Chapter 20: Let's End This
The crowd watched everything in slow motion.
They looked at Chanse's lifeless body on the ground, and then they would look at Oliver falling from the sky.
"Look!" Someone, from the stands shouted, "She's ok!" The crowd looked down at Chanse, who was sitting up, hunched over, coughing.
The crowd went wild with people screaming and yelling.
Chanse coughed a couple more times, but then she stopped, and looked up in the sky and saw Oliver falling. Chanse quickly stood up, and ran as fast as she could over to where Oliver was falling. Chanse saw that Oliver was falling faster and faster, she dove to catch him...
*BAM*
Chanse fell to the ground with her face in the dirt. The crowd fell silent...
Chanse looked up from the ground and saw Oliver's lifeless body only a few feet away, "TIME OUT, PLAYER DOWN!" Madam Hooch screamed as she ran across the field. Chanse's eyes began to slowly tear up, as she watched Madam Hooch and the nurse, pick up Oliver's body and take it to the hospital.
"Do to the sudden events, all playing players, please return to your locker rooms."
Chanse stayed on the ground, while all the other players flew off to their locker rooms. She sat there, staring at the ground, trying to hold back her tears.
"Chanse...are you ok?" Cho asked quietly as she placed her hand on Chanse's shoulder. Chanse didn't say anything she just looked up at Cho with tear- filled eyes.
Cho slowly bent down to Chanse and put her arm around her, "Chanse?" Chanse flung her arms around Cho and began to slowly cry on Cho's shoulder. "Come on." Cho said as she slowly lifted Chanse up off the ground.
Cho and Chanse slowly walked off the field and back into the Ravenclaw locker room.
Before Chanse walked in the locker room she wiped her tears, and heard Roger talking to the team, "Everyone when Chanse gets in here, just leave her alone."
Chanse walked in, and everyone fell silent, and looked over at her. They watched her and Cho sit down on the bench, and Cho put her arm around Chanse, as Chanse brought her knees up to her chest, and rested her chin on her knees.
The team didn't know how to act or what to say. They all sat there looking at the ground not saying anything.
"All teams please return to the field to continue the Free-For-All." Madam Hooch said of the megaphone.
"Well team...Let's head out." Roger softly said as he walked over to Chanse.
Roger bent down to Chanse, and laid his hand down on her knee, "Can you still play?" Chanse nodded her head, as she stood up, and started to walk out of the locker room.
"Roger?" Chanse stopped and softly said.
"Yeah, Chanse." Roger said, and turned around and looked at her.
"I don't want to be Keeper for this round."
"But we need you!" Roger yelled.
"I want to be a Beater." Chanse softly said.
"But no one can even come close to playing Keeper like you."
"You are the closest, Roger."
"But..."
"Roger just do it for her!" Cho yelled as she left the locker room.
"Fine..." Roger said as he grabbed his broom and walked out of the room.
Roger went down to Madam Hooch's desk and reported, "Chanse and I are going to be switching positions. This means I am now the Keeper, and she is now one of the Chasers."
"Thank you Roger, for telling me..." Madam Hooch wrote it down on a piece of paper, "...I'll get that to Lee." Roger nodded and walked to the Ravenclaw door.
Chanse set down her broom and sat down on the bench, and thought. "Oliver..." Chanse whispered as she looked up at the ceiling, hoping that would hold back her tears. But it didn't slowly tears ran down her face, and onto her blue and bronze uniform.
The Ravenclaw team walked out to the Ravenclaw doors and stood behind them waiting for them to open. "Chanse..." Roger turned around behind him to say, "Cho!" Roger screamed back to Cho, "Where's Chanse?"
"I don't know she was right behind you."
"Damnit, I have to go get her..." Right as Roger said that, the wooden doors opened once again. "Damnit, I hope she gets out here." Roger whispered to himself, as he walked out onto the Quidditch field.
The Ravenclaw team mounted their brooms and flew up into the sky. "Welcome back, Quidditch fans, to the Hogwarts Quidditch Free-For-All. As you already know I'm Lee Jordan.
To bring you to an up date of what has happened...Hufflepuff house was eliminated in the first round, with the points set at: Hufflepuff had four points against them, two against Gryffindor, and one against both Ravenclaw and Slytherin.
Well, the games had a temporary pause, when Gryffindor's Keeper and Captain, Oliver Wood, was hit in the head by a bludger, and knocked to the ground.
Then in the second round, before Mr. Oliver Wood was hit...We left the game with two points against Slytherin and one against both Gryffindor and Ravenclaw.
Well now you all are caught up onto what has happened..."
"Here Lee." Neville Longbottom handed Lee a piece of paper.
"What's this?"
"Madam Hooch told me to get it to you as soon as possible."
"Oh ok." Lee opened the paper and read it over, "I have just been informed that Roger Davis, normally a Ravenclaw Chaser is going to be the Keeper, and Chanse Jackson, normally a Keeper, is going to switch with, normal Chaser Orla Quirke, for the Beater position...And Angelina Johnson is going to play Keeper for Gryffindor, while substitute, Natalie McDonald, will be playing as the third Gryffindor Chaser." Lee Jordan exclaimed with excitement.
