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Chapter 39
Capture Crusade
It was the 12th of February before Harry and his classmates found out anything at all about the 13th of February and even then they didn't find out much if anything at all. All the Gryffindor fifth years knew was that they were to meet in the Great Hall early the next day and should expect to have their entire Saturday taken up with some activity that they knew nothing about.
It had been a grueling spring term so far. The homework load had become almost unbearable. The only downside to dropping divination was that now Ron and Harry didn't have any classes where they could just make up the homework answers. Additionally, Professor McGonagall had made good on her promise to have them work on the apparition spell on weekends until everyone had gotten it down. That was the only time they left the school because they still hadn't been allowed any Hogsmeade weekends.
Harry barely had any time to hold his quidditch practices. Fortunately Gryffindor's next match was against Ravenclaw who lost resoundingly to Hufflepuff a couple of weeks ago. Even though Harry was pretty sure that his team could beat Hufflepuff without practicing; he still wanted to get in a few quality sessions. The Quidditch Cup was theirs this year if they didn't anything really stupid in either of their next two games.
Ron, Harry and Hermione had all been too busy to even spend much time thinking about everything that had happened during their Christmas vacation. They hadn't spent much time with Draco except for their time together in potions class. (Potions classes resumed the second week of the term after the staff finally set the dungeon right again.)
The only real bright spot for Harry was that he had managed to master the invisibility spell after just working on it for one month. The real bonus was that in the process of practicing it had gotten to spend a lot of time with Sirius and Lupin. Even with all the dark activity going on, Sirius acted like a new wizard now that he had been publicly exonerated and Harry was glad for a chance to spend time with him. Harry had seen Dumbledore only occasionally in the past few weeks and every time, unlike his godfather, the headmaster seemed older and more tired than Harry remembered.
That night all of the fifth year students went to bed without knowing what was in store for them the next day although they had talked about nothing else all day.
The next morning breakfast ended early and by eight o'clock everyone else had been shooed out and only the fifth years remained. Staff members remained seated at their table. Professor Dumbledore finally rose to tell the fifth years what they were going to do today.
"I would like to congratulate everyone in here on their progress in their new classes. Today we are going to test that knowledge in a practical application." All the students were somewhat surprised and just stared at the headmaster until he continued. "Today we're going to play a game similar to the muggle game of Capture the Flag."
"We're going to what similar to the what???" More than one student could be heard asking.
"Settle down. Settle down now. I'm sure this will all become clear as mud as soon as I explain a few more things." Dumbledore's smile didn't fade at all when none of the students seemed to appreciate his humor. "Two houses are going to compete against the other two of you in a game testing many things that you've learned so far. Now, first things first. The teams --- "
As was always the case when Harry found out that he was going to have to share something with one of the other houses he found himself chanting in his head with all of his might, "Not Slytherin, not Slytherin, not Slytherin." But of course he wasn't at all surprised when Dumbledore announced that one of the two teams would be ---
"Gryffindor and Slytherin."
Groans could be heard from both houses. Dumbledore was quick to realize that the groaning would continue all day if he let it so he started talking again without waiting for the noise to subside.
"That obviously leaves Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff to be the other team." Both of those houses were all smiles. They didn't care about Gryffindor one way or the other but were glad to have not been paired with Slytherin. "Now before we go any further, I will give each house five minutes to elect a captain. Use any system you all can agree upon."
Harry was almost instantly selected as captain for the Gryffindors for a couple of reasons. The first was that Ron had nominated him before anyone else could be nominated and the second reason was that no one wanted the job. After all, who would want to be the captain of a team that had to do who knows what alongside the Slytherins? Of course Draco was the captain of his "sister house". Harry was working his brain overtime to try to remind himself that Draco wasn't his enemy any more, even if they couldn't exactly be considered friends.
"When a captain has been selected I need him or her to please come up here and get this packet of information from me but no one is to open it until I say so."
