Quest of the Seekers: Animals Within

Year Two at Hogwarts

Chapter 12: Dueling Tournament Finals

After enjoying a good lunch at the Great Hall, which had been returned to normal, the seekers went to their common rooms to lounge with their house members. Tyler just sat on the usual couch with Matt and together they were telling Regulus all about their duels. According to Regulus, the older years weren't having the dueling tests that the second years were having which seemed very strange to them.

'Why would Professor Arnold only have the second years graded this way? Why did he organize a tournament for them only?'

Regulus tried to keep the jealousy in his voice to a minimum. Matt and Tyler were able to tell this and cheered him up by wishing that he could see them and give them his moral support, which cheered him up but only by a little.

When the last hour was up, Tyler and Matt headed back to the Great Hall for their matches. When all 16 people arrived, Tyler noticed that all the other second years, did in fact arrive to see the rest of the competition. Professor Dumbledore was back along with Professor McGonagall, Flitwick, Sprout and Reckler. The heads of the houses all had seats next to the headmaster facing the stage. Tyler also noticed that next to Dumbledore there was a golden trophy on it with the top piece being a person extending his wand.

Professor Arnold went on the stage with the tournament clipboard and spoke, facing the finalists.

"All right, now I have taken the remaining 16 students and put them in pairings that were 100 random. This time boys and girls may be put up against another. I'm sure you will be able to handle this since you all passed the first rounds. Okay," he coughed. "Would Reginald Falkner and Nicole Guillphern please come up."

Reggie dueled Guillphern with absolute ease. She seemed to try to just send curses without caring about her defense, which made her vulnerable to Reggie's disarming spell. The wand flew out of Guillphern's hand and Reggie caught it quickly sealing his spot as the winner.

The other seekers' duels went by with ease. Jacke had faced and beaten Steve Robbins, Brad dominated Catherine Miller and Tyler triumphed over Martha Patrickson. Sadly, for Tyler anyway, Matt lost his duel. The hufflepuff Hawkster Jones had beaten him with a good Flipper Hex to the feet. Jones also jinxed his hair to grow weeds and took his wand while Matt reacted to having a garden for hair. Tyler gave him a friendly pat on the back and tried to tell him how good he dueled but it had little effect calming Matt down.

After the last duel, Arnold started the next phase of the tournament.

"Alright, the quarter finals will begin in five minutes. The following eight finalists are Jacke Walker, Brad Carter, Tyler Solemn, Reginald Falkner, Hawkster Jones, Morgan Stellers, Jason Kornbeck, and Claire Zephyr. You eight all stretch out and ready yourselves for the quarterfinals. Those of you that had lost these rounds, are like the others, allowed to watch the rest of the tournament. However, I ask you all to not disturb any of the finalists."

Tyler went up against a wall and stretched his arms out and went through a list of curses in his mind. Then he went into heavy thinking on his situation.

'I did good so far but now I have to be careful. These finalists got by two rounds so I can't think of them lightly. I might even get one of my friends in the next round and I know they are good. I wouldn't mind facing Jacke next and paying him back for that defeat back in the cave though. Nevertheless, I better analyze the other finalists because even if I win my next match I better get familiar with the others so I won't be off-guard.'

Brad swung his arms back and forth, trying to loosen up. He tried to get himself focused but his mind kept drifting off to random things.

'Why can't I focus on the tournament? Maybe I'm trying too hard and should relax. I did get this far and I was calm. I shouldn't worry myself to the ground. But...this would be something that could really make my parents proud and get me a few more friends in my own house...like Tyler has. The seekers are important to me but I need my friends in my house too.'

Reggie was waving his wand and saying spells inaudibly getting ready for the quarterfinals.

'Tyler has used some pretty good curses. He was right, he does have a talent with curses and hexes. I should try some of them for these matches. Tyler still gets me a little uncomfortable with what he is but I've got to stop doubting him. He trusted me with what he told me and I don't want to disrespect that trust. I better focus on the tournament instead. These new opponents are going to be tough especially if they won their first duels. I'm going to have to be careful. After all, the ravenclaw saying is "Think through every step and flick."'

Jacke stretched his legs out and was also moving his neck around.

'I've come this far and I'm going for the win. Maybe I should use my more powerful charms for these rounds.' He then cast a look at Tyler. 'Tyler might be my next opponent and if he is then I've gotta be careful. He may not be an evil wizard...or at least I don't think he is anyway' he thought with a little fear and confusion. 'But he knows good hexes. Also...It would be great to make my victories against him 2 in a row,' he thought satisfyingly.

