5th QUIDDITCH MATCH: Gryffindor V Hufflepuff MON 27TH MARCH

5th Match Commencing Monday 27th March- Saturday 1st April
Judges: ELFIE DUMBLEDORE - KITKAT - LILYFLOWER - SEVERUS SNAPE - RAYLEES12
CommentatorHerbaceoustraitorous

Gryffindor V Hufflepuff

This is the post for the fifth match of the season

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plus skuldandy - the commentator!

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Let the match begin...

(hufflepuff chaser)

:refreshed from her day off, Flisan mounts her Nimbus 2000 and kicks off the ground firmly, catching the Quaffle, the referee has thrown up, and circles the pitch, waiting for her teammates and the other team to arrive.:

(gryffindor beater)

::WL flies into the air and as Elfie releases the bludgers, she sees with satisfaction that one is heading for Ginny, anyway. WL races to intercept the other one heading to Moony and whacks it towards Flis. She sits back and watches with glee as Cheery steals the quaffle and then whooshes off to create some more havoc with the black boulders she loved so much...There's was no stopping her in this match...she had too many tricks up her sleeves!::

(hufflepuff chaser)

:stunned by the sudden appearance of the gryffindor team, she watches Cheery fly away with the quaffle, before noticing the Bludger that was heading for her. Squealing she bent over her broom and showed a very impressive version of the badger hide, causing her broom to spin a couple of times, which was then closely followed by a badger drop, causing her to fall down a few feet in order to get out of the way of the bludger who seemed to be very determined to throw her off the broom.

turning back around the right way she zick zacked down the pitch, trying to doge the bludger and at the same time, catch up to cheery, who was still in posession of the quaffle. The nasty ball zoomed past her ear closely, causing her to squeal once more and badger dropping once more, as the ball turned in mid-air and came back, apparently trying to hit her in the face.

Having now completely lost direction, and also feeling slightly dizzy, she abandoned her attempts to folow Cheery, wishing desperately Hairy or maybe even Marie would show up, to help her out.:

(gryffindor beater)

::WL grins at the havoc she has caused. What if? Yes! that would work!!! She suddenly dives down to the ground, with the bludger concealed just infront of her under her robes. She was actually following the bludger, but from where everyone else could see, it looked as though she was just having fun on her broom at the start of the game, wariming up. She flew under Flis, the only Hufflepuff there to aim at, and suddenly carries out the Surprise Whack, taking Flis by surprise as a bludger soared to her. Who wouldn't be surprised?! She didn't have time to see what happened to Flis as she hurtled to stop the bludger that had been torturing flis and aims it at another player.::

(Hufflepuff chaser)

::Jen flies out to the field on her broomstick. Quickly scanning the field, she notices both bludgers heading for her other two teammates while Cheery has the Quaffle. Hoping her teammates can shake off the bludgers, she quickly flies to catch up with Cheery, who is flying towards the Hufflepuff hoops.::

"Come on! A little faster!" she mumbles to herself as she bends low toward the broomstick to gain momentum. As she started to gain speed on Cheery, she Flew below Cheery and reached up her hand to push the quaffle from under Cheery's arm. The quaffle popped free and started to fall toward the ground. Doing the badger drop, she was able to catch the quaffle upside down before it hit the ground.::

(gryffindor beater)

::WL growl in frustration as jen takes the quaffle. Just when I need a bludger, there isn't one...! She flies off to try and intercept a bludger and take jenn down.::

(Hufflepuff Beater)

:Marie quickly hopped on her broom and quicked the ground with all her strenght, going straight into the sky, as she noticed the crazy bludger following lisie. She flew right past her team mate Jen, who had just succeeded in catching the quaffle, and then stopped, examinating the situation. Her broom was to slow and the bludger, too fast. She would not be there before it hit lisie.

Marie looked around the quiddich pitch and looked at lisie, who was coming closer to her. She then closed her eyes, took a deep breath and concentrated. When she opened her eyes, she aimed and threw her bat at the bludger, sending it away. She shrieked of pleasure and then dove to go get her bat back, which had fallen on the ground. The she went back up, chased the bludger and threw it as far away as possible from lisie, directing it toward Waterlily's broom:

"I'll stay close to you, those bludger seems to appreciate you a lot" she said to lisie

(gryffindor beater)

::As the bludger soars to WL, she simply bobs down and takes control of the bludger, aiming it at Jen as she had wanted...Flis was guarded at the moment...she could 'get' her later!::

(hufflepuff chaser)

:shaking her head flisan stopped turning her broom, flying backwards, and realized the bludger was gone. When she could see straight again she looked over at Marie thankfully and, as fast as she dared, flew off towards Jenn to help her.:

(gryffindor beater)

::Duck flies onto the pitch, taking time to examine the state of the game at the moment. She saw a bludger heading towards WL, who was looking the other way. Quickly, she flew towards her team mate, unsure of whether to call a warning or to simply try and beat the bludger to its target.

