Harry Potter and the Evil Card
By: Secret
Chapter 2: Quidditch!
"...The next day was even worst, for it was Potions... With the Slytherins. Now, the Slytherins were worst than their symbol, the serpent. They always sneak around, and the greatest portion of the dark wizards went to Slytherin. And the Potions teacher was ever worst: Severus Snape..."
"Snape... I don't know if I'll be able to take him this year..." Ron said, crossing his arms.
"Oh come on, Ron!" Hermione said in a cheery mood, but not as good as yesterday's.
Harry sighed and turned to Sakura and Syaoran.
"One rule in Potions: Don't talk."
"That sounds... Easy enough..." Sakura said, gulping.
"And don't look at a kid named Malfoy or you'll probably gag-"
"Hello, Weasly, Potter, and Granger. Who are these? More Mudbloods and poor fools to add to your collection, Potter?"
Weasly and Harry both whirled around, scarlet red from anger.
"What did you say?" Ron said behind gritted teeth at a snot faced white haired, pale, pointed nose, son of a ***** for a son.
"Nothing, poor fool."
Syaoran turned around and looked Malfoy up and down.
"What are you looking at, Mudblood?"
Ron, Hermione and Harry's blood boiled.
"How do you know if I'm of pure blood or not?"
"Easy. You're hanging around Granger, Weasly, and Potter."
Sakura turned around and slapped Malfoy hard. So hard, he staggered back. Hermione turned around to and kicked Malfoy in nuts.
"You little..." Malfoy said, doubling over. Goyle and Crabbe, two huge beasts, the best friends of Malfoy, ran over and glared at Harry, Ron, Hermione, Sakura, and Syaoran.
"What is the hold up?" a snotty brat voice rang out. "I'm a prefect! Hello! Move beside! Ah! A fight! 10 points from both Gryffindor and Slytherin!!"
The group gaped at Sara the prefect, before turning around and walking down the same corridor and into the dungeons. Of course, Goyle, Crabbe, and Malfoy were walking far ahead.
"Percy is better than that...that... witch!"
Harry, Ron, and Hermione sighed, remembering the 'good old days'.
"..."
"..."
Syaoran and Sakura weren't as clueless as Ron, Harry, and Hermione thought to be, because they read all of the books, but they were clueless on why Ron, Harry, and Hermione would want Percy back. Sara and Percy probably just would've grouped up on them.
They walked into the Potions class and sat down on stools.
Then, a slender, tall man with black, greasy hair that brushed against the top of his shoulders, stood up. The Slytherin side cheered. Ron, Harry, and Hermione felt like running, having been in so many bad counters with Snape. Sakura and Syaoran couldn't help but have to muffle their laughter, because up close, he looked like a starved to death rat.
"Who are these two?" Snape asked, walking over to Sakura and Syaoran.
"Syaoran, sir..."
"Sakura, sir..."
"What kind of names are those?"
"What kind of name is Snape?" Syaoran asked, looking straight into Snape's eyes. Everyone except for Sakura gasped.
"What are you getting at, boy?"
"What are you getting at?"
"Stand up!"
"Why?"
"NOW!!"
Syaoran stood up and Snape looked him up and down.
"You're too short to be here!"
"I'm supposed to be a fourth year, if I hadn't been transferred over here."
"I see. You're old school wanted to get rid of you, eh?"
"No. I didn't go to school."
"Sit down, you lying little brat!"
"Ike-ike..." Syaoran muttered under his breath.
[Ike-ike means bitch if you didn't know. ^.^]
"That was the worst thing I ever had to go through!" Sakura said as she walked up the stairs along side Syaoran. "And now we're being sent to the common room!!"
"Sorry! But jeez, I hate him!"
"Me too..."
Sakura sighed and hugged Syaoran's waist. "I wanna go home..."
"We have to find the evil card first, though..." Syaoran said, putting his arm around Sakura.
"I know... I know..."
"Sakura! Syaoran! Everyone is talking about it!!" Ron said, running over to Sakura and Syaoran. "I mean, sure, you lost us like... 50 points, but everyone thinks it's so wizzo" -Syaoran raised an eyebrow- "the way you stuck up to Snape like that!"
