Black And Green

Fourteen

E m i l y

"Did you guys heard what is wondering around the castle?" Hermione asked at the dinning table.

"I heard it was a dragon! With fire coming out of his mouth!" Neville said and I rolled my eyes. That was definitely not a dragon.

"They said Dumbledore will take care of it, but I don't know. I just hope no one wonders around the nights or will get seriously injured" the Weasly prefect said.

At that time, the sound of howls filled the room and all the students looked up to the ceiling where letters were falling off from the sky. It surprised me that one landed in front of me.

I opened it quickly, and read it to myself.

I hope you are okay. I just want to know that.

I knew from who it was, even if it's anonymous. I put it in my robe's pocket and kept it there. I will answer later, or never.

"Hey Emily! Are you here?" Neville was waving in front of my face and I shook my head.

"Yeah. What's up?" I said focusing on him.

"McGonagall is sick or something like that. We have a free period! Do you want to go watch Harry at his practice?" he asked and I nodded. I didn't have anything better to do.

As we were walking to the field, we saw the Slytherin team going all queued up to the field too.

"This is not going to be okay..." Neville said scared and we started running to tell at the Gryffindors.

"Wait, for real?" Oliver asked as I explained that they are coming.

"But it's our practice day, right?" Harry asked and no one got to answer him.

"What brings you here Malfoy?" Oliver asked with confidence. All of the Slytherin boys had this arrogant look on their faces and were gossiping us one by one.

"We want the field for our practice" Zabini said and Oliver raised his eyebrow.

"It's our turn to use it. I can't help you. Come on guys lets-" Oliver turned to the Gryffindors but Malfoy's voice cut him off.

"How about one game? Whoever wins, gets the field for the rest of the week", Oliver didn't except this based of his reaction.

"But we can't. Fred Weasly is sick, one of their pranks went wrong. We are missing a player" Harry said and I felt Nevilles hand pushing me.

"She will play" I heard Neville saying and I turned at him confused. When I looked away everyone's eyes were on me.

Then all the Slytherins started laughing and Oliver coughed twice so they would shut up.

"Do you play?" Oliver asked looking straight into my eyes.

"No no I don't" I answered quickly and swearing Neville inside of me.

"Yes she does! Emily you are a good player!" he said with a low tone voice and Oliver grabbed my by my shoulder so only I could hear him.

"Emily, do you play?" he asked once again with tense.

"Y-yes" I trembled and he exhaled.

"We have our team", he turned to Malfoy, "Give us two minutes".

"Everyone get up here. Harry go bring Emily a broomstick from the girls lockers" he continued and Harry started running away.

"So Emily. What do you play?"

"I'm a chaser" I said and he nodded.

"Okay so I will take Fred's position as a Beater and you are a chaser. Come on guys we got them" he hyped the team up and everyone started patting hard on each other's backs. Thank God they didn't do the same to me.

"Here you go" Harry said out of breath next to me. It was akward talking to him since last time so I just took it without a word and placed it between my legs. I gave a good push to the ground and I was now up in the air.

"Hey, what's wrong?" I flew next to George since he was a little down.

"Nothing. It's just Fred is not here to kick Malfoy's ass" he said and I snorted. They can't stay separate for too long.

"We got them" I confronted him and then went back to my position because Oliver told us so.

[..]

We were winning 30-20 and we agreed that whoever scores first at 50 points, since we weren't allowed to use the golden snitch alone without teachers. The chasers were playing as keepers too.

"Yes!!" Zabini shouted as he scored the ball and now were tied.

"Guys come on! Wake up!" Oliver said desparated and I sighed. If they just passed me the ball we would be ahead of the score.

We started again the round and we were having the ball. George was flying around trying to find a single player.

"George! Right here!" I shouted and he saw me. He threw me the ball and I catched it flying high.

Blaise was next to me as I was heading to the hoop and was pushing me with his body. When he almost dropped me, I pushed my broom down so I would got away from him and he crashed to the ground. I continued flying and tended my hand with strength to the goal. The keeper couldn't catch it, so it was a goal for us.

"Well done Emily! Come on guys, one more goal!" Oliver shouted so we all could hear him and now the Slytherins were having the ball.

"Don't let him pass!" Harry shouted about a Slytherin boy I have never seen before but it was too late, since he threw and scored.

"What's the matter Black? Losing?" Malfoy had flown next to me and said ironically.

At the end, with a perfect pass from Harry I scored the final goal and the Gryffindor won. We started cheering up and flew down the ground.

"Deal is a deal Malfoy. You can leave" Oliver said and Malfoy rolled his eyes.

"If you didn't have this stupid girl with you, I am not so sure if you would have won" he raised his eyebrows saying to me.

"Maybe this stupid girl can give you some private classes. Turns out you and your guys need it" I said and the Gryffindor started cheering behind me.

"We will talk again" he said bitterly before walking away.

"So...", Oliver rested his hand around my shoulder, "I know who I will call to replace", he added and I pushed him back gently.

"No it was a one time thing" I smiled and he raised his eyebrow.

"We will see that" he said before walking away.

"Wow Em! You were amazing up there!" Neville said and I giggled awkwardly.

"Haha thanks Longbottom" I said as we were walking to the castle and let the others finishing their practice.