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"I told Portalocity to just surprise us and just pick an outdoor sporting event of some sort today," Jonothon admitted, standing on the Causeway a few extra steps back from the class, hair a little more tousled than usual and an uncharacteristic smirk on his face. "I think we could all use a break from this bloody island, at least for an hour or two. The fresh air will do us some good, hopefully, and there was no way in hell I was coming up with a proper class this week."

At least he admitted it.

"So, I want you all to be on your best behavior out there in the stands. I'm not in any mood to figure out how to bail you from an ancient Roman prison or something, this week."

Without any more ado, because honestly, getting off the island couldn't hurt any of them today, he waved his students through the portal, and into… a set of bleachers that were raised a fair distance off the ground. From their shaded seating, they could see that there were fourteen people flying out over a field. Half of them were dressed in robes of blue with silver arrows on them, the other half was wearing robes of black and yellow stripes with a wasp on the front, and all of them were riding around on… broomsticks.

Jono just sort of stood in the stands and stared for a minute before clearing his throat and taking a seat.

"I actually have no bloody clue what this is," he admitted. "But I suppose we might as well sit down, watch, and find out."

Enjoy a professional Quidditch match between the Appleby Arrows and the Wimbourne Wasps, students.

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Like you're getting away from the pollen for a while!

Mavis Dracula

Mercy Thompson

Bay Kennish

Toby Logan

Karina Lyle

Minako Aino

Cecil Baldwin

Snow White

It's short. Jono is throwing in the towel on this one because it's hard to keep focus while standing outside in all this damn pollen.

Of course there are food vendors at the Quidditch match. And, as usual, Jono is using whatever the hell it was that Portalocity converted his pocket change into in order to pay for the students to have some.

Students have a plethora of magical junk food to choose from, some things more palatable than others.

· Acid Pops (These will burn a hole through your tongue. You might want to ignore these.)
· Blood-flavored lollipops (For vampires, of course.)
· Chocoballs - full of strawberry mousse and clotted cream
· Chocolate Frogs - come with a collectable card of a famous witch or wizard in each pack. Might also try to escape on you.
· Cockroach Clusters (With real cockroaches!)
· Drooble's Best Blowing Gum (Fill the air with bluebell-colored bubbles that refuse to pop for days)
· Fizzing Whizbees (massive sherbet balls that make you levitate)
· Fudge Flies
· Ice Mice ("hear your teeth chatter and squeak!")
· Jelly Slugs
· Licorice Wands
· Pepper Imps (tiny black candy that makes you "Breathe fire for your friends!")
· Peppermint Toads - peppermint creams shaped like toads ("hop realistically in the stomach!")
· Sugar Quills (suck on them in class and you look like you're thinking)

Drinks are a lot simpler. Water, juices (a lot of pumpkin), and butterbeer, served hot or cold.

This time, Mavis went for something a little less extreme than the full Plague Doctor outfit she'd worn to the baseball game, since she wasn't being forced into the whole tricorne hat thing.

Thus, she was currently twirling a black parasol in one hand, holding a bag of cockroach clusters in the other, and looking -- as much as one could when one's mouth was stuffed with a blood lolly -- like she was having the time of her life.

"Oppph mmmmmm gheeee dif iff awfum!"

Edited 2013-10-03 13:39 (UTC)

Cecil was practically hopping as much as the chocolate he was having ~~problems~~ fun catching. He grinned hugely at Mavis. "It is! And I can float by myself today!" Those fizzy things were a lot of fun!

Also, he was totally shoving a bunch of the pepper imps in his pockets for Raven later on; he thought she'd get a kick out of using them to breathe fire as a dragon.

"Without needing to worry about getting burned at the stake." Judging by, you know. All the people on brooms.

"That, too," he agreed. Not that a good burning couldn't bring a town together, but he'd rather it not happen to him. Or his friends.

"That looks like a lot of fun, too." He got some fudge flies for Foucault, who was sort of clinging to/wrapped up in his sweater to avoid all the feet in the stands. "I wonder if they sell the broomsticks?"

"If they're like the ones at home," Mavis said, giving her parasol another spin, "We wouldn't be able to control them ourselves. Unless you're a witch?"

"Not that I know of." Cecil shrugged. "It is pretty neat, though." He cheered as one of the... someones... did... something. But all the other folks with black and yellow on were cheering!

"I've decided to cheer for the wasps," he explained. "Mr Starsmore likes the arrows. What do you think?"

Mavis did a brief shift to bat -- which left her parasol and candy floating in mid-air for a second -- then back to humanoid. "I think I'll go with the Wasps. Wing solidarity."

Cecil grinned. "Go Wasps!"

Bay got an assortment of candy, and regretted it when the chocolate frogs hopped away. On the other hand, floating when she ate the fruit sherbert was pretty cool.

It's an intense match. Apparently the Arrows and the Wasps are quite the rivals, and the crowd is really, really into this one. The Wasps are going to win tonight's game, but just barely. Not before the Arrows put up a hell of a fight.

"Do we know what the rules are?" Cecil bounced over to Jono and squinted up at him. "Do we know if there are rules?"

He fed Foucault a few fudge flies and tried to see what was going on.

"If people didn't keep saying the name of the sport, I wouldn't even know what it's called," Jono admitted. "Near as I can figure, the point is to catch that little zippy golden thing. Or... not get beaten off your broom. Or something like that."

A few nearby witches and wizards just gave him a strange look at that reply. Who didn't know how Quidditch was played? Honestly!

"Hm." Cecil nodded. He could follow that. "So who should we root for? I think I sort of like the bees."

"Wasps," Jono corrected absently, peering out at the teams. "I might actually cheer for the Arrows, myself. Their colour scheme is a little less... violent."

Yellow was not a Jono thing.

Cecil grinned. "I guess that means we're on opposite sides. Go, wasps!"

Seriously, Jono has no clue what this game is, but he's deciding it's awesome. He's partly biased, because he's pretty sure they're somewhere in England right now, too.

He's given up on eating junk food while they're here, though. His first attempt at eating chocolate actually croaked at him and hopped away.

Because Quidditch, that's why.

Many thanks to

notacokeperson, who ran to get her copy of Quidditch Through The Ages when I mentioned I was doing this class, and who supplied me with the list of refreshments most likely to be available at the game.

Edited 2013-10-03 11:25 (UTC)

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