Challenge: Fire the Canon's Character of the Week Drabble Competition (week 4) on HPFC
Characters: Jason Samuels
Prompt: Must involve Hogwarts.
Word count: 192
He certainly did not mean for this to happen, Jason reflected, hovering on a dysfunctional school broom above the Ravenclaw keeper.
Beater by chance, he mused. Beater because I was explaining baseball to a pureblood. And that was true: one pureblood from the year below him had been asked to write an essay on muggle pastimes for Muggle Studies, but had neglected to do the research. Daniel had volunteered Jason, who had played baseball and soccer at the muggle primary school he'd attended pre-Hogwarts.
So there he'd been, armed with a bat that had once been a broom, standing in the clock tower courtyard. Daniel had pulled the ball back, pitched it, right into the swing the older wizard took.
He didn't mean to break the window, but he did.
He'd been awarded detention from an irate Snape. He'd sent their audience - a collection of all blood types from all houses - running, terrified of being associated with him.
But Ravenclaw captain - Roger Davies - gave him the position beater.
Funny how things work out, he decided, but then couldn't muse any more. Potter was moving: the game had begun.