A/N: After that mess with Hollie and Rebeka, you must be going "What's going on with them!?"... well good news... this time the perspective goes too... Hufflepuff. Okay, so not so much good news. But the story unravels in every chapter because each of the characters are linked. When in Hufflepuff, the perspective goes to Vinesah, the huge Hermione wannabe (But Hermione is awesome, so we will forgive her).
Anyway, I think that's all for this addition of A/N's rambles! Talk to you at the bottom of the page!
Chapter 4:
The Case of the Snitch
(HUFFLEPUFF)
Vinesah beat another Bludger out of Kirsten's way, all of them seemed to be going after her this practice. She supposed it was because Kirsten was the Seeker and they were just gearing her up for what was to come. Vinesah had tried out for the team a few days ago and already their first practice was upon them. They had only been in school for a week, she couldn't believe she had so much to do already.
"Vinesah! Over there!" Xavier, the other Beater, called to her. She looked over to where he was pointing and saw a bludger coming straight at her. Taking a deep breath she closed her eyes and threw her stick up, it made contact with bludger. Sending it flying in the other direction.
"Okay team! Practice over!" the team captian, Alex, called to everyone and they all floated down to the ground. Kirsten walked over to Vinesah and smiled and Vinesah couldn't help look at the bindi Kirsten always seemed to wear. They were the only girl's on the team, so they had been talking a lot the passed few days. She could even say that Kirsten was a friend.
"Good job today." She told Vinesah in a strange Indian/English accent hybrid. Kirsten was from India, she had lived there for half of her life until her father and mother decided to move to England to be closer to her mother's family. Now her accents kind of blended together, creating an accent unlike any other. At first, it was kind of hard to understand her, but Vinesah was quickly getting used to it. Besides, it would help a lot when the other team didn't know what she was yelling about.
"I about got killed by that blasted thing." Kirsten continued, looking at the bludgers now laying motionless on the floor. Alex came up to them and gave them a speech about this year's Quidditch match. Since Slytherin now had Lee Prior as a beater and the very small Hollie Skyelar - Rebeka's sister - as the seeker, there was a very good chance that Slytherin would win this year.
"Now, Kirsten, Hollie is a lot smaller than you and her broom could go faster, " Alex said with a sigh, "Maybe you should invest in a newer model."
"Yeah, like I have that kind of money." Kirsten murmured to Vinesah, who smiled
When Alex dismissed them Vinesah ran back to the Hufflepuff tower with Kirsten on her heals. Both had potions with the Gryffindor in an hour, so they needed to get cleaned up.
"Don't you have friends in the Gryffindor house?" Kirsten asked as though she had read Vinesah's mind. Vinesah was just thinking how cool it would be for her, Rebeka and Chad to have a class together. They said they password to the guardian and ran to their dorm rooms. Kirsten's room was right next to Vinesah's, so she was fairly easy to hear.
"Yeah, Rebeka Skyelar and Chad Halwende." Vinesah yelled back as she changed into her black robe.
"Halewend?" Kirsten laughed, "Oh, I forgot that Callimus Halwende's son came here. I thought his name was Adonis?"
"It is, he prefers Chad."
"Do you think they'll be in our class?" Kirsten walked into Vinesah's room and sat on her bed,
"What are they like?"
"Well, Rebeka's kind of jumpy and sarcastic, but don't worry you get used to it. Besides, she isn't half as bad as her sister," Vinesah smiled, "Chad…um… he's a bit of a mystery, he doesn't like to talk about himself much, but he's as loyal as they come. And he is so cute, wait until you see him."
"You know I don't date yet!" Kirsten then began to smile, "So, is he single?…I hope they're in our class, it would be more fun that way."
"Yeah, do you know who the teacher is?"
They both walked out of the tower and to their potions class.
"Yeah, Professor Albackle, he's new here." Kirsten replied.
"Whatever happened to Professor Bartiby?"
"She quit, couldn't handle Snape's constant nagging." Both began to laugh hysterically and about a half hour later they walked into the potions class. There were already some students in the classroom, so Vinesah began scooping them all out, hoping that one of her Gyffindor friends was one of them. Sure enough, both Rebeka and Chad were sitting in the corner talking amongst themselves. They didn't seem to notice her come in though, they looked pretty wrapped up in their conversation.
