Quidditch WORLD CUP!

[alt_zacharias]

WIZARD!

Did everyone see the paper? The whole country gets to go! How well nift is that?

I guess everyone gets different times to go so they can control the queues. And we can't bring anything larger than a bookbag (Dad says that's for security - and that way you have to buy all your food and such so it's a money-maker), but MERLIN, it's the

QUIDDITCH WORLD CUP!!!

And the Lord Protector convinced them to let the Protectorate host it! Utterly wizard.


Our tickets say we're to go via Portkey at 11PM on Sunday!

Who else got their TICKETS today? And when are you arriving? Maybe I'll see you there!

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[alt_michael]

We got ours!

Only we're supposed to arrive hours earlier. Two in the afternoon on Sunday.

Mum wishes she'd known sooner but then, she figures no one's going to be staying behind to go shopping that day now, anyway, so they might as well close up the shop.

Where are your seats? Ours say we're on level nine. Do you reckon they'll count from the Top Box down or from the pitch-level up?

[alt_zacharias]

It's pitch-level up, usually. So you're nine tiers up from the pitch.

Ours are level 16. Wonder how many levels they've built? It must be well huge, yeah, for everyone in the whole country and all the delegates from the other countries in the league besides.

My father said they delayed telling so no one could make any plans to ruin it. Like the Crimson Company or anyone.

[alt_michael]

Oh, yeah, I knew that. I just thought--sometimes they go the other way, so the Top Box is 1. I mean, there are a couple stadiums that count in that direction.

But nine's good.

[alt_padma]

Well, it's better than 8!

[alt_dean]

I think they have at least 20 levels. We are on level 18.

[alt_padma]

We got ours, yeah. Half of the family are going at 10:00 on Monday morning and the other half at noon.

I knew they'd come up with something brilliant. Trust Our Lord to make sure that the world doesn't forget that we're the greatest wizarding society in the whole world.

Do you have any idea who'll be in the finals? I mean, you follow Quidditch, I don't.

[alt_daphne]

We also got out tickets today, and we're on level 16, too. Maybe I'll see you there, Smith.

[alt_draco]

It's going to be one of the most wizard things to happen to the Protectorate yet, that's for certain.

There's actually a LOT of things that are set to happen this year, and it's all to show the glory of the Protectorate to the rest of the wizarding world.

[alt_zacharias]

Whatcha mean, lots of things? Like what, Malfoy?

[alt_draco]

I'm not at liberty to say much, but I can tell you this: Hogwarts is going to be different this year. And not in a way that involves Dementors or anything like that.

[alt_padma]

What sorts of things, Draco?

Ooh, is it anything to do with the notice in the paper that your mother's gardens are closed to the public all this week?

What's she planning, then?

[alt_draco]

Mother? It's none of her planning; it's much bigger than that. See what I said to Smith - epic things at Hogwarts this year.

There's some important discussion taking place at Kensington this week, that's why the gardens are closed.

[alt_ron]

Yeah. It's going to be well awesome.

I can't believe it's true! The Quidditch World Cup here!