The five minutes were soon up and Arnold called for silence. He instructed the finalists to come to one side of the room and they did, with the seekers going next to each other as usual. Tyler saw Matt give him a thumbs up which he returned with an assuring nod.

The first match of the quarterfinals will now begin. Jacke Walker and Morgan Stellers please come forward."

Jacke stepped up to the stage, with the dark, cherry red haired slytherin girl that Tyler had started to take notice as of late. Morgan Stellers had been doing great in this tournament. She wasn't a person that you could depend on when it came to missing a target. She had great aiming skills, so great in fact, that Tyler had only seen her miss twice in the entire tournament. He also thought she seemed pretty confident and couldn't help noticing she seemed a little on the cute side. He immediately shook his head away at the thought as quickly as it came. He chanced a look at Jacke to start paying more attention to his moves and he noticed his mouth twitching, like he was a little nervous or for another reason. Now that he thought of it, red colors appeared on his face, which could've been nervousness or...blush?

When the match was underway, Tyler saw Jacke had his hands full against Stellers. Her aim really was good and Jacke was just barely able to dodge them. He still didn't know how Jacke had gotten that maneuverable. He might of lost if he didn't make a puff of smoke come out of his wand and throw it towards Stellers' face. While she used her hands for blowing the smoke away, Jacke disarmed her.

"Jacke Walker, congratulations, you go to the semi-finals! Next, we will have Brad Carter against Hawkster Jones."

Hawkster Jones, on Tyler's observation, had straight, black hair and eyes as brown as logs. As a dorm mate of Brad's they had an air of familiarity around them. Their match was intense like Jacke and Stellers' was but not at the same level. Jones sent a few jinxes, which Tyler thought, were a little playful for his taste but were effective,...in a way. One jinx he used made ringing sounds come out of Brad's ears, which did make it harder to hear Jones' spells. Brad did counter by transfiguring the hood of Jones' robes into an incomplete cutting board. You wouldn't think that was a smart thing to do at first but when Brad fired a disarming spell and Jones went off to dodge it, the board slammed his head. He seemed to be seeing lights when Brad disarmed him successfully.

"There you all have it. Brad Carter has won and earned his place in the semi-finals. Now on to the third match of the quarterfinal round. Will Jason Kornbeck and Tyler Solemn come up please."

Tyler came to the stage to face his opponent. Jason Kornbeck seemed like a solid guy. He seemed like the type of person that you couldn't intimidate. Kornbeck spared a glance toward where Jacke and Brad were standing. Tyler understood what that symbolized. He was set to be there with them and sensed the same familiarity that Brad and Jones had made with Jacke. 'Of course, they are dorm mates just like Brad and Jones.'

When the call of three came to start the duel, Tyler was in his element. (AN: Not lightning) He first tried to send a good Jelly Legs Jinx, which Kornbeck dodged. Tyler then moved to avoid a Laughing Curse and then fired his Furnaculus Hex. Kornbeck ducked to avoid that hex and charged at Tyler shouting a disarming spell while doing running.

'Might as well put some of my advanced spells at work,' Tyler thought knowing what to do. He set up his Shield Charm which blocked the disarming spell and sent it right back at Kornbeck. He got hit with it and went flying losing his wand. Apparently, he didn't think Tyler would be able to dodge it since he seemed to count on him being scared by his charge.

"Tyler Solemn has won." Again Arnold lulled his voice as he announced Tyler's victory. "The last duel will commence immediately. Reginald Falkner, Clare Zephyr, come to the ring."

Reggie and the ravenclaw girl Clare Zephyr stepped up to the platform. The Zephyr girl had that cheery attitude in the air around her. Tyler knew of her from classes and noticed how she dueled throughout the tournament. Her defense was good but her offense was her weakness. She had been lucky in her duels to hit the opponent and claim her victories. He knew that Reggie would discover that and use it to his advantage.

Like he predicted, he did. Reggie saw that she was good at avoiding enemy spells but couldn't really connect with any herself correctly. Reggie seemed to be waiting for something. He later found out when he brightly lit his wand and pointed it toward Zephyr's eyes. Her gaze on his moves had become intense and he waited until her eyes were completely on him before he temporarily blinded her. He took her wand from her hands that were covering her eyes.

