"...and here we are at the first quidditch match of the season" a voice rang around the newly built Hogwarts quidditch pitch "Gryffindor against Ravenclaw" as these words were said the respected houses cheered along with any neutrals rooting for one side or another. Here's the starting line ups "Gryffindor, Keeper: Charlie Smith, the Chasers: Emily Kneese, Rose Weasley and Albus Potter, The Beaters: Fred Weasley II and Vincent Bennett and their Seeker is James Potter" next up was the Ravenclaw team "The Keeper: Josie Hills, The Chasers: Lysander Scamander, Roxanne Weasley and Lorcan Scamander, the Beaters: Ruben Vance and Milton Higgott and their seeker is William Collin" the fans were excited as the ravenclaw team had gotten better (or the Gryffindor team had gotten worse) the match was no longer the Gryffindor thrashing that it used to be and was one of the most highly anticipated games of the quidditch season and now that it was the first match it might give a pointer to would be lifting the quidditch cup at the end of the year.
The two teams walked onto the pitch and the stadium erupted with cheers, each fan waiting eagerly for more quidditch action having a break over the summer the teams a quite elderly and frail Madam Hooch followed them with the balls and being old she was determined to referee amidst much concern from many professors and the biggest voice of these concerns was the headmistress herself, Professor Minerva McGonagall. She knew that quidditch was Madam Hooch's passion so she allowed her to referee despite her worries. The crowd had gone silent waiting for the game to begin, then came the shout of "brooms up" and all the players kicked off the ground and madam hooch released all 4 balls (including the snitch) and the game was on.
A/N: from now on it will be from James's point of view
We were off, I couldn't believe that its the first game of the year I hadn't been slacking off quidditch I had been playing with dad, uncle Ron, Albus and Rose all summer at the burrow where everyone met as we hadn't seen each other for quite a long time and then...Whoosh a bludger from one of the Ravenclaw players came speeding at I need to think but I wasn't used to this as one of the things about a quidditch match that you can't learn at the burrow was to get the crowd and any other background noise out of your head so you can concentrate on the game.I dived down to avoid another bludger that was meant for a ravenclaw player but nearly hit me instead.I saw a flash of gold and dived even further down, I then realised that it wasn't the snitch but the sun reflecting of some part of the stadium, most likely the commentary box this was very unusual for September in scotland.I saw that Collins was still following me and decided to try a wronski feint but it didn't work and Michael Collins pulled up hard and actually caught the snitch for was the fastest snitch catch in Hogwarts history meaning ravenclaw won 150-10 putting them in first place and us in second as hufflepuff and slytherin haven't played expected a tight game where we won in the end but this was not the case meaning that Emily (our captain) had to think up new tactics for the second game against hufflepuff, although it wouldn't be as hard as the game against slytherin.I then realised that i wasn't in the game and came out of 'the zone' and listened to some of the commentary "...and that was very disappointing play from Gryffindor and especially from James Potter whose wronski feint did not work as expected and actually allowed Ravenclaw to catch the snitch". After that I went inside but then stopped as I saw two heads out of the corner of my eye, one with fiery red hair and another with naturally spiky jet black hair.I knew that this was my cousin Rose Weasley and my brother Albus."unlucky James, just imagine if it had worked" Rose said but I couldn't take it, I had never not caught a snitch before and ran up to Gryffindor tower.