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𝐒𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐀𝐍𝐒 𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐄 𝐔𝐏 and traveled far through the still and cold air when the first shock of the landing faded away. Pine needles and snow rained down on the crashed group and they had to squint their eyes against the sudden bright light as the rays of sunshine lit up the tiny snow crystals all around them.

Elodie could feel someone's shoe painfully pressing in her back as she stared up towards the white sky between the pine trees. Her arm was trapped underneath someone else's chest and a cold wave of snow had crept under her shirt.

'Bloody hell,' Phoenix cursed. He let out another groan and slowly climbed back onto his feet while taking Giulia with him, and the weight lifted off Elodie's arm.

'Is everyone still in one piece?' Fred asked as he helped Mina back up. The freshly fallen snow crunched under her sneakers and she suppressed a shiver while rubbing over her bare arms.

'Yeah,' Vittoria answered, sitting up straight and brushing some snowflakes and pine needles out of her brown hair. 'Something soft broke my fall,' she continued.

'You know, Tori,' George spoke up, most of his body and face invisible since it was covered with snow. 'Normally I am all ear to try out new positions, but I would like to get out of the snow as well. It is very cold.'

Vittoria's hair turned into a bright pink colour and her face heated up when she realized she sat across George's lap. With a restrained yelp she jumped up and George chuckled while pushing himself up as well. He shook most of the powdery snow out of his hair and brushed off his clothes as he winked at Vittoria.

'Did you get my joke, darling?' he asked with a snicker. 'All ear? Instead of all ears?'

Vittoria, however, ignored him and took a few deep breaths to get her metamorphic abilities under control. The unnatural pink colour faded out of her hair and she stuck out her hand for Ella to grab.

'Oh no, don't mind me,' Elodie said as Ella pulled her foot out of Elodie's back and another wave of snow washed over her. 'I'm perfectly content with laying here in the snow.'

She hurt all over her body as she had been one of the first to tip over the corridor's edge and had paved a way through the branches of the pine trees.

Phoenix laughed but shot to the Hufflepuff's help and hauled her back up.

'My ribs feel crushed,' Elodie breathed out while putting her hands on her knees.

'It's a miracle they aren't broken,' Vittoria said. She gazed through the branches towards the sky, but she couldn't spot the corridor anywhere. Maybe the trees blocked her view, and she turned around her axis in an attempt to find a better viewpoint. Everywhere she looked, though, stood massive pine trees.

'Maybe we could climb the trees,' Vittoria muttered, more to herself than to the others as they probably didn't know what was going on in her head.

'Climb the trees?' Ella repeated as she waved away Oliver who inspected a superficial cut on her cheek made by one of the branches.

'Yes,' Vittoria answered. 'To find the corridor again.'

'Tori,' Giulia began, scooping up a heap of snow in her hands, 'where is your sense of adventure? You want to return again? We just got here.'

She formed the snow in her hands into a ball and threw it against Phoenix' back ─ who immediately whirled around with a mischievous glimmer in his eyes.

'Who did that?' he asked, grabbing a handful of snow as well and Giulia giggled.

'It was Ella,' she said in a poor attempt to lie.

'You're going to regret that,' Phoenix said and Giulia yelped when he threw the snowball at her. She jumped behind Ella's back just in time and the snowball hit Mina square in the face.

Mina spluttered, spitting out the snow as it glided off her face, and Phoenix doubled over from laughter. Several strands of his red hair fell in front of his eyes due to the movement, but his laughter stopped abruptly when another snowball hit him and slid under his shirt.

'Cold!' he screamed while he plucked at the back of his shirt. However, instead of all the snow falling out of it, some of it disappeared in his trousers and he started jumping up and down, desperately trying to get it out.

'Oh, you're so on,' Phoenix said to Mina, taking out his wand as he knew the perfect spell to enchant snowballs in such a way it would never miss its target.

'Scared you cannot defeat me without magic?' Mina asked with a smirk, and Phoenix dropped his wand again while he gasped dramatically for air.

'Are you calling me a coward? I am never scared!'

'Snowball fight!' Giulia screamed and the twins' faces lit up, their eyes already searching for the perfect spot to ambush the others.

Ella giggled when the snowballs started to soar through the air, some of them only narrowly missing herself, but before she could crouch down to form a snowball herself, a handful of powdery snow was pressed in her neck. Ella shrieked and spun around to smack Oliver's chest with the flat of her hand.

'That's not funny, Wood!' she screeched as the snow slid under the collar of her shirt, gliding in an agonizing slow pace over her back.

Oliver burst out in laughter and tears formed in his eyes. 'Oh, love. You should see your face, it's hila─,' his voice was cut short when a snowball hit him against the back of his head, causing his brown hair to point in all directions.

'You should see your face,' Elodie said from behind him as he slowly turned around. 'It's priceless.'

Her face dropped though when he quickly crouched down to knead another snowball, but Ella jumped on his back before he could aim it at Elodie.

'Run, Elodie!' Ella screamed. 'I'll hold him off!'

Elodie sprinted away while Oliver raised himself up again and clasped his hands around Ella's legs that lay around his hips.

'Is that so,' he hummed and Ella tried to wriggle out of his grip when he strode towards a heap of still untouched snow, but the two year older boy was stronger than she was due to the many hours of Quidditch training.

'No, Oliver,' Ella pleaded as he turned his (and her) back towards the snow.

'Don't you dare,' she warned him, but Oliver ignored her and sunk a bit before letting himself fall backwards into the pile of snow.

Ella screamed when the cold washed all over her and Oliver rolled off her with hiccups of laughter.

After another few minutes of soaring snowballs and the group chasing each other through the snowy forest, the snowball fight ceased slowly but steady.

Their clothes were drenched and their jaws clattered from the cold as their breathing created small clouds in the frisk air, but their eyes sparkled from joy.

'Can we now look if the corridor is still there?' Vittoria asked, trying to sound serious but a big smile played around her lips as George embraced her from behind, his chin resting on the top of her head.

Phoenix looked up towards the sky. He could clearly see where they had fallen through the pine trees as some of the branches were snapped and needleless.

'I think I could use ascendio to get up there,' he said.

Giulia fought the urge to facepalm. 'We just fell a hundred feet, and you want to launch yourself up like a rocket?'

Phoenix shrugged. 'Yeah, it'll be fun.'

'I thought Ravenclaws were supposed to be smart,' she muttered and Phoenix smirked while taking out his wand. He placed one foot in front of the other and pointed his wand upwards.

'Well, this Ravenclaw isn't. Get used to it.' He cleared his throat.

'Ascendio!' he shouted, flicking his wand, but nothing happened.

'Huh,' Phoenix said, withdrawing his wand and staring at the tip of it while giving it a few shakes.

'Ascendio,' he tried again, but still, nothing happened.

The others frowned and took out their wands as well.

Elodie waved with her own wand over her clothes to dry them, but their magic didn't seem to work here. . .

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