NOTE: I want access to Pottermore! I've heard it's amazing~ Anyway, a quick recap. Valentine's first year at Hogwarts has come to an end and now the Lynns, along with Terry Boot and Val's cousins, Chip and Angela, are going to their Aunt Cheryl's place in the country for a month. I'd like to wrap that part up quickly. I still want to progress to the forth year! I still have that cute image in my head of Val and her beau at the Yule Ball...anyway, I hope you enjoy the story!

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They'd only been at Cheryl's place for fifteen minutes when a bunch of family members converged around the seven of them. The cousins took the kids away and the adults all went in the other direction. The cousins led Valentine, Terry, Annabeth, Percy, Chip and Angela to their rooms and immediately yelled,"Quidditch time! Get your brooms!"

Percy, Chip, Angela and Annabeth, who didn't play Quidditch at all, were lent some brooms to play on and all of them went out onto the yard. "We need a referee!" Valentine yelled, trying to be heard over the din. The adults were now in the yard to watch the game. The kids all lined up and one of the adults came over to pick the two captains and be the referee. "Valentine, Hugh, you're captains! Get up here and choose your teams!"

Valentine and Hugh stepped up and turned around to face the group of roughly twenty people. "You first, Vally," said Hugh. "We'll each pick two at a time."

"Sounds good." Valentine looked up and down the line. "Terry and Silas!" They came and stood behind her.

Hugh also looked up and down the line. "Calli and Marcus!"

The line thinned. Only sixteen left. "Hey Hugh!" called Valentine. "Want to pick four at a time?"

"Your call."

"Percy, Jaden, Mackenzie, Kate!" They stood behind Valentine.

"Sierra, Chip, Alexis, Stephen!" They went to Hugh.

"Amelia, Delia, Sophia, Angela!" To Valentine.

And the last four, Clarence, Kemp, Archer and Annabeth, went to Hugh's team. Aunt Evelyn, the referee, handed red and blue colored medieval-style tunics to each team. On the younger kids, the tunics were slightly over-sized. Aunt Evelyn came around and re-sized them if they were either too big or too small.

Then the teams went to opposite ends of the field to talk strategy. The teams huddled around the captains. "I think we'll go for a pincer. Chasers, center around Terry. Beaters, wreak some havoc." Everyone nodded their understanding.

"Who is playing what position?" asked Jaden.

"Mackenzie, Terry, Delia, Kate Percy, and Silas, I'd like you to be the chasers. I'll be the seeker. Amelia, Marcus and Calli, you'll be the beaters. Jaden, you'll be the keeper," said Valentine.

"Will the other team have the same makeup?" asked Terry.

"No. House rules say that there's only one keeper and seeker per team. The rest are divided between being beaters and chasers," said Valentine.

From the middle of the field, Aunt Evelyn called, "Beaters, get your bats!"

The beaters from each team came forward to get their bats from Aunt Evelyn and went back to their teams. Before the game's start, Terry leaned to Valentine and whispered, "Is that Evelyn Thomas? I've never seen her up close."

"That's her." Valentine pointed to her aunts and uncles. "There's Uncle Oliver. I'll introduce you after the game."

"Players, to your positions!" shouted Aunt Evelyn.

The twenty two kids flew into place. The Lynn family had a set of house rules regarding positions of players before the start of a game. Since the teams were bigger than the regulation sized Quidditch teams, the beaters went to the keeper's right, the chasers to the left of the beaters. And the seekers went between the beaters and the chasers. Whoever was captain went to the center to shake hands with the opposing captain.

Hugh and Valentine went to the center. "Who's your seekser, Hugh?"

"Alexis is. Can't you see her?"

"No, actually. Good luck, Hugh!" Valentine grinned, offering her hand.

Hugh shook it. "You too."

They went back to their respective positions on the field. Evelyn let the snitch and the bludgers loose. Then, broom in one hand, quaffle in the other, she strode to the middle of the field. "Remember kids, if I see any dirty playing, you're off the field for the day!" She looked around the field and every kid nodded their understanding. She mounted her broom and tossed the quaffle in the air.

Immediately, the chasers zoomed towards it. Terry was in the lead on Valentine's side, chasers trailing behind him in a near perfect arc.. He pressed himself flat on his broom and grabbed the ball just as Sierra was just about to grab it. The chasers all turned around and Terry threw the ball to Silas. He just barely missed catching it.