Sakura and Syaoran blinked at the excited Ron and Harry and the totally disapproving Hermione. But even so, you could tell Hermione was on the verge of slapping them on the back and telling them the same thing Ron did.
"Hey! Harry! We have to try and get some practice! I heard the Quidditch season is starting early this year so we can get in more, so that it'll make up for last year!!" Fred yelled. Harry took hold of Syaoran and dragged him over to a little group.
"This is Fred and George. They're the beaters. Their job is to knock bludgers, big black balls, at the other team to try and get them-"
"Off their brooms! Kill them! The other teams have them too! So careful, or you'll die!" one of the twins said.
"Don't believe him," Harry said, knocking Fred on the side of the head. "This is Alicia, Katie, and Angelina. They're the chasers. They have to try and get quaffles, red big balls, through the goals. You're the keeper, and you have to try and stop the other team's chasers from scoring.
"This is Syaoran, everyone."
"Hey, Syaoran!"
"Hello, Syaoran!"
"Nice to meet you, Syaoran!"
"You mean the babe magnet, Syaoran?"
"Oh, cool!"
Syaoran blushed a little.
"You can get, like, every signal girl to go out with you!"
"Except that good looking one he came with, probably..."
"Um... I am...(blush) going out with her..."
"You are awesome, dude!"
Harry sighed. "How did we get from Quidditch to girls?"
Alicia, Angelina, and Katie smacked Fred and George on the head.
"OW!" they yelled in unison.
"Come on! Lets go practice! Oh yeah... Syaoran, I got you a broomstick. I had gotten a lot of money from the Ministry of Magic for that thing last year so I got you a Firebolt..."
"...REALLY?!"
"Yup."
Harry took Syaoran up stairs and handed him the slick new broomstick.
"Thanks a bunch, Harry!"
"Welcome! Come on!"
Harry and Syaoran raced down stairs just as Fred and George came out of theirs with their broomstick and waited for Alicia, Katie, and Angelina to come out with theirs.
They all ran out onto the dry field. It was actually pretty neat for Syaoran. They did a bunch of skills and practiced with Syaoran the hardest.
"Jeez! This guy is incredible! He's like, the best Keeper we've had in like... all of the time George and I were here!!"
Syaoran blushed slightly and looked at the seats in the stadium. He saw Sakura and Hermione sitting in the first row. They waved and he waved back.
"Lover boy! Pay attention!" Fred called over.
"Ladies man!!" George called over.
Syaoran flew over and continued to practice.
"The only reason Syaoran is such a good Keeper is cause he's such a good goalie..." Eriol sighed.
"Well, also cause he has been on a broom before. With Sakura. Remember?"
"Ah! Yes, that's true!"
Kero sighed and sat up. "Continue!!"
"All right, all right."
After practice, the group ran back to the castle and crept inside. It was pretty late, really, and most of the students were in their common rooms. But there were the occasional passerby. Unfortunately for them, one was Filch.
Now, Filch was the caretaker at Hogwarts. He hates student. Pretty dumb for him to be then, huh? Oh well. Anyways, he hates kids. Despises them. If he catches you doing anything wrong or messing up something, he'll sock you. And it's harder to get away with something when his cat, Mrs. Norris, is always behind you with her stupid cat eyes.
Harry and his friends always have been tempted to give her a good kick, or even maybe set Fang, Hagrid's dog, on her.
But, like I was saying, it was most unfortunate for them to run into Filch. They weren't doing anything wrong, really, but they always manage...
"You're blocking the hallways! 5 points from Gryffindor!" and he stalked off.
"...Is he even allowed to do that?" Syaoran and Sakura asked.
"No," the rest of the group said.
They played Magic Chest for a while, a chest game where the players move on their own, and messed around, talking about school.
"I feel like kicking Snape..." Syaoran muttered.
Sakura ordered a bishop onward.
"Well, what are we going to do?"
"Nothing, I hope..." Hermione said, walking over. "Why are you guys always by yourselves?"
"Well..." Sakura said, looking over at Syaoran. "We don't know. Guess cause we have no idea what everyone here is always talking about..."
Syaoran nodded.
"Well... Come on and you'll get it."
