Chapter 5-19 The Lion and the Serpent

• The DA meetings are showing progress. Hermione gives everybody a fake Galleon to announce the date of the next meeting on the edge of the coins. All of them have a Protean Charm to mimic Harry's coin so Harry can set the time. Everybody is stunned with a Charm that is NEWT level. Terry boot asks why she's not in Ravenclaw because of her intelligence, but Hermione says the Sorting Hat considered that but it decided on Gryffindor in the end.
• The first Quidditch match between Slytherin and Gryffindor is coming up. Slytherins are regularly attempting to put hexes on the Gryffindor players but Snape turns a deaf ear and when Alicia has huge eyebrows as a result of a hex, he says she must have attempted a Hair-thickening Charm and also refuses to believe fourteen eyewitnesses seeing Miles Bletchley hit her from behind with a jinx. Ron is playing unpredictably, sometimes bad, sometimes excellent. Once he made a save they compared to the Irish Keeper Barry Ryan against the Poland Chaser Ladislaw Zamojski. Ron is being harassed relentlessly by the Slytherins.
• The morning of the game Ron looks like when he had put a Slug-vomiting Charm on himself. Angelina tells them Slytherin has two new Beaters, Crabbe and Goyle. They fly out to the pitch where the Slytherin team is already waiting. Montague is their new captain. The game starts, Lee doing the commenting as usual. The game is difficult for Angelina, Alicia and Katie. Warrington scores the first goal for Slytherin. Pucey scores the second. Suddenly Harry sees the Snitch and both he and Draco chase it. Harry catches it and a moment later is hit by a Bludger which Crabbe hit to him after he caught it. Crabbe is then reprimanded by Madam Hooch.
• Malfoy starts making fun of Ron, Mrs. Weasley and Mr. Weasley and next Alicia, Angelina and Katie are needed to stop Fred from leaping at him while Harry holds George. Then Draco makes fun of Harry's parents and the next moment Harry and George are in a fight. Madam Hooch stops it with a ¤ Impedimenta and Harry and George are send to McGonagall. While McGonagall is giving them detention, Umbridge comes in and shows a new Ministry Decree, giving her supreme power over punishments, sanctions and removal privileges of students. Harry, George, and even Fred, are banned for life to play Quidditch and their brooms are confiscated.
• Ron comes in the common room much later, as he had been walking. Ron wants to quit the team but when he's told about the lifetime bans he decides not to quit. Then Hermione tells them Hagrid is back.