The Stands
 

Walking out To The stands Isabella Sat down and Waited. It Looked Like She was the First One There . " um hello ? " She asked . " Anybody Here " feeling lonely she Just waited for the Match to begin which She knew was in a long time . " Why am out here So Early " She asked herself in a whisper . Deciding To Just Stay out there Since She didn't want to walk down those Exhausting Stairs again just to get out to the pitch she Zipped up Her Coat and waited for something to happen or at least someone to appear .

anyone? :)
 

Finally! The first Quidditch match of this term!

With her green and silver scarf wrapped around her neck, Helena finally got to the stands, after climbing up all those stairs. Couldn't they use brooms or something to get up there? Nope, probably a bad idea.

The girl took a seat somewhere, anywhere, and waited for the match to start. She'll be, of course, supporting the green flying things Slytherins. Even though... she had no idea who was in the team this term. Eh, she'll find out soon.

Realizing Someone Coming to Sit down Isabella Raised her Head And Saw a Girl.Telling From The Girl's Robes She was In The same House as Her . Isabella Thought it Would be Polite to Introduce herself So She went up to the girl . " Hi I'm Isabella Evans First year Slytherin . " Bella Said . " What's Your Name ? "

*With his hand holding Marie's Matty walked them up to the top of the stands. Under his other arm was a warm blanket and a thermos of hot chocolate. Setting a bit of the blanket down so they could sit he held an arm out to her and a warm smile.*
"After you."

Helena was about to stand up and move somewhere else, simply because she was bored and the stands were still pretty much deserted. Yes, she was still a punctuality freak. But she suddenly heard a voice, so she looked up quickly, noticing that a girl appeared next to her. "Hello," Helena said with a tiny smile. "It's nice to meet you. I'm Helena. Helena Hopkins."

"Supporting the Slytherins, I suppose?" The girl asked, grinning. Well, according to the girl's uniform, she was a Slytherin as well. But who knew, maybe she wanted to support the Hufflepuffs.

Bundled up tightly in her robes, Kurumi made her way through the stands until she found herself a seat towards the front. It wasn't very hard to find a seat considering that it seemed as though students had forgotten that there was a match to be played. Kurumi hadn't, however, and she wasn't sure if the reasons for her remembering were good or bad.

Of course, there was the obvious reason of wanting to cheer on a certain Hufflepuff and hopefully catch a glimpse of his victorious smile but there was also a more practical reason: she needed to study.

Through the various training sessions Kurumi had spent with Selina and Simon, she had gotten used to her new broom and was even beginning to feel a bit confident up in the air. Still, movements and game play were foreign to her.

Taking out a quill and some parchment for important note taking, Kurumi set them next to her and waited for the game to start.

After bracing herself against the chilly winter breeze, Seren wandered down to the stands where she took her place among the crowd. She was excited to see how her students would do at good clean game of Quidditch. Remembering her time as a chaser for the Ravenclaw team, back when she was a student at Hogwarts, Seren couldn't help but feel a slight longing to play the game again. Who knew perhaps she would get out one of the old school brooms and go for a joy ride the weekend.

Clad in a nuetral tone of black, Seren adjusted the sky blue scarf around her neck. She could hardly wait to see what the out come of the game would be. Would it be Hufflepuff or would it be Slytherin??

It was OFFICIALLY Hogwarts' QUIDDITCH SEASON!!!!

THE most happiest time of the year, in Ellie's opinion. She arrived in the stands quite early and easily found a seat in front. Though she'd learned in previous years to take hot chocolate for warmth, she didn't this time. She wasn't in a hot chocolate mood, for one, and, more practically, it would probably spill and she didn't want to have to take her eyes off the match to clean it up. Her whole attention was going to be on the players.

And the Hufflepuff Keeper.

She did, however, have food. Pastries, to be exact: Cinnamon rolls and donuts and crepes and stuff. They were all wrapped up in a big napkin. Because, you could totally eat and watch the game, it was only hard to drink. Especially when accompanied by cheering and jumping and other people around you flailing their arms about.

Sitting down, waiting for the players to come out, Ellie unwrapped a muffin and took a bite. Fooooooooooooood.

