Harry Potter and the Triangle Prophecy - Sahits

“Your dad didn’t just win the Hogwarts Quidditch Cup.” She looked at him shrewdly. “You--do you mean you don’t know?”Harry looked around, then back at her. “Know what?”She smiled slyly. “I’ll show you on the way out.”They paid their bill at the bar, and then made their way toward the door that led to MuggleLondon. Before they got there, however, Katie steered him to the wall where the pictures ofvarious English Quidditch teams hung. She pointed at one which was labeled 1978. “Theyactually went to the World Cup, and should have won, but the Seeker had an injury and theyhad to go with a reserve. They had a brilliant young Chaser that year, fresh out of Hogwarts.”He frowned at her merry smile, then leaned in and looked at the photograph, really looked.There in the middle of the back row was his father, James Potter.He had played Quidditch for England.“It was apparently all over the sports pages of the Daily Prophet that James Potter was goingto help England win the World Cup. When they didn’t, everyone started talking about eightytwo,except--”“--except my dad was killed in October of eighty-one,” he said softly, watching the tall youngman with the messy hair and glasses smile from the back row, jostling good-naturedly withhis teammates. Katie nodded.“He wasn’t an unemployed bum,” he said suddenly, fiercely, to the photograph, rememberingVernon’s sister Marge.“What?” Katie was very confused.“Oh, nothing. It’s just--thanks. Thanks for showing me.”She shrugged. “I can’t believe you didn’t know. I think everyone just assumed you did.”Harry remembered then the way Hermione had stopped and stared at one of the Quidditchphotographs when he’d brought her to the Leaky Cauldron after telling her she was a witch.He’d thought that she was just amazed by the people moving in the photographs; what musthave caught her eye was the image of the young man who bore such a striking resemblance toHarry....They went to the cinema and sat in the dark together while advertisements played for otherfilms and for the sweets and other food available in the lobby, and Harry draped his handcasually on the back of her chair as they watched these things. Then, when the film started,one of the first things they saw was a young woman walking nude across the screen, far largerthan life, while her boyfriend lay in bed still, evidently used to seeing her parade around likethis. Harry turned to glance at Katie surreptitiously, but she was still looking at the screen, theflickering light reflecting eerily on her skin.As the film went on, his hand had shifted to her shoulder and somehow her head came to beresting on his shoulder. Cars collided, people shot one another and the naked young woman38