AN:
I am never ever going to write second generation sequels ever again!
LOL.
nah, thanks for reading and reviewing guys. I have another story go on right now, another Oliver Hermione.
The Ending:
Stella sat at her sofa crunching popcorn quietly while her fiancée crunched louder. It had been six years since they started dating.
"Honestly Mike, close your mouth" she grumbled as she pressed the volume button violently. She was waiting for Q True story program to come on.
"What? Sorry I can't hear you" teased Mike but soon regretted it as he felt a sharp jab of Stella's elbow on his ribs. They stared at each other for a bit until a pop broke his amused stare and her annoyed glare.
Looking to the other sofa, the oddest color in the neutral dominant colored room, Parker flopped down with a bag of pop corn. Stella mused herself as Parker, who had been living in Russia for the past two years, had gone back to England for a few months to heal her injured leg. She could understand as to why her little sister chose to hide at her apartment.
With David, they youngest brother, away in camp nothing was buffering their parent's incessant nagging about Parker's love life, it seems that Percy and Cal had taken up the hobby of match making.
"Mike! Can you please? I want to hear this…" Parker said nonchalantly as the program started. Mike snorted and started to chew loud but with two Weasley women staring him down he decided to quiet down.
"Merely six years ago, the world of Quidditch was shaken up by a group of teenagers who proved that they had talent. From the East, the Americas and the South, students from six different schools stepped up to the Quidditch world's challenge. To prove that they could woo the world into their choice of sport.
Good evening I, Anne Cobbs, will be presenting you the Q true story on the Inter-School Quidditch Tournament"
Somewhere in Oxford, Oliver sat on his sofa holding a jabbering two year old toddler, it was his first grandchild. He looked down and stroked the muted red hair sprouting from the baby's head.
"Look here Will, I expect you to be courteous and be quiet" Oliver said as Will grabbed his finger and squeezed it laughing. He couldn't help but smile. Will had big blue eyes that always made him feel warm and fuzzy.
"If I didn't know better, you're becoming a really old man" Hermione laughed as she sat beside her husband and took her grandson away from him.
"Don't worry Will, your gramps is just old…aint he?" she laughed and so did the baby. Oliver smiled and looked above the mantle. Pictures were strewn everywhere, the most prominent yet was of Maggie's wedding picture.
"Welcome, to WBS, tonight we're going be looking back to a milestone. I have been fortunate enough , having been asked to do this. Six years ago six schools from differently continents were invited.
We will be going through each and every school and we'll start with Beaubaxton" the host started. She still looked young and everyone knew her as Maria Cobbs of the Salem Werecats.
Jeff looked up from his roll of parchment, he had been listening on for the whole segment on Beaubaxton. Cobbs had eventually moved onto talking with the former members of Durmstrang, then of A.I.S.
He had forgotten about his work when the L.C.M segment started. He looked up at his clock and sighed. Both her and Maggie were at work so they had sent their son to his in-laws for the night. Maggie was doing her night shift at St. Mungo's while he had a pile of parchment to be sent tomorrow for the second Inter-School Quidditch tournament being held in SWA.
He though to himself, if Hogwarts had won against SWA Hogwarts would've been the host school again. Being the trustee of security for the school, it was his job to be the agent to deal with the legal papers of for the games. Flicking his wand the volume rose as the segment on Hogwarts started.
"Each player from the first tournament had gained not only experience and fame. It was from Hogwarts that the professional world found of their greatest players. The tourney proved to be the scouting grounds and upon the end, agents were contacting their choice players. Out of the fourteen players who played for Hogwarts, six had pursued a career in the sport.
Stella Weasley, James Potter, Michael Flint, Eva….." Jeff snorted as pictures from the tourney flashed into the screen.
"Are just some of the big names in Quidditch that came from this school. Stella Weasley was promptly signed with the Holyhead Harpies just three days after the tournament. James Potter went on to play for the Wasps while Mike Flint was signed to the Cannons after graduation. It took another three years before Eva, the daughter of the famed Evelyn Weston of P-United, was signed to P-United. This team had everything they needed, a great line up, and even greater coaches. Being blessed they were bestowed with Oliver Wood and Mordecai Brown, who respectively had successful Quidditch careers in their time.
"It was a very good opportunity for the schools" McGonagall started. The interview was done in her office at Hogwarts. "I found that my school seemed to have taken up entertainng out year long guests quite seriously.
"What do you think of the past team loss?" asked Maria Cobbs. "I'm just reading a script Professor"
"No no, I think that SWA and Hogwarts played quite fair. Ive seen murderos games and the finals were one of them. Hogwarts did what they could but in the end we all learned a lesson" McGonagall said.
"What would that be?" Maria asked.
"That we should always believe in ourselves and do our best in any situation. The players perseverance got them all to the end, isn't that right Maria?" McGonagall said as she had Maria stifled a laugh each.
