Gryffindor: 
Captain:  Pete Watkins (1979, Capt. 1982)

S: Millicent Skrumpkin
C: Derek Grimm
C: Caitlin Vennegoor of Hesselink
C: Nat Warwick
B: Pete Watkins (1979) 
B: Amber Hall
K: Todd Maculric (1981)


Hufflepuff: 
Captain: Sioni Rhys ap Emrys (1977, Capt. 1981) 

S: Shanley Dunway (1982 - Chaser: 1980-81)
C: Shane Bell  
C: T.J. Scott (1982)
C: Max Westbrook (1982)
B: Sioni Rhys ap Emrys (1977) 
B: Lindsay Ward-Darling (1980) 
K: Humphrey Skrumpkin (1980)

Summary 3 of 3:

A Gryffindor time out afforded both teams a few moments to regroup.  As they returned to the air, it became clear that Gryffindor’s Vennegoor of Hesselink was not forming back up with Warwick and Grimm.  Instead, she spread out away from the rest and began flying more like a reluctant Seeker than a Chaser.  This aroused a good bit of chatter among the remaining spectators who had managed to stick around for the lengthy match.  Meanwhile, the Quaffle was back in the air and the teams picked up the pace.  

Westbrook drop passed the Quaffle to Scott, who dove deep and popped back up on the other side of the scrum of fliers closing in behind her.  She pushed in to the scoring area and threw the Quaffle hard at the left hoop.  Maculric was right there and the Quaffle bounced off of his chest and back out into the air where Grimm picked it up.  Grimm sped out across the pitch and passed to Warwick, but the Quaffle was intercepted by Westbrook and turned back around.  Westbrook took a chancy shot at a long goal and it went in to roars of approval from the Hufflepuff section, who seemed delighted that they could finally see more of this match by firelight than they had all day in the filtered sun.  

Grimm took the Quaffle again and headed back out towards the center of the pitch.  Rhys ap Emerys batted a Bludger away from Scott, directing it at Grimm who dropped into a barrel roll to avoid it.  Watkins picked up the Bludger further out and fired up ahead at Skrumpkin who escaped with a brush against his ear as Grimm drove in after the hoops.  He snuck it into the right hoop at the last moment before he pulled up hard and veered away.  Skrumpkin picked up the Quaffle and lobbed it back out to Scott.

As this Quaffle banter continued, the game continued to pick up speed, the fog burning off little by little.  More goals were attempted, stopped, and even scored during the following hour and a half, the match cutting into the younger students usual curfew.  Warwick slotted five more goals, to Grimm’s three.  For Hufflepuff, Scott put in four goals along with Westbrook’s two more.  

Gryffindor 340  / 240 Hufflepuff

Ward-Darling, flying close behind Scott, deflected a Bludger with a backhanded jab of her bat and veered off around to Scott’s other side to get between the Chaser and Amber Hall.  Hall was just swinging for a Bludger, though, and as her bat came around it caught Ward-Darling hard in the knee, causing her to pull up sharply.  At the same time, the handle of Ward-Darling’s broom caught Hall’s arm, and the both of them spun out away from the scrum together.  

This might have been cause for a time out, except that something caught the attention of the students in the stands and the roar of excitement turned every head.  There, way up high above the pitch, just outside the glow of the torches, three fliers could be seen sprinting back and forth in a peculiar scramble.  It was Millie Skrumpkin, Shanley Dunway, and Caitlin Vennegoor of Hesselink, all zig zagging back and forth in the shadowy sky.  All at once, all three bolted straight down toward the floor of the pitch.  Vennegoor of Hesselink darted dangerously in front of Dunway, causing them both to slow a fraction – just enough to give Skrumpkin an advantage.  Vennegoor of Hesselink veered off when a Bludger was sent in front of her nose by Rhys ap Emerys, and Dunway pushed hard, drawing even with Skrumpkin as they chased the golden Snitch low across the floor of the pitch. 

It began to zig zag again, to and fro, back and forth and up and down so that the Seekers were in a bit of a scramble all over the place trying to follow and anticipate its next move, the ball narrowly eluding Dunway’s fingers twice.  The noise in the stadium was deafening as all watched his most amazing fight for the Snitch.  After a few moments, the ball came to a perfect standstill with Dunway and Skrumpkin each several yards away on opposite side of it.  They charged – both of them – head to head, each making a grab for the ball, and the collision was spectacular.  The girls ran into eachother headfirst, crumpling into a twisted mess of limbs and brooms and falling like a mass of dead weight to the ground.  

In fact, neither of the girls moved at all.  As their team mates and Madam Hooch collected around them, pulling their unconscious forms apart, a small but significant discovery was made.  One fist was locked up tight around something shiny – the Snitch.  Madam Hooch raised that arm slightly as the Seeker stirred with a moan.  It was Millie Skrumpkin.  

“Gryffindor Wins!”

Gryffindor 490  / 250 Hufflepuff


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