𝐀 𝐇𝐎𝐆𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐒' 𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐘 (𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙮 𝙆𝙞𝙙𝙨 𝘼𝙐)

𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆

The wind was blowing incredibly hard that night, so Felix had decided to wear his black and yellow scarf before heading out. He had a meeting with Jisung planned, as the ladder had asked him if he could go and see with him the Slytherins train.

Felix had had his doubts about the idea because he obviously knew that the team would  never allow them to seat down on the stands and watch their practices peacefully, and he also was not sure on why the friend really wanted to go see them.

"It's to help Gryffindor, of course", had replied Jisung nonchalantly when Felix had asked him. "Might be able to snatch a few handy tricks, or learn about their strategies. We're basically doing a favor to everybody".

"Yes, but they still won't let us in" had objected the Hufflepuff, still not convinced.

"It'll be dark, and we'll make sure to come and leave unnoticed. Besides, it'll be a great change of pace. Doing something exciting, for a change!"

And so there he was, waiting in the Hall for the friend to arrive. Felix felt quite stupid, standing still in the giant room, but it was not like he could do something about it.

After awhile, Jisung finally came rushing downstairs. "Sorry I'm late!", he half-yelled as he stopped abruptly before the Hufflepuff.

Felix rolled his eyes. "No fuss Ji, it's okay. Now shall we get going?"

"Sure!", exclaimed the Gryffindor.

"I still don't get why you want to go and see the Slyths play so bad though", continued Felix as the two of them started walking towards the pitch.

"It's just to help the team", answered Jisung, a big smile still in display on his face.

Felix immediately decided to let go of the topic: he wasn't going to get much out of Jisung anyway.

So they simply strolled side to side in silence, until they reached the borders of the pitch. It was still empty, but one of the changing rooms had its lights turned on. "They must be in there", whispered Jisung. "We've made it just in time. Come".

He led Felix to a small nuck next to the stands, hidden from most of the lights that lit the pitch. "No one will notice us whilst we're here", he was telling the friend. "It's too well-hidden, but we still can see pretty well".

Felix sat beside him, still wondering why he had agreed on coming with Jisung. It's because he's your friend and you had nothing else to do to begin with, reminded him a little voice inside his head. He smiled to himself: that was indeed very true.

"Uh uh, they're out!", Jisung elbowed him while pointing at the center of the pitch: there stood the seven members of the team.

Felix watched intrested as they got on their brooms and sped off towards the night sky – for him, that was always the most fascinating part.

But the Slytherins were not there to look fascinating to the eyes of the watchers (also because they had no idea that there were watchers), so they bagan immediately with their usual warm-up.

It was very different from the one of the Hufflepuffs, noticed Felix, who'd already gone to watch his House's team train many times: instead of doing the normal exercises of Quaffle-passing and Bludgers-skipping, the seven players took position to form a triangle-shaped formation, and started moving in unison. It looked as if everyone was following the one with the guy positioned at the high vertex of the triangle (most likely the capitain), as he would suddenly speed up or slow down, sweep left or right, go up or do an aerial back-flip, copied by the rest of the team, who would execute his movements identically and in perfect synchronization. They were flying from one end to the other of the pitch – then, once they'd reach them, the capitain would suddenly turn back and lead the exact same exercise all over again, and that for many consecutive times.