"Wow, who is that cute guy in the corner?" Kirsten asked, Vinesah followed her gaze to see a very handsome guy with light chocolate skin, dark brown hair, and deep brown eyes. She began laughing hysterically as Kirsten looked at her confused.
"Chad! Bek!" She waved and the cute guy turned his head to wave back ,"That would be Chad."
"Oh, how do you say…um…Hubba hubba." Kirsten smiled.
"Thought you didn't date yet?" Vinesah asked her with sarcasm, Kirsten began to laugh.
"Eh, I can look." She replied as they walked over to Vinesah's friends and sat down.
"Hey Vinesah! We actually have a class together this year!" Rebeka laughed, "Who's your friend?"
"Kirsten Laskey." Vinesah noticed a confused look on Rebeka's face, "Her mom is a Brit, Bek."
"Ooh…Sorry." Rebeka gasped, "I mean, not Sorry that you're moms a Brit, but…oh nevermind."
"Hi," Kirsten said to Rebeka, but she was looking at Chad. He noticed and gave her one of his trademark charming smiles.
"I'm Chad." He introduced and shook her hand.
"Adonis…" Rebeka corrected, "His name is Adonis, but he makes us all call him Chad."
"I know who you are." Kirsten told him with a slight smile.
"You've heard of him too?" Rebeka sighed and looked over to Chad with a hurt expression, "Sometimes I wish I didn't live in America…or thought I was a muggle! I'm always left in the dark…of course it's not like Chad's telling me anything."
"My family have always been magic users," Kirsten told them, "I've heard of all the important ones, and Callimus Halwende is important."
"Why is he so important?" Rebeka asked Chad, Vinesah gasped and smacked him on the head.
"You've known her a year and you still haven't told her?" Vinesah scolded, "What kind of mystery freak are you?"
"The subject never came up. She knows he's a physic." Chad shrugged, Vinesah noticed Rebeka role her eyes. She could tell that Chad wasn't telling the whole truth, but before she could say anything Professor Albackle barged in like he was a late student.
"Sorry for my tardiness." The thin man began with an Australian accent, "That Professor Snape kept giving me advice on Paralysis potions."
Vinesah looked at him; he was a skinny man with small glasses and a rugged face. His sandy blonde hair all in disarray and he had a five o'clock shadow on his face. Defiantly not the somewhat professional teacher that Vinesah was used too.
"Well, I think we should get right to it…" He mumbled, "I'll be splitting you up in teams of two."
He went down the line and began pairing people off. The way he was pairing them, Vinesah figured she would be with Kirsten or Rebeka…
"Hmmm…Vinesah Kinsley…we'll put you with…Chad Halwende," Albackle said, Vinesah sighed, "Rebeka Skyelar, You're with Kirsten Laskey. Okay, that's everybody. Begin making a transmorphing potion, the ingredients are on the table the recipe is on page 34. Good luck."
Chad walked over to Vinesah and sat down next to her, she looked at him and smiled.
"Hello." She said, he laughed.
"Hello…" He answered. He then went and got the ingredients, then sat back down. Vinesah notice him glance at Rebeka every once and awhile. She laughed.
"Take a picture, it'll last longer." She told him, he looked at her confused.
"Excuse me?"
"You've been looking at Rebeka this whole time." Vinesah told him as she slowly added Willow Root to the brew, "I'm so jealous! You like her or something?"
"You're funny. But no, nothing like that." He mumbled, "It's nothing really."
"I don't think so…" Vinesah sighed, "Being all secretive may fly with Rebeka, but it certainly don't fly with me…doesn't fly with me. If you don't tell her about your father, there is no reason why I shouldn't. "
"Again, excuse me?" Chad gave her a sideways glance, "Add the rat tail."
The potion began to bubble and turn yellow, "You're dad isn't just a physic. He can read minds and perform things that no man or wizard should be able to do. Come on Chad, there are people who've never met you that know more about you than Rebeka does…What's with all the secrecy?"
Chad sighed and glanced at her, "I don't want her to know. I like someone not knowing about the famous Callimus Halwende. Everyone knows about him, everyone knows about ME and I hate every minute of it. I like that she like's me for me, not because I'm Callimus Halwende's son. Is that so wrong?"
"Well, at least you're not being over dramatic about it, " She laughed as she poured the Banshee Brew, "But I think it's a bad idea..."