Harry and Draco were the only two students to walk up to the staff table and receive their packets. They arrived at the head table at the same time and although they didn't smile at each other, Dumbledore considered it real progress that they didn't sneer at each other either. By the time they got back to their seats the other two captains had gone up to retrieve their packets.
"All right. This clock" Dumbledore conjured up an enormous muggle clock that floated in the middle of the room, "is the official game clock. At 0815 you can all open up your packets. I'm afraid that none of us will answer any questions although we will follow alongside at times to observe what is going on." And with that the headmaster sat down.
No one really had anything to do except watch the huge clock. For no other reason than the fact that he was itching for something to do Harry got up and went to talk to Draco. They were both nodding their heads and when Harry got back to his table to told everyone to follow him to the end of the room. The Slytherins had joined them across the room from their opponents so that when the time came, they could speak without fear of being overheard.
Finally 0815 came and all four captains tore into their packets. Inside was a summary page of objectives, a list of rules, a map and what appeared to be an official game watch. Harry read the summary page aloud first.
The object of this game is simple. Team HR is going to plant their flag anywhere within the boundaries dictated by the enclosed map and defend it. They are going to get a two-hour head start. At precisely 1015 Team GS will be allowed to begin their quest for the flag. The game ends when Team GS captures the flag or at sunset, whichever occurs first.
Hogwarts' staff will be milling about just to watch everyone's progress and to ensure safety. Do not be distracted by that.
The winning team will receive a reward.
"Whoa!" Was all Ron had to say. Indeed "whoa!" about summed up Harry's thoughts too. This could be a lot of fun --- if only they didn't have to work with the Slytherins. Hermione's voice brought him back to reality.
"Let's get a look at those rules Harry." He smiled inwardly to himself. You could always count on Hermione to want to learn the rules --- no matter what. Nevertheless Harry pulled them out and also read them to everyone.
The following are the rules governing today's game:
1) The flag must remain visible to the naked eye.
2) No charming the flag until Team HR takes it from the Great Hall.
3) No invisibility cloaks.
4) No asking or receiving help of any kind from anyone not currently in his or her fifth year.
5) Do not stray from the boundaries set forth in the map.
6) Everyone must participate. No one can, for example, return to his room to await the outcome.
7) Have fun!
Those all seemed straight forward enough. He studied the map for a minute before passing it around to the rest of his classmates along with the summary and the rules. He put the watch on his own wrist noticing that it currently read 0850. Team HR was already leaving the Great Hall. Harry called Draco over and the two of them went into the corner to discuss things.
"Well Draco what do you make of all this?"
"I think Dumbledore has finally gone off of the deep end."
"He has not and besides that's not what I meant. How should we spend the rest of the time until 1015?"
"Well my first suggestion is to divide our people up into smaller groups. I don't think groups of ten or twenty are likely to accomplish much."
"Sounds fair. I know I want one group to play devil's advocate and decide what they would do if they were defending the flag."
"Pot --- er --- I mean Harry, that's almost brilliant. I'll deny it if you ever tell anyone I said this but your classmates are smarter than mine so why don't you have three or four of your people do that?"
"OK but what about the rest of the people?"
"Well I guess some people can work on a plan of attack.
"Ok let's have the remaining folks conjure up some stuff to help up out."
"Like what?"
"Like whatever they can think of. Broomsticks come to mind."
"Fine then, let's get started." Draco then called in a louder voice. "All right everyone we have a plan. We're going --- "
Harry had a sudden thought and interrupted his counterpart. "Before Draco tells you about our plan I first want everyone to tell the rest of us what you've been studying in your independent study class. I'll start. I've been studying shielding charms."
"So have Ron and I." Hermione added quickly. They went around the room and it soon became obvious to everyone that the Gryffindors were all learning defensive things while all of the Slytherins had been learning offensive curses and hexes. Harry wasn't the only one to find that interesting. He turned to watch Draco signifying that he wouldn't interrupt him again.
