1 Chapter 5: The Inter-House Champs
Quidditch practice intensified. Cate was the team captain this year, and she was being very serious about it. They had to win. They had to. Game one was against Slytherin. The tournament would take place all in one day. That was two matches in a day. Harry now could run the Wronski Feint fairly well now, and Cate was satisfied with that. Elizabeth and Sirius popped in a few times to watch, keeping close notes on the practices.
There were also classes. Everyone was looking forward to Defense Against the Dark Arts this year with Sirius. He was presumed to be an interesting teacher. Even Cate was looking forward to the lesson.
" Take you seats please class." Sirius said kindly to the eager bunch of Gryffindors. Parvati and Lavender had gotten seats in the front row, just as they had planned, giggling and blushing. " I don't know all of you, so maybe it would be good if we got an introduction from each of you. Cate, Harry, Ron, Hermione, I know all of you already. Obviously."
" Parvati Patil." Parvati giggled. " Pleased to meet you Professor Black."
" Um. Welcome to class Miss Patil." Sirius said.
" Ughh. That's my father." Cate said telepathically to Harry, who was almost laughing himself.
" Lavender Brown." Said the also giggling Lavender.
The rest of the class went on to introduce themselves, and Cate decided to have some fun and introduce herself too.
" Well, my name is Catherine Elizabeth Black. Gosh, I don't think I know you too well Professor! But you can call me Cate." She threw in a fake giggle to imitate Parvati and Lavender. " How is your day? Do you like teaching so far? I really hope you aren't a mean professor like Snape. I really don't like him, do you?"
" Okay, Catie, sit down already." Sirius grinned. " Today's lesson is well... Um. I didn't have a lesson prepared for the first day you see, so I'm just gonna ramble stuff off the top of my head and call it teaching. Sound okay to you guys?"
The general murmur of "Yeah, okay." Was heard.
" For your futures, do you all have hopes and dreams? Do you all have something good planned for your lives? Of course you do. How many of you would like a family someday? Play Quidditch? Have a successful career? Make money, or just have a happy life? All of you want one or the other. How many of you can say you want to be a drunk living in the streets, or in a prison somewhere?"
Everyone was silent. Cate looked around, grinned playfully and raised her hand. " Me me me professor! Can I go to Azkaban someday too? Sounds such fun!"
" Cate. It's not funny." He said. " I know after all you've been through you'd prefer to look at things on the lighter side of things, and there's nothing wrong with that. But can you take this lesson seriously?"
Cate nodded and Sirius talked on. " You have to avoid certain things to get where you really want to in life. Some can't be avoided, but just please, don't go bad on me. You are such a nice bunch of people. But don't ruin yourselves. The Unforgivable Curses will ruin your life. Take me for example. I never once killed a person. Never used an Unforgivable Curse actually. But I was separated from everyone I loved, all because I trusted someone I shouldn't have. Things like that are unavoidable. You can't escape it when someone is plotting evil against you and you have no clue."
He looked around the silent room.
" Take Cate as another example. She was a baby. And it affected her. Jacob James forced her mother to marry him under Imperious Curse. It didn't work entirely, and she could throw the curse occasionally. He was in trouble. He didn't want Elizabeth near me any longer, so he took the whole family off to the States. But the real problem came when he realized Cate wasn't even his daughter, but mine. All was well, as I was off in Azkaban. All he needed to do was get rid of Cate, so he hired one of America's Death Eater crew, which was still in operation. He lost Elizabeth, and Cate still lived, and he couldn't figure a way to kill her, so he raised her, and practically ruined her life. What did it get him in the end? Killed."
No one said anything again, but they all blinked a few times.
" Evil things may seem to be a good idea at the time, even if you think your evil plan was flawless, but It will backfire in the end. So far, everything evil has had a downfall, be it a baby boy, little girl," He looked to Harry and Cate. " Or even a tattletale, you can't always win. Homework. Just write a paragraph, yeah, only a paragraph, on the topic of how you will try and be good for me. Have a pleasant day!" He finished off as the bell rang.
" That was a good little talk, I must admit." Cate said. " And hardly any homework."
" Don't get too happy, we have Potions with Snape next." Harry said.
" And he looks even crabbier than usual these days." Ron added.
" Indeed."
" Potter, Black, Weasley, Granger, each of you sit in a separate corner of the room. I' stopping the trouble before it starts this year!" He barked as they entered the room. Each of the four took a seat in a corner, their spirits dragging. Snape gave a long homework assignment and long boring lecture.