He ignored her and looked at the caldron, "Is it supposed to be this color?" Chad asked staring at the reddish liquid below them. Vinesah shrugged.
"Maybe, I hardly ever mess up on Potions though, so it probably is." She replied, noticing Chad look behind him, "What are you looking at?"
"Why does your friend keep looking at me?" Chad asked, "It's kind of creepy."
"You got me." Vinesah lied, she knew that Kirsten thought Chad was pretty cute. Of course, it was hard not to stare at him; Vinesah had a time trying to keep herself from doing it.
"Hey did you guys finish?" Rebeka asked them both, Vinesah smiled widely and showed her the potion they had just made, "Good! It's supposed to look like gross like that."
"We thought we messed up," Kirsten told them, "Thought we made some kind of blood or something."
"Nah, you have it." Chad smiled, "Just hope it doesn't taste like blood."
When the class was over, Professor Albackle had a few of the students try their potions. All of them turned into cats - which was what the potion was for. When Greenly Balst turn came though, she turned into a dog, getting points marked off the Hufflepuff house. Albackle was a good teacher, but he loved to take points away from anything. Sometimes he could be worse than Snape. Class was dismissed and everyone ran out and into the main hall, talking and laughing. Suddenly though, Rebeka pulled Vinesah off to the side, telling the others to wait for them.
"What's up?" Vinesah asked, wordlessly Rebeka handed her a note. It was telling her to leave school before she got hurt! She read it and looked up shocked, "What does this mean?"
"I don't know!" Rebeka exclaimed, "I don't know anything about my family history, I was hoping you would."
"No, I don't." Vinesah sighed, "But I know where to look, let me see the note and I'll get you some information from the library. Okay?"
"Okay." Rebeka looked over Vinesah's shoulder at Chad and Kirsten, she laughed, "Chad looks really uncomfortable."
"Chad is uncomfortable about any human beings." Vinesah smiled and turned her head, "Learning how to deal with woman will do him some good."
"It's amazing what a doofus he is around girls." Rebeka said as they walked back to Kirsten and Chad, "It's amazing what a doofus you are around girls."
"What?" Chad blinked at her with a confused look on his face, but from his eyes it was clear that he knew what she meant. Since they could remember Chad was always weird around girls, except for them. He would get uncomfortable and snippy and try to leave. They had tried to break him out of it with Beth - whom he has a giant crush on - but it didn't work very well. He only ended up accidentally paralyzing Vinesah.
"What…don't act stupid mister." Rebeka continued, "I know you better than that."
"Yeah, well. I'm going back to the Gryffindor Tower…I have to get my book for my next class." He began to leave but Rebeka grabbed his collar.
"I'm going with you, I hate walking these halls alone. Who knows what Peeves might do!"
"O-okay. Whatever." Chad rolled his eyes as the two began to walk away.
"Hey Vinesah?" Rebeka called back, "Thanks for doing that for me!"
"No Problem! I'll talk to you later!" Vinesah called after them and they disappeared up one of the staircases. Both Kirsten and Vinesah headed back to the Hufflepuff tower in silence, not really knowing what to say.
"You like him…" Vinesah murmured, Kirsten began to blush.
"So? I'm much too young to date, I'm not gonna do anything about it." She replied quickly trying to keep up the image of being cool.
"Don't you think he's a little strange?" Vinesah asked as they saw tower in front of them, "I think he's a little strange. He's too secretive for me."
"It's a mystery!" Kirsten explained, "He's a mystery…"
"Yeah, I know I've known him a year and everything, but," Vinesah sighed, not really wanting to admit to what she was about to say, "There is something about him I don't trust."
Kirsten looked over to her with shock, "Really? What?"
"I don't know. Just the way he acts around Rebeka is off sometimes." Vinesah shrugged.
"You don't think he likes her do you?" Kirsten seemed disappointed at the prospect.
"No, it's just…" Vinesah let out another sigh, "Most of the time we're all good and talking and laughing, then, SNAP, just like that he'll become cold and distant. Especially when it comes to Rebeka, like sometimes he acts like he doesn't want to be anywhere around her. She pretends not to notice, but it's starting to wear down on her."
"That's weird." Kristen's eyes began to glitter, "I wonder what he's hiding!?"
