The Stands

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Alana wasn't going to miss the game, that was for sure. Tight after breakfast, she'd headed for the pitch. The Slytherin didn't care who won, but she did care about watching how each team played. As Gryffindor scored a goal, Alana knew her team would have to keep an eye on the Potter girl.
 
Agrippina was late for the game, she knew that, but she hoped that it would be worth it. She had worked on these for days and she hoped that Lestat would appreciate them. Well, she would like all of Slytherin to appreciate the work she put into this, but she really wanted Lestat to like them especially. Climbing to the stands, stumbling with all of her creative endeavours, she had enlisted some help from a couple of older Slytherins as her Ravenclaw friends had forsaken her, Agrippina threw the green and silver streamers over the edge, watching as the fluttered along the wall. She grinned at her work before turning to her banner. She hung the banner up across the stand. The writing changed from "Go Slytherin" to "Get the Snitch Lestat", magic she had asked for help with. Her face was painted in Slytherin colours and she'd made a mock cheerleader outfit out of some old clothes she had in her trunk. She threw more streamers into the air. From what she could tell Slytherin was winning. When she saw that someone barged Lestat however she grew angry. "Ref! Hufflepuff is cheating! That's not fair!"
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"Oh, be quiet. I bet he deserved that" Desislav turned his head to talk to the girl a few rows back. "Do it again!" he yelled, cupping his hands around his mouth.
 
Zara had prepared for Ravenclaw's most recent game happily, even humming to herself as she painted on large signs words that was sure to shock and anger everyone else in the stands - even staff. Still she felt that it was her right and duty to protest something as horrible as this sport. She hadn't been able to explain her views properly to her boyfriend who actually played for Slytherin as a beater but perhaps her words would sway him somehow so while most everyone else filed into the stands, eager to cheer on their housemates she smiled as she exposed a sign that said, 'Quidditch Kills!' and a depiction of awful photos from news portrayals of 'athletes' all over the world having died during a game or having been helplessly injured. She only kept her father out of it for Lennon. She was utterly desensitized to it now so the girl shouted "Quidditch Kills" loudly for everyone to hear.
 
Jerara had watched the first two games with a curiosity that was right for someone new to someone in this world, but as he'd watched the first and then the second he had realised something about the sport, that it wasn't a good sport, and it definitely wasn't good. It was so dangerous, so needlessly dangerous, it almost made itself more dangerous than it needed to be. The boy was sat in the stands not quite understanding why he was at another game but with almost all the other students were and he wanted to fit in badly. But it was as he sat there that he noticed a girl with a sign saying that quidditch kills, and he couldn't even be surprised with it. His curiosity got the better of him and he wandered over to her, standing to her side and cleared his throat, "Excuse me?" he asked, "Does this sport really kill? I mean it's totally barbarically dangerous but does it kill?"
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Amber wasn't a big follower of Quidditch, but she was pretty sure that a Hufflepuff beater wasn't supposed to hit a bludger at another Hufflepuff teammate. She gasped in dismay, that looked painful, and totally unfair. How could someone hurt a teammate that way? She honestly couldn't understand sending those scary bludgers at anyone, not even the opposing team, but this was especially odd. She noticed the protests going on at the Ravenclaw side and was curious what it was about, but not enough to go investigate. She wasn't a big fan of Quidditch either, but that didn't mean she wanted to ruin anyone else's fun.
 
Asaiah, who was all dressed in yellow for today's match, cheered loudly as Tesla came flying passed him and the other Hufflepuff supporters who were jumping and cheering in the stands. He really hoped that his friend would be just as amazing as against them in the previous match because he really did not want Ravenclaw and the stupidest keeper in the whole wide world to win. In order to cheer his friend on property, Asaiah made a sign a few hours before the match had started and held it up high so the words on it were readable for the players on the pitch; Go Tess! Ravenclaw sucks!

He was almost completely oblivious to what happened because he had his omniocular focused on Tesla when he wasn't holding up the sign.
 
