Sign it [Lupin's Daughter]

Chapter 17

"JORDAN! ARE YOU BEING PAID TO ADVERTISE FIREBOLTS? GET ON WITH THE COMMENTARY!"

Maddy couldn't hold in her giggles as she marked Ravenclaw's next three goals. She put the binoculars up just in time to see Harry chasing after the Snitch, and Cho blocked him.

Despite being at quite a distance, she unmistakably heard the voice of Oliver Wood bellowing from the goal post, "HARRY, THIS IS NO TIME TO BE A GENTLEMAN! KNOCK HER OFF HER BROOM IF YOU HAVE TO!"

If there was one thing that Maddy liked about Quidditch more than the game itself, was the fact there was no discrimination on the pitch. There weren't 'girls' or 'boys' they were all 'players', something that Maddy overheard some muggle-borns saying Muggle sports lacked.

Harry dived, and Cho followed, and Maddy realised with a smirk that he had just performed a small version of a Wronski Feint.

Maddy looked on the ground to where Harry had dove towards, and tapped her father urgently.

Remus looked in the direction, and gasped, grabbing Maddy's arm above her elbow, and dragging her out of the stands. Maddy, not wanting to miss the game, was attempting to use her binoculars as she stumbled down the stands.

Maddy looked confused at the dementors, there were only three of them, and the air wasn't cold, instead it was the same temperature as it normally was. And were they walking?

Maddy noticed an enormous silvery-mist emerge from Harry's wand, a non-corporeal patronus. Maddy's heart swelled with pride. The dementors, however, didn't fly away like normal, they tripped.

Maddy yanked her arm from her father's grasp, and dropped her scorecard and pen and ran towards the 'dementors'. Remus, realising what happened a second later, allowed her to go, instead running towards the Quidditch Commentary Box, where McGonagall was exiting.

She started to rip around the fabric as she heard Lee yell, "HARRY CAUGHT THE SNITCH! GRYFFINDOR WINS!" and revealed four students from underneath it's depth.

Throwing the fabric behind her, she shoved Draco Malfoy, who was the smallest of the four, to the ground as he tried to get up, causing a domino effect knocking over Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle, and Marcus Flint in the process.

McGonagall came running over, a look of pure fury over her face. Maddy stood up and tried to get the mud off of her pants where she had been kneeling, but that had only rubbed it in and made it worse.

Maddy made no move to help the four boys, instead opting to loom over them with her arms crossed, a look of pure disgust on her face as McGonagall started shouting.

"An unworthy trick! A low and cowardly attempt to sabotage the Gryffindor Seeker! Detention for all of you, and fifty points from Slytherin! I shall be speaking to Dumbledore about this, make no mistake! Ah, here he comes now!"

"Madeline, come here!" Remus called, from his spot next to a laughing Ron and Harry. Maddy made one last gesture towards Draco that he didn't need to know sign-language to understand, and strutted off to her father as though nothing could bring her down.

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"Don't think I didn't see what you called Draco, Madeline Hope."

Maddy sat on her bed, looking at her father who was scolding her for her choice of words. While normally she'd feel slightly guilty, Maddy felt no sense of remorse towards what she did.

Okay, was all she said. Her expression was defiant, as if she ruled the world.

"And you think you're getting away with this without repercussion?"

Maddy met his eye, before nodding.

"So you aren't feeling any remorse? Whatsoever?"

Maddy nodded again. He got what he deserved.

"I'm proud of you for standing up for Harry. I just think you went about it the wrong way. Understand?"

Maddy shook her head.

Remus sighed, "I didn't expect you to. Still, I'm going to take away your broomstick for a week, and tell Harry that you'll need to wait for your next flying lesson."

Maddy looked in disbelief at her father. Really? My Nimbus?

Remus nodded, "Yes, your Nimbus. Now would you mind explaining these symbols you used on the scorecard. I'm fairly interested in it."

As Maddy went to explain her symbols to her father, she thought about what had happened. Even with the punishment of not using her Nimbus 2000, she absolutely did not regret what she said to Malfoy. If someone was looking to inflict pain on anyone close to her, and Harry, despite not knowing, was like the older brother she never had, you better believe she would fight them. Little did she know in an alternate reality, she and Harry would be as close as siblings. But that dream was washed away by Lord Voldemort, or as Maddy liked to call him, Voldy Smorts.