11th House Quidditch: RAVENCLAW V HUFFLEPUFF: 18th - 22nd

(Hufflpuff Keeper)

::Dancing walked proudly onto the feild. This was her second time being frist and she was happy. She hopped on her broom and soared into the sky wizing around t get used to the cold air.

(Ravenclaw Beater)

Jimmy exhaled heavily as he stepped out of the changing rooms into the sharp and bracing November chill. The frosty grass crushed audibly under his feet as he glanced around, securing his wrist guard one last time before he xurveyed the stadium, twirling his bat in the air and catching it one-handedly. There was already a streak of yellow and black whizzing around, but aside from that, he couldn't see anyone else here yet.

He mounted his brand new broom (courtesy of the Ravenclaw Quidditch fund) and instantly felt the thrumming of the wood as it responded to his touch. He'd had little opportunity to get used to it since the last game against Gryffindor, but frankly he was amazed at its responsiveness, its elegance and the control you could achieve with it. It was a racing broom, no doubt about that, but the last match had reversed his opinions about his Comet, and about beaters needing sturdiness as opposed to velocity. That had always been the way before, but Hogwarts Quidditch was a much different game. It was faster, it was more frenetic, and you just needed that extra burst of speed to keep up with the chaser.

Besides, he thought, as he kicked off from the ground. This is my first match as a bona fide member of the team, and I can't afford to be let down by my speed. As he sliced through the air, watching as people began to take their seats in the stadium, he pulled up near the Hufflepuff keeper.

"Morning Dancing," He called out, waving to her with his bat. "Good luck today!"

(Hufflepuff Beater)

Marie walked onto the Quidditch pitch, rubbing her sleepy eyes and yawning slightly. Sighing, she looked around her with small eyes to see who was there and was almost happy to see that the pitch was almost empty. It meant she would get a bit of peace before the game started...

Sighing, she jumped on her broom and quicked the ground, going up in the sky so that the cold air woke her up.

(Hufflepuff Chaser)

::Jenn yawned as she stumbled out to the Quidditch field with her broomstick in her left hand. "I swear we just played a game. Yet now we're back for another one." She muttered to herself with a confused shake of her head.::

::The cold wind blasted in her face, forcing her to wake up from her sleepy stupor. Squinting in the sky, she noticed that a few of the players have already shown up. Hopping in her broomstick, she smiled at the other players and waited for the game to begin.::

(Ravenclaw Beater)

::Elana proudly walked onto the field, the bronze lettering on her new Ravenclaw Quidditch uniform shining in the sun, broom (not even released to the public yet...Lifey sure did have some great connections) over her shoulder, and her bat held loosely in her right hand. She stopped and took the broom off her shoulder, swung a leg over it and kicked off hard. She shot up into the air, falling in love with the broom once again (lol, we quidditch fanatics sure do love our brooms).::

::Elana spotted a few Huffies and a fellow Raven, and flew over to her teammate.::

"Hey Jimmy," she said, coming to a quick stop. Cheeks already flushed from the brisk air, she couldn't be happier. These new brooms could turn on a dime, accelerate to speeds faster than their old brooms could go to in less time and stop as soon as you thought it.::

(Hufflpuf Keeper)

::Dancing waved back at Jimmy. "Good luck you guys," She yelled "Got a new broom I see," She said. and grinned. even their brooms could not save them from hufflpuff's skill.

::She circled her goals wait for a Ravenclaw chaser to show up so the game could start.

(Ravenclaw seeker)

::Mcfly walked onto the damp grass. The air was cold and damp. She mounted her broom and kicked off. Moisture collected on her face as she zoomed up into the air.

She zoomed round to try and warm up from the cold SHe said high to all the arvenclaws and gave them all high fives. She then already started to search for the snitch::

(Ravenclaw)

::Lifey smiled at her almost complete team (if everyone remembers *glares at her team urging them to post)::


::Lifey lept onto her broom and kicked off...waiting for official play to begin::

::as she serveyed the weather she decided tdhat it would be a brilliant day for the match;:

"Hey jenn," Lifey nodded to her friend:: "Nice day isn't it."

