Cool, finally Lupin's back again. Cuts down stress for all of the students. Anyways, here's another chapter for Oliver, well mostly. Remember that girl who looked like Alex? Well then…we'll just have to see if she's danger or not. It's up to you if you want to enjoy this…but it would be cool if you did!

Dangerous Ways

        When Oliver woke up the next morning, he went to the cafeteria to eat breakfast. The day before, he ate alone which was really hard to cope with. But this time, it was a little different. As he ate, someone talked to him.

        "Is this seat taken?" the voice asked.

        Oliver looked up. It was a girl with blonde hair and brown eyes. "Sure you can sit."

        "Thanks. Oh yeah, I'm Grace Sanders. You are?" she asked.

        "Oliver Wood." He replied.

        "Nice meeting you. Anyways, I noticed yesterday that you were sitting alone so I decided to keep you company. Besides, I've been through times like this." She said.

        "Um thanks. So where you from?" Oliver asked.

        "Oh, I'm from Ardswad Academy in USA. Then I moved here after I graduated since my dad is from Wales." She answered. "What about you?"

        "Ah, I'm from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in England." Said Oliver.

        "Cool. Anyways, you played Quidditch in your school?" she asked.

        "Oh yeah. Keeper."

        "You must've been the star player am I right?"

        "Nope. It was the chasers." Oliver sighed.

        "What's wrong?"

        "It's just…my girlfriend's still at Hogwarts. And she's one of the chasers."

        "Oh I see. Dude, as long as she knows you love her, in which I know you do, then everything's cool." She assured him.

        "Yeah." Suddenly Oliver spotted the girl who looks like Alex. "Who's that girl over there?"

        "Oh her. That's Vira Smith. She's like…the popular kind of girl types you know. Everyone knows her." She said. Oliver shook his head. "Why?"

        "She looks like my girlfriend." He said.

        "Whoa. Just don't get into her. I tell you she's bad news. She's nice, but she's kind of, a moody person." She warned him.

        "Thanks for the warning." Oliver said. Grace nodded. Suddenly, Vira passed by.

        "Oh, are you the new guy?" she asked. Oliver froze.

        "Um, yeah." He replied.

        "Nice to meet you. I'm Vira Smith. You can come sit with us if you want." She offered.

        "No thanks. I'm fine." Oliver said.

        "Okay then, you're welcome anytime." She went to sit with her friends.

        "Told you." Grace reminded.

        Later when they both went to the field, their coach was pairing up people.

        "All of you will have partners for today, but it's only for today. Oh and uh Vira, you can help Oliver." He said.

        Oliver saw Grace and she was shaking her head. Oliver took big breaths.

        "Hi again." Vira smiled.

        "Eh, hi." Oliver said.

        "Come on, I don't bite." Vira took his hand and they both went to an open area and started to practice.

        "Um, what do we actually do?" Oliver asked.

        "Oh, we just warm up first. We have to fly around a little bit, and then we train. Oh yeah, what position do you play?" she asked.

        "Um, uh keeper." Oliver replied.

        "Alright, so when we train, I try to score, while you try to defend the goal as if it was there behind you." She said.

        When they started flying around, Oliver noticed something. Vira flew like Alex. She was like an older version of Alex. After training, it was okay. Practicing with Vira wasn't that bad, but he didn't know if she was just all nice and sweet.

        "Whoa! So how'd it go?" Grace rushed to meet Oliver.

        "It was okay. Nothing bad happened." Oliver said.

        "She's not done with you." Grace told him.  

        "What do you mean?" he asked.

        "She likes you. It's obvious. She never offers a newcomer to sit with her and her friends." She replied. She sighed. "Just don't give in. Don't let her looks fool you."

        "Don't worry I won't. I have a girlfriend." Oliver assured her.

        "Yeah, guess so." Grace said.

        Meanwhile at Hogwarts, Oliver wasn't the only one going through major distractions, Alex was too. Vince would always appear in front of Alex and either start a conversation or just drop a "hi". Alex tried to avoid him as much as possible.

        "Seriously, isn't that Vince guy acting kind of weird?" Kris asked.

        "Well yeah." Alex agreed as they both saw him with his friends during lunch.

        "Are you two talking about Vince again?" Melanie asked.

        "Um, you could say that." Alex replied.

        "Well, Vince isn't bad really. He's really cool." Cristen added.

        "Whatever you say. But I just think he's acting a little weird when he talks to Alex." Kris said.

        "Is he hitting on you Alex?" Fred asked.

        "I don't know." Alex replied.

        "He's not taking Oliver's girl. Don't worry Alex, I'll make sure he doesn't." said Fred.

        "Thanks Fred." Said Alex.

        "Attention please?" Professor McGonagall tapped her glass goblet.

        "Right now, there are pieces of parchment here in the corner for you to sign in if you want to be in the Dueling Club. First, Ravenclaw students who want to join the Dueling Club, please line up in front of the parchment. Remember, there will be limited students. 7 students will be chosen from each year." After the Ravenclaw students were done signing, Slytherin, then Hufflepuff went. Then Gryffindor.

