//------------------------------//
// The Hogwarts Hawk 1 
// Story: Scoti Alaw Prewett 
// by SamuelK28 
//------------------------------//


The Hogwarts Hawk 



Bringing you your weekly Hogwarts News



September 10th 1991 – Special Edition



 



1st YEAR NAMED HUFFLEPUFF QUIDDITCH CAPTAIN


- Youngest Captain and Quidditch team in Hogwarts history
- Original captain Melody Song sensationally quits due to lack of participants
- Only FIVE students turn up for this year’s try-outs.

Poor Hufflepuff. We here at the Hawk felt things couldn’t get any worse for the House after last years shambolic 730-10 defeat to Gryffindor breaking the 100-year-old record Hufflepuff set in 1890 with a 650-20 win over Gryffindor. Then Slytherin beat them 670-30. Now it seems, after years of turmoil that has seen the house not win the cup in 28 years and win only 5 games in the past ten years out of a possible 30, the students have finally had enough and are turning their backs on the ancient tradition. Our anonymous inside source reported seeing Miss Melody Song, the only surviving member of last years so called Quidditch team coaxed by Professor Sprout to stay on as captain, immediately relinquish the role upon seeing only FIVE younger year students had turned up for the try-outs, siting Psychological Health. In all fairness, we don’t blame the poor girl. With the try-outs in disarray, first year student Scoti Alaw Prewett, the girl who has lived in another dimension for most her life, is half Pegasus, destroyed the south tower on her first day and most importantly has only been playing the game for A MONTH, stepped into the void to take control of the situation. In our honest opinion, we don’t see last year’s record lasting another hundred years. Besides their rookie captain and seeker, the team has been left with a pair of second year rookie chasers being marshalled by a respectable third year and two beaters who were drafted against their wills and have about as much talent, knowledge and affinity for the game as Professor Sprout, who is the one attempting to teach them. The only solace seems to be their keeper, who our inside source reported as ‘a total freak against nature’ and ‘I’ve no idea how a first year can be that good, honestly on par with Oliver Wood.’ Despite this, we only see doom and gloom for Hufflepuff once more this year on the Quidditch pitch. Heck, if they miraculously win the cup, I’ll happily not only step down as editor of this paper but allow their captain cast whatever spell she likes on me, Joanne MacGyver.