The crowd looked around at each other and whispers came from them.
"Why would Roger, Chanse, and Orla switch positions?" One Gryffindor girl asked.
"Who cares, what really matters is, where is Chanse?" Everyone looked around on the field, but no one saw her.
Back in the locker room, Chanse was sitting on the bench, wiping her tears. But as soon as she heard her name, she looked up at the megaphone, in the corner of the room. She quickly grabbed her broom and ran out the locker room.
Chanse ran down a hallway to the wooden doors, ran out onto the field, and jumped on her broom and flew up to her team. As soon as Chanse entered the stadium, everyone busted with cheers, and claps.
"Chanse you ready to do this?" Cho said as she flew over to Chanse. Chanse nodded and flew over to her team.
The teams practice a little longer before the match started, "Look..." Lee Jordan yelled, pointing down to the field, "There's Madam Hooch, ready to start the game."
Madam Hooch blew her whistle, to call the teams over. The Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin Chasers, and Beaters flew over to the middle circle all gathered around it.
Madam Hooch bent down, to open the box, and Chanse flew over and stood across from Tom Riddle.
Tom looked over at Chanse, who was glaring back at him. "Let's end this..." Chanse mouthed to Tom. Tom tilted his head to the side, and Chanse smiled at him.
"Madam Hooch has released the balls!" Everyone flew around like crazy.
Tom looked down at the ground, and followed the bludgers with his eyes up in the air. He slowly moved his face down and looked at Chanse. Tom mouth dropped wide open...
Chanse hit a bludger has hard as she could towards Tom.
Tom flew to the side and dodged the bludger. "Close one there Tom." Lee Jordan laughed.
The game continued on...
"Ten minutes left in the game." Lee Jordan exclaimed, "With the points set at four points against Gryffindor, three against Slytherin, and two against Ravenclaw."
"Times!" Marcus Flint yelled.
"TIME-OUT...SLYTHERIN!" Madam Hooch yelled from the ground.
The teams went to their separate sides of the field, and gathered together.
"Chanse you need to calm down out there." Roger softly said, as he placed his hand on top of Chanse's shoulder. "I know Tom hit Oliver and all, but..."
"Roger?"
"Yeah?"
"That kid has fucked with the wrong girl."
"But, Chanse..."
"All teams prepare to resume play." Madam Hooch yelled.
All the players returned to their places, and Madam Hooch, once again, released the balls.
*DING*
*DING*
*DING*
Fifteen minutes pasted in the game and Madam Hooch blew her whistle, "End of second round!" She yelled. "Please all teams land, and stand in your house."
"What house shall be eliminated...Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin?" Lee Jordan smirked over the megaphone.
Silence grew over the crowd, as they watched Madam Hooch walk back and forth, in front of the teams. She stopped in front of Ravenclaw, "Ravenclaw..." Madam Hooch began. Chanse looked over at Roger, who was looking down at the ground, with his hands on his head, "...You are safe!" Chanse quickly looked up with a smile across her face.
Ravenclaw team jumped up in down with excitement, "Ravenclaw is safe!" Lee Jordan laughed.
Once again the crowd grew silent, and Ravenclaw walked back to their locker rooms.
Madam Hooch, once again, walked back and forth, in front of Gryffindor and Slytherin. She stopped in front of Slytherin, "Slytherin..." Marcus Flint glared over at the Gryffindor team with a huge grin, across his face, "...You are eliminated!" Marcus Flint's mouth dropped, "Congratulation Gryffindor, you are safe!"
"Gryffindor is safe! Gryffindor is safe!" Lee Jordan yelled into the megaphone. "Ok, ok, ok. The deal now is Gryffindor and Ravenclaw have a total of thirty minutes, in the locker rooms, then they'll return back to the field were they will duel it out in a regular Quidditch match.
Will the match play out like it did earlier this year? Or will something else happen?"
Back in the Ravenclaw locker room, everyone was jumping up and down with excitement, but Chanse just sat down on the bench with Cho. Chanse leaned forward and placed her hands on her head, "He's going to be ok, Chanse." Cho softly whispered into Chanse's ear. Chanse looked up at Cho, "He's been hit with bludgers before."
"But I don't think he's ever been hit like this." Chanse softly said, as she held back her tears.
"Ok, team, calm down. We haven't won this...yet." The team cheered again, "Seriously, calm down..." Roger hushed the team.
"Watch, Chanse, he'll be fine by tomorrow morning." Cho whispered.
"I hope so." Chanse softly whispered.
"Well, team, as you know Oliver Wood is down. So, no offence Chanse, that's an advantage for us."
"None taken, but..." Chanse looked away at a raven on one of the wall tiles.
"Yes, Chanse?"
"I'd like us to play without a Keeper." Chanse softly said, but everyone heard her.
"But Chanse, they have a substitute Keeper. So we should have a Keeper too. You don't have to play Keeper if you don't want..."