        "I hope he chooses us." Hermione hoped.

        "Stop worrying. We were chosen last time." Ron told her. Hermione ignored him.

        "Isn't it we get to have a dueling partner every time?" Kris asked.

        "Yeah. Sometimes they even mix years and pair them up. I hope I don't get Cho." Said Harry.

        "Hope we get paired up." Kris said.

        "Well you two got each other." Said Alex.

        "Oh yeah, now that Oliver's not here, who's going to be your partner?" Hermione asked.

        "I don't know, hopefully someone who is not a thing like Pansy Parkinson." Alex looked at the Slytherin table and Pansy was giggling with her posse.

        Later that night, Oliver called Alex and told her about meeting a new friend Grace. He assured her that she is just a friend and nothing else. Alex knew that he wasn't lying, so she believed him. Still, Alex never had the chance to tell Oliver about Vince. It bothered her, but she always reminded herself to tell him the next time.

        On Wednesday afternoon, a list was posted on the Gryffindor Common Room. It was the list of the members of the Dueling Club. Hermione went to look who made it in the 5th years.

        "Let's see. Potter, Meitashiro, Weasley, Granger, Levons, Thomas, and Malfoy. We all made it!" Hermione told everyone.

        "Yeah!!!" Kris said excitedly.

        "It's starts tonight!" Hermione added.

        "Whoa let me check if I'm in it!" George ran to the list. "Hmmm, Weasley and Weasley, 6th years…Keys and Keys."

        "Cool we made it too!!!" said Cristen.

        Later after dinner, the first meeting of the Dueling Club was held. Professor Lupin and Professor Flitwick was there in front of the big groups of students.

        "Okay everyone, calm down I know you're all excited. Now, this club will go on throughout the whole year, so don't worry, there's a lot to come. So, I'll announce the pairs for each house. Oh yes, there could be at some points when a pair will have a partner from another House. For Gryffindor…" Lupin started. He started with the first years and so on and so forth. There was always one pair that had two different years. Then he got to the 5th years. "Um, Harry Potter and Kristiann Meitashiro, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger," Ron gave her a look of disgust as Hermione looked away. "Dean Thomas and Draco Malfoy, and…Alexandra Levons and Vincent Esteva."

        "He's in Dueling Club?!" Alex said so shocked.

        "Shit…" said Kris. Alex saw Vince looking around but Alex just looked around like she didn't see him. Eventually, Vince found her.

        "Um, hi." Vince said.

        "Oh, hi. So you're my partner right?" she asked so he wouldn't say anything else.

        "Um yeah." He replied as they both leaned against a table. Kris came by with Harry.

        "Um hi there! I'm Kris!" Kris tried to be friendly.

        "Hi. I'm Vince." He smiled. Then Kris just whispered something to Alex and then she left. Alex and Vince didn't say a word to each other as the other pairs were called from other Houses. Suddenly, Vince asked her something.

        "Hey, you're Oliver Wood's girlfriend right?" he asked.

        "Um yeah. Why?" she wondered.

        "Oh just asking. I remember you were in the Hospital Wing for days." Vince said.

        "Hmm…yeah…I remember that." Said Alex. "What about you? Don't you have a girlfriend?"

        "Naw. Some girls think my hair's a little weird. But it's my mom who does it. Besides, my ex has totally made me finally think that girls can wait." He said.

        "I don't think your hair's weird. It's pretty cool. My hair was like that one time." Alex felt one of Vince's braids.

        Meanwhile, Kris and Harry were with Ron and Hermione. "Whoa. Look Harry." Kris tapped him. They saw Alex and Vince smiling and laughing a bit.

        "Looks like she's okay with him." Harry said.

        "Yeah…I guess." Kris shrugged.

        "Okay everyone! Attention!" Professor Lupin called out after he called the last pair. "Now, we won't be dueling tonight. We will start dueling tomorrow night. Before I forget, meetings will be on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Now you and your partners will have an assignment."

        Professor Flitwick cleared his throat as he was standing on a few big books. "You and your partner will have to find as many dueling charms and turn them on a sheet of parchment by tomorrow. You will also need to get a brief history of Dueling. So tonight, let's call it for tonight. By tomorrow, we'll start Dueling. So may all of you get back to your common rooms and thank you for joining the Dueling Club and goodnight students."

        "So how'd it go?" Kris asked after Alex said bye to Vince.

        "Um, it was okay. He's not that bad, but he's cool." She replied. Suddenly, Winnie tapped Alex. "Oh yeah! So who's your partner?"

        "You won't believe this! I came late, so I had to be partnered with…with…" Winnie tried to say it.

        "…Zyan?" Alex tried to finish it.

        Winnie nodded. "This totally sucks! We tried to talk, but all he did was stay quiet!!!"

        "But was he nice?" Kris asked.

        Winnie was turning a little pink. "Oh…so he was. Come on, let's get back to the common room." Alex told her.