Chapter 16: Hogwarts vs Ilvermorny

Harry and Ginny were walking down to the great hall to gather the team into an unused classroom. When Harry and Ginny walked into the great hall, they beckoned the team to follow them. When they began following, Harry led them into an unused classroom where he would be helping the team with brooms. When they entered the unused classroom Harry spoke.

"I trust you guys still have your Lightning Bolts?" Harry asked as they all nodded. Harry summoned their brooms and gave the brooms to them. Harry pulled out his wand and waved it, revealing a trunk with Lightning Bolts for the rest of the team.

"Take them, it's for the game." Ginny said as she passed the brooms to them and began leading them to the locker room.

Thirties minutes later everyone was in the stands in the quidditch pitch. Bagman was the commentator and began announcing the Ilvermorny quidditch team then he would announce Hogwarts.

"Here comes the Ilvermorny quidditch team. Arguably the best team in America. Let's see if they can knock Hogwarts out. It'll definitely be a tough match between the Seekers. And here comes the Ilvermorny team. In the starting 7, Seeker Mathew Applehorn, Beaters Conor Aquarina and Christopher Aquarina. Chasers Madisson Aquarina, who is also the Captain of the team., Kathleen Starlind and Amanda Chesterfield. Keeper Ollie Washington will be guarding the hoops." Bagman announced as the Ilvermorny team came out of their locker rooms and waved at the stands.

"And here comes the starting 7 of the Hogwarts quidditch team. Seeker and Captain Harry Potter which has broken the record for fastest catch of the Snitch. Beaters Fred and George Weasley being twins they will be able to communicate very well. Chasers Ginny Weasley, Angelina Josnson and Alicia Spinnet. The guard of the hoops for Hogwarts is Keeper Oliver Wood!" Bagman announced as the stands cheered loudly for Hogwarts.

The teak walked out and began waving at the crowd as they got to the center of the pitch. When Harry got there he shook hands with Madisson then he walked back to the team. After a few moments, Bagman announced the start of the games so they all took up to the sky and the game began.

"And Weasley wins the race for the quaffle and shoots toward the Ilvermorny hoops. Weasley drops the quaffle into the hands of Spinnet. Spinnet throws over to Johnson, Johnson races to the hoops and fakes and passes over to Weasley who was waiting at the other posts. Weasley SHOOTS AND SHE SCORES. 10-0 Hogwarts." Bagman announced as Ilvermorny got the quaffle and began racing as fast as possible, just for Alicia to swipe the quaffle into the hands of Ginny who rushed with Angelina above her.

Harry POV

Harry was looking around the pitch for a glint of golden light as a bludger charged towards Harry who dodged it and changed his broom to high acceleration. Harry looked over to see Mathew looking in his direction then looking away.'Not a bad seeker.' Harry thought 'he's doing a fake watch the other Seeker' tactic. Harry knew that Mathew was smart so he expected this so he didn't fall for it.

"...And Aquarina SCORES 60-30 Hogwarts. Spinnet races towards the hoops and she fakes left and shoots to the center hoop and SCORES. 70-30 Hogwarts. Potter is still not doing much the same with Applehorn." Bagman announced as Harry pulled into a dive then at the last minute pulled out hoping Applehorn would crash.

In the Stands

"Harry is brilliant at flying." Perla commented after watching Harry pull out of a dive.

"I feel like he flies better than James!" Sirius exclaimed with a grin as Harry dodged a quaffle.

"Sirius, have you heard that he holds the record for fastest catch of a snitch?" Neville asked as he looked over to Harry.

"Yeah I have, he's brilliant." Sirius responded

On the Field

Harry was getting bored so he decided to play interference. Harry raced in front of Madisson making her drop the quaffle with a scream as Ginny picked the quaffle from under her broom. Harry flashed a smirk and wink to Ginny as he raced with her to the hoops.

Kathleen attempted an interception on Ginny but couldn't as Harry blocked her from Ginny as Fred blocked Amanda from an interception allowing Ginny to shoot and score making the score 110-100. Harry flew off just in time to dodge out of the way of a bludger's path sent by Conor. Harry raced into the sky to look for the snitch like Mathew as Angelina took his place in blocking an interception from Madisson.

Harry arrived above the clouds and narrowly missed a curse that Karkaroff sent so he returned an equally bad one that hit him in the chest making him spit slugs. At the same time a bludger came barreling towards him making him flip upside down like a sleeping Sloth. Once the quaffle passed, Harry shot his broom forward hitting the bludger hitting Kathleen in the shoulder, breaking her shoulder. Harry flew away quickly as another bludger flew towards him which he dodged quickly.

Harry flew over to Mathew and tossed him a cigarette which he looked at surprised. To tell him what to do, Harry lit one up and looked at him while pointing at the cigarette. Mathew flew over to him with a confused look which he quickly answered."It won't hurt you. It just gives you the calm feeling and everything else that is not good. It's charmed to not hurt you. It's undetectable, so nobody will know your smoking." Harry explained.

"Ok, thank you." Mathew said as he lit it then he flew away with a grin which Harry returned.

"No problem." Harry said as he turned back to the game. Ginny knew what happened above her and she smiled that Harry was making it more fair as the cigarettes make you more aware of your surroundings. It would also help with seeing, smelling and hearing to detect danger and it was scentless. Ginny took one out and lit it as well to help her play.

