don't know how I got the idea for this story, but I hope you enjoy it:)

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Harry Potter Characters, they belong to JK. However, I own Elisabeth (Els) Vinyal, she's my character, if you want to use her, send me a PM so I know;)

I woke up early the next morning, I had spent the evening at Severus' quarters until curfew, then I had to do my night patrol until 11. The patrol was rather boring, there was no one on my route, the only distraction I had was from the Hufflepuff girl I had to do my patrol with, she kept on talking about how hard it was to combine her school work with the Prefect duties, I barely listened to her, only nodding on the right moments. I was tired and really wanted to go back to the dormitories and get some sleep before tomorrows match, but once in bed I couldn't sleep, I kept tossing around until 5 before I fell asleep for a couple of hours. I woke up around 7, knowing I wouldn't be able to sleep anymore I gathered my Quidditch robes, wand and Severus' broom, I shrunk the broom and the robes, to fit them in my bag and made my way to the Common Room.

I was surprised to find both Harry and Ron already awake and fully clothed there, staring in the smoldering fireplace.

"You two are awake early", I said, sitting down on the sofa next to Harry.

"I always do, I can never sleep the night before a match, and Ron neither", Harry said, "but it seems like you've the same problem, otherwise you wouldn't be here so early in the morning."

I nodded, "Yes, when I had my patrol yesterday evening after Professor Snape's detention, I couldn't wait to get into my bed and sleep, but once I was in my bed I couldn't sleep, it was around 5 when I finally managed to get some sleep."

Harry and Ron didn't react for a couple of minutes, lost in their on thoughts about the match.

"Maybe we should go downstairs and have some breakfast", Ron suggested, Harry and I agreed with him. I picked up my bag and made my way to the portrait, "Wait a minute", Ron said, "I left my broom in our room."

Ron sprinted upstairs to get his broom, as we waited Harry looked at me, "When are going to tell us what kind of broom you have?"

I thought for a moment, I couldn't think of a reason why not to tell him now, I opened my bag and took out the miniature broom, "I've shrunken it, so it would fit in my bag."

Harry stepped closer to me to have a better look at the broom, "I can't see it properly, could you enlarge it?"

I nodded, I took my wand, tapped on the broom and mumbled the spell. As the broom returned to it original size Harry's eyes grew large, "That – that's a Lightningbolt, those things cost a fortune!"

Harry carefully grabbed it's handle and took in out of my hands, "It's so light, I really can't believe that someone would lend such a broom to someone else."

While Harry was still fascinated by the Lightningbolt, Ron returned with his own broom in his hands, "I'm ready to go – BLOODY HELL, Harry, that's a Lightningbolt, how did you get that?"

He dropped his own broom on the floor and hurried to Harry, "It's not mine, Ron, it's for now Elisabeth's broom." Ron stared at me, "How did you get such an awesome broom?"

"My pen friend from America send it to me, I told him what happened with my own broom and he send me this one over Christmas, telling me I could use it for the match."

I took the broom back from Harry and shrunk it again, "We better go downstairs, there won't be a lot of people in the Great Hall this early in the morning."

The boys nodded, and as Ron picked up his broom he asked, "Can I – can I fly on it?"

I shrugged", I guess so, but not today, we don't have time before the match, and hopefully we win, so we also won't have time after the match, so tomorrow?" They agreed with tomorrow, and we made our way to the Great Hall, hoping we could eat a little bit at least.

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At quarter past 9 we made our way to the Quidditch field, it was pretty cold outside and there was a strong western breeze, but the sky was clear, "Ideal Quidditch weather", Harry said, we left our robes and brooms in the changing room and waited outside in the sun until it was time to change.

Just after half past 9 the big doors opened and the first people walked over the lawn to the field, this was our signal to go back to the changing rooms and put on the scarlet Quidditch robes. After Harry's attempt to make a pep-talk, in which he definitely failed, everybody knew what he'd wanted to say, we picked up our brooms, a few people glanced at the Lightningbolt in my hand, but nobody said a thing.

As we walked onto the pitch loud cheering erupted from the stands all the Gryffindors were clothed in red and gold along with some Ravenclaw students, the Hufflepuffs' were clothed in their yellow and black, supported by the other half of Ravenclaw house. The Slytherins were clothed in their own green and silver, but some of them wore yellow and black scarf or hat. Madame Hooch was waiting on the middle of the pitch.

As the Gryffindor team completed it's half of the circle Harry and the Hufflepuff captain Zacharias Smith shook each others hand, promising to have a fair game, I looked around, the pitch seemed so much bigger now, with all the different colours on the stands. I closed my eyes for a second to collect all the thoughts and impressions. I felt Ginny nudging me, "Are you okay?"

I nodded. Harry and Zacharias Smith walked back to their places in circle, and Madame Hooch opened the box and released the Bludgers and the Golden Snitch, "Everyone, mount your brooms, please."

