Burnt

Chapter 21

        THIS IS LATE AND I'M NOT SORRY. I have a friend staying with me from Germany and so we've been out and about a lot shopping or just sight seeing and it has really cut in on my writing time severely! I thought I was gonna have a good hour to two hours to finish editing and polishing with this chapter but then we got invited to a party at my friend's house whom I never get to see and WHOOSH- just like that, I lost all my writing time. Opportunity cost I suppose. (HEY GUESS WHO CRUSHED HER ECON TEST- This girllll!) Anyways, you'll have to forgive me for the tardy update and gigantic cliffhanger, I can't write the next chapter if you kill me out of frustration. 

BYE

-Kat

PS: What are your thoughts on the new cover? I got tired of the old one... I am still experimenting with this website I found called Pixlr. It is really fun and relatively easy to use, especially for Wattpad book covers... cough cough. ( I used the dimensions 350x550 for Wattpad covers but you might get away with bigger) I don't know if i'm satisfied with the new cover quite yet. Maybe I'll host a cover making contest again? Decisions, decisions... 

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I barely had time to dwell on Flint, however. Heck, I barely had time to dwell on anything much at all.

'All the teachers must have had really crappy holidays or something,' groaned Alicia as we stumbled out of potions days later. It had been a particularly bad lesson - Snape was worse than usual, which is saying something, and he had added another essay to the pile of work that we already had to do. And the game was tomorrow. We stumbled towards the Great Hall for lunch.

Then out of nowhere, Oliver came bouncing over to our table. Yes, bouncing. We all looked up in surprise. I blinked rapidly. Maybe I had inhaled too much fumes in potions...

Oliver practically jumped over the bench.

'Harry got the Firebolt back!' he whispered, barely able to contain his excitement.

'What!' Angelina yelled.

'Yeah, it's fantastic, so practise is on tonight. We need to see what this broom can do,' said Oliver, as he got up. 'And so be on time!' he called as he walked off. Angelina groaned and dropped her head to the table.

'How are we going to pass anything with that quidditch obsessed maniac wanting to practise every spare hour we have,' she grumbled. But we were all excited - the Firebolt was going to be fantastic, I knew it.

Sure enough, the whole team was there for practise on time - a first, and all waiting for Madam Hooch to finish talking to Harry.

Finally she walked off and sat with Ron, and we all gathered around Oliver, who rubbed his hands together excitedly.

'Harry, I've just found out who Ravenclaw are playing as Seeker. It's Cho Chang. She's a fourth year, and she's pretty good..I really hoped she wouldn't be fit, she's had some problems with injuries. On the other hand, she rides a Comet Two Sixty, which is going to look like a joke next to the Firebolt.' His eyes swept Harry's broom.

'Ok everyone, let's go,' he said. we all mounted our brooms and took off. I was surprised that no one crashed in to each other - everyone was watching Harry, not where we were going. But then we spread out.

'Harry, I'm letting the snitch out!' Oliver called from the ground, flipping open the compartment of the trunk that held the winged gold ball.

I didn't see the snitch, but suddenly Harry streaked towards the goalposts. He paused, then shot towards Oliver, who had just got in the air. I saw him emerge from behind Oliver with the snitch fluttering helplessly in his hand. We all cheered like crazy - he had caught it so fast!