The girl who lived with secrets

7.Quidditch game

(The next morning, in the great hall. The gang is sitting, eating. Harry is twirling her food on a fork.)

Ron - Take a bit of toast, mate, go on.

Hermione - Ron's right, Harry. You're gonna need your strength today.

Harry - I'm not hungry.

"Starving yourself is never okay, Harry," Molly warns sternly. "I wasn't starving myself, I was just nervous" Violet said.

(Snape appears at the table.)

"Oh, here comes trouble" sighs Tonks.

Snape - Good luck today, Potter. Then again, now that you've proven yourself against a troll, a little game of Quidditch should be easy work for you...even if it is against Slytherin. (Snape walks off, limping. Harry notices this.)

Harry - That explains the blood.

Hermione - Blood?

Harry - Listen, last night, I'm guessing Snape let the troll in as a diversion so he could try and get past that 3 headed dog. But, he got herself bitten, that's why he's limping.

Hermione - But why would anyone go near that dog?

Harry - The day I was at Gringotts, Hagrid took something out of one of the vaults. He said it was Hogwarts' business, very secret.

Hermione - So you're saying...

Harry - That's what the dog's guarding. That's what Snape wants.

(Hedwig screeches as she enters the Great Hall. She is carrying a very large, long parcel. She drops it off at the table.)

Hermione - Bit early for mail, isn't it?

Harry - But I-I never get mail.

Ron - Let's open it. (They open it to reveal a broomstick.)

Harry - It's a broomstick!

Ron - Thats not just any broomstick Harry. (recognizing the model) It's a Nimbus 2000!

Harry - But who...? (He notices Professor McGonagall up at the head table, stroking Hedwig. She smiles and Harry nods.)

(Later on, inside a Quidditch tower. The Gryffindor team is marching towards the starting gate. They reach it and stop, behind a closed double door.)

Oliver - Scared, Harry?

Harry - A little.

Oliver - That's all right. I felt the same way before my first game.

Harry - What happened?

Oliver - Er, I don't really remember. I took a bludger to the head 2 minutes in. Woke up in the hospital a week later.

"Thanks for those encouraging words wood" violet said "yea sorry about that" Oliver said as both end up laughing

(Harry gulps and looks straight ahead as the doors open. They mount their brooms and zoom out onto the enormous pitch. There is cheering. Lee Jordan, the Quidditch commentator is announcing from a tower.)

Lee - Hello, and welcome to Hogwarts' first Quidditch game of the season! Today's game Slytherin versus Gryffindor!!! (Cheering. Close-up of Gryffindor students. They are cheering.)

Neville - Gryffindor! (The players take their positions in the air in a circle. Harry weaves in, highest amongst. As she looks down.)

"Merlin, that's high up" Hermione grimaces. Charlie and Bill wear nostalgic expressions, missing their own times on the Gryffindor team, playing on that same pitch. It had been some of the best times of their life.