Since Halloween, the four of them hung out all the time. A few weeks after Halloween, Quidditch started and the Gryffindors had their first game against Slytherin. The morning of the Quidditch match was exciting, everybody was talking about how first years were playing Quidditch for the Gryffindor team
" Harry you need to eat something" Ron said
" I'm not hungry" Harry protested
" Harry you need to eat, I read in Quidditch through the ages that it is better if you eat a bit before a game so you have energy, especially for Seekers because they have to be on their toes... or in this case wide awake on their brooms so they can see and catch the snitch" Brenda said
Harry rolled his eyes and began eating
" Where in the book does it say that" Hermione asked, " I've read that book over and over and it doesn't say it anywhere"
" Ok so I lied about Quidditch through the ages, but I do have a good point" Brenda said giving Hermione a look
" You mean you just made that up?" Harry asked
" Yes" Brenda said and Harry glared at her, " Hey you need to eat, so what if I didn't read it in Quidditch through the ages, it's still a really good point, Harry you do want to beat Slytherin don't you?" Harry nodded," Well then not to put any pressure on you but then you need to catch the snitch, and you'll only do that if you have energy and energy comes from eating right whether you want to or not"
" I think you're turning into a mum" Harry said
" Sorry but the only mum I knew was neglectful" Brenda said with annoyance
" Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to..." Harry began
" I know, lets just drop it ok?" Brenda asked a little uncomfortable, she doesn't want to talk about her childhood, she really didn't like it
" Ok" Harry said
It was quiet for five minutes and the two girls were reading and then Snape came up behind them
" Good luck today Potters... then again you faced a troll, Quidditch should be easy for you two... even if it is against Slytherin"
Brenda looked up and saw blood seeping through Snape's robes
" What are you staring at Ms. Potter?" Snap asked in a nasty tone
" Sir, I think your leg is bleeding" Brenda said a little afraid now
" Mind your own business" Snape said as he stamped off
" Is he rude much?" Ron asked
An hour later the team was getting ready for Quidditch
" Are you two nervous?" Wood asked
" A little" Harry said
" More than a little" Brenda confessed
" You guys will do fine" Wood said encouragingly
Brenda gave him a smile
" Ok men and women this is the year we are going to beat those slimy, stinking, evil, Slytherins, we are not going to let them win, we will show the school what the Gryffindor team is made of" Wood gave an encouraging speech
Everybody started cheering
" Now lets get out there and play Quidditch" Wood said smiling
Everybody cheered on their way out of the locker rooms and onto the Quidditch pitch and the two teams circled around madam Hooch
" Ok I want a nice fair game, from all of you... now everybody mount your brooms" Hooch commanded
Everybody mounted their brooms and the game started when Hooch let all the balls go
Angelina Johnson of Gryffindor had the Quaffle first and passed it to Brenda but then Brenda had the Quaffle taken away by the Slytherin captain Marcus Flint and almost scored but Wood blocked the Quaffle from going in and Brenda caught the Quaffle and dove down out of the way of Marcus and went towards the other goal posts and passed the Quaffle to Angelina Johnson and dodged out of the way from a bludger and Angelina scored
" ALL RIGHT" Brenda cheered
" That's good teamwork Brenda" Angelina said
" Thanks" Brenda said with a smile
The game went on and the Slytherins scored. The game was 10 and 10 and then Brenda scored a goal and then Harry spotted the snitch and went after it and dodged a few bludgers and a Slytherin and then got rammed by the Slytherin seeker and they both lost the snitch and the game continued. Five minutes later the Potter's brooms began to get out of control
The brooms were doing the same thing, trying to buck the first years off
" I bet this is worse than a bull ride, they aren't hundreds of feet up in the air" Brenda thought as she was trying to hang on to her broom for dear life
" Their brooms are out of control" Hagrid said from the stands
" Let me see those binoculars" Hermione said as she looked through them and then looked through the crowd to see who was doing that to them. She then spotted Snape who was saying a spell, " It's Professor Snape"
" Let me see those" Ron said as he found Snape murmuring under his breath, " He's jinxing the broom, what do we do?"
" Leave it to me" Hermione said as she got out of her seat and ran to the other side of the pitch
" Brooms aren't supposed to do this" Brenda was saying to herself. She was hanging on for dear life and she risked a glimpse at her brother who was in the same position as her
Hermione got to the other side and got under the bleachers of the teachers seats and got under Snape's seat and took out her wand, " Incendio" She made his robes catch on fire and then she ran back to her seat
All of a sudden Brenda's broom stopped trying to buck her off and she climbed back on and continued the game
" Brenda are you ok?" Angelina asked
" Yes, I don't know what happened" Brenda said
Katie Bell the other Chaser passed the Quaffle to Brenda and she scored another 10 points for Gryffindor
Harry saw the snitch again and he wouldn't lose it this time and when he did catch it, he caught it in his mouth and popped it out of his mouth
Gryffindor won 170 to sixty and both the Potters were glad to get back on the ground since they were still shaken up from their near death experience
After they changed, they caught up with Hermione and Ron
" You guys it was Snape, he's the one who was jinxing your brooms" Hermione said
Hagrid came up to them, " What is this talk about Snape jinxing the brooms? Why would he do a thing like that?
