Chapter Twenty: No name yet.If you have an idea please email me it or drop
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Sabrina pushed through the crowd and snuck into the dorm with a group of Slytherins.
"Spellman over here!" Jo called to Sabrina from a table near the fire.
Sabrina smiled and pushed her way to the back of the Common room to Jo. "So what first?"
"Have a seat and I'll show you what I've came up w/ so far. I want you to be like the editor and say if it's good to publish and stuff." Jo said bending over and picking up a peace of parchment. "This is what I have so far."
THE DANGER TIMES
By: Jo Potter and Sabrina Spellman
Looking For More Pocket Money?
IF you are looking for some more cash to put in your pocket please contact Sabrina Spellman (Ravenclaw) or Jo Potter (Slytherin). The Danger Times is currently looking for reporters and writers. Publisher Jo Potter will be happy to pay her staff a Sickle an hour. Depending on how business goes workers may gain raises. Ms. Potter and Editor Spellman are unable to employ every one. But they will keep your names in mind; if one of our reporters turns out to be unable to supply or put forth-eligible information, we will contact you ASAP. We will be taking applications from August 4 to August 14. Please fill out the form below and drop it by either the Slytherin dorm or the Ravenclaw dorm.
NAME:
HOUSE:
YEAR:
REPORTER OR WRITER:
"Looks good to me." Sabrina said after reading it over.
"How many copies do you think we need to supply? And it's going be hard to pick people. You think we're gonna have like a million applications?" Jo asked as she picked up the parchment.
"Um...Ask them on there to submit either a story or a way they will be able to help us." Sabrina said.
Jo began to scribble something down. "NOTE: PLEASE SUBMIT A SHORT STORY OR A WAY YOU CAN HELP US W/ THE DANGER TIMES. THANK YOU! Jo Potter and Sabrina Spellman" Jo read aloud.
"That's good." Sabrina said. "Now what we should do is make copies of them and post them in all of the Common Rooms and in classrooms that the teachers will let us, oh and in the Great hall...oh and out on the Quidditch fields, you know, where the stands are."
"Ok but we'll need help...You ask Cedric and Harry and I'll ask Malfoy and Jessica."
"Ok." Sabrina duplicated the application once and took one of the copies with her.
"Guys get over here!" Jo called to Draco and Jessica.
Malfoy and Jessie turned from a crowd of kids and jogged over.
"Man, your paper is a hit!" Malfoy congratulated.
"He's right, everyone is talking about it."
"Thanks guys. Well me and Sabrina need help putting these around the school will you help me out?" Jo asked handing them an application.
"Ok Malfoy you take your broom and hit the Quidditch stadium and Jess and I will take the class rooms." Jo said standing up. "Meet back here at oh lets say an hour or so."
"OK." Malfoy said walking off.
"Who all do you think is going to let us post this in their classrooms?" Jessie asked.
"Well... Uh to tell you the truth I have no clue." Jo said as they walked out of their dorm.
"I guess we will just have to talk to them all." Jessie said.
"I'll help you." Cedric said jogging up next to Jo.
"Oh hey Cedric!" Jo said happily. "Here you go." She handed him some of the pieces of parchment.
Cedric read over them and folded the top paper up. He then stuck the folded copy in his pocket. "Cool. So where should we start? Top and work down, or down and work up?"
"Work up."
"Cool." Cedric said. "Lead the way Ms. Potter."
Jo smiled. "Jess you take this floor. Cedric the next and I'll take the one after Cedric's floor. Hey Cedric did you really like my paper?"
"Sure I did." Cedric said with a smile.
"Coolness!" Jo said beaming.
Cedric took his stack of papers into the first classroom on that floor. "See ya later." He called over his shoulder.
"Meet back in my dorm in an hour or so!" Jo called as she jogged up the stairs to the next floor.
Sabrina saw Jo as she jogged down the hallway. "Oh, there you are, where do you want Harry and I to start? Hallways? Classrooms? Where?"
"Uh... well I got this floor and Cedric has the one below me and Jess the one below him and Malfoy, the Quidditch patch. So.Uh... Sabrina you get the floor above mine; and Harry, the one above hers ok? And meet back at my dorm in about an hour or so ok?" Jo said.
