Chapter 10: Gryffindor vs. Slytherin

October 13, 1910 Quidditch Pitch...

Katherine laced up her boots and grabbed her broom full of excitement. Finally she would play her first Quidditch game as the new Slytherin seeker. She was nervous about having to play against Benjamin and Percival…but still excited.

"Hit them high and hit them low. Take cheap shots if you have to just don't let them get the ball!" seventh year Matthew Flint shouted to his players.

He then turned to Katherine and pulled her up by her collar.

"And you…I didn't want you on the team but you're the fast we got…get that snitch or you'll be sorry!" Flint snapped.

"Oi get off of her," Daniel snapped pulling his sister from the bigger boy's grip.

"You scare her and she won't be any use to anybody," Daniel stated petting his sister's hair.

"She better win it for us," Flint snapped as he and the others left the changing area.

"Great lummox," Katherine growled.

"Kate just do your best okay. Like papa taught you okay?" Daniel asked.

"Okay," Katherine smiled as they exited onto the pitch.

"Oh Merlin…I know I'm supposed to root for Gryffindor but I sort of hope Kate does well," Kendra stated as she sat with Fiona and Adrian.

"How about we hope Kate isn't killed instead. We agreed we want McGonagall to do good to get signed right?" Fiona stated.

"Right," Kendra nodded as the game began.

Benjamin flew up to the goal post and sighed. The doctor said he could go back to the game for years but he was leary. He knew the captain for the Slytherin Team was just as mean if not meaner than last year's. He also knew Katherine was playing today and didn't exactly want any of his players to harm her. He felt a need to protect her he couldn't explain.

As the game began he had to force himself to focus on his blocking and ignore everything else. Soon he was back to his old self again.

Katherine had developed a strange way of seeking. Her father said she was a marvel. Miranda said she was weird.

Whatever she was Katherine could always follow the snitch. From the time it was released from its box Katherine's eye never left it; at least when she played.

When she watched a game her eyes darted everywhere always making notes in her head of this and that.

Right now she was watching the snitch lazily zoom around the teacher's box. She was waiting for the right moment.

As soon as she saw the snitch fly away from the teacher's box she acted.

"Bloody hell she's coming right at us!" Adrian shouted.

"DUCK!" Fiona cried as the students dived in the bleachers as Katherine came toward the Gryffindor cheerers and at the last second flew straight up as the Gryffindor seeker behind her flew right into them and crashed amongst the children.

"I've never seen a fake done like that before! Give it up for the Slytherin new seeker!" the commentator shouted.

"Bloody show off," Daniel laughed as he grabbed the quaffle and raced on.

Benjamin watched as Katherine was now racing toward him and the snitch was just inches in front of her. He also saw a bludger headed straight towards the girl's hand.

"Kate three o'clock baby!" Xavier's voice rang through the air. He'd come to watch his youngest's debut.

Benjamin watched as the girl let go of her broom and was taken in the air by the wind. She dropped back on her broom as the bludger passed and caught the snitch while rolling her broom in the air.

The snakes cheered as they won the game and Benjamin landed with his players.

"You know that kid has skills," Percival laughed.

"Somehow it doesn't bother me we lost this time," Benjamin stated as he watched the girl hoisted into the air by the other snakes.