Kurt went to breakfast nervous for the Gryffindor Quiditch Team tryouts.
"Good luck." Briar told him.
"I'll need it." He nodded. "Thanks."
"You're welcome."
"Don't worry, mate." Dom told him. "You'll be more nervous before the first game."
"That's reassuring." He snorted.
"Use the Felix Felicis." His friend suggested.
"For tryouts?" Kurt shook his head. "No way. I'm saving that for when I really need it, like some kind of Hogwarts emergency or something."
"Emergency here?" Ha!" Dom snorted this time. "This is the safest place for anyone on the planet!"
"Are you sure?" Kurt asked him, thoughtfully. "Remember what the books say about the battle of Hogwarts?"
"Umm…oh, okay, you have your point."
Kurt raised his eyebrows at Briar. He decided to finish eating.
Straight after breakfast, he and a bunch of other eager Gryffindors had gathered in the stadium. The captain of the team, Wolfe Gnash, stood there, trying to get everyone to be quiet. The team's second in command, Holly Weasley (Dom's sister) finally had enough.
"Shut up!" She shouted.
Everyone was silenced by shock.
"Uh, t-thank you." Wolfe said to her. Looking at the crowd he said. "We have one chaser and the keeper. We need two more chasers, two beaters, and a seeker."
No one said anything for a moment.
Wolfe continued. "Chasers here." Pointed to a spot in front of him. "Beaters there." Pointed to a spot on the right of the chasers line. "And, seekers on the left, of course."
Everyone got in the line they wanted. Kurt didn't know which one to be so he got in the seeker line. They waited for their next directions.
He put the students in groups of five, and sent them off to do their best flying. Kurt got on a broom and wobbly, at first, took off. He got the hang of it pretty fast, actually. He could see that Wolfe and Holly were going group to group, testing their skills.
Holly and Wolfe got to their group about half an hour later. Once they got everyone else in the group to do what they were supposed to do in a team, they showed Kurt the Golden Snitch.
"What you've got to do is catch this." Wolfe explained. "If and when you catch it, we win the game. If the other team's seeker does before you, they win. Understand?"
"Yeah." Kurt nodded.
"Alright." Wolfe let go of the Snitch. "Go catch it and show me what you can do."
Kurt sped off after the Snitch, hoping and planning to catch it. It turned and went straight at the ground. Gripping the broom tighter, he headed straight down after it. He pulled up milliseconds before he'd crash, still following the little golden ball. He found the courage to stand up, while still riding the broom.
He reached his right arm out, towards the Snitch. He felt the broom lean forward too. He grabbed at the little ball, missing it by less than an inch. He threw his hand at it, grasping it tighter than he knew he could.
He sat back down on the broom and flew back up to Wolfe and Holly. They were very impressed. Then they went on to finish with the rest of the students. About another half hour later, all the students were told to land to get the results.
"Alright everybody." Wolfe said. "We have our results." He said the names of the chasers and beaters. "Our seeker for this year is Kurt Potter!"
There was immense clapping and a few groans of disappointment. Kurt grinned like he never had before. He was the Gryffindor seeker!
After they went inside, Kurt headed straight for his classes, getting many congratulations the whole day. At dinner, he was almost tired of hearing the word.
"Good job getting on the team, Kurt."' Travis told him. "You deserve it after saving my life the other day."
"Thanks." Kurt responded.
After dinner, they went to the common room. After dark, Dom and Kurt went out into the forest again to play around in animagus form.
They chased each other around and had a few play fights. They went a little deeper into the forest than usual, to explore a little. They found a silvery liquid. They turned human to examine it.
"What do you think it is?" Dom asked.
"I have no idea." Kurt responded. "Remember that we were told that unicorn blood is silver?"
"You think this is unicorn blood?" Dom gaped. "No way."
"They live in the forest too, you know."
"But…" Dom seemed to be at a loss for words. "There has to be one around here, then."
"Yeah, and we're going to find it." Kurt said, with a sly smile. He transformed back to dog.
So did Dom.
They followed the trail of the unicorn blood deeper and deeper into the Forbidden Forest. They didn't find a unicorn for awhile though. When they finally did, it was dead. They turned back and raced back the way they came. Once they returned to the spot they usually go, they transformed human and went back into the castle.
It was nearly two in the morning when they got back. They sat down in the common room, talking about what could've happened to the unicorn they had found.
"What do you think happened to it?" Kurt asked Dom.
"I don't know, but it wasn't good." Dom responded.
"Of course it wasn't good." Kurt rolled his eyes. "It was bleeding before it died."
"I think it got attacked by something or someone." Dom said.
Kurt scratched his chin. "Yes, but what could've done that to a unicorn?"
"Werewolf, maybe." Dom shrugged.
"Maybe." He murmured. He grabbed his transfiguration book and flipped through it until he found a section on werewolves. "It doesn't say if they attack unicorns or not." He flipped to the unicorn page and read it too. "Nope, not a werewolf. Has to have been something else."
"But, what…?" Dom wondered.
"We'll look for clues tomorrow, okay?" Kurt said. "At the regular time. No playing around because we'll have to be here by morning."
"Okay. Sounds good." Dom agreed.
Kurt closed the book and they both got up, going to the dormitory. He put the book with his other ones and climbed into bed,, whispering good night to Dom. He closed his eyes and let sleep pull him in.
The next morning, Kurt had Quidditch practice. The team did really well. Wolfe said that he thought they were going to beat Slytherin in the first game on Monday.
"We'll find out." Holly had said.
The rest of the day was normal. After dark, he set out with Dom to follow the unicorn's trail for clues on how it died. When they reached their meeting spot, they transformed into dogs and sniffed their path back to the unicorn's body.
They turned back to human and walked up to it. Kurt spotted a wound on its neck.
"Look at the neck, Dom." He whispered.
"Merlin's beard." Dom whispered in awe. "What kills by biting necks?"
Their gazes met.
"Werewolves." Kurt murmured, shocked. Then he spotted something. A clue. "Look there." He said pointing to it. "Werewolf hair. You were right, Dom."
"What would a werewolf want with a unicorn?" Dom muttered.
"I don't know, but we'd better start heading back to the common rom."
"You're right." Dom rose from his knees. "We found out what did it , we can find out why another time."
"Exactly what I meant." Kurt told him.
They turned to dogs and went back to the castle. They made it safely inside. They looked out the same window they had a couple of days ago.
"But, that unicorn must've been dead a few days then. Werewolves are only in werewolf form on the full moon." Dom remembered.
"You're right." Kurt said suddenly. "But werewolves don't kill unicorns, so we need to find out why."
"Yeah." Dom yawned. "But I could do with a good night's sleep first."
"Me too, actually." Kurt had to agree.
Kurt fell asleep, amazed by their discovery.