Okay so that was really amusing now wasn't it? Oh well, now on to chapter
6!!! This chapter is going to be a fast-forward to the start of Quidditch
Season!!! So this chapter is the real start of everything. Enjoy!!!
The First Game: Slytherin Vs. Gryffindor
After dinner, they all went to back to the common room. Everyone went to bed early because the next day would be the start of the first real practice for all players. But in the middle of the night, Hermione woke up seeing Alex sitting near the window looking outside.
"Why aren't you sleeping Alex?" Hermione asked rubbing her eyes as she sat down with Alex.
"I don't know, I was just thinking." Alex told her as she looked at the moon and the Quidditch Field.
"About what?" Hermione asked.
Alex looked at her. "About Oliver." Alex answered as she looked back at the Quidditch Field.
"Well, is there a problem?" Hermione asked this time with a serious tone.
"I don't know. I feel like he's getting worried too much about him graduating and leaving me. I try to help him not to think about it, but he just can't stop thinking about it. He's getting all worried every other time, and I don't want to worry about it either. The thing is, I'm kind of getting worried about it too. I don't want to think about it, it's too awful to think about it." Alex told her as she caught her breath.
Hermione saw her eyes tearing up. "Alex, I know it's hard for you not to think about it, but Oliver is so perfect for you. Everything is going so well and you two are so in love. You can't just throw away something so valuable. Everything he has done for you will always be in your heart, and just because he's going to leave Hogwarts doesn't mean that you two should break it off." Hermione said as she tried to convince her.
Alex sighed again. "I guess you're right. I hope everything goes well."
Hermione smiled. "You better go to bed and get some rest, I heard you're going to have a hard practice tomorrow." Alex and Hermione went back to bed.
The next morning, Alex woke up and went to the Great Hall to eat an early breakfast. She looked at Oliver and Oliver gave her a big smile and she did so back to him. After they ate, they went out to the Quidditch Field. Everyone stood in front of Oliver, waiting for him to say something.
"Okay, today's practice will be a rough one. It's kind of windy, but this team's got guts!!! Now, Harry you wait while I instruct the chasers first, Fred and George," Oliver instructed. Fred and George were playing swords with their bats and stopped as soon as Oliver said their names. Oliver crossed his arms and gave them a serious look. "You two will be hitting the bludgers at each other, and don't try to kill yourselves or pretend to fall of your broom." The twins looked at each other. They laughed. Then Alex smacked both of them.
"Thank you Alex." Oliver said giving a smile. "Our first game will be the first Saturday of October against Slytherin, so let's get started!!!" They all flew into the air except Harry.
Oliver stopped in the air in front of the chasers. "Okay," as he passed Angelina the quaffle. "The three of you will be passing to each other. You will be starting from the other end, passing it to each other to different directions and you know, you also have to work on speed. Now Kris, if they are too fast, just tell them, but try to adjust. Okay start!" Oliver said as he flew down to the ground to meet Harry.
"Okay Harry, today's practice will be a bit difficult." Oliver told him.
"What do I have to do?" Harry asked.
Oliver pulled out a blindfold. "You're going to be blindfolded for 5 seconds while I release the Snitch. Now once you're not blindfolded, you go and try to catch the snitch as fast as you can. Now Harry, be careful and use your eyes very well. Now try a little warm up." Harry put the blindfold around his head. "Now Harry when I say go, you take off your blindfold." Harry nodded. Oliver released the snitch and waited for 5 seconds. "Go!"
Harry took off his blindfold and mounted his broom. He spotted the snitch and soared into the air as fast as he could. Then he caught it. He flew back to Oliver. "How did I do?" Harry asked.
"Pretty good. You took about an extra 10 seconds. No worry, it's just a warm up. Okay we'll do it 5 more times." Oliver said. They practiced 5 more times. After that, Harry sat down to take a break. Then Oliver practiced with the Chasers in scoring. Kris got the hang of the game and improved. They practiced for 1 ½ hours every morning for the next 3 weeks.
It was the day before the first game of the season, against Slytherin. It was Divination class and Kris and Alex were listening to the boring topic of Talons and Tea Leaves. Lavender and Parvati were always so into the whole Divination thing.
"Honestly, it looks like Parvati drools all over her hand when she listens to Professor Trelawney. I swear, it's like Lavender, Parvati, AND Professor Trelawney belong together." Alex whispered to Kris. Professor Trelawney saw Kris and Alex giggling.
