"Good!"

"When do you find out if you made the team?"

"Tomorrow morning!"

"I wonder why they need that long to decide."

"I think it's just to mess with us."

She giggles. "I dunno, maybe they're trying to figure out fit, or whether the person's style fits the team, or something?"

"I'd still think they could have that conversation in time to post the results in the common rooms after dinner."

"Mine will be posted after dinner."

"Everyone thinks Slytherin's evil, but it's the Ravenclaws that are the really twisted ones."

"Well, Sadde's were early," says Karen reasonably.

"And maybe Ravenclaws just spend a lot of time debating the merits of one or another player."

"I could see that."

"And from what I saw of the dynamics I'm not sure Arens listens to anyone other than Astoria, if he even listens to her, so maybe it's faster to decide."

"Is our team more democratic about it?"

"It looked that way, everyone had an opinion about what we should have to do."

"I wonder which actually works better for Quidditch teams."

"Well, last year I think Hufflepuff won, and before the war Harry Potter was part of the team, but apparently before he joined Slytherin used to win most of all Houses."

"But they might have been using different strategies, they'd have had all different captains in that time."

"Yeah, and I'm on the team this year so there's an obvious confounder for which strategy's best."

"Well, I'm on the other team this year so neener neener."

"And who knows who's on the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff ones, it's not just us."

"Of course but we're the best so it doesn't really matter."

Willow nods sagely.

Snort.