Perfect

35. Plans

Today was the first day of the official quidditch season. It was the weekend before Halloween and before Cassie and Sirius's birthday. They were officially going to be of age. They were going to learn to apparate and could use magic outside of the house legally.

Cassie woke up early and got a head start on breakfast. She made sure everyone was up at an appropriate time so that they could get down to the field.

She didn't give them much of a pep-talk, she felt like they were ready. Come win or lose, they were doing a lot.

They walked out onto the pitch to tumultuous roars and boos. One end of the stadium was solid red and gold; the other, a sea of green and silver. Many Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws had taken sides too.

Cassie could distinctly remember Pandora's Snake outfit that she wore for every Slytherin match even against her own house. She hated that she was becoming too busy to hang out much with her fifth year friends, but everyone really needed to focus on school.

She turned back to the game and stepped up to Madam Hooch, the referee, who was standing ready to release the balls from the crate. "Captains shake hands," she said, and Cass held out her hand for James Potter, both of them trying to one-up the other and crush their hand, "Mount your brooms. On the whistle . . . three . . . two . . . one . . ."

The whistle sounded, both captains and the others kicked off hard from the frozen ground, and they were away.

Cassie and James glared at each other. Theo was the fastest to the quaffle and soared to the other side of the field. The Gryffindor keeper blocked his shot and threw the ball to McKinnon.

James smirked at her and she didn't remove her glare but went racing after the girl. She threw the ball towards the hoops, but Aries managed to block it and the ball went soaring into Densel's hands.

Cassie flew right beside him and they both did a spin at the same time, passing the ball off to her. They flew at the same time towards the hoops and Den pretended to throw the ball, but Cassie actually threw it in the opposite direction, getting it through.

The game went on for another 30 minutes with Slytherin up by 10. It seemed that Sirius and Ash were just constantly hitting bludgers between each other.

Once again, Theo had the quaffle and was flying around the pitch as the other chasers tried to block him. Just then, a bludger came flying towards him. Evan rushed over and hit it towards a Gryffindor instead.

However, it startled the others around, giving time for Theo to fly over them and throw the ball into the hoops.

They were now up 40-20. "Slytherin scores another one," Remus said mournfully. "COME ON SIRIUS, JUST AIM A BLUDGER TOWARDS YOUR SISTER AND KNOCK HER OFF HER BROOM!"

Cassie could see Sirius roll his eyes and fly away from the commentator's stand.

The game went on as normal, but Gryffindor had gotten ahead a few points. They were now at 70-50. This sparked Cassie to get an idea. She flew up next to McClaggen who had the quaffle, "hey, Camilla said that you're really hot." He didn't acknowledge her and kept flying, trying to avoid her so she would steal the ball. "She kept going on and on about what she would do to you in a broom cupboard, and– now I see it. I would totally take you into a closet and–"

Only the two of them could hear what she said and his eyes widened, his face turned red, and he unexpectedly dropped the ball. Cassie winked at him as she saw Densel dive for it, "thanks love."

James flew over to Mclaggen and started cursing him out and even slapped him on the back of his head as he allowed Slytheirn to score.

In a flash, suddenly, both seekers went weaving through the chasers, making a few to lose balance and have to hang on tightly. "IT SEEMS BOTH SEEKERS HAVE SEEN THE SNITCH!" Pettigrew yelled. " OH! MCKINNON MAKES A BREAK FOR THE HOOPS–OH, SHE GETS KNOCKED OFF BY A BLUDGER FROM ROSIER! SLYTHERIN IN POSSESSION– THEY SCORE!"

"YOU STUPID IDIOT, GRAB THE DAMN BALL!" Remus screams at them and James glares at his friends. "YOU DUMB MOTHER FUCKERS! THIS IS WHY YOU CAN'T DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK! THIS IS WHY LILY EVANS WON'T GO OUT WITH YOU!"

Cassie had to cover her mouth to stop her from bursting out laughing. That was the best thing she had ever heard a commentator say. "Yeah, Potter, that's why Evans won't go out with you," she teased.

Sirius shook his head, "bad luck, Prongs," he said before flying somewhere else and leaving his best friend and sister to glare at each other, trying to get both to fly into the stands.

"BLACK CATCHES THE SNITCH! SLYTHERIN WINS!"

James's mouth drops open and Cassie smirks at him, "good game, Potter."

He continued to glare at her, "you flirted with one of my teammates during a game!"

The Slytheirn quidditch captain shrugged, "doesn't say anything about it in the rules."

James hits his broom angrily as she flies to the pitch to congratulate her team.

~

The Tuesday after the game was Halloween. The Marauders decided to pull this prank where they made fake eyeballs float in people's drinks and they replaced the caramel apples with onions.

Aries was especially pissed, "onions, really, freaking onions?"

Pandora, who was sitting at the Slytherin table, shook her head, "That's just mean, I was looking forward to them."

Regulus shrugged, "we can always head down to the kitchens and get some."

Evan gasped, "great idea, I think I love you." Barty rolled his eyes as Evan started pretending to flirt with Regulus. Ash then pulled the boy back.

"That's my boyfriend, if you've forgotten," he gave him a fake glare before kissing him.

Cassie cringed, "and my brother, if you're gonna do that, do it in a place where others who are related to him can't see."

"Oh, so you mean turn off the lights because I believe Ash and Regulus are related," Theo joked and both boys glared at him.

"You're marrying your cousin!" Regulus snapped and Cassie threw one of the onions at him.

"We're distant cousins!" Regulus grumbled, mentioning something about their mom and dad.

Izzy picked up an onion and threw it at her boyfriend. Densel looked at her offended, "what did I do?"

"Spilled coffee on my essay," she glared and he sighed heavily.

"I apologized."

"It smells like coffee."

Den picked up an onion to throw it, but Pandora grabbed his arm, "how about we stop throwing onions."

Cassie nodded, "yes, you are right, Dora." Regulus looked at her expectantly, she was not about to be mature right now. "We need to plan a way to torture the Gryffindors."

Aries laughed, "wasn't the way they lost humiliating enough?"

Snape scoffed, "hardly." Izzy nodded in agreement. "You see that Selwyn girl at the end of the table." Everyone looked around each other and craned their neck to see her. "Yeah, well, I don't know which one, but I saw some of the older Gryffindors picking on her."

"That's awful," Theo shook his head, disappointingly.

Regulus sipped on his drink, "you know, they're always doing group pranks on Slytherins, not even doing small groups anymore."

Everyone at the table nodded, they hated it. Sometimes, they didn't even do anything. Sure, they were assholes, but the Marauders acted like they were all high and mighty all the time.

"Okay, so, what do you guys wanna do?" Cassie asked with an evil smirk on her face as they started discussing their plans.