~Gryffindor Vs. Slytherin~

The boys were rushing downstairs the next day, they overslept and they were going to be late for Defense against the Dark Arts, they slid into the room just as the bell went and took their seats. 'I can't believe we made it' Neville told the others, they all nodded and turned their attention to the front, but the teacher wasn't there, this confused the class and they all began to wonder what had happened. After about five minutes though Dumbledore walked in and explained that the professor had to take a leave of absence to attend a family crisis in Switzerland, and that he would be teaching them for the remainder of the year, everyone was very pleased with this, they were going to be learning from the strongest wizard in the world! So Dumbledore began explaining what he would be teaching them. 'Well my students I will be teaching you about ancient magic, this subject isn't usually taught as no one really understands it.' He asked for a student to come up and help him for a demonstration, he picked Seamus to come up and help. 'Okay now, Mr. Finnegan I would like you to use the Incendio charm on me, as we all know, this is the fire charm and will burn me on contact', while he was talking he conjured a small glass of water and placed it on the ground in front of him. Seamus looking confused at this just shrugged and yelled with all his might "Incendio" It went at Dumbledore at a surprising pace but Dumbledore didn't look concerned at all he just pointed his wand at the glass of water and the water rose up in front of him and then he whirled his wand in a circle and the water grew into a giant water shield in front of him, the fire hit it and it disappeared and a mass amount of steam was coming from the water shield, everyone looked amazed at this and then Dumbledore explained 'Total control and manipulation of an element, but it isn't so simple, you do not chose which element you have control over, as you can see, my own element that I can control is water' 'this is an ancient magic that not many wizards seem to know about but I am going to ask each of you in turn to come up front, I will then put a spell on you that will let you see what your element is. 'We'll start with Mr. Potter.' Harry walked up to his aging headmaster and stood in front of him, Dumbledore smiled and said something Harry couldn't hear and then everything went black, he saw a little spark in front of him, he rubbed his eyes and when he opened them, there was a big ball of electricity in front of him, he took out his wand and waved it, the ball of electricity followed what his wand did, he waved it in a circle and the ball turned into a big circle of electric energy in front of him, then the lights came on and everyone was looking at him, Dumbledore was smiling, 'Well Mr. Potter it would seem you control the element of lightning, good job.' Harry nodded in response and took his seat, his best friends looked at him and congratulated him, he thanked them and sat and watched while the rest of the class found what their elements were, some of the people to their disappointment did not have any control over an element, but Seamus found he had control over fire, Dean over earth, and Neville and Ron over wind, it all seemed fitting, the bell rang and Dumbledore dismissed them and wished them a good day.

The rest of the day went by good and as the five gryffindors approached their last class Care of Magical Creatures they heard barking, like a dog only it had kind of tinny sound to it, they ran over to Hagrids hut and were all surprised to see small dog like creatures, the only difference is that they had forked tails and had silver, gold, deep purple, and midnight blue eyes. The rest of the class came and Hagrid started explaining. 'Now I'm gunner start teachin yeah about these here animals, these are called Snarks.' 'Now they all seem like normal muggle dogs or summat but these here ones are a lot different, once the chose their masters, they're fiercely loyal and will protect them from dangers.' 'Now as these ones here are jus' pups they'll chose one of you, and you can see there's one for each of ya, so all ya got to do is go in thar one at a time and one of um will approach ya, that one will be your new pet.' The whole class was very happy about this and they all went in one at a time, and they all got approached by one Harry's was a dark gray almost as dark as his wolf forms fur and it had one floppy ear and one that stuck up, he had gold eyes and was very cheerful. Ron's was black color and had silver eyes, it was proud and happy, and stuck by Rons side as he walked, Neville's was white but had large black spots on its sides and back, it had floppy ears had gold eyes and was looking fiercely proud to have Neville as his master, Dean and Seamus' were twins it seemed all accept for the eyes as Deans had a deep purple and Seamus' had a midnight blue colored eyes. Hagrid told them that the Snarks would have small doghouses built beside their master's beds and that the dorms would be magically enlarged to accommodate them, everyone looked happy at this and then the bell rang, Hagrid quickly told them that the Snarks were allowed in the school so not to worry. The boys walked over to Hagrid and thanked him for bringing the Snarks in and told him not to make the doghouses in the boy's dorm because they had a better place to have them live in, he agreed and they said goodbye.

The boys started walking up to the Animagi Room as they decided that it was huge and was just like outside, so it would be great for the Snarks. As they were walking with the Snarks by their sides they looked at the little dog like creatures and asked started thinking up names, Seamus was the first to come up with one he called his Snark Jack, Dean decided to call his Jake as their Snarks were twins, Harry called his Bolt, Ron called his Max, and Neville called his Merlin, the Snarks helped them by only responding to these names and by the time they finished naming them they arrived at the Animagi Room, they led them in and told them to stay in here and get a feel for your surroundings, they all listened and they bounded off to see what they could find.