"Right so anyway until 0930 we're going to break into three different groups and work on separate things. Then we'll take a break until 0945 and then meet up and discuss our findings and finalize our strategy." Harry and Draco went back to their tables to split up their groups.
Harry assigned Hermione and all the boys (he didn't want Neville to hurt anybody while trying to conjure up something) to work as the devil's advocate group. He told the others about their task of conjuring up anything and everything that might be useful.
Draco and Harry spent the time going from group to group and trying to decide on their master plan. Because of the different areas of magic the two houses had been concentrating on, it made the most sense for the Gryffindors to pair up with the Slytherins and vice versa instead of with each other so every two wizards would have someone strong in offense and someone strong in defense. Harry was still trying to decide if it made more sense for him and Draco to travel together or separately when 0945 rolled around and everyone met up in the middle of the Great Hall.
"OK," Harry addressed the assembled students noticing that Professors Dumbledore, McGonagall and Snape had moved closer, he supposed to better hear what was going on. "Hermione let's start with your group. Quickly tell us what you all came up with to do if you were them."
Hermione stood up. "Well first of all we decided to charm the flag so that no one could do a simple summoning spell."
Harry slapped himself on the forehead. "Well let's at least try that when the time comes in case they're as daft as I am and didn't think of it."
Hermione smiled and continued. "Then we decided that we'd spend the time setting up booby traps and thus free our people to attack the other team. We'd basically hide our people along the boundaries that the map lays out and we'd have a few people on broomsticks randomly cursing people. Finally we'd hide two or three people near to flag as a last barrier."
Harry found himself once again wishing that he had gotten the Marauder's Map back from Dumbledore. He knew though that if he had it though Dumbledore probably would have thought to include it in the list of things forbidden in the rules. He prompted Hermione to continue.
"What sort of traps do you think they set?"
"Well for starters we would set something to go off immediately outside of the entrance hall hoping that at 1015 everyone just ran outside without paying attention."
"Oh that's good." Several of the students were nodding at this. Harry didn't know for sure who had thought of most of these things of even if the other team had thought of all these things but he still couldn't help once again thinking about how clever Hermione was.
"We also would set traps in random places that were triggered not only by stepping in a certain spot but also by increasing to a certain noise level." She sat back down indicating she was done.
Draco turned to the attack group consisting mostly of his peers. "What kind of plan do you all suggest?"
"Groups of four for starters. That should give us five groups. Our initial problem is to find the flag so the groups split up. Two of the groups need to be on broomsticks. We meet in front of Hagrid's hut at 1115 and compare notes. We've also worked out where each group should look during that first hour."
"Great." Harry said looking up at the giant clock. "We have about twenty minutes left. We'll let the last group talk and then we'll spend the last few minutes charming and shielding each other."
Lavender Brown stood up. "For starters we've summoned some broomsticks. We also charmed these parchments to copy down anything that gets written down on any of the other parchments. It's the only way we could think of to communicate with each other after we split up. We enchanted enough for everyone to have their own in case they get split off from a group. Finally we created a jail cell to keep anyone from the other team that we capture so they don't rejoin the fight."
She opened up the palm of her hand to reveal a tiny box not big enough for a mouse. "We shrank it down so that we could put it wherever we wanted. I'm thinking in front of Hagrid's hut. We charmed it so that only Draco or Harry could open it to let anyone out. To lock someone inside all anyone on our team needs to do is say 'Incarcerate' and the person closest to the door will get sucked inside. Be careful that you're not the person closest to the door when you say the word though." And with that she passed out the parchments and sat down.
It was 1005. Draco and Harry told everyone to pair themselves off into groups of about four with an even number of Gryffindors and Slytherins in each group. Ron and Hermione partnered up with Blaise Zabini and Millicent Bulstrode. At least they weren't Crabbe and Goyle but they were still Slytherins.
By 1010 everyone knew where he or she were going to go (only after Draco and Harry tossed some rocks out of the door to make sure the exit was not booby-trapped) and had all been protected by shield spells.