Sakura and Syaoran shrugged and followed Hermione back to the original group.
"There you guys are..." Harry said, leaning back into a chair.
"Harry! Answer the question! Whom do you like? And don't you lie to me about Cho again!"
"Well... Um..."
"I bet its Ginny," Sakura muttered.
Ron picked a curious eye at Sakura, wondering if she really had just said his sister's name. He knew Sakura knew about his sister and everything, but still, how would she have the faintest clue that Harry even was her friend? But he thought again and shook his head. He turned back to Harry.
"Who? Tell me! I'm you best friend!"
Harry shot Sakura and Syaoran a glance.
Sakura and Syaoran put their hands up in defense.
"We wouldn't know who you were talking about anyways..." Sakura said.
Harry nodded and sighed.
"...Hi, Ginny!"
Ginny ran over, looking pale and suddenly ducked behind Harry's chair.
"Huh?"
"Ginny?" Ron asked.
"SHHHHHH!!!"
"... Okay...um..."
"WHERE IS THAT RED HEADED LITTLE WEASLE?!?!?!?!"
Ron spun around and came face-to-face with Sara the Prefect.
"WHERE IS YOUR SISTER?!?!?!?!"
"...Um... I dunno... Why?"
"SHE STOLE MY JEWELRY!!!!"
Sara whirled around and marched off, looking for Ginny.
Ginny popped out from behind the chair, pale as ever.
"Ginny, you didn't really...?" Hermione asked, walking over to her.
"NO!!! Peeves... He... He took all of the jewelry when I was admiring it and swooped off to the lake, leaving me behind, and when Sara came back, for she asked me to keep watch, I had to hide because she would've killed me for sure!! Oh, Ron! Please, help me!!!"
Ron sighed, and glanced at Hermione, Harry, Sakura, and Syaoran.
"You all for it, guys?"
They all nodded and smiled reassuringly at Ginny. Ginny lit up at once and hugged Ron tightly around the waist.
"THANK YOU BIG BROTHER!!!"
Ron looked around, a little embarrassed, but hugged his sister back.
"Okay, okay!"
So the group made their way down the steps and out to the field towards the lake.
"At the lake?" Ron asked, raising an eyebrow at Ginny.
"Y-yes..."
"Isn't that where...?" Ron asked nervously.
"Well! Um! Oh, please Ron! What will I do after?!"
Hermione gave a warning look at Ron and then a reassuring look at Ginny.
"Don't worry, Gin! We'll help you!!"
"Thanks, Hermione!!"
Ron sighed and looked a 'Come on!! Help me out!!' look at Harry. Harry shook his head.
Sure, Ron wanted to help his little sister, but he didn't exactly feel like getting eaten by a lake monster just that day.
Sakura looked just a little frightened, but she would go, if it meant helping out the kind and innocent Ginny she's read about.
Syaoran could care less. Just as long as they get it over with and that Sakura doesn't get hurt.
They made their way towards lake.
They stopped at the shore of the lake and watched the innocent ripples of water.
It was like a large piece of black glass. A very large piece of glass at that.
...
...
Suddenly a huge tentacle came out of the water.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-!!!!" Sakura, Hermione, Ron, Harry, Ginny, and Syaoran didn't even give the tentacle a last look at they ran in the opposite direction. But then, Ginny stopped and turned around.
"Ginny!!!" Ron yelled at her.
"I rather face a...a... an arm than having to face Sara."
Ron stopped and the rest of the group stopped and ran back after Ginny.
They stood a little ways away from it as it whirled around.
It was a rather big tentacle. It was like an octopus's arm, except about 5x as big as that.
Harry took out his wand and Sakura and Syaoran took out their pendants.
"I can't believe this..." Syaoran muttered under his breath.
"I'll take care of this! I'll just use my freeze card!" Sakura said. Syaoran nodded and took a step back. Harry took cue and took a step back too.
[I dunno what the indications, a'ight?]
"Freeze Card! Freeze that... that..."
The giant fish appeared and looked at Sakura expectantly, but first without getting a well deserved 'OHMIGOSH!!!' from Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny.
"...That... Freeze that... thing... and whatever it's attached to!!"
