The weekend went by fast. We got up at eight to see how fast it took us to get ready, eat breakfast, and get to our class. We would've been five minutes late so we are gonna get up around 7:50. We had a lot of fun that weekend. Sarah and I tried to practice our Quidditch but they wouldn't allow us on the field. Instead, we had to play Virtual Quidditch, which is awesome. The put us in this gear with the head visor thing and the gloves and stuff. We sat on a broomstick connected to the machine and they started the game. If you ever played one of those virutal reality games then you know what it's like. It was so real that I forgot I was attached to a machine. I felt like I was actually up in the air. I looked around and saw six people in red and seven in green. One of the people in red was Sarah. "What going on? Is this an actual game?" I called out to her and she nodded. "How come there are more green than red?" I asked. She looked confused and then she looked like she finally realized what I was talking about. She pointed at her robes and then pointed at me. I looked down and saw that my once black robes were now red. "Time to start," a male voice said. I looked around and saw that man, Joe Openque with a Quaffle (that red ball that is used to score points with). He was motioning for us to come over. "We have to do a jump ball," explained Sarah as she flew over to the ref. "You do it," Well that was fine with me. I flew over, or at least I tried to but my broom just stayed in the same place. I attempted again. Still to no avail. "How do I work this thing?" I yelled to Sarah. I don't know if it was my imagination but the computerized virtual player people were laughing at me. Sarah rolled he eyes. "It would help if you had both of your hands on the broom," was her repliy. Oops, that would explain a lot. I guess I didn't notice that my hands weren't on the broom, as soon as Igrabbed the broom and tried to move, I went speeding off. When I got there, Referee Joe Openque blew his whistle and threw the ball into the air. the guy on the other team and I both went up after the ball and get this, I actually got it. I took off towards our goals, evading the chasers from the other team and soon I was face to face with the keeper from the other team. Years of playing basketball gave me an advantage that I wouldn't have ahd otherwise. I faked a pass to Sarah who was in front of the other goal. The keeper flew over to her as I had an open shot at the hoop. "Score for Gryffindor by Chanelle Tyson!" an annoucer said as soon as the ball flew through the goal and I made my way back on defense. On my way there, a ball whizzed by my ear and scared me half to death. Turned out to be a bludger that almost knocked my head off. I was about to chew ou the beater for not doing his job when he ame right by me too and almost hit me with his club thing. The next thing that tried to fly right my me was the Quaffle passed by the oher team but I intercepted that and made my way on a fast break towards the goal. Unfortunately, I was stopped by an opposing chaser. I threw a sharp pass to Sarah who scored. After about a half an hour, our Seeker caught the Snitch and the game was over. Our helmets were pulled off my one of the assistants working there and I found myself facing Joe Openque. "I've never seen talent like that for a first year. Even though it was Virtual Quidditch, I'm impressed. How many years have you been playing?" Proffessor Openque said. "This was actually my first time," I muttered softly. The professor stood there with his mouth open as if he didn't know what to say. "Amazing," he finally whispered as I smiled. I looked over at Sarah who had a mean look on her face. She rolled her eyes. "What's your problem?" I mouthed to her. She just shook her. Prof. Openque spoke up again, "You have real potential. If you don't mind, I would like to see what you can do on a real field," "But Mr. Openque, sir, " one of the assistants said, "Kringle said no one is allowed on the field until Monday, for the first Quidditch practice." Openque shrugged, "I'm the one who donated the money to get this field built, I'm the P.E. teacher, the referee for the first through third year games, and I'm the Head of Magical Games and Sports Department in the Ministry of Magic. What I say, goes. Understand?" All the assistants nodded and went back to their business. "I'm leaving, Chanelle. Ok?" called Sarah. I nodded as she left and turned back to Joe