The boys went down to dinner and Harry started talking about the quidditch match they had the next day, Harry had told them they had an awesome chance of winning and told them that they would sleep in the Animagi Room with their Snarks because they could fall asleep faster in there. So that they did, they walked in and the moment Harry entered Bolt was by his side, Harry went to his favorite spot on the boulder in the middle of the pond followed by Bolt, Harry transformed and laid down beside his faithful Bolt and fell asleep.

The boys all woke up early and went downstairs with their new pet's, they sat with the other members of the team and started eating, they all gave their leftovers to their Snarks and quietly told them to go back to the Animagi Room, he told them they left the door open just a crack so that they could get in and to close the door once they were in, after they told them that they all affectionately scratched them behind their ears and they bounded off. 'Okay team, to the pitch' Harry told them all, Neville accompanied them, and told them he would be commentating. They gryffindor team changed quietly as they mentally prepared themselves for the game, they could hear the rest of the student body walking up to the stands outside, once they were done Harry gave them all a pre-game speech, 'Okay now, this is our first game of the year, we are easily the better team and we have an awesome chance out there today, now I want you all to play like you did in our last practice, that was excellent flying, now lets go out there and give them HELL!' Harry yelled the last word and they all cheered very loud, they all started walking out onto the pitch and they could hear Neville 'And here comes the gryffindor team, led by Captain Harry Potter!' the slytherins were already out there and Harry could see that Malfoy was the new captain of their team.

'Captains shake hands' madam Hooch yelled Malfoy and Harry did so and it looked like to everyone else that they were trying to break the others hand.

'Now I want a good clean game from all of you.'

She then let out the bludgers, then the snitch, she then threw the quaffle up and the game started.

'Quaffle immediately taken by Ginny Weasley, she's flying just awesome, she going down the middle of the pitch, she fakes a pass to Seamus Finnegan and passes over to, Dean Thomas who was able to put it away easily.'

Harry flew high above the rest of the game eyes searching every inch of the pitch for a sign of the snitch, he started to tune out the commentary as he saw a storm was on its way and he would need to totally concentrate on flying. Out of the corner of his eye he saw that Malfoy had decided to tag him instead of search for the snitch for himself, 'Well Harry thought, if he wants to try he's going to have to live with the consequences.' Harry then faked a look of concentration and went into a death defying dive, Malfoy being behind him at the time couldn't see where Harry was diving to and couldn't see that the snitch wasn't there so he yelled 'I don't think so Scar head', and dove after him, Harry pulled out of the dive just in time, he was so close to the ground that his toes grazed the ground, Malfoy on the other hand couldn't stop in time and crashed into the ground with a loud THUMP that everyone in the stadium could hear, Harry flew back up and heard Neville yell, 'That was one hell of a Wronski Feint, pulled of by Harry Potter.' Harry was back up above the game and he saw the score to be one hundred to ten for them, he could tell he made the right choice for chasers. The game resumed when Malfoy was back in the air, he yell 'think your funny do you Potty, well you won't trick me with that again,' and with that he was off, he decided he didn't want to risk being tricked again so, he was going to look for himself. The game went for another quarter of an hour and gryffindor scored four more goals and slytherin scored another two, making the score one hundred and forty to thirty, the weather took a turn for the worse and it was a full blown storm, he could barley hear the commentary anymore, and then he saw it, the snitch it was hovering just above the middle gryffindor goal-post, he saw that it was almost resting on top of the post but he had a plan, he sped of as fast as he could towards the goal, he yelled for Ron, to move Ron nodded, and he moved out of the way, slytherin took the chance and scored, but Harry didn't care he was about to get one hundred and fifty points, right before the goal-post, Harry aimed to go right through the middle one, he was about ten meters away, he stood up and jumped off, he did a front flip over and when he was upside down caught the tiny metal ball, he can around all the way and landed back on his broom, Neville was yelling into the microphone, 'Gryffindor takes it two hundred and ninety to forty!' 'And what a catch that was!' 'GRYFFINDOR WIN!'

An hour later they were all in the common room, partying the victory over slytherin, all the sixth years Snarks were there enjoying all the fun and attention that they were getting and having. The party went late into the night, and around two in the morning Professor Mcgonagall came and told them to get o bed as it was much to late to be up, everyone went to their beds accept for Harry, Ron, Neville, Dean and Seamus, they told her that they asked Professor Dumbledore if they could sleep in the Animagi room with their Snarks and he said yes, she told them to hurry up and get there or she would take points off. They got there as fast as they could and found that it was much bigger and that there was a number of magical creatures in there too, they all just shrugged and thought its Dumbledores doing, and took their favorite spots in the room with their pets, and fell into a deep sleep.

Well there it is the 6th chapter, hope you like it,

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