If you recognize it, it's not mine.

The following morning they woke earlier than normal so they could fill Marcus and Padma in on all the developments that everyone on the team knew. The bond, the torture, the family, the Woods, Molly, Ron, and Ginny were all explained. Padma looked disgusted at the thought of all that happening to one person. Marcus looked furious, Oliver smiled; he already acted like the rest of the team.

Padma left for work at the magical library in Hogwarts before the other three, but they weren't far behind. They arrived at the stadium to see all the team members and the coach waiting in front of the floo. When Marcus came out seconds before Hermione but after Oliver they all started talking at once. Coach looked calmly at Marcus and nodded, the team were raging though. Hermione rolled her eyes and cast a spell to silence them all.

"Okay now, Marcus is our new beater; I take it you were informed. He is a nice guy, doesn't like playing dirty but that was part of his previous contract. Him and his fiancé Padma, a friend of mine, are staying with Oliver and I. Treat him with respect." She lifted the spell and nobody spoke.

"Good, thank you Hermione, now we have a new player to train and only a few days to do so before game season really starts. We have three days to train him for what we've taken weeks to perfect. However now we have a lot more people to train him. Oliver have you explained our strategy or plays to him yet?"

"Yes, I gave him the play book and he started looking through it; we also discussed playing other roles on the team. He told me he can play any except seeker because he just doesn't have the build, but he knows how. My opinion would just be for us to go over the play we will use in the next game and once he's learned that teach him the others. He's not the only one who needs to learn, we all do. Plus Hermione has already changed the calculations so it fits his skills based on what he's told her."

"Good, we're further ahead than what I thought we'd be. Hermione why don't you take over practices for now, also explain the plan for all the upcoming games." Everyone looked to her and she nodded once, Oliver put her on a stool because she was too short to be seen by them all from the ground.

"Okay so we have a total of 10 more games before the qualifiers. To get into them we need to win the majority; we've already won two so that leaves four games we need to win. If we only win four we have no guarantee another team won't win five, so we need to win as many as possible so we can get in the qualifiers to get to the semi finals then the final. We won't use the same play twice in a row; however for the next two games we will use plays four and eight. They are very similar and will make other coach's think they can learn our play through combining the information when all it will do is: give us the advantage.

"Our next game is Saturday, today is Thursday, and we don't have much time. We will be playing the Heidelberg Harriers, and then Tuesday we are playing the Wigtown Wanderers. We really are lucky it's our home year, if it wasn't we would be all over the place, and we would be sent to Azkaban for not spending time with our matches."

"At least Oliver would be safe." Stephen spoke, the first team member since the silencing.

"Yeah whatever, now let's get to work. Ollie will tell you what to do and I will explain to coach and be going over strategies." She smiled. "Have fun and play nice kiddies."

"Says the 17 year old." Dan mumbled. She winked and hopped off the stool.

The next day went similarly to the first but instead they fine tuned all the players to each other now that a new player had entered the mix. When Saturday came they played wonderfully and won the game.

The Heidelberg Harriers went down with almost no fight. Same with the Wigtown Wanderers; their next practice they learned another new play and they used that in the next game. You could see many of Puddlemere's players smirking through the game against the Vratsa Vultures it put many of the opposing team members on edge. The game ended when Victor Krum the opposing seeker fell for Dan's Wronski Feint, Victor's signature move, and Dan caught the snitch. Victor came up to Hermione later and congratulated her on her play winning the game, laughing joyously the whole time.

Canada's Moose Jaw Meteorites fell very easily, making Puddlemere the first team having a conditional spot in the qualifiers for the world cup. The Quiberon Quafflepunchers put up a small fight but Puddlemere still won even if by a slightly less impressive lead. The Holyhead Harpies practically handed them the victory, it seemed like Puddlemere was the new feared team alongside the Montrose Magpies but not for being brutal but for being skillful and quick with their plays. The Caerphilly Catapults were just as cowardly as Peter Pettigrew and lost within an hour.

