What Does "The Childhood Friend Loses to the Newcomer" Mean?!
As October rolled around, the weather grew colder. Outside, it seemed to do nothing but rain and blow, with thunder and lightning all day long.
Nobody particularly liked this kind of weather. After all, when it was raining outside, the best thing to do was lie in bed and sleep.
But they still had to drag themselves up and go to those wretched eight o'clock classes.
It was pure torture!
And the one who suffered even more than the average student was Wood.
Gryffindor's championship-winning lineup was still intact, so Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw were both leaning toward waiting until after Wood graduated next year to join the fight for the championship.
Cedric, Hufflepuff's captain, still wanted to give it a shot. Unfortunately, in such terrible weather, convincing a bunch of Little Badgers to train was even harder than convincing them to stay out of the kitchens.
As for Davis, Ravenclaw's captain, he had simply given up.
Ravenclaw's Chaser lineup hadn't changed. The three of them together couldn't stop Harley, so how were they supposed to compete?
Were they really going to rely on Cho Chang, a Seeker with just one year of match experience?
The only team with any real chance thanks to their Nimbus 2001s was Slytherin, and even they were out of the running this season. They'd be lucky if their team didn't tear itself apart.
Slytherin's captain, Marcus, had become one of the rare students to repeat a year at Hogwarts.
He was such an embarrassment that even the Slytherins didn't want to admit he was one of them.
So Slytherin was still trying to settle who was in charge, let alone organize any training.
With the odds so heavily in their favor and last year's lineup