Luna and Kevin went back to the Great Hall and talked to Dan about what happened.

"Malfoy?" said Dan, "I thought - Darn it, Kevin, you've shouldn't of jinxed him in the first place!"

"You sound like my mum," muttered Kevin, "He also deserved it!"

"Yeah but now he's going to rip your neck off."

Kevin moaned.

"Here comes the mail," said Luna.

Thirty-four owls flew in the Great Hall. Ten owls went to the Hufflepuff table, eleven to the Gryffindors, nine to the Ravenclaws and four to the Slytherins. Dan received a copy of The Quibbler, Luna received a copy of The Witch Weekly. Kevin, however, received a howler from his parents.

"Oh, I wonder what they have to scold about now," said Kevin.

"They didn't say anything about you and Malfoy's incident," said Dan, "It's probably about that."

"Well, that was a slow response," muttered Kevin.

"They were probably thinking what to say," said Luna.

Before Kevin could even open the howler, it exploded. He fell off his seat.

"JUST BECAUSE ME AND YOUR FATHER SAID WE WERE PROUD OF HOW GOOD YOU WERE DOING IN CHARMS AND SPELLS, DOESN'T MEAN YOU COULD JINX A STUDENT! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? ON A PREFECT! THAT WAS INSANE! THE NEXT TIME YOU ASK FOR A NEW BROOM, FORGET ABOUT IT!"

The howler tore into little burning pieces, and Kevin sat by the table again. A whole bunch of students were laughing at him.

"That was a little short, don't you think?" he said to Luna.

"Maybe it was the owl" she said, pointing at a brown owl on the table. It was sleeping.

"He's getting old," said Kevin.

"A new broom?" asked Dan, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, ever since I took a few trips to Hogsmeade, I've been playing quidditch with a few third years. My broom is a little old though," Kevin said.

"Hey, you should be on the quidditch team! What do you play as back in Hogsmeade anyway?"

"A chaser, sometimes a seeker… I played as a beater once but I didn't like it that much."

"I heard the Hufflepuff team needs a better seeker," said Luna.

"Kevin! Why didn't you try out for the quidditch team? It would be so wicked!" said Dan.

"Well, for one thing, my broom is so old and my mom won't buy me a new one. Besides, I'm not that good," said Kevin.

"Well, maybe one of the teachers can give you a new one," said Luna, "Also, if the tryouts don't turn out good for you it's okay, right?"

"Yeah, come on Kevin, it would be great!" said Dan.

Kevin sighed, "I guess it wouldn't hurt."

"Alright then," said Luna with a smile, "But let's go to our classes first."

Everyone was leaving the Great Hall already. The three Hufflepuffs were walking to their Herbology class now.

"Maybe we should all try out for quidditch," said Dan, "I've played it several times, and Luna, you need to take a break from studying so much once in a while."

Luna glared at him.

"Okay, maybe just me and Dan," said Kevin.

"I probably couldn't play quidditch to save my life," said Luna with laugh.

They all started to laugh until they saw Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle.

"You!" yelled Malfoy, glaring at Kevin.

"AHH!!" screamed Kevin. He ran away from the three Slytherins while they were chasing him.

"You'll pay you bloody rat!" yelled Malfoy.

Luna took her wand out of her pocket.

"We have to help Kevin!" she said to Dan.

Dan stared at her in surprise for a while.

"Are you nuts?"

"No but he's our friend! We should do something," said Luna, following the Slytherins now. Dan followed her.

It was two hours later when the three Hufflepuffs and Slytherins ended up in Professor's McGonagall's office. Kevin's nose was bleeding, Dan had a black eye and Luna's ankle was throbbing with pain. Malfoy had two black eyes and a slightly bloody nose. Crabbe was kicked in the stomach and Goyle almost broke his arm.

"I wonder what's going to happen now," whispered Luna.

"Something bad that's for sure. Maybe detentions - welcome to my world," Kevin whispered back.

Luna sighed. At least Kevin won't have to do detentions alone.

"Sorry Luna."

"It's alright, Kevin."

It was silent for a while, then Malfoy opened his big mouth.

"This is worse then being injured in quidditch."

"Oh stop whining," said Kevin.

"Yeah, that's like the third time now. No one's going to listen to you anyway," said Dan

"I have the right to talk," muttered Malfoy.

There was silence again. Finally, Professor McGonagall came into the office and sat behind her desk. The students were looking at her, hoping they won't get too many weeks of detentions.

"Well, I'm surprise you all were not fighting in this room. Anyway, I'm afraid I'm going to have to give each of you two weeks of detentions," said the Professor.

The students moaned.

"Before you go, I'd like to say you should all try not to fight again. Understood?" she said and everyone nodded, "Very well, you may all return to your common rooms."

The Hufflepuffs went out of the room and headed for the common room.

"Two weeks, what horror," said Kevin.

"My parents are going to kill me," said Dan.

"Same here," sighed Luna.

They finally were at the portrait that was guarding the common room. The portrait showed a young girl holding a badger.

"Password?" she said.

"Alegria," said Luna.

The portrait slid to the left, revealing the entrance. They all went in. The common room floor had yellow and black triangles. There was a fireplace against a wall and there were several of tables, couches and chairs. Kevin sat on a couch near the fireplace and sighed. Luna sat by the window and Dan sat on a chair near the fireplace. A few other Hufflepuffs came into the room. One of them noticed Dan's black eye.

"Hey, what happened?" said the young Hufflepuff girl. Dan noticed she had a broken leg.

"Uhm… Oh, it's nothing," said Dan, "It's just me and my buddies got into a fight with Malfoy."

"Oh, sorry to hear that."

"It's alright. My eye doesn't hurt that much anymore."

"Okay - Oh, what's your name anyway?"

"Dan."

"Mine's Isabella, it's nice to meet you."

Dan smiled, "It's nice to meet you too."

There was a short silence and Dan noticed something.

"Wait a minute - Isabella - You're the Seeker in our quidditch team!"

"Oh, yeah, I am," she showed him her broken leg, "I broke my leg while practicing."

"That must hurt really bad."

"Yeah, well, it was hard getting used to the pain but it's not so bad now."

"Oh, well, how did you break your leg?"

"A budlger," she said, "My teammates were practicing with the Ravenclaws yesterday, and one of the budlgers were hard to control and it hit me hard in the leg."

"Bilmey."

"Yeah."

Kevin got up and noticed the Hufflepuff girl, "Isabella?"

"Yes, that's me," she said.

"Hey, I know you, you play as a Seeker, right?"

She nodded.

"Wow," said Kevin, "You know, sometimes I play with a few people from Hogsmeade."

"Oh, really?"

"Yeah - Well, I'm probably not as good as you are but sometimes I get to play as a Seeker."

"Oh, then, maybe you should go to the tryouts this Saturday."

"Yeah, I've been thinking about it."

She smiled, "Well, if you do go, then the tryouts will be on Saturday, five 'o clock."

"Alright," said Kevin with a smile.

More will be coming soon.