A/N: Sorry for the late posting! I'll be posting more often now.
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter and Card Captor Sakura. I only own the plot and the names of the exchange students okay? So don't sue me!
Chapter 8 : The Quidditch Tryouts and A Challenge.
The days passed by quickly and the Quidditch matches are drawing nearer.
"Hey Sakura!" shouted Harry who was walking towards her. "You wanna tryout for the Quidditch team?"
"Uh.Sure! Can my friends tryout too?" Sakura asked.
"Sure! Do they have brooms?" Harry asked.
"Yes." Said Sakura. "Umm.What positions are available?"
"There's the Keeper position and two Chaser positions." Replied Harry.
"When is it?" Sakura asked.
"Tomorrow." Said Harry.
"Hmm.I'll have to tell Syaoran and the others." said Sakura. "Thanks Harry!"
"You're welcome!" said Harry and he turned and walked over to Ron and Hermione who were having a royal battle of chess. Sakura walked over to Syaoran and the others and proceed to tell them about the Quidditch Tryout.
"Hey guys! Harry just told me about the Quidditch Tryouts they are holding tomorrow. You all wanna go?" Sakura asked.
"Sure! Why not?" answered Meilin.
"Okay!" said Syaoran.
"I..don't think I want to go.cos I want to videotape Sakura on the broom." Tomoyo said, stars shining in her eyes. Sakura sweatdropped.
"I don't want to fly. I'll stay on the ground with Tomoyo." Said Eriol, his eyes softening as he looked at Tomoyo. "That way, I can also do something to help you all if you fall from the broom or something."
"Hey! Don't curse us!" said Meilin. "Come on! We still have our potions homework to do." They quickly took out their potions homework to do.
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**Star's POV**
I beckoned to Harry, who was watching Ron and Hermione play chess. He walked over to me, puzzlement plainly written on his face.
"Harry! How are you doing? I haven't had much time to talk to you since Summer Vacation started." I said.
"I'm fine! I was chosen to be the Quidditch Captain by my team mates! I had also spread the news that I'm holding the Tryouts tomorrow. Wanna go?" he asked me.
"No. I want to ask you if you know who the Japanese exchange students really are." I said.
"What do you mean?" Harry said.
"You should know! Look at them! The orange-eyed girl can see auras! You should know what I'm talking about!" I said, getting annoyed. Realization dawned on his face.
"You mean-" he said, his knees bucking under him, and he sank to the floor.
"Yes! That's what I mean!" I said.
"Come on! Let's go up stairs and talk about this." Harry said, with a heave, he stood up and dragged me up the stairs (not really dragged! Just a figure of speech!) to his dormitory.
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**Normal POV**
Sakura looked up from her potions homework to see Harry literally drag Star up the stairs to the boys' dormitory and slam the door.
"Hoeee! What was that about??" she asked loud.
"Huh? What are you talking about?" Syaoran asked, looking up from his homework.
"Not. . .Nothing. . ." said Sakura. "I've finished! I think I'll go to bed. There's the Quidditch tryout tomorrow. 'Night minna."
"Goodnight Sakura!" was repeated by her friends as she went back to her dormitory to sleep. . .
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**The Next Day**
"Ohayo minna!" greeted Sakura as she walked down the staircase and towards her friends.
"Ohayo Sakura-san!" greeted Tomoyo, Syaoran, Meilin and Eriol.
"Come on! Let's get some breakfast." Said Syaoran while they walked over to the portrait hole and out to the Great Hall for breakfast.
"Hey Sakura! I forgot to tell you yesterday that the tryout will start at 10.00am." said Harry, who had just walked into the Great Hall with Ron and Hermione.
"Okay! Thanks Harry!" said Sakura.
"You're welcome!" he replied and sat down with his friends. Sakura turned to Tomoyo and asked "What time is it?"
"It's 9.00am now. Come on! Let's eat or we won't have enough energy for the tryout." Tomoyo said. Sakura hurriedly stuffed herself (Hehe!).
"Hoeee! We haven't brought our brooms with us when we came down from the tower!" said Sakura when she noticed something missing. Everyone sweatdropped.
"Sakura! We can go back and get it! It's only 9.30am now!" said Meilin in exasperation.
"Oh! Okay! Are you all done yet?" she asked, bouncing on the balls of her feet.
"No." they all said together.
"Okay!" said Sakura and she sat down but immediately bounced up again and asked, "Are you done yet?"
"Sakura! Will you sit down?" said Meilin, getting annoyed. "How can we eat if you are bouncing up and down?"
