The Elementals by Namacub95 (best book club books for discussion .txt) 📕

the Slytherin team had and soon they were soaring around the pitch as well. Alice hovered near Scorpius with a smirk on her face.

"Just to let you know I'm going to kill you for "Blondie" Ali-baba."

"Think of it as revenge for that." Alice said sticking her tongue out at him. They both soared to the middle of the pitch when they saw Professor Wood walking on with the casket of balls.

"Professor Wood has entered the building…err…pitch and is ready to read the riot act." Roxanne's voice echoed around the pitch as everyone went silent.

"I want a clean game from all of you! No biting, no scratching, no kicking, no gouging, no kickboxing, no punching, no slapping, no spitting, no mixed martial arts, no firing bludgers into the crowd, no swearing at each other, no hexes, jinxes or charms! Moffett I'm looking at you!" he yelled.

Elena looked very guilty; she always claimed that she only fired the jet of water because she thought that the Gryffindor's robes were on fire.

Professor Woods set the casket on the ground and lifted the lid. He briefly fiddled with the clasp that kept the two bludgers secure and soon enough they were released.

"The bludgers have been released!" Roxanne yelled as the two iron balls shot into the sky barely missing Annabeth and Thomas.

"Followed by the Golden Snitch!" Roxanne said as the tiny golden ball flew up and hovered briefly in front of Scorpius's face before darting off to the left.

Professor Wood grabbed the quaffle and tossed it high into the air. Immediately the chasers surged forward to grab the ball.

"The match has begun!" Roxanne yelled and the pitch was filed with screams, yells and chants of the students.

Annabeth had the ball and Jacob was flanking her. Scorpius and Elena were right behind them trying to figure out a way of getting the quaffle before Ravenclaw had the chance to score.

Scorpius soared underneath Annabeth while Elena slammed her broom into Annabeth's causing her to swerve slightly but she still kept a tight grip on the ball.

"Richards passes to Roe…who passes to Morrison!" Roxanne yelled. "Morrison aims…OUCH! Morrison is hit by a stray bludger! That one's going to leave a mark!"

Morrison dropped the quaffle and Scorpius saw it falling to the ground. The Ravenclaw Captain dived after it and so did the other Ravenclaws. His team mates wouldn't be able to get to the quaffle in time…unless…

Scorpius glanced around nobody was looking at him; everyone was more interested in the falling quaffle of the seekers who were zooming around above his head. Scorpius flicked his left wrist and a small gust of air blew the falling quaffle over to Ally who caught it expertly.

"I don't believe this! The wind blew the quaffle to Burton!"

Ally quickly turned her broom around and flew full speed to the Ravenclaw goals. She glanced around and spotting Elena to her right chucked the quaffle at her.

Elena caught it and tucked it under her left arm as she flew to the goals. Scorpius was coming up on her left and she threw the ball to him. Bludgers from Ravenclaw were aimed at him so he threw the quaffle back to Elena.

Scorpius flew lower to avoid the bludgers one almost catching him on his left shoulder. Flying up again Elena tossed the quaffle to him again. Scorpius caught it and focused on the goals directly in front of him. The new Ravenclaw keeper looked fast but he was faster. He aimed for the middle goal but at the last second threw it through the left ring. He could hear Roxanne's commentary as she caught up with the events.

"Burton passes to Moffett…who passes to Malfoy…back to Moffett…back to Malfoy. Malfoy shoots…SCORE! 10 points for Slytherin!"

Scorpius raised one fist towards the sky as the crowd broke into thunderous cheers. Then he felt a painful current of electricity flow through his body, as soon as it was there it was gone again.

Scorpius glowered up at the Ravenclaw seeker who was hovering just a few metres away. She gave him a look that said 'I saw what you did' and snapped her fingers. Another painful current flowed though Scorpius's body and he glowered at her. She stuck her tongue out and soared away again.

The match continued and soon the score was at 40-0, with Slytherin winning. Scorpius had scored a second goal shortly after his first and Elena had scored a third shortly after.

At one point Ally punched Jacob for an alleged 'comment on her chasing skills' and it resulted in a fist fight at twenty feet. Professor Woods called a foul and Jacob took a penalty shot but remarkably missed. Ally soon retrieved the quaffle and shot it through the Ravenclaw goals.

The Ravenclaw beaters were becoming increasingly more brutal and attempted to take out Brendan who through sheer luck managed to dodge one bludger but was clipped by the other. From the yell he gave and the resounding snap it was quite possible that he had broken his arm and was sent to the Hospital Wing.

The Ravenclaws played valiantly trying to get to the unguarded Slytherin goalposts, Annabeth, Jacob and Morrison seemed to have choreographed a perfect down pitch assault as they passed the quaffle to each other. The Slytherin beaters had a hard time getting a decent shot at them but thankfully Elena managed to grab the quaffle before Jacob could shoot it into the goals.

"Downes has spotted the snitch!" Roxanne roared into her microphone and suddenly the noise from the crowd became deafening as they either cheered for Alice or urged Thomas on.