"NO!" The team looked over at Chanse, who had glossy eyes.
No one could tell if she was about to cry, or if she just wanted to, but wasn't letting herself. "Roger, they don't have their best Keeper, so I won't play Keeper..."
"That's fine Chanse, you don't have..."
"No! Let me finish Roger," Roger nodded to Chanse to continue, "I want to offer Gryffindor the chance to play the match, without Keepers, only Chasers, Beaters, and a Seeker.
The Chasers and Beaters can help stop the quaffle balls from going in." Chanse looked around at the team, "Please."
Roger looked around at the team, who held their heads down, in acceptance, "Fine, Chanse...Please go tell Madam Hooch to call in the Gryffindor substitute captain, to discuses that. Then come back and tell us what their decision is." Chanse nodded and left the locker room.
She walked down the hallway to Madam Hooch's desk, "Can I help you Chanse?"
"Um...yes, I would like to talk to the Gryffindor substitute captain."
"O...k." Madam Hooch turned around and called on the megaphone, "Will the Gryffindor substitute captain please report to Madam Hooch's desk, thank you that is all."
"Thank Madam." Chanse whispered, and Madam Hooch nodded to her.
A few minutes later Gryffindor's substitute captain walked out.
"Yes Madam Hooch?"
"Chanse would like to talk to you..."
"Hey Chanse, what's up?"
"Hey Angelina, I didn't know you were appointed captain."
"Yeah." Angelina smiled, and walked over to Chanse and led her over to a bench, across the room from Madam Hooch's desk, "Are you ok? You know the whole Oliver thing, and all." Angelina whispered
"Yeah...Actually I came..."
"I talked to Hermione last night, who talked to Oliver..."Angelina looked down at the ground then back up at Chanse, "....then Hermione owled Cho and we've made a plan for you and Harry."
"Really?"
"Yeah...See you and Cho come to the Gryffindor house, and we all meet in..." Angelina looked up at Chanse, and then looked away.
"Oliver's room?" Chanse whispered.
"...Yeah." Angelina slowly looked up at Chanse, "And Hermione will tell Harry that she needs to talk to him and to meet her there. Then we'll sit Harry down and tell him...Simple, I know. But does that sound good?"
"Yeah. But I came here to talk to you about the Quidditch match."
"Yeah, what about it?"
"Well I talked to my team, and we've decided that, if you guys want to, we are willing to play without a Keeper, if you play without a Keeper."
"Well what would you and I do?"
"We play as Beaters...and the Beaters and Chasers stop the quaffle balls from going in...Are you game?"
"Let me talk it over with my team." Angelina left the front desk area and walked back into the Gryffindor locker room.
A few minutes later she walked back out with a smile across her face, "We're game." Angelina and Chanse shook on it and told Madam Hooch, of what they wanted to do, "Is that ok Madam?" Angelina asked with a smile.
"That's perfectly fine."
"YES!" Both the girls yelled as they both ran back into their, separate, locker rooms.
"What'd Madam Hooch say?" Master asked Chanse.
"She said that's fine."
"Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, please report to your doors...NOW!" Madam Hooch yelled over the megaphone.
The Ravenclaw team picked up their brooms and walked out of the locker room, door to their door, like they had done three times, earlier that day. "Chanse you should sing something for us." Orla nudged Chanse.
"Yeah!" Some of the other teammates shouted.
"Ok..." Chanse softly said as she thought of a song, "You will fly, And you will crawl, We know even angels fall, No such thing as you've lost it all, We know even angels fall. It's a secret, No one tells, One day it's heaven, One day it's hell, It's no fairy tale, Take it from me, That's the way it's supposed to be." Chanse looked down at the ground, then back up at everyone who had a smile on their face.
The big wooden doors, opened once again, and the Ravenclaw turned around, "Ready team?" Roger shouted.
"YEAH!" The team shouted, back.
Ravenclaw mounted their brooms and flew out onto the field.
"Welcome back Quidditch fans, to the last round of the Quidditch Free-For- All!" Lee Jordan shouted over the megaphone, and Gryffindor's team flew out, "Our teams, Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, have taken to the field, to play the last round.
Slytherin was eliminated last round with having one point score on them, which brought them to the total of three points, scored on them.
And Gryffindor and Ravenclaw were both scored on one more time, which brings them to, two points against Gryffindor, and two against Ravenclaw.
Now the last game is going to be played..."
"Here Lee, Madam Hooch...again." Neville scoffed.
Lee grabbed the piece of paper and read it over, "With no Keepers!" Lee Jordan softly said into the megaphone, and then he heard the crowd whisper. "Yes that's right; the teams have decided, because of resent events, they will not play with Keepers.
The deal is the, normal Keepers, will play as Beaters.
As for stopping the quaffle from going in, the Beaters and Chasers will stop it.
As you all know the last round is played with the golden snitch, and...There's Madam Hooch, taking to the field."
The players flew to the center of the field, and circle around Madam Hooch, who was below, opening the Quidditch box.