"You're strange Kirsten." Vinesah laughed.
"Seriously Vinesah, we should figure it out!" Kirsten smiled and gave the password to the big statue of Cedric Diggory, a Hufflepuff who died during the Triwizard tournament. The statue quickly moved out of the way and they stepped inside the yellow room.
"Well, it could be fun, but I don't think it's right to go sneaking around my friends past." Vinesah laughed, "So I'm gonna have to pass."
"Okay, your loss Nesah!" Kirsten sat down in one of the big chairs just as a strawberry blonde with wild curly hair stepped into the room. She was talking to a light blond with light eyes, both were giggling furiously.
"Kristina! What's up?" Vinesah yelled over to the strawberry blonde. Kristina Bellowood was another second year and shared a room with Vinesah. Kristina gave Vinesah her trademark toothy grin.
"Haven't you seen it yet?" Kristina asked, "Melissa was showing it to me. I found it interesting."
"What's interesting?" Kirsten asked her, giving her a suspicious glare.
"Radcliffe is holding a dance." Melissa told them shyly, "On September 27th."
"Huh?" Vinesah asked confused, Kristina walked over and handed Vinesah a flyer. It was sparkling with millions of stars and showed people laughing and having fun, " The Starry Night Ball? 'A Welcome to all Hogwarts students with a new tradition, a dance. Dress Robes required, feel free to bring a date.' What is this?"
"They want to see if it will work," Kristina shrugged, "I think it's cool. We're even allowed to bring date's outside of our houses."
"Really," Kirsten's eyes twinkled with ideas, "There are so many cute Ravenclaw's I could take. And we can't forget that yummy second year Gryffindor."
Kristina smiled widely, "Chad Halwende? He is yummy. He's defiantly on my list."
"Don't you think he would take that girl he's always with?" Melissa asked them both, "Rebeka or something?"
"Him and Rebeka are only friends, but I would think he would want to take Beth Morgan." Vinesah began speaking in a monotone voice, like she was drifting off into space or something.
"Beth Morgan? Captain of the Gryffindor team?" Kristina asked, Vinesah nodded, "Figures. She's blond and beautiful."
"Isn't she taken?" Melissa said quietly, "Tom something from Ravenclaw, aren't they dating?"
"Oh Yeah! Forgot about that!" Vinesah exclaimed, "Well, girls, you may just have a chance."
"Well, maybe you could ask him who he has an idea to take." Kristina calmly said, "Then slip my name passed him."
"I'll do my best." Vinesah laughed as Melissa and Kristina took off, giggling once again, "Some people."
"Well, who would you take?" Kirsten murmured, "You can't tell me that you wouldn't want to go with him?"
"Okay…I would, but I'm not going to. I'll leave him for you." Vinesah sighed, "I think I may go alone."
"ALONE!?" Kirsten acted as though Vinesah said she was going to murder someone, "You cannot go alone."
"Why not?" Vinesah grumbled.
"Because…well…just cuz!" Kirsten crossed her arms, "There isn't anyone who you wouldn't want to go with?"
"I don't know…" Actually Vinesah was thinking of someone, but she wasn't about to tell Kirsten. No one needed to know that she was willing to go with him.
"Hey, Vinesah and Kirsten!? Are you in here!?" A male voice said as a guy came through the doorway. It was Alex Guttiara, the team captain of the Hufflepuff team. He was more cleaned up now that Quidditch practice was over. His brown hair was in a stylish wave and his brown eyes were staring at them both intensely. When he was cleaned up, Alex was extremely handsome. Of course, he was a fourth year, so he was way out of Vinesah's league. She looked down as she noticed herself blushing a little bit when he walked in the room.
"We're here, what do you want?" Kirsten asked, turning her attention toward Alex. He gave her a panicked look.
"You guys haven't seen the snitch have you?" Alex asked, he was talking about that little gold ball used in Quidditch.
"Why did it get away?" Vinesah asked him quietly.
"No, we had it back in the box and then it was gone." Alex explained, "We were hoping it just ran off to a player. Do you guys have it?"
"No, I haven't seen it since practice." Kirsten shrugged.
"Damn. I was afraid of that." Alex slumped against the wall, sighing in defeat, "I caught up with everyone and no one has seen the blasted thing."
"Do you want us to help look for it?" Vinesah asked, standing up. Kirsten looked at her.