" No mercy he has." Ron droned on. " When we have Quidditch and all. Heartless."
***
" Wake up sleepy heads!" Harry and Ron heard, and Harry was bombarded with a load of pillows in the face. Cate was up early, and it was game day, jumping on her bed. " Tomorrow is today, and today is yesterday!"
" Did that make any sense to you?" Ron groaned, rolling off his bed.
" Nope." Harry said back.
Cate was already dressed up in the scarlet Quidditch robes, her hair braided with gold strands in it. She smiled at the whole room, which was now awake, even Neville.
" Well, Um. Can you leave while we dress?"
" Of course!"
Harry was slightly sleepy; he hadn't slept too well that night. Ron looked the same way. But as they walked down the stairs, Cate led them joyfully to breakfast, and insisted that they eat at last a slice of toast. The whole hall was bustling, and looking at the Gryffindor table in a rather devious manner. Elizabeth and Sirius waved cheerily to the lot of them as Cate shoved a piece of toast in Harry's mouth.
" Mom's the referee." Cate explained on the way to the field. " Dad is commentating. Harry, do you want to play game one, or should I take it?"
" Maybe you had better. You seem a little more energetic right about now."
" Okie Dokie!" She said, taking off for the locker room.
Harry and Hermione went to the stands to sit, taking a seat next to Neville. Ron trudged off to the locker room, where Cate was giving a firey pep talk. Sirius was sitting up in a top box, and began to announce the starting team.
" For Gryffindor. Weasley, Spinnett, Bell, Rowan, Davids, Haroldson, aaaanndd.. BLACK!"
He introduced the Slytherin team, who got a smaller round of applause. " Good luck to all of you, and I want a nice fair game, seeing good sportsmanship." Elizabeth said on the ground. She couldn't help but cast a glance at the Slytherins. Cate cast a stone cold look to Draco, with a slight sneer. Elizabeth blew her whistle, and they all took off.
" Don't act so confident in yourself Black, your looks wont win you a Quidditch game."
" Oh puh-leaze. Is that the best thing you can think of right now? I play Quidditch for a reason, haven't you ever watched?"
" Actually, I haven't"
It was a lame boring conversation. Draco aggravated Cate. He followed her every move, and she easily lost him in a well-set Wronski Feint. Harry didn't dare interrupt her while she was doing this telepathically, it looked so hard. But she talked to him.
" He really is annoying.." She said, pulling back into the air with ease as Malfoy took a crash to the ground."
Harry smiled. It was almost unfair to Malfoy, she was a professional, he should have known better than to mess with her head like that, even thought it was a pathetic attempt.
" That's gotta hurt." Sirius commented with his magically magnified voice. Elizabeth looked over at them, not too impressed really, she knew Cate's capabilities well. She was paying more attention to the Chasers and Beaters of the teams, though mostly Gryffindor.
It was an easy Gryffindor victory. Cate of course beat Malfoy with ease, and the chasers held out well, the final score coming to be 200-10, Gryffindor victory.
" Well done Catie, dear." Elizabeth said quietly to Cate. " Tell the team you have a break, but in two hours be on the spot for your match against the winner of the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw match."
The game was short. Ravenclaw took an easy victory over Hufflepuff, and started immediately to warm up for their match against Gryffindor. Harry was playing this game. Cate was taking a seat in the stands and she mind-waved him, " Good luck, not that you need it. Make them embarrassed."
" Sure, I'll try." Harry replied. " At least I don't have to put up with Malfoy like you did.
The warm up drills were smooth. Harry's nerves were beginning to go away. Looking at Cate in the crowd helped a little bit. She just had a calming sense; it was like a massage for his brain. He was fully relaxed by the time he heard Sirius's voice beginning to introduce the teams. Elizabeth gave the same talk she did to before while on the ground.
But there was something about Cho, she seemed odd. She glared at him and finally decided to break the silence.
" Great. I don't get to play the little professional girlfriend of yours this time. Maybe I have a fair chance."
" What do you have against Cate? What don't you like about her?" Harry said, this time flat-out reading her mind to see what she really wanted to say.
" Quaffle taken by Spinnett." Sirius droned, and that was all Harry heard, because Cho didn't answer, so he went back to concentrating on the game.