"Ms. Levons and Ms. Mei, what a beautiful day is it? Now tell me what to do you find here very humorous?" Professor Trelawney asked.
Alex and Kris froze. "Well um, Professor, we just were thinking about the other day when we…um," Kris couldn't go on.
"What she was trying to say Professor is that the other day, we read about the ancient muggles trying to imitate us wizards and witches with um the talons and tea leaves." Alex was nodding her head.
"And that also, they tried to tell the future with just that and without a tea cup! That was so humorous Professor." Kris said.
"I was telling her just that and that was what we found so amusing but very pathetic." Alex added.
"THEY ARE LYING!!!!!" Parvati yelled.
"Ms. Patil!!!!!!! For your very inexcusable accusation, 5 points will be taken off Gryffindor." Professor Trelawney scolded. Then she turned to Alex and Kris who were smiling at her. "I would like to give you some credit for looking up the history of Divination. I trust you already know that books won't help you in this subject, but it really helps for a little reading of the history only. 10 points will be awarded for both of you, for your advance knowledge and understanding in which no one has ever read about in 3 years teaching classes." Professor Trelawney smiled and returned to talking.
Then after the school day ended, they all went to the common room to hang out. Fred and George were demonstrating how they used to sneak into Snape's classroom stealing ingredients for a project. Everyone who watched laugh as George imitated Snape attending to a diversion. Then later, everyone went to dinner. As they ate, Oliver was telling the Quidditch team some pointers.
"Since tomorrow we're challenging Slytherin, we need to be well rested. We're very lucky that Madam Hooch will be refereeing tomorrow. Anyways, we have to try our best. We have got a new Chaser who has done a very good job for the past three weeks, and no we've got to show em' what we're made of." Oliver said.
"Did you take that down?" Fred asked George pretending to write Oliver's speech.
"I didn't get the Chaser part, he was talking pretty fast in that one." George answered. Ron shook his head as his two brothers started to joke around again.
"They're worst at home." Ron told everyone.
After dinner, everyone went to sleep. Tomorrow was the big game.
The team woke up 8am to eat breakfast. They were all silent, but they had their game faces on. When they went to the common room, they relaxed for a little while. Everyone was in the common room that the team couldn't have some peace, so they went up to their dormitories. They waited till the time came. When it did, they all went down to the locker room. They all changed quietly into their scarlet robes. They all sat down waiting for Oliver's speech, but it didn't come. So they went to the gates to the field.
Kris was nervous, but Harry tried to comfort her. She felt a little better, and then the gates opened. Oliver and Alex flew out first and followed by Angelina and Kris, Harry, and the Weasleys. The Slytherins wore their green robes flying through the air. Alex saw Malfoy looking at her in a menacing way. Alex looked away and flew to her place.
"Good morning to all!! The first game of the Quidditch Season!!! Slytherin Vs. Gryffindor!!!!! Now the captains shake hands." Lee Jordan was greeting the whole school. Madam Hooch stood next to the crate with the quidditch balls inside.
"This is a first game of the season, and I want a fair and clean one!!!!! To ALL of you!!!!!" Madam Hooch mainly looked at the Slytherins.
"The bludgers have erupted and so does the golden snitch!!! Madam Hooch holds the quaffle, and she releases it!!! The chasers are fighting vigorously for the quaffle, and the new Gryffindor Chaser Kris Mei gets it!!!! She passes through Flint, passes it to Johnson, goes around the hoops, passes it to Levons, and she scores!!!!! 10 points to Gryffindor!!!!!" Lee Jordan said as an uproar in the Gryffindor section came blasting with cheers. Levons gave Angelina a high five as they were to help defend their side of the field. "Captain Marcus Flint has the quaffle, passes it to his fellow chasers, and passes back to Flint, attempts for a goal, good save by Captain Oliver Wood!!! He now is in his last year but he just been doing an even more splendid job each year!!! Now the quaffle is in Johnson's hands, ooooo!!!!! Close bludger!!! She passes it to Levons, gains enough speed, passes it to Mei, and she scores!!!!!! First goal scored for Mei to score!!! 10 points to Gryffindor!!" Lee Jordan started cheering.
Malfoy then looked at Alex. He started to shout, "Alex has a hot bod!!!!!!" Malfoy laughed trying to distract her.
Oliver heard him. "Fred!!!!!!!" Fred nodded.
"One bludger coming right up!!!" Fred hit a bludger at Malfoy as he spinned for 3 seconds on his broom.