One of the opposing chasers grabbed it. Calli hefted the bat, swung and hit the bludger away from Valentine, who was about to get hit, and the deflected bludger hit the chaser who had the quaffle. He dropped it. Terry dived down to catch it. Just as he was about to collide with the ground, he pulled out of the dive and circled around to the opposing goal posts. He threw the quaffle and scored. Uncle Ian, on the ground, was keeping score and he chalked up one point to Valentine's team.

Hugh's keeper retrieved the quaffle and threw it to one of his chasers, who caught it without a problem and zoomed away to try and get it past Valentine's keeper, Jaden, a sixth year at Hogwarts.

Valentine spotted the snitch and pressed herself flat on her new broom. She got closer and closer. But it was no use. Her arm got hit with a bludger and she heard a sickening crack. She screamed, "F-all!" and promptly crash landed.

Evelyn blew her whistle, halting the game and landed next to Valentine. She winced and waved over Aunt Katherine, a healer. Katherine knelt by Valentine. She took one look at Valentine's arm.

"Can you fix this?" asked Evelyn, as she helped Valentine sit up. "I'm not so good with healing charms."

"Sure." Katherine pulled out her wand, gently touched the tip to Valentine's arm. "Episkey."

Valentine gasped as her bone popped into place. She massaged her arm. "Thanks Aunt Katherine." She stood up. "Can I still play?"

"Yes. Just keep an eye out for those bludgers, ok?"

"Will do." Valentine hugged both of her aunts and found her broom again. She mounted it and kicked off.

Evelyn blew her whistle again to signal the start of the game.

The battle resumed again. In the next ten minutes, each team scored four times, making the score fifty to forty, with Valentine's team in the lead.

To retaliate for Valentine getting hurt, Amelia (a forth year), Marcus (age fifteen, American) and Calli (age sixteen, Marcus' older sister), unleashed hell. While Valentine was being tended to, the three had come up with a strategy. They flew in a loose triangle formation and hit a bludger back and forth, eventually hitting it at the rival seeker, Alexis. She used a barrel roll to dodge it, and in the time it took her to do that, she lost track of the snitch.

Valentine caught sight of the snitch again. She was stationary, floating near the enemy goal posts. The snitch was hovering just across the field, near the center. Alexis was near her team's goal posts. Valentine grinned, having come up with a good plan. Keeping one eye on the snitch, she zoomed upwards, arm outstretched, in an attempt to fool Alexis.

It worked. Alexis zoomed to where Valentine appeared to be heading. When Alexis was close enough, Valentine feinted to the left and then made a hairpin turn towards the now moving snitch. The snitch zoomed towards Valentine's team's goal posts. Valentine pressed herself flat against her broom, Alexis close behind. Valentine zigzagged in front of Alexis to try and prevent her from getting a lead. They got closer and closer to the goal posts. The snitch tried to escape, but it was no use. Valentine stretched her arm forward and caught it. She turned around, snitch in hand for all to see.

The kids all landed. Terry flew over and landed near Valentine. "That was fantastic! You're gonna beat Chang, no problem!"

"You bet!" She grinned and Evelyn came over.

"You were fantastic, Val!"

"Thanks, Aunt Evelyn!" Valentine hugged her aunt.

"Just one thing, Val. Don't call me aunt. It makes me feel old," said Evelyn with a grin.

"Sure."

"And if you want some help with your technique, Oliver and I would be glad to help."

"That's be great! Evelyn, this is my friend Terry from school. He and I are trying out for the house team in the fall," said Valentine. "Could you and Uncle Oliver help us both?"

"Sure! We'd be glad to," said a still grinning Evelyn. "We can go out after dinner, if you'd like."

"Sounds great! Thanks a bunch, Evelyn," said Terry, offering his hand. She shook it.

Evelyn turned around. "Oliver, come here!"

Oliver stood up and came over. "Hi Val!" He gave Valentine a hug.

"Hi Uncle Oliver!"

Oliver stood up. "Who's this?" he asked, gesturing at Terry.

"This is my friend Terry from school. We're trying out for the house team in the fall," said Valentine.

"We're going to help them train after dinner tonight, hun," said Evelyn.

"Sounds like fun," said Oliver.

Terry held his hand out for Oliver and they shook. "I'm a huge fan!"

Oliver grinned. "Always nice to meet fans."

Aunt Elizabeth came out from the house. "Dinner's ready!"

"Until after dinner, then," said Oliver, taking Evelyn's hand.

"Until then," said Valentine.

"See you," said Terry.

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NOTE: What did you think about the Quidditch game? I think it might be a little too intense for a family game. But I think it was good. I might spend one more chapter at Aunt Cheryl's and start the new year.