Chapter 92: Confrontation With Gryffindor Quidditch Team (2/2)
”... H-How?” stuttered Katie in shock. She asked a question that everyone on the Gryffindor team wanted to ask. ”How do you know all that?!”
Quinn raised his arm and flicked his wrist for an A.I.D card to appear in his previously empty hand.
Everybody there recognized the card as they had seen it at least a couple of times in their school years.
”Information is my bread and butter; I know what is going on inside Hogwarts, and that includes Quidditch knowledge,” informed Quinn and then proudly smiled. ”I was also hired permanently as the commentator for the Quidditch games, so I had to know what all four teams were planning to do for better commentary experience.”
”You aren't going to reveal this knowledge to anyone, will you?” asked Oliver, sounding apprehensive.
The card in Quinn's hand burned to ashes, and all of them suddenly became aware that Quinn had his wand in hand.
None of them had seen when Quinn had taken out his wand. One moment both his hands were empty; the next second, he had a card in one and a wand in the other. And while this was happening, he kept a friendly smile on his face.
”Of course not. I'm not mad,” snorted Quinn derisively. He humphed and pointed at the castle, ”If it became known that I leaked information to a team, the entire student body would pelt me with spells. There wouldn't be any safe space for me inside Hogwarts. Plus, that would be bad for business, and I don't want that.”
Harry looked at Quinn, a scowl prominent on his face.
Harry and Ivy Potter, the Potter twins, had spent a lot of time together since birth, as the majority of twins did. Both were their automatic best friends, study buddies, competitors, and confidants. There was never any worry about being alone.
Both had spent way too much time together and knew way too much about each other. When Ivy hid something, Harry knew that Ivy wasn't saying something and vice versa.
So whenever Ivy showed signs of unusual behavior, Harry noticed and knew that something had happened with Ivy that he didn't know about.
As time passed, Harry observed her sister and came to realize that those unusual signs only showed up when Quinn West was nearby.
At first, Harry thought her sister liked Quinn, but after further observation, he noticed Ivy didn't show signs of liking Quinn but instead showed slight discomfort when Quinn was nearby.
Ivy had a problem with Quinn, was what Harry concluded.
He decided to confront Ivy about the subject, but Ivy denied having any problems with Quinn. She didn't fess up even after he pestered for an entire day.
After seeing she didn't want to reveal anything, Harry decided to wait for the day she would tell him about the matter, and till that day, Harry would always have his sister's back.
When Harry saw Quinn, he decided not to talk to him because he didn't know what happened between Quinn and his sister. But after Quinn rapid-fired his team's tactics, some of the 'dislike' he had developed for Quinn slipped out.
”Yeah, you better not,” harrumphed Harry, slightly scowling at Quinn.
Quinn tilted his head as he turned towards Harry, straightened his back, smiled, and was about to speak, but Eddie spoke up before him.
”Huh?! What did you say? Speak up louder, 'Mr. Coming-to-school-in-a-flying-car-and-once-again-crashing-and-burning' Potter,” thundered Eddie, a mocking smirk plastered on his face.
'He is so annoying!' thought Harry as he gritted his teeth and glared at Eddie. He was starting to dislike Eddie more than Quinn.
Quinn looked at Eddie with a surprised expression. He wanted to know what had happened between Harry and Eddie. Eddie was in full-on aggressive mode and Harry was somehow on the back foot.
He took out his pocket watch and glanced at the time. Turning to Eddie, he said, ”You have been here for a while. Why don't we go back to the castle? Don't you have a Charms assignment to complete?”
Eddie looked at Quinn's pocket watch and saw that they indeed had been practicing for a while, more than he had planned to practice.
Glancing at the Gryffindor team, Eddie clicked his tongue before speaking to Quinn, ”Yeah, let's go back.”
As they walked past the Gryffindor team, Eddie pulled on his best delinquent punk face towards Harry.
Marcus politely nodded in their direction, while trying to end the conversation in a calm way.
Quinn, on the other hand, smiled and waved towards Katie as he walked away. Katie waved back with an apologetic smile.
After they were at a distance, Marcus spoke up, ”Didn't you want to just get popular? Why would you pick a fight with them?” Marcus was a member of the trio that didn't like confrontation and fights.
Eddie stomped on the ground and hollered, ”Screw that, I have decided it; I'm going to join the team as soon as possible. And when I'm on the team, I am going to play against that arrogant prick and score so many points that a snitch will not help.”
He was feeling pissed because of the Gryffindor team.
Quinn wrapped his arm around Eddie's shoulders and added, ”I'm surprised that you didn't back off and give them the field.”
”Huh?! Why in the world would I do that?!” spat out Eddie. ”I won't lay down and let them walk over me!”
Quinn nodded and then explained his statement.
”What I meant was that I was surprised that you didn't take the chance to leave a good impression on Katie. I remember you asked me to introduce her to you, so I thought you were interested, and wouldn't this be a perfect chance to establish an impression. Instead, you clashed against her team, so I was just wondering...”
Eddie's entire motivation was to get a girlfriend, so it surprised Quinn that he didn't jump on a good opportunity.
Eddie blinked a couple of times and suddenly squatted on the floor.
”Danggumit!” groaned Eddie with his hands clutching his hair. ”How could I let the opportunity get past my grasp?! How?”
”That damn four-eyed Potter screwed me over,” he looked up at Quinn and Marcus and hissed, ”Why did I have to get all riled up?!”
”NO!” howled Eddie towards the sky.
Marcus shook his head with a hand on his temple. While Quinn cackled.
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A/N: So when I was preparing for this chapter, thinking how this interaction should go. In my mind, I went through events like; Quinn dunking on Harry; Quinn having a polite talk with Harry. I even thought of a duel between the two.
None of those fit the situation and feel I was going for. I thought that if I made Harry and Quinn 'fight,' then Harry's image would dip too low. I wasn't confident in keeping Harry's image afloat to the level of an arrogant kid (James Potter level) and thought that his image would plummet to a level below Draco's (at least his image in the earlier books where he was an outright bully.).
But then a thought struck me: Even though Quinn is the MC, he doesn't have to do everything. So, I decided to pit someone else against Harry. The character I could think of in such a role was Eddie Carmichael.
Now, I had mixed reviews for Eddie's behavior. Some said they liked him and others said they didn't like it. To me, Eddie here is a normal teenager who doesn't want to lose and back off. He tried to negotiate at first, compromise, but then things went as you saw.
Do tell me what did you guys think about Eddie and this chapter in general.
This was fun for me to write. Yeah~, This was fun~.
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Quinn West - MC - Little Lord West.
Eddie Carmichael - Chaser in the making - No! My chance to get a girlfriend!!
Marcus Belby - Practice Keeper - Let's talk it out peacefully.
Oliver Wood - Gryffindor Quidditch Captain - Sought-after young Keeper prospect.
Harry Potter - Seeker - Defeated in the battle of words.
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