Round Four - The Quidditch Match, Short Story Challenge Options

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It's the final quidditch game of the season at Hogwarts; Gryffindor versus Slytherin for the Quidditch Cup. The game has just begun and Slytherin are ahead by 40 points, though they are using less-than-legal means to stay ahead. Choose a character or characters located in any one of the locations listed below. Describe their experience of the situation and what ideas or actions (if any) they use to help Slytherin continue their lead or help Gryffindor catch up.

• Gryffindor Spectator Stands
  
  
• Slytherin Spectator Stands
  
  
• Hufflepuff Spectator Stands
  
  
• Ravenclaw Spectator Stands
  
  
• Staff/Public Spectator Stands
  
  
• Commentator's Box

Unlike Round 3 (The Magic Box Challenge), the submissions for this challenge do not make a continuing story. Each submission must stand alone as a short story.

All submissions must have a unique title and be posted in this topic.



Note to ferrets: Remember that you are writing fan fiction as though you are the Floo-Between user you've chosen. This means that if you've chosen Snape, you are writing as though Snape is writing fan fiction, not as though he is a part of the story. Each character may write as many submissions as they wish for this challenge, as long as each submission is significantly different from their others. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday December 1st.

The Voting Booth for Round 4 will open on Sunday, November 21st. Click this text to go there.

Posts which are not prefaced by the Character Form will be deleted.

When you post, you'll see a button (up by the "code" and "list" buttons) that says "blank character form." If you press that button, the form will appear in your post. Just edit in your character's details and put the body of your text in the middle. If you've chosen not to use a signature for your character, delete that part of the form.

Do not edit your submissions for this challenge once they are posted in the Forum.

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When rating submissions, please use the following score card to guide you:

Score Card

__ Ferret Points for following the mission
__ Ferret Points for technical (grammar, spelling are consistent with the author's character)
__ Ferret Points for overall creativity
__ Ferret Points for characterization
__ Ferret Points for adherence to canon
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Total out of 10 maximum Ferret Points

0 = Poor, 1 = Okay/good, 2 = Great

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As It Was Destined To Be


All good Seers know the futility of sporting events. So much wasted energy, all for an outcome that is foretold by the portents before it even begins. Such was the predictable outcome of the fated final match of the year between Gryffindor and Slytherin.

It began with Saturn aspecting the Gryffindor Team’s Ascendant.

Lavender Brown ws sitting with her best friend in the Red and Gold section of the stands allowing her hopes to rise, only to have them dashed as the Green Team made several early goals. For students so good at Divination, one would have expected both of them to have already seen the tight square between Uranus and Mars. This could only indicate unexpected violent outcomes. The Gryffindor Team was indeed in peril.

Still, the two girls shouted and cheered as though their feeble attempts could counteract the effects of an afflicted Seventh House! The doomed Red Seeker did seem to rally a bit from the supportive noise his stands were emitting. However, the Open Enemies (seventh house) influence was to make this short-lived indeed. A sneaky bludger, intentionally batted at him, sent him spiraling to the ground within three minutes. The groans of those two excellent-though-currently-inattentive students were drowned out by shouts from their rowdy nearby cohorts.

This Match was one of the most intense on record, owing to the adverse Mars influence. Hours of thrashing back and forth over the entire length of the Quidditch Pitch finally brought the power of Jupiter into orb. Parvati Patil squealed loudly as a quaffle sailed past the Green Keeper and Lee Jordan announced ten points for Gryffindor. The dear girl should really have seen this coming!

A flash of lightning, seemingly coming from nowhere (Uranus), struck the centre of the Field. Great chunks (Jupiter) of sod and debris (Saturn) were blasted (Mars) into the air (Gemini), disrupting the flying of both teams. Just as suddenly both Seekers dashed for the momentarily illuminated Snitch. Of course, Gryffindor reached it first, as Neptune was opposed by Pluto.

Lavender and Parvati jumped about screaming with joy, as though this was a surprise to them. The tumult didn’t die down until late that evening when Venus conjuncted the Hogwarts Sun.







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