Chapter 3

~In The Quidditch Stadium~

Saturday had arrived and it was a warm, sunny day. Dilynn sat behind the Slytherin's Goals like the rest of her housemates. She was excited, it had been a while since she watched Quidditch. She surveyed her team in the pitch. She was shocked that Draco was Captain, this made her curious about Draco's ability to play seeker. She didn't recognize the rest of the team since they were in other years, however, the housemate next to her, Rodger Cunnings pointed out all of them for her. Drooling as he did so, but Dilynn didn't notice because she was scanning the players with a interest.
Tally Herole and Simon Harace where the beaters for Slytherin. They looked the part too, with their bats in hand. Both boys had a grim expression on their face. They both had a brown hair and brown eyes but different bone structures.
The chasers of the team were Samuel Thompson, Dick Manggly and Bradley Swirve, their hair were strawberry-blonde, mousse brown and shining coal coloured, respectively. Not a bad looking bunch, and they knew it.
They are such attention seekers!, noted Dilynn as the three chasers blew kisses into the crowd. A girl in front of her actually made fireworks go off with her wand, when she caught a kiss from Dick. Dilynn couldn't believe that the team didn't have a single girl in it. She wondered if it was because of their lack of ability or because of a sexist team?
As the match began she saw Cho, fly up, marking Draco, while still trying to avoid the buldgers being aimed at her by Tally and Simon.
This year, because of Lee Jordan graduating the year before, there was a new commentator. 4th year Gryffindor, Jason Spelling was just as energetic with his announcing as Lee was. The only problem was he had an infatuation for checking out girls on the teams...
"And there goes, Cho Chang, what a babe!", crowed Jason just before Professor McGonagall poked him in the ribs.
"Jason...", she warned.
"Ok, OK professor, but she did blow me a kiss!", retreating from the professor's glare, he went back to the game.
"Slytherin in possession as Thompson races up to the goals... WOAH, close call, bad luck for the Ravenclaw beater, missed him by a hair. Thompson Scores. 10 points to nil."
When the flying beater missed Thompson, he started to show off, as if he was invincible.
"Oof! That would of hurt! Good shot Ravenclaw, that will teach Thompson not to show off! Ravenclaw in possession...They, aim...and shoot...SCORE! Go Ravenclaw with their babe of a seeker, Cho Chang! 10 all! .........OH THAT HAS THE BE A FOUL! YOU STINKING BASTARD! HOW DARE YOU SHOVE CHO INTO A BULDGER!!!!!!!"
Ravenclaw was raving mad, at Draco for pushing their seeker into harms way. Professor McGonagall didn't even notice Jason's comment concerning Cho, when she saw what Draco did. The Slytherins cheered for their seeker, just as they did two years ago, when Draco held onto Harry's firebolt to prevent him from reaching the snitch.
Dilynn was shocked at her house's behavior, but she still felt sorry for Draco as two buldgers got fired at him after the foul shot. He cockily avoided them and stuck his tongue out at the Ravenclaw Beaters. Then Dilynn saw something out of the corner of her eye. Draco saw it too and raced after it. Cho still a bit shaken, zoomed after him.
"The snitch is spotted! COME ON CHO BEAT DRACO TO IT!" Jason's encouragement, was echoed through out the Ravenclaw section.
Then like before, 2 Bludgers came flying at Draco, but he was so intense on catching the snitch, he didn't see them. They were going at such a fast rate, they knocked him off his broom. The stadium suddenly became quiet when Draco started to fall... It was so unlike Ravenclaw to use these tactics! Then sounds of laughing could be heard. Everyone turned at the sound. The whole stadium gasped as one! The Bludgers was hit by Simon Harace! The Beater now was rolling around on the pitch laughing his head off! The Slytherins were horrified, their only, had ruined Draco's chances for the snitch!
Madam Hooch flew down to him, with an expression of disgust. She muttered something under her breath and an sparkling strand came out of her wand. The strand was a piece of restraining string, as it wrapped around Harace, Snape and Dumbledore stood over Draco. Both Professors looked absolutely furious. A magic stretcher was conjured and he was taken to the hospital wing to get fixed up by Madam Poomfry.
Both teams had now come down to the ground, all shocked from what just happened. Madam Hooch walked over to the two teams and spoke regretfully to them. As she pushed Harace to Dumbledore, the Slytherin team were seen running to Snape.
He looked annoyed and stormed over to Madam Hooch and started to argue with her. But she wouldn't listen and just walked away from him. Nobody knew what was happening and as they waited, some of the Slytherin girls started to shiver with fear, each dreading Draco's condition.
Lines appeared on Snape's forehead, he looked up to glance at the Slytherin crowd. To everyone's surprise he started to smile. Those smiles which appear when Neville had done something wrong in his class. Racing to Professor McGonagall and Jason, he snatched the magic microphone off Spelling.
"Zenclar, come here right NOW!"
As Dilynn started to walk towards the Slytherin Head, the noise level rose around her. Dilynn, hoped desperately that Snape wasn't going to embarrass her infront of the whole school...
When the girl had reached Professor Snape, she saw him holding Draco's broom. Confusion clouded Dilynn's face when Snape shoved it at her.
"You're going to play for Malfoy.", snapped Snape in his no nonsense tone.
The Whole Slytherin team and Professor McGonagall dropped open their mouths. They were all uncertain about Snape's state of mind at the moment.
"Severus, What are you doing? How do you know she can even play Quidditch let alone the position of Seeker???" whispered the shocked Professor McGonagall.
"She can play, and she knows it. Yes, Miss Zenclar, I've read your whole Transfer Paper provided by your headmistress.", sneered Snape, "Well because of Malfoy's current disability you're replacing him."