At 1014 the gang including the three professors walked over to the doors leading out of the Great Hall and everyone was still watching the giant clock. At 1015 everyone ran out to the massive doors in the entranceway.
Draco magicked the doors open and nothing happened. He and Harry conjured some rocks to fly and roll out the door to look for traps but nothing happened. Shrugging, Draco walked outside. When it became obvious that there weren't any traps at the door everyone ran out following in his wake. The five groups all ran their predetermined ways. Draco and Harry walked north to one of the boundaries where they could see both east and west of the castle and keep an eye on most of their groups.
After about five minutes Harry turned to Draco. "This is boring."
"So what do you suggest?"
"Accio Firebolt"
Draco smiled and summoned his broomstick as well. In no time both captains were in the air.
Professor Dumbledore turned to his two companions as all three of them watched Harry and Draco fly up into the sky. "So what do you two think now?"
McGonagall shrugged. "Albus you might be right about those two being able to work together but I wouldn't bet the school on it."
Snape said, "Headmaster I don't think it's going to last. When they face adversity, they'll be at each other's throats just like they always are."
"Well for all our sakes I hope you're both wrong."
Meanwhile the two captains were scanning the grounds for any sign of the other team or their flag. Harry and Draco both saw it at the same time and immediately turned their broomsticks around hopefully before Team HR saw them.
"Draco, did you see all that?"
"Yeah, how are we going to get through all that?"
"I don't know but it's time to start over. Let's bring everyone back in for another planning session. We have loads of time until sunset."
Draco nodded and pulled out his enchanted parchment and began scribbling. Soon everyone met at Hagrid's hut waiting for their captains to tell them why they summoned them back.
Draco's face looked severe as he addressed the team. "You guys aren't going to believe what we saw."
A/N -Share your thoughts with me
A/N - I hope everyone likes the game. I wanted to do something different besides dueling.
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A/N - Keep posting ideas and suggestions, it can only help.
Chapter 39
Capture Crusade
It was the 12th of February before Harry and his classmates found out anything at all about the 13th of February and even then they didn't find out much if anything at all. All the Gryffindor fifth years knew was that they were to meet in the Great Hall early the next day and should expect to have their entire Saturday taken up with some activity that they knew nothing about.
It had been a grueling spring term so far. The homework load had become almost unbearable. The only downside to dropping divination was that now Ron and Harry didn't have any classes where they could just make up the homework answers. Additionally, Professor McGonagall had made good on her promise to have them work on the apparition spell on weekends until everyone had gotten it down. That was the only time they left the school because they still hadn't been allowed any Hogsmeade weekends.
Harry barely had any time to hold his quidditch practices. Fortunately Gryffindor's next match was against Ravenclaw who lost resoundingly to Hufflepuff a couple of weeks ago. Even though Harry was pretty sure that his team could beat Hufflepuff without practicing; he still wanted to get in a few quality sessions. The Quidditch Cup was theirs this year if they didn't anything really stupid in either of their next two games.
Ron, Harry and Hermione had all been too busy to even spend much time thinking about everything that had happened during their Christmas vacation. They hadn't spent much time with Draco except for their time together in potions class. (Potions classes resumed the second week of the term after the staff finally set the dungeon right again.)
The only real bright spot for Harry was that he had managed to master the invisibility spell after just working on it for one month. The real bonus was that in the process of practicing it had gotten to spend a lot of time with Sirius and Lupin. Even with all the dark activity going on, Sirius acted like a new wizard now that he had been publicly exonerated and Harry was glad for a chance to spend time with him. Harry had seen Dumbledore only occasionally in the past few weeks and every time, unlike his godfather, the headmaster seemed older and more tired than Harry remembered.
That night all of the fifth year students went to bed without knowing what was in store for them the next day although they had talked about nothing else all day.