(Hufflepuff Seeker)

::Etta ran screaming onto the pitch wearing her pj's and Hufflepuff cloak, she suddenly ran screaming off it returning a few seconds later looking slightly embarrassed.::

"Sooooowwwwiiiii!" She grinned waving her broom in the air. "I'd forgot mty brrrrwwooooooooom!" Etta flew high into the sky and high fived her fellow team mates. "LETS GO BADGERS!!!"::

(Hufflepuff Chaser)

::Ginny jumped on her broom and shot up in the air.::

"Weeeeeeeee!" ::she cried happily. Ginny couldn't help it, she had a fribbleccino that morning. She flew rapidly around the pitch, looking for fellow chasers.:: "Come on Badger-ettes! Let's show these Ravies how it's done!!"

(Ravenclaw seeker)

::Mcfly zoomed round tte pictch searching for the snitch. She kept her eyes open for any flash of gold::

::Lifey immeadiatly grabbed the quaffle as it was thrown into play.::

::she glanced over the pitch, saw Lily and nodded, then searched for jimmy, who she saw and nodded to.::

"You two ready? Jimmy, think you can manage? it's very important you manage alright..."

::they both nodded back and Lifey took a deep breath and sped towards the hufflepuff's goal::

::She reverse passed over her shoulder to lily::

"go lily! score while you can!" ::She cried.::

(Hufflepuff Keeper)

::Dancing went to her position, the game was about to start. She stared over the pitch sighing to herself, she was ready...

(Ravenclaw Beater)

Jimmy zoomed underneath, hoping against hope that his judgement of her falling trajectory was accurate. The falling dot became larger and more and more defined until he could see it *was* actually his Captain.

With a grin, he gunned his broomstick upwards, his momentum halted and nearly reversed almost immediately as Lily landed across his broom and arm. Grinning, he glanced down at her.

"We have to stop meeting like this."

(ravenclaw chaser)

::Lifey turned to check on lily, and saw her falling through the air.::

::Lifey nodded to jimmy and raced towards the falling quaffle, grabbing it from midair::

::All of the players where distracted, trying to save lily::

::she then raced off towards the hufflepuff goals, faked a shot at the left goal, and while dancing was trying to regain her focus from lily's fall and soared off towards the left, shot a curve ball through the right.::

"TEN TO RAVENCLAW" ::lifey yelled as she saw the quaffle pass through the hoop.::

::Lifey turned and made sure her teammates where okay::

"you two okay?"

(Ravenclaw Beater)

Jimmy placed Lily back on her broom, before soaring over to Lifey.

"Yeah, we're all good. Great job!" He grinned, shifting his beater bat in his hand as he readied himself for the next push.

(Ravenclaw Seeker)

::Mcfly stopped her searching when she ehard teh ravenclaws cheer. She zoomed round to Lifey,

"What happened?" Before Lifey could answer mcfly sawsoemthing shoot passed her ear, she only sawit out the corner of her eye but she turned herbroom round and shot afetr the small golden ball. She dodged the bludgers that were sent her way and zigzagged in between the players. The snitch curved round one of the goal posts and back the other way, so McflyDid a half loop in the air so she was upside down, she spun herself round so she was the right way up and zoomed back after the snitch. Mcfly could see the Huffelpuff seeker on hertail butMcfly wasfaster. She looked behind her and lookedback, but she had made a msitake, Mcfly ahsd lost the snitch! But she kept on going to fool the other seeker. Mcfly saw Jimmy and nodded for him to make his move::

(Hufflepuff beater)

"Hey you two, get a room!" said Marie teasingly, grinning.

Sighing, she looked around for a bludger. There wasn't much to do yet and she needed to at least warm up.

"Come here bludgy bludgy bludgy..."

