Chapter 2, Joining the Slytherin Quidditch Team

The next day Skye Caught him during dinner once again and sat next to him.

"I pass, just barely, but I pass" she announced with a smile

"Epic," he said with a wide smile.

"Before we start the training session, do you have a broom?"

"err, no not yet, the whole joining the team thing wasn't planned until recently"

"Hooch can lend you one of the Shooting Stars, but they are awful so you need to buy one, a decent broom",

"What would you recommend?"

"Um, The Comet my family swear by them, we'll begin training tomorrow, after lessons are over by dinner time" she patted him on the back then moved away from him.

The next day they met within one of the tents near the stadium, Skye had a spare broom waiting for him. For some reason she had a permanent frown upon her face as she was aggressively tapping his foot.

"Are you ok?" he asked.

"had a letter from my dad and he's a pain in the arse. Slytherin got destroyed last year when ravenclaw won the cup. Now he's really on my back to win the Quidditch Cup"

"I thought you did alright last year, just had a few unlucky games, and you were amazing. If I'm honest, I became kind of a fan of yours last year" he said blushing, Skye puffed her chest out with pride.

"Thank you, I wish my dad would notice my hard work, our family has a long line of Quidditch players so he takes it very seriously and he is hard to impress" she sighed and shook off her worries.

"So what are we doing?"

"We got a week to train you because try-outs are next Sunday, so for the next six days you better be ready for some hard training!" she said, Godwin smiled gratefully as she patted him on the back.

During the next week Skye had him being chased around by three bludgers while flying around the pitch; she volunteered them both to help de-gnome the pitch. Skye would lure them out of their holes and Godwin would snitch them up from his broom and flew into the sky as lobbed them for miles. alongside this he performed pull ups upon his broom and did other basic works and took part in more friendly matches with a few of Skye's friends.

By Friday every bone and muscle in his body began to ache in pain, Skye decided that he should have a day to rest, he met up with Penny near the great hall.

"How are you doing Godwin?" Penny asked as they met within the hall.

"Been better" Godwin said, flexing his aching limbs.

"Skye training taking its toll"

"Yeah, it'll be worth it in the end thought"

"Godwin, I did that translation!" Rowan said as he ran over to them both. The two of them gathered around Rowan and he showed them the translation of the letter.

"What did it say?" Godwin asked as they took a look.

"Your next instructions have been transfigured into a black quill which has been hidden in the Gryffindor common room, failure to follow my instruction will result in severe punishment and the writer called themselves R" the noted reads, upon hearing this Godwin face fall into a grim look.

"What?, what in the name of Merlin's beard does that mean?" Godwin asked.

"Who could have been doing this to ben?" Penny said, gasping.

"I don't like it either, it sounds like someone broke into Hogwarts and they don't sound too friendly, what do you want to do about it Godwin?" Rowan asked, Godwin remembered his chat with professor McGonagall this is too important to keep to themselves.

"I'll have a word with professor McGonagall she can search Gryffindor common room for us or at least give us permission" Rowan and Penny followed him as he made his way to professor McGonagall. She was having lunch with a pair of teachers upon the teacher table.

"Miss I must have a word with you, it is about Ben Cooper '' Professor McGonagall eyebrows raised and seeing the seriousness in his eyes, she got up from the table. She gestured for him to follow till they were out of the great hall and within one of the corridors.

"Have you discovered something, Mister Le Fey?" she asked, her eyes fixed upon and Rowan told her of what they discovered. "Thank you, mister, Le Fey, I shall tell Dumbledore of this immediately"

"Miss, while you do that can we have permission to search Gryffindor common room for that quill?" she gazed between them, in silence thought before giving them her answer.

"Well, wait for me outside the Gryffindor common room and I'll meet you there and let you in myself" she walked off and they made their way to the Gryffindor dorms. When professor McGonagall arrived they went in together

Upon entry professor McGonagall l dismissed any Gryffindor within the room before they began their search around the common room. Godwin was the one to find the black quill, under one of the chairs within the common and offered it to professor McGonagall.

"Well done Mister Le Fey '' she reversed the transfiguration upon the letter and read it in silences.

"Do you know what it says?" asked Rowan.

"It seems to lead us to a certain corridor, a corridor you know well mister Le Fey, let us hope we find him there, I have no time for a wild goose chase."

When she led them to the corridors, Godwin found himself speechless, the ice had broken free from the corridors and began to spread into the neighbouring corridors and halls. The lumps of ice that had spread were now bigger than him, some even bigger than professor McGonagall then they all saw Ben within last year's corridor. He was trapped within one of the larger chuckles of ice, the ice had almost swallowed him up completely, they rushed over to him.

"Stay back!" Professor McGonagall warns as she withdraws her wand, bright warm flames burst from the end of it. Aiming her flame as far away from Ben as possible.

