When Hermione and Zachary made it downstairs he heard either Fred or George yelling something like "Krum may be a good Seeker, but the Bulgarians are going to need a lot more than that to beat the Irish!"at someone ,besides aunt Molly, everyone was already seated, uncle Arthur at the head of the table, on his left Fred and George and on his right Ginny and Ronald.
At first no one noticed Hermione and Zach standing there, which probably was caused by this heated argument the twins and Ron where having. So they just decided to sit down, Hermione next to Ron and Zach next to the twins.
This in fact did not go unnoticed by the twins, because they started bombarding Zach with questions about who he thought was the better team. Zach started summing up facts about both teams and weighing them up against each other.
""The Irish have three awesome Chasers who are probably going to score an amazing amount of points" Zach stated.
"See Ron?!" George said. "Even Zach agrees and he plays Quodpot!" Fred continued.
Zach immediately went into the defence and said "the fact that I play Quodpot has in no way any effect on my judgement of your oh so loved Quidditch teams and besides I wasn't even finished yet."
"Krum has basically perfected the Wronksi Feint which is going to give him a lot of opportunities to catch the Snitch once the other Seeker is knocked out. So based on the snitch being the most fatal thing in the game, I side with Ron and think the Bulgarians are better" Zach said.
Knowing that he wasn't the only Ireland supporter in the house made Ron really happy. Ron reached over the table to high-five Zach, as the twins started coming up with new arguments.
The conversation continued through diner and Hermione had been left alone with her thoughts since she didn't have any interest in talking about Quidditch. Her thoughts quickly flew to the subject of Zach. Hermione thought about the short lived conversation they were having about Hogwarts: A History and how she had never had been able to discuss her favorite book with one of the Weasley's or Harry for that matter.
The boys and Ginny were still discussing Quidditch and Zach noticed that Hermione wasn't taking part, so he decided to test he knowledge.
Hermione snapped out of her thoughts when she heard Zach say her name. "I beg your pardon?" she asked Zach because she couldn't recall the rest of the sentence.
"Why are you even asking her? She doesn't know anything about Quidditch! Ron exclaimed. Hermione felt offended by the statement but was now encouraged to show him how wrong he was.
Zach ignored the comment, " I asked if you agree with the twins." he stated. "because they think the Irish will be able to score enough goals before Krum catches the snitch, so do you?"
Hermione did her best to recall all the things the Weasleys had said about the teams and said "based on the history the Bulgarians have with only scoring 10 to 20 points, the Irish would at the most have to score 17 Quaffles, which would mean 6 for each chaser and like you already said the Irish have three awesome chasers" she mocked Zach's american accent at the last part.
He was completely flabbergasted, Zach hadn't expected such a thought out answer and was clearly impressed by the girl's intelligence. He chuckled and said "I guess you're right".
A/n: sorry it took so long :P