::Lifey grinned at jimmy::

"you clear a path for lils and me kay jimmy boy?"

::she grabbed the quaffle and rushed towards the hufflepuff goals yet again::

::she loved this play, but for once she and lily where switching places::

::Lifey came to a stop in front of the hufflepuff's hoops, tossed the quaffle in the air and with an almighty 360 degree turn and a loud 'thwack' hit the quaffle towards the hufflepuff's center hoop::

(Ravenclaw Beater)

Jimmy curved in the air gracefully, intercepting the path of a bludger that was travelling in the opposite direction as he wound up and finally let loose with his bat.

THWWWWAAAAACK!

The ball went flying towards the Hufflepuff goals, soaring directly towards Dancing.

(Ravenclaw Beater)

He caught Lifey's nod, and with his eyes narrowing as he squinted against the morning light, Jimmy just about made out a blur of yellow and black matching his blue and bronze Seeker for speed.

"Don'thitLifeydon'thitlifeydon'thitlifey" He muttered over and over again and he smashed the other bludger towards the Hufflepuff Seeker, watching as it arced gracefully towards her....

::Lifey now knew how dizzy Lily felt after an Al-Le_Opp::

"wow lily, you really know how to keep your balance...and yay ten more points!" ::She said admiringly, almost slipping drunkenly from her broom.::

::she did manage to slide around so she was hanging like a sloth from the handle.::

"er....a lil' help you guys?"

(Hufflepuff beater)

Marie sighed as she saw Jimmy sending a bludger toward Etta.

"Finally, something to do..." she said.

She flew toward Etta but then realized she would not be there in time. Grabbing her broom firmly, she aimed with precision and threw her bat the bludger, grinning when it hit the ball, making it go away slightly. Then she frowned as she dove to get her bat, which had fallen on the ground, before zooming back up, hitting the bludger once more to make it go as far as possible from Etta, accidentally sending it to collide with Lily's leg at the same time.

"Oops.. that gotta hurt..." she said

(Hufflepuff Keeper)

::Dancing became frustrated when she missed two easy saves. She signaled to Marie to hit the next chaser that came her way. and braced herself.

(Ravenclaw Beater)

Jimmy soared up to Lily, pulling her up by the arm until she wasback up on her broom.

"You alright, Lils?" he shouted, as he glared at Marie.

(( Nice play Marie XD Throwing the bat at the bludger, like it ))

(Hufflepuff beater)

Marie shrugged at the glare Jimmy sent her. She had done her job by protecting her seeker and it was not her fault if the bludger at been sent at Lily.

Then she smiled at Dancing and nodded at her sign, knowing what she had to do if a chaser came next to her as she decided to stay near the goals for a while.

(Ravenclaw Beater)

Jimmy had to think quickly. Marie was by the goals, and she was the only beater they had at this point. Lily had the quaffle, so...

THERE!

He lay flat on his broom, lancing towards the nearest bludger he could spot, and with another swing of his bat, sent it careening off towards the Ravenclaw goals.

One down...

(ravenclaw chaser)

::Lifey saw Lily get the quaffle and flew into posistion, circling her fellow chaser and captian, protecting her and her leg from other chasers::

::Lifey saw the broken leg and muttered a spell at it::

"Hopefully that will help abit...i'm not to good with healing charms though"

(hufflepuff beater)

Marie sighed.

"Yeah, make me the evil one," she mumbled.

Then she held on to her bat firmly as she zoomed close to Lily, waiting for a bludger to come to her. Squeezing her broom between her knees, she grabbed her bat with both her hands and hit the bludger, aiming at the quaffle Lily was holding, making her drop it though without hurting her that time.

Unfortunately her legs weren't strong enough and at that moment, she slipped from her broom, hanging on to it with both her hands.

"Shoot... this is not good," she said, sighing.

(Hufflpuff Keeper)

::Dancing saw the two chasers coming her way and paniced, she searched the sky for Marie and gasped she was hanging 20 feet above her both hands gripping the broom.

