Madelyn Potter WTMs 𝙲

1.19| Quidditch

[The next morning, in the great hall. The gang is sitting, eating. Maddie is twirling her food on a fork, Skyler walks over from Ravenclaw table to join them.]
Ron: Take a bit of toast, mate, go on.
Hermione: Ron's right, Maddie. You're gonna need your strength today.
Madelyn: I'm not hungry.
Skyler: Maddie, I know it's normal to be nervous, especially for Quidditch but you need to eat otherwise your not going to have strength to play.
[Snape appears at the table.]

Snape: Good luck today, Potter. Then again, now that you've proven yourself against a troll, a little game of Quidditch should be easy work for you...even if it is against Slytherin. [Snape walks off, limping. Maddie and Sky notices this.]
Madelyn: That explains the blood.
Hermione: Blood?
Madelyn: Listen, last night, I'm guessing Snape let the troll in as a diversion so he could try and get past that 3 headed dog. But, he got himself bitten, that's why he's limping.
Skyler: But why would anyone go near that dog?
Madelyn: The day I was at Gringotts, Hagrid took something out of one of the vaults. He said it was Hogwarts' business, very secret.
Hermione: So you're saying...
Madelyn: That's what the dog's guarding. That's what Snape wants.
[Hedwig screeches as she enters the Great Hall. She is carrying a very large, long parcel. She drops it off at the table.]
Skyler: Bit early for mail, isn't it?
Madelyn: But I-I never get mail.
Ron: Let's open it.
[They open it to reveal a broomstick.]

Everyone is shocked.

Madelyn: It's a broomstick!
Ron: Thats not just any broomstick, Maddie. Skyler: [recognising the model] It's a Nimbus 2000!
Madelyn: But who...?
[notices Professor McGonagall up at the head table, stroking Hedwig. She smiles and Maddie nods.] [Later on, inside a Quidditch tower. The Gryffindor team is marching towards the starting gate. They reach it and stop, behind a closed double door.]

Oliver: Scared, Maddie?
Madelyn: A little.
Oliver: That's all right. I felt the same way before my first game.
Madelyn: What happened?
Oliver: Er, I don't really remember. I took a bludger to the head 2 minutes in. Woke up in the hospital a week later.

"That's not very encouraging for someone's first game is it?!"

[Maddie gulps and looks straight ahead as the doors open. They mount their brooms and zoom out onto the enormous pitch. There is cheering. Lee Jordan, the Quidditch commentator is announcing from a tower.]

Lee: Hello, and welcome to Hogwarts' first Quidditch game of the season! Today's game Slytherin versus Gryffindor!!!
[Cheering. Close-up of Gryffindor students. They are cheering.]

Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Gryffindor cheer for Gryffindor whilst Slytherin cheers for themselves.

Neville: Gryffindor!
[The players take their positions in the air in a circle. Maddie weaves in, highest amongst. She looks down.]

Lee: The players take their positions as Madam Hooch steps out onto the field to begin the game.
Hooch: Now, I want a nice clean game...from all of you. [looks at Slytherin. She kicks the trunk, and the bludgers zoom out.]
Lee: The bludgers are up...followed by the Golden Snitch. Remember, the snitch is worth 150 points. The seeker who catches the Snitch ends the game.
[The snitch zooms around each Seeker's head, then disappears. Hooch grabs the Quaffle.]

Lee: The Quaffle is released...and the game begins!
[Gryffindor takes possession of the ball and a chaser, Angelia Johnson, zooms past the Slytherins towards their goal, and throws the ball, and scores! There is a ding.]

Lee: Angelina Johnson scores! 10 points for Gryffindor! [He presses a button and a 10 shows up beside a plaque with Gryffindor's name.]
[Maddie, in the air, claps.]

Gryffindor cheers loudly for their (very far in the future) classmate, and quidditch chaser.

Madelyn: Yes! [a bludger suddenly zooms by her.] Whoa!
[In the stands, Gryffindor cheers.]

Hagrid: Well done!
Lee: Slytherin takes possession of the Quaffle. Bletchley passes to Captain Marcus Flint.
[Flint dodges people and throws for the Gryffindor hoops. Oliver appears and whacks the ball away with his broom. He smirks at Flint, who glares. Johnson and Katie Bell pass the Quaffle back and forth as they strategize to score. Johnson takes it, throws, and once again scores!]

Gryffindor cheer again.

Ron and Seamus: Yay!
Madelyn: Yes!
Lee: Another 10 points to Gryffindor! [he adds another 10 to the score with a ding.]
Gryffindors: Yay!
[The Slytherins decide to get messy. They dodge, kick, and try to score. Once again, Oliver blocks.]

Flint: Give me that! [he grabs a beaters bat from one and whacks a bludger right at Oliver. It hits Oliver directly in the stomach and he plummets to the ground, knocked out.]

"Looks like nothing much has changed with Slytherin cheating. Right?" Sirius says, James and Remus agree with him.

[This causes the entire audience to boo; Maddie is visibly upset as the Slytherins laugh. The Slytherin members head off. One jumps over George (or Fred) and scores. Lee adds 10 points in the plaque with Slytherin's name. Maddie is upset again. Slytherin cheers.]

Flint: [to his teammates] Take that side!
[They box Johnson in and sent her into the capes covering one of the towers. She falls down in and is out. The crowd boos. Slytherin scores once again.]

"That's barbaric!" Lily says, worried about Angelina, "don't worry mum, she was ok. And it's quidditch, what do you expect?" Maddie said, James grins at her and high-fived her causing Lily to glare at her future husband and daughter, they both laugh.

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A/N
I am very sorry for not updating any books for two weeks!! My exams start on Tuesday and have been busy with revising and homework. I will not be updating very much, probably every now and again due to my exams, they don't end till 23rd June, so my updating will not be that active for a while, I will still try to update some. I try and plan to get first year of this book done by maybe end of May.

Published- 13th May 2022