Chapter 6
The Celebration
Joseph stared at the brick walls surrounding him. There brownish tone made Joseph think that no one had been here in a long time. He looked down the narrow hallway to the light at the end. He started to walk down the hallway as if something was drawing him to the light at the end. The light became brighter and brighter as he made his way down. Sounds became present, faint smashing and booming noises were becoming easy to hear. The hallway was becoming smaller and smaller. Joseph started to crouch as he moved through the long hallway. Joseph got on his hands and knees crawling. The noises were becoming almost unbearable and hard to handle. The light started to blind Joseph and he had to cover his eyes. Suddenly the hallway disappeared so did the lights, and the sounds. Joseph stood up and looked around, he could barely make out what he was seeing. All he could see were two blurry figures, one appeared to be injured and the other was standing over him. "Leave Potter alone." Joseph heard one of the figures say. "Why do you always think it is about the boy Severus?" Another voice responded. The figures started to become less blurry. Joseph could make out the standing figure. He had never seen a man like this before. The man wore a dark blue hood over his face, so Joseph couldn't see who it was. The other man was face was cut up and bloody, Joseph thought the man looked familiar but couldn't make out whom it was. There was another body present but it didn't seem to be alive. A black dog lay on the ground next to the lifeless body. "What are you talking about?" said the bloody man on the ground. "Everyone thinks it's about Potter but they do not see the real plan." The hooded man pulled out a wand from his sleeve, "Now Severus it's time to talk about your betrayal, Crucio!" The wand blasted a small green jet and hit the man on the ground. The man on the ground's ground body gave a quick jolt and started to shutter and shake. "No!" Joseph yelled at the man, he tried to move forward but was stopped by some unseen force. "Now are you ready to talk Severus." The hood man coldly said. He had no mercy in his eyes and Joseph didn't think that the man on the ground could stop him. "Leave him alone, Voldemort!" Joseph turned to see.. Dumbledore! But a much younger (barely) looking Voldemort. "Dumbledore!" Voldemort hissed. "You are a cowered Voldemort always picking on those that can't defend themselves." Dumbledore had a look in his eyes Joseph never saw before; he seemed to be full of anger and rage.
"Joseph, are you awake?" sounded a distance voice. Suddenly the world started to go brighter and brighter. Joseph opened his eyes to see Louis staring at him. "Wha." were the words Joseph was able to complete. "Are you ok, you we talking in your sleep." Louis said. "Where am I?" Joseph said as he leaned tried to get up, unsuccessfully of course. "Your at Madam Pomfrey's." Louis sounded worried. "Why.." Joseph managed to get out before he fell back on the bed. "You started freaking out big time, so we took you to Madam Pomfrey's and she gave you a mild sedative." " Mild sedative." Joseph said as loud as he could. "I feel awful." "I am sorry Joe, but you were acting wired last night." Louis looked around the room and then back on Joseph. "RAAAAAAAAA." The school bell rang at low pitch. "I hate to leave ya Joe, but I have to get to Muggle studies, or Carroll will be really angry." Louis got up and started to walk away. "Wait, a sec." Joseph signaled Louis with his hand. "How long have I been asleep?" "About 2 days." Joseph's mind started to flash with questions but was forced to suppress them because of Louis's departure. Joseph looked around at the hospital. There were six beds in the room, three on the opposite line he was in. A curtain on all sides covered two of the beds. On the right side of the room was Madam Pomfrey's office; he had seen Madam Pomfrey once at the Welcoming back feast or what ever they called it. Joseph lad his head back down on the pillow and rolled over.