"All right then." Sabrina said turning and jogging off.
About an hour later Jo jogged back to the Slytherin Dorm.
Sabrina and Harry were already there, waiting patiently. Seconds later Jessie and Malfoy returned.
"Um, Diggory told me to tell you he has something he has to do and not to forget about practice after dinner, or whenever it was." Jessie said.
Jo nodded and gave the password to Slytherin. "Coca frogs."
"He wouldn't tell me what he had to do, he just said it was important and that he had to get it taken care of right away." Jessie explained farther.
"It's ok. Now y'all sit down and I'll be right back." Jo said jogging up to her dorm.
"OK, whatever " Jessie said dropping down on her usually spot on the couch.
Jo returned w/ a clipboard and a quill. "So did all the teachers let y'all put the papers in their classrooms?"
"Trelawney was the only one who refused." Sabrina said.
"I wonder why." Jo said sarcastically as she came back down with a list of the teachers. She crossed out Professor Trelawney's name. "Well now I want y'all to help me pick the people when the things start to come in are y'all down w/ that?"
"Sure." Sabrina said. "When they start coming in, but right now I need to run to a meeting with McGonnagall." Sabrina said glancing at her watch.
"Ok I'll see you later then. Oh and you 3 can try out if you want." Jo said to Harry, Jessica, and Malfoy.
Jo gave a 2-finger salute. "Well y'all can leave unless you have something to do here."
"I promised Filch I would meet him at the Quidditch patch after I was down here." Malfoy said leaving.
"Wow me and Sabrina are gonna have a lot of work to do...if we're gonna pick a staff and make sure they're doing there job right." Jo said w/ a sigh. She sat back her eyes closed.
"So you don't know what Diggory had to do?"
"No, all he said was it was urgent and not to forget about practice. Then he ran down the hall and seemed to just...disappear." Jessie replied.
"Hm... Why does he seem to have "urgent" things to do when it comes to me?"
"Dunno, he just looked somewhat fidgety when he caught up with me and told me to let you know." Jessie said looking at one of the applications.
"Fidgety eh? Where did he say he was going or looked like he was going?"
"Dunno, just ran down the hall and seemed to disappear into thin air." Jessie replied picking up Jo's quill and writing stuff on the paper.
"Hm. Strange."
" I think I saw him pull something out of his pocket on his way down the hall, but I don't know." Jessie said brushing the quill feather across her chin as she thought.
"I think he's avoiding me..."
"I think he is keeping secrets about some place that only he knows about." Jessie said out of the blue. "He seems to just evaporate a lot without telling anyone where he is going. Of course no one ever bothers to ask him, he intimidates so many people all the time, its like everyone is afraid of him."
"Well I'm gonna find out what he's up to...It's driving me crazy he's here one minute and then you turn your head for a second and he says 'Gotta run'. I'll ask him at practice." Jo said.
"I wonder why Diggory would just ditch out like that." Jessie muttered.
"It bugs me when he does. And then he doesn't even tell you where he's going or how long he'll be. Oh speak of the devil...Hi Diggory." Jo said looking up.
"Hi, Um...I just wanted to tell you we are going to have to move your make up practice until Monday, I have some urgent business in Spa...Snape's office that I have to take care of. See ya." Cedric said quickly, then he jogged away and out of the door.
"HOLD IT!" Jo called after him. "I am not waiting any longer. I want to practice to night w/ my captain and I want to know what urgent business you have to do."
"You don't need to worry about it, bye."
"No you jerk! Not bye! What are you up to?!" Jo said angrily.
"Yes, bye. I've got to go, See ya."
"No! Wait! Hang on you."
Cedric was out the door and gone before she could finish her sentence.
"Fine, forget you too." Jo muttered as she plopped back down in her chair.
Jo didn't see Cedric for the rest of the day, and he was still missing when she was supposed to have her practice. She found herself leaving potions Monday morning with still no sign of Cedric returning from where ever he went.
"Poor Longbottom...that's the fifth time he blew up his potion." Jo said giggling after class.
"I know, that boy just can't seem to get the hang of it can he?" Malfoy sneered.
"Longbottom be sure to get a decent hair cut this time!" Kathleen called after him squealing with laughter.
Neville Longbottom began crying softly to himself as he dashed for the Gryffindor common room.