"The bludgers are up, followed by the golden snitch..." Lee Jordan said with excitement.
The snitch flew up and around Harry's head, then around Cho's head. "The snitch is worth a hundred and fifty points. The Seeker must catch it, and that will win the game for their team...The quaffle ball is up, and the game has begun..."
Katie Bell flew into the crowd of blue, red, bronze, and gold, and came out with the quaffle and headed to the Ravenclaw goal. "Katie Bell has managed to claim the quaffle." Lee Jordan smirked.
Katie flew faster and faster, and looked back behind her and saw no one.
She tossed the ball in the air and went to hit it, with her broomstick, but Roger quickly grabbed the ball from the air and flew off. While Katie spun around in circles.
The Slytherin house pointed and laughed at Katie as she flew after Roger. "Porskoff Ploy!" Roger yelled to his team.
Roger flew up into the sky, and tossed the quaffle down to Orla, who flew down to the ground.
"Cho, Wronski Defensive Feint." Cho nodded and picked up speed and flew faster around the stadium. "Looks like Miss Cho Chang has found the snitch." Lee shouted, as he pointed to Cho.
Harry turned around and followed behind Cho. She flew down to the ground, with Harry behind her, and then right before the hit the ground Cho pulled up.
"Watch out Harry!" Lee Jordan yelled. Harry pulled his broom up but he skimmed the end of his broom on the ground, and couldn't get a hold of it.
Cho sat on her broom, in the sky, and laughed at Harry as he tried to get his broom under control.
*DING*
"Master Stebbins, Chaser for Ravenclaw, has made the first point of the game."
Cho opened her eyes and looked down at Master, who flew back to the Ravenclaw goal. Right as she looked away, from Master, the golden snitch flew in front of her. Cho flew off after it.
"Miss Alicia Spinnet has the ball now." Alicia flew to the Ravenclaw goal, and tossed the ball.
Chanse looked down at her goal, and hit the bludger down at the quaffle ball.
*BAM*
"Nice move by, now Beater, Chanse Jackson."
*DING*
"Angelina Johnson has hit the quaffle ball, like a bludger and made Gryffindor's first point." Angelina looked up at Chanse, smirked and flew back to her side. Chanse laughed and hit a bludger.
The game continued on, for hours.
*DING*
"Point against Ravenclaw...The score is now, twenty seven points, Gryffindor. Twenty six points, Ravenclaw...Ravenclaw and Gryffindor have kept a tight, close, game."
The game continued on like this for another hour.
Chanse looked down at the players, and saw Harry right on the snitch, and Cho wasn't far behind him. Chanse hit the bludger towards Harry, but Fred Weasley hit it back at Chanse, with a smirk, as George flew over and slapped his brother's hand. "Nice save, by Fred Weasley." Lee Jordan smirked.
Chanse balanced herself in the sky, and hit the bludger back down at the Weasley twins, who were laughing at the fact that Fred hit the bludger back at Chanse.
George looked up, "Watch out Fred!" He yelled, as the two twins flew away from each other. They flew back next to each other and looked up at Chanse, who was laughing at them.
"What's she laughing at?" George asked.
"I don't know." Fred said as he cocked his head to the side.
Chanse pointed at them, "Well great she's now pointing and laughing." George said, as he put his hands on his hips.
"Bloody hell..." Ron said as he shook his head, at his brothers, "GEORGE FRED WATCH OUT! BLUDGER BEHIND!" Ron yelled at his brothers as they flew off to the side, without even looking behind.
Chanse laughed a little more then she looked over at Cho and Harry, who were side by side, with the snitch right if front of them.
They both flew down to the ground, and stood up on the brooms, and jumped to the snitch.
The crowd gasped as they watched Cho and Harry tangle, into each other and roll, across the ground.
"END OF GAME!" Madam Hooch shrieked, after she blew her whistle.
The teams and the crowd looked around at each other, trying to figure out who had caught the snitch. The crowd filled with whispers, and then they fell silent, as the teams landed their brooms. Cho and Harry slowly started to stand up.
"Who's the winner?" Lee Jordan asked Neville Longbottom, who was sitting next to him, but it played on the megaphone. Lee looked up, as he heard himself echo across the field, "Um...yes, will the winner please hold the snitch up in the air."
Everyone in the stadium leaned forward to see who would hold the snitch up; would it be Harry or Cho?
The snitch was held up, and the crowd gasped. Then slowly erupted with claps, and cheers.
"Harry Potter has caught the snitch!" Lee Jordan screamed on the megaphone.
Ravenclaw bowed their heads, in respect, and began to clap loudly for Gryffindor. Chanse whistled loudly, and clapped with excitement. She walked over to Harry, "Good job." She smiled.
"Thanks!" Harry laughed.
Chanse turned back around and put her arm around Cho, "Its ok, girl."
"It doesn't bother me." Cho smiled. "It hurt to get tangled up with Harry though." She laughed, "The whole thing of hitting the ground, while being tangle around someone, isn't my idea of fun."
Chanse laughed and they walked back to the locker room, "Mine either."