In the stands

"Holy shit." Sirius said after seeing Harry, Ginny and Mathew smoke. The others looked at him in a confused look so he answered."He gave a cigarette to Mathew then smoked one as well, then Ginny smoked on."

"And?" Daphne asked

"He's smoking." Sirius said in shock.

Daphne pulled out a cigarette and showed it to Sirius who gasped in shock."It's not unhealthy. He created it with charms that really just make us more powerful." Daphne said with a smile as she lit it.

"You're all crazy." Perla said as she shook her head because Sirius took one of Daphne's cigarettes and smoked it.

On the Field

"...And SPINNET SCORES. 300-130 Hogwarts! Hogwarts is leading by a lot. If Applehorn catches the snitch it's still a Hogwarts victory. The beaters are playing extremely well as well as the rest of the team." Bagman said into his microphone as Alicia scored, making a bigger lead for Hogwarts.

Harry laughed at Ginny's antics as she grabbed the quaffle and began playing with the Ilvermorny chasers like they were toys. Harry looked over to the twins and saw that they were both aiming quaffles at the other beaters that connected, knocking them off their brooms. Harry was getting bored so he decided to take advantage of his boredom by spinning in a circle while staying in the same place, making these weird whooshing or screeching sounds.

Mathew's POV

Mathew looked over to Harry to see what he was doing. When he looked over he broke into laughter as he watched Harry's antics with his broom as many other people noticed him. Mathew flew over to him and began playing a game to see if he could zoom in between the spinning Harry. Mathew zoomed in between the laughing Harry and he managed to not get hit making him grin a laugh with him.

"What is going on with the two Seekers? It looks like they are both playing around and not taking this seriously." Bagman said in between laughing. Harry suddenly stopped and he told Mathew to do what he was doing.

Mathew did as he was told and began spinning. Harry flew in between Mathew successfully making them both laugh at the stupidity that were the two Seekers.

Harry's POV

After horsing around with Mathew, Harry flew away into the clouds as he didn't give a shit about the game. Harry burst into max speed in a few seconds and began shooting down to the ground at a speed no one knew was possible on that broom. When Harry was nearing the ground, he pulled out with intense speed as he was one foot away from the ground.

Harry flew back up and saw Mathew pulling into a dive as he flew towards the ground with Harry giving chase. Harry saw his arms in a position that Harry knew was to pull up so he knew he was going to try the wronski feint to impress Krum who was highly proficient at them.

About one meter until they both hit the ground, Mathew pulled up as did Harry a few moments before. Harry flew in front of Mathew and shot up into the sky and he felt Mathew following him. Harry pulled a sharp turn as he saw the professional level snitch. He became slower making Mathew attempt the wronski feint again that failed. After pulling up, Harry did a reverse wronski feint to counter Mathew's. Harry flew straight then up a bit then he pulled into a full dive and saw Mathew right behind him. Harry pulled up last second causing Mathew to crash into the ground with a loud snap as Harry raced towards the snitch.

Harry looked around and saw Viktor Krum with a dropped jaw and wide eyes. Harry found the snitch and closed his fingers around the snitch that tried to buzz away. Harry lifted the snitch up in the air and flew down to the team who ran up to him. When Ginny reached him, she gave him a short kiss before she was pulled away by the twins who lifted Harry on their shoulders, leading him to the room Harry found and called it the Hogwarts Common room as Gryffindor and Slytherin could go in.

Harry turned back and saw Ginny being carried on the shoulders by the three Gryffindor Chasers that were extremely happy at how Ginny turned out as a Chaser. Harry was extremely happy that Ginny managed to score 18 goals plus the others the other two scored making the final score 580-270 Hogwarts victory making Ilvermorny the bottom team in the scoreboard. Although it was 9:30 because the game lasted about 5 hours that started at 4:00 pm they still wanted to celebrate their victory.

A memorable moment of that night was when they invited the other schools into their Common room to join the party. Everyone was laughing their ass off after a drunk Harry, Ginny, Daphne and Draco managed to convince Oliver to get on the main table of the Hogwarts common room and began dancing to the chicken dance which even had Fleur laughing, which was surprising as she usually had a cold mask.

Harry was laughing so hard that he got a busted gut as well as the others of the Royal Core. Harry decided to go to the hospital wing to pick up the potions for the other three as it would be very awkward but with Harry it would make it less awkward as he got hurt a lot. When Harry got into the hospital after much wincing in pain he talked to Madam Pomfrey.

"What now Mr. Potter?" She asked

"Can I get four potions that heal busted guts?" Harry asked, wincing in pain from his stomach.

"What for?" Madam Pomfrey asked with a yawn.

"Laughing." Harry said as he remembered why he laughed himself into pain and he began bursting into laughter.

"What were you laughing at?" She asked with an irritated sigh.

"Oliver Wood got so drunk as we were celebrating the victory that I convinced him into dancing to the Chicken Dance." Harry said as he stopped laughing.

"Here." Madam Pomfrey said as she gave him the potions and pushed him out the hospital.

When Harry returned to the party, he gave the other three their potions then they went to their separate rooms. Harry and Ginny decided to zap into their room in Marauder Manor to sleep after doing their post-match ritual(if you know what I mean). Harry and Ginny were now nervous for their game against Beauxbatons as they lost to Durmstrang in the first round.