"Good morning everyone, I am the commentator for this match - Lee Jordan. This match is Ravenclaw versus - Hufflepuff!" The enthusiastic voice of Gryffindor's Lee Jordan lit up the room with cheers, a black boy with a traditional black haircut, his large white teeth showing as he spoke contrasting with his skin colour.
"The ghost fly ball is now being grabbed first by Luke Harris, the Ravenclaw chaser wearing jersey number 3, if Gryffindor's Harry Potter is the youngest ball finder in a century, Harris is the youngest ball chaser in a century, and it seems that he is young but agile enough to be the first to grab the ghost fly ball in the first game! " Lee Jordan introduced Luke all the while not forgetting to bring in Gryffindor's Harry.
"He was flying all the way up there, and that speed - that's surprisingly fast...wait, ah Merlin! Did you guys see that? Harris is riding the conceptual flying broom Neptune." Jordan bounced out of his seat in excitement.
A black wandering ball struck Luke's back swiftly, but Luke dodged it as quickly as if he had eyes in his back, and the wandering ball whizzed past Luke's ear with extreme aggression.
"Oh, look out! Hufflepuff's Gabriel Truman's ferocious blow was dodged by Luke riding Neptune, who really lives up to his name." Jordan hissed, "It's a good thing Luke Harris isn't a ball finder or Harry Potter's Lightwheel 2000 wouldn't be able to gain any advantage against this broom..."
"Jordan! This isn't a Gryffindor match! Nor is it the time to advertise a broom!" Professor McGonagall stabbed Jordan in the back with her wand, warning him not to stray from the topic.
"Okay, okay, sorry, Professor. Luke Harris continues to fly with the ball, and if Luke is the King Arthur of England, he doesn't have the Knights of the Round Table, Lancelot, Gawain, and Grahameed around him, and he's bravely going forward, is he going to be a lone hero all by himself?" Stroking his lower back Jordan was clearly not impressed with Luke's strategy of flying alone with the ball, "With all due respect, Quidditch is a sport that requires teammates to work together..."
Roger, the captain, who had been moved to the batsman's position, angrily smacked the wandering ball that had been struck at Luke with his bat once more, "Who says Luke doesn't have teammates?"
The other two Ravenclaw ball chasers pulled wide, and the two batsmen were desperately trying to hold the Hufflepuff players back and get a favourable singles attacking environment for Luke, which was supposed to be part of their tactics, allowing Luke to reunite his flying skills using his advantage on the broom - first Luke would break in and stir up the opposition If he was pulled away like now, then he would break through the opponent in front of him with his individual ability, even without the advantage on the broom it would be very difficult to defend him in a one-on-one situation, and if the opponent gave up on their target to link up and wrap up Luke, Luke with his excellent body control was able to accurately pass the ball out for the player who was open at that moment to complete the attack.
"Wow, Roger's shot could have gone straight into the hat of the Frenchman across the sea if it had been hit a little higher." Jordan shouted out, as if he didn't know that his opponent was angered by his own words.
"Luke has only one change of direction to break from the right through the interfering defence of Kirby, Hufflepuff's No.8 ball chaser, and he's pulling it really wide! Now he only had the keeper in front of him and he sprinted to the far left of the hoop! gooooal! go! The ball went in, Luke tricked the keeper over and then used his broomstick to throw the ball into the far right of the basket with a sharp stop at high speed! The youngest ball chaser in a century - Luke Harris scored the first goal of the game." Huge cheers rang out from the Ravenclaw stands, accompanied by Jordan's excited commentary.
But it was only the first goal, and the Hufflepuffs were not in the least bit discouraged, as they quickly served the ball to Kirby, the ball chaser, and attacked before Luke could return, their formation at this point resembling a triangle as they aggressively wheeled the ball between the three ball chasers, launching an attack on the Ravenclaw position.
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Ravenclaw's captain Roger quickly organised an interception, but because of the overall soft style of play, some fear of physical confrontation of Ravenclaw is not known for its defence, so their defence did not play a big role, or quickly by the other side pushed forward to not far from their own ball ring.
"Hufflepuff's triangle is working, close, close, Ravenclaw can't seem to do anything about it." Along with the commentary, all Ravenclaw hearts clenched.