Ben was ice cold and was barely moving save for the chatting of his teeth and the shivering of his body. Together they took Ben to the hospital wing and left the nurses to take care of him. Before they could leave however professor McGonagall stopped them.

"I would like to thank you both for informing me of this, your timely action has saved mister cooper. I will give you both fifty points, to both your houses" the pair of them thanked her and she sent them on their way.

"What do you think is going on with Ben?" ask rowan.

"I don't know, he couldn't have been in that ice for all this time, he'll be dead and why was he in there in the first place, maybe whoever got into the school, this R, maybe they were controlling him somehow by force?"

"R, is not a lot to go on"

"Whoever it is, there is no good, this mystery has taken an odd turn. Where I have to talk to Ben when he has recovered from the ice. There's one thing I know for sure, there something going on within that corridors"

The two of them split for classes and talked about what happened to their friend later on during dinner. Together they decided to all vsit Ben. They wished him well and gave him a few gift's.

"Where have you been? we looked all over for you?" penny asked, Godwin's gaze fixed upon Ben, closely studying his reaction.

"I, I don't... know, it's all a blank, last thing I remember was Godwin and Rowan finding me with McGonagall" Godwin notice Ben was unable to look at them in their eyes as his gaze shifted about everywhere but at them, but Ben was a nervous type and this R could have mess about with his memory. This feeling of uneasiness about Ben, he hated it. He wanted to trust Ben but something felt off. They talked to Ben till they were sent away by madam pomfrey, after they left, he went off with Rowan so they could talk, alone.

"What do you think about what happened to ben?"

"What about it?" Rowan asked, flashing a look of concern.

"Well between us, something doesn't add up, he disappeared like that seemingly into thin air and then so happens to turn up in the corridor. The corridor that may be connected to the curse vaults. I believe this is more than just pure luck. He's either lying, or he's been put under the spell of a dark wizard who maybe wiped his memory of them for whatever reason, and Either way we can't trust him."

"Or he could be being blackmail by this r" rowan theorized

"That's also a possibility, I want you keep a eye on Ben, just in case and as often as possible"

"Maybe we should ask Charlie to help, they are in the same house?"

"We could, but we should make it sound innocent. Make it out like we're just concerned about his mental health. We want to keep this between us for now" Rowan said.

"I'll talk to him about it in the next lesson we have to do together. Now we found Ben, are we going to focus on the cured vaults?" Rowan asked and started to head out to lessons.

"I got a plan to get back in that corridor, but I want to focus on training for quidditch so I'll tell you what I have in mind after the trials this week" After another day's training on Saturday, the try-outs arrived. All of his friends, Tonks, Charlie, Penny, Rowan, Bill and Ben all showed up to watch.

After a few skill tests where people took turns racing around the stadium and taking shots at the switching goalkeepers and then it all came down to the friendly match where all the newbies and old guard were evenly split between the two teams.

Madam Hooch offered to be referee and threw the ball into the air and Skye was the first to catch the ball and begin the attack. She scored the first goal in the highest hoop scoring a 100-0.

As the game went on, Godwin could do nothing but fly after the Quaffle with not so much of a pass from the other members of his team. And as the score hit 260-120, he found himself, just hovering in Middlefield wondering why he was there at all.

"Maybe I'm not cut out for this," he muttered to himself.

However, going against his brain telling him to stop, he listened to his gut feel and flew back down into his team's own end of the pitch. He decided that if they didn't need him up front he would at least help the keeper defend the three hoops.

He was silently willing his team onto scoring more goals, but no more and following a few missed shots at goal. The Opposition team got hold of the Quffle and came racing toward their end of the pitch. He Keenly watch on as his team try to in vain stop the oncoming attack,

"I got em!" The female keeper Ava cried at an imposing, tall woman and came rushing out her post and went straight for the oncoming attacker who held the Quaffle.

But another attacker came up to support his teammate and caught a pass from them as Ava slammed into the first player.

They Swooped around Ava and went for the highest hoop. Godwin darted forward to get between him and the hoop and the ball smacking into his back. He winced in pain. He screamed as his back stung from the powerful throw.

Catching the Quffle one of the opposing chasers looped around towards the goal once again Aiming for the second highest. Godwin went to intercept the coming shot as it smacked against his head.

The Quffle was then caught mid air by the long arms and their keeper Ava, she looked back at him and flashed a smile.

"Easy there, you'll injure yourself, you go long" she said gesturing forward.

His heart skipped a beat as a wide smile spread along his face. Leaning forward on his broom he raced forward and caught the pass from the keeper, like metal to a magnet.

His team's Chasers appeared either side of him as the opposite team tried to take him out. A melee broke out all around him

He pulled the Quffle close to his chest. Just in time as One of the opposing chasers slammed into him. Then he saw another one coming in from the other side, He dipped down going into a nose drive, with the two chasers hot on his tail.