The next morning breakfast ended early and by eight o'clock everyone else had been shooed out and only the fifth years remained. Staff members remained seated at their table. Professor Dumbledore finally rose to tell the fifth years what they were going to do today.
"I would like to congratulate everyone in here on their progress in their new classes. Today we are going to test that knowledge in a practical application." All the students were somewhat surprised and just stared at the headmaster until he continued. "Today we're going to play a game similar to the muggle game of Capture the Flag."
"We're going to what similar to the what???" More than one student could be heard asking.
"Settle down. Settle down now. I'm sure this will all become clear as mud as soon as I explain a few more things." Dumbledore's smile didn't fade at all when none of the students seemed to appreciate his humor. "Two houses are going to compete against the other two of you in a game testing many things that you've learned so far. Now, first things first. The teams --- "
As was always the case when Harry found out that he was going to have to share something with one of the other houses he found himself chanting in his head with all of his might, "Not Slytherin, not Slytherin, not Slytherin." But of course he wasn't at all surprised when Dumbledore announced that one of the two teams would be ---
"Gryffindor and Slytherin."
Groans could be heard from both houses. Dumbledore was quick to realize that the groaning would continue all day if he let it so he started talking again without waiting for the noise to subside.
"That obviously leaves Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff to be the other team." Both of those houses were all smiles. They didn't care about Gryffindor one way or the other but were glad to have not been paired with Slytherin. "Now before we go any further, I will give each house five minutes to elect a captain. Use any system you all can agree upon."
Harry was almost instantly selected as captain for the Gryffindors for a couple of reasons. The first was that Ron had nominated him before anyone else could be nominated and the second reason was that no one wanted the job. After all, who would want to be the captain of a team that had to do who knows what alongside the Slytherins? Of course Draco was the captain of his "sister house". Harry was working his brain overtime to try to remind himself that Draco wasn't his enemy any more, even if they couldn't exactly be considered friends.
"When a captain has been selected I need him or her to please come up here and get this packet of information from me but no one is to open it until I say so."
Harry and Draco were the only two students to walk up to the staff table and receive their packets. They arrived at the head table at the same time and although they didn't smile at each other, Dumbledore considered it real progress that they didn't sneer at each other either. By the time they got back to their seats the other two captains had gone up to retrieve their packets.
"All right. This clock" Dumbledore conjured up an enormous muggle clock that floated in the middle of the room, "is the official game clock. At 0815 you can all open up your packets. I'm afraid that none of us will answer any questions although we will follow alongside at times to observe what is going on." And with that the headmaster sat down.
No one really had anything to do except watch the huge clock. For no other reason than the fact that he was itching for something to do Harry got up and went to talk to Draco. They were both nodding their heads and when Harry got back to his table to told everyone to follow him to the end of the room. The Slytherins had joined them across the room from their opponents so that when the time came, they could speak without fear of being overheard.
Finally 0815 came and all four captains tore into their packets. Inside was a summary page of objectives, a list of rules, a map and what appeared to be an official game watch. Harry read the summary page aloud first.
The object of this game is simple. Team HR is going to plant their flag anywhere within the boundaries dictated by the enclosed map and defend it. They are going to get a two-hour head start. At precisely 1015 Team GS will be allowed to begin their quest for the flag. The game ends when Team GS captures the flag or at sunset, whichever occurs first.
Hogwarts' staff will be milling about just to watch everyone's progress and to ensure safety. Do not be distracted by that.
The winning team will receive a reward.
"Whoa!" Was all Ron had to say. Indeed "whoa!" about summed up Harry's thoughts too. This could be a lot of fun --- if only they didn't have to work with the Slytherins. Hermione's voice brought him back to reality.
"Let's get a look at those rules Harry." He smiled inwardly to himself. You could always count on Hermione to want to learn the rules --- no matter what. Nevertheless Harry pulled them out and also read them to everyone.
The following are the rules governing today's game:
1) The flag must remain visible to the naked eye.