She decided on the latter, and reached WL just before the bludger did, hitting it away towards Jenn who was in posession of the Quaffle.::

(Hufflepuff Chaser)

::Jen, noticing the two Gryffindor beaters had smacked both bludgers in her direction, groaned to herself and tried again to duck out of the way of the bludgers. One bludger grazed the top of her head while the other made a direct hit. Her broomstick jerked as one bludger hit the end of her broomstick. As she started to lose control of her broom, she spotted Flisan flying toward her. She reached back her arm and threw the quaffle as hard as she could toward Flisan.::

(hufflepuff chaser)

:seeing jenn in trouble with the bludgers flisan sped up to reach her team mate. Just in time she was close enough for jenn to throw the quaffle at her. She caught it securely, and tucked it under her arm, looking back to see if Marie was free to go and help jenn with the bludgers, that were starting to get really obnoxious.:

(Hufflepuff beater)

:Sighing at the sight of both bludger chasing Jen, Marie quickly glanced at Lisie, meaning that she was going to help jen instead, which she did. She flew toward her friend, wondering if flapping her arms as if she was a bird would make her go faster.

Marie grabbed her bat firmly with her two hands and sent one of the bludger away, toward one of the Gryffindor chasers, who wasn't able to avoid it and got hit by it on her leg. But, as Marie was cheering over this, the other bludger, which she had forgotten, hit her on her left arm and made her fall off her broom. Luckily, she wasn't to high and the fall didn't injure her greatly:

(Hufflepuff Chaser)

::All the effects having finally worn off from her foot being crushed during the match against Slytherin, Ginny kicked off from the ground. Her Firebolt was moving extremely fast, as usual, and her hair was being thrown back from her face. Ginny waved to her other Chasers and said:

"Ready to go Huffles?" ::she flew up to Flisan:: "Toss the Quaffle here!" ::Ginny shouted::

(hufflepuff Seeker)

:Etta wobbles her way on to the pitch singing happy birthday loudly to herself as she mounts her nimbus 2001, wavng at her team to let them know she is still sober enough to play, she kicks off ino the air, happly.:

"Hey guys!" Etta calls to her team mates as she races high above the game wearing ehr newly accired birthday badger suit with pigtails in her hair. "We are gonna WIN! Come on HUFFLEPUUFFFFF!"

:Etta hovers for a moment above Maries head and waits for her first glimpse of the snitch.:

(Hufflepuff Beater)

:Marie laughed at Etta's birthday song and got back on her broom, feeling a slight pain in her arm. But who needed two arms anyway? She gave a thumb up to her team mate and zoomed toward a bludger, which was going toward Ginny alarmingly fast. Not being able to do anything with her left arm (stay on her broom or use her bat), Marie decided to use a variation of the Badger in a Barrel tactic, invented by Jen, lisie and Ginny. Hanging upside down from her broom, which she had directed a little higher, she hit the bludger in the sky with all the strenght. Then she tried for about 5 minutes to get back on her broom, which she finally succeeded with Ettie's help. Blushing, she started to fly all around the quiddich pitch, waiting to help someone else:

(Hufflepuff Seeker)

:Having done her good deed for the day, Etta circled the pitch hoping that she might catch a glimpse of the snitch, and just as she was about to turn around and head off in the opposite direction, a small flutter of gold flew past her ear at an alarming, punishing the air happily, Etta took chase, determind to catch what she knew was her's.

Racing as hard as she could, her body pressed tight against the sleek wood of her brom, she prayed her trusty wooden friend further forward, urging it to move faster, she plummited down to the ground, her heart in her mouth as she saw the fast approachin grass and quickly pulled a Champs Delight, her broom pulled up straight as skimed across the surface of the grass still at top speed and pulling her broom up towards the sky, Etta continued to chase the snitch which was determined to give her a good work out.:

(Hufflepuff Chaser)

::Grazing the grass as she tries to regain control of her broom after her hit with the bludger, Jen finally sits upright again. Jen waves at Etta when she comes out to wish her happy birthday. She then does a loop around the field while she catches Ginny and Flisan's eyes to plan the next move.::

(Hufflepuff Seeker)

:Etta realsied that the snitch had gone and decided that it was still okay to celebrate her birthday the day after the actual event, after all, Etta is a one in million woman...no one else can....:

"SNITCH!" Etta shrieked for reason, pulling herself from her thoughts about being amazing, once again she pressed her body flat against her nimbus and raced into the stands after the snitchstudents jumped out of ehr way as she flew along the rows of filled seats. "Sorry, oops sorrry, i said sorry! Birthdayosity!!!" She cried waving her wand.

