HP-Hogwarts Story So Far

Transcript Five

A Visitor and A Quidditch Match

 

That same morning, an unknown boy enters the dining hall, accompanied by Snape. He's about 15 or 16 years old, has brightly shining blond hair and an open, friendly face and is chattering along with Snape until they part and Snape heads for the teachers' table.

Morticia, who's been reading Marvo's Discworld-book while eating, suddenly notices the stranger, gives a whoop, jumps up, runs up to him and hugs him. They start chattering in a wild mixture of French and English, and finally Morticia brings him to the Slytherin table.

"Here, Nat, sit down, have some breakfast. Guys, that's my oldest brother Nathan, he's come to visit me!"

"Morgaine wanted to come, too, but her grades are too bad so she wasn't allowed to leave," Nathan explains with a warm smile. "But Madam Maxime agreed that you really need family now after all what happened, so she gave me a week off. So what are we going to do? I brought my broom in case you'd like to play some Quidditch... what's that?"

Morticia quickly hides the book. "Uhm - nothing. Just... stuff for school on Monday, nothing important, it can wait. So - yes, sure, Quidditch sounds great! We were planning to have some freestyle Quidditch anyway, I bet you can show us a lot of new tricks."

Nathan laughs. "Hardly, you're already flying better than I. But if you don't mind others seeing your brother making a fool of himself up in the air, desperately clinging to his broomstick, I'll join you."

Morticia beams at him and then looks around to see who of the other 3rd years are there. Finally she gets up and shouts: "Hey, Thirdies! How about some freestyle Quidditch Sunday afternoon, that's tomorrow?"

When Morticia mentioned a free-for-all Quidditch game Kat's eye's lit up. "That sounds like a wonderful idea. What time tomorrow?"

"How about early afternoon? 3 o'clock or so?" replied Morticia.

Madison and Lee entered the Hall, hearing Morticia's invitation. "You're on!" Madison called back, smiling. She and Lee took seats at the table, when she noticed a couple people were missing. "Hey, where's Nimue and Marvo?" she asked anyone who was listening.

Morticia calls out to her: "They had to leave for some family-stuff, but they sent owls. I think Kat has the messages."

Sunday Afternoon - Quidditch

Kat wandered out to the Quidditch pitch. She had her broom in her hand, and although she was not wearing her proper house Quidditch robes, she was still dressed for a bit of fun.

Behind her, three cats wandered interested to see what was going to happen.

As she arrived she found Morticia and Nathan already there. Morticia waved, and Nathan just looked.

"Hi ready for a game?" Kat asked. "Who else is coming? Sarah was just getting her stick when I left the common room. I guess she'll be here in a minute. Is Cer coming?"

The two Lagrands say hello to Kat. "Yes, I think so, so is Maddy, I think, and Peesey. But we could just as well fly around a bit. I brought some training balls."

She opens a bag and shows Kat a Snitch, a Quaffle and two softball Bludgers.

"We could just beat the Bludgers at each other as a warm-up."

"Sounds fine to me," Nathan says smilingly and grabs his broomstick.

"Ready?"

The three kick off into the air, playfully beating the bludgers at each other and having quite a good time while one by one other students appear on the ground and join in.

Kat ducked as a bludger flew at her. "Ops almost got me!"

As she said this Sarah turned up. Kat waved at Sarah. "Hi. Come up and join us."

Sarah kicked up into the air. "Hi Kat, Morticia. This is Nathan is it?" She grinned. "Kat grinned at Morticia. "That sort of makes it a little more fair, 2 Ravenclaws and 2 Slytherins...

Nathan laughs. "Oh, so you ladies are both from Ravenclaw? Did you know our mother went there? She was prefect in her last year. But I'm no Slytherin, too bad for you, Tish, that means you're on your own!" He aims a bludger at his sister, but Morticia ducks quickly enough, spins around and sends it back to him. "And you too", she grins.

As they are talking Madison and Lee turn up.

Cer followed in behind. They all jumped into brooms and up into the air. "How are we going to do this then?" Asked Madison.

Morticia grins. "I don't know, I've never played like this before. How about everybody tries to hit everybody, and if you get hit you're out. Who's in longest is the winner."

"Sounds good to me." Say's Cer. Kat agrees too. "So we'll get to be play with bludgers... Sounds fun. Although it's out of position for me." Kat grins, and swoops down to grab a bat.

Madison, Lee and Sarah also go for bludgers. Lee grabs takes the bat to the ball heading in his direction. "Ok. Avoid this..." He grins as the ball whizzes past Sarah's ear. Sarah manages to hit the ball even though it had almost gone past her, straight back towards Nathan.

Kat rushes in front of Nathan before he can get to the ball and hits it straight at Morticia....

They continue to hit the balls around. Until Madison is caught by one of the balls. She manages to stay on her broom, hits the ball at Cer and heads for the ground.

More hitting of balls continues...

"You know what could make this more interesting?" Nathan asks after a while of hitting and ducking. "I think we need to add a bit of excitement to the game." He grabs a bludger out of the air and produces his wand out of somewhere from his robes.

He points it at the blugder and mutters a spell. Dark purple sparks shoot into the ball, which Nathan lets go immediately. The ball swirls around as if alive, like a predator looking for a victim, and then speeds up straight towards Ceridwyn! She just able to duck the ball, but she had enough time to see that it now has a tiny mouth with a lot of small, but sharp-looking teeth in it. The ball, having missed Cer, stops in mid-air, seems to think a moment and then goes after Kat.

Kat stares at the ball coming towards her completely amazed by the little teeth! She looks shocked for a moment and a little worried. Then realises the ball is coming right at her. She wakes up and swings her bat just in time. The ball spins away from her and she heaves a brief sigh of relief.

Peesey wanders onto the pitch, he looks up and sees that the bludgers are alive, he kicks off the ground and (almost getting hit by a bludger himself) says "Gotta know that spell Nathan!"

Nathan flies over to Peesey and grins. "It's simple, actually, and you can use it on a lot of objects. The spell is 'vive dentecum'."

As they are talking a ball catches Cer on the leg. "Got yer!" sings Nathan. Cer glides down to join Madison and they watch the proceedings.

Nathan laughs at Cer being caught, and say's "we're still staying in too long. Let's make it a little faster. He mumbles something and another spark shoots out of his wand and into the ball. It starts spinning towards people randomly, and then changing direction with no warning. Kat shoots up higher to avoid the on-coming ball. It is hit by Lee, who is starting to look a little worried.

It heads back straight for Kat, even though Lee hit it towards Nathan. She crouches on her broom and flies as fast as she could out of the way. She looked around and saw the ball had gone. She looked down. She was much higher than was sensible. Then as she faced forwards again it hit her straight in the face. She just saw the little teeth gnashing at her. She slipped, but managed to grab her broom with one hand. She put the other up to grab it and try and steer it down towards the ground before she would fall. But the ball was still there. It was attacking her hands. Both of them. She could feel the little teeth biting her. Her hands were starting to bleed. She couldn't hold on any longer.

The broom left her grasp. She could see Lee and Morticia trying to get to her to catch her. She could feel the wind rushing past her. Any minute now she would hit the ground. Her vision was swimming... Everything went blank and she didn't remember anymore...

"Kat!" Everyone screamed. everyone went to help her.