"Hey you guys, have you seen Harry anywhere?" Sabrina asked as she jogged up to them.
"Nope." Jo replied
"Nuh uh." Malfoy said shrugging.
"You like him or something?" Kathleen asked.
"What's it to you?" Sabrina asked, suddenly annoyed with Kathleen.
"That's a yes."
"Try the Quidditch Patch or his dorm." Jo said.
"OK, I will." Sabrina called after her. "Oh, if you see Harry, tell him I am looking for him!"
"Will do." Jo called after her. " Well I gotta jet, Quidditch practice next." Jo said leaving Kathleen and Malfoy jogging off towards the Quidditch patch.
"Late Potter." Cedric said in his Captain like fashion. He was always joking around at any other class, but when it came to Quidditch, his attitude totally changed to a more serious, leader like attitude.
"I'm sorry, nice to see you decided to come back from the Neverlands."
"Yeah Potter, you're late, such a bad example!" A little girl said falling backward with giggles of glee.
Jo shot a glance at her. "Who is she?"
Cedric sighed. "My older brother's daughter."
"Your niece?"
"Yeah."
"Well why didn't you just say your niece?"
"Potter, in the air, two extra laps for being late."
Jo sighed but got in to the air to do her laps like Cedric told her too. "Ok, fine, don't answer my question. Hey, what are we doing to day?"
"Just worry about your laps Potter!" Cedric called up to her. "Late Chang." He said as Cho jogged onto the field.
"I broke a nail."
"OK, two extra laps for being late, and three extra for using such a lame, sickening excuse such as" Cedric imitated Cho when she broke her nail. "Like, oh my God, I like, broke my nail, now I'm like, going to have to like, redo it and be late so I can like, be late."
"Shut up Cedric! And I don't have to do the laps if I don't want to!"
"And you don't have to be on the team if you don't do the laps, I am the captain, I take Quidditch more seriously than I do anything else, 'cept for maybe...never mind, that doesn't matter. If you don't do the laps, then you're out. If you are ever late again because "you were, like, in the middle of tea" or "you broke a nail" you are off."
"Fine!" Cho said getting up in the air. She fly into the back of Jo on her last lap, causing the second Potter to fall.
"Ahhh! Cedric help!"
Cedric, acting quickly, raised his hand and Jo froze in the air. Several of the team froze to watch. They, nor anyone else in the school, had seen someone perform magic without a wand, and they least expected to see someone at the school to do it.
Cedric slowly lowered his hand, which lowered Jo to the ground to where she could tough easily.
Jo stumbled a little. The shock of being stopped in mid air was still upon her. "Cookie please." She said before she fell on to her knees.
Kimmy, Cedric's little niece, tossed a double fudge cookie to her with a small part missing from where she had pulled off a bit for herself. Everyone else was still staring at Cedric.
"Hello?! I know y'all haven't finished your laps yet!!" Cedric called up to them. "I could have gone around the world a hundred times in the amount of time it is takin' y'all to finish a few laps!" Cedric jogged over to where Jo was and pulled out a bottle of liquid from his ropes. "Drink up Potter and go sit with Kimmy until your head clears, ok?"
"Ok, who's Kimmy?" Jo asked.
"My older brother's daughter."
"Your niece?"
"Go sit next to Kimmy, Potter."
Jo sat and drank down the liquid after eating the cookie Kimmy threw at her. Quidditch Slytherins begin filing into the stands to watch the Ravenclaw practice.
"Better yet Potter, you still have laps to do." Cedric said.
"Where's my broom? What are the Slytherin Quidditch team members here?" Jo asked.
"I don't know Potter, but if you can talk normally now you best finish your laps." Cedric warned.
"Without a broom? Talk normally what are you talking about?" Jo asked confused.
"Find a broom Potter and get a move on, you still got five laps to do."
"Gimme that." Jo took Cedric's broom and got up in the air to finish her laps. "What are you guys doing here?" She asked as she stopped on her 5th lap in front of the Slytherin Quidditch team. The Slytherins just snickered and didn't answer.
"Potter, are you done yet?!"
"She is talking to her boyfriends." Kimmy giggled.
