Harry Potter: Shadows of Tomorrow

Harry made his way to his bed, everything went preciously how he predicted it would. No sooner than he had sat on his bed an annoying and fuming red head burst in.

"You just had to do it didn't you?!" He shouted

"Perhaps you could be more specific with what I had to do" Harry suggested

"You couldn't let me have my moment of fame, you had to have it as well, don't you have enough already?!"

"Listen to me you incompetent idiotic imbecilic" Harry spoke slowly "in case it missed your large ears, I didn't enter my name, I swore on my magic in front of everyone saying I didn't. I notice your brain shuts off when you're angry so I'll explain it to you in simple terms, if I wanted to take the fame from you then I would have entered my name and stopped you from entering.

I'm more of a victim than you, I have to compete in a deadly tournament I didn't want to enter and if I win I get just more of what I've already got." Before Ron could say anything the rest of the dorm mates came in.

"Alright Harry?" Neville asked

"Alright mate" Harry responded "I'm just going to sleep if you lot don't mind" Harry drew his curtains and placed his charms, he went to sleep soundly, not knowing that Ron had electrocuted himself again by touching the curtains. The next day Harry woke up and did his workout, he and Ginny hung out for a bit before they made their way to the quidditch pitch where they met Victor Krum.

He had spent the previous hour telling Ginny how he was tired of Ron's complaining and put him in the tournament to shut him up and perhaps open his eyes to the fact that achievements are earned, unsurprisingly she understood. In fact she was all for it, if Ron wasn't related to her then she would have probably killed him herself. They noticed that a lot of girls and the entire Gryffindor quidditch team were in the stands.

"Hello" Harry greeted him "I hope you don't mind, but I brought my girlfriend along. She wanted to fly with us and she is quite talented"

"It's no problem" Krum looked at Ginny "Victor Krum, your name is?"

"Ginny Weasley" Ginny politely replied "I see you and Harry both have Firebolts"

"Yes" Krum nodded "they are very good broom, excellent for Seekers. I see you are using a Nimbus"

"Nimbus 2000" Ginny smiled "it was Harrys old broom, he gave it to me after his godfather gave him the Firebolt for his birthday."

"Hey" Ron shouted as he walked up to them "hi guys?"

"What are you doing here?" Ginny asked

"I'm going to play quidditch with Victor"

"I did not invite you" Victor replied "I invited Harry"

"What about Ginny?"

"I invited her" Harry responded "we asked Victor and he was okay with it." Ron looked at Ginny and noticed the broom in her hand, he looked back and forth between it and his old shooting star.

"Where did you get a nimbus?!"

"It's Harrys old one, Harry gave it to me for my last birthday"

"You can't have that!"

"Why not?" Harry asked "I didn't need it and I didn't spend money on it, and it was a birthday gift"

"She's a girl!" Ron shouted "you can't give her a broom like that, you should be telling her to learn how to cook not fly." Ginny was not surprised by her brothers words, her mother had raised her children to believe that girls should just be housewives and nothing more.

The rest of her brothers never believed that, it's why she was particularly fond of Bill, he was the first one to tell her she could be anything she wanted. With that being said she was still furious, even Krum was furious, Harry had to actually grab her hand to control himself. It was also to calm Ginny but mostly himself. Unfortunately for Ron, the crowd in the stands did not have the same level of restraint.

"YOU WHAT?!" Angelina shouted while the rest of the girls began cursing.

"Half of the quidditch team is made up of girls" Fred pointed out

"Yeah you prat" George shouted "Can't believe we're related to you"

"Hey Victor" Harry whispered "perhaps we should go and fly at the lake and leave this prat alone?"

"I agree" Victor eyed Ron "let us go".

Everyone left, leaving Ron alone in the quidditch pitch. They headed to the lake, where Krum and Harry had a one on one match to see who could get the snitch first. Krum was pleasantly surprised by Harry, not many people could challenge him, even professional players.

It was a tough game as the two kept intercepting and blocking the other, and Ginny flew around doing the same to the both of them but eventually Harry won. Victor was gracious in his defeat and congratulated Harry, he was surprised by how humble Harry was in his victory, he insisted that it was a very close match. Victor then showed everyone his Wronski feint, he asked Harry to show him a trick and watched in anticipation of what Harry was going to do.

"You're going to do the dive aren't you?" Ginny asked

"I'm going to do the dive" Harry nodded before he flew off

"Vat is the dive?" Krum asked

"Watch" Was Ginny's reply

Harry took his broom and flew up as fast as he could and as high as he could, everyone stared, wondering what he was going to do. Once his broom could reach no higher, Harry jumped up off the broom. Gasps came from the crowd below, Harry and the broom fell down from the air. Krum was about to fly up after him, until he saw Ginny's smirk, he looked at Harry and saw he wasn't flailing or panicking.

Harry enjoyed the air in his face, but decided he'd better focus. He pushed himself back to his broom, but instead of mounting it he adopted his 'broom boarding' standing stance. His left foot was on the back of the broom whilst his right was just under the front. Harry could feel the broom speeding up, he increased the speed as much as he could.

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