" Harry, I think you're right" Brenda said
" What are you all talking about?" Hagrid asked
" We had our suspicions but now I think we were right" Hermione said
" What are you suspicious of?" Hagrid asked
" On Halloween we thought that he went after whatever that three headed dog was guarding" Harry said
" Who told you about Fluffy" Hagrid asked
" That thing has a name?" Hermione asked surprised
" Of course he does he's mine. I bought him a Greek chappie I met in the pub last year and I lent him to Dumbledore to guard the..." Hagrid said
" Yes" Brenda asked
" Stop no more questions about that" Hagrid commanded
" But Snape's trying to steal it" Harry protested
" Nonsense, Snapes a teacher" Hagrid said
" But he tried to kill Brenda and Harry," Hermione said "I know about jinxes, I read all about them, you need to keep eye contact and Snape wasn't blinking"
" You guys are wrong, I don't know why the brooms were acting like that and I know Snape can be mean and nasty but I assure you he would not kill a student" Hagrid said
" But" Harry began
" Now you listen to me, all of you you're meddlin in things that you don't need to be meddlin in. What Fluffy's guarding is between Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel" Hagrid said
The students' eyes lit up
" I shouldn't have said that, I should not have said that" Hagrid kept saying and he left the four
" Ok so who's Nicolas Flamel?" Harry asked Hermione
" I don't know" Hermione said
Harry looked at Brenda
" Me either" Brenda said
" Is there a wizard card on him Ron" Harry asked
" No, I have all the cards and not one is Nicolas Flamel" Ron said
" Well we are going to the library and we are going to research Nicolas Flamel" Hermione said
" Right now?" Ron asked
" Right now" Brenda said
" Since when did the girls become boss" Ron whispered to Harry
" They're stubborn" Harry said
" Yes we are" Both girls said and grinned
They researched in the library for weeks but found nothing on Nicolas Flamel, they were having a hard time because Madam Pince kept bugging them and they only looked in between classes
" You three will keep looking during Holiday won't you?" Hermione asked since she was going to be with her parents for Christmas
" We looked at least a hundred times" Ron complained
" Yes we will keep looking, as long as it takes, but it's not going to ruin our holiday" Brenda said stubbornly
" Good" Hermione said
Finally it was the holiday and more than half the Gryffindors left for holiday. The Common room was almost empty and Ron taught the Potters how to play Wizards chest
" This is still confusing, not the magic part, but I don't know how to play regular chess, I'm more of a checkers player" Brenda said
" There's Witches Checkers also" Ron said, " It's not as fun as chess, but the pieces fly by themselves when the opponents pieces are jumped"
" I'm liking this game, but the pieces keep getting mad at me" Harry said
" That's because you're making silly mistakes" Brenda said looking over his shoulder, " So when are we going to start researching again?"
" Cant we wait until after Christmas? Ron asked in a whiney tone, " Come on it's two days away"
" Fine, but on the 26th we are back in the library researching" Brenda said in a bossy tone
The three of them relaxed for the rest of the two days
Brenda woke up to a bunch of yelling at her door
" Brenda wake up, it's Christmas" Harry yelled
Brenda woke up and smiled and got her robe on and opened the girls' Dorm door
" Merry Christmas" Brenda said excitedly
" Merry Christmas" both boys said
They all went down to the Christmas tree and both Potters were surprised that they got presents, the first one they opened had similar packaging as Ron's and inside were sweaters with their first initials on them
" My mum always gets us these for Christmas, mine is always maroon" Ron said kind of grumpy
" I like this one, it's purple" Brenda said happily, " I'm going to write to her real soon and thank her"
Next both the Potters got a package that was just brown paper tied with string with a note
" Your father left you this before he died, use it well" Harry read
" Your mother left you this before she died, use it well" Brenda read
The twins looked at each other and opened the packages and inside them were cloaks
" So what are they" Ron asked
" Some kind of cloak" Harry said confused
Brenda tried hers on and the boys gasped
" What" Brenda asked confused
" Look down" Harry said
Brenda looked down and she gasped, " MY BODY'S GONE"
" That's an invisibility cloak" Ron said amazed, " They're really rare"
Harry put his on and his also was an invisibility cloak
" I wonder who gave them to you" Ron said
" There was no name, just said use it well" Harry said
" This is so cool" Brenda said happily
All of a sudden another set of twins burst in the common room and both Harry and Brenda hid their cloaks, they didn't want Fred and George to know about them yet
"MERRY CHRISTMAS" The Weasley Twins said together
" MERRY CHRISTMAS" The first years said
" Hey George it looks like the Potter twins got Weasley twin sweaters" Fred said in a teasingly manner
" Yes Fred it does look like it, George said, " Brenda has a B on hers and Harry has an H, I guess mum thinks that twins can't tell themselves apart"
" Even if they're not identical like we are" Fred finished
" Haha very funny you two" The Potter twins said together
" We thought so" The Weasley twins said together
" You guys are doing it again" Ron complained
" Doing what" Both set of twins asked
" That" Ron said, " Saying the same thing at the same time"
" That's one of the fun things about being a twin" George said
" Another fun thing is communicating through thought, some have it some don't, we tried before but it never worked" Fred said
" Communicating through thought, that sounds fun" Brenda said
" Yah well, come on George, we should leave these three be so they can look at those invisibility cloaks they don't want us to see" Fred said and he winked at Brenda as they left the three first years with wide eyes
" We wont tell" George said
The two of them left laughing at the looks on the first years faces
" They probably eavesdropped on us or something" Ron said annoyed
The rest of the day was fun, there was a big feast and lots of laughter and fun and games going on in the great hall. Finally the fun and games ended and it was time for bed