Scorpius, Elena and Ally however had no time to watch the two seekers dive for the snitch as they were too preoccupied with getting the quaffle to the goals before Alice could secure a win for Ravenclaw. The Ravenclaw chasers, encouraged by the announcement that their seeker had spotted the snitch, pursued the Slytherins down the pitch.

Scorpius threw the quaffle to Ally, who threw it to Elena, who threw it back to Scorpius. Scorpius saw the goals looming in front of them and saw the right wing practically unguarded as no one had managed a shot through that goal yet.

Taking aim Scorpius hurled the quaffle through the air just as Roxanne screamed:

"Malfoy has scored and Downes has caught the snitch! Ravenclaw wins 150 to 50!"

Professor Woods blew his whistle as the crowd went absolutely mad.

"Ravenclaw wins!" he declared.

The Ravenclaw team let out a loud yell of victory and sped towards their beaming seeker, who had one had one hand punched skyward and looked to be either laughing or screaming something at the top of her lungs. Scorpius laughed as the team all but jumped on her and she was buried under a mound of blue Quidditch robes and people.

Elena flew by and punched his shoulder

"Go congratulate her. I know you had placed a bet on her to win." She said.

"Was I that obvious?"

"Just a little." Elena replied. "See ya back in the Common Room for Butterbears."

"Bye." He called flying towards the celebrating Ravenclaws. Alice saw him coming and waved with her snitch free hand before speeding over to him.

"We won Scorp! We kicked your butts!" she said excitedly "No hard feelings."

"Hey, I'm happy you won." Scorpius said with a shrug "That means next year we can pulverise you lot in our sleep!"

"Yeah, the only time you can." Alice said amused as she and Scorpius descended towards the ground. "In your dreams."

Chapter 13: Falling Snow and Memories

December arrived and so did the freezing temperatures. It rained for almost two weeks straight and when it wasn't raining it was far too cold to do much out on the grounds. That still didn't stop Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures lessons which nobody looked forward to much, especially when it involved getting soaked up to your knees in the Lake as you tended to inch long, baby, flesh eating, Shrieking Eels.

It was November 16th and Shauna Longbottom was sitting in the Herbology Greenhouse by herself. She and her elder brother Frank had to help her father with some plants in her free time, she really didn't mind but she could think of better things to be doing. Her father had stepped out for a minute to talk with Professor Downes about some Potions ingredients that she needed, while Frank had buggered off to Quidditch practice leaving Shauna alone.

The sky outside was an ominous grey, threatening rain, sleet or snow whichever came first and matched Shauna's mood perfectly.

Shauna shoved the last plant pot onto the shelf with more force than was probably necessary before grabbing her bag and leaving; she wasn't in a good mood by any stretch of the imagination. She had a tutoring session with Keith that night and she wasn't looking forward to, it wasn't because she didn't like Keith, it was because he was irritating sometimes and she wasn't in the mood for it.

She walked slowly through the corridors on her way to the Hufflepuff Common Room, hopefully without needing to kick a stupid first year's butt in the process.

"Shauna!" Shauna growled internally and spun slowly on her heel to face Keith.

"What d'ya want Downes?" She asked not bothering to mask her bad mood. Keith seemed annoyingly happy to Shauna at that moment as he stood grinning like he was on crack or something. He grabbed her hand and proceeded to half walk half drag her outside.

"C'mon! It's snowing and Rose can't be bothered so let's have some fun!" Keith said and he flung open the doors. Shauna struggled to release her arm from Keith's vice like grip.

"Get off me! I don't wanna play in the snow like some three year old! You're cracked! You've gone nuts! Get the hell off me Downes! I mean it!" She yelled trying to think of a stinging comment she could make which would make Keith release her. She couldn't reach her wand which was in her bag otherwise she'd make Keith think twice about doing this.

Keith continued dragging Shauna out of the warm castle and into the freezing grounds. Shauna gave a small yelp when she stepped in a freezing cold puddle causing the bottom of her jeans to become soaking wet. Snow was beginning to fall heavily on the grounds blanketing the damp grounds in minutes.

"I'M GONNA KILL YOU DOWNES!" Shauna shrieked. Keith laughed and removed his scarlet and gold scarf before wrapping it around her neck. Shauna scowled, she hated the bloody snow! She hated Keith Downes! But most of all she hated this day!

"Oh c'mon have some fun Shaunie!" he said spinning her around. Shauna gritted her teeth. Anger, bad memories and hurt that she had tried to repress, welled up inside her.

"You're deranged!" she yelled wrenching her arm away from Keith. "I'm not in the mood for your childish behaviour! I'm so sick and tired of this day and no one's making it any better! You have all the sensitivity of a cruciatus curse! I've had it with you! You can take your freakish powers and screw yourself! You're a freak and I want nothing more to do with you and your weirdo powers anymore!"

Shauna knew that she had hit a sensitive spot but to be completely truthful she couldn't give two fingers about anything at the moment. Keith stared at her with his mouth agape looking