Classes started and school was just as it had been last year. The lessons were harder but I liked that I learned so much. In transfigurations we had to turn a beetle into a button and I managed to do it on my third try. Draco had a little bit more trouble, mostly because he was too impatient. Another thing that had changed since last year was our Quidditch team. Draco had joined the Slytherin team and gotten the place of Seeker.

"I thought you said Quidditch was nothing special" I told Draco one Saturday morning as we walked to the Quidditch Pitch with my puppy right behind us. They had practice today and Lev and I were going to watch.

"Well I'm an excellent flier so why not help the team." I wasn't sure what brought on the sudden change of heart but I was happy for him. He needed to be more social; he always had trouble with the way he spoke to people. Maybe this would get him out of his shell. Hopefully in a good way

We walked a little further and Draco joined the rest of the team in the locker rooms while Lev and I walked over to the field. The Gryffindor team was on the ground, probably having just finished their own practice. They all looked tired. They'd been practicing really hard lately as their captain wanted to avoid another loss like last year's. I turned to see the Slytherin team walking out in their uniforms nodding or smiling politely when they saw me but didn't really greet me. All of them had with them a new Nimbus Two Thousand and One courtesy of Mr. Malfoy.

I started to walk up to one of the stands as the Slytherins got on their brooms and began practice. Once I was up there I had a much better view of the team. They were all flying incredibly fast but I could still tell which one Draco was. He was the smallest and his blond hair reflected off the sun making it brighter. I thought he had looked adorable in his uniform and I had even told him so a few times. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a flash of red. I turned to see Fred and George, still in their scarlet and gold uniforms, watching and ducking so they wouldn't be seen.

"Hey" I said with a smile as I made my way towards them with Lev right behind me

"Hi…" they said quietly looking sheepish. Their faces turned to cautious ones as they saw my little pup walking alongside me.

"Whatcha doing?" I leaned forward to look at Draco so it wouldn't be too obvious that they were here. Lev growled at them and came to sit next to where I stood

"Nothing…" they said at the same time. Of course I didn't believe that. I could guess what they were doing but I didn't want them to get caught so I didn't say anything. My house team cheated a lot so why should I stop them from just looking. It would have been hypocritical of me. I held Lev up so he could get a better look and we all watched as the Slytherin Quidditch team rushed around. With their shiny new brooms they looked like smudges in the sky.

"They look like blurs!" Fred finally said. It was true, compared to what I had seen of the Gryffindor's practice, Slytherins were by far faster. Fred and George began whisper about how they were faster than they had expected when I saw Draco start flying towards us

"Duck!" I carefully slipped in front of them, hopefully covering them enough so that Draco wouldn't see. He stopped a little ahead of us. "How's practice so far?"

"Fine" Draco answered and started to suspiciously look around. I feel like he would've come closer if it hadn't been for Lev, who was barking at him

"What is it?" I asked as if I didn't know what he was looking for

"I thought I saw something… red. Did you see it?" I could tell by his face he was sure he had seen something so I didn't lie. Well I did, but not about not seeing red

"Oh, uh, yeah. I was practicing that new spell I found that changes colors of things: Multicorfors. Remember I saw it in that book I read over the summer. It was supposed to be pink but it keeps coming out red or orange" I said in case he'd seen their hair too.

"Oh" he said not sure if he should believe my lie. He looked around still suspicious. "Well are you sure you-"

"Malfoy! Come on!" yelled Marcus Flint, the Slytherin Quidditch captain and Lev barked as if agreeing Draco should go back.

"Coming!" he said and smiled before leaving and accepting my lie

"You're good at that" "A little too good" Fred and George said and gave me fake suspicious looks and stroked their chins. I smiled and buried my face in Lev's fur trying to hold back a laugh. We kept watching the Slytherin team practice surprised as to how fast they were actually going. "How are we gonna beat them if they're this fast!"

"Do you want me to help?" They looked intrigued and nodded hastily. "Well…" I said and they leaned in closer, "Draco isn't a very good seeker"

"That's it? Even if he's terrible he'll be fast enough to beat us" they complained expecting more

"No, you don't get it. He's too easily distracted"

"What does that have to do with anything?" Fred asked still not understanding

"How is it that you get such good grades if you don't think?" I said shaking my head "Seekers need to be focused all the time. The Golden Snitch is so small and so fast the slightest distraction could erase it completely from sight. So even if he were the fastest boy in the world he'd be too late to see it and Gryffindor could catch it before we did."

"So all we have to do is find a way to distract him…." George said thinking hard

"You're not serious are you?" I asked and was answered with blank stares. "Honestly, how are you doing so well in school? Use Harry obviously. For whatever reason Draco hates Harry and if you use him he'll be too busy with him to look for the Snitch."

"Right so all we have to do is tell Harry-"

"No don't tell him!" I almost yelled. We went quiet and waited to see if I had caught the attention of any of the Slytherins. We hadn't so I looked over at the twins who still looked confused

"Why can't we tell him? What now?"

"Do I have to tell you everything?" I let out a huge sigh and looked over at Draco who was practicing diving for the Snitch. "If you tell Harry he'll be focused on that and not on the Snitch. Tell your captain-Oliver is it?-Tell him and have him make Harry only focus on the Snitch. That's what he did last year, right? If he is then he will be open to be criticized by Draco who will be distracted while Harry is completely focused." I said this all slowly so they could understand me clearly. There was a pause.

"That's bloody brilliant!" Fred yelled. George covered Fred's mouth and we all focused to see if we had caught anyone's attention. Two of the players turned around, I waved, Lev barked at them, and they went back to practice. We sighed with relief and decided we should probably whisper from now on. "How did we not think of that? Brilliant!"

"You're secretly an evil genius you know" George commented and I smiled. I kept watching as Fred and George excitedly talked about their new Quidditch plans. I should probably feel bad that I was helping our rival house win but they didn't have the latest model brooms as an advantage. Besides, if Draco didn't spend all his time putting people down this plan would've been useless