Joseph woke up to the old voice of Madam Pomfrey. "How are you feeling Joseph?" She said while she prodded a thermometer into Joseph's mouth. "Iaa feel better." Joseph said startled. Madam Pomfrey grabbed the thermometer out of his mouth and looked at it "Good, good you have cooled down considerable." Joseph stared at her half awake and half asleep. His head didn't hurt as much as before, but his throat was dry. "Can I have a glass of water?" Joseph asked. "Oh sure." A grin appeared on her face. She pulled out her wand and waved it around, "Grimattico." She said and then a glass of water appeared on the table next to Joseph. Joseph thankful grabbed the cup of water and started chugging the water down. With every chug can a great relief to his sore throat. "My aren't you thirsty." Madam Pomfrey said with a smile. After he finished drinking his water, Joseph looked around. The windows had become dark, so it must have been night. "What time is it?" Joseph looked up at Madam Pomfrey. "Well considering the time you have been sleeping and factor in the position of the moon." She did some counting on her hands and fingers. " I'd say it's about time you go back too your common room." Her smile bulged across her face. "Ua ok." Joseph said feeling uncomfubale. He stood up feeling wobbly and sick to the stomach, but he didn't want Madam Pofrey to think anything is wrong so he continued to smile though he felt like barfing. Joseph walked down the hallway to the Ravenclaw common room. He approached the panting of the old man with the cane. "Password please." The old man's raspy voice was only out done by his toothless grin. "Ua lets see, Hipoman." Joseph said of the top of his head. The panting flew open and Joseph made his way into the common room. There were very few people in there, either it was dinner or past bedtime. Joseph eyes searched the room for sight of BJ or Louis but didn't see either of them. He walked over to the couch and sat down. He looked up at the huge painting of Ravenclaw the person who the Josephs house was named after. There was no clock in the common room you had to use your self as a guide to what time it was. Joseph looked around the room and saw an older student sitting at the table in the corner studying. "Excuse me," Joseph said in a horse voice. The Student looked up and pointed to himself. "Me?" He said in a shocked voice. "Ya, I was wondering if you had the time?" Joseph asked. "Oh let me check." He said, the boy pulled out a wand and swung it around. "Clockesnokus." He yelled out, so loud that Joseph covered his ears. "The time at now at Hogwarts School is 6:21 p.m. Do you wish to know the time for anywhere else in the world?" Said a mysterious feminine voice that appeared out of nowhere. "No thank you." The boy said. Joseph sat there with his eyes fixated on the boy. "Isn't it dinner time?" Joseph suddenly said. "Oh well I guess so." Said the boy as he returned to work. "My name is Joseph Masa." Joseph said smiling at the boy. The boy looked up at Joseph, "Mine is Mariano." He said with a short of accent. "Why are you still in here during dinner?" Joseph kept staring at Mariano. "Well, I have to do some studying for the trials." Mariano said like he wasn't paying attention. Joseph mind started to race, "If he is in the trials maybe you could put in a good word for yourself." Joseph thought. "I am trying out for the trials." Joseph blurted out. "You are?" Mariano suddenly looked interested in Joseph. "Have you handed in your trial form yet?" Mariano asked with both eyes on Joseph. "Ya, I turned it in last week." Josephs smile grew. "Well that's good news," Mariano stood up and moved to the couch. "In two more days we are going to make our pick." Mariano sat down on the couch facing Josephs couch. "Do you think I have a good chance?" Joseph hinted. "Well, you see the team doesn't vote until the night we announce the winner. But we each team member receives a copy of each person who's trying out form and each person decide who they want then we hold the vote before hand." Mariano explained. "Oh I see." Joseph said as he rubbed his eyes, "Dang my head hurts." Mariano walked to the window not seeming to care what he said. "Well I better get back to work, I have to look through some papers before I decide who I pick." Joseph's eyes scanned the papers wondering if his was in the pile. "Well I better let you get to work, I'll head down to dinner." Joseph got up and started to walk to the door. "Oh Joseph there is no dinner tonight." Mariano turned back to Joseph. "What do you mean?" Joseph asked hoping that he would get a straight answer for once. "Well, tonight is the night each house announces the back up players for the Quidditch, and each house hold their announcement separately." Joseph thought for a second and then realized that BJ was trying out for a position. "Where are they holding Ravenclaws at?" Mariano, who was sitting on the couch again, thought and looked at Joseph. "I think they are using a spare basement room, one of the larger ones, I believe. Try the south basement." Mariano answered happily. "Thank you very much Mariano, and I guess I'll be seeing you around." Joseph was just about out the door when he heard Mariano's voice, "If I see you again Joseph, tell me who is picked." Joseph looked back "Ok see you around."