:Etta Finally escaped the the stands where a lot of angry looking spectaters were now wearing party hats, with a wide smile she raced after the sneaky snitch which was intent on making her chase it through the commentaors box and past the judges.:

(Gryffindor Beater)

::Duck wonders where the rest of her team are, as she flies around the pitch, bat in hand. She suddenly spied Etta chasing after the snitch, and saw an opportunity for some clever beatering.

Thinking quickly, she decided to perform the Brummie Bludger Bop, developed in her home town of Birmingham. This spectucular beater move consisted of hitting the bludger at an angle, consequently sending the black ball towards an opponent at an alarming speed.

Chasing a bludger down the pitch towards Etta, who was still going after the snitch, she performed the Brummie Bludger Bop to great effect, and watched as it went hurtling towards Etta.::

(G seeker)

::Pad goes flying out onto the pitch. "SORRY I AM LATE...Had a run in with a crazed fan girl...scary!" pad then went flying upward in search of the snitch...He then saw a flash of gold...::

(hufflepuff chaser)

:seeing as jenn is saved and slowly gains height again, flisan pulls her arm back to pass to jenn, when she hears a familiar hissing sound and leans backward just in time to not be hit by the approaching bludger at her chest, that was still bruised from snape's attack a few days ago. Sitting back up with a groan, she pulls her arm back once more and, with a suspicious glance around, passes the ball securely onto Jenn, who was now at the same height.

These bludgers have it for her today... hopefully Pitta would be here soon, Marie couldn't take cxare of two bludgers all on her own.:

(Hufflepuff Chaser)

::Jen reached out to catch the quaffle and nearly had it slip through her fingers. With quaffle safely tucked in front of her, she started toward the Gryffindor goals. She dipped her broomstick down to a dive as she noticed a bludger coming at her from above. Not noticing Madamn Hooch she nearly crashes into her and pulls her broom stick to the left in time.::

"Sorry Madamn Hooch!" she called over her shoulder started towards the goal posts again. Halfway there, she notices a Gryffindor chaser trying to block her way in front. She tosses her quaffle over her shoulder at Flisan and leans in closer to her broomstick. She charges at the Chaser to distract her while Flisan catches the quaffle. At the last minutes, she jerks her broom to the left once more and grazes the Chaser's side.::

(hufflepuff chaser)

:flisan catches the quaffle, still snickering at Madame Hooch's stunned face, and cheers at Jenn's fabulous varuation of the hufflepuff reverse swerve. She tucks the quaffle under her arm and flies off, though staying in shouting and throwing distance of Jenn, in case something might block her was to the Goal posts.

And really, as she watches the Goal posts approach she hears a muffled "Watch out!" and is suddenly twirling around her broom stick, holding on to teh quaffle for dear life. When she manages to sit straight again, she look to her right, to see padfoot's scarlet quidditch robes flutter in the wind, apparently in pursuit of the snitch.

Shaking her head she picks up speed again, and looks over to Jenn, who was flying next to her now, holding out her hands. The tip of her tongue sticking out, Flisan passes to her once again.:

(G SEEKER!!)

::Pad is now flying straight at the comentator. "WE ARE THE LIONS THE MIGHTY MIGHY LIONS!!" He then makes a sharp turn and his foot smacked the comentators booth::

(Hufflepuff Chaser)

:Ginny nimbly dodged a bludger and veered over towards Jenn. On her way over, she caught sight of the snitch.:

"Etta! Here it is!" :Ginny blew extremely hard on the small gold ball, sending it off-course and in the more general direction of Etta. Satisfied with herself, she loopdilooped her way over to Jenn.:

"Alright, let's try the Huffle Puff A boo?" :Ginny suggested quietly, kicking her feet in the air like a little girl:

(G Keeper)

::Rushing in as Keeper for the first time in her life, Swift ran on to the pitch, clumsily pulling her robes around her shoulders.::

"Oi, Wallie!!!" she shouted up to WL, who glared at her. "Oops... sorry..."

