Cassandra woke up in her apartment in London early in the morning at Wednesday. Today, it was the match against Pride of Portree. Her best friend Miranda Welch laid laid inside the other room and she was still asleep. Miranda and Cassie had had a nice evening together in Cassandra´s apartment in Notting Hill in London. They had played Wizard Chess and told each other jokes. Cassandra took on her clothes and went into the other room. "Miranda! You have to wake up. We are going to the match". Miranda said: "Cassandra. The match is tomorrow. It is only night". "It was only night, but now it is morning and I will play Quidditch", Cassandra said and tried to wake her up. Miranda had a bad habit. She used to walk and talk in when she slept and one day, she had walked out of her bed and out of the portrait hole of Gryffindor chamber and out in the corridor. She had been taken by Filch and she had got detention. That was in first class at Hogwarts. One week later, the nurse at Hogwarts gave her some special potion to lay still in the bed so she wouldn´t get several detentions. But Miranda still talked in her sleep. "MIRANDA! WAKE UP!", Cassandra howled. "We only have half an hour until we must apparate". Miranda opened her eyes. "Cassie, were you trying to wake me up?", Miranda asked confused. "Yes, I tried twice", Cassandra said. Miranda stood up of the bed and she was taller than Cassandra with long, blonde hair. "Just change, I go to the kitchen ad eat something", Cassandra said and went to her kitchen. She never used to cook. She had a box which cooked all the food she wanted. The box looked like a round, blue ball with feet, mouth and eyes. It was new technology in magic. The box was very expensive and few wizards could afford it. Since house elf-slavery became forbidden eighteen years ago, many wizards looked for something similar to do their house work and make dinner for them. Cassandra felt a little pity for the box, but she knew it didn´t feel anything. It was just a big box made of metal which was enchanted to do all things wizards and witches told them. "Box, I want cornflakes", Cassandra told the box. "Ok, You will get it, Miss Potter", the box said. Three seconds later, the box opened its mouth and Cassandra took her cornflakes. She sat down by the table. Miranda came in. She wore an orange robe and she had written chudley on her left hand. "Hi Cass! I hope you will win the match", she said and sat down. "I don´t win. Chudley wins!", Cassandra said and smiled. Miranda went to the box ad said: "Hot chocolate and a brownie". "Miranda, do you want brownies for breakfast?", Cassandra said. "Yes, today. It is such a great day today", Miranda said. Miranda used to be a nice, smiling girl nearly all the time, and when she was angry, she was really angry. But she was nearly never angry. "Cross your fingers and best hopes!", Mirada said and crossed her fingers on the left hand where she had written "Chudley". "Yes, let´s hope…", Cassandra said. Miranda didn´t live in Cassandra´s apartment but she used to stay there in the weekends when Cassandra wasn´t in her parents´ house in Hogsmeade. Miranda was muggle born and her parents worked a lot. She used to stay with Cassandra in her summer holidays before she ended Hogwarts. She also used to stay with the Weasley family. Miranda did not know what to become, and she worked in Flourish and Blotts in Diagon Alley. "Who is the new Portree seeker?", Miranda asked. "It is Skye McCormack. Granddaughter of Catriona McCormack", Cassandra answered. "She is said to be very good but after my opinion, her name is not". Miranda laughed. "Yeah, Cassie. Think about being named after the place you come from. Such stupid. Skye McCormack!", Miranda said. "But I shall not criticize other for their names. I am named up after a Welshman". "Your name is Welch, not Welsh", Cassandra said. "But someone pronounce it Welsh. I am not Welsh and I dunno why people are given such names". "Ok, my name is after a Trojan princess with the gift of prophety. Do I seem like Professor Trelawney or something?", Cassandra said and laughed. "No, not at all. Maybe you two could change place. Maybe old Trelawney could play quidditch and you could be Professor Cassandra Potter in Divination", Miranda said. "You could be a good seer, but remember that Cassandra of Troy was never believed". Cassandra looked at her watch. It was nearly ten and Cassandra said: "We better go now and I haven´t got time to ask Trelawney if she can play Quidditch for me!". Miranda laughed and said: "Good luck, Cassandra!" before they apparated to Youdle Pitch.
When Cassandra and Miranda arrived, Cassandra went into the wardrobe. Miranda would meet Ruby (another good friend and Joss Mill´s sister) and they would cheer for Chudley. The team captain Errol Blakemore held a speech for the team. The rest of the team sat on the bench in the wardrobe. Cassandra sat beside Eliza and Joss, and the three other boys in the team (the chaser Milton Fair and the beaters Casey Comiskey and Bo Wright) sat in their own corner. Cassandra was of course very good friends with her team. "Do it well, everybody, and Cassandra, don´t loose the snitch!", Errol said. "Are you ready to go out at the pitch?", he asked. "Yes", the team answered. "Why do you ask us if we are ready?", Eliza asked. "It sounds so stupid if we´re gonna mess "yes" all the time. You´re not our teacher!". Casey laughed. Cassandra had other things to worry about than Eliza´s strange sense of humor. Miranda had a strange, humoristic sense too, and Eliza and Miranda often laughed together. When Eliza and Miranda first met, Miranda thought that Eliza was not her type of friend, but when she knew her better, they had become good friends. Eliza (who was one year younger than Miranda and Cassandra) was best friends with Ruby Mill. Ruby Mill was a black girl who had a good, strange taste and she was fascinated in Muggles and Muggle technology. "Why don´t they have TV in the magical world?", she had asked Miranda one time. Ruby wanted to try to live in the Muggle World, so now she lived in an apartment with Muggle TV and a computer with internet. Cassandra had tried it one time. What is it good for, she had asked herself. You didn´t need messengers and telephones in the Magical World to communicate. You could use floo powde or apparate. "Come to life, team!", Errol said when he saw that Eliza and Joss were talking to each other. They team rised up from the benches and prepared to walk out of the wardrobe. Cassandra grabbed her Firebolt 7 (the newest model of the Firebolt which the whole team had) and prepared to fly out to the pitch. "Ready", Errol said. "study", he said again. "FLY!", Cassandra said loudly. The team flew out to the pitch and Cassandra heard Madelyn Brighton (the commentator) say: "Here comes the Cannons! Captain Errol Blakemore leads his team: Fair! Comiskey! Wright! Weasley! Mill!…… and POTTER!". The Chudley-fans in orange applauded and screamed. "Mum and Dad must be there in the crowd", Cassandra thought. Madelyn Brighton messed up all the Portree-players and the judge Charlie Fairfax came into the pitch. In five minutes, the quaffle and the bludgers were up. And then came the snitch! Cassandra was anxious. She had never played against the ew Portree-seeker before and it would be disappointing for the Cannons-fans if the Cannons lost. It was not simple to be a quidditch player. Cassandra didn´t know what she would become three years ago. She had great plans to work for the ministry, but couldn´t stay away from a broom. Flying was the best thing she knew. She had loved quidditch all her life and she had played on the house team since second class at Hogwarts. Many said that they had never seen a better flyer than her and all said she was the perfect seeker. Cassandra