2) No charming the flag until Team HR takes it from the Great Hall.
3) No invisibility cloaks.
4) No asking or receiving help of any kind from anyone not currently in his or her fifth year.
5) Do not stray from the boundaries set forth in the map.
6) Everyone must participate. No one can, for example, return to his room to await the outcome.
7) Have fun!
Those all seemed straight forward enough. He studied the map for a minute before passing it around to the rest of his classmates along with the summary and the rules. He put the watch on his own wrist noticing that it currently read 0850. Team HR was already leaving the Great Hall. Harry called Draco over and the two of them went into the corner to discuss things.
"Well Draco what do you make of all this?"
"I think Dumbledore has finally gone off of the deep end."
"He has not and besides that's not what I meant. How should we spend the rest of the time until 1015?"
"Well my first suggestion is to divide our people up into smaller groups. I don't think groups of ten or twenty are likely to accomplish much."
"Sounds fair. I know I want one group to play devil's advocate and decide what they would do if they were defending the flag."
"Pot --- er --- I mean Harry, that's almost brilliant. I'll deny it if you ever tell anyone I said this but your classmates are smarter than mine so why don't you have three or four of your people do that?"
"OK but what about the rest of the people?"
"Well I guess some people can work on a plan of attack.
"Ok let's have the remaining folks conjure up some stuff to help up out."
"Like what?"
"Like whatever they can think of. Broomsticks come to mind."
"Fine then, let's get started." Draco then called in a louder voice. "All right everyone we have a plan. We're going --- "
Harry had a sudden thought and interrupted his counterpart. "Before Draco tells you about our plan I first want everyone to tell the rest of us what you've been studying in your independent study class. I'll start. I've been studying shielding charms."
"So have Ron and I." Hermione added quickly. They went around the room and it soon became obvious to everyone that the Gryffindors were all learning defensive things while all of the Slytherins had been learning offensive curses and hexes. Harry wasn't the only one to find that interesting. He turned to watch Draco signifying that he wouldn't interrupt him again.
"Right so anyway until 0930 we're going to break into three different groups and work on separate things. Then we'll take a break until 0945 and then meet up and discuss our findings and finalize our strategy." Harry and Draco went back to their tables to split up their groups.
Harry assigned Hermione and all the boys (he didn't want Neville to hurt anybody while trying to conjure up something) to work as the devil's advocate group. He told the others about their task of conjuring up anything and everything that might be useful.
Draco and Harry spent the time going from group to group and trying to decide on their master plan. Because of the different areas of magic the two houses had been concentrating on, it made the most sense for the Gryffindors to pair up with the Slytherins and vice versa instead of with each other so every two wizards would have someone strong in offense and someone strong in defense. Harry was still trying to decide if it made more sense for him and Draco to travel together or separately when 0945 rolled around and everyone met up in the middle of the Great Hall.
"OK," Harry addressed the assembled students noticing that Professors Dumbledore, McGonagall and Snape had moved closer, he supposed to better hear what was going on. "Hermione let's start with your group. Quickly tell us what you all came up with to do if you were them."
Hermione stood up. "Well first of all we decided to charm the flag so that no one could do a simple summoning spell."
Harry slapped himself on the forehead. "Well let's at least try that when the time comes in case they're as daft as I am and didn't think of it."
Hermione smiled and continued. "Then we decided that we'd spend the time setting up booby traps and thus free our people to attack the other team. We'd basically hide our people along the boundaries that the map lays out and we'd have a few people on broomsticks randomly cursing people. Finally we'd hide two or three people near to flag as a last barrier."
Harry found himself once again wishing that he had gotten the Marauder's Map back from Dumbledore. He knew though that if he had it though Dumbledore probably would have thought to include it in the list of things forbidden in the rules. He prompted Hermione to continue.
"What sort of traps do you think they set?"
"Well for starters we would set something to go off immediately outside of the entrance hall hoping that at 1015 everyone just ran outside without paying attention."