"I don't want to help!" She muttered through gritted teeth so only Vinesah could hear.
"Too bad." Vinesah muttered back then smiled at Alex, who was smiling at her.
"Really? You guys would help?" He asked, "I tried asking the other players but they all said they had to do homework or something."
"Yeah, it's no problem, I'm done with classes and so is Kirsten." Vinesah kicked Kirsten in the foot, which made her yelp and stand up.
"What, have you memorized my schedule?" Kirsten hissed at Vinesah, then turned to Alex with a phony smile plastered on her face, "Sure we can help. Anything for you Alex."
Alex gave her a strange look, "O…kay. You guys search around the Hufflepuff area, I'm gonna go look in the library."
"You sure you don't need any help?" Vinesah asked in a tiny voice, "I mean, I could come with you. I know the library really well, I'm there all the time."
Kirsten gave her an evil look. And pretended to start looking for the snitch, all the while giving Vinesah looks that could kill.
"Yeah, sure. Come along with me." Alex looked over toward Kirsten, "Will you be okay by yourself?"
"Yeah, yeah, you two go." Kirsten looked at Vinesah, "I deal with you later."
Vinesah gulped and her and Alex took off toward the library. Vinesah didn't really know what to say, she had never been alone with Alex before. She didn't even know too much about him, just that he really like Quidditch.
"So what do you think of our team this year?" Vinesah asked, grasping at anything to make conversation. It worked though; Alex began smiling widely and looked down to her.
"I think we may have a shot this year. Our team is really good." He exclaimed, "We haven't been this good since Cedric Diggory was on the team…bless his soul."
"You know about Cedric?" She asked, he nodded furiously.
"He's the reason I wanted to be in the Hufflepuff house! When I found out I had gotten excepted to Hogwarts…and then to be a Hufflepuff!" He laughed, "It was a dream come true. I just hope I can follow in his footsteps. He would have been huge."
"Yeah, he would have." Vinesah mumbled, then smiled, "So are you… um… Muggle born?"
"No, My family have been great magic users." Alex sighed and began looking sad, "They just didn't know if me or my brother would have the powers they did. You see, we didn't show any sign of magic until much later than normal. And it was only few and far between, so they didn't know…but then they got the letter."
"That's good for you then." Vinesah smiled up and he looked at her, giving her a smile right back. When they finally got to the library, the librarian - Madame Greony - looked out the top of her glasses and glared at them. They began searching silently through the rows of book, hoping that they would find the Snitch hiding between one of them, but after what seemed like hours, they found nothing. Alex sat at one of the tables in defeat, Vinesah quickly followed suit.
"I don't understand, how can a Snitch just disappear right in front of our eyes." Alex muttered, "McGonagall is going to kill me. I can hear her now '50 points from Hufflepuff for being so irresponsible.' I should have watch it more closely."
"Don't worry about it." Vinesah tried to comfort, "I'm sure the Snitch still thinks it's in the game and it's just hiding, waiting for the right opportunity to pop out and say hello."
Alex began to laugh hysterically, "You're a pretty funny girl Vinesah. How come we don't hang out more?"
"I don't know…Maybe -"
"Are you two going to look at books or are you in here just to play around?" Greony stared at them from behind her cherry desk. Alex quickly stood up.
"No ma'am, we were just looking for something." He told her, but Greony just seemed to get even angrier.
"If it isn't a book, then I suggest you leave before I deduct points from Hufflepuff myself." She told him stubbornly, he gave her a face when she wasn't looking.
"Come on Vinesah, I guess that's our cue to leave." Alex told her and Vinesah stood up.
Both walked out the library in silence then walked back to the Hufflepuff tower, where Kirsten would surely be there, waiting to yell at Vinesah. When they walked into the Hufflepuff tower, her doubts were confirmed, Kirsten saw them and gave them an icy glare.
"Do you know how many people thought it was funny that me, a seeker, was looking for the snitch INSIDE!" She yelled, "They all thought I was crazy! One of the 7th years actually told me to quit Quidditch because I was becoming obsessed with the game!"
Vinesah began to chuckle, "I guess it is a little funny."
Kirsten glared at her, which made her stop laughing and look down. Kirsten then began ranting in her native language, and from the sound of it she wasn't talking about butterflies or anything nice like that.