The crowd watched everything in slow motion.
They looked at Chanse's lifeless body on the ground, and then they would look at Oliver falling from the sky.
"Look!" Someone, from the stands shouted, "She's ok!" The crowd looked down at Chanse, who was sitting up, hunched over, coughing.
The crowd went wild with people screaming and yelling.
Chanse coughed a couple more times, but then she stopped, and looked up in the sky and saw Oliver falling. Chanse quickly stood up, and ran as fast as she could over to where Oliver was falling. Chanse saw that Oliver was falling faster and faster, she dove to catch him...
*BAM*
Chanse fell to the ground with her face in the dirt. The crowd fell silent...
Chanse looked up from the ground and saw Oliver's lifeless body only a few feet away, "TIME OUT, PLAYER DOWN!" Madam Hooch screamed as she ran across the field. Chanse's eyes began to slowly tear up, as she watched Madam Hooch and the nurse, pick up Oliver's body and take it to the hospital.
"Do to the sudden events, all playing players, please return to your locker rooms."
Chanse stayed on the ground, while all the other players flew off to their locker rooms. She sat there, staring at the ground, trying to hold back her tears.
"Chanse...are you ok?" Cho asked quietly as she placed her hand on Chanse's shoulder. Chanse didn't say anything she just looked up at Cho with tear- filled eyes.
Cho slowly bent down to Chanse and put her arm around her, "Chanse?" Chanse flung her arms around Cho and began to slowly cry on Cho's shoulder. "Come on." Cho said as she slowly lifted Chanse up off the ground.
Cho and Chanse slowly walked off the field and back into the Ravenclaw locker room.
Before Chanse walked in the locker room she wiped her tears, and heard Roger talking to the team, "Everyone when Chanse gets in here, just leave her alone."
Chanse walked in, and everyone fell silent, and looked over at her. They watched her and Cho sit down on the bench, and Cho put her arm around Chanse, as Chanse brought her knees up to her chest, and rested her chin on her knees.
The team didn't know how to act or what to say. They all sat there looking at the ground not saying anything.
"All teams please return to the field to continue the Free-For-All." Madam Hooch said of the megaphone.
"Well team...Let's head out." Roger softly said as he walked over to Chanse.
Roger bent down to Chanse, and laid his hand down on her knee, "Can you still play?" Chanse nodded her head, as she stood up, and started to walk out of the locker room.
"Roger?" Chanse stopped and softly said.
"Yeah, Chanse." Roger said, and turned around and looked at her.
"I don't want to be Keeper for this round."
"But we need you!" Roger yelled.
"I want to be a Beater." Chanse softly said.
"But no one can even come close to playing Keeper like you."
"You are the closest, Roger."
"But..."
"Roger just do it for her!" Cho yelled as she left the locker room.
"Fine..." Roger said as he grabbed his broom and walked out of the room.
Roger went down to Madam Hooch's desk and reported, "Chanse and I are going to be switching positions. This means I am now the Keeper, and she is now one of the Chasers."
"Thank you Roger, for telling me..." Madam Hooch wrote it down on a piece of paper, "...I'll get that to Lee." Roger nodded and walked to the Ravenclaw door.
Chanse set down her broom and sat down on the bench, and thought. "Oliver..." Chanse whispered as she looked up at the ceiling, hoping that would hold back her tears. But it didn't slowly tears ran down her face, and onto her blue and bronze uniform.
The Ravenclaw team walked out to the Ravenclaw doors and stood behind them waiting for them to open. "Chanse..." Roger turned around behind him to say, "Cho!" Roger screamed back to Cho, "Where's Chanse?"
"I don't know she was right behind you."
"Damnit, I have to go get her..." Right as Roger said that, the wooden doors opened once again. "Damnit, I hope she gets out here." Roger whispered to himself, as he walked out onto the Quidditch field.
The Ravenclaw team mounted their brooms and flew up into the sky. "Welcome back, Quidditch fans, to the Hogwarts Quidditch Free-For-All. As you already know I'm Lee Jordan.
To bring you to an up date of what has happened...Hufflepuff house was eliminated in the first round, with the points set at: Hufflepuff had four points against them, two against Gryffindor, and one against both Ravenclaw and Slytherin.
Well, the games had a temporary pause, when Gryffindor's Keeper and Captain, Oliver Wood, was hit in the head by a bludger, and knocked to the ground.
Then in the second round, before Mr. Oliver Wood was hit...We left the game with two points against Slytherin and one against both Gryffindor and Ravenclaw.
Well now you all are caught up onto what has happened..."
"Here Lee." Neville Longbottom handed Lee a piece of paper.
"What's this?"
"Madam Hooch told me to get it to you as soon as possible."
"Oh ok." Lee opened the paper and read it over, "I have just been informed that Roger Davis, normally a Ravenclaw Chaser is going to be the Keeper, and Chanse Jackson, normally a Keeper, is going to switch with, normal Chaser Orla Quirke, for the Beater position...And Angelina Johnson is going to play Keeper for Gryffindor, while substitute, Natalie McDonald, will be playing as the third Gryffindor Chaser." Lee Jordan exclaimed with excitement.
