Today was the first Quidditch match I've ever watched. And one of my best friends, Harry Potter, is on the team. Harry plays seeker, which means that his whole goal in the game is to find and catch the snitch.
If he does, the team automatically gains150 points and also ends the game. This doesn't always mean that the team that catches the snitch wins, however. There have been many games in which the team that caught the snitch actually lost.
Now since I'm starting off this post quite happily, I think it's pretty obvious to say that Gryffindor did indeed win, and Harry did catch the snitch. Actually it looked like he's basically swallowed it whole when he caught it; now that's something that will be going down in school history (besides the fact that Harry is the youngest to be on the team in AGES.)
But while I'm immensely proud of Harry and Gryffindor house for winning, it's actually what was happening DURING the game that concerned me the most.
In the middle of the game as the whole school stood watching, Harry's broom started acting funny. He kept moving strangely until the broom just started trying to buck him off. It was frightening, I thought Harry was done for right then and there! 😟
Now, ever since Harry, Ron and I have become friends, they've let me in on a few things that I was surprised to learn was mutual between us. None of us like Snape. Or even really trusted him. Harry had seen him with his leg all bloody and messed up, like it was chewed on. I was shocked when I heard,he is a professor after all, but the fact that his leg was like that meant that he had met up with something with a lot of teeth. And the tendency to chew on bones and meat.
That could obviously only mean that Snape had paid a visit to the giant three headed dog, and was attacked for some reason. Since the dog was guarding something, I guess that Snape was not allowed to pass. I didn't want to give the boys any ideas though, so I tried to dismiss it, but Harry and Ron are too stubborn to do anything like that. 😒
The reason I point all this out is because as I was looking through the binoculars, I saw Snape muttering something under his breath all while maintaining eye contact with Harry's crazy broom.
That's when I did something crazy....
I set Snape's robes on fire.
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It's unexpected of me, I know. But as soon as I saw that, not to mention as soon as Hagrid, the kind groundskeeper, said that Harry's broom is CURSED, I just reacted. I had to stop Snape, so I went over to the staff's seating as fast as I could, and without even thinking, I bent down and whispered the incantation for fire.
It MIGHT have been a drastic move, but as they say, drastic times call for drastic measures. Or something along those lines.
As soon as Harry regained control of his broom he caught the snitch in about three seconds flat and won the game!
All three of us ended up in Hagrid's hut (Hagrid was making Harry a cup of tea) and when we brought up Snape's curse to Hagrid, he vehemently denied it. But in doing so, he did let a few interesting things slip.
1) The monster guard dogs name is Fluffy.
2) The "Fluffy" belongs to Hagrid.
3)Whatever it's guarding has to do with someone names Nicolas Flamel.
The third one there might make sense to me, if only I could remember where I've seen that name before...
Hagrid wouldn't say much after that, and we were sent back to the Gryffindor common room, where there was apparently a huge party happening.
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All Information based on the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Rowling, J. K., and Mary GrandPre. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Ch. 11. New York, NY: Scholastic, 1999. Print.