"Oh that's good." Several of the students were nodding at this. Harry didn't know for sure who had thought of most of these things of even if the other team had thought of all these things but he still couldn't help once again thinking about how clever Hermione was.
"We also would set traps in random places that were triggered not only by stepping in a certain spot but also by increasing to a certain noise level." She sat back down indicating she was done.
Draco turned to the attack group consisting mostly of his peers. "What kind of plan do you all suggest?"
"Groups of four for starters. That should give us five groups. Our initial problem is to find the flag so the groups split up. Two of the groups need to be on broomsticks. We meet in front of Hagrid's hut at 1115 and compare notes. We've also worked out where each group should look during that first hour."
"Great." Harry said looking up at the giant clock. "We have about twenty minutes left. We'll let the last group talk and then we'll spend the last few minutes charming and shielding each other."
Lavender Brown stood up. "For starters we've summoned some broomsticks. We also charmed these parchments to copy down anything that gets written down on any of the other parchments. It's the only way we could think of to communicate with each other after we split up. We enchanted enough for everyone to have their own in case they get split off from a group. Finally we created a jail cell to keep anyone from the other team that we capture so they don't rejoin the fight."
She opened up the palm of her hand to reveal a tiny box not big enough for a mouse. "We shrank it down so that we could put it wherever we wanted. I'm thinking in front of Hagrid's hut. We charmed it so that only Draco or Harry could open it to let anyone out. To lock someone inside all anyone on our team needs to do is say 'Incarcerate' and the person closest to the door will get sucked inside. Be careful that you're not the person closest to the door when you say the word though." And with that she passed out the parchments and sat down.
It was 1005. Draco and Harry told everyone to pair themselves off into groups of about four with an even number of Gryffindors and Slytherins in each group. Ron and Hermione partnered up with Blaise Zabini and Millicent Bulstrode. At least they weren't Crabbe and Goyle but they were still Slytherins.
By 1010 everyone knew where he or she were going to go (only after Draco and Harry tossed some rocks out of the door to make sure the exit was not booby-trapped) and had all been protected by shield spells.
At 1014 the gang including the three professors walked over to the doors leading out of the Great Hall and everyone was still watching the giant clock. At 1015 everyone ran out to the massive doors in the entranceway.
Draco magicked the doors open and nothing happened. He and Harry conjured some rocks to fly and roll out the door to look for traps but nothing happened. Shrugging, Draco walked outside. When it became obvious that there weren't any traps at the door everyone ran out following in his wake. The five groups all ran their predetermined ways. Draco and Harry walked north to one of the boundaries where they could see both east and west of the castle and keep an eye on most of their groups.
After about five minutes Harry turned to Draco. "This is boring."
"So what do you suggest?"
"Accio Firebolt"
Draco smiled and summoned his broomstick as well. In no time both captains were in the air.
Professor Dumbledore turned to his two companions as all three of them watched Harry and Draco fly up into the sky. "So what do you two think now?"
McGonagall shrugged. "Albus you might be right about those two being able to work together but I wouldn't bet the school on it."
Snape said, "Headmaster I don't think it's going to last. When they face adversity, they'll be at each other's throats just like they always are."
"Well for all our sakes I hope you're both wrong."
Meanwhile the two captains were scanning the grounds for any sign of the other team or their flag. Harry and Draco both saw it at the same time and immediately turned their broomsticks around hopefully before Team HR saw them.
"Draco, did you see all that?"
"Yeah, how are we going to get through all that?"
"I don't know but it's time to start over. Let's bring everyone back in for another planning session. We have loads of time until sunset."
Draco nodded and pulled out his enchanted parchment and began scribbling. Soon everyone met at Hagrid's hut waiting for their captains to tell them why they summoned them back.
Draco's face looked severe as he addressed the team. "You guys aren't going to believe what we saw."
A/N -Share your thoughts with me
A/N - I hope everyone likes the game. I wanted to do something different besides dueling.
.