The crowd looked around at each other and whispers came from them.
"Why would Roger, Chanse, and Orla switch positions?" One Gryffindor girl asked.
"Who cares, what really matters is, where is Chanse?" Everyone looked around on the field, but no one saw her.
Back in the locker room, Chanse was sitting on the bench, wiping her tears. But as soon as she heard her name, she looked up at the megaphone, in the corner of the room. She quickly grabbed her broom and ran out the locker room.
Chanse ran down a hallway to the wooden doors, ran out onto the field, and jumped on her broom and flew up to her team. As soon as Chanse entered the stadium, everyone busted with cheers, and claps.
"Chanse you ready to do this?" Cho said as she flew over to Chanse. Chanse nodded and flew over to her team.
The teams practice a little longer before the match started, "Look..." Lee Jordan yelled, pointing down to the field, "There's Madam Hooch, ready to start the game."
Madam Hooch blew her whistle, to call the teams over. The Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin Chasers, and Beaters flew over to the middle circle all gathered around it.
Madam Hooch bent down, to open the box, and Chanse flew over and stood across from Tom Riddle.
Tom looked over at Chanse, who was glaring back at him. "Let's end this..." Chanse mouthed to Tom. Tom tilted his head to the side, and Chanse smiled at him.
"Madam Hooch has released the balls!" Everyone flew around like crazy.
Tom looked down at the ground, and followed the bludgers with his eyes up in the air. He slowly moved his face down and looked at Chanse. Tom mouth dropped wide open...
Chanse hit a bludger has hard as she could towards Tom.
Tom flew to the side and dodged the bludger. "Close one there Tom." Lee Jordan laughed.
The game continued on...
"Ten minutes left in the game." Lee Jordan exclaimed, "With the points set at four points against Gryffindor, three against Slytherin, and two against Ravenclaw."
"Times!" Marcus Flint yelled.
"TIME-OUT...SLYTHERIN!" Madam Hooch yelled from the ground.
The teams went to their separate sides of the field, and gathered together.
"Chanse you need to calm down out there." Roger softly said, as he placed his hand on top of Chanse's shoulder. "I know Tom hit Oliver and all, but..."
"Roger?"
"Yeah?"
"That kid has fucked with the wrong girl."
"But, Chanse..."
"All teams prepare to resume play." Madam Hooch yelled.
All the players returned to their places, and Madam Hooch, once again, released the balls.
*DING*
*DING*
*DING*
Fifteen minutes pasted in the game and Madam Hooch blew her whistle, "End of second round!" She yelled. "Please all teams land, and stand in your house."
"What house shall be eliminated...Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin?" Lee Jordan smirked over the megaphone.
Silence grew over the crowd, as they watched Madam Hooch walk back and forth, in front of the teams. She stopped in front of Ravenclaw, "Ravenclaw..." Madam Hooch began. Chanse looked over at Roger, who was looking down at the ground, with his hands on his head, "...You are safe!" Chanse quickly looked up with a smile across her face.
Ravenclaw team jumped up in down with excitement, "Ravenclaw is safe!" Lee Jordan laughed.
Once again the crowd grew silent, and Ravenclaw walked back to their locker rooms.
Madam Hooch, once again, walked back and forth, in front of Gryffindor and Slytherin. She stopped in front of Slytherin, "Slytherin..." Marcus Flint glared over at the Gryffindor team with a huge grin, across his face, "...You are eliminated!" Marcus Flint's mouth dropped, "Congratulation Gryffindor, you are safe!"
"Gryffindor is safe! Gryffindor is safe!" Lee Jordan yelled into the megaphone. "Ok, ok, ok. The deal now is Gryffindor and Ravenclaw have a total of thirty minutes, in the locker rooms, then they'll return back to the field were they will duel it out in a regular Quidditch match.
Will the match play out like it did earlier this year? Or will something else happen?"
Back in the Ravenclaw locker room, everyone was jumping up and down with excitement, but Chanse just sat down on the bench with Cho. Chanse leaned forward and placed her hands on her head, "He's going to be ok, Chanse." Cho softly whispered into Chanse's ear. Chanse looked up at Cho, "He's been hit with bludgers before."
"But I don't think he's ever been hit like this." Chanse softly said, as she held back her tears.
"Ok, team, calm down. We haven't won this...yet." The team cheered again, "Seriously, calm down..." Roger hushed the team.
"Watch, Chanse, he'll be fine by tomorrow morning." Cho whispered.
"I hope so." Chanse softly whispered.
"Well, team, as you know Oliver Wood is down. So, no offence Chanse, that's an advantage for us."
"None taken, but..." Chanse looked away at a raven on one of the wall tiles.
"Yes, Chanse?"
"I'd like us to play without a Keeper." Chanse softly said, but everyone heard her.
"But Chanse, they have a substitute Keeper. So we should have a Keeper too. You don't have to play Keeper if you don't want..."
