“𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘯𝘦’𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴.”

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warning! this chapter contains more cursing than usual.

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After classes...

It was the first time Quidditch was going to be played in Hogwarts after years now.

The training pitch was already overflowed by other students when the Hufflepuff and Gryffindor teams arrived.

"Woah, look! It's Misun! She came!" SEOKMIN waves energetically receiving the same gesture from the short girl who was holding a huge Hufflepuff banner saying 'we kill em with our fluff, don’t underestimate hufflepuff'

That was one of the old banners and the whole team was happy to see that familiar object that brought back so many good memories.

"Aww, Sunnie! You kept it! It's the banner you held during our last match before the Battle, isn't it?" EVELYN's eyes shine with tears, making Misun smile and nod.

"Wow, why no one of ours brought cheering stuff? To all the Gryffindors: I can see you and I can see that you came empty handed. For real?!" ALEXIA gives disappointed glares to every Gryffindor in the crowd that she sees.

"It's okay, Lexie. It's. Okay." VERNON shakes his head, glaring as well.

"Before Bonnie and Clyde start murdering our housemates... Let's start, shall we?" CHAN proposes diplomatically.

"Good luck with the training, Gibson." SEUNGCHEOL says with a malicious smile.

"Ugh, you know me and the guys don't need your honest good wishes. So focus on your training and your team only, Choi." NATALIE scoffs.

"Ouch man." LILLIAN gives a fake sympathetic shoulder pat to Seungcheol, who seems to enjoy getting on Natalie's nerves.

"You're all here, nice to have you on the pitch again. You and everyone else who invaded my training grounds on this sunny autumn day." Madam Hooch looks at the many people occupying the sides of the pitch with a disapproving look.

"HELLO MADAM HOOCH!" The unwanted guests greet with wide smiles.

She replies with a cordial nod and allows the teams to start training, each on a side of the pitch.

"You don't have a Yoon Jeonghan here, so there is no need to remind you to avoid arguing with your opposition. It's not even necessary to have me here, so I'll make my leave. Good luck." Madam Hooch makes her way back to the castle.

"LET'S GET IT TEAM!" LILLIAN shouts as she takes her broomstick, making her housemates cheer and some of them roar in reply.

"Then I am the weirdo!" TAERIN shakes her head, before actually joking the roaring Gryffindors.

"A TRAITOR! A TRAITOR BETWEEN US!" JIHEON indicates dramatically and pretends to faint.

Let's just say that everyone in attendance after understanding the reference started to laugh uncontrollably.

"That's my girl!" SOONYOUNG exclaims, short of breath  because of laughter.

"We're not starting if we keep on getting distracted. OH! So that's Ravenclaw's evil, secret plan to win the House Cup this year. Hah! You wish!" ALEXIA looks at the crowd suspiciously.

"How dare you, guys?! I thought you were honest. Look at you. Be ashamed." ARIA shouts dramatically and the others back her up.

"Let's start before they actually end up winning due to our lack of training. Haha what am I saying? They don't stand a chance against us, even if we don't train the whole year." VERNON is boo-ed by the Ravenclaws in attendance (some of them dropping their usual polished behaviour), while Gryffindors whistle.

After that, the fourteen players rise to the sky, leaving loud cheers behind them.

After two hours of training, the teams of Gryffindor and Hufflepuff are forced out of the pitch by rioting Ravenclaws and Slytherins.

"Woah, chill guys." JESSICA rises her hands in sign of peace.

"Huh, stop bossing us around. We said we're leaving, man." SEUNGKWAN glares at the players dressed in green and in blue.

A beautiful thing MISUN noticed was that after the war, Hogwarts became more united than ever.

Of course, there were still rivalries among the students and the houses, but they were way less serious than they used to be. Pretty much everyone seemed able to joke with each other more easily. Even the Gryffindor and Slytherins!

'Perks of having fought side by side.' She thinks with a smile.

"Well, Jeon. Don't forget to eat my dust." It was none but Yoon freaking JEONGHAN with his signature smirk.

Misun shakes her head.

'Maybe things between these two will never change.'

"Guess what Yoon? I was going to make a sarcastic comment, but I realised that you're not worth my time and my team's. Everyone, on your broomsticks. The first training of the 2000/2001 season begins now!" WONWOO says coldly to cover up his anger and lead his team away.

"Jeonghan can you avoid going head to head with Jeon at least during shared training sessions?" JESSICA shakes her head.

"It's not something I control." He says nonchalantly.

"I'm surprised how the two of you aren't dating yet with all that sexual tension between you." VERNON laughs, the others follow too.

All but an embarrassed JEONGHAN.

"Shut it, Chwe."

After an hour, the training seemed to go oddly well, considering the rivalry between Wonwoo and Jeonghan.

And that's when everything went downhill.

Jeonghan seemed to have the desire of provoking Wonwoo, as his words didn't have much of an effect before the training started.