::Zooming to the goalposts, Swift saw Jen heading towards her with the Quaffle. Her trained eye followed her path.::

(Gryffindor Chaser)

::Rip zooms onto pitch, apologising for her lateness. She hopes she'll be able to play a good game.

She suddenly saw the perfect opportunity to perform a move she'd been working on for a few weeks. It was called the Cheeky Chaser Chop.

She flew on her broom behind Jenn, who was in posession of the Quaffle, getting ready to perform her move. She positioned herself so she was flying directly behind where Jenn was holding the quaffle beneath her arm.

She bent over her broom for an extra burst of speed, and thanks to her gymnastic training, stood up and used the broom as a balance beam. By this point, she was so close to Jenn, she could smell her perfume.

She bent her knees, and jumped over Jenn's arm, her broom continued on its path, through Jenn's arm, knocking the quaffle forwards. Rip then landed back on her broom, swooped beneath Jenn and retrieved the Quaffle, before flying forwards and calling to Cheery, one of her fellow chasers.::

(Gryffindor Chaser)

::Cheery saw that Rip was calling her name. She zoomed towards Rip and waited for the quaffle.::

::Rip threw the quaffle to Cheery. Cheery flew as fast as she could towards the goal posts. She had a bludger coming right at her. She called as loudly as she could for help. She then saw Rip coming back to provide assistance.::

(Gryffindor Beater)

::Duck saw the bludger heading towards Cheery, then saw Rip flying at her. There was only so much a chaser could do in a situation like that, so she flew quickly over to her team mates, knocking the bludger with her bat in the opposite direction.::

(Gryffindor beater)

::WL sent a mock glare at swift for calling her Wally and then grinned as she chased a bludger. She sent it towards jen, near the scoring area and immediately rushed off to 'catch' the bludger that duck had hit away from the chasers.

She scanned the area thoughtfully, and did the Dribble over to somewhere she could see the pitch properly. She had total control of the bludger so she then aimed it again at jen to make her try and dodge both of them. Then, she flew around for a while to see any more people to save from the big bad bludgers.!::

(G Keeper)

::Swift watched as Rip successfully kicked the Quaffle from under Jen's arm.

"Go Becky! Come on!"

As Cheery zoomed towards the goalposts, she watched as Duck whacked a Bludger away from the three Chasers. Sighing, she watched as WL showed off... like she always did.

"Stop showing off and hit it at Flis, or someone!!!" she shouted at her team mate.::

(gryffindor beater)

::WL beamed at swift for saying she was showing off. It was a favourite game of theirs to try and wind each other up.

"Keep an eye on those hoops! Leave me to by beating, Miss McLaggen!"

She waved her bat to say it was not an insult and then zoomed off. She took swift's advice and propelled a bludger at Flis with the Creaking Corkscrew, so the bludger had a lot of top-spin on it, moving like a bolt of lightning...::

(G SEEKER!)

::Pads hand shoots out to garb the snitch...But then a bludger comes by and hits pads arm. "Ahh!!" Pad then feels his arm and see's that it is broken. The bludger then turns around...the bludger is heading right at his head. "Um...Duck..."::

(G Keeper)

"PADIE!!!! There's a--" Swift shouted out, but unsuccessfully, as her view was blocked by her long hair suddenly blowing into her face, the wind making it tickle her eyes.

Being a Keeper is boring when the Quaffle's not here... grrr...::

(Gryffindor beater)

::WL gasps and leans over on her broom to get to pad. She reaches out with her bat and just clips the bludger away before it hits pad.

She flicks out her wand.

"Ferula!" Pad's arm is now in a sling and he seems to be stable enough to be in a game of Quidditch. She gives the fastest lecture she can on how to take care of his arm, thanks to her Healer's Work Experience Week last summer and then rushed off to chase the bludger she forgot to aim.::

(hufflepuff chaser)

:with her mouth hanging open flisan watched how rip took the ball from Jen, and it took her a while before she bent low over her broom to chase after the gryffindor chaser. She slowly came closer, as all the other opposing players seemed to be somewhat occupied somewhere else, but groaned loudly when she heard someone shouting something that has to do with herself and a bludger. not again!:

(Hufflepuff Chaser)

::While the Gryffindor team was distracted with Padfoot getting hit by the bludger, Jen swooped upward to get away from the other bludger heading right at her. High over everyone's heads, Jen flew until she was right above Cheery who was hovering near Padfoot. Doing the Vertical Swerve, she flew straight down next to Cheery's arm holding the quaffle and knocked it out of Cheery's arms. She jerked her broom stick to the right and clasped her hands together into a fist. She then lobbied the quaffle right into Flisan's arms like she did with her Muggle friends playing volleyball last summer. She stayed in that position blocking Cheery from chasing after Flisan and watched as Flisan flew away with the quaffle.::