This game was longer, and it was indeed very close. Harry didn't try the Feint, for fear of Cho not taking the bait for it. But finally, the Snitch whizzed by Harry's head, and by instinct, he lunged to catch it- and missed. Cho believed he had caught it and stopped suddenly, as Harry plummeted to catch it, this time with sure hands. Before he knew it though, the crowd roared, and half of it groaned- Gryffindor was representing the school.
" Congratulations." Elizabeth said pleasantly. " You are the envy of the entire school now. But more importantly, you are representing us, Hogwarts. I have high hopes that you will all do well, and we shall start practice tomorrow. We need be on top of things dears. So enjoy all your free time tonight, while you still have it. Practice starts tomorrow morning, and you also have it in the evening. We have a month exactly to prepare for our first match, against Ireland, at their field."
With that said, she turned and left abruptly. Everyone stared; she had always seemed so nice and simply sweet. But she obviously had no problem ordering people around. Sirius shrugged and turned to simply walk with her.
" What happened to your parents?" Ron asked. " They were always so laid back."
" Mom's serious about Quidditch." Cate replied, standing up to head back to the common room.
" But practice 2 times a day?"
" Who knows.it could turn out to be three." Cate answered.
* * *
And it was of course. Elizabeth was more like a drill sergeant at practice. Sirius was there to help, with the Beaters. But Elizabeth had new plays written out, that Harry and Cate had been taught faintly, but didn't have a clue that these plays had never been used before.
" Now. You are progressing very well." She smiled kindly at the lot of them. " Are you ready for a level of playing that Professionals have yet to learn?"
" Sure." Cate answered unenthusiastically. But she smiled.
" Cate, Harry, come here. Take this Cate."
" What am I supposed to do with that? It's a Quaffle. I'm no Chaser." Cate said, staring at the red ball her mother had tossed to her.
" Arrggh. I showed you this play. You're just going to demonstrate it... Even though your chasing abilities are not the greatest."
" Are you insulting me now?"
" Yes, just hush up dear."
Cate sighed and rolled her eyes. Sirius was standing behind her, shaking his head at her. But Elizabeth tossed Cate and Harry a broomstick, and they all stood there.
" You remember the Tornado?"
" Not really. Is that the one."
" Where you spin a lot?" Harry finished.
" Yep. I hope none of you have weak stomachs."
It was quite interesting. Each of the three Chasers was to spiral off as they passed the Quaffle. But Harry constantly dropped the Quaffle, and Cate was too dizzy to even see straight. But all in all, it was a constant motion play, and the Chasers never stopped spinning. This would take some getting used to.
" Now. Do you understand?"
Everyone nodded faintly, as Cate crashed into a large flour sack, tripping and falling face forward. It was a good thing she was not a Chaser.
" Whas dis for?" She said, still a little dizzy from the spinning that took place 5 minutes ago.
" For you. And Harry. And Jonathon and Peter." Jonathon Davids and Peter Haroldson were the new Beaters. Get up Catie. I've got another play."
" Oh hurrah."
Cate stood up, returning back to her normal state. Sirius grabbed a broom and released a Bludger. Cate shot him a look of fright.
" Are you plotting to kill me?" She said, eyeing the loose Bludger.
" No. This sack of flour here is bewitched to follow you. Just go fly around for a bit, and when I tell you to dive, you dive. Got it?"
" Yeap."
Sirius kept the Bludger under control for a while, and Cate flew around, the bag of flour tied to a broom, was close on her tail.
" Dive Cate!" Elizabeth shouted.
So she broke into a dive, and seconds later, the Bludger made contact with the bag of flour. Everyone stared, openmouthed. Flour was everywhere, especially on Cate, who was covered with it.
" Are you plotting to kill the opposing Seeker then?" Cate said, spitting out flour from her mouth.
" Just keep the other Seeker out of the game. Not kill. That was a bag of flour, not a person, but the Bludger would knock them clear off their brooms." Elizabeth smiled.
" Obviously."
" Well, now I'll have you running these plays until you all have them down perfectly. Just practice your Wronski Feint Cate and Harry, and Beaters, you have to be on time. Down to the last half of a second if you want it to work perfectly. Got it?"
So everyone worked eagerly on the new plays. It was sloppy and messy the first day. But they had yet to improve upon it.