"Reginald Falkner is the winner." Clapping erupted at the mark of the end of the quarter finals. "We have gone from 32 contestants to 4 remaining semifinalists. Jacke Walker of Gryffindor," there was clapping for Jacke as he stepped up to the platform. "Brad Carter of Hufflepuff," clapping could be heard from mostly the Hufflepuffs at their house's semifinalist. "Reginald Falkner of Ravenclaw," the ravenclaws gave their support. "And finally Tyler Solemn in Slytherin," the slytherins clapped hard at Tyler's appearance but it was only support from them. The other second years didn't give any support like they had done for his friends, which didn't bother him in the slightest.

They all climbed down and went to a far off point in the hall next to the other teachers, away from the crowd while Arnold got everyone's attention. "Now the semi-finals will begin in a short ten minutes. No one bother the finalists as I'm sure they will need to get themselves ready."

Professor Arnold then went over to the heads and Dumbledore and went into talking. The seekers stayed at their cut off point and went into conversation.

"Can you believe it?" asked Jacke. "Us, the seekers, are the finalists for the whole tournament."

"I can't believe we all got here and are together. It's kind of great to know that it's going to be a seeker to be the 2nd year champion."

"Couldn't agree more Brad," said Tyler breaking into a smile. "However, even though it's us in this let's all agree to not go easy on each other. I'm going to hit however I face with what I can."

"Should've expected that from you Tyler." Reggie was dismissing it with a laughing smile that he rarely gave out. "Just don't get angry if you lose out there."

"Oh I don't plan to lose," he said simply.

"Same here," Jacke said in the same tone.

"Don't look at me as one whose losing," said Brad.

"Really, because I think that the winner is the one that's speaking," Reggie said with a good hint of pride in his voice. "My brains will get me the victory spot."

'We'll see about that,' thought the other three seekers.

"Let's all make a promise right here, right now."

"What Brad," asked Reggie in a concerned tone.

"Let's promise to give it our all out there. I think I speak for everyone...especially you two," he jestered to Jacke and Tyler who smiled in laughter, "that I want to face you guys at your best. Promise?"

"Promise," recited all four of the seekers.

"Alright," re-began Arnold. "Let's begin the semifinals!" Cheers from the other second years were so loud that the seekers were sure the whole castle was able to hear. So far, the older students and the first years tried to get views of the tournament by the windows. They were able to detect brooms around the windows and shines from metal, which they concluded, might be telescopes from Astronomy.

"Jacke Walker will face Brad Carter in the first match of the semi-finals. Please come up please." Tyler and Reggie gave them hearty back slaps as Jacke and Brad went to duel. Tyler and Reggie looked at each other competitively. Now it was no mystery who they would face off against. Jacke and Brad also looked at Tyler and Reggie with the same flare.

Tyler would've started to take in what they did to find any weaknesses but he decided not to. 'A duel against them, I'll keep myself a little surprised or it wouldn't be as fun if I had studied their moves.'

Reggie, however, went into observing mode. He wanted to analyze their moves because he would face one of them when he won against Tyler. 'I've gotten this far by playing it smart and I will keep doing that to win.'

Jacke looked at Reggie and Tyler and then deduced the inevitable. 'So, if I beat Brad then I'm facing off against the winner in their duel.'

Brad was also looking at the ravenclaw and slytherin seekers at the same way that his fellow gryffindor seeker was. 'The winner of their duel will face the winner of this one. Well, I can't think of that now. I have to put my energy in beating Jacke. His charms are very good and only a fool would take lightly of him. I better put my transfiguration skills to work in this duel if I hope to beat him and go to the finals.'

"Now," spoke Arnold. "Professor Dumbledore would like to have word before we begin. Please headmaster."

"Thank you Kenrick," Dumbledore said bowing his head to Professor Arnold. "You four had battled hard and I've been impressed with your progress. Your house heads also share my feelings." Their heads of house nodded in deep agreement. "May you fight honorably and fairly. We wish you all the best of luck."

When Dumbledore finished, Arnold started again. "Ready, on my count. 1,2,3!"

Jacke took a step back and shouted "Rictusempra!"

Brad immediately dodged it with ease as he shouted "Gaiaranshi!"

"Oh no you don't," Jacke said as he hoped to one side to avoid the rock spell. "Averte Stature!"

Brad got hit and went backwards and landed flat on his back. Brad wasn't out yet. He said so. "I'm not out yet Jacke!" He raised his wand from the floor and said "Flippendo!"