"Take that!!! The quaffle is in Flint's hands, gets by all three chasers, he aims for the goal, GOOD BLUDGER WORK BY GEORGE WEASLEY…or was that Fred? Anyways, that hit em off!!! The quaffle is in Mei's hands, passes through the wall of the two chasers, wow that girl can fit!!!! She passes it to Levons, she loops through Flint, passes it to Johnson, and scores!!!! Another 10 points to Gryffindor!!!!" Lee said as he pushed the button to make the score for Gryffindor 30 points.
Malfoy flew across the air to distract Kris as she was going to steal the quaffle. He flew in between Kris and the Slytherin chaser. Kris nearly fell off her broom. Slytherin scored after Oliver got distracted. Malfoy gave a laugh and so did the Slytherins watching the game. Harry looked at him. "What Potter? Worried about your girlfriend?" Malfoy laughed. Harry wanted to knock him of his broom.
"Levons has the quaffle, she gains speed to make a quick pass to Mei, she loops and passes it to Johnson, Johnson goes for the goal, quick pass to Levons and she scores!!! 10 points to Gryffindor!!!!" Lee changed the score on Gryffindor to 40 points. "Flint has the quaffle, he passes it, hey!!!! Penalty shot!!!!" Lee yelled as the Slytherin beater hit Oliver down before Flint got to the scoring area. Then George hit Flint down with a bludger.
"Double penalty!!!!!" Madam Hooch yelled out to the teams. Flint took the penalty and luckily got by Oliver. Then Angelina took the penalty, but it wasn't a hard one. She easily scored. Harry then saw the snitch and saw Malfoy following it. He decided to make a surprise attack. Harry used his Firebolt speed to gain up on Malfoy. He sneaked up on him and knocked him away. Harry then started to reach for the snitch. Malfoy became furious. He got the bat from his fellow beater and hit a bludger aiming for Kris. George out of no where, saved Kris by hitting the bludger back at Malfoy. By then, Harry caught the snitch.
"Gryffindor Wins!!!" Madam Hooch announced after she blew her whistle.
"GRYFFINDOR WINS!!!!!!!!! GO GRYFFINDOR!!!!" Lee shouted and cheered with his fellow Gryffindors. Everyone cheered and the team flew through the air with victory in their first game.
The First Game: Slytherin Vs. Gryffindor
After dinner, they all went to back to the common room. Everyone went to bed early because the next day would be the start of the first real practice for all players. But in the middle of the night, Hermione woke up seeing Alex sitting near the window looking outside.
"Why aren't you sleeping Alex?" Hermione asked rubbing her eyes as she sat down with Alex.
"I don't know, I was just thinking." Alex told her as she looked at the moon and the Quidditch Field.
"About what?" Hermione asked.
Alex looked at her. "About Oliver." Alex answered as she looked back at the Quidditch Field.
"Well, is there a problem?" Hermione asked this time with a serious tone.
"I don't know. I feel like he's getting worried too much about him graduating and leaving me. I try to help him not to think about it, but he just can't stop thinking about it. He's getting all worried every other time, and I don't want to worry about it either. The thing is, I'm kind of getting worried about it too. I don't want to think about it, it's too awful to think about it." Alex told her as she caught her breath.
Hermione saw her eyes tearing up. "Alex, I know it's hard for you not to think about it, but Oliver is so perfect for you. Everything is going so well and you two are so in love. You can't just throw away something so valuable. Everything he has done for you will always be in your heart, and just because he's going to leave Hogwarts doesn't mean that you two should break it off." Hermione said as she tried to convince her.
Alex sighed again. "I guess you're right. I hope everything goes well."
Hermione smiled. "You better go to bed and get some rest, I heard you're going to have a hard practice tomorrow." Alex and Hermione went back to bed.
The next morning, Alex woke up and went to the Great Hall to eat an early breakfast. She looked at Oliver and Oliver gave her a big smile and she did so back to him. After they ate, they went out to the Quidditch Field. Everyone stood in front of Oliver, waiting for him to say something.
"Okay, today's practice will be a rough one. It's kind of windy, but this team's got guts!!! Now, Harry you wait while I instruct the chasers first, Fred and George," Oliver instructed. Fred and George were playing swords with their bats and stopped as soon as Oliver said their names. Oliver crossed his arms and gave them a serious look. "You two will be hitting the bludgers at each other, and don't try to kill yourselves or pretend to fall of your broom." The twins looked at each other. They laughed. Then Alex smacked both of them.