Joseph took off down the hallways not wanting to be late for the announcements. His head was still killing him but there is nothing he could do about it, he just tried not to think about it. For the life of him Joseph couldn't remember where the south basement is. He turned and turned but couldn't find anything. Joseph finally stopped a Third year in the hallway and asked him. "Well if you go all the way to the bottom of the stairs then you turn to the right and then you will see three doors, go into the middle one." The boy looked at Joseph as if he was some special E.D. student. "Thanks." Joseph said as he speed up again through the hallway. "Down the stairs, turn right and middle room." Joseph kept repeating in his head and he ran down the stairs. He finally made in all the way down the stairs. He turned right and ran through nearly headless nick. "Watch where you're going you wiper snapper." Nick yelled at Joseph as he sped down the hallway. "My bad." Echoed in the hallway. Joseph started to slow down he could make out three doors. He could tell that the middle one obviously had people in it and he walked right into a huge celebration. The room was crowed with his fellow Ravenclaws, but he could see anyone he knew. Where was Louis he had to be in here somewhere. Joseph eyes strained as he looked for Louis. Then the spotted him way in the front talking to his friend Miguel. "Dang it!" Joseph thought, "there is no way I can get all the was up to the front." Joseph grabbed a seat towards the back of the room. The whole room was lit up in candlelight; the main stage was elevated several feet off the ground. There were three people on the stage and they were preparing for something. The tallest boy in the group came forward; he was tall, dark, and blue eyed. "The women must love him." Joseph said in a hush. "As most of you know my name is Robert Belz- Templemen, I am the Captain of the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. Tonight I welcome everyone to the announcement of the back up or second string players, most of which are First Years." A fat kid stood up quickly and yelled, "First YEARSSSS." People in the audience laughed. "Anyway with out further a due I would like to announce the second string players." Joseph looked on nervously, I wonder if BJ is going to make it, even though he was the only to sign up for beater, it didn't mean they had to accept him. "And the second string Chasers will be," Robert pulled out a small piece of paper and glanced over it. "Jack Gregory," applause burst through the room and a pudgy, brown haired boy stood up and walked on to the stage. "Rebecca Dickinson," the crowd kept up its enthusiastic spirit and gave full applause. "Steven Miller, a tall, blue eyed boy walked up and joined the others. "Now for the Beaters," this was the category BJ applied for. "Because of our lack of interest in the category of Beater the two applicants who applied at the begin of the year get the position by default, BJ Thomas, and Mathew Adams." BJ walked up to the front of the crowd, fallowed by a tall, black hair boy, who must have been Mathew. "Now to the back up keeper, Ryan Heresy." A whole row in the middle of the room stood up and started chanting, "Ryan, Ryan, Ryan." as a good looking, buff, black hair, blue eyed, boy walked up in front of the room. "And finally the back up position of Seeker, now because of the amount of people applying for Seeker the team had to low the amount of people to a few select people and then interview them personally. And the person who meets all the requirements is." The crowd had silenced, not a noise could be heard in the room. "Miguel Cabello." No one made a sound, Miguel stood up and walked up stairs to the stage and looked out on to everyone. Louis started to clap and then whole room seemed to give a mediocre cheer. "Must have been a highly applied position." Joseph thought to himself.
"Default, the sweetest word in the world." BJ said. After the celebration the whole house came back to the common room and where some of the older kids had managed to sneak in some food and throw a party. "So, where is Louis?" BJ said. "I don't know, I saw him at the announcements but I haven't seen him scene." Joseph and BJ sat down on the stairway; it was the only area that you could actually sit down on. "I think he went with Miguel and some of his friends, man are those guys going to cause some commotion or what?" Joseph said to BJ, but BJ was busy staring at some girls over in the corner. "Hey BJ come over," Rebecca and her friends waved at BJ. "Sorry Joseph the ladies call," BJ stood up and started to walk over to Rebecca. "See you later BJ." Joseph said as he watched BJ walk away. Joseph looked out the window for a second before he pulled away, "What ever I have been seeing out there can't be seen if I don't look." Joseph thought to himself, he turned away and watched the party. Joseph began to rub his head; the headache still hadn't gone away. "I need some sleep." He said quietly. Joseph stood up and walked into the sleeping quarters and got into bed, he hadn't slept in his own bed for 3 days and was nice to feel it under him. He closed his eyes and fell asleep.