Cedric shot her an annoyed glance and yelled up to Jo. "Get down here if you're done Potter!! You got stuff to do besides talk to competition!"
"If you mess up my practice I'll make sure none of you will forget it." Jo sneered. She flew down and dismounted Cedric's broom. "You yelled?"
"I have already released the snitches, practice these, I'm sure you can figure them out." Cedric said handing her some papers. "I have work I have to do, so y'all are doing self-learned practice. But I am going to be right here, so don't try cutting out some of your practice. Get to work, and catch your broom, it is starting to annoy me." Cedric nodded toward her broom flying in circles five feet above his head, then moving on to Kimmy's then moving back to his.
Jo laughed a little. She grabbed her broom and began to work on her new moves. In 5 minuets flat she mastered 2 of them and caught half of the snitches that were let lose.
"You coping down her moves Malfoy? Snape will be happy to see you have her plans. We're all counting on you to win." Flint said to Malfoy.
"Yeah, copying them down, sure I am." Malfoy muttered.
"That's great. You know if you don't go along with what Snape said I'm gonna have to sack you."
"I know! I said I was copying them down!! What's wrong, got a quaffle in your ear?!" Malfoy said agitatedly.
"You alright Draco?" Jo said zooming past him.
"I'm fine." Malfoy muttered to Jo.
After practice Jo got changed with the rest of her team and walked back to the Castle with Cedric. They were both chatting about the coming Quidditch game against Slytherin.
"Yeah, I'm ready, I can beat them!" Jo said happily.
"You seem pretty confident." Cedric said.
"I know I can beat them, piece of cake. I'll see you later Cedric, I'm off to do some last minuet studding for Charms. Byes." Jo said as she walked towards her dorm.
"Yeah, catch ya later." Cedric muttered as he walked up the marble staircase to the Ravenclaw dorm.
"Oh hey Potter, Professor Snape would like to see you." Jess said as she saw Jo walk in to the Slytherin common room with her broom over her shoulder. "You can leave your broom with me I'll put it away."
"Thanks Davis." Jo said as she turned to leave. "Oh and if you jinx my broom like I know Flint would like you too you'll be regretting it big time."
Jessica just stared at her. ".Ok, whatever you say Potter." She replied slightly confused. "What makes you think Flint wants your broom jinxed?"
"Lets just call it a lucky guess shall we?" Jo said with a smirk. "He's been after trying to make me lose the game ever since Malfoy came back from Snape's office that day. I have an idea Flint has some new cheats in mind this time through."
Jo walked down the dungeon like corridor to Professor Snape's office. She knocked three times on his door.
"Come in." Said his voice from behind the door.
Jo walked in.
"Ms. Potter, please have a seat." Snape said gesturing to the seat in front of him.
Jo sat down and put her broom on her lap. "You wanted to see me Professor?"
"Yes, Ms. Potter, I'm sure you are aware that this Saturday is the first game between Ravenclaw and Slytherin. It's going to be the first time you've ever played against your own house."
"Uh-huh." Jo replied nodding her head.
"I wanted to wish you good luck. And I know about how you think Flint is trying to jinx you or your broom or the snitch, rest assured he wouldn't do anything like that." finished Snape.
".O--k." Jo said somewhat confused.
"You are free to go."
Jo stood up and walked out of the room her broom once again over her shoulder. But instead of returning to the Slytherin dorm she marched up the marble staircase to the seventh floor where the Gryffindor tower was located.
"Um.ma'am I don't know the password. I'm here to see my brother, Harry, can you please just this once let me in.I really have to talk to him." Jo pleaded to the Fat lady carrying a stern look on her face.
The portrait swung in a circle to where Jo could neither get in nor see the picture anymore. She heard the Fat lady's shrill scream. "HARRY POTTER! YOUR SISTER WANTS YOU NOW!
"Wow...Thanks Ma'am." Jo said surprised that the Fat lady did that for her.
Once Jo saw Harry come out of the common room she told him about her suspicions of Flint trying to bias the game and how Snape had called her into his office just to reassure her Flint wasn't cheating. "Don't you think that is just a little bit weird? I mean Snape never acts like that, it just sounded strange, why would he think that I thought that Flint thought of cheating?"
"But you did think he was cheating."
"Yeah, but how would Snape know?"