"Sakura! Just seat down! We won't take more than 15 minutes to eat. Okay?" Syaoran answered, amused.
"Oookayyy!" said Sakura and she finally sat down and did not bounce up from the seat again. She kept an anxious watch on the time.
"You could almost hear the ticking of the time and if we're not ready by 15 minutes, Sakura's gonna kill us. . ." thought Syaoran silently, a smile played on his face.
"Come on! The 15 minutes is up! Let's go and get the broom." Said Sakura and literally dragged them back to the dormitory to retrieve their brooms.
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**Harry's POV**
"God! Is she beautiful!" I thought as I sneaked a look at Hermione. Ron caught me glancing at Hermione and elbowed me in the ribs.
"Ow! Why'd you do that for?" I asked him, rubbing my sore ribs.
"Why are you looking at Hermione then?" Ron asked quietly with a smirk on his face. There was a faint blush on my face as I turned to face him.
"I wasn't-" I started to say when he cut me off.
"Don't bluff me! I had caught you staring at her at other times too. Tell me truthfully, do you fancy her?" Ron asked, a smile on his face.
"Come on let's eat! The tryout is about to start." I said, trying to change the subject and began to eat the toast on my plate.
"Hmm. . ." Ron said but did not comment on anything. After breakfast, I hurried to the field and summoned my broom, the Firebolt. I don't want to bring the Lightening Olympic to practice. Sakura and her friends arrived a few minutes later.
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**Normal POV**
Sakura and her friends walked down to the Quidditch Pitch with their Lightning Olympic in their hands. When the people on the Quidditch field saw the broom in their hands, they immediately swarm over to them.
"Wow! Where did you get this broom?" a second-year asked.
"I heard that it's the latest racing broom available!" said another.
"How much did it cost?"
"1000 Galleons." Said Syaoran.
"What?!" said all the people crowding around them. "So expensive?!"
"Is it?" Sakura asked, surprised.
"Come on! The tryout is starting!" yelled Harry. The students who went out to watch the tryout went to the seats around the Quidditch Pitch. The others went over to Harry who proceeded to tell them what to do. Sakura was the only one signing up to be the Keeper so she got the position while Syaoran, Meilin and two other students, a forth-year, Felicia, and a second- year, Kate, signed up for the Chaser position.
Harry divided them into two groups (Syaoran & Meilin, Felicia & Kate) and asked them to try and get pass Sakura and score.
Felicia and Kate, although were good at Quidditch, were no match for Syaoran and Meilin as they swooped in and out, snatching the Quaffle from Felicia or Kate's hands and attempting to shot a goal.
Sakura, who was on the watch was always there to stop anyone from scoring by snatching the Quaffle from them and throwing it to the other group.
Suddenly, Meilin, who was in possession of the Quaffle, shot towards the goal. Sakura, who was near the goal flew over to Meilin to stop her from shooting the goal. Unbeknown to her, Syaoran flew over to the goal right after she left it. Meilin, seeing Sakura flying towards her, quickly threw the Quaffle to Syaoran who put it throught the goal. Harry, who was timing the tryout, stopped them and announced the people who made the team.
"Sakura will be the Keeper for the Gryffindor team and Syaoran and Meilin will be the other two Chasers," said Harry, smiling at them. There were cheers and the other players from the team crowded around to congratulate them. The two students who were not chosen also came up and congratulated them.
Harry looked up at the sky and noticed that dark clouds were looming up.
"Come on! Let's get back to the castle. It's going to rain soon." He said, ushering them back to the castle. Just as they got into the castle door, the rain splattered down.
"We made it in time! A minute more and we'd have been drenched." Said Sakura.
"Yeah!" Syaoran agreed. They quickly ran to the Great Hall as it was time for lunch.
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**Star's POV**
I pulled Harry aside when he entered the Great Hall with Sakura and her friends. I motioned him to follow me as I went from the Great Hall to an unused classroom near it.
"Have you found out anything about her?" I asked.
"No. Other than she's a pretty good flier." Said Harry.
"Does she know you know something about her?" I asked.
"I don't think so." Harry said.
"Good! I gotta get back to the Hall and make the announcement. Then I have to go back to Global and find out something about her." I said turning to go. "Let's go back to the Hall."
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**Normal POV**
Star walked into the Hall with Harry in tow. Star strolled up to the teacher's table and spoke to Professor Dumbledore. Professor Dumbledore stood up and the chatter died out.
"Star has an announcement which concerns you all. Please hear her out." Said Professor Dumbledore and he sat down. All the gazes in the hall shifted to Star.