Openque. "Let's get you geared up," he said. I won't go into details of my first real Quidditch playing exprience just yet, bu I was out there for a good hour and half, trying to score against an actual Quidditch player. * * * * * When I was done, I made my way to the common room, hoping to find Sarah or someone. Instead, I found Harry, sitting in front of the TV. I haven't really talked to him that much so I sat down by him. "Hey," I said. He turned his attention from the TV and looked at me. "Didn't notice you there. Where have you been?" Harry asked. "Quidditching," I said with a smile as I looked to see what was on the TV. It was a Quidditch game. "I thought the season was over. Is the World Cup already being shown?" I asked Harry. I figured it was a no to the latter question. Everyone would be downstaris at the bigger TV, watching it. Like I expected, Harry shook his head. "They're rerunning the play off games. Its the US against Australia. Everyone missed it because we were at sorting." "Oh," I said and then continued, "Trying out for Quidditch on Monday?" "Yeah, I have to. To keep up the legacy of seekers since my great- grandfather," explained Harry and then he laughed. "Funny thing is, I've never been on a broom, because Harry Potter, Sr never had touched one when he came here. They think I'll be like him." I nodded as they went to commercial break. "Never touched a broom til today. Joe Openque said I was a excellant chaser and I'll make-" I was interrupted by laughter from Harry. "What?" I asked, rather annoyed. He pointed on the TV. The commercial was a regualr Quidditch game interrupted by a naked man flying across the field (Don't worry, they blurred out parts of his body). All the officials were chasing after him to no avail. They zoomed on his broom and we could see a logo saying "Thunderwave" as the commercial went out. "That has to be the most hilarious commercial ever," Harry laughed and I joined in. We were cracking up. I was laughing so hard that I fell over on top of him. "Sorry," I said, trying to gasp for breath before I got up. He just smiled. "Ahem!" called a voice. My head turned sharply towards to voice, which belonged to Jeremy. "Sorry if I was, um, intterupting something but-," I didn't let Jeremy finish that as I quickly got up. "Nothing was happening, I just fell," Even though I was telling the truth, it really didn't sound like it. "Yeah, sure, but-" started Jeremy again but he was interrupted this time by Harry. "Really, Jeremy, nothing," pleaded Harry. Jeremy looked at us and then continued, "Ok, I belive you, whatever but Carmen wants you Chanelle. She's in the Multi-Commons room," I nodded and looked to Harry to see if he was coming. He nodded as he got up as he made our way to the Multi-Commons Room. Carmen only wanted to show me this "Wands" website. Well not "Wands" any more, they changed it to "Dream Wands". She also found the wizards version of AIM (AOL Instant Message), which was called, WIM. You could only talk to wizards though. Her screen name was DreamWands4life. I didn't make one yet. I wanted to wait to see if I made the Quidditch team first. Jeremy's was WarriorsFan1223. He said he named after the Wollongog Warriors, a Quidditch team in Australia. Rod's was HotRedHead. Harry also waited to make his and Harmony's was All4JW, but she wouldn't tell me whom JW was. So, the rest of that day was spent in the Multi-Commons Room until we had to be in our regular commons, I hadn't seen Sarah since our Quidditch workout. Sunday I saw her though, hanging with Katie Openque and them. She completely ignored me. She barely talked to me in our rooms until I forced it. "Are you mad at me or something?" I asked her, as I was about to get in bed for the night. Harmony and Liz were still in he bathrooms. "Why would I be mad at you?" she said sarcastically. "It's not like you ditched me to work with some all-star Quidditch dude," I sighed and rolled my eyes. Some people are so trivial. "Sorry, I didn't know it bothered you. I tried to ask what was wrong with you but you just shook your head," I protested. "Fine, I guess I can't blame you for that," she said as she got into her bed. "Then everything is ok and you won't be hanging around that Katie, but with Harmony, Rod, and us?" I asked. "Yeah, ok," she said and I didn't hear anymore from her. Harmony and Liz came back and we talked ten minutes before the lights went out. The next day, lessons would start. Oh what fun that would be.