((( You like so far? Please review it and tell me! It goes on, and there is A LOT of Quidditch in it. So happy reading! - Cathy)))
Quidditch practice intensified. Cate was the team captain this year, and she was being very serious about it. They had to win. They had to. Game one was against Slytherin. The tournament would take place all in one day. That was two matches in a day. Harry now could run the Wronski Feint fairly well now, and Cate was satisfied with that. Elizabeth and Sirius popped in a few times to watch, keeping close notes on the practices.
There were also classes. Everyone was looking forward to Defense Against the Dark Arts this year with Sirius. He was presumed to be an interesting teacher. Even Cate was looking forward to the lesson.
" Take you seats please class." Sirius said kindly to the eager bunch of Gryffindors. Parvati and Lavender had gotten seats in the front row, just as they had planned, giggling and blushing. " I don't know all of you, so maybe it would be good if we got an introduction from each of you. Cate, Harry, Ron, Hermione, I know all of you already. Obviously."
" Parvati Patil." Parvati giggled. " Pleased to meet you Professor Black."
" Um. Welcome to class Miss Patil." Sirius said.
" Ughh. That's my father." Cate said telepathically to Harry, who was almost laughing himself.
" Lavender Brown." Said the also giggling Lavender.
The rest of the class went on to introduce themselves, and Cate decided to have some fun and introduce herself too.
" Well, my name is Catherine Elizabeth Black. Gosh, I don't think I know you too well Professor! But you can call me Cate." She threw in a fake giggle to imitate Parvati and Lavender. " How is your day? Do you like teaching so far? I really hope you aren't a mean professor like Snape. I really don't like him, do you?"
" Okay, Catie, sit down already." Sirius grinned. " Today's lesson is well... Um. I didn't have a lesson prepared for the first day you see, so I'm just gonna ramble stuff off the top of my head and call it teaching. Sound okay to you guys?"
The general murmur of "Yeah, okay." Was heard.
" For your futures, do you all have hopes and dreams? Do you all have something good planned for your lives? Of course you do. How many of you would like a family someday? Play Quidditch? Have a successful career? Make money, or just have a happy life? All of you want one or the other. How many of you can say you want to be a drunk living in the streets, or in a prison somewhere?"
Everyone was silent. Cate looked around, grinned playfully and raised her hand. " Me me me professor! Can I go to Azkaban someday too? Sounds such fun!"
" Cate. It's not funny." He said. " I know after all you've been through you'd prefer to look at things on the lighter side of things, and there's nothing wrong with that. But can you take this lesson seriously?"
Cate nodded and Sirius talked on. " You have to avoid certain things to get where you really want to in life. Some can't be avoided, but just please, don't go bad on me. You are such a nice bunch of people. But don't ruin yourselves. The Unforgivable Curses will ruin your life. Take me for example. I never once killed a person. Never used an Unforgivable Curse actually. But I was separated from everyone I loved, all because I trusted someone I shouldn't have. Things like that are unavoidable. You can't escape it when someone is plotting evil against you and you have no clue."
He looked around the silent room.
" Take Cate as another example. She was a baby. And it affected her. Jacob James forced her mother to marry him under Imperious Curse. It didn't work entirely, and she could throw the curse occasionally. He was in trouble. He didn't want Elizabeth near me any longer, so he took the whole family off to the States. But the real problem came when he realized Cate wasn't even his daughter, but mine. All was well, as I was off in Azkaban. All he needed to do was get rid of Cate, so he hired one of America's Death Eater crew, which was still in operation. He lost Elizabeth, and Cate still lived, and he couldn't figure a way to kill her, so he raised her, and practically ruined her life. What did it get him in the end? Killed."
No one said anything again, but they all blinked a few times.
" Evil things may seem to be a good idea at the time, even if you think your evil plan was flawless, but It will backfire in the end. So far, everything evil has had a downfall, be it a baby boy, little girl," He looked to Harry and Cate. " Or even a tattletale, you can't always win. Homework. Just write a paragraph, yeah, only a paragraph, on the topic of how you will try and be good for me. Have a pleasant day!" He finished off as the bell rang.
" That was a good little talk, I must admit." Cate said. " And hardly any homework."
" Don't get too happy, we have Potions with Snape next." Harry said.
" And he looks even crabbier than usual these days." Ron added.
" Indeed."
" Potter, Black, Weasley, Granger, each of you sit in a separate corner of the room. I' stopping the trouble before it starts this year!" He barked as they entered the room. Each of the four took a seat in a corner, their spirits dragging. Snape gave a long homework assignment and long boring lecture.