"Thank you Alex." Oliver said giving a smile. "Our first game will be the first Saturday of October against Slytherin, so let's get started!!!" They all flew into the air except Harry.
Oliver stopped in the air in front of the chasers. "Okay," as he passed Angelina the quaffle. "The three of you will be passing to each other. You will be starting from the other end, passing it to each other to different directions and you know, you also have to work on speed. Now Kris, if they are too fast, just tell them, but try to adjust. Okay start!" Oliver said as he flew down to the ground to meet Harry.
"Okay Harry, today's practice will be a bit difficult." Oliver told him.
"What do I have to do?" Harry asked.
Oliver pulled out a blindfold. "You're going to be blindfolded for 5 seconds while I release the Snitch. Now once you're not blindfolded, you go and try to catch the snitch as fast as you can. Now Harry, be careful and use your eyes very well. Now try a little warm up." Harry put the blindfold around his head. "Now Harry when I say go, you take off your blindfold." Harry nodded. Oliver released the snitch and waited for 5 seconds. "Go!"
Harry took off his blindfold and mounted his broom. He spotted the snitch and soared into the air as fast as he could. Then he caught it. He flew back to Oliver. "How did I do?" Harry asked.
"Pretty good. You took about an extra 10 seconds. No worry, it's just a warm up. Okay we'll do it 5 more times." Oliver said. They practiced 5 more times. After that, Harry sat down to take a break. Then Oliver practiced with the Chasers in scoring. Kris got the hang of the game and improved. They practiced for 1 ½ hours every morning for the next 3 weeks.
It was the day before the first game of the season, against Slytherin. It was Divination class and Kris and Alex were listening to the boring topic of Talons and Tea Leaves. Lavender and Parvati were always so into the whole Divination thing.
"Honestly, it looks like Parvati drools all over her hand when she listens to Professor Trelawney. I swear, it's like Lavender, Parvati, AND Professor Trelawney belong together." Alex whispered to Kris. Professor Trelawney saw Kris and Alex giggling.
"Ms. Levons and Ms. Mei, what a beautiful day is it? Now tell me what to do you find here very humorous?" Professor Trelawney asked.
Alex and Kris froze. "Well um, Professor, we just were thinking about the other day when we…um," Kris couldn't go on.
"What she was trying to say Professor is that the other day, we read about the ancient muggles trying to imitate us wizards and witches with um the talons and tea leaves." Alex was nodding her head.
"And that also, they tried to tell the future with just that and without a tea cup! That was so humorous Professor." Kris said.
"I was telling her just that and that was what we found so amusing but very pathetic." Alex added.
"THEY ARE LYING!!!!!" Parvati yelled.
"Ms. Patil!!!!!!! For your very inexcusable accusation, 5 points will be taken off Gryffindor." Professor Trelawney scolded. Then she turned to Alex and Kris who were smiling at her. "I would like to give you some credit for looking up the history of Divination. I trust you already know that books won't help you in this subject, but it really helps for a little reading of the history only. 10 points will be awarded for both of you, for your advance knowledge and understanding in which no one has ever read about in 3 years teaching classes." Professor Trelawney smiled and returned to talking.
Then after the school day ended, they all went to the common room to hang out. Fred and George were demonstrating how they used to sneak into Snape's classroom stealing ingredients for a project. Everyone who watched laugh as George imitated Snape attending to a diversion. Then later, everyone went to dinner. As they ate, Oliver was telling the Quidditch team some pointers.
"Since tomorrow we're challenging Slytherin, we need to be well rested. We're very lucky that Madam Hooch will be refereeing tomorrow. Anyways, we have to try our best. We have got a new Chaser who has done a very good job for the past three weeks, and no we've got to show em' what we're made of." Oliver said.
"Did you take that down?" Fred asked George pretending to write Oliver's speech.
"I didn't get the Chaser part, he was talking pretty fast in that one." George answered. Ron shook his head as his two brothers started to joke around again.
"They're worst at home." Ron told everyone.
After dinner, everyone went to sleep. Tomorrow was the big game.
The team woke up 8am to eat breakfast. They were all silent, but they had their game faces on. When they went to the common room, they relaxed for a little while. Everyone was in the common room that the team couldn't have some peace, so they went up to their dormitories. They waited till the time came. When it did, they all went down to the locker room. They all changed quietly into their scarlet robes. They all sat down waiting for Oliver's speech, but it didn't come. So they went to the gates to the field.
