The Secret of Tom Riddle's Diary

Chapter Seven - Gryffindor versus Slytherin

Victoria walked up the Quidditch stands with mixed feelings. It had been one year ago when she had been in this game. She had raced Draco Malfoy for the snitch and won a victory for Gryffindor. They had cheered that big victory against the evil of Slytherin. But now, she was starting to think that she had been wrong, perhaps even misled.

She sat between Taylor and Astoria as the green took the field, led by Marcus Flint and Draco Malfoy. She stood up with the rest of the Slytherin and cheered at the arrival of their team.

Then, Gryffindor came to the field and Gryffindor shouted and cheered and Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw also stood up and cheered. She felt it for the first time from Slytherin's standpoint – everyone wanted them to lose. As a Gryffindor, she had felt so righteous about that, but now, she felt as if the whole world was against them.

Just then, rain started to come down. Victoria looked up and groaned. And as the game started, it was difficult to see anything. The rain with the addition of a wind whipping around the pitch. She had an umbrella, but quickly it became useless due to the wind and rain.

The announcer, Lee Jordan – another biased Gryffindor grumbled,

"And the Cheaters have jumped to a 60 to 0 lead."

Then, Victoria with eyes like Harry once had for the snitch saw it – the Snitch. It was streaking high in the sky, and Draco and the new Gryffindor seeker, Colin Creevey were chasing after it.

"Come on, Draco –" shouted the Slytherins around her.

And something she never thought she would do, was that she found herself cheering for Draco. She held on to Taylor's hand with one and Astoria's with another as Draco streaked down past Creevey getting closer to the Snitch and the ground.

"Watch out!" She shouted along with several others around her.

But then, Draco's hand closed around the Snitch. The Slytherins went crazy.

The crowd of green rushed down the stands and made their way to the Quidditch pitch. They surrounded the team and shouted and cheered despite the rain and lightening falling around them. Slytherin had won a major victory.

As Victoria walked back, late and drenched in rain she heard a few of the straggling Gryffindors complain.

"If Potter had been here, we would have won –"

But Weasley who had been nearby to hear that comment, sneered. "Potter wasn't invincible, you know."

"Obviously not –" the Slytherins who passed them laughed.

The crowd of Slytherins slowly made their way back to the Common room. They cleaned up and changed and prepared for the party afterwards. When the team came in finally cleaned up and warm, the Common room erupted in cheers. Everyone crowded around Draco and handed him Butterbeers and Chocolate Frogs and other confections.

The next week the reaction of the rest of the school was terrible. The Gryffindors were quite upset that they had lost the big game. Fred and George Weasley, Harry's former friends and Ron's older brothers began an absolute reign of terror over Slytherin.

Not a single Slytherin was safe in the corridors from the vengeful 5th years. The 7th years Slytherins often found themselves the victim of charms that changed the color of their hair or clothes. They seemed to delight to change Slytherin robes to burgundy. Their fellow 5th years were no match for the Weasley Terrors. Many of the Slytherins in their year had drank potions snuck into their pumpkin juice. When these drank the juice, it turned their noses longer or shrank their legs.