"Godwin, dropped the ball!" Skye called out to him, without hesitation he dropped the ball and Skye scooped it up and sped up towards hoops, While Godwin pulled up his broom to follow her up and try to fend off the opposing cheers trying to catch her.

She was darting towards the goal, with him right there. She went to the

towards the hoop on the far left after fainting right, the keeper moved to intercept her.

Godwin sweeped ahead of her to block the keepers as she threw the ball into the far-left hoop and goal!. Her hat trick of a hundred points was completed at 360-120 to them. Flying back to their end of the pitch, Godwin and Skye bash their forearms together.

Swelling confidence, Godwin went onto setting her up a few more times but mostly using his body like a human shield in defence. They ended up winning 1380 to 630, when all was done orion called out the names of those who didn't make the team, and Godwin didn't only make the team, he made the sub beach unlike the many people who were kept as the backup in case a player dropped out the main team.

Now the trials where over Godwin could focus upon the vaults once again, after celebrating with his friend he went off with Rowan so they could plan their move on the vaults.

"So what's the plan you had in mind?" Rowan asked as they double checked that no one was near them, Godwin pulled out of his pocket a bar of chocolate and then withdrew his wand and with a tap of his wand the bar of chocolate disappeared and turned into a cloak.

"I brought an invisibility cloak" he explained then with a tap of his wand he turned the cloak back into a bar of chocolate.

"That couldn't have been cheap" Rowan with an awestruck face.

"I got my house elf dale to buy it after I took some money out of my family vault at gringotts. Mum doesn't know about that thought so when you meet her don't mention this" he said with a chuckle.

"We need to get past finch and that cat again, this will be a much easier way to do it" Rowan said with a bright smile.

"Where meet me outside of the dungeon today and we sneak into that corridor again" returning to their normal day full of lessons and later that night Godwin met up with Rowan and they got under the cloaks and creeped through the hall of Hogwarts in full confidence of not getting caught.

When they got into the corridor finches cat was still patrolling the ice filled corridor, Godwin ready his wand and getting behind it drop cloak.

"Petrificus Totalus" the cat was frozen by him once again.

"Let's make this fast, I don't fancy Finch catching us after doing that again" Rowan said.

"It's not behind the door, there has to be some sort of hidden door along the wall, with all the ice and what happened to ben, it has be here" the pair of them began to check the wall checking every block of stone from one side of the hall to the other, until Godwin found something.

He had rested his hand upon the wall when he felt the air passing through his hand and into the wall?, he double check with his second hand before calling for Rowan

"Rowan over here" he said as loud as he could, Rowan jogged over to him. "Put your hand there" Godwin asked, Rowen did so and his eyes widened.

"Its a fake wall"

"Finally we're getting somewhere" said Godwin while pressing all his weight into the wall did not move.

"There must be some kind of spell to remove it, I'll look one up"

"There is no need, I'm taking an advanced lesson with professor McGonagall. The spell we need for this is revelio. I was doing homework on it for our next lesson. Give me sometime and I should be able to remove this" the pair went to leave and Godwin undid the spell he put on the cat as after putting on his cloak back on.

The next day Godwin met up with Skye a little while before the Slytherin team training session as she told him she had a surprise for him.

They met within the pitch of the quidditch stadium. When he got there he found Skye waiting for him in her hand the brand new comet 260; one of the latest brooms.

"Wow Skye, the new brooms looking good" he said

"Yeah dad brought it me in hopes it'll help us win the cup this year and get pay back on ravenclaw and that's not the only one, the team all chip in and got a new broom for you as well"

"Really, you're not joking?" Godwin said, stunned by the sudden news.

"No joking, were all a team after all, it's waiting in the tent, wanna see it before we get started"

"Sure!, you really didn't have to, I could have got my own" he insisted.

"You can pay us back by helping us win" Skye said, flashing a smile as they made their way to the tent and the locker the broom was put in. But when they open the locker, the broom was nowhere to be found"

"Wha..where is it?" Skye said, as she double checked the locker.

"You sure it was there?" Godwin asked to check a few of the nearby lockers.

"Yeah I put it there myself" Godwin found nothing as Skye stood thinking, then a realization came to her.

"Wait a minute, I bet you a gallon that rath stole it!" Skye said he face reddening as her fists tighten in balls.

"How do you know?" Godwin said, returning to her.

"I just know, you've only just joined the team so you may not get it but she been a royal pain in the ass, i just know it was her"

"What are we going to do?, I don't think she'll tell us much if we just asked"

"I got an idea, how do you feel about breaking a few rules" Skye said, a smile spreading across her face.

"Well I've been making a habit of that, so fine by me. What did you have in mind?"

"There is a friendly between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw this Sunday. I'll bribe our way into Ravenclaw common room and search the place" Godwin thought back to when Rath shoved him to the floor when they first met and her almost hitting penny with a bludger.

"Alright, why not, now that I think about it, I wouldn't put it past her either,'' Godwin said.

"For now let's focus on training, the other will be showing up soon"