and looked at him. "Granger," Harry suddenly called. "what the hell do you think you're doing?" He demanded in a clam voice.

"What?" Hermione blinked.

"I saw you put your wand away after Cormac's broom was jerked to the side." Harry said in an accusing voice as he flew down closer to Hermione.

"I didn't!" Hermione said quickly as everyone looked at her.

"She did!" Astoria said as she stood up, "me and Scott saw her and Jean heard her mutter a spell."

"You're not even Gryffindor's, you shouldn't be here!" Hermione protested.

"Granger shut your mouth, they are invited here and have promised to keep quiet about the team tryouts." Harry replied. "Though of course if they want to tell everyone what you did then I wouldn't object." Harry added to the trio before turning back to Hermione. "Granger get out of here."

"But you can't...

"I can," Harry cut her off. "either you get out now or I will postpone this tryout until tomorrow, then don't blame me when everyone's angry at you." Hermione glared at Harry for several moments before huffing and standing before walking off. "Oh and McGonagall will hear about this." Harry added, Hermione suddenly froze and paled but before she could say anything Harry flew off and up to Cormac. "Oi Cormac, since Granger messed with your shot you're getting another one."

"Thanks," Cormac said with a smile that somehow made Harry feel dirty. "you know we could just save time and give me the position, I've got a ton of good ideas on how to make the team better, if you listen to me I promise we will win the cup this year, it would be easier and quicker.

"So would a killing curse to the head." Harry replied before flying off and flying to the chasers. "Look, because Granger messed with Cormac he is getting another shot. But do me a favour, do not hold back, I do not want to have that prat on this team." Harry said before flying off.

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