"Huh, it's Luke, Luke returns with incredible speed .... It's a gamble steal! He got the ghost fly ball by stealing it from Hufflepuff 5 Robert Horry...Jordan was simply shocked, he didn't even see how Luke cut off the ball from Daniel's hand, "Ah Merlin, he didn't wait for his teammates, he just used his broomstick to launch a fast break! Hufflepuff couldn't make it back and Luke once again got himself a chance to just face the opposition keeper - and to no one's surprise, Luke scored on another fast break!"
"What a clever move, Luke Harris was clearly the shortest of all the male players in the room due to only being a first year student, but he was smart enough not to make too much physical contact with the opposition in defence instead using his agility and broom speed to his advantage..."
The game continued for some time after that.
"Hufflepuff's keeper James can block one Ravenclaw shot, block two Ravenclaw shots, but can't block Ravenclaw's shots all the time!" Jordan exclaimed, "That kind of breakaway ability left Hufflepuff clueless, and if they switched to a staredown defence tactic, even if they put Kobe #8, who is known for his defence and who sometimes breaks curfew to go to extra practice at 4am, on Luke, the result would be that they couldn't defend him at all! He allowed Luke to score 30 points in three tries, and if they went to link up, Luke always managed to throw the ball through the gaps, and the Ravenclaws scored goal after goal in such simple co-ordination that the ever-mild-mannered Hufflepuff was almost transformed into a raging pit-bull, being held at bay by the Ravenclaws but never knowing exactly how to defend themselves from the Ravenclaw attack - -While Ravenclaw's defence was poorer, their attack was far superior, and they were able to pull away from each other.
Hufflepuff's only chance now lay with their academy hero, ball finder Cedric Diggory, and as long as he could catch the Golden Flyers, victory would belong to Hufflepuff.
As the game raged on, Professor McGonagall subconsciously stabbed Jordan in the back with her wand again.
"Now Kirby... Ouch, Professor McGonagall I'm not making this up!"
"Sorry Jordan, smooth." Professor McGonagall kept her serious expression to maintain decency, her ears just slightly flushed.
Professor Freeway, not far from her, watched the black boy's startled reaction to being stabbed...and couldn't help but feel his hands itch a little.
"They haven't found the Golden Flyers yet?" Hesitantly Jordan turned back to continue watching the game unfold, only unable to help but stare at his dean with a few wary glances in his small round eyes.
As if it were as if Lee Jordan had used a divination prophecy, no sooner had his words left his mouth than Ravenclaw's ball finder, Autumn Chang, snapped her broomstick head down and swooped in the direction of the Ravenclaw stands.
Not far away, Cedric was only slightly frozen for a split second before he followed in sudden realisation - although he was still able to immediately pinpoint the golden flyer's location, he spotted the walnut-sized metal ball in the direction of his opponent a short while after the two of them were in pursuit of each other.
Not far ahead of the two in the chase was the huge banner that the Ravenclaws had imposed a floating spell on, but Autumn Chang didn't slow down at all, charging straight towards it, and Cedric, who had fallen behind, saw that it was urgent and reached out to try and pull her back without committing a foul, only for the two of them to get caught up in the banner together and fall out of the sky.
A gasp went up from the stands in unison!
Professor Freeway quickly drew his wand and cast two quick dampening spells to successively ease the momentum of Autumn Chang and Cedric Diggory's fall, crashing together they fell together along with the banner and rolled on the grass for a few weeks.
Madame Hockey called a halt to the game and the team flew down to help the pair of them out of the tightly wound banner.
As they stood up, the stands looked like the pause button had been pressed and restarted all at once, and deafening cheers rang out across the stadium.
Autumn Chang raised her hand high in the air holding the golden flyer as the Ravenclaw won by a landslide! For the Academy Cup which ended up being a comparison of total points, Ravenclaw's victory today put them a long way ahead of the other teams.
Athletic matches were like that, one side's joy set off the other side's sorrow, and the extreme emotions of human beings were fully embodied and released in this moment. This was Quidditch, and this was why wizards loved the sport of Quidditch so dearly.
Both players shook hands one by one under the command of Madame Hockey, the 90 minute long game was finally over, the players on the field were busy relaxing their muscles, Luke on the other hand needed to relax his nerves, muscles were not yet a problem for him who had learnt the wizard MacLean's alchemy.