"In order to select the 30 students who will be going on the exchange program to GUWWM," Star began, "there will be 3 tasks which you must compete." At this, whispers broke out all over the Hall. Star raised her voice and the whispers quieted down.
"The first task will be a question and answer which will be done in the DADA class. All the questions for the houses and levels will be different so as to minimize cheating and leaking of the questions. The second task will be based on how well you puzzle out how to open something. It will also be based on your speed. The third and final task will be dueling. You must duel 3 times, each with different opponents. You can only challenge a GUWWM student to a duel except for myself as I will deem whether you can or not. The dueling may only be carried out during Saturdays and Sundays in the Great Hall, starting from now, and will be supervised by me or anyone of the GUWWM students. Hogwarts students cannot challenge each other. There will be no dueling during Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner but after Dinner, you may duel until 11.00pm. If one of the duelers is unconscious, then the one standing will be the winner. If both are down, there will be a rematch," Star said. "You may also use anything at your disposal." Star added, looking at a particular group of people at the Gryffindor table. "Thank you!" Star walked out of the Hall as chatter broke out again.
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**At the Gryffindor table**
"Sakura, who are you challenging?" Meilin asked.
"I don't know." Sakura said. They turned and looked at Ron who was talking to Harry.
"Man! If you could, you'd challenge Malfoy won't you?" Ron was saying.
"Of course." Said Harry.
"How 'bout challenging Lorsita from our house," suggested Hermione.
"Great idea! I'll challenge her. Who are you challenging Harry?" said Ron.
"Umm. . .Remora," was Harry's answer. "Oh no! I'm late for my classes!" Harry dashed off, summoning his bag to him.
"Huh? What was he talking about? There's no class today!" said Ron, looking confusedly after Harry.
"He has Swordsmanship class at Global at 2pm," said Raiko, a GUWWM student, who was passing by.
"What?! He attends GUWWM?" asked Hermione and Ron together in shock.
"Why yes!" said Raiko. "Don't you know?" Both of them shook their heads. "He's probably going to tell you soon anyway."
"Why do you all sound so shock at Harry attending GUWWM?" asked Sakura. "Is it that good?"
"Don't you know that it's the best magic school in the world?" said Hermione, her eyes wide.
"Um. . .Eriol did say something like that. . .But is it really that good?" said Sakura.
"Of course it is! It's real big, bigger than Hogwarts. It also has a magical village. It's a town actually and there are many different kinds of magical creatures living there." Said Hermione. Sakura was in shock when she heard this.
"If you don't know this, where did you learn your magic?" asked Raiko in surprise.
"We learned it ourselves. There isn't a magic school like this in Japan." Said Meilin impassively.
"Wh-at?" said Raiko in shock and disbelief.
"Hmm. . .I have an idea! Syaoran, why don't you challenge Raiko?" asked Meilin.
"I don't want to." Said Syaoran, annoyed that Meilin had to say that.
"Are you a scardy cat then?" taunted Raiko who wanted to see what kind of magic they could use. (A/N: I forgot to say that the GUWWM students were informed that they can't use curses and spells that are considered "Unforgiveables".)
"Nani?! How dare you called me a scardy cat! Alright! If it's a challenge you want, it's a challenge you got." Said Syaoran, his eyes narrowed. Raiko quickly ran to Professor Dumbledore and told him about the challenge. Professor Dumbledore stood up and addressed the students.
"It seems that a challenge has been issued from Syaoran to Raiko." He said, his eyes twinkling. "As Lunch is about to end anyway, will the students please leave the House tables?" The students complied and Professor Dumbledore stacked the tables neatly to one side of the Hall with a wave of his hand.
Then, Lorsita stood up and said that she will be supervising the duel. She asked Syaoran and Raiko to stand in the middle of the hall and conjured a dorm to cover them while Professor Dumbledore conjured seats for everyone to sit while they watched the duel. The dorm, Lorsita informed them, was to protect the spells used from escaping and hitting the audience as it will absorb the spells cast.
"Let the duel begin!" said Lorsita and she sat at the side of the dorm. Sakura tachi ( and her friends) had also found a place at the side of the dorm where they could get the best view of the battle. Unfortunately for them, Malfoy and his goons were sitting behind them and kept making snide remarks of "I don't think he'll last 5 minutes with the Global student." Sakura focused her attention on Syaoran and so did the others.
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**In the Dorm**
"Ha! So you think you can beat me do you?" asked Raiko as he shot the disarming spell at Syaoran, "think again."
