Just how full of themselves could Gryffindor get after winning the Quidditch Cup with a match to spare?
For their final match against Hufflepuff, they fielded an entire reserve lineup: Parvati, Sally-Anne, Isabel, Seamus, Colin, and Oliver.
Naturally, they were beaten so badly they could barely tell which way was up, with Hufflepuff winning by a crushing four hundred and seventy to ninety. Even so, the Gryffindor spectators thoroughly enjoyed themselves, even roaring with laughter.
We can mess around all we like. We can send in our reserves. Hey, we're still the Quidditch Cup champions. Tell us that doesn't annoy you!
Did it annoy them?
Of course it did, but there was nothing they could do about it. That was how the competition worked.
After that match, however, a new topic began to be widely discussed around the school.
That reserve Seeker from Gryffindor was so pretty!
Who was Gryffindor's reserve Seeker? Ginny Weasley, the youngest daughter of the main branch of the Weasley family, and the little sister of the currently red-hot Ron Weasley.
Everyone in the second year already knew Ginny was pretty. As one of the beauties of her year, even though she was only a second-year, she already had quite a few young boys trying to win her favor, and plenty more found any excuse to hang around her.
But the girls close to her all knew that Ginny was a diehard Harry fan, with no eyes for any other boy. At least, that had been true in her first year and the first term of her second.
Things had changed somewhat after she returned from Christmas.
It was not that Ginny no longer liked Harry, but that there seemed to be someone else at Harry's side: Ravenclaw's pretty Seeker, Cho Chang.
Cho Chang's looks also