Drop in the Ocean

Weeks passed and the first Quidditch match of Ravenclaw was on. It was against Gryffindor. Surprisingly, the girls were well prepared and have trained together with the original line up. Ethan was getting ready for his pep talk.

“OK Team, we are about to defeat hard champions. Cho, the game lies in your hands. That Harry Potter is really good. Sean, remember what we’ve talked about on Quaffle handling techniques. Don’t let the three Chaser girls take the Quaffle from you, Jenkins and Branch will be there to assist you but you have to defeat Oliver Wood and get that Quaffle in… OR DIE TRYING!”

After Ethan said the words, an echo erupted from the Gryffindor changing room, but with Oliver Wood’s pep talk voice.

“Well, I guess we all heard that.” Joyce said as she rolled her eyes.

“Goooooooo team!” All the Ravenclaw players said in a huddle.

Celeni and Joyce, also in blue and bronze Quidditch robes, entered the arena but sat on the benches. The seven players got into their brooms and as Madame Hooch blew her whistle launched into the air. Lee Jordan was as usual, commentating closely watched by Professor McGonagall… as usual.

“Ravenclaw in possession. Jenkins passed the Quaffle to Ravenclaw star chaser Sean Zohn oh intercepted by Katie Bell passed to Spinnett, then to Angelina and… GRYFFINDOR SCORES!”

“Come on Ethan! That was an easy shot! Let’s go BLUE!” Joyce cheered.

“Ravenclaw in possession again. Quaffle retrieved by Zohn. Passed to Jenkins. Must admit, awesome pass there by Zohn. Jenkins meets a Bludger hit by one of my Weasley friends- can’t tell who- but awesome assist by Branch! And back to Zohn… Zohn attempts to get to the goal posts but you moron our Oliver Wood will block you.”

“LEE!”

“Sorry Professor. OH MY GOODNESS!”

Madame Hooch blows her whistle and casts a message in the air using her wand. SERIOUS INJURY TIME OUT. The events occurred so fast, and Sean was badly injured and not to mention really looked ill.

“I think this is really a bad hit by the Bludger. It might take a few days to correct it. But oh no, he also has internal bleedings. This might take weeks. A month at least.” Madame Pomfrey, the school nurse worriedly stated.

“Oh NO…” Ethan said and immediately turned to Joyce. “OK, Joyce, substitute, we need to score at least five goals to get into the next match.”

So the game continued. Joyce masterly executed her task. Her first attempt of scoring a goal was intercepted by Wood and she really let out some nerve.

“Damn you Oliver! You’re really getting into my nerves!” Joyce unwittingly exclaimed.

“Well I’m sorry I was just playing the game.” Oliver said.

“GAME... WHATEVER. Don’t you know who my dad is?” Joyce said.

But, the argument was broken by Madame Hooch’s whistle.

“No verbal fights in the field. Penalty shot for both Gryffindor and Ravenclaw.”

“Way to go Wood,” one of the Weasley twins said.

“Great Joyce, now they have a penalty shot.” Jenkins said.

Alicia Spinnett took the Gryffindor penalty shot and scored. Joyce took Ravenclaw’s and made a perfect shot for Oliver Wood was too frustrated to do a save.

“10 points for Ravenclaw. Unbelievable shot by Joyce Cadogan, daughter of the legendary Kevin Cadogan. I wonder why Bloom didn’t consider putting her in the line up.”

Joyce continued scoring and Wood kept missing whenever Joyce would score. Eventually, Joyce scored six more goals until Harry caught the Snitch. The score was 170 to 70.

George commented “Gee… I guess it was a bad choice to target the Bludger to Sean.”

“Yeah…” said Fred, “Oliver is having troubles keeping up with Joyce! Woman Chasers!”

“Forget about it,” Wood said still looking a bit frustrated, “At least Harry got the Snitch and we won. This game increased our chances to win the Quidditch Cup!”

“Nice work Joyce!” Exclaimed Ethan Bloom their team captain. “You really beat that Oliver Wood up!”

“Yeah…” Joyce said in reply.

“But why do you look so sad?” Ethan asked. “Even though they won, you scored a lot of goals against Oliver! This means that there is a loop hole with his defense skills.”

But Joyce just went away as Ethan spoke.

“I wonder what’s wrong.” Said Celeni.