"OH LEGENDARY ONE FREE US AGAIN!" A strange voice blared across a dusty plain. Joseph stared out at the endless plain and froze; it was cold, freezing cold. "WHAT?" Joseph yelled in response to the voice. Just then a huge shadow burst across the land and a huge triangle shaped jewel appeared. It was three separate triangles put together to form a bigger triangle. Then another symbol appeared, a cress- crossed star in a circle. Joseph recognized this sign; it was the Star of David in a circle or better known as the sign of Satan. All of a sudden the Triangle and the Satan sign merged together and began to light on fire. "MAY HELL RAIN AGAIN AND THE WORLD BURN FOREVER." A new voice appeared and this new voice sounded evil. The red sky began to turn black and then.. Joseph woke up drenched in sweat and heart palpitating at a monstrous rate. His eyes where wide open and he could hardly catch his breath. "What the heck was that?" he said out loud to himself. Joseph looked over at the bed next to him; BJ wasn't there. Joseph got up and looked at the clock on the opposite side of the room. 2:12 A.M. it read, "The party must still be going on." Joseph thought as he walked out of the room. And indeed the party was still going on, but most people had quitted down and where just talking or playing wizards chess. Joseph looked around the room and spotted BJ lying on the couch sleeping. Louis could be seen telling a joke to some guys on the other side of the room. Joseph walked back into the sleeping quarters and got in his bed. "What did the dream mean? Did it mean anything? Is it bad? Well anything that has to do with hell is bad." These thoughts kept running through his mind as he tried to get back to sleep. Joseph rolled over a few times before he realized it was no good, and got up he needed to take a walk.
The hallways where empty tonight, like every night. Joseph assumed the other houses where having parties because there were no prefects around to supervise the hallways. Joseph wandered the hallways looking at all the different pictures. Most of the pictures were of old students who hung around in the school so long that they were given permeate places to live. Joseph walked down the stairs to the front room of the school; he glanced over all the trophies of the past. "Dang Gryffindor has won so many damn awards." Joseph said in amazement, as he looked at all the awards they had won over the years. Seven Quidditch trophies, five House Cup awards, and three special services awards. Then something caught Josephs eye, the awards for special services all had the same names on them. This award is given to Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Arnold Weasley for their service to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. All the awards read like this. Joseph wondered what they did to receive the awards. "I can understand Harry Potter getting the awards, he is after all Harry Potter but what about the other two people, Hermione Granger, and Arnold Weasley?" Joseph thought as he starred at the awards for quiet some time. "Well Emily I do like to stay up late and party back home." Joseph looked up to see Josh and Emily walking down the hall. Josh apparently hadn't seen Joseph yet cause he was still trying to impress Emily, which didn't look too hard to do. "Hi Josh," Joseph said as Josh was about to turn the corner. "Oh hi Joseph haven't seen you in a long time," Josh said with a grin on his face, "have you meet Emily yet?" he asked. "Ya I remember her from the train ride, you were one of the girl that where in our compartment, right?" Emily just smiled and nodded, with a fake kind of grin on her face. "Well Joe, Emily and I were just taking a walk, the party in Gryffindor is going crazy." Josh's grinned even wider. "We had a party in Ravenclaw too." Joseph said quickly to show he wasn't going to let Josh have the upper hand. "Well, I bet it isn't as wild as the party in Gryffindor." Josh said in response. Joseph knew this was just like Josh; he always had to be number one at everything, good or bad. "Well I better get back to Ravenclaw it's getting pretty late. See you around Josh, nice to see you again Emily." Joseph started to head back to Ravenclaw. "See you Joe, oh and Emily is a second year so she doesn't need to worry about class tomorrow." Josh yelled at Joseph. Joseph just continued to walk back up to Ravenclaw common room. Joseph began to wonder it Josh was ok or if he was as crazy as he thought he was, but that was another question he would have to ponder later on, he needed some sleep and maybe he would have good dreams for once.