Syaoran dodged the spell and yelled out "Stupefy!"
Raiko, seeing it coming, ran out of the way and shouted, "Aricoda (ah-ri-co- da)!" What looked blue shards of glass flew out of his wand and towards Syaoran.
"Dang!" said Syaoran and he flipped and jumped to get out of the glass' way.
"Avita!" "Relus!" "Lemule!" "Cartavous!" "Ito Das!" "Nuvaba!" Spells were traded by the two duelers. Syaoran breezed through, dodging the spells expertly while Raiko had ran out of the way of the spells thrown at him in the nick of time.
"Ido Tavous!" Shouted Raiko suddenly. A yellow bolt of light burst out of his wand towards Syaoran and he had to just out of the way before he was hit.
Raiko seeing that Syaoran was occupied, shouted "Expelliarmus!" and Syaoran wand flew away from he's hand and into Raiko's hand.
"Shit!" said Syaoran when he noticed that his wand was not in his hands. He reached into his robes to get his pendent.
"Ha! You can't do anything with out your wand! Too bad! Stupefy!" said Raiko.
"That's what you think!" said Syaoran. Raiko's eyes widen in surprise when Syaoran brought out his pendent and yelled out "Force know my plight! Release the light!" The pendent changed into a sword.
Syaoran took out an odafu, and pressing it to the flat blade of his sword, shouted out "Element Wind! Come to my aid!" where a wind suddenly came out of nowhere and blew the spell back towards Raiko. Raiko was forced to jump out of the way before the spell could touch him.
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**Outside the Dorm**
Everyone, except for Sakura-tachi, stared in shock as Syaoran suddenly stood, holding a sword while a wind blew the spell back at Raiko.
"Who the hell is he?" "How did he do that?" and other comments were heard all around the Hall as they watched the battle in the Dorm.
Sakura and her friends only smiled in relieve as Syaoran was not hurt.
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**In the Dorm (again)**
"What?!" Raiko stared in shock from the sword in Syaoran's hand to him. "Who are you?"
"It's for me to know and for you to find out." Said Syaoran, a smirk on his face. "Element Fire! Come to my aid!" A ball of fire flew towards Raiko who almost didn't get out of the way in time. He jumped up into the air preparing to perform a spell but before he knew it, he was struck by lightening and was unconscious.
Lorsita's voice which was magically amplified, announced that Syaoran had won the duel. The dorm vanished and Lorsita rushed in to take Raiko to the Hospital wing. Syaoran walked out, his sword becoming a pendent and hanging round his neck.
"Syaoran! Daijubu-desuka?" Sakura asked, worry in her eyes.
"Hai! Daijubu!" Syaoran replied.
"Honto?" she asked, still concerned.
"Hai!" he replied again. "Come on! Let's get out of here! The other students are crowding around already." Sakura looked around and saw that bunches of students were approaching them and quickly grabbed Syaoran's and Tomoyo's hand, asking them to grab to others' hands, and rushed out of the hall out to the grounds.
"Quick Eriol! Cast an Invisibility Charm on us! They'll be running out here and look for me to ask what I had done soon!" said Syaoran, looking around. Eriol, with a shrug, cast an invisibility charm on them with a wave of his hand. Soon after, footsteps were heard and voices debated whether they could find Sakura and her friends here.
"Are you sure they came here?" asked a soft voice.
"Yes! I saw them run here just now," said another voice, sounding annoyed.
"But they aren't here now! Maybe they went back to the Castle?" the soft voice argued.
"Maybe. . ." said the second voice skeptically.
"Come on! Let's get back to the Castle! They have probably gone back into the Castle." said the soft voice. The footsteps began to die out and the CCS gang sighed in relieve.
"I think they've gone," said Syaoran who was listening intently for any noise.
"Um. . . You think that we can go back to the Castle now?" asked Sakura uncertainly.
"I think so! Let's sneak back in," said Meilin who was on the move for the Castle.
"Matte Meilin! What if they are just waiting in the Great Hall?" asked Tomoyo.
"Well! Then we have to ask Eriol NOT to remove the invisibility spell and let us sneak back to the Gryffindor Tower," said Meilin.
"Okay!" said Tomoyo. They began moving towards the Castle. When they reached it, they saw that there were some people there who were probably waiting for them to get back to the school. They quietly walked passed the pupils who were in the entrance way and crept quietly through the hall ways and into the Gryffindor where they returned to their own dorms to sleep, tired out with the day's events.
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A/N: So do ya all know who Star's cousin is yet? Thank you for those who reviewed! Please R & R!
