Percy and Harry stood side by side with their brooms in their hands. Behind them were Fred and George, the 2 Beaters of the team. Behind them were Oliver Wood, the captain and keeper, and Katie and Angelina the other 2 chasers. This was the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
"Game on in 20 seconds," said Wood. "Let's give the Slytherins a crushing defeat."
Percy gripped tightly on his Obsidian. He silently promised to use the other brooms in the other games, to keep the rest of the gods happy.
"Alright let's do this!" Wood shouted as the doors opened. All 7 of them climbed on and made their entrance to the ground.
"Aye aye, Gryffindors!" Fred and George shouted.
The Slytherins and the Gryffindors came to a position at the center with Hooch below. They made a circle, floating in mid-air with Harry and the Slytherin Seeker above them.
"I want a clean and fair game," Hooch instructed. Then she kicked open the box and the bludgers sprang up, followed by the snitch and then the Quaffle. As soon as the Quaffle was up in the air, all the chasers rushed to get it, like it was prey and they were wolves. Percy swooped in from below, but before he could get the red ball, it was seized by the Slytherin chaser.
The snitch was no longer in sight, the bludger was flying in all directions, and the Quaffle was going in full pace towards the Red hoops. Immediately Katie flew in, pushed the chaser with her arm, and grabbed the ball. Before the other two green chasers could catch her, she threw it in the air. Percy flew up faster than anyone there and got the ball. Now the Quaffle was in his hand. He flew faster than the wind dodged two bludgers and threw the quaffle right through the center green hoop.
The first score of the season.
Angelina scored second and third. Gryffindors were leading 30-0. Wood had managed to save the hoops twice.
That was when Slytherins realized that they needed to get rougher. One of the green beaters shot a bludger at full speed purposefully at Angelina. Fred was about to hit it back, but another bludger hit Fred from the back. Fred managed to escape but Angelina was down. Luckily the sand below prevented her from getting hurt. The Red team was down by 1 player.
The Slytherins scored two hoops after that. 30-20.
The next one was an unfair play. Wood was about to save it, but the green chaser hit him hard with the end of his broom. Wood fell down as well. Hooch decided it was not a foul.
40-60. Katie scored the next Gryffindor goal. George was guarding the hoops but he couldn't save all of them.
After a few minutes, Katie went down due to another rough bludger attack, followed by George. None of it was foul play in the game.
The scoreboard was now 70-100. Percy was the only chaser left on the team. It was just Percy, Fred, and Harry.
"If they wanna play so fairly, let's give them a real fair match," Percy muttered to Fred as they flew close to each other.
"I am with you, Percy," Fred said as he hit a bludger aimed at Percy.
Harry was still soaring mid-air. He had spotted the snitch twice, but it slipped out both times. Percy swooped in each time the ball was being thrown. He caught the ball and raced to the hoop, scoring another 10 points.
The game continued like this. It was 130-180. Fred had knocked down one of the green Beaters with a quaffle. Percy had purposefully rotated his broom right above a green chaser, hitting him in the head. The guy fell and it was still not a foul. It was 3 Gryffindors without a keeper, against 5 Slytherins.
As the game continued, Harry had managed to spot the snitch and followed it. The green seeker was behind him in pursuit. Both of them were racing for the golden ball when all of a sudden Harry's broom started malfunctioning. It pulled him back up into the air and was moving in its own will.
As if somebody was jinxing it.
Percy looked at the crowd. He saw the stand where the teachers were standing. Snape was sitting there looking fixated at Harry and muttering something. Clearly some sort of spell. Above him, the other teachers were also staring at Harry wondering what was happening. Quirrell was staring at Harry hard as well.
Percy got a plan.
"Hey Fred, bludger!" Percy shouted. Fred nodded and as soon as he got his hand on one of the bludgers, he hit it hard towards Percy. Percy hit it with the hard front end of his broom right toward the stand where Snape was sitting.
The bludger flew towards Snape and crashed into the empty spot right beside him with a cannon-like impact. Snape sprang up and all of a sudden a fire began burning at the bottom of his cloak. Percy noticed a ginger hair moving away from under those seats. The collision and the fire pretty much distracted Snape and he fell backward, pushing the others behind him.
It worked and Harry's nimbus stopped moving like crazy. He got back up on his broom and was riding safely, back on his search for the snitch. It disappeared once again.
In this time, the Slytherins scored goals on an empty field. It was a 130 - 270 score by then. Percy got back at the game.
3 hours passed away. Angelina and George rejoined the game. The Slytherins were back as well. They pulled up the score to 220-380.
That was when Harry began chasing the snitch again. He and the Slytherin seeker were behind the snitch together. It was just a few inches from their fingers.
Percy knew that even if Harry got the snitch, they wouldn't win. They needed 20 more points.
Percy chased at the green chaser with the quaffle who was flying straight at the hoop. Percy sped up and flew right on top of the guy, he just took the quaffle from his arm saying 'Thank you', and threw it towards George. George hit a bludger toward the quaffle to deflect it so that it landed right in Angelina's arms. Angelina was close to the green hoop and she held the quaffle in her hand as she pushed it through the hoop, while the keeper failed to prevent it.
230-380. Harry managed to push away the green seeker and he was standing on the broom, ready to jump and catch the snitch. Everyone was at the edge of their seats waiting impatiently for what was about to happen. The green keeper threw the quaffle towards another green chaser. Before he could get it, Fred hit a bludger right at the chaser, pushing him away. Harry had to jump right then or else he was about to make a collision with the ground.
Percy flew towards the quaffle, but it was too low. He was a few feet above the quaffle, with no time to make a descent. As soon as the quaffle was almost below him, he jumped down from the broom while flying more than 50 feet high. Making an almost vertical fall, as soon as his feet came in front of the quaffle, he kicked it with all his force right toward the hoop.
And the sound of the whistle came ringing through the sky.
It was not the 'Score' whistle, but the 'Game Over' whistle.
The quaffle had passed through the right hoop and Harry spurted the snitch from his mouth and caught it in his hand at the same time.
"390-380. Game over! Gryffindor Wins by 10 points."
Gryffindor had won.
The party was greater than ever. It was a full-out blast in the Gryffindor common room. Their first match, and they won against the Slytherin despite all that jinx troubles. Harry and Percy were the main players, so as soon as both of them entered the common room together, the celebrations started.
Percy had scored 130 points and Harry had scored 150, for their team. Percy's falling shot was renamed as the 'Drop and smash' by the Weasley twins. They had magically got the recording of the shot and kept replaying it throughout the party.
The best thing about the party? They had blue cookies.
So, that's it. Another chapter. I was getting bored as heck will all the stupid exams I had to go through. Already begun writing the next chapter and it's gonna set back the focus on the Greek world. If chapter plans work, year 1 should end in like 4 more chapters. This time I guess I will make a second book for the second year of Percy in Hogwarts.
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