He decided to throw the Quaffle through one of the hoops in the Ravenclaw's side of the pitch.

No one's ever doubted his chaser skills, but the goal he just scored seemed just impossible.

"Pick your jaws, losers. That's how you score, Jeon." JEONGHAN smirks, hiding his surprise. Even he wasn't expecting to score this time!

Wonwoo was boiling of anger.

"Ignore him." JIHOON pats Wonwoo's shoulder.

"He can't ignore me forever. Why? Because I'm his nemesis and he's mine." JEONGHAN keeps his usual glorious expression.

"Well, at least you understand that Wonwoo is one hella opponent that will beat the crap out of you." JIHEON shouts.

"Look, whatever was your name. I speak only with people that matter."

"Apologise to Jiheon now." WONWOO says with a calm tone, but his eyes were furious.

"Or else?" JEONGHAN challenges.

"Or else I'm coming personally up there and beating the living daylights out of you." SOONYOUNG is angrier than he's ever been.

"Let's all calm down. And Jeonghan, apologise to Jiheon. That was nasty even for you." MINGHAO says, with his low voice.

"Don't worry, Hao. Thanks guys, but I don't give shit about Yoon's words because he doesn't even matter to me. We're all ten times the people he'll ever be." JIHEON replies with a confident tone.

"Lister here, you weird moron." JEONGHAN crosses his arms.

"Trust me, Yoon. No one is a moron here beside you." WONWOO says, keeping his posture.

JEONGHAN laughs.

"Is that all you have to say? Was that supposed to offend me? Because I've been hearing heavy shit my whole life, I dolt care anymore."

JESSICA gasps. Something in Jeonghan's voice seemed off.

"You think you're the only one who's been through hard times?" WONWOO laughs bitterly.

There are a pair minutes full of tension in which no one talks.

"Ugh, I hate when stuff like this happens." YEONMI says, annoyed.

"Let's get this over with. Ravenclaw versus Slytherin. Now." WONWOO makes everyone react in shock at his proposal, knowing that Jeonghan would never back down from a challenge.

"I'm in."

"Wait, you can't just accept a match like that! I'm still the team captain." JESSICA says angrily.

"Sue me, then." JEONGHAN doesn't change his mind.

"What a jerk." JESSICA leaves the pitch, indignant.

"Jessica, wait for me." YUYAN follows her friend.

JEONGHAN calls for two substitutes, Ryleigh Hunter and Taylor Quigley.

"I can be the referee, before you end up killing each other." JINA says and everyone nods in approval.

Once everyone was in their rightful position, JINA allows the players to start.

The tension was high and so were the stakes. Both teams were playing to win.

After 45 minutes of match, Slytherin is behind by 10 points after Reginald MacQuoid, one of the chasers of Ravenclaw, scores.

When he's flying back to his teammates, he's hitten by a quaffle thrown by Jeonghan himself.

The 7th year Ravenclaw falls on the ground and groans in pain.

JINA halts the match and runs to the ground to check on the injured player.

Everyone else does the same.

"What have you done?" MINGHAO asks, glaring at a certain light hair boy.

"You wouldn't believe me if I said that it wasn't intentional." JEONGHAN says, looking genuinely worried as he approached the fallen boy.

When he comes close, Wonwoo pushes him away and holds him by the collar of the Quidditch uniform.

"You piece of a shitty Death eater." WONWOO hisses, his temper lost.

"WHAT HAVE YOU CALLED ME?"

"I've called you only how you deserve to be called. You death eater, didn't you have enough of killing, had to take your violence on Reggie? It's a personal feud between the two of us, stop bringing other people down because of it."

"You know nothing, Jeon. Nothing at all. It wasn't my intention to hit him, but those kind of things happen every day in Quidditch."

"I've had enough of your crap for a lifetime. You come at me, at my friends, at my teammates. But enough is enough. Whatever you death eater think you're doing-"

WONWOO is interrupted by a thud.

The sound came from the impact of Jeonghan's fist and Wonwoo's nose.

"Don't you ever dare to call me a death eater ever again." JEONGHAN says, his voice lower than ever.

The two boys keep on looking at each other and no one dares to interrupt the moment, in fear of making things worse.

WONWOO's nose starts to bleed, but he doesn't move an inch, until he seems to realise what happened and punches Jeonghan in the jaw, causing him to step back.

More silence and Jeonghan hits Wonwoo again, starting a full fight between the two.

Their friends try to separate them, but they don't stop until they hear a familiar, angry voice.

"Stop this abomination immediately!"

It was none but Madam Hooch.

"Cromwell, bring MacQuoid to the hospital wing. You two, follow me."

They both realised the trouble they put themselves in.

Lucy was on the verge of tears when Minghao approached her. She was sitting away from everyone else, holding her head between her hands.

"I knew something bad would happen. I felt it, Minghao." LUCY starts to sob.

After sitting down beside her, Minghao does the only thing he thinks of: hugging her.

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“𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘯𝘦’𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴.”