Jacke spun back but quickly got up at the same time Brad had. This duel was just heating up.

Tyler and Reggie were looking at the duel as if mesmerized. They had spoken a word and hardly blinked through the exchange of spells. Reggie had forgotten to take note on their strategy because he was enjoying the duel. Tyler had excitement running through his blood.

"That's what I'm talking about."

"What's that mean?" asked Tyler.

"Muggle term, I'll tell you later."

Neither one of them took their eyes of the duel when they were talking.

Brad pointed his wand at Jacke's direction and yelled "Furnaculus!"

Jacke countered by shouting "Averte Stature!"

The two spells hit each other and went into nothing on contact. The spells had cancelled each other out. Brad then shouted as hard as he can "Vera Verto!"

Before Brad brought the wand down to fire the spell, Jacke went into nervous thought. 'He wants to turn me into a goblet!' When he used his agility to dodge the spell he put on a more thankful thought. 'It's a good thing I practiced.'

Jacke then aimed at the floor near Brad's feet and yelled with the same ferocity. "Scourgify!"

The floor had a shine to it. Brad looked at Jacke like he was a loon. Coughing with amusement he moved forward to cast another spell when he started to slip up. He tried to maintain his balance but he kept tripping up. 'Now I know what he did, he supercleaned the floor to be slippery! I can't keep my balance' he thought very nervously still trying not to fall.

Jacke then shouted "Expelliarmus!" His spell hit Brad off the spot he was, disarming him.

"Your winner, ladies and gentlemen, Jacke Walker!" Cheers went out to Jacke over his defeat of Brad. Jacke went to help Brad up and they shook hands in sportsmanship. Then they both went to stand at the wall where they were with their fellow seekers. "Now, to the next match, Reginald Falkner, Tyler Solemn, ready your wands."

As they walked on to the dueling platform, Jacke went into thought. 'So, now that I know I'm in the final match, this duel will be the most important one to watch.'

Reggie and Tyler stared at each other in intensity from across the dueling ring.

'Okay, Tyler has been very good at executing his victories. I can't take my eyes off him because if you give him even a second then he'll make you regret it. That is one thing that Tyler does have in common with most of the other slytherins.'

'Alright. Now from what I've seen, Reggie always takes his time to know the movements of his opponents. Counts on the logic of the situation...Ravenclaws' he added as a sarcastic afterthought. 'If I want to beat him and go to the finals then I better win quickly. I can't take my time or it will give Reggie the time he needs to be in sync with my style.'

"Now, let's begin the duel. However wins this goes on to face Jacke Walker in the final match. Go on my count. 1,2,3"

Tyler immediately moved his feet into defensive position. Reggie flicked his wand and said "Flippendo!"

Tyler dropped to the floor as he felt the hex's force pass over him. "He then yelled "Averte Stature!"

Reggie jumped as hard as he could to avoid the ground-scraping hex. Tyler had gotten up and then moved at a sideways run to avoid a Jelly Legs from Reggie.

'Hmm, I have to catch him off guard with something he won't expect. I think I know just the thing...Hopefully, HE doesn't expect it, seeing as he saw my duels with Jacke and Kornbeck. I better hope that Reggie doesn't remember it.'

Jacke was watching with unbreakable intensity. This duel was heating up and Jacke could feel his heart going the speed as pixie flapping its wings. He was going to face the winner and he was dieing with wonder.

Brad looked from the duel to Jacke. 'Jacke seems so preoccupied completely on the duel. I guess I can't blame him. If I had won then I might be the same way,' he thought as he turned his attention back to the duel.

"Okay, take this Reggie, Rictusempra!"

His laughing jinx missed Reggie completely. So much if Reggie didn't move to dodge it, it would've missed him anyway. 'What's Tyler thinking? I can't worry now about that. He probably got a little weary from hitting the ground, must've hit his head and upset his sight.' "Giairanshi!"

Tyler tried to move but noticed that his legs were getting tired. Reggie's spell hit Tyler's shoes turning them to stone like Brad had done in his first match.

'Okay, so Reggie disabled me. No problem, my plan can still work, that is if he isn't expecting it.' Tyler pointed his wand and yelled "Expelliarmus!"

Reggie dodged and said, "Missed, now my turn, Expelliarmus!"

'Perfect, Tyler can't move to avoid it.'

'Perfect, here it comes.'

Tyler then raised his wand in a straight line in front of his face and yelled, "Protego!"