That brought them to game ten against the Montrose Magpies, known for being ruthlessly brutal. Hermione was a little nervous about this game, she didn't want to see any of the team get hurt; especially Oliver. It was halfway through the game when it all started going downhill.

"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THAT IS ANOTHER SAVE BY KEEPER OLIVER WOOD! IT LOOKS LIKE THE MAGPIES BEATERS ARE GETTING ANGRY, THAT'S NEVER GOOD. OH NO OLIVER WOOD HAS TAKEN A BLUDGER TO THE HEAD AND HAS BEEN KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS! THE GAME HAS BEEN PAUSED SO HE CAN BE MOVED AND THE RESERVE CAN TAKE OVER!" Hermione was internally freaking out and her head was pounding terribly.

"Put Carlos in as a beater he has a good arm and Marcus can go into the role of keeper. He has practice dodging bludgers and redirecting quaffles." Hermione said sitting down holding her head.

"The bond is getting pretty strong, how much pain are you in?" Mills asked.

"I'm fine, its Oliver I'm worried about this is only a fraction of what he has."

"Okay team, Carlos take Marcus' spot and Marcus you take Oliver's; also I want Stephen and Dan to switch but make it unnoticeable, that means play 13; got it?" Mills told them when they made it to the box, Marcus and Carlos zoomed off with the rest of the team following and Coach looked at Hermione again. "Hermione, why don't you go to the medical tent, assistant coaches are allowed in?" when she nodded he beckoned another reserve over to walk her there so she would fall over. She was still listening to the commentary as she held Oliver's hand and waited for him to wake up; at least her pain had disappeared.

"WHAT'S THIS? CARLOS MARTINEZ RESERVE KEEPER HAS TAKEN MARCUS FLINTS SPOT AS BEATER AND HE HAS TAKEN THE KEEPER POSITION! THIS IS UNHEARD OF! THE MAGPIES SEEM SATISFIED WITH THIS ARRANGEMENT PROBABLY BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY'LL WIN NOW."

Twenty minutes of bad commentary later.

"AND THAT'S ANOTHER 10 POINTS FOR PUDDLEMERE, UNLESS THE MAGPPIES SCORE 40 POINTS BEFORE CATCHING THE SNITCH THEY LOSE THE GAME! AND DAN AJAX IS DIVING FOR THE SNITCH... BUT WAIT WHY IS STEPHEN JONES, CHASER, STANDING ON THE GROUND? STEPHEN IS HOLDING SOMETHING UP... WAIT IS THAT... IS THAT THE SNITCH?! IT IS! PUDDLEMERE HAS CAUGHT THE SNITCH! I JUST LOOKED AT THE ROSTER AND WHEN THEY CHANGED MARCUS FOR OLIVER AND CARLOS FOR MARCUS THEY SWAPPED DAN AND STEPHEN'S POSITIONS AS WELL! NOW THIS IS A NEW MOVE NEVER BEFORE SEEN, THIS IS CRAZY!"

"Play thirteen huh?" Hermione heard a voice; she looked down and saw Oliver staring at her.

"Well of course, what else would we do when we lose our star keeper and have the perfect opportunity?" she smirked, and then noticing the conditions frowned. "You need to never scare me like that again. We have two more games until the qualifiers and you're out for both, but if this had happened a week ago you would have been out for the last four games of the season before qualifiers."

"Crazy game season is over, that means our wedding is in three days; you excited?"

"Yes I am but you need to never get hurt again, I almost passed out from the pain and mine was only a small fraction of what you would've felt had you been awake." Oliver frowned and lifted his newly healed arm to brush some tears off her face.

"I'm okay now, how about we talk tomorrow? We still need to figure out what to do the night before our wedding, I don't want you to have a nightmare, so you're staying with me but the smaller details need to be talked about."

"Fine, go to sleep; Marcus is going to help me take you home before he goes home to see Padma." Marcus and Padma had moved out a week ago and into a nice town house in muggle London. Hermione missed the company at home when Oliver was busy, but she was happy they seemed to get on so well.

Her wedding to Oliver was in three days and that really scared her but it was also very exciting, after all she did love him.