(Ravenclaw Beater)

Jimmy watched as the bludger sailed harmlessly through Lily's hands - she'd already thrown the Quaffle by the time Marie hit it at her.

With a pump of his fist, he whooped as it soared through the centre hoop.

(Ravenclaw Beater)

Jimmy grumbled.

"You need to fix that damn leg, Lily." He said sternly as he guided her back to her broom. "You can't play on it, and it's going to get worse. I might not catch you next time."

(ravenclaw chaser)

::lifey flew over to Lily and Jimmy, happy that they scored, but worried about lily's leg. bit her lip and scrunched her eyebrows together::

"Lily you really can't play with the leg, it'll be hurt even more....and we need you for the rest of the season!"

(Ravenclaw Beater)

"You two know she's not going to give up," Elana said, flying over to her teammates. "Here, I"ll fly under her. Great game so far guys. GOOOOO RAVENCLAW!" she cried, punching the air with her bat. She lay low on her broom and zoomed after Lily, slowing when she neared her.::

::Elana smiled grimly at one of her captains and settled below her, keeping both sharp eyes out for incoming Bludgers or Hufflepuffs.::

(get on msn! ravenclaw chaser)

::Lifey nodded, knowing her second beater was right::

"fine, but make sure nothing bad happens to her"

(ravenclaw chaser)

::Lifey Flew above Lily as the quaffle was thrown into play, elana below lily, Lifey above.::

::As lily neared the qoals, Lifey held her breath, then saw the quaffle thrown up towards herself.::

::she snatched at the quaffle, keeping it in her hands just by a hair as it started to fall from her grasp, and tossed it with all her might through the left hufflepuff goal for a Ravenclaw Ten Points::

"yes! doing alright lily?"

(Reserve Ravenclaw Keeper)

~Brunette flew up to her post in front of the Ravenclaw goals, looking worn and tired. She smiled at her other teamates apologetically. She had only just found she was playing reserve keeper for this game~

"Sorry, I'm late!" she called, tying her hair back. "Let's kick some huffie butt!"

(Hufflepuff Chaser)

::Jenn woke up from whatever she was daydreaming about and frowned. Deciding there was no way she could wait for her fellow Chasers, she flew toward the center of the field. Catching the quaffle as it was thrown back into play, she leaned low on her broom and placed it between her stomach and broom. Lightly bending her arms at the sides, she provided a shield using her body to protect the quaffle.::

::Taking a quick look around, she started flying swiftly in the direction of the Ravenclaw pitches. Spotting a bludger coming her way, she quickly rolled to the side and avoided the collision.::

(Man, a girl goes to choir practice for a bit and have to come back to 4 pages of moves LoL)

(Reserve Ravenclaw Keeper)

~Brunette noticed Jenn zooming toward, quaffle in her arm as she swerved down the field. A mild shock came across her face as Jenn dodged that bludger. She had to admit that Jenn was pretty skillful on the field.~

~She watched as Jenn thrusted the quaflled into the left goal. Brunette reached for, almost on the edge of her broom and caught it. Before she could pass it to either of the chasers, she lost her grip and fell off her broom, holding onto it with one hand~

"GO!" she shouted, passing the quaffle to Lifey~

(Hufflepuff beater)

Marie, who had finally managed to get back on her broom and had spent the last 5 minutes massaging her sore arms, looked around for a bludger, swearing under her breath when she didn't see any.

"Oh well," she said, shrugging.

She zoomed toward the quaffle which was in the air between Brunette and Lifey and with a swift move of her broom, she arrived right next to it and hit it with her head, sending it to fly in another direction.

"Owww that's a hard ball," she mumbled, rubbing her forehead.

Then she noticed that Brunette's position was rather risky and that she wouldn't hold for long. Sighing as no other Ravenclaw members seemed around to help her, she flew toward the girl and helped her back on her broom.