"Sorry about that Kirsten." Alex apologized sheepishly, "Guess we should have stayed here and told everyone you weren't the crazy one."
"Yeah, I'm not the crazy one, you two are…" She sighed, "Making me look for some escapee snitch, honestly!"
"Hey, we kind of need that back in order to play the game!" Alex yelled at her, making her roll her eyes.
"Yeah, well…I didn't find anything that even resembled the snitch. Maybe somebody ran of with it." She looked over at Alex.
"Impossible! We only had our eyes off of it for a second!" He explained, "Nobody is that fast."
"They could have apparated." Kirsten shrugged, "That's pretty fast, my mum and dad do it all the time."
"You can't Apparate on the Hogwarts grounds!" Vinesah exclaimed, "There's an enchantment on it! You should know that!"
"No, only you know that." Kirsten looked over to Vinesah, "You're weird like that."
Vinesah blushed a bit and sighed, "Well, I bet Peeves took it as some sort of joke. He's always doing stuff like this."
"But he's never stolen anything before," Alex sighed, "Not anything important anyway!"
"I think Vinesah's right. Once he gets bored with it it'll probably end up on a Statues head or something." Kirsten looked down at her watch, "All this searching has made me hungry and Dinner is about to start, wanna head on down?"
"Yeah, I guess," Vinesah looked over to Alex, "Are you coming?"
"I don't know…" Alex began looking around like the snitch would suddenly appear before him.
"Don't worry, it'll show up…come and eat with us." Kirsten gave him a playful tape on the back.
"Okay, but after dinner I'm going right back to looking for it again." Alex told them and they all began to walk out the tower - until the heard a scream that is, that made them stop in their tracks. Everyone in the commons room turned to look in the direction that it came from. A dark blond came running into the commons from the girls dormitory - as white as a sheet.
"Cassie!" Kirsten exclaimed and ran into the crowd that was now gathering around the scared girl. Vinesah and Alex looked at each other and quickly followed, making their way to Kirsten.
"It was terrible!" Cassie yelled frantically. Everyone began to murmur around her, "Just terrible."
"What happened?" Kirsten asked, Cassie shrugged.
"I don't know!" She shined, "I was just sitting in my room and no one was around and all of the sudden someone came through the wall."
"One of the ghosts?" Kirsten smiled, "Shouldn't you be used to them by now? You are a third year!"
"I know that!" Cassie snapped, "But it wasn't any of the ghosts here! This was something new…a boy…about 17 or 18 with brown hair."
"Are you sure it wasn't Nearly Headless Nick or The Bloody Baron?" Vinesah asked.
"Or Moaning Murtle, she can look like a guy sometimes." A boy, Justice Albadore - the Hufflepuff clown, joked. His friends laughed.
"It wasn't any of them! I even made sure it wasn't Peeves playing a horrible joke on me!" Cassie began to tremble, "He was just standing there then all of the sudden he got really angry and started throwing things around the room! I almost got hit by my books!"
"Are you okay?" Alex asked her, Cassie nodded.
"I thought the ghost's around here were supposed to be nice!!" She whined and sat down on one of the yellow over stuffed chairs.
"Well, they're supposed to be." Kirsten murmured, "Maybe you were dreaming…"
"No I wasn't!!" Cassie yelled and sighed, "I don't know, but it scared the crap out of me!"
"Hey, come down with us and grab some dinner…" Kirsten said in a soft voice, "It'll take your mind off of it."
Cassie nodded and stood up. The group walked to the great hall and sat down at the Hufflepuff table. Kirsten was busy trying to take Cassie's mind off of her rather scary episode, so Vinesah was staring at the ceiling above, the stars twinkling over head. She smiled slightly and looked over to the Gryffindor table seeing Rebeka and Chad laughing and joking around. He was pretending to spill Ketchup on her, making her smack him in the head. A boy with black hair and a toothy grin, Tony Prior, was laughing hysterically at their antics. Vinesah caught Rebeka's eye, who waved wildly as Chad pretend to squirt mustard on her. That reminded of the research she would do for Rebeka about her family. She reminded herself to go later tonight, before it was time for bed.
