Alice Brown - A Harry Potter Fanfiction

8~The fun and danger of Quidditch

"Wake up wake up wake u-up!" Was the first thing Hermione heard when she woke up. 

She rubbed her eyes. "What time is it?" She asked sleepy. 

"What time is-oh Hermione!" The voice said. Hermione opened her eyes and saw a redhaired girl. Hermione smiled. "Gin, why are you so stressed?" 

Ginny rolled her eyes. "The Quidditch match starts in a few minutes and you already missed breakfast!" She exclaimed. She walked away and yelled just before disappearing through the door: "And don't you dare miss it again!" 

Hermione sighed, but hurried out of her bed. She quickly dressed and brushed her hair. She looked at her sleepy face in the mirror and sighed. At that moment Ginny's head appeared in the door. "Almost forgot! You can sit with the professors, I settled that." 

And with that she was gone. 

Hermione shook her head. She didn't understand. Why would Ginny want her to sit with the professors?

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When she was ready she walked out the common room, to the Quidditch field. She really didn't understand. Why? She asked herself that question the whole time 'til she saw the rings and three spots who looked like Ginny, Harry and Ron. 

Automatic, she walked to the tribune where she always sat, but remembered just at time she had to sit with the professors. She sighed an searched for a spot between all the professors. She saw two not-occupied spots next to each other and sat down at one. 

Soon she heard the start signal and the match began. Hermione shouted and whistled and clapped every time Gryffindor scored. When Slytherin cheered, Hermione closed her mouth, and tried not to hex Malfoy when he looked in her direction. 

She was so busy with the game she didn't saw a certain professor entering the stadium, sighing when he saw there was only one place not occupied in the tribune, and she also didn't saw that he slowly sat down, next to her. 

The score was 130 for Gryffindor and 120 for Slytherin. 

"Come on Harry!" Hermione yelled. It was then that she saw who was sitting next to her. 

Snape.

He looked at her as if she was something dirty, only because she encouraged Harry. Hermione looked challenging at him and began to encourage even harder for Gryffindor. With a raised eyebrow, he turned his head back and started watching the game again. 

Hermione yelled as hard as she could, but abruptly stopped when she heard someone cheering even harder, but then for Slytherin. She turned her head to Snape. With open mouth she watched him. 

He was the one cheering and yelling and clapping. 

He then turned his head to her. He smirked when he raised his eyebrow. "Something wrong, Granger?" He asked playful.

 She smirked and narrowed her eyes. She started yelling again. She really enjoyed this match. It felt like there was a little battle between her and Snape, and she quite liked it. A game of who could encourage the hardest.

 Finally, Harry caught the snitch and the match came to an end. It had become 310-160. The tribunes flowed empty so that only she and Snape remained behind.

 "I win!" Hermione said. Snape growled. "This was..fun.." Hermione said soft. She nervously waited for his reaction, but his face kept blank. "Wasn't it?" She asked carefully. 

He stayed silence for a while before he spoke the word that made Hermione smile: "Indeed."

Hermione felt truly happy, until Snape yelled "Watch out!" and dove to the ground. She turned around and saw Ginny flying towards her, but it seemed like she couldn't stop. Hermione's eyes grew wide before Ginny flew into her and knocked her out.