Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Chapter 7 Mudbloods and Murmurs

On Saturday Harry is woken by Oliver Wood as the whole team is to have practice. Howver the Slytherin team shows up with their new seeker, Draco Malfoy who says a nasty things about Hermione. Ron defends her but ends up having his curse rebound on himself. Later that night Harry and Ron have their detentions.

I feel kind of bad that the only reason Draco gets on the team is because his father bought all those brooms (it seems at least). Also, did they just kick the past seeker out? :( I just really feel like Draco has bad authority figures in his life, Lucius, Narcissa and Snape. It makes me wonder if he had better authority figures to look up to would he be different? And all the Slytherins for that matter.


"What happened, Harry? What happened? Is he ill? But you can cure him, can't you?" Colin had run down from his seat ad was now dancing alongside them as they left the field. Ron gave a huge heave and more slugs dribbled down his front.
"Oooh," said Colin, fascinated and raising his camera. "Can you hold him still, Harry?"

JUST STOP, COLIN. Oh my goodness. I understand his excitement. Hogwarts is amazing. But he's really taking it too far. Barfing slugs is not a cool thing to take a picture of. Make some other friends. Stop following Harry around just because he's famous! I want to like you because you're young and innocent but you get on my nerves, Colin. :(

The minutes snailed by. Harry let Lockhart's voice wash over him, occasionally saying, "Mmm" and "Right" and "Yeah" 
 Now and then he caught a phrase like "Fame's a fickle friend, Harry," or "Celebrity is as celebrity does, remember that."

Sometimes, Lockhart is funny (but the majority of the time he's very irritating).