Next, Chapter 7: The Replacement
Joseph stared at the brick walls surrounding him. There brownish tone made Joseph think that no one had been here in a long time. He looked down the narrow hallway to the light at the end. He started to walk down the hallway as if something was drawing him to the light at the end. The light became brighter and brighter as he made his way down. Sounds became present, faint smashing and booming noises were becoming easy to hear. The hallway was becoming smaller and smaller. Joseph started to crouch as he moved through the long hallway. Joseph got on his hands and knees crawling. The noises were becoming almost unbearable and hard to handle. The light started to blind Joseph and he had to cover his eyes. Suddenly the hallway disappeared so did the lights, and the sounds. Joseph stood up and looked around, he could barely make out what he was seeing. All he could see were two blurry figures, one appeared to be injured and the other was standing over him. "Leave Potter alone." Joseph heard one of the figures say. "Why do you always think it is about the boy Severus?" Another voice responded. The figures started to become less blurry. Joseph could make out the standing figure. He had never seen a man like this before. The man wore a dark blue hood over his face, so Joseph couldn't see who it was. The other man was face was cut up and bloody, Joseph thought the man looked familiar but couldn't make out whom it was. There was another body present but it didn't seem to be alive. A black dog lay on the ground next to the lifeless body. "What are you talking about?" said the bloody man on the ground. "Everyone thinks it's about Potter but they do not see the real plan." The hooded man pulled out a wand from his sleeve, "Now Severus it's time to talk about your betrayal, Crucio!" The wand blasted a small green jet and hit the man on the ground. The man on the ground's ground body gave a quick jolt and started to shutter and shake. "No!" Joseph yelled at the man, he tried to move forward but was stopped by some unseen force. "Now are you ready to talk Severus." The hood man coldly said. He had no mercy in his eyes and Joseph didn't think that the man on the ground could stop him. "Leave him alone, Voldemort!" Joseph turned to see.. Dumbledore! But a much younger (barely) looking Voldemort. "Dumbledore!" Voldemort hissed. "You are a cowered Voldemort always picking on those that can't defend themselves." Dumbledore had a look in his eyes Joseph never saw before; he seemed to be full of anger and rage.
"Joseph, are you awake?" sounded a distance voice. Suddenly the world started to go brighter and brighter. Joseph opened his eyes to see Louis staring at him. "Wha." were the words Joseph was able to complete. "Are you ok, you we talking in your sleep." Louis said. "Where am I?" Joseph said as he leaned tried to get up, unsuccessfully of course. "Your at Madam Pomfrey's." Louis sounded worried. "Why.." Joseph managed to get out before he fell back on the bed. "You started freaking out big time, so we took you to Madam Pomfrey's and she gave you a mild sedative." " Mild sedative." Joseph said as loud as he could. "I feel awful." "I am sorry Joe, but you were acting wired last night." Louis looked around the room and then back on Joseph. "RAAAAAAAAA." The school bell rang at low pitch. "I hate to leave ya Joe, but I have to get to Muggle studies, or Carroll will be really angry." Louis got up and started to walk away. "Wait, a sec." Joseph signaled Louis with his hand. "How long have I been asleep?" "About 2 days." Joseph's mind started to flash with questions but was forced to suppress them because of Louis's departure. Joseph looked around at the hospital. There were six beds in the room, three on the opposite line he was in. A curtain on all sides covered two of the beds. On the right side of the room was Madam Pomfrey's office; he had seen Madam Pomfrey once at the Welcoming back feast or what ever they called it. Joseph lad his head back down on the pillow and rolled over.
