Chapter 10 – Quidditch and Charms
The next couple of days went as normal until it was time to see about what Quidditch was all about. Hadriana and Oliver could now be seen walking into the empty Quidditch arena, both holding one side of a large, burgundy metal trunk.
"Quidditch is easy enough to understand. Each team has seven players – three chasers, two beaters, one keeper and one seeker. Seeker, that's you."
They then placed the trunk on the ground, Wood went and opened it revealing three round balls.
Hadriana's eyes widened staring at them, balls that needed to be chained down, as they struggled to get out.
"There are three kinds of balls. This one is called the Quaffle." Wood said as he held up a big red ball in the middle.
Many students nodded alongside Wood as he explained what everything was, and what it could do.
Wood then throws the ball at Hadriana who catches it quite easily. "Now, the chasers handle the Quaffle trying to get it into one of those hoops." He told her and pointed to three large goal posts in the fields. "The keeper. That's me, defends the hoops. With me so far?" he asked her.
Hadriana nodded and looked down at the other balls with scrunched eyebrows in the question of them. "What are those?" she questioned, as Wood placed the Quaffle down again, and handed her a wooden bat.
"Better take this." Wood said, and gently put a finger on the lock of one of the moving balls, then unlocked it. It suddenly flew out straight up into the air.
"Careful now, it's coming back." Wood warned her, and Hadriana with a bat in her hand swung it at the ball making it go right back into the air towards the statue holding two swords up in the air.
"Nice!" Young Sirius told her with a small smile.
"Thanks!" Hadriana said with a smile, and maybe things will become easier between them all in this past where things still are new for them.
Oliver Wood nodded his head approvingly, "not bad, potter! You'd make a fair beater."
Hadriana smiled when the ball came hurdling back towards them.
"Uh-oh." Wood muttered, before he caught the ball in his arms, and fell to the ground struggling to put the ball back in place. After a few seconds of wrestling with the ball, he finally managed to lock it up, and with that done Hadriana handed him the bat back.
"What's that?" Hadriana asked, smiling slightly at what had happened.
"That was a bludger. Nasty little buggers." Wood told her with a smile, before pointing at her, "but you Hadriana, you're a seeker." He said and opened a small compartment that hid a small golden ball, which he took out and held in his hand. "This is the only thing I want you to worry about. It's the golden snitch." Handing it to her, who looked at it with fascination.
"I like this ball," Hadriana muttered with a smile.
"You like it now. Just wait. It's wickedly fast, and damn near impossible to see." Oliver told her, as the snitch opened in her palm.
"What do I do with it?" Hadriana asked him, and she could not help but blush as he gave her a smile.
"You catch it. Before the other team's seeker. You catch it, and the game is over."
The small ball began to flip its wings, very fast, and a buzzing noise was erupting from it.
"You catch this Potter, and we win," Oliver said excitedly, as the snitch took off from her hand, flying into the air. Hadriana followed it with her eyes, as it went back and forth in the air.
"Wow, she might be better than you Prongs!" Young Sirius whispered mockingly to James and snorted quietly at James' offended face.
"Of course, she's better than him." Marlene and Alice said as James became more and more offended by the minute.
"Yeah, but I am still the best for now!" James said dejectedly over having someone tell him that someone is better than him in Quidditch.
"James…" Lily sighed with a small smile and with a shake of her head, but she wonders if there was something going on between her daughter and the guy in the video. It seemed like it was only her that had caught their stairs and the beginning of a crush her daughter had on him.
Thereafter the scene changed to where Hadriana was sitting next to Neville, and Ron sat next to Hermione in Professor Flitwick's classroom. The smallest Professor was standing atop of piles of books looking over the entire class.
"One of the wizard's rudimentary skills is levitation, or the ability to make objects fly. Do you have your feathers?" asked the professor, and Hermione like always held up her feathers like everyone else besides a couple of other students. "Good. Now. Don't forget the nice writs movements we've been practising. The swish and flick." The professor demonstrated the movements as the class followed along with him.
"Good, then enunciate – 'Wingardium Leviosa.' Off you go, then." The professor said, and everyone began to try out the spell.
They said the spell quietly, and Ron seemed to be getting frustrated and literally started to bang his wand on the table before Hermione tried to stop him. "No, stop! Stop! Stop! You're going to poke someone's eyes out. Besides yours saying it wrong. Its Leviosa, not Leviosar." Hermione tried to explain to frustrated ginger, though, all it managed to do was that he gave her a glare.
"You do it then. If you so clever!" Ron challenged Hermione and gestured for her to give it a try.
"That was your first mistake, Ron. Never ever, challenge Hermione!" Hadriana told the now blushing friend of hers.
"I figured it out for myself, thanks," Ron grumbled, though, kissing his wife's forehead knowing that what was coming would be yet another blunder he had done against her.
*Did Ron learn it? * Sirius pondered swiftly towards his wife.
*Yeah, he did. * Hadriana told him with a smile.
"Wingardium Leviosa," Hermione said, and gently pointed her wand at the feather, Ron's face turned into disbelief that she had managed it, when the feather began to float into the air, much to anyone's amazement.
"Well done. See you here, everyone! Ms Granger has done it! Splendid." Praised the professor, while clapping excitingly.
Hadriana watched it in amazement and tried the spell herself and managed it before she lost her concentration when suddenly a loud bang was heard around the room. Everyone turned their heads to look at Seamus, who had caused another explosion – this time completely wiping his eyebrows off.
"That's mild, in comparison to his seventh year," Hadriana explained to the laughing students and teachers around the great hall.
"How is that mild?" some quiet Ravenclaw asked her confused, while the teachers groaned.
Everyone tried to listen to what the future was saying, "On Professor McGonagall's orders, he blew up a whole tower." At that, they all looked toward the strict professor in awe, and even the professor herself couldn't believe her ears.
"You will know why that is when we get there," Luna told the socked teacher, giving her a grave look and those that took notice made a note to themselves that something bad had to have happened to make McGonagall ready to harm her school.
The scene once again changed to where Hadriana was walking through the courtyard of the school, and Ron was like always ranting about their classes. "It's Leviosa not Leviosar." Mocked Ron, "she's a nightmare honestly. No wonder she hasn't got any friends." He spoke.
"RONALD!" Yelled Molly, and everyone else looked on in expiration.
Hadriana gave her best glare towards Ron, ready to tell him off, she had been Hermione's friend though she has tried to give her some clue that she was irritating people by talking over them in class and not letting them talk. When all of a sudden Hermione pushed past them, tears streaming down her face.
"I think she heard me." Ron declared aloft.
Hadriana glared slightly at him, making him widen her eyes. "Ron, I have been her friend, and you've hurt her feelings." Ron gulped loudly feeling that he had done something he shouldn't have done.
"Thanks, Hadri." Hermione thanked her friend for being there for her even when she had been a pain in the ass to everyone back then. Thankful for the support, and that they had gotten their heads out of their asses and began dating those years ago.
Hadriana was about to follow her, but Ron stopped her for once to do something good, "Come on, we are going to be late for History of Magic. I'll apologize at dinner, I swear." Hadriana knew that he would when like this, and not that she thought that the professor would even notice them gone.
"You better have apologized, Ron!" Molly yelled at him again, to which he nodded. "I did, I swear it," Ron told his mom, Hermione and Hadriana nodded that this was the truth and knowing that if that was happening something in the next couple of scenes would make it true to every one of these people.