Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Six: Holy Merlin That's A Lot Of Mail
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"Alright, team!" Lina said clapping her hands together "I hate to say this but at the current state of the Gryffindor team I am a hundred per cent confident we can win this match, we just have to remember our practice sessions and remember don't second guess your moves especially you Adam if you see that snitch you go for it. I believe in all of you. Now, let's go win this!"
The team with Lina leading them left the house tent to go out onto the pitch, the Gryffindor team came out from the opposite side. The two teams met in the middle with Madam Hooch standing in front of them, the Quidditch balls safely locked in the chest by her feet.
"Shake hands," Madam Hooch said.
Angelina held out her hand to Lina, Lina shook it, both girls had blank expressions on their faces.
"Good luck Black," Angelina said.
"Good luck Johnson" Lina replied.
"Mount your brooms," Madam Hooch said.
The two teams mounted, and with a sharp blow of the whistle they took off into the sky. The balls were released, Madam Hooch followed everyone into the sky.
"The match begins!" Lee said from commentary "Black's got the Quaffle, she's tearing down the pitch dodging Bell - dodging Johnson - a bludger is hit her way, that's nowhere near her, Black's go for the goal, come on Ron - NO - Black scores - ten nil to Hufflepuff."
Lina pulled her broom up, Ron was nowhere close to stopping the ball, her features softened she felt bad but she had to remember this was only a match, nothing between them was personal.
"Oi Black" Tony yelled pulling beside her "Bell's got the ball."
Lina turned her broom around, she saw Chloe, their new chaser try to intercept the ball and miss, Lina shot down the pitch her hair whipping against her back and got the ball as Katie Bell threw it to Alicia Spinnet.
"Black's got the ball back, good interception there - she passes to Devon - Devon passes to James - back to Black to James to Devon and they score again. Twenty nil to Hufflepuff.
This continued until the points went to two hundred and thirty to seventy. The Slytherins had screamed Weasley is our king on loop, not in support of Hufflepuff though but to rattle Ron, it worked. Ron missed fourteen goals, Skper one of Gryffindor's Beaters missed the Bludger but ended up hitting Angelina in the mouth with his bat, Kirke the other Beater, at one point shirked and fell off his broom when Lina zoomed passed him holding the Quaffle.
The match ended after twenty minutes when Ginny caught the Snitch under Adam's nose. While Gryffindor caught the Snitch Hufflepuff won the match but only by ten points.
Lina wanted to scream at Adam after the match if he had been paying attention they would have won by a lot more. It was Tony who calmed her down.
"It was one match" Tony calmly said "which by the way we won, next practice we just have to work on visual awareness but right now don't be a dick and ruin everyone's night. Let's go celebrate, alright?"
