Pyrrhic Victory

eighteen.

Year Two
eighteen. Slytherin Versus Hufflepuff

"Alright team! Get up! We have to beat Gryffindor to the pitch!" Franklin Malvorseve stressed his team at six in the morning. They all groaned as Franklin immediately took them to breakfast. They felt the cold wind outside as they headed to breakfast. Speaking it was the end of September, almost October it was cold.

"Come on team! Eat! Eat! Eat!" Franklin clapped as he said 'eat'. Magnolia was annoyed at her brother. She understand he wanted to get the team to pitch to train Draco since the first game is coming up in a week.

"Frankie, we are fine!" Magnolia shouts at her brother. Franklin goes wide eyed, and turns his sister. Magnolia sighed knowing his brother was about to rant.

"You don't know what Oliver Wood is like, he will hog the pitch ALL day! Franklin stresses. The whole team just continues to eat as Franklin keeps ranting about Oliver Wood. Claudius and Magnolia could swear he was in love with him.

"Come on team! Let's move out! Gryffindor could be arriving to the pitch at anytime now!" Franklin pushes his team out of breakfast. Magnolia walked alongside Draco who was yawning.

Just to their luck they ran into Gryffindor coming out of their tent. Magnolia could tell something bad was about to go down, so she mostly stayed near the back.

"Malvorseve! Flint!" Oliver Wood called as his team trailed behind him. Magnolia immediately made eye contact with Fred, but both lost the contact.

"This is our practice time! We got up specially! You can clear off now!" Oliver said to Marcus and Franklin who both looked at each other and laughed at the Gryffindor captain. While Marcus and Oliver were around the same height, Franklin towered over them.

"Plenty of room for all of us, Wood." Marcus Flint told Oliver which didn't make him any more happier, but filled with rage. Franklin didn't like the idea of 'sharing' the pitch either. If there was anyone in the whole school that loved quidditch the most it was either Oliver Wood or Franklin Malvorseve.

"But I booked the field!" Oliver Wood said fighting back to the Slytherin captains. "I book it!"

"Nice, dont care," Franklin smiled as he grabbed a piece of parchment out of his pocket. "But I've got a note signed here from Professor Snape."

'I, Professor S Snape, give the Slytherin Quidditch team permission to practice today on the Quidditch field owing to the need to train their new Chaser and Seeker.'

"You've got a new Seeker and Chaser?" Wood said as he raised his eyebrow at the Slytherin team who were smirking. "Where?"

The Slytherin stepped to the side, Draco immediately came forward in pride, but Magnolia had to be pushed by Montague up to be examined by Wood.

"Aren't you Lucius Malfoy's son?" Fred said only paying attention to Draco. He haven't even looked over to her unless when they first made eye contact.

"And that's Franklin Malvorseve's little sister!" His twin brother said, I think his name was George. Magnolia tighter her hand in her broom as she looked up to the Gryffindors.

"Funny you should mention Draco's father," Marcus Flint said as he walked up to where Magnolia and Draco were standing. He pointed to the brooms they had in their hands. Magnolia watched as Oliver Wood looked in disbelief.