"I don't know Jo, talk it over with Cedric."
Sabrina pushed through the crowd and snuck into the dorm with a group of Slytherins.
"Spellman over here!" Jo called to Sabrina from a table near the fire.
Sabrina smiled and pushed her way to the back of the Common room to Jo. "So what first?"
"Have a seat and I'll show you what I've came up w/ so far. I want you to be like the editor and say if it's good to publish and stuff." Jo said bending over and picking up a peace of parchment. "This is what I have so far."
THE DANGER TIMES
By: Jo Potter and Sabrina Spellman
Looking For More Pocket Money?
IF you are looking for some more cash to put in your pocket please contact Sabrina Spellman (Ravenclaw) or Jo Potter (Slytherin). The Danger Times is currently looking for reporters and writers. Publisher Jo Potter will be happy to pay her staff a Sickle an hour. Depending on how business goes workers may gain raises. Ms. Potter and Editor Spellman are unable to employ every one. But they will keep your names in mind; if one of our reporters turns out to be unable to supply or put forth-eligible information, we will contact you ASAP. We will be taking applications from August 4 to August 14. Please fill out the form below and drop it by either the Slytherin dorm or the Ravenclaw dorm.
NAME:
HOUSE:
YEAR:
REPORTER OR WRITER:
"Looks good to me." Sabrina said after reading it over.
"How many copies do you think we need to supply? And it's going be hard to pick people. You think we're gonna have like a million applications?" Jo asked as she picked up the parchment.
"Um...Ask them on there to submit either a story or a way they will be able to help us." Sabrina said.
Jo began to scribble something down. "NOTE: PLEASE SUBMIT A SHORT STORY OR A WAY YOU CAN HELP US W/ THE DANGER TIMES. THANK YOU! Jo Potter and Sabrina Spellman" Jo read aloud.
"That's good." Sabrina said. "Now what we should do is make copies of them and post them in all of the Common Rooms and in classrooms that the teachers will let us, oh and in the Great hall...oh and out on the Quidditch fields, you know, where the stands are."
"Ok but we'll need help...You ask Cedric and Harry and I'll ask Malfoy and Jessica."
"Ok." Sabrina duplicated the application once and took one of the copies with her.
"Guys get over here!" Jo called to Draco and Jessica.
Malfoy and Jessie turned from a crowd of kids and jogged over.
"Man, your paper is a hit!" Malfoy congratulated.
"He's right, everyone is talking about it."
"Thanks guys. Well me and Sabrina need help putting these around the school will you help me out?" Jo asked handing them an application.
"Ok Malfoy you take your broom and hit the Quidditch stadium and Jess and I will take the class rooms." Jo said standing up. "Meet back here at oh lets say an hour or so."
"OK." Malfoy said walking off.
"Who all do you think is going to let us post this in their classrooms?" Jessie asked.
"Well... Uh to tell you the truth I have no clue." Jo said as they walked out of their dorm.
"I guess we will just have to talk to them all." Jessie said.
"I'll help you." Cedric said jogging up next to Jo.
"Oh hey Cedric!" Jo said happily. "Here you go." She handed him some of the pieces of parchment.
Cedric read over them and folded the top paper up. He then stuck the folded copy in his pocket. "Cool. So where should we start? Top and work down, or down and work up?"
"Work up."
"Cool." Cedric said. "Lead the way Ms. Potter."
Jo smiled. "Jess you take this floor. Cedric the next and I'll take the one after Cedric's floor. Hey Cedric did you really like my paper?"
"Sure I did." Cedric said with a smile.
"Coolness!" Jo said beaming.
Cedric took his stack of papers into the first classroom on that floor. "See ya later." He called over his shoulder.
"Meet back in my dorm in an hour or so!" Jo called as she jogged up the stairs to the next floor.
Sabrina saw Jo as she jogged down the hallway. "Oh, there you are, where do you want Harry and I to start? Hallways? Classrooms? Where?"
"Uh... well I got this floor and Cedric has the one below me and Jess the one below him and Malfoy, the Quidditch patch. So.Uh... Sabrina you get the floor above mine; and Harry, the one above hers ok? And meet back at my dorm in about an hour or so ok?" Jo said.
"All right then." Sabrina said turning and jogging off.