"Of course! I'm quite proud of myself for heading SWA into the finals! As Stella Weasley herself would pride her self with!"
The screen then flipped into a room full of people chatting. Then everything got settled. Stella's face appeared on the screen smiling.
"Nice to see you again Maria" Stella said as the rest of the group of people said.
"Its been long hasn't it guys" Maria said.
"Too long…why I saw you a week ago in the pitch!" laughed James at the back. Maria stifled a laugh. "Good game, congratulations on the win"
"Thank you!" Maria said happily towards James.
Sirius Potter sat on stool hunched over a counter watching the Hogwarts segment end and the SWA one start. He was sipping his bottle of Heineken when someone grabbed it from his and took a swig from it. He stifled a laugh as his girlfriend walked into the kitchen in what looked like his missing pair of boxers and an olive long sleeve top that had "Silverio" printed at the back on top of the Fitchburg Finches logo.
It had been only two months since he officially moved in with his girlfriend. He took the PR for the Fitchburg Finches, which was the Quidditch team from Massachusetts. Coincidentally Nick played for them, but she took two years leave from it, which made things easier as it would've been frowned upon if the team's PR manager was the boyfriend of one of the team members.
"You didn't even tell me it already started" she whined as she pulled a stool nearer to the telly. Sirius pulled her closer and placed a peck on her cheeks as he took his drink back.
"You were showering and you told me to keep out" he said as she gave him a reproachful look. "I should've just opened the door eh Nick?" he joked.
"Eh? What?! You're turning Canadian on me!" she laughed.
"You bloody well say it enough! I'm always here. Might as well you know" Sirius joked as he watched Nicola drink the rest of his drink. He didn't notice that she turned the telly off as he was too busy watching her dig for another bottle in the fridge.
"Where are you going?" he called after Nicola who had padded out of the kitchen with two bottles.
"To a comfortable chair" she shouted. He jumped off his chair and followed her into another room.
Some say, Hogwarts over shined the winners of the tournament but the champions disagreed so"
The screen changed into another setting, a school that looked like it was Buckingham Palace appeared and the host appeared again walking down the fairly empty halls of the school now titled Salem Witches Academy.
"We were not shunned at all" a woman with dark hair, 'Nicola Silverio, Chaser.' appeared at the bottom. The camera zoomed out to reveal that 10 people sat in the classroom.
"No, Hogwarts was one of the best teams we had ever gone against. In the end we were all sharing the limelight. After all we all did get offers from teams all over the world" Stated a blonde women who was pregnant at that moment. 'Sarah Steves-Newton, Keeper'
"And why are you there and not here Maria? honestly…" laughed a Chinese woman at the back the host snorted and said that she was interviewing them.
"I hear congratulations are in order ladies" Maria Cobbs started. The group laughed and pointed all towards Lyra and Nicola who were situated at the back row.
"Congratulations for what?" the two joked.
"Congratulations to you Lyra for getting a spot in the national team and as well as for you Nicola. Didn't the two of you say you were going into muggle university?" Maria said. The two laughed and explained how they were both still in school.
"Nearly done masters don't worry" commented Nicola. "Speak for yourself" snorted Lyra.
Maggie finally found the time to sit down. She had a hectic week, WBS had not only cornered her into an interview with the rest of the Hogwarts teams, as well as she had delivered 8 babies in the past three days.
"Wood, turn the telly on" blared the in ward intercom. She flicked her wand and settled into her office as she went on watching the Q True Story segment. She cursed herself for not seeing the Hogwarts segment.
"Friendship flourished during the tournament and as well as romance. When you put teenagers together that one thing is inevitable" blared the telly. Maggie cringed inside; somehow she felt that the special would make a frenzy over her marriage, or Stella's engagement for that matter.
"most notable, were of Stella Weasley and Mike Flint's recent engagement……as well as Sirius Lupin's recent divorce with his tournament sweetheart Clarisse Johnston of A.I.S"
Maggie laughed, she knew it was coming. As she watched on she reminisced of those times. It was one of the times she could ever say she had fun. She and Jeff did start dating then, much to her fathers dismay. The program went on for another twenty minutes with more interviews and archive shots of the tournament. Finally by ten to eleven the host came back on the screen.
"Thank you for watching, this is Maria Cobbs, as the special guest host….Good luck to the new set of teams for the tourney in a few months"
After her the screen darkened a composite picture was shown with the cup in between Maria and Stella as the final two teams laughed about behind their captains. Their Coaches stood in each end smiling on as their teams howled about their wins.
A subtitle appeared at the bottom of the picture. "Salem Witches Academy vs. Hogwarts, Finals June 2001"
The subtitle finally said "The trick in Quidditch is to never give up. Even when you know you're going to loose, make your opponent's win harder to achieve…If you have perseverance you could boast that you've lived your life to the fullest.
–Mordecai Brown 1936-2007"
AN:
How was it? I hoped the endingw as okay. :) thanks for reading.