"Well, I've heard some things. My family... Well, no sense in incriminating our families," he smiled. "He doesn't approve of the ministry's meddling in the school, for one thing. Actually, he doesn't approve of the ministry much at all. Who can blame him? What do you think about what the Ministry has been doing?"

At Matt's last words Rave had a flash back to the term when Leiden had ruled the school. "I dont particularly like them much either." Rave said bitterly, "They gave my family alot of trouble when I was younger. First it was the English when I was 2 then the French when I was 13." she finished sounding more angry than when she began. "So that what he believes? just the the Ministry has got to go?" Rave asked going over the facts in her head. If that was indeed what he was up to then... he actually didnt sound to bad.

"For the most part, yes," Matt answered, though there were certainly other things Lord Voldemortist was after such as power and imortality.

Rave nodded thoughtfully, she would have to rethink the whole 'Do what ever the people in charge tell you' philosophy she had lived by the past 5 years. "Thanks for cluing me in Matt. If you remember anything else, owl me or find me in the castle." she said with a wink.

"Any time," he smiled. "By the way, were you just looking into the strange riddle that was posted in the common room?"

"You found it to?" Rave asked. "Yes actually I was. I thought it refered to the pitch, so I came here with my sister Lua.''

"Yes, I did. I'm surprised no one had found it sooner. Seemed a dreadfully obvious place to hide it," he said, though even he had trouble finding it at first. "Have you heard anything from any of the other houses?'

"Um.. yes actually. I know the Gryffindors found one. Actually my sister did." Rave replied quietly. She didnt know if she should say anymore because the reason she had asked Lua to help was because she knew Lua wouldn't say anything to anyone else. Now here she was doing exactly what didnt want Lua to do.

"Has she figured it out, yet?" he asked, a bit excitedly.

"Well we think we have it figured out." Rave said oblivious to the excited tone of Matt's voice. "I think it has something to do with Godric Gryffindor. Maybe a portrait or something."

"That's great. Do you have any idea what all these riddles are about? I mean, it seems kind of odd each of the houses getting a riddle."

Against her better judgment Rave answered, "I think it may have something to do with the where abouts of.... the book of Mysteria."

Matt nodded. "That's what I think, too," he smiled. "Well, you should probably go after your sister," he said, pointing toward the castle.

"Yeah... See ya later!" Rave said as she ran towards the castle and out of sight.

"See ya," Matt said, mounting his broom once again. He kicked off from the ground and headed over to examine the other three goal hoops.....


After flying close to the hoops, he finally found what he was looking for and quickly raced back to the ground and dismounted. He headed back up to the castle after depositing his broom in the cupboard.

Tina finally broke her gaze from the sky, and stared blankly at the boy who had just approached her. Shrugging, Tina forged a smile and said, “Couldn’t be better!” Oh shut up, and go back to hiding in the common room, she told herself, annoyed with her phony attitude. Slowly, Tina gave him another smile and continued walking…

“No, not that…Just thinking,” she said, sporadically turning to face him. “You can’t really get a thought in by the lake anymore...so I figured this was the best place,” she added, making up the first thing that came to mind.

Tina was actually glad that he had suggested to leave first…but for some reason she went against the idea. “No. I’d love some company. But…if I doze off in my own world and start acting weird, don’t say I didn’t warn you.” Grinning, Tina finally steered away from her previous thoughts and gave him her full attention.

“How about you? You into quiditch?” she asked, curious to know.

Katie wandered about the pitch. Surely this must be the place, she thought. Rings of gold ... that had to mean the goal hoops. But where to look?

Tina nodded as she heard his response. "Yeah...I used to be obsessed with sports back in my old muggle school, but I really haven't given it too much of my time here," she said shrugging.

"So, how long have you been here at Hogwarts?" she asked, taking a moment to look around the pitch. It seemed a couple people had made their way over there as well...

"Katie!?" Tina said in a low whisper. It can't be...Tina hadn't seen or heard from Katie since...her second year at Hogwarts...right around the same time she had met Caleb. Smiling at her from afar, Tina wondered what she was up to.

On his way to the grounds, Novalus noticed a couple people flying around on the pitch, he was still not thrilled about he loss to Ravenclaw but he decided it was only a game and you shouldn't mope over such a trivial thing. In his hand he was holding a snitch, he couldn't remember how he got it but thought that maybe he would have a little fun with it. He grabbed his broom from the locker room, walked on to the pitch and proceeded to fly. Nova would then let the snitch go to find out how long it would take to catch it.

"Here we go" he said as he let the snitch go