About an hour later Jo jogged back to the Slytherin Dorm.
Sabrina and Harry were already there, waiting patiently. Seconds later Jessie and Malfoy returned.
"Um, Diggory told me to tell you he has something he has to do and not to forget about practice after dinner, or whenever it was." Jessie said.
Jo nodded and gave the password to Slytherin. "Coca frogs."
"He wouldn't tell me what he had to do, he just said it was important and that he had to get it taken care of right away." Jessie explained farther.
"It's ok. Now y'all sit down and I'll be right back." Jo said jogging up to her dorm.
"OK, whatever " Jessie said dropping down on her usually spot on the couch.
Jo returned w/ a clipboard and a quill. "So did all the teachers let y'all put the papers in their classrooms?"
"Trelawney was the only one who refused." Sabrina said.
"I wonder why." Jo said sarcastically as she came back down with a list of the teachers. She crossed out Professor Trelawney's name. "Well now I want y'all to help me pick the people when the things start to come in are y'all down w/ that?"
"Sure." Sabrina said. "When they start coming in, but right now I need to run to a meeting with McGonnagall." Sabrina said glancing at her watch.
"Ok I'll see you later then. Oh and you 3 can try out if you want." Jo said to Harry, Jessica, and Malfoy.
Jo gave a 2-finger salute. "Well y'all can leave unless you have something to do here."
"I promised Filch I would meet him at the Quidditch patch after I was down here." Malfoy said leaving.
"Wow me and Sabrina are gonna have a lot of work to do...if we're gonna pick a staff and make sure they're doing there job right." Jo said w/ a sigh. She sat back her eyes closed.
"So you don't know what Diggory had to do?"
"No, all he said was it was urgent and not to forget about practice. Then he ran down the hall and seemed to just...disappear." Jessie replied.
"Hm... Why does he seem to have "urgent" things to do when it comes to me?"
"Dunno, he just looked somewhat fidgety when he caught up with me and told me to let you know." Jessie said looking at one of the applications.
"Fidgety eh? Where did he say he was going or looked like he was going?"
"Dunno, just ran down the hall and seemed to disappear into thin air." Jessie replied picking up Jo's quill and writing stuff on the paper.
"Hm. Strange."
" I think I saw him pull something out of his pocket on his way down the hall, but I don't know." Jessie said brushing the quill feather across her chin as she thought.
"I think he's avoiding me..."
"I think he is keeping secrets about some place that only he knows about." Jessie said out of the blue. "He seems to just evaporate a lot without telling anyone where he is going. Of course no one ever bothers to ask him, he intimidates so many people all the time, its like everyone is afraid of him."
"Well I'm gonna find out what he's up to...It's driving me crazy he's here one minute and then you turn your head for a second and he says 'Gotta run'. I'll ask him at practice." Jo said.
"I wonder why Diggory would just ditch out like that." Jessie muttered.
"It bugs me when he does. And then he doesn't even tell you where he's going or how long he'll be. Oh speak of the devil...Hi Diggory." Jo said looking up.
"Hi, Um...I just wanted to tell you we are going to have to move your make up practice until Monday, I have some urgent business in Spa...Snape's office that I have to take care of. See ya." Cedric said quickly, then he jogged away and out of the door.
"HOLD IT!" Jo called after him. "I am not waiting any longer. I want to practice to night w/ my captain and I want to know what urgent business you have to do."
"You don't need to worry about it, bye."
"No you jerk! Not bye! What are you up to?!" Jo said angrily.
"Yes, bye. I've got to go, See ya."
"No! Wait! Hang on you."
Cedric was out the door and gone before she could finish her sentence.
"Fine, forget you too." Jo muttered as she plopped back down in her chair.
Jo didn't see Cedric for the rest of the day, and he was still missing when she was supposed to have her practice. She found herself leaving potions Monday morning with still no sign of Cedric returning from where ever he went.
"Poor Longbottom...that's the fifth time he blew up his potion." Jo said giggling after class.
"I know, that boy just can't seem to get the hang of it can he?" Malfoy sneered.
"Longbottom be sure to get a decent hair cut this time!" Kathleen called after him squealing with laughter.
Neville Longbottom began crying softly to himself as he dashed for the Gryffindor common room.
