( 𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙩 ― 𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙛𝙤𝙮 / 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙥𝙤𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 )

[ INTRODUCTION ]

[ EPIGRAPH ]

❝you think you can beat us? aw, how cute.❞

  ❝oh, it's gonna be real hot when we slay you in the tournament then.❞

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[ SUMMARY ]

HARRY POTTER WAS NEVER REALLY THE TYPE TO BACK DOWN FROM A CHALLENGE.

AND DRACO MALFOY, WELL, HE WAS A CHALLENGE.

AND TO MAKE THINGS EVEN WORSE, THESE TWO SHORT-TEMPERED TEENS WERE BOTH CAPTAINS OF HOCKEY TEAMS THAT WERE NOTORIOUS FOR THEIR LONG-STANDING RIVALRY.

AFTER GROWING UP AND CONSTANTLY HEARING ABOUT ONE ANOTHER IN THEIR HOUSEHOLD(S) THROUGHOUT THEIR CHILDHOOD YEARS, THE CHANCES OF A SOMEWHAT CIVIL HOCKEY PRACTICE AND SEMI-POSSIBLE FRIENDSHIP QUICKLY GOES UP IN FLAMES DURING THE PRE-WEEK PRACTICE AT HOGWARTS ACADEMY; CAUSING DRACO TO LEAVE WITH A BLACK EYE AND BRUISED LIP, AND HARRY TO LEAVE WITH A DISLOCATED SHOULDER AND NUMEROUS SCRATCHES.

A WEEK PASSES, AND THE DAY OF THEIR CHAMPIONSHIP GAME FINALLY ARRIVES; BOTH TEAMS BLOOD-THIRSTY AS THE CROWD(S) CHEER LOUDER WITH EVERY PASSING SECOND. THE CAPTAINS STEP FOOT INTO THE CENTER, SHAKE HANDS, AND BRING OUT THEIR INFAMOUS LINES; THE AIR NOW FILLED WITH TENSION AS THEY AWAIT THEIR NEXT MOVE(S.)

AND THE MINUTE THE WHISTLE BLEW, 

ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE.

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[ CASTING ]

JESSEY STEVENS | HARRY POTTER

MATS VAN SNIPPENBERG | DRACO MALFOY

HERIZEN GUARDIOLA | HERMIONE GRANGER 

BIBI SHARIPOVA | PANSY PARKINSON 

ROBERTO SIPOS | RON WEASLEY 

 ADONIS BOSSO | BLAISE ZABINI

LAURA GWYNETH BUTLER | GINNY WEASLEY 

BRYDEN JENKINS | DAPHNE GREENGRASS 

FINLEY PRENTICE | THEODORE NOTT

BILLY VANDENDOOREN | NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM

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[ DEDICATION ]

- (previously) written and dedicated to devin, for his seventeenth birthday.

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[ OTHER INFO ]

+ DRACO is of Russian descent in this story so whenever drawls (speaks), he'll have like a Romanian accent. Plus, I honestly think this attribute really fits his character and all that he does (or shall do.)

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+ SIRIUS AND REMUS are the commenters 

+ ENVISION THIS whole thing as a game of Rangers vs. Devils (fierce and intense) but their rivalry runs as deep and as long as the Rangers vs. Islanders (they've had a rivalry for nearly 5 decades, just so ya know)

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+ HARRY AND NEVILLE are pretty close in friendship. Like, they aren't best friends but have a pretty close-brother like bond and they can pretty much hit each other up with anything (but it's on the low-low so whatever)

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+ I HAVE THIS CONCEPT THAT everyone in the story is tall; (from shortest to tallest)

-  5'11; Hermione //  6'0; Ginny //  6'1; Harry //  6'2; Ron, Neville and Dean //  6'3; Draco // 6'4; basically the rest of the Slytherins // (and this ends with the Weasley twins being damn near 7'0)

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+ I ALSO HAVE THIS OTHER CONCEPT that they have piercings;

- Sectum piercings; Ron, Neville and Blaise // Cheek (or dimple); Ginny // Triple piercing hoops w/ a single stud above eyebrow; Hermione // Anti eyebrow; Pansy // Eyebrow and lip; Harry // Snake bite; Draco

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I REALIZED A WHILE BACK THAT that Hockey and Quidditch are pretty damn similar position-wise so this is how they'll be placed; 

Harry and Draco (Captain/Center) // Fred & George; Millicent and Goyle (Defensemen/Beaters) // Ginny and Neville; Daphne and Theodore (L&R Wingers/Chasers) // Hermione / Pansy (Goalies) + Ron and Blaise as Co-Captains

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- THEY'RE IN THEIR senior year so everything really does count for them; is much more important than any other game they've ever had.

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-THIS IS ICE HOCKEY, not field hockey; not street hockey.

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+ IN THIS STORY, Harry, Hermione, and Pansy are POC (People of Color.) + the canon POC, Blaise.

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[ AUTHOR'S NOTE ]

- I worked extremely hard on this, and I hope you all enjoy this story as much as I enjoyed writing it! :)

-Teia