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter and Card Captor Sakura. I only own the plot and the names of the exchange students okay? So don't sue me!
Chapter 8 : The Quidditch Tryouts and A Challenge.
The days passed by quickly and the Quidditch matches are drawing nearer.
"Hey Sakura!" shouted Harry who was walking towards her. "You wanna tryout for the Quidditch team?"
"Uh.Sure! Can my friends tryout too?" Sakura asked.
"Sure! Do they have brooms?" Harry asked.
"Yes." Said Sakura. "Umm.What positions are available?"
"There's the Keeper position and two Chaser positions." Replied Harry.
"When is it?" Sakura asked.
"Tomorrow." Said Harry.
"Hmm.I'll have to tell Syaoran and the others." said Sakura. "Thanks Harry!"
"You're welcome!" said Harry and he turned and walked over to Ron and Hermione who were having a royal battle of chess. Sakura walked over to Syaoran and the others and proceed to tell them about the Quidditch Tryout.
"Hey guys! Harry just told me about the Quidditch Tryouts they are holding tomorrow. You all wanna go?" Sakura asked.
"Sure! Why not?" answered Meilin.
"Okay!" said Syaoran.
"I..don't think I want to go.cos I want to videotape Sakura on the broom." Tomoyo said, stars shining in her eyes. Sakura sweatdropped.
"I don't want to fly. I'll stay on the ground with Tomoyo." Said Eriol, his eyes softening as he looked at Tomoyo. "That way, I can also do something to help you all if you fall from the broom or something."
"Hey! Don't curse us!" said Meilin. "Come on! We still have our potions homework to do." They quickly took out their potions homework to do.
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**Star's POV**
I beckoned to Harry, who was watching Ron and Hermione play chess. He walked over to me, puzzlement plainly written on his face.
"Harry! How are you doing? I haven't had much time to talk to you since Summer Vacation started." I said.
"I'm fine! I was chosen to be the Quidditch Captain by my team mates! I had also spread the news that I'm holding the Tryouts tomorrow. Wanna go?" he asked me.
"No. I want to ask you if you know who the Japanese exchange students really are." I said.
"What do you mean?" Harry said.
"You should know! Look at them! The orange-eyed girl can see auras! You should know what I'm talking about!" I said, getting annoyed. Realization dawned on his face.
"You mean-" he said, his knees bucking under him, and he sank to the floor.
"Yes! That's what I mean!" I said.
"Come on! Let's go up stairs and talk about this." Harry said, with a heave, he stood up and dragged me up the stairs (not really dragged! Just a figure of speech!) to his dormitory.
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**Normal POV**
Sakura looked up from her potions homework to see Harry literally drag Star up the stairs to the boys' dormitory and slam the door.
"Hoeee! What was that about??" she asked loud.
"Huh? What are you talking about?" Syaoran asked, looking up from his homework.
"Not. . .Nothing. . ." said Sakura. "I've finished! I think I'll go to bed. There's the Quidditch tryout tomorrow. 'Night minna."
"Goodnight Sakura!" was repeated by her friends as she went back to her dormitory to sleep. . .
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**The Next Day**
"Ohayo minna!" greeted Sakura as she walked down the staircase and towards her friends.
"Ohayo Sakura-san!" greeted Tomoyo, Syaoran, Meilin and Eriol.
"Come on! Let's get some breakfast." Said Syaoran while they walked over to the portrait hole and out to the Great Hall for breakfast.
"Hey Sakura! I forgot to tell you yesterday that the tryout will start at 10.00am." said Harry, who had just walked into the Great Hall with Ron and Hermione.
"Okay! Thanks Harry!" said Sakura.
"You're welcome!" he replied and sat down with his friends. Sakura turned to Tomoyo and asked "What time is it?"
"It's 9.00am now. Come on! Let's eat or we won't have enough energy for the tryout." Tomoyo said. Sakura hurriedly stuffed herself (Hehe!).
"Hoeee! We haven't brought our brooms with us when we came down from the tower!" said Sakura when she noticed something missing. Everyone sweatdropped.
"Sakura! We can go back and get it! It's only 9.30am now!" said Meilin in exasperation.
"Oh! Okay! Are you all done yet?" she asked, bouncing on the balls of her feet.
"No." they all said together.
"Okay!" said Sakura and she sat down but immediately bounced up again and asked, "Are you done yet?"
"Sakura! Will you sit down?" said Meilin, getting annoyed. "How can we eat if you are bouncing up and down?"