"Hey you guys, have you seen Harry anywhere?" Sabrina asked as she jogged up to them.
"Nope." Jo replied
"Nuh uh." Malfoy said shrugging.
"You like him or something?" Kathleen asked.
"What's it to you?" Sabrina asked, suddenly annoyed with Kathleen.
"That's a yes."
"Try the Quidditch Patch or his dorm." Jo said.
"OK, I will." Sabrina called after her. "Oh, if you see Harry, tell him I am looking for him!"
"Will do." Jo called after her. " Well I gotta jet, Quidditch practice next." Jo said leaving Kathleen and Malfoy jogging off towards the Quidditch patch.
"Late Potter." Cedric said in his Captain like fashion. He was always joking around at any other class, but when it came to Quidditch, his attitude totally changed to a more serious, leader like attitude.
"I'm sorry, nice to see you decided to come back from the Neverlands."
"Yeah Potter, you're late, such a bad example!" A little girl said falling backward with giggles of glee.
Jo shot a glance at her. "Who is she?"
Cedric sighed. "My older brother's daughter."
"Your niece?"
"Yeah."
"Well why didn't you just say your niece?"
"Potter, in the air, two extra laps for being late."
Jo sighed but got in to the air to do her laps like Cedric told her too. "Ok, fine, don't answer my question. Hey, what are we doing to day?"
"Just worry about your laps Potter!" Cedric called up to her. "Late Chang." He said as Cho jogged onto the field.
"I broke a nail."
"OK, two extra laps for being late, and three extra for using such a lame, sickening excuse such as" Cedric imitated Cho when she broke her nail. "Like, oh my God, I like, broke my nail, now I'm like, going to have to like, redo it and be late so I can like, be late."
"Shut up Cedric! And I don't have to do the laps if I don't want to!"
"And you don't have to be on the team if you don't do the laps, I am the captain, I take Quidditch more seriously than I do anything else, 'cept for maybe...never mind, that doesn't matter. If you don't do the laps, then you're out. If you are ever late again because "you were, like, in the middle of tea" or "you broke a nail" you are off."
"Fine!" Cho said getting up in the air. She fly into the back of Jo on her last lap, causing the second Potter to fall.
"Ahhh! Cedric help!"
Cedric, acting quickly, raised his hand and Jo froze in the air. Several of the team froze to watch. They, nor anyone else in the school, had seen someone perform magic without a wand, and they least expected to see someone at the school to do it.
Cedric slowly lowered his hand, which lowered Jo to the ground to where she could tough easily.
Jo stumbled a little. The shock of being stopped in mid air was still upon her. "Cookie please." She said before she fell on to her knees.
Kimmy, Cedric's little niece, tossed a double fudge cookie to her with a small part missing from where she had pulled off a bit for herself. Everyone else was still staring at Cedric.
"Hello?! I know y'all haven't finished your laps yet!!" Cedric called up to them. "I could have gone around the world a hundred times in the amount of time it is takin' y'all to finish a few laps!" Cedric jogged over to where Jo was and pulled out a bottle of liquid from his ropes. "Drink up Potter and go sit with Kimmy until your head clears, ok?"
"Ok, who's Kimmy?" Jo asked.
"My older brother's daughter."
"Your niece?"
"Go sit next to Kimmy, Potter."
Jo sat and drank down the liquid after eating the cookie Kimmy threw at her. Quidditch Slytherins begin filing into the stands to watch the Ravenclaw practice.
"Better yet Potter, you still have laps to do." Cedric said.
"Where's my broom? What are the Slytherin Quidditch team members here?" Jo asked.
"I don't know Potter, but if you can talk normally now you best finish your laps." Cedric warned.
"Without a broom? Talk normally what are you talking about?" Jo asked confused.
"Find a broom Potter and get a move on, you still got five laps to do."
"Gimme that." Jo took Cedric's broom and got up in the air to finish her laps. "What are you guys doing here?" She asked as she stopped on her 5th lap in front of the Slytherin Quidditch team. The Slytherins just snickered and didn't answer.
"Potter, are you done yet?!"
"She is talking to her boyfriends." Kimmy giggled.
Cedric shot her an annoyed glance and yelled up to Jo. "Get down here if you're done Potter!! You got stuff to do besides talk to competition!"
