Chapter Five: Practising

Pansy walked into her room to find Kae sitting on her bed. She walked slower when entering the room.

"Er… are you okay?" Pansy asked. Kae shot up at being asked something and saw it was 'only' Pansy. She breathed in deeply and then let out her usual "Bite me" and left. Pansy stared after her.

Kae stomped into the Slytherin Common Room not wanting to do any lessons anymore. She knew everyone had heard about the Fairy Incident and she tended to take criticism hard. She thought back to when she had run from Wolfsberg. A student a year older than her had also mocked her on the subject of fairies and then gone on to werewolves of which Kae was even less fond of.

Kae slumped down onto a couch and let her thoughts fade. She'd run from Wolfsberg and been caught again, which she'd found rather distressing, in a wizarding town called Krähenfeld. She had been expelled from school since they didn't really like kids who ran away from school and her parents had sent her to Hogwarts, where here ever so great cousin, Hermione resided.

"There you are" she heard a female voice. She glared at whoever it was. Professor Snape, who was substituting in Defense Against the Dark Arts had asked about her and sent Pansy to get her, Pansy said. Kae got up growling to herself and strode off, before waiting at the door since she had a terrible sense of direction and needed someone to guide her around this god-ridden place with all it's moving stairs.

Snape sneered at her when she entered the room.

"She might know how to brew a potion but finding her way to class is terribly difficult" he told the class mockingly. Kae growled under her breath and sat down in the furthest seat from him she could find.

"Giants" Snape announced and looked at Harry, then Ron and Hermione. Kae shivered. "How do you notice a giant? Well, anyone who doesn't know, report to me and have his IQ tested. Whereabouts do they live?" Hermione's arm shot straight up but Snape had his eyes fixed on Kae.

"Miss Granger?" he asked. Kae shrugged uneasily. Hermione was waving her arm.

"Mister Potter?" Snape asked his favorite 'play toy'.

"Mountains" Harry recalled from being told last year.

"Good, but not good enough" Snape said grinning widely. "Giants also live in forest and some in deserts where normal humans have a hard time getting."

Throughout the lesson Snape asked them questions about giants, picking mostly on Harry and Kae, finding Kae knew near to nothing and Harry did, a few bits here and there.

At the end of the lesson they got homework to write an essay on giants and their family lives. Harry and Ron found this great as they could ask Hagrid and Hermione didn't mind either as she had already read two or three books on the subject of them. She didn't even mind that Ron and Harry were asking someone for their homework.

Kae on the other hand was devastated. She knew nothing about giants or any magical creature she told herself and cracked her fingers.

"Problems?" Malfoy asked. Kae looked at him and found him to be annoying rather than company. She growled and then strode off.

"Strange" Malfoy mumbled and followed her.

Then after school the Slytherin's had Quidditch practice. Raid had given Kae a pair of robes that she had to have shrunk a bit by Professor Flitwick in order for them to fit her.

The Slytherin team then went out to the Quidditch field to train, all holding their broom high to show them off. Kae's broom was in fact the broom Angelina had told Harry about last night.

It was an Austrian version of the Firebolt called Donnerblitz, which, though not as fast as a Firebolt, had excellent balance and was comfortable to sit on. Unlike the Firebolt it was a yellowish color and had Db inscribed instead of the full name.

When Raid and Caurus, the second beater, had fetched out the box with the Quidditch balls, the rest of the team mounted their brooms.

"I guess we'll start by flying around and seeing what you two can do" he said pointing at Caurus and Kae. They nodded, grabbed the two bats and rose to the air with the four other players. Raid waited till they had more or less settled and then opened the box and letting the Bludgers free. One of them flew directly at Grim, one of the chasers but Caurus smacked it out of the way and into one of the sitting areas. Raid nodded and rose to the air too. Kae watched as Caurus hit most of the Bludgers just before they threw the players off their brooms and when she felt she should start helping him she flew forwards a bit. One of the Bludgers decided to try and hit her off the broom from her right but she on the other hand decided that wasn't a good idea. She changed hands and gave the Bludger a good whack with her left arm so it went flying at Raid. Raid moved aside quick enough but glared at her.

"Sorry" she said, grinning widely. Raid huffed. And so it went on with Kae aiming at the other players, mostly just to show off her aiming ability but also because she really wanted to knock someone off their broom.

When after two hours the Gryffindor players came to the field, the seven Slytherin players were exhausted. Malfoy had been training by catching the Snitch mostly on another end of the field than the other six and the three chasers had thrown around their ball trying to point in their own goal. The beaters had just been whacking around the Bludgers to each other, both of them trying to knock the other off their broom.

They landed for once happy to see the Gryffindors and left the balls in the air, only the Quaffle lying far off.

"Oh, so she's your knew player" Angelina said seeing Kae dismount her broom. If she had been in Slytherin, she had made a comment on fairies but Angelina was fair and faced the fact that this year, they would win, just as Oliver had wanted in his last year.

As the Slytherin team strode off the Gryffindors rose up. Kae stopped and watched a while seeing Harry swoop for the Snitch barely minutes after he had risen to the air.

Angelina flew down in front of her.

"Actually, I do mind you watching us practice" she said answering the question no one asked. Kae smirked and then left thinking that actually Harry was quite a good player.

There, Quidditch and another Bite Me, which you all love so much ;-p

Erm… not as much as last time but that's because I'll be doing a descriptive Quidditch play when Gryffindor versus Slytherin