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Constant Moral Support

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Like clockwork; it was always the next day after a game that the letter showed up. It wasn't always the same owl, but every time she or one of her teammates managed to catch a glimpse of the owl carrying the letter it was always some non-descript, generic owl, usually brown but varying in size and breed that was dropping off the letters, so none of them had been able to track down who it was that sent them.

They hadn't all looked very hard into figuring out who it was either because it was fun not knowing.

Ginny shimmied her shoulders in a little happy dance and gave a smile as she recognized the stationary.

"Got another one, did you?" Harry asked from across the table at their kitchen breakfast nook.

"Guess it's my turn," she gave him a silly grin.

"Going to open it here, or wait until you are in the locker room with the girls?"

"I think I'll open it there this time." It was only a few times that she had opened it at home, and usually because it had showed up the day after a game that she felt like she had been absolute crap in and needed to make sure that it didn't say 'you suck' this time.

"And if it is more than two words?" he prodded.

"Then I'll make a copy and bring it home for you to see," she assured him, shaking her head in amusement that he had to ask. See, yesterday she was sure she'd done a good job. They'd all played a good game yesterday and she'd scored several times. It had been against the Tutshill Tornado's, and those guys had been on their game this season so she was extra satisfied with how well she'd performed.

"That's all I ask," Harry said and gave her a kiss as he stood up to get more coffee.

Ginny gave another little excited shoulder wiggle as she put the letter into her training bag.

It wasn't that she had grown to expect these letters after her good games from this mysterious fan, they were just the little morale boost that she and her teammates needed sometimes to stop second guessing themselves and how far along they were in their career.

They all worked really hard, so getting these fan letters the day after a good or bad game made them all feel like all the slaving away they did in practices and trials was all worth it.

She remembered the first time that she got one of the letters. She'd been in her second year of playing with the Harpies when it arrived and she'd been so shocked and amazed seeing the sealed letter there in the morning that Harry had to coax her back to reality. He'd thought something bad had happened, but the thing was that she had recognized the stationary even then.

The Harpies had this wall in their clubhouse and it was full of letters on this stationary; some of them were folded to display the name it had been addressed to and the two words, followed by the fans moniker. Most of them simply said 'good job', but some, very few, contained more than that. Ginny had noticed this wall full of letters on her first day there. The letters were permanently stuck to the wall and they were addressed to all of the Quidditch greats that she had aspired to as far back as she could remember from the Harpies team.

Gwenog had put her arm around Ginny's shoulder when she saw Ginny looking at them all and told her, she said "this is how you'll know that you've made it. That you'll have been noticed as a Quidditch Player to watch." So seeing that stationary on her kitchen table that day had been one of those life validating moments for her and it took a few minutes to learn to breathe again.

No one knew who wrote them. There had been much speculation of who it was, or how many people it could be; just because they were all signed the same didn't mean that there wasn't a collection of fans out there that had formed some group and put themselves in charge of insuring that the spirits of selected Quidditch Players were lifted.

Getting that first letter had been everything.

She'd gotten several now, some that had more than just 'good job' on it too! Those longer ones she'd made sure to copy, like Harry reminded her, and she kept them in a special scrap book.

Today, Ginny went into the clubhouse, which is where all the girls were meeting to go over yesterday's games high and low points, and she saw a few of them also had letters on the table before them that were also unopened.

"Did you?" Heather, a fellow Chaser asked who had one out in front of her.

Ginny dove her hand into her bag and pulled out the letter to display for them all and there was a cheer that went around. Ginny excitedly took a seat and waited for the rest of the girls to show up.

Ten minutes later everyone had arrived and those that had one each opened their letters one by one.

"Good job," Gwenog read out.

"Good job," Heather read.

"Good job," Talia, a Beater had on hers.

"Nice," Gina, the first-string Keeper, read on hers. There was a resounding 'ooh' from all the other girls. A 'nice' was still appreciated, the 'ooh' was more due intrigue from it differentiating from the others.

Now it was Ginny's turn. She bit her lip as she ripped open the envelope and unfolded the page, then she drew in an excited breath and stood up from the rush of energy that shot through her and yelled out the six words that were written there, "GREAT GAME, WAY TO GO GINNY!"

Everyone stood up and clapped, one gave her a wolf whistle. Ginny couldn't help giving a laugh at their reaction and from her own.

She immediately copied the letter, making sure it was the original that went back into her bag. It was only five of them that had received their letters this morning and they all went over to the wall, as was their tradition, and posted up their letters before sitting back down and getting to business.

It was the first time her name had been written out in the text before.

She was going to celebrate this more with Harry later.

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AN- This is a short one but it was inspired by a real fanfic reviewer who is shrouded in mystery and generally does leave only two word reviews saying 'good job' or 'great chapter' and it always makes me and several other authors I know smile.

Scrappy8, we don't know who you are but you do give a lot of us encouragement to keep going, so thank you.