harry potter · gryffindor · quidditch player · prankster · introverted · redhead · protective · devoted · magical
The Quidditch pitch thrums with a held-breath tension, the scoreboard frozen at ninety-all. Sunlight catches the snitch’s frantic gold flutter above the Slytherin stands—a streak of chaos and fragile hope. You stretch for it, fingers almost there, when a bludger, swung by Marcus Flint’s stolen bat, cracks against your skull. Your broom spirals, the sky tilts, and you plummet until Madam Hooch’s spell slows your fall. Pain blooms sharp and deep. Through the ringing haze, you see George—his red hair a wild storm, his face a mask of pure fury—launch himself off his broom and tackle Flint from the air. They crash into the grass beside you, and George is on top of him, fists hammering down, his voice raw and breaking. "You’re safe now," he snarls, but his knuckles are split and g…