"Sakura! Just seat down! We won't take more than 15 minutes to eat. Okay?" Syaoran answered, amused.
"Oookayyy!" said Sakura and she finally sat down and did not bounce up from the seat again. She kept an anxious watch on the time.
"You could almost hear the ticking of the time and if we're not ready by 15 minutes, Sakura's gonna kill us. . ." thought Syaoran silently, a smile played on his face.
"Come on! The 15 minutes is up! Let's go and get the broom." Said Sakura and literally dragged them back to the dormitory to retrieve their brooms.
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**Harry's POV**
"God! Is she beautiful!" I thought as I sneaked a look at Hermione. Ron caught me glancing at Hermione and elbowed me in the ribs.
"Ow! Why'd you do that for?" I asked him, rubbing my sore ribs.
"Why are you looking at Hermione then?" Ron asked quietly with a smirk on his face. There was a faint blush on my face as I turned to face him.
"I wasn't-" I started to say when he cut me off.
"Don't bluff me! I had caught you staring at her at other times too. Tell me truthfully, do you fancy her?" Ron asked, a smile on his face.
"Come on let's eat! The tryout is about to start." I said, trying to change the subject and began to eat the toast on my plate.
"Hmm. . ." Ron said but did not comment on anything. After breakfast, I hurried to the field and summoned my broom, the Firebolt. I don't want to bring the Lightening Olympic to practice. Sakura and her friends arrived a few minutes later.
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**Normal POV**
Sakura and her friends walked down to the Quidditch Pitch with their Lightning Olympic in their hands. When the people on the Quidditch field saw the broom in their hands, they immediately swarm over to them.
"Wow! Where did you get this broom?" a second-year asked.
"I heard that it's the latest racing broom available!" said another.
"How much did it cost?"
"1000 Galleons." Said Syaoran.
"What?!" said all the people crowding around them. "So expensive?!"
"Is it?" Sakura asked, surprised.
"Come on! The tryout is starting!" yelled Harry. The students who went out to watch the tryout went to the seats around the Quidditch Pitch. The others went over to Harry who proceeded to tell them what to do. Sakura was the only one signing up to be the Keeper so she got the position while Syaoran, Meilin and two other students, a forth-year, Felicia, and a second- year, Kate, signed up for the Chaser position.
Harry divided them into two groups (Syaoran & Meilin, Felicia & Kate) and asked them to try and get pass Sakura and score.
Felicia and Kate, although were good at Quidditch, were no match for Syaoran and Meilin as they swooped in and out, snatching the Quaffle from Felicia or Kate's hands and attempting to shot a goal.
Sakura, who was on the watch was always there to stop anyone from scoring by snatching the Quaffle from them and throwing it to the other group.
Suddenly, Meilin, who was in possession of the Quaffle, shot towards the goal. Sakura, who was near the goal flew over to Meilin to stop her from shooting the goal. Unbeknown to her, Syaoran flew over to the goal right after she left it. Meilin, seeing Sakura flying towards her, quickly threw the Quaffle to Syaoran who put it throught the goal. Harry, who was timing the tryout, stopped them and announced the people who made the team.
"Sakura will be the Keeper for the Gryffindor team and Syaoran and Meilin will be the other two Chasers," said Harry, smiling at them. There were cheers and the other players from the team crowded around to congratulate them. The two students who were not chosen also came up and congratulated them.
Harry looked up at the sky and noticed that dark clouds were looming up.
"Come on! Let's get back to the castle. It's going to rain soon." He said, ushering them back to the castle. Just as they got into the castle door, the rain splattered down.
"We made it in time! A minute more and we'd have been drenched." Said Sakura.
"Yeah!" Syaoran agreed. They quickly ran to the Great Hall as it was time for lunch.
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**Star's POV**
I pulled Harry aside when he entered the Great Hall with Sakura and her friends. I motioned him to follow me as I went from the Great Hall to an unused classroom near it.
"Have you found out anything about her?" I asked.
"No. Other than she's a pretty good flier." Said Harry.
"Does she know you know something about her?" I asked.
"I don't think so." Harry said.
"Good! I gotta get back to the Hall and make the announcement. Then I have to go back to Global and find out something about her." I said turning to go. "Let's go back to the Hall."
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**Normal POV**
Star walked into the Hall with Harry in tow. Star strolled up to the teacher's table and spoke to Professor Dumbledore. Professor Dumbledore stood up and the chatter died out.
"Star has an announcement which concerns you all. Please hear her out." Said Professor Dumbledore and he sat down. All the gazes in the hall shifted to Star.