Kris was nervous, but Harry tried to comfort her. She felt a little better, and then the gates opened. Oliver and Alex flew out first and followed by Angelina and Kris, Harry, and the Weasleys. The Slytherins wore their green robes flying through the air. Alex saw Malfoy looking at her in a menacing way. Alex looked away and flew to her place.
"Good morning to all!! The first game of the Quidditch Season!!! Slytherin Vs. Gryffindor!!!!! Now the captains shake hands." Lee Jordan was greeting the whole school. Madam Hooch stood next to the crate with the quidditch balls inside.
"This is a first game of the season, and I want a fair and clean one!!!!! To ALL of you!!!!!" Madam Hooch mainly looked at the Slytherins.
"The bludgers have erupted and so does the golden snitch!!! Madam Hooch holds the quaffle, and she releases it!!! The chasers are fighting vigorously for the quaffle, and the new Gryffindor Chaser Kris Mei gets it!!!! She passes through Flint, passes it to Johnson, goes around the hoops, passes it to Levons, and she scores!!!!! 10 points to Gryffindor!!!!!" Lee Jordan said as an uproar in the Gryffindor section came blasting with cheers. Levons gave Angelina a high five as they were to help defend their side of the field. "Captain Marcus Flint has the quaffle, passes it to his fellow chasers, and passes back to Flint, attempts for a goal, good save by Captain Oliver Wood!!! He now is in his last year but he just been doing an even more splendid job each year!!! Now the quaffle is in Johnson's hands, ooooo!!!!! Close bludger!!! She passes it to Levons, gains enough speed, passes it to Mei, and she scores!!!!!! First goal scored for Mei to score!!! 10 points to Gryffindor!!" Lee Jordan started cheering.
Malfoy then looked at Alex. He started to shout, "Alex has a hot bod!!!!!!" Malfoy laughed trying to distract her.
Oliver heard him. "Fred!!!!!!!" Fred nodded.
"One bludger coming right up!!!" Fred hit a bludger at Malfoy as he spinned for 3 seconds on his broom.
"Take that!!! The quaffle is in Flint's hands, gets by all three chasers, he aims for the goal, GOOD BLUDGER WORK BY GEORGE WEASLEY…or was that Fred? Anyways, that hit em off!!! The quaffle is in Mei's hands, passes through the wall of the two chasers, wow that girl can fit!!!! She passes it to Levons, she loops through Flint, passes it to Johnson, and scores!!!! Another 10 points to Gryffindor!!!!" Lee said as he pushed the button to make the score for Gryffindor 30 points.
Malfoy flew across the air to distract Kris as she was going to steal the quaffle. He flew in between Kris and the Slytherin chaser. Kris nearly fell off her broom. Slytherin scored after Oliver got distracted. Malfoy gave a laugh and so did the Slytherins watching the game. Harry looked at him. "What Potter? Worried about your girlfriend?" Malfoy laughed. Harry wanted to knock him of his broom.
"Levons has the quaffle, she gains speed to make a quick pass to Mei, she loops and passes it to Johnson, Johnson goes for the goal, quick pass to Levons and she scores!!! 10 points to Gryffindor!!!!" Lee changed the score on Gryffindor to 40 points. "Flint has the quaffle, he passes it, hey!!!! Penalty shot!!!!" Lee yelled as the Slytherin beater hit Oliver down before Flint got to the scoring area. Then George hit Flint down with a bludger.
"Double penalty!!!!!" Madam Hooch yelled out to the teams. Flint took the penalty and luckily got by Oliver. Then Angelina took the penalty, but it wasn't a hard one. She easily scored. Harry then saw the snitch and saw Malfoy following it. He decided to make a surprise attack. Harry used his Firebolt speed to gain up on Malfoy. He sneaked up on him and knocked him away. Harry then started to reach for the snitch. Malfoy became furious. He got the bat from his fellow beater and hit a bludger aiming for Kris. George out of no where, saved Kris by hitting the bludger back at Malfoy. By then, Harry caught the snitch.
"Gryffindor Wins!!!" Madam Hooch announced after she blew her whistle.
"GRYFFINDOR WINS!!!!!!!!! GO GRYFFINDOR!!!!" Lee shouted and cheered with his fellow Gryffindors. Everyone cheered and the team flew through the air with victory in their first game.