Dilynn felt sick. Her headmistress was a proud witch, and forever bragging . Dilynn knew that the Headmistress wouldn't of mentioned that she hadn't played since third year, when she lost an embarrassing game, against the worse team ever. But one look at Snape and his glinting eyes, she knew she had no choice but to play.
She went over to her teammates, who were looking at her with suspicion. Obviously they don't think I can play, all I am is a pretty airhead!, that thought enraged her and it gave her the boost to play. After she tied back her hair, she was caught by Swirve.
"Now look here, doll face, when we see the snitch, we'll yell to you, got it?"
Dilynn had to clench her fists to stop herself from punching the bastard in the face. No longer was she ready to play, she was ready to win and show these idiots that she wasn't a hopeless bimbo.
Everyone in the stands were watching Dilynn and when the say her walking behind the Slytherin team, her house started to object. The roars of disapproval were lead by the girls in the house.
"sigh Well, what a development... Malfoy sent to the Hospital Wing and Harace is taken off the field......The game continues with Jack Relisis replacing Harace after sitting on the bench since last year and....WHAT???? Slytherin is finally has a female playing for the team...and not a bad choice. This girl has it all, long legs, great bust and....OW!!!!", yelled Jason as Professor McGonagall swatted his head. Then she tried to pull away the microphone...
" No... please, please, Professor! I'll concentrate!...okay, where was, I? Oh yeah, The new chick...but, but, all I said was chick, Professor! One last chance....Thank you... Dilynn Zenclar has replace Draco Malfoy. Up they mount... Woah, she can sure fly... I wonder...", Jason started to ponder, but when he turned to see the Professor glaring at him, he returned to the game.
"Ravenclaw in possession.. they seem to be playing with caution, but that's about to change as the Slytherin's Beaters start beating Bludgers at them. The Game will continue like before, same aggression from the Slytherins, so hold nothing back Ravenclaw!"
Harry watched Dilynn with great interest, not because of her beauty as Ron was doing, but because of her brilliant flying skills. Her face was set into to a common expression from when she was in Oz, one of intense determination. The determined expression did not pass Harry. Under his breath he asked himself, " I wonder why she looks so determined?"
"Isn't it obvious?", Hermione's voice penetrated his thoughts.
When Harry glanced at her with a blank expression, she continued, " When have you ever seen a girl play for the Slytherin team? Never! They don't think she can play, so that's why she's so determined to prove them wrong!"
As Hermione explained, Harry understood it too. But Hermione wasn't finished.
"She has to be able to play or Snape would of never put her on. What a surprise, never thought SHE would be able to do anything other than looking pretty!"
The bitterness in her voice was obvious. It was evident that Hermione becomes upset every time Ron turns into a puppy dog when he sees Dilynn.
But Harry didn't want to listen to Hermione acting this way, so he analyzed Dilynn's moves as she flew above the pitch. She's really good, she doesn't even need a firebolt to have that kind of speed and accuracy...it's like she's connected to the broom and it does anything she wants it to, thought Harry, and he wasn't the only one to notice.
"Slytherin's Seeker seems to be connected with that broom or something. It's amazing to watch..." stated Jason, his mouth had dropped to the floor. He snapped back to attention when both Dilynn and Cho began to dive near the Ravenclaw goals, "Have the seekers spotted the snitch? After 5mins of restarting the game? Nice going, Ladies!"
Dilynn, had seen the snitch fluttering, and when Cho saw the younger girl dive, it was a race to the snitch. Whoosh! Out of the corner of her eye, Dilynn had seen the Bludger racing towards her. With a quick spin, it was avoided, but the snitch was gone.
So Dilynn flew back up to the sky to get a better viewpoint.
As Manggly passed with a Qualffle, he congratulated Dilynn for the fake. The comment infuriated her so much that, Dilynn nearly spat at him, but he was gone with the Quaffle before she had time to react.
She couldn't believe that they thought she faked it, just because they hadn't seen the snitch. She had to prove herself and with that thought embedded into her mind she searched for the snitch from above.
Harry, was shocked, he didn't even see the snitch until he saw Dilynn, diving for it. His admiration for the girl grew, along with the girl's determination.
Further away in the stadium Pansy Parkinson was sobbing about Draco, while at the same time putting Dilynn down.
"sob sob...I hope.. he's okay...sob..how could Simon do that to Draco????", wailed Pansy, "And if that wasn't bad enough...that...that...VEELA! Takes his place!"
Her friends tried to comfort the enraged Pansy, but they stopped in mid sentence as a shocking announcement was heard though the speakers.
"SHE DID IT! SHE GOT THE SNITCH!!!!!"
Pansy and her friends faced the jumping, red-faced announcer as he continued, "DILYNN ZENCLAR HAS CAUGHT THE SNITCH FOR SLYTHERIN!!!!!", yelled Jason at the top of his voice , into the magic mircophone.
But even still, his voice was barely heard. The Slytherin Section were screaming for joy, except for Pansy. She was furious, and had raced out of the stands before the cheering began.
The guys in the team smashed into each other as they heard the news. They were so surprised, especially Swirve who was keeping an eye out for the snitch.
Above them all, was Dilynn. Her hands raised in Victory and a snitch in hand. On her face was a smile so bright, that she could of been mistaken for the sun. Cho had flew up, next to Dilynn, and offered a smile and her hand. Taking it, Dilynn shook hands with the older girl.
"You played well, Zenclar, congratulations!", remarked Cho, then she directed a nod to the rest of the Slytherin team, "And you sure showed those guys!"
Dilynn thanked Cho, and slowly descended to where her teammates were. The guys were still gaping at her. "Yeah, I did show them!", whispered Dilynn to herself.