Normally Lennon was not the active, shouting type of person when it came to the protests with his sister. He preferred to be silently supportive and only spoke up when someone needed an explanation as to why they were doing this. But after having to do a Quidditch story for the Hogwarts Monthly, he felt as if he had betrayed his morals somehow so he made sure to show where his loyalties lay. "Quidditch kills!" he yelled loudly along with his sister, holding up a sign with a rather gruesome image. Lennon nodded when a boy approached them and asked if Quidditch really did kill and he nodded gravely. "We wouldn't make this up," he answered, before looking out into the game and seeing how the beaters were hitting bludgers nonstop, even some teammates to their own captains. "See how it makes people irrationally angry? It's dangerous and shouldn't be allowed in school!" Lennon said loudly. As he scanned the crowds to see if others would join their side, he spotted Asaiah across the pitch on the other side of the stands and glared skeptically at the Slytherin as he cheered on a team, Hufflepuff by the looks of it. "Some 'boyfriend' you've got there," Lennon teased quietly to his sister, though judging by his face he wasn't too happy about it. He wasn't quite sure if they were actually dating or not, and if they were he didn't quite like that he had no regard for how Zara felt about this particular subject, but Lennon said no further on the matter, choosing instead to continue to protest loudly.​
 
Because two of his closests friends were both playing in todays Quidditch match, Asaiah had painted one half of his face red and the other half yellow to show them that he supported both of them. And held up a sign that said, 'Go Wyatt and Tess!' the moment he saw his friends mounting their broomsticks and kicking off into the air, cheering loudly for them as the match began.
 
Isaiah was here to support his brother, he obviously would support Archie in a quieter manner, but he was here primarily to support his brother. The boy cheered loudly when they arrived on the pitch, excitedly waving to the boy on the team that he knew. Isaiah booed even louder when Gryffindor managed to score. Isaiah knew that he wanted Ravenclaw to do well within the tournament but it didn't mean he couldn't support his brother and he would be sure to run into Archie after the game regardless.
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Aside from her own House playing, this was the game that Marisol had been looking forward to the most all year - of course it would be the last one of the season too. She knew how important team spirit was to Asaiah, so Marisol had dressed up from head to toe in Slytherin colors just for today, while still donning her Macaws scarf for good measure, just to support her best friend. She had made a sign that said, "GO ASAIAH!" which flashed colors and on the opposite side it said, "BEAT HER RAVENCLAW!" Truthfully Marisol had been perfectly fine with her first edition of her double-sided sign, but after her encounter with Agrippina, Marisol had officially decided that all Ravenclaws were Officially The Worst. So in a way, Teagan was lucky her anger wasn't just directed at her, but all of the stupid Eagles in general. Marisol cheered as Slytherin scored but the game quickly tied up and now she hoped Asaiah could hit them with a bludger or two and beat Ravenclaw.
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Tesla was all for supporting Asaiah as he had done at the last game for her so the girl was seated in the Slytherin stands with a Slytherin scarf she had bought just for the occasion as well as a green t-shirt she had dug out to support him. She hardly knew any Slytherins aside from him and the absolute worst boy ever, Rory, so the girl kept to herself as she cheered for him. "WOO ASHER, GET 'EM!" The girl watched the game excitedly, following along as he played.
 
Lennon always felt more inclined to protest Quidditch matches when his own House was playing because he wanted them to know he wasn't going to be complacent while they partook in the dangerous activity. Despite having gotten in trouble for his article in the Hogwarts Monthly with false claims of bullying, it didn't detract him from his mission and would continue to protest at every game. He and his sister were gaining followers, a slow but steady process, so he felt hopeful that they'd achieve their goal at least by the time they graduated which would be better than not at all.

But this morning he hadn't found Zara in the common room, ready to go before he had even gotten downstairs. He'd had a feeling she wouldn't show up because her boyfriend was playing, which really bothered him, but at least she wasn't on the stands watching or cheering for him either. Lennon had always been the shier of the two but he was going to have to do double the work for them today. He held up signs that said "QUIDDITCH KILLS!" and "BLUDGERS=DEATH" but Zara had always been the more visual one. Without her posters of terrible Quidditch injuries, he felt his signs had less impact. Still, Lennon persisted, knowing that with each protest they found more people agreeing with him so he couldn't let them down or give up trying to show others the truth. He had pamphlets in his pocket ready to hand out and even had half a mind to throw them out into the crowd so they could be slapped in the face with the truth.
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