"Go Flisan! Make the play with Ginny!" Jen called out.::

(Gryffindor Beater)

::WL signalled vigourously at duck, pointing towards the pludger and towards Flisan and Ginny, while the bludger she had just hit trailed after Flis. There were two bludgers in the game and here she was, far away from either of them!::

(hufflepuff chaser)

:volleyball being the only kind of sport (besides quidditch) that flisan was good at, she had no problems whatsoever to catch the quaffle that Jenn passed at her. She made a sharp left turn and hurried back towards the Gryffindor Goal Posts. A Bludger flew past her ear, making her squeal a little, put she kept holding on tight to the red ball, coming close enough to the posts to dare and score.

She squinted to where swifty was circling, paying more attention to padfoot than the goal posts she should be guarding.

"You want a quaffle?" flisan said, more to herself. "You can have it."

with all her might she pulled back her arm and threw the quaffle through the goal post, farthest from swifty's position, watching it score securely, and grinned, leaning to the side to escape yet another bludger.

it is high time this game starts going!:

(Hufflepuff Seeker)

:Giggling like amd that her fake Snitch had sent PAd of Gryffindor off in the opposite direction and directly at a bludger, Etta speeded off towards the snitch which had been so very kindly blew in her direction, her hand was strechted out nicely, she leaned harder on her broom, pushing it further through the air, she swung out hard to catch the little gold pest but missed by a mere 2cm's. Cursing Etta swung her broom to the left and chased after the snitch, not daring to take a minute to look behind her to see what damage had been caused to the gryffindor Seeker.:

(gryffindor Beater)

::WL humphed impatiently. Where were all the bludgers? Or at least the two of them that were supposed to be there! She dove down and just as the quaffle was going to go into one of the hoops again, the bludger she hit whacked it out of the way. This move would forever be called the Swift Save. (lol)

Bludgers were useful for so many things!

"Come on Gryffindor! We can do this!"

(hufflepuff chaser)

:"I think you need glasses, that quaffle had already gone through the hoop!" flisan called towards WL and held out her arms to catch the quaffle, that was soaring neatly into her hands.

She looked around to find her chaser colleagues and flew over to them to plot their next move.:

(Hufflepuff Beater)

(By the way, as Lisie said, when someone mentionned that a goal was indeed made, you can't say you save it at the last minute... because we could use this method for anything, like someone get hit by a bludger, and the next minute he says he avoided it at the last minute... that would make no sense)

:Marie sighed as she watched the Quiddich Pitch. The bludger seemed to be hiding that day... at the precise moment she thought that, she saw one and chased it, having nothing else to do and being bored to death.She hit it in whatever direction, after being sure, of course, that none of her team mate were in that precise direction:

(Hufflepuff Chaser)

:Ginny waved her arm broadly and, using her broom, did a sort of jump over to Flisan. She grinned happily,

"Hey, what's the plan now?" :Ginny looked around, making sure that no bludgers were coming at them.: "Maybe the Huffle Puff a Boo?" :she floated on her broom, bouncing slightly, her firebolt sensing the restlessness of its rider.:

(Hufflepuff Seeker)

:Etta lost sight of the snitch again and her eyes fell upon the commentater, raising an eyebrow she shook her head before flying off towards Marie and Hairy.:

"Honestly some people dont know how to tell the time," Etta muttered as she did a loop da loop over the crowds of supporters. "Hey everybody! Lets all singing the shoop shoop song!"

:Etta smiled as Roman stood up from his seat and started singing very loudly, ignoring the looks from his HEads of Houses. Giggling Etta turned tail and headed off towards the gryffindor seeker, but stopped abruptly in mid air because she had saw the little flittering golden snitch whizzing around the judges head.:

"Oh lord here we go again," She mumbeled before diving off hard on her broom towards the snitch and prays went out form the judges as Etta poicked up speed.

(G Keeper)

::After unsuccessfully trying to save Lisie's so-called 'goal'... grumble.... Swift resumed bobbing in front of the goalposts, growling at the Hufflepuff's chasers moves... so much for giving them their BLOW tactic, she thought.

"Padie, get back to that snitch, Etta's trying way harder than you!!!"

If there was nothing (at the precise moment) that Swift could do, she would give encouragement, and doing that she was.::