And now I play my trump card…
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Name: Callidus Veneum
Age: 19
Current Mood: Gleeful euphoria and general vindictiveness
Current Location: On Hogwart's degradingly average Quidditch Pitch, 'practising' Quidditch with that befuddled Scottish buffoon 'Captain' Oliver Wood.
I am so bored right now I can't even believe I'm here. I should be concentrating on spying on another Puddlemere triallee. Yeah, you heard me, spying. Not to sound hyper-competitive or anything, because that is sooo not an attractive character trait, but I'm going to win this next trial and be Puddlemere's next Keeper. And there's nothing in the rules that says I can't watch the other triallees and work out their weaknesses. And Oliver Woods weakness just so happens to be me. I didn't even have to do any hocus pocus, didn't even lay a hand on him. Honestly, I didn't do anything to sabotage his game. And by game I mean his metaphoric game. He just sort of ruined his chances all by himself. That boy is a walking basket case. Talk about easy as. By the looks of things he's ruined his chances of winning his precious little school-yard competition as well. Well, his chances will definitely be ruined when I purposefully throw the game tomorrow. That should make well sure Oliver Wood will be in no condition to win, or even score, in the next Puddlemere trials.
Uh, he's dropped the Quaffle again. Honestly, how this guy ever made it to Puddlemere's top ten triallees I have no idea. In less than a week I've virtually neutralized him as a threat. He's so lovesick it's probably his own drool that's making him drop the Quaffle so much. Although, not to blow my own trumpet or anything, but maybe I should be giving my looks more of the credit. What I should be is embarrassed that he actually got a goal passed me in the first try-outs. Although given the squalor he practises in, and his highly dysfunctional team-mates, perhaps I should give the boy a prize that he got as far as he did.
I watched his team; they're about as committed as gerbils. The red-head twins are more concerned with destroying thing than working as a team, and the two girls are more concerned about flirting with the red-heads (what they see in them I have no idea). The black-haired boy doesn't do much either, and the brown-haired Kate girl seems to expend all of her energies blatantly defying her Captain. And as for Oliver, the supposed 'Captain.' He's a total push-over. I read over his plays; they're utter fantasy. He has too high an opinion of his own and his team's capabilities. Wake up to yourself Oliver: you're not that good. And your team's even worse. Especially seeing as he's substituted me for his only halfway decent player. All I did was walk into a room and that stupid Scotsman dropped his training commitments, his team, his school-work, he even dropped that girlfriend of his. If you could call her a girl, with those clothes she wears. Uh, sneakers – what was she thinking? What was her name again? Kate. Kathryn? Who cares. She was the only thing Oliver had going for him really. She was the one that held the team together, she was the one that buoyed Oliver's self-confidence. She was the real threat to Oliver's success in the Puddlemere trials, not him. And so, like I did with Oliver, I neutralized the danger she posed. Only unlike Oliver, where I am obliged by contract with Puddlemere United not to use any magic on him whatsoever, Kate may have copped a bit of my hocus-pocus. Just a little.
She acted so childishly I'm not even sure if anyone noticed the difference when I turned her into a five-year-old anyway.
So I'd say the chance of Oliver Wood winning the Puddlemere trials is about as likely Kate Bell growing up and playing Quidditch anytime soon.� Non-existant.
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Hands up who saw that coming?
Yeah, let's all rewind into the past and recall: Cally appeared on the scene at McGonagall's office the exact same time Oliver and Katie had their fight that got her turned into a five-year-old. Co-incidence? I think not.
Cally's the sort of girl who sets the high-water-mark for bitchiness. And apparently she's so evil she can't be contained within one FF – she's spawned into cherished reader-reviewer (as a side note, all my readers and reviewers are cherished and special to me: thanks guys!) KristyT23, so check it out for a Cally-inspired cameo sometime soonish. That is awesome; one day my characters shall take over the world! Bwhahaaha.