"In order to select the 30 students who will be going on the exchange program to GUWWM," Star began, "there will be 3 tasks which you must compete." At this, whispers broke out all over the Hall. Star raised her voice and the whispers quieted down.
"The first task will be a question and answer which will be done in the DADA class. All the questions for the houses and levels will be different so as to minimize cheating and leaking of the questions. The second task will be based on how well you puzzle out how to open something. It will also be based on your speed. The third and final task will be dueling. You must duel 3 times, each with different opponents. You can only challenge a GUWWM student to a duel except for myself as I will deem whether you can or not. The dueling may only be carried out during Saturdays and Sundays in the Great Hall, starting from now, and will be supervised by me or anyone of the GUWWM students. Hogwarts students cannot challenge each other. There will be no dueling during Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner but after Dinner, you may duel until 11.00pm. If one of the duelers is unconscious, then the one standing will be the winner. If both are down, there will be a rematch," Star said. "You may also use anything at your disposal." Star added, looking at a particular group of people at the Gryffindor table. "Thank you!" Star walked out of the Hall as chatter broke out again.
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**At the Gryffindor table**
"Sakura, who are you challenging?" Meilin asked.
"I don't know." Sakura said. They turned and looked at Ron who was talking to Harry.
"Man! If you could, you'd challenge Malfoy won't you?" Ron was saying.
"Of course." Said Harry.
"How 'bout challenging Lorsita from our house," suggested Hermione.
"Great idea! I'll challenge her. Who are you challenging Harry?" said Ron.
"Umm. . .Remora," was Harry's answer. "Oh no! I'm late for my classes!" Harry dashed off, summoning his bag to him.
"Huh? What was he talking about? There's no class today!" said Ron, looking confusedly after Harry.
"He has Swordsmanship class at Global at 2pm," said Raiko, a GUWWM student, who was passing by.
"What?! He attends GUWWM?" asked Hermione and Ron together in shock.
"Why yes!" said Raiko. "Don't you know?" Both of them shook their heads. "He's probably going to tell you soon anyway."
"Why do you all sound so shock at Harry attending GUWWM?" asked Sakura. "Is it that good?"
"Don't you know that it's the best magic school in the world?" said Hermione, her eyes wide.
"Um. . .Eriol did say something like that. . .But is it really that good?" said Sakura.
"Of course it is! It's real big, bigger than Hogwarts. It also has a magical village. It's a town actually and there are many different kinds of magical creatures living there." Said Hermione. Sakura was in shock when she heard this.
"If you don't know this, where did you learn your magic?" asked Raiko in surprise.
"We learned it ourselves. There isn't a magic school like this in Japan." Said Meilin impassively.
"Wh-at?" said Raiko in shock and disbelief.
"Hmm. . .I have an idea! Syaoran, why don't you challenge Raiko?" asked Meilin.
"I don't want to." Said Syaoran, annoyed that Meilin had to say that.
"Are you a scardy cat then?" taunted Raiko who wanted to see what kind of magic they could use. (A/N: I forgot to say that the GUWWM students were informed that they can't use curses and spells that are considered "Unforgiveables".)
"Nani?! How dare you called me a scardy cat! Alright! If it's a challenge you want, it's a challenge you got." Said Syaoran, his eyes narrowed. Raiko quickly ran to Professor Dumbledore and told him about the challenge. Professor Dumbledore stood up and addressed the students.
"It seems that a challenge has been issued from Syaoran to Raiko." He said, his eyes twinkling. "As Lunch is about to end anyway, will the students please leave the House tables?" The students complied and Professor Dumbledore stacked the tables neatly to one side of the Hall with a wave of his hand.
Then, Lorsita stood up and said that she will be supervising the duel. She asked Syaoran and Raiko to stand in the middle of the hall and conjured a dorm to cover them while Professor Dumbledore conjured seats for everyone to sit while they watched the duel. The dorm, Lorsita informed them, was to protect the spells used from escaping and hitting the audience as it will absorb the spells cast.
"Let the duel begin!" said Lorsita and she sat at the side of the dorm. Sakura tachi ( and her friends) had also found a place at the side of the dorm where they could get the best view of the battle. Unfortunately for them, Malfoy and his goons were sitting behind them and kept making snide remarks of "I don't think he'll last 5 minutes with the Global student." Sakura focused her attention on Syaoran and so did the others.
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**In the Dorm**
"Ha! So you think you can beat me do you?" asked Raiko as he shot the disarming spell at Syaoran, "think again."