Selina fumbled up onto the stands step by step sneezing the whole way. Now that the weather was getting colder Selina was getting her annual fall to winter cold. She hated it. Everything was also miserable with a cough and a sneeze. Even Quidditch wasn't as fun as usual, but she loved it so she persevered. Although the other day at practice when Selina nearly fell off her broom because she sneezed so hard was not fun. Merlin! She hated colds.

She made her way up to the stands as best as she could and took a seat. There she waited for anyone she knew to show up. Hopefully she didn't sneeze on them.

Hugo could see his breath hanging in the air as he approached the stands with his scarf on and his hands in his pockets. It was cold. Why was he here? No. He was a quidditch player now. He needed to know the other teams' tactics. He wanted Slytherin to win. Not that he particularely liked Slytherin. It was just that, well, anything was better than Hufflepuff.

When he just about spotted the most comfortable seat, he saw lion cookie girl sitting all alone. He waved at Kurumi. "Oi, Kurumi," he yelled smiling as he approached her. "Why are you taking notes?" he asked and sat down, looking at her parchment. He too had brought a notebook and a self-inking quill, but he would probably get lost in the game as usual.

Kurumi looked up from the piece of parchment she had been holding and had just finished dividing the page into several different sections including, but not limited to, Chaser formations, Beater bat techniques, and Snitch flight patterns, when she saw Hugo waving at her. "Hugo! Hey!" she chirped looking down sheepishly at her parchment. "S-S-Studying Quidditch...I thought it would be a good idea to take notes of techniques and strategy since, um, I am still new to this whole game..." and flying without falling off for that matter.

"Why, did you make the team or something?" Hugo chuckled, whilst getting his blue and bronze notebook and his quill out of his book bag. As he opened the book he saw the to do lists. "Hey, we still need to do these," Hugo told Kurumi still looking in his book, skipping through the pages. Bake cookies, learn wandless and non-verbal spells, there was a lot to do.

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Kurumi forgot that she hadn't told Hugo about Quidditch. Had she even mentioned that she had tried out? She hadn't really made it a public announcement seeing as being on a broom was enough to petrify her. "Y-Y-Y-Yes," she squeaked as she began tugging on her hair that she had braided into two loose fish braids a yellow ribbon into.

She flicked her gaze towards the check list that Hugo had been keeping. They really hadn't accomplished much of the things they wanted to do. "I actually know two students who can perform some non-verbal spells," she nodded, feeling glad for the temporary distraction. "Maybe we can ask them to help?"

Hugo was careful not to jump up. SHE MADE THE TEAM? How was that even possible? Kurumi was terrified of brooms alone, how did she manage to stay in the air with a deadly ball flying around her ears? Hugo tried to transform his riddled face into a happy one and said "O-oh really? Good for you," and he smiled.

"That sounds great," Hugo said and smiled again. "And maybe in a few years we will be masters of the non-verbal spell," he nodded.

Kurumi covered her mouth when she saw Hugo's contort into something that either looked like he was in pain or he was trying to stop himself from bursting into laughter.

She figured it was the latter since there was nothing that indicated Hugo would be in any sort of pain.

"Th-Thanks," she blushed. "Selina trained me over the summer...put me through boot camp on a broom really." So, she had at least been able to do a proper take off and landing. No need to get into the logistics behind why she had even tried out. She had, somehow, managed to put those thoughts behind her. "I heard you made the team as well! Congratulations," she smiled. "I'll try not to hit a Bludger anywhere near you." Which she really couldn't guarantee considering her aim was sometimes a bit off.

"That sounds like a good goal to reach for," she nodded leaning back a bit. "Father can perform them as well. I haven't been able to ask him about them though. He...well...we have been focusing on other sorts of training."

Quidditch was one of those things that never really excited Josephina during her time as student. It wasn't until last year, in fact, that she watched her first Hogwarts match mostly in support of some of her students. Heights were terrifying, no matter what Treyen told her. But yet it was also because of Treyen that she was out there again today. Overhearing a stuttering girl about studying and taking notes on techniques and strategy, Fina sent a friendly smile over at Kurumi. She had to give the third year credit; being a good student AND a quidditch player was admirable.

