Harry Potter and the Animagi Transformation
Chapter 10: Quidditch, Oh my love!
"The Hope and Trust will go back four times. The fox and the owl will accompany them once. The rest is up to the Basilisk. What will be, will be. The Dark Lord no longer reigns."
Quidditch trials were especially necessary for Gryffindor as well as for Slytherin. Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy were the only two people left in each of their teams. That automatically made them captains of their teams. To help out with the tryouts, Katie Bell, Angelina Johnson, and Alicia Spinnet had made a special appearance.
Becoming captain wasn't the best thing, as they had to start over from scratch. Harry decided to have tryouts on Saturday and then it was decided unanimously that all the team would hold tryout on Saturday. It came with a beautiful sun and wind. All people second years and over had arrived with brooms. The first years had just arrived to see the fun.
"Beaters, go to the far end to Alicia Spinnet; Chasers to Angelina Johnson next to Spinnet; Katie Bell will be with the Keepers and Reserve Seekers to me."
The Gryffindor team, consisting of Harry Potter, decided that twins did very well as beaters, especially aggressive ones and so found two such pairs. Beaters were John and Paul Harrier. Both were blonde haired and had mismatched eyes, one blue and one brown. They looked as if they weren't capable of hurting a fly but when they were on the Quidditch field, they harried the other team pretty well. Reserve Beaters were Susan and Hannah Lancashire, twins also.
For Reserve Seeker, Adelaide Well was the only choice. She was certainly not as good as Harry but she was better than Malfoy. She was raven haired with dark blue eyes that arrested you when you looked at her. She was a social butterfly but also good at her studies. Harry got on well with her and they became friends. With Adelaide came a whole lot of fans and friends. She was a fourth year who was one of the few girls who was friends with Ginny (more info, see chapter 6).
Keeper position was very closely contested. The two possibilities were Ron Weasley and Parvati Patil. After many contests, the position was finally given to Ron because Parvati lost one goal. She wasn't a sore lose, however, and agreed to be a reserve keeper.
The Chasers were Ginny Weasley, Colin Creevey, and Dennis Creevey. The three were best friends and were really like the trio. They probably knew where the others were and were such a good team that they outdid the previous chasers: Angelina, Alicia, and Katie.
The Reserve Chasers were Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnigan, and …… surprisingly Neville Longbottom. It turned out that the two, namely Seamus and Dean had given Neville some pointers and the rest was the result. Harry was very pleased with the team, reserves included.
He watched the rest of the teams choose their players and as Slytherin was last, he waited to see if Malfoy's team was any good.
Most of the players were very bad. It looked like Malfoy had decided to go in for strong people who looked like Crabbe and Goyle (basically thugs) instead of swift, good players. The only good player there was Malfoy and that wasn't saying much as Harry beat him every time. The beaters, Crabbe and Goyle, looked formidable because they were immensely strong.
Harry looked at his team and smiled. "We're going to win the Cup for sure this year. I know it."
They went back to their common room, chattering happily.
Adelaide, meanwhile, talked to Ginny about Harry.
"I think that I shall go out with Harry this year, Ginny, now that I am on the team."
"Leave him alone, Ady. He had enough things on his ming without you going out with him."
"You still like him then? Yes, I can see that by the telltale red blush on your face. No worries dear. I have my eyes set on somebody else."
The upcoming match was against Slytherin. The Quidditch season would start in two weeks.
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Two weeks passed. It was breakfast and after it was the Quidditch match. No one was eating anything. That is, no one except Harry. He ate calmly and then took toast and buttered it, and put it on the plates of his team, many who looked at him with reproachful eyes.
"You'll need breakfast. We don't want you to fall of the broom now, do we?"
They didn't reply. He forced them to ear. The more persistent ones were handfed amidst laughter from all the tables. Upon hearing it, he turned around and bowed to the hall.
"Team, time to get ready!"
They left with applause following them. After changing into their robes of scarlet and gold, they went out to inspect the ground.
"Ground's good for take-off. Clear skies- no rain, thank god. Team, we'll win this. Slytherin's team is also mostly new so we'll win this for sure. I have complete confidence in you. Let's go inside for the rest of my pep talk."
Once inside, he said," I'm going to start off with Oliver Wood's regular talk. Maybe by and by, I might make one up of my own. So here goes: Okay men and women. This is it. The big one. The one that we have all been waiting for. This is the best team Gryffindor's had since the previous team. We're going to win. I know it."
Harry glared around as if to say "Or else."
"Good luck to all of you."
They flew out first and hovered beside Madam Hooch. As a result of the Weasley's newly acquired riches, the whole team had Firebolts. Except for Harry; he had his Lightning. The Slytherins followed by Malfoy flew out on Nimbus Two Thousand & Ones. It looked as though the Malfoys weren't able to purchase anything more than that for their team. As a result of 3rd years Dementors, all players in Gryffindor had their wands with them.
When the captains had to shake hands, Harry almost tried to squash Malfoy's hands with a bland and pleasant smile on his face.
Unknown to Harry, Malfoy's fingers * were * crushed because of Harry's unnatural strength so Malfoy had to use his other hand to catch the Snitch. Malfoy would've felt humiliated if he had admitted that his fingers were crushed so he remained silent.
A shrill whistle broke through the animosity and the game began.
"Gryffindor in possession, Ginny Weasley passes the quaffle to Creevey," the new commentator, Susan Bones, soon realized that these Chasers were better than the previous Chasers; she just had to say their last names," Weasley- Creevey- Creevey, and it's in! 10-0 to Gryffindor! What are the Slytherins doing? Looks like the Chasers just became Beaters. The twins seem to be doing well. Good job Harriers!"
"Bones, I'm warning you, no biased comments."
Susan, scared by the stern professor, said," Sorry Prof… hey! Gryffindor 20-0. Slytherin captain Draco Malfoy had asked for a time out. He looks pretty angry… and what's wrong with his fingers? Looks like they're crushed."
After a while, "Time out's over. The Slytherin Chasers are furious. Gryffindor 60-0."
The Slytherins were getting angrier and angrier about the big lead. They tried some new tactics. First, all three Chasers were taken out with some dirty tricks. Colin and Dennis had their heads bashed with the Beaters' clubs. Ginny was taken to the Slytherin side of the crowd and then bashed with the clubs. Penalties were rewarded: six of them for the ferocity of the attack. Because all three Chasers were injured and out of the field, the Reserve Chasers had to substitute. Five goals were scored. The first penalty taken by Neville was out of bounds because of his anger. He missed by a long shot.
The three Chasers recovered quickly and resumed their positions with added vigor. Eight more shots were sent and each got thru the Slytherin Keeper. The score was now 190-0 Gryffindor. The Gryffindor crowd was screaming itself hoarse.
Then the Seekers went into a dive. Harry and Malfoy went down at almost a vertical angle. Millimeters before he reached the ground, Harry swerved on his Lightning and caught the Snitch and Malfoy crashed into the ground in a flurry of green and silver robes.
GRYFFINDOR had WON with a score of 340-0. The stadium exploded. Waves upon waves of Gryffindor supporters raced towards Harry; Malfoy was trampled upon many times as people pushed each other in their scramble to get to the Gryffindor team.
After they got to the common room, a party began and Harry gave a speech.
"Fellow classmates and Gryffindors, this had been the best game ever in decades of Quidditch history. But we shall do even better. Gryffindors, we are the best players that I have ever seen. It WILL remain that way! Thank you."
With that the party ended with cheers, applause, and laughter. Each Gryffindor went to sleep that night with a smile on their faces.
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