I swung my left leg over the broom and gripped the handle firmly. While waiting for the sound of Madame Hooch's whistle I looked at the thirteen other students in the circle, the Gryffindor team existed of Harry, Ron, Jimmy Peaks and Ritchie Coote, who were Beaters and Ginny, Demelza Robins and me as Chasers. The Hufflepuff team existed of Zacharias Smith, Merwyn Cadwallader and Tamsin Applebee as Chasers, Anthony Rickett and Maxine O'Flaherty as Beaters, Michael Summerby as Seeker and Herbert Fleet as Keeper. Madame Hocch gave a loud blast on the whistle and I pushed myself of the ground, within a few seconds everyone was in their position and the game begun.

Ginny had takes the Quaffle and sped to the Hufflepuff side of the field, Demelza and I follow her so we can take over the Quaffle if necessary, but it seems like Ginny is fine without us, 30 seconds after the start of the match Ginny scores.

The in red and gold clad crowd goes wild, it doesn't happen often that a Chaser scores so fast in a match, it only shows how well trained the Gryffindor team is. I try to help Ginny and Demelza as much as possible, but most of the time, when the Quaffle is in my hands, I lose it to a Hufflepuff. We are 20 minutes in the game, and lead with 90-40 when I drop the Quaffle again. Harry seems to notice my bad performance and asks Madame Hooch for a time-out, "What's wrong Elisabeth, you keep on dropping the Quaffle, this way we'll never win."

I shrugged, "I'm sorry Harry, I don't know what's happening to me, but Ginny and Demelza can manage without me, I am only in their way."

Harry shook his head angrily, "No, they can not, a team needs three Chasers, if one of them is missing they can not work properly, it's like a car with only three wheels. I know you can do much better, you showed it on the training."

I nodded, "Okay, I will try."

It looked like Harry wanted to say something else, but Madame Hooch interrupted him, "Time-out is over, return to you place on the field."

Ginny, Demelza and I made our way back to the middle of the field, facing Zacharias, Merwyn and Tamsin, who was holding the Quaffle. I looked to my left, where all the teachers sat and saw Severus on his usual place, the right side on the last row, our eyes locked and he gave a small nod, then the whistle sounded and I knew what to do. I spurted forwards, to Tamsin, grabbed with both hands the Quaffle and sped to the Hufflepuff goal posts, before someone had the time to react I threw the Quaffle trough the pool.

I stopped the broom in mid-air and turned around, just in time to see Harry appear next to me, "That's what I mean, Els", he gave me a pad on my arm and raised his broom to circle around the field, looking for the Snitch.

The rest of the game went in a blur, Ginny, Demelza and I played flawless, I didn't lose the Quaffle once and scored most of the time since the Hufflepuff Chasers couldn't keep up with the speed of the Lightningbolt. We were an hour and a half in the game, and leading with 260-120 when I saw a flits of gold in front of the Slytherin stands, I looked around for Harry, to warn him, but he was already racing to the Snitch, Summerby was following him, in hope to get the Snitch before Harry.

The rest of the game fell silent as everyone watched the two Seekers who were flying side by side, then Harry suddenly sped up and caught the Snitch in his right hand. Cheers erupted from the Gryffindor stands and I made my way to Harry who was clutching the Snitch and waiting for the team in mid-air.

Ginny, Demelza and I were the first to get to Harry, Ginny almost knocked Harry of his broom in her excitement. Harry grabbed Ginny's robes, so he wouldn't fall of his broom and then suddenly kissed her.

I heard some, "Awww's" from the crowd, since everyone saw them, then I noticed Ron next to, his mouth slightly open, not really knowing what to do. Harry and Ginny let go of each other and I saw Harry looking for Ron, his face a bit red, but I was unable if that was because of some kind of embarrassment or that it was excitement, finally 'telling' his feelings to Ginny.

I saw Ron nodding slightly, and on Harry's face appeared a wide grin. The rest of the team patted Harry on his shoulders and we made our way to the ground to greet the rest of the Gryffindor House. As soon as we landed on the ground, we were lifted onto the shoulders of the students, celebrating the victory as we just had won the World Cup.

Harry and Ginny hold hands the whole way back to the Common Room where the house-elfs had left towers of food on the table's. Nobody thought about the fact we were tired, muddy and cold and wanted to have a nice hot shower first. No, we were forced to stay in the Common Room, while everyone was celebrating and looking at the Snitch Harry had released.

The party continued until mid-night when Professor McGonagall entered the Common Room and send everyone to bed, as Head Girl and Prefects, Hermione, Ron and I were the last one to leave, we said our good-nights to Professor McGonagall and went our own ways to our dormitories. Just before I entered our room I heard Ron saying, "Don't forget about your promise, to let Harry and me flying on the Lightningbolt."

I nodded to him and entered the room, glad I finally could get some rest.

A/N Thank you for all the reviews on the last chapter! It took me a bit longer to upload this chapter, but I really wanted to write a good one!

xxx Yvje