She still needed to schedule her flying lesson with Treyen though, come to think of it. She would NOT back out of it, just as he had not backed out of Arithmancy.

It wasn't by Kurumi that she sat though. After all, the Lion girl seemed to have plenty of company surrounding her. Naw... a flaming redheaded girl though with FOOD was where the Arithmancy Professor took her seat. Besides, the girl was a seasoned flyer who could give her some pointers and explain what was happening, RIGHT?

"Hello Miss.... Ellie," she said tugging casually at her scarf. Geez. It was cold out here; couldn't they have INDOOR quidditch or something?

Flying lesson with Treyen?! *flails* can we come too?!
 

As Kurumi looked over her shoulder, she noticed Professor Hadley had entered the stands. Kurumi smiled back at her, but couldn't help but notice the same glimmer of a fear that Kurumi knew all to well.

Yep, Professor Hadley was afraid of brooms. Hopefully she wouldn't break out in hives like Kurumi often did. She had finally gotten over that though, with the help of Simon giving her his old broom. The task of flying seemed less daunting once she was on a broom that had been ridden by someone who knew that they were doing instead of on a borrowed school broom that seemed fed up with yet another awkward student sitting on it.

Kurumi smiled back at the professor as the woman took her own seat a little further up in the stands than she was.

Holding his hand she followed him to the top of the stands. Her favorite place to watch the match from. This was going to be an exciting match for her to watch. Ev was playing again for her house team and they happened to be playing against the puffs, Matty's house team.

Once they were finally at the top she sat down and pulled her robes tighter around her. Both sets that she had on. That's right, she was wearing two sets of robes today... it was December after all and she wasn't a big fan of the cold. Plus the robes that she had on under her own house robes just so happened to be Matty's old robes. Yep, this was her little way of showing support to his house team too, even if it wasn't visible support.

Ellie turned to the new presence beside her. Hadley!

She'd called her 'Miss Ellie', didn't she? Eh. It was progress, right?

But...Wasn't Hadley one of those WEIRD teachers and people that didn't like Quidditch, though? "Hey Hadley!" she greeted, after swallowing, of course. Ellie will convert her to a Quidditch buff.

Especially if Hadley was going to sit beside her the entire game. Mhm.

"Want some?" Fooood, of course.

Jacob walked up the stands, in light summer robes... while everyone else was snug in their winter attire. Why? Jacob felt warm, and comfortable... but that might just be because Quidditch was in the air. It made Jacob feel warm and fuzzy inside.

As Jacob found a seat, he rubbed the badge on his chest to clean it, as it shone brightly on his robes.

A nice good game of quidditch... and he was going to play against one of the teams up there no matter what happens in his own match, he looked around at the crowd gathering. Quidditch players and fans of the great sport

Ah good; Kurumi had noticed her friendly smile. It actually gave Fina some comfort to know that there was someone up in the stands with her that also had this fear of brooms and flying, even if the someone was like more than half her age.

Hearing the response from the redhead next to her, Fina frowned and was about to correct her as to say Professor Hadley, but decided not to bother. They weren't in the classroom and the girl hadn't used her first name like they were buddy-buddy, so all was well. Right? Especially if the girl was going to educate on the happenings.

And share her food, even if she wasn't sure how much she would keep down. Height anxieties aside though, she was starved. "Actually, that would be great. What do you have?" If it wasn't good, perhaps she could summon something from her office or the kitchens. Tortilla chips? Reminded her of a certain Mexicana . . . hehe.

Now just to wait for the match.

Don't make her regret asking by....vomming....*wrinkles nose* :P
 

"Uhmmm...." Ellie unwrapped the stuffed napkin again. It revealed a bunch of different nummies. "Dougnuts, creampuffs," basically anything your mom wouldn't think was a 'proper' breakfast. That was one of the good things about Hogwarts. Hehe.

So, Hadley could take what she wanted, if she wanted.

Ellie bit her lip, waiting for the professor to choose. And now, conversation time? Before the game started? "So...who're you supporting?" It was probably hard being a professor, right?

Ellie would be such a biased teacher.