Hello!

I know I said I would not upload this chapter until Monday, but we're leaving in 1 hour and so I decided to post it quickly so you could read it while I'm away! This chapter is about their first Quidditch match, Ravenclaw-Hufflepuff.

Courtney's POV

There we were, in our brand new Ravenclaw uniforms. I was pretty anxious about this whole match thing. I kept on thinking I was going to fail my friends, my team, my house, my school, and most importantly, fail Noah. I couldn't just imagine-

"Hey, it's okay," Noah said, patting my back "Not much. Just try and grab the quaffle. Oh, and keep yourself away from the bludger."

"Yeah, not much," I said sarcastically.

He smiled. God, he was so cute...Courtney! Focus.

We grabbed our brooms and stepped into the pitch, where we could hear our house's furious roars and cheers, and Hufflepuff's booing. Michael met Hufflepuff's capitain, Anthony Maier. They shook their hands and then Mrs. Hooch told all of us to get ready. She then blew her whistle and threw the quaffle up. Noah, Oscar and I quickly flew up, as well as Michael, although this last one was getting ready in the rings. I glanced at Gwen, who grabbed her bat and flew up with Helen. It was only Cody in the ground.

I looked through the stadium. To my joy, Noah carried the quaffle, and was already flying to the Hufflepuff rings.

"TEN POINTS FOR RAVENCLAW!" A boy in the loudspeakers cried.

The crowd cheered, but I saw how Hugh Winterton sped up through the stadium, with the ball in his hands. I tried to snatch it off him, and succeeded. I started to fly up to the rings and I would've almost scored, if it hadn't been for Bridgette. I tried to throw the quaffle at Oscar, but a fifth-grader Hufflepuff caught it and sped through the stadium to the rings. Thank God Michael could stop him. He threw the ball at Noah, and then he sped through the stadium. He threw the ball at me, and I successfully scored another ten points for Ravenclaw.

"TEN POINTS FOR RAVENCLAW!" The boy repeated.

The match was really long. I could see Gwen hitting the bludger away us a few times, and I also saw Cody flying through the stadium, in search of the Golden Snitch. I must say Claire wasn't a brilliant keeper: we scored one hundred and forty points, while they only scored forty. I have to admit, dry Michael was an awesome keeper.

But what would happen? Who would catch the snitch. I knew it would ultimately have to do with that. Whoever catches the snitch usually wins, unless they're 200-0 or something like that against the other team.

So everything would be Cody's duty.

Cody's POV

I couldn't see the match really well, but I could see we were way better than Hufflepuff. I tried to focus on the seeking, and not on the match.

I scrutinized the stadium, looking for that glimpse of golden reflection that usually gave the snitch away. But I could see nothing. Then I looked at Mary Collister, Hufflepuff's seeker. She seemed as lost as myself.

I flew around the stadium, hoping to catch a view of the tiny golden ball. I saw how a bludger came right to me. Gwen quickly flew to me and hit the ball away.

"All right?" she asked.

I nodded slowly. I was still shocked about the fact a ball had been inches away from smashing my face. Not much, really.

She smiled and went away. I was dazed for a second, but then shook my head and went back to my search.

I could see Mary Collister still had no idea about the Snitch's location. I hoped it would appear somewhere soon, I was starting to doubt if they'd even liberated it.

Finally, I saw it. The golden glimpse I'd seen a month ago, and many other times while we were training. I saw it behind the central Hufflepuff ring. I had two points to my side: I was closer than Mary, and she hadn't seen it yet.

I quickly bolted to behind the arrow. I was about to catch the snitch, when it flew through the ring and hit Claire in her head.

"Hey!" she cried, scratching her head.

In that moment, Oscar Lathe scored Ravenclaw's one hundred and eightieth point. I must say I was proud of my team.

I quickly followed the snitch, which was now by the Slytherin tower. Great. Simply great.

I bolted through the pitch, and I saw Mary speeding up too. I arrived to where the snitch and didn't stop until I felt the golden cold in my hand...

At first I didn't realize it. I held the golden ball in my hand, without saying a word. Mary looked at me, a panic expression in her face. The crowd went quiet. All of my team members looked at me. Then, all Gryffindor (they were supporting us too) and Ravenclaw burst out in roars and cheers.

Michael flew up at me and patted my back so hard I felt it itch afterwards.

"Good job, Cody!" he cried.

Noah and Courtney flew up to me and I had a double highfive. When I landed, Oscar and Helen told me I was great.

But I almost freaked when I saw Gwen running to me. She gave me a strong hug, which made me blush.

"You were awesome, Cody!" she hollered, grinning "You are the best seeker ever!"

"Even better than Harry Potter?" I asked.

Gwen smiled, "Even better than Harry Potter."

Noah's POV

Now this Quidditch had its good things. The party in our common room was plainly awesome. Even Mr. Flitwick came over to greet us!

Well, I was sitting down in a couch with a butterbeer cup. I was really happy, but I was getting pretty tired. When I looked at my watch, I saw it was already ten o'clock in the night.

I looked at Cody. He was surrounded by people, including Gwen. He seemed quite popular among fourth grader girls, who squealed he was fabulous and all that garbage they say.

Then, I saw Trent, he sat down in a couch in a corner of the room. He seemed angry. No wonder, if he'd got chosen for the team, he'd be the center of attention right now. But Cody was a better seeker. And if he'd got chosen, we might have lost the match today.

"Hey," Courtney said, sitting down in a couch next to mine.

I suddenly felt really nervous. Why did my brain go blank when she appeared?

"Enjoying the party?" she asked.

"Yeah," I answered.

Yeah. Plain old yeah. I was a pretty original guy.

"You were really good today," she commented "You scored a eighty of the points."

"You scored sixty," I retorted "That was not bad either."

Courtney raised an eyebrow, pretending to be angry, but I could see she was having fun.

"Sorry? What do you mean by not bad?" she asked.

"I mean I was better," I teased her.

"Yeah. As if. Oh!" she pointed at my shirt "You've got a stain in your shirt..."

"Sure, Courtney," I scoffed "That is such an old joke."

"No, seriously, it's a butterbeer stain."

I couldn't help but look down, and then Courtney rose her index finger and playfully hit my chin.

"You looked," she giggled.

I smiled. She looked really pretty when she was happy.

"I only looked because otherwise you'd be doing that for the whole evening," I said.

"Yeah, right," she laughed.

Gwen's POV

I was getting bored about all the Oh-my-gosh-Cody-you're-so-awesome thing, so I decided to drag Cody away from the crazy fourth graders.

"Why did you do that?" he asked "We were talking about my strategy!"

"You don't have a strategy," I laughed.

Cody looked offended.

"I do!" he protested.

"Reah, right," I said.

I looked at Courntey and Noah. Oh, they were together, chatting happily.

"I think we should tell them," I told myself.

"No way, Gwen," Cody said "We had a promise, remember?"

"Yeah, but they look so happy together..."

"Stay cool. They'll ultimately know."

"But look at them! We would even do them a favor."

"We will do them a real favor when they find out for themselves. Understood?"

I sighed, but then nodded. I couldn't help but wonder how were I going to stay quiet for such a long time...

Well, that was the chapter. Hope you liked it!

At first, my favorite Hogwarts House was Gryffindor, but I'm starting to like Ravenclaw, since it kinda applies a lot to me! :)

See you on Monday!

-Nikki :)