"If you mess up my practice I'll make sure none of you will forget it." Jo sneered. She flew down and dismounted Cedric's broom. "You yelled?"
"I have already released the snitches, practice these, I'm sure you can figure them out." Cedric said handing her some papers. "I have work I have to do, so y'all are doing self-learned practice. But I am going to be right here, so don't try cutting out some of your practice. Get to work, and catch your broom, it is starting to annoy me." Cedric nodded toward her broom flying in circles five feet above his head, then moving on to Kimmy's then moving back to his.
Jo laughed a little. She grabbed her broom and began to work on her new moves. In 5 minuets flat she mastered 2 of them and caught half of the snitches that were let lose.
"You coping down her moves Malfoy? Snape will be happy to see you have her plans. We're all counting on you to win." Flint said to Malfoy.
"Yeah, copying them down, sure I am." Malfoy muttered.
"That's great. You know if you don't go along with what Snape said I'm gonna have to sack you."
"I know! I said I was copying them down!! What's wrong, got a quaffle in your ear?!" Malfoy said agitatedly.
"You alright Draco?" Jo said zooming past him.
"I'm fine." Malfoy muttered to Jo.
After practice Jo got changed with the rest of her team and walked back to the Castle with Cedric. They were both chatting about the coming Quidditch game against Slytherin.
"Yeah, I'm ready, I can beat them!" Jo said happily.
"You seem pretty confident." Cedric said.
"I know I can beat them, piece of cake. I'll see you later Cedric, I'm off to do some last minuet studding for Charms. Byes." Jo said as she walked towards her dorm.
"Yeah, catch ya later." Cedric muttered as he walked up the marble staircase to the Ravenclaw dorm.
"Oh hey Potter, Professor Snape would like to see you." Jess said as she saw Jo walk in to the Slytherin common room with her broom over her shoulder. "You can leave your broom with me I'll put it away."
"Thanks Davis." Jo said as she turned to leave. "Oh and if you jinx my broom like I know Flint would like you too you'll be regretting it big time."
Jessica just stared at her. ".Ok, whatever you say Potter." She replied slightly confused. "What makes you think Flint wants your broom jinxed?"
"Lets just call it a lucky guess shall we?" Jo said with a smirk. "He's been after trying to make me lose the game ever since Malfoy came back from Snape's office that day. I have an idea Flint has some new cheats in mind this time through."
Jo walked down the dungeon like corridor to Professor Snape's office. She knocked three times on his door.
"Come in." Said his voice from behind the door.
Jo walked in.
"Ms. Potter, please have a seat." Snape said gesturing to the seat in front of him.
Jo sat down and put her broom on her lap. "You wanted to see me Professor?"
"Yes, Ms. Potter, I'm sure you are aware that this Saturday is the first game between Ravenclaw and Slytherin. It's going to be the first time you've ever played against your own house."
"Uh-huh." Jo replied nodding her head.
"I wanted to wish you good luck. And I know about how you think Flint is trying to jinx you or your broom or the snitch, rest assured he wouldn't do anything like that." finished Snape.
".O--k." Jo said somewhat confused.
"You are free to go."
Jo stood up and walked out of the room her broom once again over her shoulder. But instead of returning to the Slytherin dorm she marched up the marble staircase to the seventh floor where the Gryffindor tower was located.
"Um.ma'am I don't know the password. I'm here to see my brother, Harry, can you please just this once let me in.I really have to talk to him." Jo pleaded to the Fat lady carrying a stern look on her face.
The portrait swung in a circle to where Jo could neither get in nor see the picture anymore. She heard the Fat lady's shrill scream. "HARRY POTTER! YOUR SISTER WANTS YOU NOW!
"Wow...Thanks Ma'am." Jo said surprised that the Fat lady did that for her.
Once Jo saw Harry come out of the common room she told him about her suspicions of Flint trying to bias the game and how Snape had called her into his office just to reassure her Flint wasn't cheating. "Don't you think that is just a little bit weird? I mean Snape never acts like that, it just sounded strange, why would he think that I thought that Flint thought of cheating?"
"But you did think he was cheating."
"Yeah, but how would Snape know?"
"I don't know Jo, talk it over with Cedric."