Joseph woke up to the old voice of Madam Pomfrey. "How are you feeling Joseph?" She said while she prodded a thermometer into Joseph's mouth. "Iaa feel better." Joseph said startled. Madam Pomfrey grabbed the thermometer out of his mouth and looked at it "Good, good you have cooled down considerable." Joseph stared at her half awake and half asleep. His head didn't hurt as much as before, but his throat was dry. "Can I have a glass of water?" Joseph asked. "Oh sure." A grin appeared on her face. She pulled out her wand and waved it around, "Grimattico." She said and then a glass of water appeared on the table next to Joseph. Joseph thankful grabbed the cup of water and started chugging the water down. With every chug can a great relief to his sore throat. "My aren't you thirsty." Madam Pomfrey said with a smile. After he finished drinking his water, Joseph looked around. The windows had become dark, so it must have been night. "What time is it?" Joseph looked up at Madam Pomfrey. "Well considering the time you have been sleeping and factor in the position of the moon." She did some counting on her hands and fingers. " I'd say it's about time you go back too your common room." Her smile bulged across her face. "Ua ok." Joseph said feeling uncomfubale. He stood up feeling wobbly and sick to the stomach, but he didn't want Madam Pofrey to think anything is wrong so he continued to smile though he felt like barfing. Joseph walked down the hallway to the Ravenclaw common room. He approached the panting of the old man with the cane. "Password please." The old man's raspy voice was only out done by his toothless grin. "Ua lets see, Hipoman." Joseph said of the top of his head. The panting flew open and Joseph made his way into the common room. There were very few people in there, either it was dinner or past bedtime. Joseph eyes searched the room for sight of BJ or Louis but didn't see either of them. He walked over to the couch and sat down. He looked up at the huge painting of Ravenclaw the person who the Josephs house was named after. There was no clock in the common room you had to use your self as a guide to what time it was. Joseph looked around the room and saw an older student sitting at the table in the corner studying. "Excuse me," Joseph said in a horse voice. The Student looked up and pointed to himself. "Me?" He said in a shocked voice. "Ya, I was wondering if you had the time?" Joseph asked. "Oh let me check." He said, the boy pulled out a wand and swung it around. "Clockesnokus." He yelled out, so loud that Joseph covered his ears. "The time at now at Hogwarts School is 6:21 p.m. Do you wish to know the time for anywhere else in the world?" Said a mysterious feminine voice that appeared out of nowhere. "No thank you." The boy said. Joseph sat there with his eyes fixated on the boy. "Isn't it dinner time?" Joseph suddenly said. "Oh well I guess so." Said the boy as he returned to work. "My name is Joseph Masa." Joseph said smiling at the boy. The boy looked up at Joseph, "Mine is Mariano." He said with a short of accent. "Why are you still in here during dinner?" Joseph kept staring at Mariano. "Well, I have to do some studying for the trials." Mariano said like he wasn't paying attention. Joseph mind started to race, "If he is in the trials maybe you could put in a good word for yourself." Joseph thought. "I am trying out for the trials." Joseph blurted out. "You are?" Mariano suddenly looked interested in Joseph. "Have you handed in your trial form yet?" Mariano asked with both eyes on Joseph. "Ya, I turned it in last week." Josephs smile grew. "Well that's good news," Mariano stood up and moved to the couch. "In two more days we are going to make our pick." Mariano sat down on the couch facing Josephs couch. "Do you think I have a good chance?" Joseph hinted. "Well, you see the team doesn't vote until the night we announce the winner. But we each team member receives a copy of each person who's trying out form and each person decide who they want then we hold the vote before hand." Mariano explained. "Oh I see." Joseph said as he rubbed his eyes, "Dang my head hurts." Mariano walked to the window not seeming to care what he said. "Well I better get back to work, I have to look through some papers before I decide who I pick." Joseph's eyes scanned the papers wondering if his was in the pile. "Well I better let you get to work, I'll head down to dinner." Joseph got up and started to walk to the door. "Oh Joseph there is no dinner tonight." Mariano turned back to Joseph. "What do you mean?" Joseph asked hoping that he would get a straight answer for once. "Well, tonight is the night each house announces the back up players for the Quidditch, and each house hold their announcement separately." Joseph thought for a second and then realized that BJ was trying out for a position. "Where are they holding Ravenclaws at?" Mariano, who was sitting on the couch again, thought and looked at Joseph. "I think they are using a spare basement room, one of the larger ones, I believe. Try the south basement." Mariano answered happily. "Thank you very much Mariano, and I guess I'll be seeing you around." Joseph was just about out the door when he heard Mariano's voice, "If I see you again Joseph, tell me who is picked." Joseph looked back "Ok see you around."