" No mercy he has." Ron droned on. " When we have Quidditch and all. Heartless."
***
" Wake up sleepy heads!" Harry and Ron heard, and Harry was bombarded with a load of pillows in the face. Cate was up early, and it was game day, jumping on her bed. " Tomorrow is today, and today is yesterday!"
" Did that make any sense to you?" Ron groaned, rolling off his bed.
" Nope." Harry said back.
Cate was already dressed up in the scarlet Quidditch robes, her hair braided with gold strands in it. She smiled at the whole room, which was now awake, even Neville.
" Well, Um. Can you leave while we dress?"
" Of course!"
Harry was slightly sleepy; he hadn't slept too well that night. Ron looked the same way. But as they walked down the stairs, Cate led them joyfully to breakfast, and insisted that they eat at last a slice of toast. The whole hall was bustling, and looking at the Gryffindor table in a rather devious manner. Elizabeth and Sirius waved cheerily to the lot of them as Cate shoved a piece of toast in Harry's mouth.
" Mom's the referee." Cate explained on the way to the field. " Dad is commentating. Harry, do you want to play game one, or should I take it?"
" Maybe you had better. You seem a little more energetic right about now."
" Okie Dokie!" She said, taking off for the locker room.
Harry and Hermione went to the stands to sit, taking a seat next to Neville. Ron trudged off to the locker room, where Cate was giving a firey pep talk. Sirius was sitting up in a top box, and began to announce the starting team.
" For Gryffindor. Weasley, Spinnett, Bell, Rowan, Davids, Haroldson, aaaanndd.. BLACK!"
He introduced the Slytherin team, who got a smaller round of applause. " Good luck to all of you, and I want a nice fair game, seeing good sportsmanship." Elizabeth said on the ground. She couldn't help but cast a glance at the Slytherins. Cate cast a stone cold look to Draco, with a slight sneer. Elizabeth blew her whistle, and they all took off.
" Don't act so confident in yourself Black, your looks wont win you a Quidditch game."
" Oh puh-leaze. Is that the best thing you can think of right now? I play Quidditch for a reason, haven't you ever watched?"
" Actually, I haven't"
It was a lame boring conversation. Draco aggravated Cate. He followed her every move, and she easily lost him in a well-set Wronski Feint. Harry didn't dare interrupt her while she was doing this telepathically, it looked so hard. But she talked to him.
" He really is annoying.." She said, pulling back into the air with ease as Malfoy took a crash to the ground."
Harry smiled. It was almost unfair to Malfoy, she was a professional, he should have known better than to mess with her head like that, even thought it was a pathetic attempt.
" That's gotta hurt." Sirius commented with his magically magnified voice. Elizabeth looked over at them, not too impressed really, she knew Cate's capabilities well. She was paying more attention to the Chasers and Beaters of the teams, though mostly Gryffindor.
It was an easy Gryffindor victory. Cate of course beat Malfoy with ease, and the chasers held out well, the final score coming to be 200-10, Gryffindor victory.
" Well done Catie, dear." Elizabeth said quietly to Cate. " Tell the team you have a break, but in two hours be on the spot for your match against the winner of the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw match."
The game was short. Ravenclaw took an easy victory over Hufflepuff, and started immediately to warm up for their match against Gryffindor. Harry was playing this game. Cate was taking a seat in the stands and she mind-waved him, " Good luck, not that you need it. Make them embarrassed."
" Sure, I'll try." Harry replied. " At least I don't have to put up with Malfoy like you did.
The warm up drills were smooth. Harry's nerves were beginning to go away. Looking at Cate in the crowd helped a little bit. She just had a calming sense; it was like a massage for his brain. He was fully relaxed by the time he heard Sirius's voice beginning to introduce the teams. Elizabeth gave the same talk she did to before while on the ground.
But there was something about Cho, she seemed odd. She glared at him and finally decided to break the silence.
" Great. I don't get to play the little professional girlfriend of yours this time. Maybe I have a fair chance."
" What do you have against Cate? What don't you like about her?" Harry said, this time flat-out reading her mind to see what she really wanted to say.
" Quaffle taken by Spinnett." Sirius droned, and that was all Harry heard, because Cho didn't answer, so he went back to concentrating on the game.