His shield charm bounced the red disarming spell back at Reggie catching him completely off guard. His wand flew off and landed apart from him.

'Okay, first part's done, now to finish this. Reggie can still get his wand so,' "Wingardium Leviosa!"

The wand flew up, above Reggie's reach making Tyler the winner.

"Well, Tyler Solemn has won his duel folks!"

The slytherins, especially Matt, cheered for their fellow slytherin and his victory. Tyler knew that it was because they had a slytherin in the finals and it just happened to be him. Brad and Jacke clapped as hard as they could for their friend. Reggie got up while Arnold returned his petrified shoes to normal. Reggie smiled at him in congratulations as he headed for where Jacke and Brad were.

"The next and final duel of the tournament begins right now. "Jacke Walker of Gryffindor will face Tyler Solemn of Slytherin. The winner will receive 50 house points and be declared the 2nd year champion."

At these words, Tyler wanted to strangle Arnold more then he ever did. Jacke also was surprised at the sudden turn of events.

'What! I don't even get a chance to breathe and calm myself down and already I have to be in another duel!' He took a look at Jacke who was coming to stand where Reggie was. 'Well, I can't do anything about that now. I'm going to have to reach into my more...effective spells if I'm going to beat Jacke. I may have held back with my previous duels but now I think I have a good excuse. If anyone asks about where I got this spell then I'll just say I looked up spells for the tournament all week. But I'll tell my fellow seekers and my favorite slytherin pair the truth.'

Jacke looked at Tyler with purpose. 'Okay then, here it is. Me against Tyler for the fifty points and honor as being the 2nd year champion. Now, I'm going to need all my agility for this. Tyler is very tricky and you can never assume when it comes to him. He tricked and fooled Reggie under his smart nose. But if he thinks I'm going to be afraid of his tricks then he's forgotten the house I'm in.'

Tyler caught sight of Matt in the crowd who gave him a nod that he could tell said, "Take him out!"

"Let the match, begin, 1,2,3!"

Normally this event made spells fly out but not this time. Jacke and Tyler just stood there looking at one another. Their stares at each other were mind-boggling. The crowd was very quiet waiting for the first spell to be thrown. It reminded them all of the quidditch match when Jacke and Tyler pulled out of the dive and filled the crowd with suspense on who caught the snitch. This time there was a new suspenseful question. Who was going to throw the first spell?

Brad and Reggie stood there and watched as their best friends and fellow seekers had a stare down. It reminded both Brad and Reggie of muggle stories of the old west. Waiting for the cowboys to yell draw and pull out their guns. Now it was to see who would be the first to raise their wand.

'Hmm, why isn't Jacke moving? I want to save what little breath I have and only move if I have to. Although, this waiting is making me catch my breathe from that duel with Reggie. Wait,' he thought quickly to himself. 'That must be why Jacke isn't doing anything. He saw that I immediately got forced into this duel so he's giving me time to recover. But...why? Wait of course...the promise.'

'I'm going to keep calm and still until there is the slight movement from Tyler. When he starts to move then I'll know he's healed himself. I want to fight him at his best, not at his weakened self. Beating him would be easier and great but it won't mean as much to me if I know that I did it the cowardly and easy way. Besides I made a promise and I'm going to keep it.'

It must've been still and quiet for ten minutes. Then Tyler moved his hand slightly.

"Averte Stature!" This spell left both of the seekers' mouths and they collided and cancelled each other out. Jacke then recovered from this and yelled, "Scourgify!"

His cleaning spell missed Tyler and he struck back. "Pungrespera! Pay back Jacke"

Jacke, moved himself out of the way of the spell, he threw a flipper hex as he dodged hitting Tyler square in the chest. Tyler coughed at the spell and Jacke took the opportunity to yell another good charm.

"Silencio!" 'Good thing Reggie did this spell so I could use it.'

"No you don't," Tyler said suddenly with his coughy voice. "Protego!"

The charm bounced right back at Jacke who got hit with it. It was almost an exact repeat of the previous match. Jacke tried to open his mouth to talk but no sound came from him. Tyler took advantage and started to get himself healed from that flipper hex to the chest. When he was ready he smirked at Jacke. "Expellia..."

Before he could finish that spell, Jacke sent sparks at him from his wand making Tyler move back in surprise. Before they knew it sound came from Jacke's mouth.

'The silence charm must not have been strong when it hit my barrier. Jacke obviously hasn't practiced that charm too much. That or it could've weakened when my shield reflected it. No matter, time for my special advanced secret weapon,' he thought evilly.