"NO!" The team looked over at Chanse, who had glossy eyes.
No one could tell if she was about to cry, or if she just wanted to, but wasn't letting herself. "Roger, they don't have their best Keeper, so I won't play Keeper..."
"That's fine Chanse, you don't have..."
"No! Let me finish Roger," Roger nodded to Chanse to continue, "I want to offer Gryffindor the chance to play the match, without Keepers, only Chasers, Beaters, and a Seeker.
The Chasers and Beaters can help stop the quaffle balls from going in." Chanse looked around at the team, "Please."
Roger looked around at the team, who held their heads down, in acceptance, "Fine, Chanse...Please go tell Madam Hooch to call in the Gryffindor substitute captain, to discuses that. Then come back and tell us what their decision is." Chanse nodded and left the locker room.
She walked down the hallway to Madam Hooch's desk, "Can I help you Chanse?"
"Um...yes, I would like to talk to the Gryffindor substitute captain."
"O...k." Madam Hooch turned around and called on the megaphone, "Will the Gryffindor substitute captain please report to Madam Hooch's desk, thank you that is all."
"Thank Madam." Chanse whispered, and Madam Hooch nodded to her.
A few minutes later Gryffindor's substitute captain walked out.
"Yes Madam Hooch?"
"Chanse would like to talk to you..."
"Hey Chanse, what's up?"
"Hey Angelina, I didn't know you were appointed captain."
"Yeah." Angelina smiled, and walked over to Chanse and led her over to a bench, across the room from Madam Hooch's desk, "Are you ok? You know the whole Oliver thing, and all." Angelina whispered
"Yeah...Actually I came..."
"I talked to Hermione last night, who talked to Oliver..."Angelina looked down at the ground then back up at Chanse, "....then Hermione owled Cho and we've made a plan for you and Harry."
"Really?"
"Yeah...See you and Cho come to the Gryffindor house, and we all meet in..." Angelina looked up at Chanse, and then looked away.
"Oliver's room?" Chanse whispered.
"...Yeah." Angelina slowly looked up at Chanse, "And Hermione will tell Harry that she needs to talk to him and to meet her there. Then we'll sit Harry down and tell him...Simple, I know. But does that sound good?"
"Yeah. But I came here to talk to you about the Quidditch match."
"Yeah, what about it?"
"Well I talked to my team, and we've decided that, if you guys want to, we are willing to play without a Keeper, if you play without a Keeper."
"Well what would you and I do?"
"We play as Beaters...and the Beaters and Chasers stop the quaffle balls from going in...Are you game?"
"Let me talk it over with my team." Angelina left the front desk area and walked back into the Gryffindor locker room.
A few minutes later she walked back out with a smile across her face, "We're game." Angelina and Chanse shook on it and told Madam Hooch, of what they wanted to do, "Is that ok Madam?" Angelina asked with a smile.
"That's perfectly fine."
"YES!" Both the girls yelled as they both ran back into their, separate, locker rooms.
"What'd Madam Hooch say?" Master asked Chanse.
"She said that's fine."
"Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, please report to your doors...NOW!" Madam Hooch yelled over the megaphone.
The Ravenclaw team picked up their brooms and walked out of the locker room, door to their door, like they had done three times, earlier that day. "Chanse you should sing something for us." Orla nudged Chanse.
"Yeah!" Some of the other teammates shouted.
"Ok..." Chanse softly said as she thought of a song, "You will fly, And you will crawl, We know even angels fall, No such thing as you've lost it all, We know even angels fall. It's a secret, No one tells, One day it's heaven, One day it's hell, It's no fairy tale, Take it from me, That's the way it's supposed to be." Chanse looked down at the ground, then back up at everyone who had a smile on their face.
The big wooden doors, opened once again, and the Ravenclaw turned around, "Ready team?" Roger shouted.
"YEAH!" The team shouted, back.
Ravenclaw mounted their brooms and flew out onto the field.
"Welcome back Quidditch fans, to the last round of the Quidditch Free-For- All!" Lee Jordan shouted over the megaphone, and Gryffindor's team flew out, "Our teams, Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, have taken to the field, to play the last round.
Slytherin was eliminated last round with having one point score on them, which brought them to the total of three points, scored on them.
And Gryffindor and Ravenclaw were both scored on one more time, which brings them to, two points against Gryffindor, and two against Ravenclaw.
Now the last game is going to be played..."
"Here Lee, Madam Hooch...again." Neville scoffed.
Lee grabbed the piece of paper and read it over, "With no Keepers!" Lee Jordan softly said into the megaphone, and then he heard the crowd whisper. "Yes that's right; the teams have decided, because of resent events, they will not play with Keepers.
The deal is the, normal Keepers, will play as Beaters.
As for stopping the quaffle from going in, the Beaters and Chasers will stop it.
As you all know the last round is played with the golden snitch, and...There's Madam Hooch, taking to the field."
The players flew to the center of the field, and circle around Madam Hooch, who was below, opening the Quidditch box.
