Drop in the Ocean

There was practice that afternoon for the Ravenclaw team, It was 4 o’clock & Gryffindor just finished their practice. Ravenclaw waited for Gryffindor to go in their locker room. When Oliver Wood passed by the Ravenclaw team everyone said, “Ahem”, even his own teammates, even Harry.

Fred & George Weasely did a love song & Oliver looked at them like Snape looking at Harry or anyone not from Slytherin.

Sean Zohn was still injured and Joyce was still looking forward to steal a few shots against Oliver.

It was Tuesday morning, Joyce and Celeni were getting ready for Snape’s class. They met up with Ethan, and he started the conversation.

“Is Oliver nice?”

“I told you he isn’t my boyfriend!”

“Is he taking care of you?”

“Oh! You seem to be jealous!” Joyce said.

“No! No!” he blushed.

“Ethan, Oliver is to Celeni, and Celeni is to Oliver, right?” Celeni did not reply. She liked Ethan. Sure Oliver may be a more talented Keeper, but there was something in Ethan that made her feel like in heaven. Ethan was looking at Celeni, with a concerned look. Joyce was looking at both of them, feeling out of place.

The Gryffindors were already there when all the Ravenclaws arrived.

“Hurry up, sit with your partner. Today we will be making an invisibility potion for animals.” Snape started.

Ethan sat beside Oliver.

“So Oliver, are you ready?” Ethan asked trying to get information on their tactics.

“We are. Frog eyes please.” He replied.

“You know Joyce is playing. She beated you up last time, what are you going to do?”

“Oh, I don’t know…”

Ethan was enraged. He wanted to know their plans.

“What about you? Harry never missed a Snitch, what will Cho do?” Oliver tried to scoop information too.

“Why you!”

“Mr. Bloom, 10 points from Ravenclaw, creating noise.”

“Oliver!!!!!” Ethan shouted. “You’re trying to get information from me about our tactics.”

“So did you!”

“5 points from both Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, discussing Quidditch in Potions.”

“Shut Up!” Ethan was going ballistic.

“Detention, no game for you mister!”

“You can’t do that!”

“You won’t play in the game.”

Everyone looked at Oliver, they thought that he would be happy, but to their surprise he didn’t look joyous at all.

No one from Ravenclaw was talking to him, not even Celeni, especially Joyce.

“Celeni, you have to be the Keeper!” said Ethan. He kept on teaching her the moves of the Chasers and they conjured visions of past games together. Joyce was now alone most of the time, and so was Wood. The Gryffindors didn’t like what he did, get information on the other team’s tactics, it was more like Slytherins. They thought it gave their house a bad name.

Percy was mad at Wood since Penelope and him began to fight because of that incident. He said that Wood’s obsession overpowered him again.

Joyce was starting to think twice on the Celeni-Oliver relationship. She noticed that Celeni liked Ethan more than Oliver. She was a bit disappointed though, she liked Ethan-for awhile. She kept asking herself why she was so mad at Oliver. She went to the Quidditch field where she saw the boy she was staring at in Platform 9 ¾. The same boy that fixed Celeni’s eye glassess and her trunk. The Oliver Wood that she used to have a crush on, but this time, a not so happy Oliver Wood. Joyce went over and talked to him.

“You shouldn’t be like that!” She shouted. “Big game tomorrow.”

Wood just looked at her.

“You should practice for I will beat you hard again. I’m captain while Ethan, our captain & Sean the assistant captain are out, so HA!”

No answer.

“W hat? Don’t tell me you’re not talking to me because I was mad at you, or is it because I’m from Ravenclaw? Don’t worry, I heard the both of you talking, I know that Ethan started it.”

Wood looked at her and finally spoke.

“I’m quite astounded…”

He gave a faint smile. (That made Joyce jump deep inside)

“I’m shocked that Ethan did that and Snape didn’t throw the 2 of you out of the game.”

Oliver smiled. (It was the same faint smile.) Then something came out of nowhere. There were 2 men coming to the Quidditch field. One was in a hood, while the other looked like someone from Gangster movies.

“We better hide.” Joyce said

They hid themselves under the benches. Then they heard a voice.

“There’s a game tomorrow, if you want to get it tomorrow. Let’s meet in the Forbidden Forest later to finish our plans.”

When they heard the voices leave, both of them scrambled to their feet.

They thought about telling someone, but who will believe him now? Oliver thought & a lot of people will not believe Joyce too if she was hanging out with Oliver.

“Then let’s go there, ready for the challenge?” Oliver said.

“Where?” Joyce asked

“In the Forbidden Forest!” Wood had a look of adventure in his eyes.

“I can’t believe you’ll say that, with a game tomorrow! What if we get caught?”

“Well how can we play if someone wants to destroy Hogwarts, or whatever that “it” is!”

Joyce was persuaded, she wanted to do a little adventure. Plus, she thought, she was with Oliver Wood!

“How? We live in different houses… that’ll be hard” asked Joyce

“Call a practice!”

“You call a practice, Oliver!”

“They’re listening to Katie Bell more. Like she’s my replacement since McGonagall didn’t like me getting information. She said that I should have let Ethan do the spying alone.”

“Well it’s time to put adventure in my life. I’ll tell Ethan”

Joyce went inside the Great Hall and found Ethan and Celeni talking and reading “Guide on How to be a Good Keeper: Volume 1”.

“Hey! What are you doing?” Joyce asked

“Ethan and I are looking at the sketches in this book. Look, Oliver Wood borrowed this too, so that means he probably got some tactics here.” Celeni told her with a wide grin.

“Yeah, this will come in handy. You and the other chasers can discover the tricks Wood has under his sleeves! We can win tomorrow!” Ethan said with an even bigger grin that Celeni’s.

“We better have practice then!” Joyce said thinking that there is no stopping the plan that she and Oliver had.

“Tonight?” Ethan asked.

“Yes, we should practice our moves!” Joyce told them with an even bigger grin than Ethan.

“That’s a great idea Joyce!” Celeni told her, with a really big grin. (The Ravenclaws sure are happy!)

“I can feel it. We can beat Gryffindor, especially now that Katie Bell is their captain while Wood is under probation. She may be a good Chaser but she lacks experience. She won’t know all our moves unlike Wood! This is sweet!” Ethan said. He was determined to beat Gryffindor and show the whole school that Ravenclaw is really good.