After defeating Neville, Harry continued walking around the grounds. Ron and Hermione followed. Malfoy came running up to them.

"Hey!" he shouted, "No one ignores me and gets away without a fight! I challenge one of you to a pokemon battle!"

"Fine," Hermione said, "I'll fight you."

"Ha! You think that a filthy mudblood like yourself will be able to beat me?" Malfoy said, "Don't make me laugh!"

"You won't be laughing when this battle's over!" Hermione said, "Go Rupert!" She threw a pokeball and Rupert came out. Malfoy grabbed a pokeball and threw it.

"Go Seviper!" he shouted. Seviper came out of the pokeball.

"Somehow I knew you'd have a Seviper," Hermione said, "Rupert! Use mud slap!" Rupert used mud slap and it was super effective!

"What?" Malfoy gasped, "How did that weak attack do so much damage?"

"First of all, your Seviper looks like it's just recently been caught so it's very weak," Hermione explained, "Also, poison types are weak against ground type attacks and mud slap is a ground type attack."

"So what?" Malfoy shouted, "I'll still beat you! Seviper! Use poison fang!"

"It already knows poison fang!" Hermione gasped.

"Yeah!" Malfoy replied. Seviper used poison fang and it did quite a bit of damage. Rupert was also poisoned.

"No! He's been poisoned!" Hermione exclaimed. "Rupert! Use mud slap again!" Rupert did and not only did it do a good amount of damage, it also lowered Seviper's accuracy. "Harry, Ron, could one of you go look for a pecha berry?" Hermione asked, "It cures pokemon that have been poisoned." She described what a pecha berry looked like and Harry and Ron left to find one.

"Seviper! Use bite!" Malfoy ordered. Seviper's attack missed. "WHAT?" Malfoy yelled, "Seviper, how could you have missed that?"

"Mud slap also lowers the opponent's accuracy," Hermione explained, "Rupert! Finish Seviper off with another mud slap!" Rupert used mud slap again and Seviper fainted. Hermione won the battle!

"I can't believe I lost to a mudblood!" Malfoy shouted. He ran off before Harry and Ron returned with the pecha berry.

"Here you go," Harry said, handing the berry to Hermione, "Where's Malfoy?"

"He lost," Hermione said, feeding the berry to Rupert, "Rupert did an excellent job!" She turned to Rupert. "I'm so proud of you Rupert! You did great in that battle!" she said. Suddenly, Rupert started glowing.

"What the heck is happening?" Ron asked.

"He's evolving!" Hermione exclaimed. The three of them watched as Rupert transformed into a Marshtomp.

"Your pokemon evolved THAT quickly?" Ron asked.

"Yes, and Waterboy evolved yesterday," Hermione said, "I've been training them alot this week."

"I wish Charmander would evolve," Ron said.

"He will, just give him some time and do alot of training," Hermione explained.