"The bludgers are up, followed by the golden snitch..." Lee Jordan said with excitement.
The snitch flew up and around Harry's head, then around Cho's head. "The snitch is worth a hundred and fifty points. The Seeker must catch it, and that will win the game for their team...The quaffle ball is up, and the game has begun..."
Katie Bell flew into the crowd of blue, red, bronze, and gold, and came out with the quaffle and headed to the Ravenclaw goal. "Katie Bell has managed to claim the quaffle." Lee Jordan smirked.
Katie flew faster and faster, and looked back behind her and saw no one.
She tossed the ball in the air and went to hit it, with her broomstick, but Roger quickly grabbed the ball from the air and flew off. While Katie spun around in circles.
The Slytherin house pointed and laughed at Katie as she flew after Roger. "Porskoff Ploy!" Roger yelled to his team.
Roger flew up into the sky, and tossed the quaffle down to Orla, who flew down to the ground.
"Cho, Wronski Defensive Feint." Cho nodded and picked up speed and flew faster around the stadium. "Looks like Miss Cho Chang has found the snitch." Lee shouted, as he pointed to Cho.
Harry turned around and followed behind Cho. She flew down to the ground, with Harry behind her, and then right before the hit the ground Cho pulled up.
"Watch out Harry!" Lee Jordan yelled. Harry pulled his broom up but he skimmed the end of his broom on the ground, and couldn't get a hold of it.
Cho sat on her broom, in the sky, and laughed at Harry as he tried to get his broom under control.
*DING*
"Master Stebbins, Chaser for Ravenclaw, has made the first point of the game."
Cho opened her eyes and looked down at Master, who flew back to the Ravenclaw goal. Right as she looked away, from Master, the golden snitch flew in front of her. Cho flew off after it.
"Miss Alicia Spinnet has the ball now." Alicia flew to the Ravenclaw goal, and tossed the ball.
Chanse looked down at her goal, and hit the bludger down at the quaffle ball.
*BAM*
"Nice move by, now Beater, Chanse Jackson."
*DING*
"Angelina Johnson has hit the quaffle ball, like a bludger and made Gryffindor's first point." Angelina looked up at Chanse, smirked and flew back to her side. Chanse laughed and hit a bludger.
The game continued on, for hours.
*DING*
"Point against Ravenclaw...The score is now, twenty seven points, Gryffindor. Twenty six points, Ravenclaw...Ravenclaw and Gryffindor have kept a tight, close, game."
The game continued on like this for another hour.
Chanse looked down at the players, and saw Harry right on the snitch, and Cho wasn't far behind him. Chanse hit the bludger towards Harry, but Fred Weasley hit it back at Chanse, with a smirk, as George flew over and slapped his brother's hand. "Nice save, by Fred Weasley." Lee Jordan smirked.
Chanse balanced herself in the sky, and hit the bludger back down at the Weasley twins, who were laughing at the fact that Fred hit the bludger back at Chanse.
George looked up, "Watch out Fred!" He yelled, as the two twins flew away from each other. They flew back next to each other and looked up at Chanse, who was laughing at them.
"What's she laughing at?" George asked.
"I don't know." Fred said as he cocked his head to the side.
Chanse pointed at them, "Well great she's now pointing and laughing." George said, as he put his hands on his hips.
"Bloody hell..." Ron said as he shook his head, at his brothers, "GEORGE FRED WATCH OUT! BLUDGER BEHIND!" Ron yelled at his brothers as they flew off to the side, without even looking behind.
Chanse laughed a little more then she looked over at Cho and Harry, who were side by side, with the snitch right if front of them.
They both flew down to the ground, and stood up on the brooms, and jumped to the snitch.
The crowd gasped as they watched Cho and Harry tangle, into each other and roll, across the ground.
"END OF GAME!" Madam Hooch shrieked, after she blew her whistle.
The teams and the crowd looked around at each other, trying to figure out who had caught the snitch. The crowd filled with whispers, and then they fell silent, as the teams landed their brooms. Cho and Harry slowly started to stand up.
"Who's the winner?" Lee Jordan asked Neville Longbottom, who was sitting next to him, but it played on the megaphone. Lee looked up, as he heard himself echo across the field, "Um...yes, will the winner please hold the snitch up in the air."
Everyone in the stadium leaned forward to see who would hold the snitch up; would it be Harry or Cho?
The snitch was held up, and the crowd gasped. Then slowly erupted with claps, and cheers.
"Harry Potter has caught the snitch!" Lee Jordan screamed on the megaphone.
Ravenclaw bowed their heads, in respect, and began to clap loudly for Gryffindor. Chanse whistled loudly, and clapped with excitement. She walked over to Harry, "Good job." She smiled.
"Thanks!" Harry laughed.
Chanse turned back around and put her arm around Cho, "Its ok, girl."
"It doesn't bother me." Cho smiled. "It hurt to get tangled up with Harry though." She laughed, "The whole thing of hitting the ground, while being tangle around someone, isn't my idea of fun."
Chanse laughed and they walked back to the locker room, "Mine either."