Syaoran dodged the spell and yelled out "Stupefy!"
Raiko, seeing it coming, ran out of the way and shouted, "Aricoda (ah-ri-co- da)!" What looked blue shards of glass flew out of his wand and towards Syaoran.
"Dang!" said Syaoran and he flipped and jumped to get out of the glass' way.
"Avita!" "Relus!" "Lemule!" "Cartavous!" "Ito Das!" "Nuvaba!" Spells were traded by the two duelers. Syaoran breezed through, dodging the spells expertly while Raiko had ran out of the way of the spells thrown at him in the nick of time.
"Ido Tavous!" Shouted Raiko suddenly. A yellow bolt of light burst out of his wand towards Syaoran and he had to just out of the way before he was hit.
Raiko seeing that Syaoran was occupied, shouted "Expelliarmus!" and Syaoran wand flew away from he's hand and into Raiko's hand.
"Shit!" said Syaoran when he noticed that his wand was not in his hands. He reached into his robes to get his pendent.
"Ha! You can't do anything with out your wand! Too bad! Stupefy!" said Raiko.
"That's what you think!" said Syaoran. Raiko's eyes widen in surprise when Syaoran brought out his pendent and yelled out "Force know my plight! Release the light!" The pendent changed into a sword.
Syaoran took out an odafu, and pressing it to the flat blade of his sword, shouted out "Element Wind! Come to my aid!" where a wind suddenly came out of nowhere and blew the spell back towards Raiko. Raiko was forced to jump out of the way before the spell could touch him.
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**Outside the Dorm**
Everyone, except for Sakura-tachi, stared in shock as Syaoran suddenly stood, holding a sword while a wind blew the spell back at Raiko.
"Who the hell is he?" "How did he do that?" and other comments were heard all around the Hall as they watched the battle in the Dorm.
Sakura and her friends only smiled in relieve as Syaoran was not hurt.
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**In the Dorm (again)**
"What?!" Raiko stared in shock from the sword in Syaoran's hand to him. "Who are you?"
"It's for me to know and for you to find out." Said Syaoran, a smirk on his face. "Element Fire! Come to my aid!" A ball of fire flew towards Raiko who almost didn't get out of the way in time. He jumped up into the air preparing to perform a spell but before he knew it, he was struck by lightening and was unconscious.
Lorsita's voice which was magically amplified, announced that Syaoran had won the duel. The dorm vanished and Lorsita rushed in to take Raiko to the Hospital wing. Syaoran walked out, his sword becoming a pendent and hanging round his neck.
"Syaoran! Daijubu-desuka?" Sakura asked, worry in her eyes.
"Hai! Daijubu!" Syaoran replied.
"Honto?" she asked, still concerned.
"Hai!" he replied again. "Come on! Let's get out of here! The other students are crowding around already." Sakura looked around and saw that bunches of students were approaching them and quickly grabbed Syaoran's and Tomoyo's hand, asking them to grab to others' hands, and rushed out of the hall out to the grounds.
"Quick Eriol! Cast an Invisibility Charm on us! They'll be running out here and look for me to ask what I had done soon!" said Syaoran, looking around. Eriol, with a shrug, cast an invisibility charm on them with a wave of his hand. Soon after, footsteps were heard and voices debated whether they could find Sakura and her friends here.
"Are you sure they came here?" asked a soft voice.
"Yes! I saw them run here just now," said another voice, sounding annoyed.
"But they aren't here now! Maybe they went back to the Castle?" the soft voice argued.
"Maybe. . ." said the second voice skeptically.
"Come on! Let's get back to the Castle! They have probably gone back into the Castle." said the soft voice. The footsteps began to die out and the CCS gang sighed in relieve.
"I think they've gone," said Syaoran who was listening intently for any noise.
"Um. . . You think that we can go back to the Castle now?" asked Sakura uncertainly.
"I think so! Let's sneak back in," said Meilin who was on the move for the Castle.
"Matte Meilin! What if they are just waiting in the Great Hall?" asked Tomoyo.
"Well! Then we have to ask Eriol NOT to remove the invisibility spell and let us sneak back to the Gryffindor Tower," said Meilin.
"Okay!" said Tomoyo. They began moving towards the Castle. When they reached it, they saw that there were some people there who were probably waiting for them to get back to the school. They quietly walked passed the pupils who were in the entrance way and crept quietly through the hall ways and into the Gryffindor where they returned to their own dorms to sleep, tired out with the day's events.
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A/N: So do ya all know who Star's cousin is yet? Thank you for those who reviewed! Please R & R!