"Stupefy!"

Jacke was surprised by this change in spells and dodged immediately. However, he caught a voice in the crowd.

"That, that was a stunning spell! That's fourth year stuff, how did that Solemn guy do that?"

'So Tyler had a surprise, well, I better end this quickly so I don't get another one.' "Averte Stature!"

As Tyler moved left to dodge that he spoke to Jacke in confidence. "Honestly, that spell doesn't work on meeeeee!"

Jacke had fired a disarming spell, which knocked Tyler off his feet. 'I figured he would go left, he always does.'

"Jacke Walker has won the tournament, ladies and gentlemen."

Anyone from outside could've swore that the Great Hall was close to collapsing from shocks from the crowd's reaction. The hall exploded in cheers on Jacke's victory. The people on the brooms that were outside, most of them were doing flips on their brooms at mid-air. What seemed to make most of the loud noise was that he triumphed over a slytherin in this time of war, which Jacke knew was part of the reason.

'Boy, they sure are happy I won over a slytherin. In a way, they don't know how true that is,' he thought in a sense of poetic justice.'

Tyler got up and stared at Jacke catching his eye. They just looked at each other before Tyler broke into a small smile and walked off over to the other seekers.

"Now Professor Dumbledore would like to address you all."

Professor Dumbledore walked over to Jacke with Professor McGonagall by his side carrying the golden trophy that was on the table. McGonagall was crying in happiness and her face had a bigger smile with every step.

'I could've been the one there,' he thought solemnly. 'If I wasn't so cocky then I could've beaten Jacke. Professor Dumbledore would be awarding the trophy and the points to me and slytherin house. Professor Reckler would be the one there instead too. I guess I should stop this feeling. Jacke did win and he's my friend. He must be so happy so I better be happy for him and not spoil it.'

On Tyler's closer inspection of the trophy it had the words "Second Year Champion 1986-87" engraved in it. He also saw that Jacke's full name, Jacke Ronald Walker, also embedded itself on it, probably magically.

At that, Tyler was almost completely thankful he lost. If he had won, then his whole name might've been on public display and his cover blown. Whatever upset feelings he had of losing were replaced with relief. He suddenly felt even happier for Jacke.

"I would like to award this trophy to Mr. Walker for his outstanding talents in dueling. Well done Mr. Walker. This trophy will mark your achievement permanently in the trophy room at Hogwarts forever. And as per the other prize of the tournament, I hereby award Gryffindor House, Fifty points."

There were more shouts though hardly any from the slytherins after these words. The red sand on the Gryffindor House hourglass, which held the points filled with more red ruby sand. Jacke took the trophy and held it up in winning fashion. Brad, Reggie and also Tyler yelled and clapped hard at their friend's success.

Little did Tyler know however that a pair of eyes were looking at him with loathing and had an evil smile on their lips.

End of Chapter 12

Nightlit: Thanks for the review. To answer your previous question, Flippendo came from the Harry Potter Games. That's where I got it from, it wasn't in the movies unless I missed it. I'm glad you liked the first dueling chapter. Anyway, good luck on your story and I hope you'll tell me what you thought of this chapter.

SwollenFudge: First, let me say that I know my previous review wasn't good but the computer kept erasing the full review I wanted to right. I thought it would be safer if I just typed the basics of it only. But I can tell you now that I loved your dream/capture scene of Ron. It was mind-boggling how Hermione saw everything in such detail. I hope that you're fast reviewing is a regular streak. Also, glad you enjoyed the first part of the tournament, Hope you like the ending.

Author Notes:

The tournament is over. I had spent days on trying to get it to be great. The problem was not being able to use more spells because the competitors are after all just 2nd years. I hope it wasn't boring or low key for you guys though. The next chapter is now in construction. "Slytherins and the Seekers" It's where the Slytherins (the family) meet up with Tyler's friends that they heard about after a quidditch game of Slytherin vs. Ravenclaw. Also they meet Tyler's slytherin buds as well.

To those of you who took notice on the trophy's year and the following about the war going on. Yes, I know Harry got rid of Voldemort in 1981! I, however, moved everything ten years ahead. He didn't beat Voldemort until 1991 in my story line. Harry hasn't been born yet either, he gets born in 1990 rather than in 1980 also. I did tell you this in the first chapter in Elements of Transformation so don't review me about that. Review about anything else though, that will be comforting.

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