This game was longer, and it was indeed very close. Harry didn't try the Feint, for fear of Cho not taking the bait for it. But finally, the Snitch whizzed by Harry's head, and by instinct, he lunged to catch it- and missed. Cho believed he had caught it and stopped suddenly, as Harry plummeted to catch it, this time with sure hands. Before he knew it though, the crowd roared, and half of it groaned- Gryffindor was representing the school.
" Congratulations." Elizabeth said pleasantly. " You are the envy of the entire school now. But more importantly, you are representing us, Hogwarts. I have high hopes that you will all do well, and we shall start practice tomorrow. We need be on top of things dears. So enjoy all your free time tonight, while you still have it. Practice starts tomorrow morning, and you also have it in the evening. We have a month exactly to prepare for our first match, against Ireland, at their field."
With that said, she turned and left abruptly. Everyone stared; she had always seemed so nice and simply sweet. But she obviously had no problem ordering people around. Sirius shrugged and turned to simply walk with her.
" What happened to your parents?" Ron asked. " They were always so laid back."
" Mom's serious about Quidditch." Cate replied, standing up to head back to the common room.
" But practice 2 times a day?"
" Who knows.it could turn out to be three." Cate answered.
* * *
And it was of course. Elizabeth was more like a drill sergeant at practice. Sirius was there to help, with the Beaters. But Elizabeth had new plays written out, that Harry and Cate had been taught faintly, but didn't have a clue that these plays had never been used before.
" Now. You are progressing very well." She smiled kindly at the lot of them. " Are you ready for a level of playing that Professionals have yet to learn?"
" Sure." Cate answered unenthusiastically. But she smiled.
" Cate, Harry, come here. Take this Cate."
" What am I supposed to do with that? It's a Quaffle. I'm no Chaser." Cate said, staring at the red ball her mother had tossed to her.
" Arrggh. I showed you this play. You're just going to demonstrate it... Even though your chasing abilities are not the greatest."
" Are you insulting me now?"
" Yes, just hush up dear."
Cate sighed and rolled her eyes. Sirius was standing behind her, shaking his head at her. But Elizabeth tossed Cate and Harry a broomstick, and they all stood there.
" You remember the Tornado?"
" Not really. Is that the one."
" Where you spin a lot?" Harry finished.
" Yep. I hope none of you have weak stomachs."
It was quite interesting. Each of the three Chasers was to spiral off as they passed the Quaffle. But Harry constantly dropped the Quaffle, and Cate was too dizzy to even see straight. But all in all, it was a constant motion play, and the Chasers never stopped spinning. This would take some getting used to.
" Now. Do you understand?"
Everyone nodded faintly, as Cate crashed into a large flour sack, tripping and falling face forward. It was a good thing she was not a Chaser.
" Whas dis for?" She said, still a little dizzy from the spinning that took place 5 minutes ago.
" For you. And Harry. And Jonathon and Peter." Jonathon Davids and Peter Haroldson were the new Beaters. Get up Catie. I've got another play."
" Oh hurrah."
Cate stood up, returning back to her normal state. Sirius grabbed a broom and released a Bludger. Cate shot him a look of fright.
" Are you plotting to kill me?" She said, eyeing the loose Bludger.
" No. This sack of flour here is bewitched to follow you. Just go fly around for a bit, and when I tell you to dive, you dive. Got it?"
" Yeap."
Sirius kept the Bludger under control for a while, and Cate flew around, the bag of flour tied to a broom, was close on her tail.
" Dive Cate!" Elizabeth shouted.
So she broke into a dive, and seconds later, the Bludger made contact with the bag of flour. Everyone stared, openmouthed. Flour was everywhere, especially on Cate, who was covered with it.
" Are you plotting to kill the opposing Seeker then?" Cate said, spitting out flour from her mouth.
" Just keep the other Seeker out of the game. Not kill. That was a bag of flour, not a person, but the Bludger would knock them clear off their brooms." Elizabeth smiled.
" Obviously."
" Well, now I'll have you running these plays until you all have them down perfectly. Just practice your Wronski Feint Cate and Harry, and Beaters, you have to be on time. Down to the last half of a second if you want it to work perfectly. Got it?"
So everyone worked eagerly on the new plays. It was sloppy and messy the first day. But they had yet to improve upon it.
((( You like so far? Please review it and tell me! It goes on, and there is A LOT of Quidditch in it. So happy reading! - Cathy)))