Arriving at the Venue

After crossing a small mound of soil, the trio of Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Arthur Weasley came in front of the massive of camp site for the Quidditch World Cup final. Hundreds of tens in various shades colour of all designs from being extremely simple to luxurious were lined across the camp ground.

Arthur stood with a wide smile as he felt somewhat proud of showing this marvellous scenery to Harry and Hermione.

"We could have taken the other route… the shorter one," said Arthur. "But the view from here is splendid."

Harry smiled out of courtesy while Hermione was genuinely thrilled.

"Come," said Arthur as he gestured them to follow behind. "We need to cross the entire camp before we reach there."

Harry and Hermione trekked behind Arthur as they weaved through large and densely packed crowd. Along the way, Arthur encountered dozens of his friends, mostly colleagues from the ministry, and he introduced them to Harry and Hermione quite enthusiastically.

Walking for few minutes, they reached their tent and the first person to come in their view was Ron Weasley who was carrying a large kettle.

He came running towards them, "Harry…. Hermione…"

"Ron," Harry was mild in his response while Hermione was more amiable. Even though, Harry till now had not been direct about Ron to Hermione, he made enough subtle remarks about the red haired idiot behaviour. And its effect was quite visible in the lack of warmth from Hermione's side. Even so, Ron was too much of a fool to notice anything.

Arthur did not linger there and walked inside the tent. As soon as, he was out of sight, Ron made an irritating, grieved and angry face at the same time.

"You know," he said leaning towards Harry. "Dad has been making me work since we arrived here."

"He has forbidden the use of magic," he complained. "Fred and George are just as being as they are and Percy…"

Ron's facial exaggerated even further as if he was delivering some very important secret.

He whispered, "Percy… he has gotten a job at the ministry… in the Department of International Magical cooperation and now he cannot keep his mouth shut."

"Oh!" Harry acted slightly surprised. "That is nice…"

"What about his girlfriend?" Harry asked faking genuine curiosity. "Miss. Penelope Clearwater?"

All the excitement vanished from Ron's face. He was unable to mutter a coherent reply.

"That… I don't know off," he stammered.

"Come let us go inside the tent," he said and hurried towards the tent.

Harry grinned and shrugged his shoulder as he waked behind. From his side eyes, he caught Hermione glaring him with raised eyebrows as if asking what was that?

They entered the tent behind Ron. The tent was like a three- room flat. It also had a main hall as well as a kitchen and bathroom.

In the main hall, Fred, George, Percy and Ginny were having a chat. Harry greeted the twins quite warmly while towards Ginny his reaction was quite unusual and unsure. Even so, he tried to maintain his normal behaviour.

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[Here is the question? You all want Ginny to be evil or to be on Harry's side and in his harem? I am not too sure myself on this… hence you will decide the question]

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On the other hand, though Percy was quite amiable in his greetings, Harry could not help but chuckle at his slight obnoxious behaviour. Percy's shoulders were stiff and broadened with the 'extra responsibility' of the ministry while his head was held high and nose more sharp and pointy towards the sky.

George and Fred were about to launch another of their jokes towards Percy when Arthur interrupted them.

"Boys… Ron… Harry," his voice cam from the outside. "Join me here and help me in cooking and in preparing some drinks. Bill and Charlie will be joining us soon."

"And no magic," he added afterwards.

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Following it was nothing sort of chaos as Arthur took the leak in preparing the food. He was having his fun using 'muggle' items like matchboxes.

They were shortly joined by Bill and Charlie. The two of the genius Weasley brothers were polite towards everyone and freely engaged in the conversation.

But the person who took all the spotlight was Percy. He could not finish describing the responsibilities he was carrying in the ministry.

"Mr. Crouch trusts me a lot," continue Percy. "He has been very busy and it had become even hard for me to have some free time."

Fred and George rolled their eyes, while one mocked, "Ah! Your work seems very important Percy."

"If he mistakes even one sentence while scribing the instructions, the ministry could face a lot of trouble," the other twin added.

Percy though felt something was odd but did not understand and took the mockery as a compliment and puffed his chest even more. He was about to describe his responsibilities even more when Arthur stood up.

A tall thin man was striding towards them. Ludo Bagman.

Arthur shook hands with Ludo with a lot of warmth and gratitude.

"Here is the man of moment, Ludo Bagman," Arthur introduced. "Thanks to him we got the tickets."

"He is head of department of Magical Games and Sports," added Arthur. "And not only that… in the past he has represented England in Quidditch."

Arthur introduced his children one by one to Ludo and finally Harry and Hermione. As with everyone else, Ludo tried to take a glimpse of Harry's forehead but was slightly disappointed to find it covered with hair.

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