Chapter 15
Idiots on Brooms
My first detention wasn't bad, and neither were the others that the twins and I had to serve for various pranks we played. My mother wasn't to thrilled about all the trouble I kept getting into for my pranks, good thing I didn't tell her about my adventures in the forest, playing with centuars, werewolves, and other ceatures. My father on the other hand, he wrote seprately from my mother, congradulated me on all the pranks, it turns out he was quite the prankster when he went here.
I really missed my parents, even my grandparents, it would be another month and a half before I could go home for Christmas break. Until then, the only thing, besides the midterms to look forward to, was Quidditch.
According to the twins, it was all they did after Halloween. The captain of Gryffindor team, I think his name is Wood, he's pretty cute, but that's not the point, drives the teamm really hard, he likes to win. Spending all their time in practice, means that all the pranks the twins and I have done have been minor.
Also do to the immense amount of time George and Fred spend on brooms, I have been spending a lot of time on my own. Well, in school I have been alone, I've spending all my free time in the forest again. I saw more of the forest than any other human before, according to Firenze, even more than Hagrid, the groundskeeper of Hogwarts.
I found some creepy giant spiders when I exploring on my one day, thank goodness I was in leopard form, they don't really seem to like humans. I only know this because I overheard one of the older spiders having storytime with all the really little ones, the story went something like this as I remember:
Gather young ones, it's time you learn of what lies beyond the trees. There are creatures who rule where the sun is not burdened by the trees. While they are soft of skin and sweet of meat, some have a power that shoots out of sticks that they carry. Hargrid, with his magic stick is one of these creatures, though, he is different as well. He is not to be harmed, but any others who come into these woods, our woods, is ours.
The whole story was really wacked up, I mean who wants to hear that they are food for giant spiders. I mean, I'm all for eating meat, but I don't want to be eaten. I asked Firenze about the spiders, all he said was that the spiders were Hagrid'd friends, and his alone, most other creatures stay out of the spider's groove, and it would be wise if I did too. I was only too happy to oblige the centaur, those spider's freaked me out.
I learned a lot about magical creatures that November, along with more magical plants, and astronomy. At first the other centaurs didn't want to teach me, but I grew on them, I think the fact that they saw that I respected them won the others over. Though the professors at the school don't know it, I have become quite common in the forest, most creatures, spiders excluded, know me and see me either as a friend, or as someone not to be messed with.
Back at the school, it was the first Quidditch game of the season, Griffendor vs Slytherin. My two houses fighting it out, good thing I haven't moved to Slytherin yet, so I can be loyal to my Twins for this game.
It was a bright and cold Saturday morning, well almost afternoon, when I said goodbye and good luck to the twins, and made my way down to the pitch to watch the game. Gryffindor took early possession of the game, scoring first and keeping the Quaffle for awhile. Lee Jordan was the commentor of the game, he was really good, but he kept getting in trouble with Professor McGonagall, he wasn't a non-bias commentator, but funny non-the-less.
The game was pretty normal, well as normal as a whole bunch of idiots on brooms could make it. At least it was until Harry started going nuts, he started bucking, at least his broom was, maybe it was his broom that went nuts. I watched as the Fred and George tried to save him, with no sucess. Suddenly Harry gained control of his broom and dove down towards the ground, and started beating his chest like a primate. When he coughed out the Snitch I realized that it wasn't a display of male arrogance, but that he nearly swallowed the small gold ball. Harry's catching the Snitch means Gryffindor won one hundred and seventy points to sixty.
I hurried back to my dorm room to grab my copy of the Maruader's Map, and made my way through the tunnel of the hunched over witch to get party things for the house. Fred and George being on the team, they couldn't leave to get the Butterbeer and Sweets. The party was great and all who were there had a fun time. For some reason Harry and Ron, and suprisingly Hermione, they had become friends sometime around Halloween, weren't at the party, oh well.
The rest of the time before the holidays were quite uneventful. It finally snowed, I've actually never seen so much snow before, the school grounds and forest were covered in it. The twins enchanted snowballs to attack Professor Quirrell's turban, I wasn't in on the prank due to a cold and being in the hospital wing to get a cold potion. Good thing I was going home on the train in the morning, I would be able to recoperate at home with my family. I can't wait to see what will happen next semester in Slytherin house, guess I get to play with my dark side...I love that movie, oh well.