Joseph took off down the hallways not wanting to be late for the announcements. His head was still killing him but there is nothing he could do about it, he just tried not to think about it. For the life of him Joseph couldn't remember where the south basement is. He turned and turned but couldn't find anything. Joseph finally stopped a Third year in the hallway and asked him. "Well if you go all the way to the bottom of the stairs then you turn to the right and then you will see three doors, go into the middle one." The boy looked at Joseph as if he was some special E.D. student. "Thanks." Joseph said as he speed up again through the hallway. "Down the stairs, turn right and middle room." Joseph kept repeating in his head and he ran down the stairs. He finally made in all the way down the stairs. He turned right and ran through nearly headless nick. "Watch where you're going you wiper snapper." Nick yelled at Joseph as he sped down the hallway. "My bad." Echoed in the hallway. Joseph started to slow down he could make out three doors. He could tell that the middle one obviously had people in it and he walked right into a huge celebration. The room was crowed with his fellow Ravenclaws, but he could see anyone he knew. Where was Louis he had to be in here somewhere. Joseph eyes strained as he looked for Louis. Then the spotted him way in the front talking to his friend Miguel. "Dang it!" Joseph thought, "there is no way I can get all the was up to the front." Joseph grabbed a seat towards the back of the room. The whole room was lit up in candlelight; the main stage was elevated several feet off the ground. There were three people on the stage and they were preparing for something. The tallest boy in the group came forward; he was tall, dark, and blue eyed. "The women must love him." Joseph said in a hush. "As most of you know my name is Robert Belz- Templemen, I am the Captain of the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. Tonight I welcome everyone to the announcement of the back up or second string players, most of which are First Years." A fat kid stood up quickly and yelled, "First YEARSSSS." People in the audience laughed. "Anyway with out further a due I would like to announce the second string players." Joseph looked on nervously, I wonder if BJ is going to make it, even though he was the only to sign up for beater, it didn't mean they had to accept him. "And the second string Chasers will be," Robert pulled out a small piece of paper and glanced over it. "Jack Gregory," applause burst through the room and a pudgy, brown haired boy stood up and walked on to the stage. "Rebecca Dickinson," the crowd kept up its enthusiastic spirit and gave full applause. "Steven Miller, a tall, blue eyed boy walked up and joined the others. "Now for the Beaters," this was the category BJ applied for. "Because of our lack of interest in the category of Beater the two applicants who applied at the begin of the year get the position by default, BJ Thomas, and Mathew Adams." BJ walked up to the front of the crowd, fallowed by a tall, black hair boy, who must have been Mathew. "Now to the back up keeper, Ryan Heresy." A whole row in the middle of the room stood up and started chanting, "Ryan, Ryan, Ryan." as a good looking, buff, black hair, blue eyed, boy walked up in front of the room. "And finally the back up position of Seeker, now because of the amount of people applying for Seeker the team had to low the amount of people to a few select people and then interview them personally. And the person who meets all the requirements is." The crowd had silenced, not a noise could be heard in the room. "Miguel Cabello." No one made a sound, Miguel stood up and walked up stairs to the stage and looked out on to everyone. Louis started to clap and then whole room seemed to give a mediocre cheer. "Must have been a highly applied position." Joseph thought to himself.
"Default, the sweetest word in the world." BJ said. After the celebration the whole house came back to the common room and where some of the older kids had managed to sneak in some food and throw a party. "So, where is Louis?" BJ said. "I don't know, I saw him at the announcements but I haven't seen him scene." Joseph and BJ sat down on the stairway; it was the only area that you could actually sit down on. "I think he went with Miguel and some of his friends, man are those guys going to cause some commotion or what?" Joseph said to BJ, but BJ was busy staring at some girls over in the corner. "Hey BJ come over," Rebecca and her friends waved at BJ. "Sorry Joseph the ladies call," BJ stood up and started to walk over to Rebecca. "See you later BJ." Joseph said as he watched BJ walk away. Joseph looked out the window for a second before he pulled away, "What ever I have been seeing out there can't be seen if I don't look." Joseph thought to himself, he turned away and watched the party. Joseph began to rub his head; the headache still hadn't gone away. "I need some sleep." He said quietly. Joseph stood up and walked into the sleeping quarters and got into bed, he hadn't slept in his own bed for 3 days and was nice to feel it under him. He closed his eyes and fell asleep.
