Love & Death (The Poisonous Princess Book 4)

Fall

"PROCLAMATION : Professor Dolores Jane Umbridge has been appointed as Hogwarts's high inquisitor."

On the great entrance walls, Educational Decrees were more and more hung. Some were redundant, like having to be in full uniform (to me it was fine to have my collar tight, all my life I was used to it). But others were starting to get on my nerves, really. For example :

[Education Decree number 1 : no party allowed in the school, ever.]

Draco was the reason for a stupid one :

[Decree n° 22 : As sign of respectful stance, Hands ought to be out of the pockets !]

Because he was a good student and prefect Umbridge didn't have much to say against him, so she only fund this bad habit to blame.
She even made his cape's pockets being sewed !

[Decree n°25 : broomsticks may not be flown out of Quiddich pitch.]

So unfair, we are witches and wizards, we fly, we're not pedestrians grrr
Will of riot was growing slowly in our heart...

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Quiddich was not just a sport, it was battle ! The only allowed way to fly and to fight !
And Slytherin was named to confront Griffindors soon.  As a "friendly game"... an eternal attempt to make our two houses at peace.

I planned a special something.
I did train with the team, still as substitute eventhough my broomstick made me faster than our dear seeker. It was a luck that I was his girlfriend, otherwise I think he would be really mad.
Montague was now the captain and Pucey finally emerge from his cocoon. Adrian Pucey was shy and discret before, but he lately became confident and manly, which made him a better chaser and friend. I also think that he was much more interested by girls now, specially by Poppy...

So one evening I gathered the top of the top of Slytherin's girls. By this I mean the pretty, influencer, cool ones. Poppy, Anna, Daphne, Astoria, Lizy... to build the first cheerleading team. I've seen that on american movies and explained the muggle style to support our boys. I even invited Pansy, to unite our force.
This way I felt not useless in the arena's stand.
School's staff accepted our new club, since it was harmless and non-magic. We even created cute uniforms, black and green, V-shaped, with pompoms.

Of corse all the house participated to make up a song to insult the Weasley during the match. I myself launched to sing "D.R.A.C.O. ! D.R.A.C.O. Go Draco!" and so on.

Long story short : we didn't win.
Weasley Keeper fell apart in few minutes, thanks to our disruptive song. But our boys were pretty distracted too. And Potter caught the Snitch first.

However, the main part occurred afterwards.
The game over, Potter was in rage for no reason. He and Weasleys boys started to fight with Draco ! They beated him !
Umbridge saw the scene and separated them all by giving the biggest blame : Harry, Ronald, Fred and Georg have been banned from Quiddich forever !

Slytherin house was joyful on that evening. The Quiddich cup had all chances to be ours.

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Since I included her in the club, Pansy and me were even. (I really believed that). Not friends but we could hang out all together. There was Malfoy's gang in one side and the Slytherin's girls in another.

Group the important heads of the snake house and you'd inevitably get vipererine tongue. That's why gossip started.

Poppy, Moranna and Milicent noticed that I was often sneaking after curfew towards the prefect's room instead of chatting with them. First, when I was coming back to dormitory around midnight, Moranna made a knowing look.
Then Poppy was perplexe of why I was with my boyfriend that late (or more : how I dared to) and later, i'm sure Millicent spoke about it to someone else. Milicent was nice with us but I knew her introvert attitude was not trustworthy.