The card obeyed and disappeared into the card.
The tentacle was now a pale slimy blue. Syaoran was just reaching for the sword when Ginny, Sakura, and Hermione shouted 'NO!!'.
Syaoran, Ron, and Harry turned to them.
"Don't hurt it!!" Ginny cried.
"It didn't do anything to us!!" Hermione added.
"It didn't! You're right!" Ron said in a sarcastic voice. "But I do wonder what it will do!!"
Hermione crossed her arms.
"Please, Syaoran?" Sakura asked with a puppy-dog face.
Syaoran sighed and smacked himself on the head.
"Fine!"
Harry and Ron sighed angrily.
The girls took off their shoes and robes and put their hair up in little ponytails.
Harry, Ron, and Syaoran rook off their robes and since the boys (I heard this somewhere) always wear thicker shirts, they took those off too. They took of their shoes and edged towards the lake.
The girls waited for the boys to dive in before they followed.
"...They first got used to the feeling of the cold water before diving and searching. It took a long time for them to even find the piles of jewelry that lay at the bottom. But, nothing was compared to how long it actually took them to go under, hand the jewelry to Ginny, for Ginny to go to shore, and etc. Finally, they got down to the last two piles, just when the sun had said 'good night' and went to bed," Eriol said, stretching.
"My goodness gracious..." Tomoyo muttered.
"What?"
"Oh... nothing..."
Eriol shrugged and went on.
"Sakura and Hermione were left..."
Sakura and Hermione picked up the last two piles, and both shivering and cold, swam to shore after the rest of the group. Piles of sapphires, rubies, gold, diamonds, and silver lay sparkling under the moonlight.
"That's weird. Only muggle money here..." Ron muttered.
"But it's all so pretty!!" Ginny exclaimed, picking up a sapphire ring.
Sakura and Syaoran nodded, speechless. The last time they had seen this many treasuries was on 'Who Wants To Be A Kazillioner?' on the TV.
Hermione blinked at the bright shining diamonds and Harry picked up a piece of gold.
"Whoa..."
"Wow..."
"Wonder's..."
'What is up with these people and words that begin with 'W'?' Sakura asked herself.
They sat down and stared at the piles.
"We... We should get going..." Hermione muttered. She took out her wand. "Kazimius!"
The piles disappeared.
"W-where did they go?!" Ginny asked bewilderedly. She looked around.
"You'll learn it soon, Gin..." Ron muttered to himself and stifled a yawn.
The next day was particularly boring. So boring, even Hermione caught herself daydreaming. And it was only Dark Arts!
"Um... Professor Luck...?" Sakura asked.
"Yes, Ms. Kinomoto?"
"May I be... erm... excused?"
"Sure. And the..."
Sakura walked out of the room and sighed. She knew she was pretty much skipping class, but she needed to... think.
Sakura looked out of a window that was near the room. She stared at the Forbidden Forest and then her gaze turned down on to the lake. Just last night she had been there and she used her cards for the first time at Hogwarts.
Then, she realized, she missed home.
She missed Eriol, Tomoyo, Kero, Touya, even Little Jane. Okay... maybe not Little Jane... but, you get the point.
She sighed sadly.
And, even if Syaoran was right here, she felt as if he had gone too.
They didn't feel distant, no... But... Being in this totally new place...
Everything is just blossoming surprises...
That's another thing.
Sakura missed the cherry blossoms in the parks Syaoran and she would always walk under.
Her quiet meditation was interrupted by none other than Syaoran himself.
"Sakura?"
"Hmmm?"
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing. What makes you ask?"
"You seem as if you're still out by the lake."
"Or maybe, even back outside of the book..."
Syaoran knew Sakura missed home, so he gave her a nice, reassuring hug.
(Lemme just put it that way, since anyone could be reading this.)
Sakura snuggled closer to Syaoran.
"What're we going to do about the card?"
"Hmmm... I dunno. We have to find out where it is first. Don't you find it funny we can't feel where the card is?" Syaoran asked.
"Yes. That's so strange..."
"We'll find it, though, Sakura... And then we can go back home. All right?"
"All right."
Did you read it carefully? Cause, I'm telling you, I have clues in EVERY chapter.