"OH LEGENDARY ONE FREE US AGAIN!" A strange voice blared across a dusty plain. Joseph stared out at the endless plain and froze; it was cold, freezing cold. "WHAT?" Joseph yelled in response to the voice. Just then a huge shadow burst across the land and a huge triangle shaped jewel appeared. It was three separate triangles put together to form a bigger triangle. Then another symbol appeared, a cress- crossed star in a circle. Joseph recognized this sign; it was the Star of David in a circle or better known as the sign of Satan. All of a sudden the Triangle and the Satan sign merged together and began to light on fire. "MAY HELL RAIN AGAIN AND THE WORLD BURN FOREVER." A new voice appeared and this new voice sounded evil. The red sky began to turn black and then.. Joseph woke up drenched in sweat and heart palpitating at a monstrous rate. His eyes where wide open and he could hardly catch his breath. "What the heck was that?" he said out loud to himself. Joseph looked over at the bed next to him; BJ wasn't there. Joseph got up and looked at the clock on the opposite side of the room. 2:12 A.M. it read, "The party must still be going on." Joseph thought as he walked out of the room. And indeed the party was still going on, but most people had quitted down and where just talking or playing wizards chess. Joseph looked around the room and spotted BJ lying on the couch sleeping. Louis could be seen telling a joke to some guys on the other side of the room. Joseph walked back into the sleeping quarters and got in his bed. "What did the dream mean? Did it mean anything? Is it bad? Well anything that has to do with hell is bad." These thoughts kept running through his mind as he tried to get back to sleep. Joseph rolled over a few times before he realized it was no good, and got up he needed to take a walk.
The hallways where empty tonight, like every night. Joseph assumed the other houses where having parties because there were no prefects around to supervise the hallways. Joseph wandered the hallways looking at all the different pictures. Most of the pictures were of old students who hung around in the school so long that they were given permeate places to live. Joseph walked down the stairs to the front room of the school; he glanced over all the trophies of the past. "Dang Gryffindor has won so many damn awards." Joseph said in amazement, as he looked at all the awards they had won over the years. Seven Quidditch trophies, five House Cup awards, and three special services awards. Then something caught Josephs eye, the awards for special services all had the same names on them. This award is given to Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Arnold Weasley for their service to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. All the awards read like this. Joseph wondered what they did to receive the awards. "I can understand Harry Potter getting the awards, he is after all Harry Potter but what about the other two people, Hermione Granger, and Arnold Weasley?" Joseph thought as he starred at the awards for quiet some time. "Well Emily I do like to stay up late and party back home." Joseph looked up to see Josh and Emily walking down the hall. Josh apparently hadn't seen Joseph yet cause he was still trying to impress Emily, which didn't look too hard to do. "Hi Josh," Joseph said as Josh was about to turn the corner. "Oh hi Joseph haven't seen you in a long time," Josh said with a grin on his face, "have you meet Emily yet?" he asked. "Ya I remember her from the train ride, you were one of the girl that where in our compartment, right?" Emily just smiled and nodded, with a fake kind of grin on her face. "Well Joe, Emily and I were just taking a walk, the party in Gryffindor is going crazy." Josh's grinned even wider. "We had a party in Ravenclaw too." Joseph said quickly to show he wasn't going to let Josh have the upper hand. "Well, I bet it isn't as wild as the party in Gryffindor." Josh said in response. Joseph knew this was just like Josh; he always had to be number one at everything, good or bad. "Well I better get back to Ravenclaw it's getting pretty late. See you around Josh, nice to see you again Emily." Joseph started to head back to Ravenclaw. "See you Joe, oh and Emily is a second year so she doesn't need to worry about class tomorrow." Josh yelled at Joseph. Joseph just continued to walk back up to Ravenclaw common room. Joseph began to wonder it Josh was ok or if he was as crazy as he thought he was, but that was another question he would have to ponder later on, he needed some sleep and maybe he would have good dreams for once.
Next, Chapter 7: The Replacement