She then looked over at the Slytherin table, where she noticed Hollie having a nice conversation with a white haired boy and a gothic looking girl. She kept glancing at Tony's double, Lee Prior, and giving him evil looks. He just kept staring at her like she was worst thing at the table. It made Vinesah wonder about the story between them. She did a small glance to the Ravenclaw table, but she barely knew anyone from there so she paid it no nevermind. The only people she noticed were Nick - a second year - and Jeff - a first year - Talliwind whom she had met on the train on the way here. She sighed and looked back up at the starry sky and took a bit of her meat, chomping on it gingerly.
"What are you thinking about?" Alex asked her, snapping her out of her daze and making her jump a bit, "You seem out of it."
"Oh, sorry, I was just looking at the other table's." She answered, "A lot of my friends are from different houses. I miss them sometimes."
"Oh, my best friend is a Ravenclaw, his name's Billy. He's really cool." Alex shrugged and took a swig of his pumpkin juice, "You should meet him sometime."
"Yeah, I'll have to do that." Vinesah smiled at him.
"You know, you're a really good beater." He complimented; she blushed a little bit.
"Excuse me?"
"You're a really good beater," He repeated, "I've seen many and you're one of the better ones. If you really wanted to, you could go pro."
"You think so?" She asked, he nodded, "I've never really thought about it."
"Oh, maybe you should." Alex said quickly then returned to eating. Vinesah spent the rest of dinner half heartedly talking to everyone as she thought about a career in Quidditch.
When it was time to go back, Vinesah instead headed for the library, separating from everyone else. When she got there it was quiet and dark, Madame Greony seemed to have left, so Vinesah had the entire place to herself. The first place she looked was the Wizards sections and saw many books about wizarding family. She grabbed as many as she could and went to a table. She looked through book after book but couldn't find anything about the Skyelars anywhere. So instead she gave up for the day and picked up one of her favorite books Wizarding Legend and Lore. She flipped through the pages until she came to a rather famous poem called "The Duel." She didn't know why but for some reason she felt compelled to read it. It was an interesting read, about two wizarding family's who fought, one eventually losing and went to live... as muggles. Vinesah found that rather interesting. The peom itself said it was a true story, but she had to wonder how true. From then on she decided to shift her focus from the Skyelars to the background story of the poem.... maybe they had a lot in common.
Clink.The sound of something small falling on the floor made her jump out of her skin. She turned around and saw nothing. It was strange but she went back to reading. Then, Clink.The sound scared her again and she turned around. There was something there, making goosebumps form on her arm.
"Hello?" She called into the lightly lit room. When she didn't hear anything in response she stood up and began looking behind the bookshelves. After about 10 minutes of doing that she felt pretty dumb and she went back to her table…when she saw a ghostly figure standing next to it.
She yelped and jumped back. A boy with brown hair and a handsome face stared at her with a solemn look. When he saw her, he smiled.
"I think you're looking for something." He told her and held out his transparent hand. Sitting in it was the missing snitch. She looked at it, then back at him.
"Who are you?" She asked, "And why do you have the Snitch?"
"I came here to see you win." He told her, "You will win right?"
"Win? I…don't know." She answered with a soft voice, he smiled at her.
"I better give this back now…but I have to warn you!" His eyes became wide with fury, "I need to tell you something!"
"What do you need to say?" She walked toward him a little bit. He began to get frustrated and then there was a large white light. She screamed as books began flying everywhere, she ducked under the table, "What are you doing!?"
"I have to warn you!" He yelled over the loud wind he was creating. She closed her eyes.
"Warn me about what!?" She cried, hoping he would hear her and that she wouldn't get hit with one of those extremely heavy books.
"I can't stay long!" He yelled in anger, "But I have to warn you about -"
Suddenly it was all over. The books fell from where they flew and the wind died down and the eerie silence overwhelmed the room once again. She opened her eyes and saw that the ghost was gone, so she climbed out from underneath the table. The book she was reading was long gone, in the pile of books on the floor. She sighed; she would have to remember to check it out later. She was about to leave when she noticed the golden Snitch glistening lifeless on the ground at her feet. She smiled and picked it up, then got out of there as fast as she could. She was so scared she almost forgot to remind herself to tell Rebeka the story about The Duel. Of course, she had a much more interesting story to tell herself…
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A/N: A ghost! A new ghost!! And a ball! Ohh, so much drama in so little time. And what does that poem say that has Vinesah so interested? Guess you'll have to read on!
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