Chapter Seven- What do you want?
"So girls, do I have to stand here all day or are you going to tell me what you want?" said Harry.
Tracey sighed, "The thing is Potter we need you to offer our fathers the possible marriage between our houses. Just so that when our fathers have to decide who our husband is going to be, they have the option of you as an in-law."
"Just how will that help me?" said Harry.
"The rejection price is a thousand galleons." Said Daphne.
"And what happens if he accepts? Then I'll be engaged to you." Pointed out Harry.
"That won't happen." Dismissed Tracey.
"Really? Can you grantee that?" said Harry, walking up to Tracey. His emerald eyes piecing her's. "One hundred percent?"
Tracey sighed and looked down. "no." She admitted.
"Fine. Give me time to think about it." Said Harry, glaring at the pair.
"Harry. We don't want to become useless and a baby factory. Surely you can understand that." Tried Daphne.
"I said I'd think about it. And no, I don't understand you because I'm muggle raised!" said Harry, he then turned on his heels and walked away. Leaving two girls behind with fear in their hearts.
Later that Night.
"This is going to be great." Said Draco as he and Harry walked down to the Quidditch pitch.
"Yeah. Sure Draco. Let's make the team first." Said Harry. They entered the stadium and waited in the darkening evening. "When is Flint going to get here?" asked Harry.
"Don't know." Said Draco.
Too eager to fly again to wait for Flint, Harry mounted his broomstick and kicked off from the ground. What a feeling — he swooped in and out of the goal posts and then sped up and down the field. "Hey, Potter, come down!"
Flint had arrived. He was carrying a large Flint en crate under his arm. Harry landed next to him.
"Very nice," said Flint, his eyes glinting. "I see what Snape meant… you really are a natural. I'm just going to teach you the rules this evening, and then you'll be joining team practice three times a week. Same to you Malfoy. I'll make something out the pair of you."
He opened the crate. Inside were four different-sized balls.
"Right," said Flint . "Now, Quidditch is easy enough to understand, even if it's not too easy to play. There are seven players on each side. Three of them are called Chasers. They play with the quaffle and have to score as many points as they can by scoring through the hoops"
"Three Chasers, one Keeper," said Harry, who was determined to remember it all. "And they play with the Quaffle. Okay, got that. So what are they for?" He pointed at the three balls left inside the box.
"I'll show you now," said Flint . "Take this."
He handed Harry a small club, a bit like a short baseball bat.
"I'm going to show you what the Bludgers do," Flint said. "These two are the Bludgers."
He showed Harry two identical balls, jet black and slightly smaller than the red Quaffle. Harry noticed that they seemed to be straining to escape the straps holding them inside the box.
"Stand back," Flint warned Harry. He bent down and freed one of the Bludgers.
At once, the black ball rose high in the air and then pelted straight at Harry's face. Harry swung at it with the bat to stop it from breaking his nose, and sent it zigzagging away into the air — it zoomed around their heads and then shot at Flint , who dived on top of it and managed to pin it to the ground.
"See?" Flint panted, forcing the struggling Bludger back into the crate and strapping it down safely. "The Bludgers rocket around, trying to knock players off their brooms. That's why you have two Beaters on each team.
"Err — have the Bludgers ever killed anyone?" Harry asked, hoping he sounded offhand.
"Never at Hogwarts. We've had a couple of broken jaws but nothing worse than that. Now, the last member of the team is the Seeker. That's you. And you don't have to worry about the Quaffle or the Bludgers." Said Draco.
"Unless they crack my head open." Muttered Harry.
"You'll still have to catch the snitch or die trying." Muttered Flint reached into the crate and took out the fourth and last ball. Compared with the Quaffle and the Bludgers, it was tiny, about the size of a large walnut. It was bright gold and had little fluttering silver wings.
"This," grunted Flint , "is the Golden Snitch, and it's the most important ball of the lot. It's very hard to catch because it's so fast and difficult to see. It's the Seeker's job to catch it. You've got to weave in and out of the Chasers, Beaters, Bludgers, and Quaffle to get it before the other team's Seeker, because whichever Seeker catches the Snitch wins his team an extra hundred and fifty points, so they nearly always win. Now there is one spot available at the moment, which is the seekers position."
"I want a test for the pair of you." Flint brought out two Cheepsweepers. "You both got the same broom. I'm going to release the snitch and see which one of you gets it. The winner gets the spot. The other will be our reserve for the season. Got it?"
Draco and Harry nodded before taking to the air. After ten minutes, Harry felt a huge jolt of excitement. He had seen the Snitch — it was shimmering at the foot of one of the Goal posts. And then he saw something to make his heart stand still. Malfoy was diving, a look of triumph on his face. "Go! Go! Go!" Harry urged his broom. He was gaining on Malfoy — Harry flattened himself to the broom handle to add more speed to his descent. he was at Malfoy's ankles — he was level —
Harry threw himself forward, took both hands off his broom. He knocked Malfoy's arm out of the way and He pulled out of his dive, his hand in the air. The tiny golden ball was held tight in his fist, beating its wings hopelessly against his fingers. A small clap echoes around the stadium as Flint walks over to the pair. His eyes filled with greed.
And that's that Chapter done.
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